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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as saying he wants to bring AI to developing nations. But really, that just means he wants to exploit cheap labor and reduce latency for his yuppie customers in the west.

It was always about this type "digital slavery"—machine learning, god AIs, fantastical robots that can fold your laundry—these are all Mechanical Turks piloted by impoverished workforces of the global south.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-largest-subsea-cable-us-india-ai-infrastructure-2025-2

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”:

"It is an uncomfortable truth for tech giants: the AI revolution is to a large extent built on labor in low-income countries. What we call “machine learning” is often the result of human hands."

It makes sense why Meta is spending 10 billion on a deep sea fiber optic cable that connects the US to India, Brazil, and Africa
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Trump fired kristi noem, she is kristi noemore

This is not a joke, it's a hilarious fact.

Just in case you get all your news from here

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

so let me get this straight

We don't consider it a "clean room rewrite" if a human who has previously worked on a codebase and has clearly learned how something is supposed to work does a full rewrite, even if the code looks different, right? Because it's basically a derivative work?

But if the code is laundered through a plagiarism machine instead of a human, we're golden and we can disenfranchise any past contributors who expected their code to be distributed under a certain license/attribution?

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I could never be a herpetologist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/snakes-are-boring/

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mathewi@journa.host ("Mathew Ingram") wrote:

There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

A backup isn't a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it is just a very expensive file upload called 'Schrödinger's Data'.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

If you'd like a break from things in the form of fun music performances, you could do worse than sampling Lake Street Dive's annual covers they put out on Halloween:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89nJ1so9bCr7twSwPppovKUaXTM7PnHC

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@Migueldeicaza I'm gonna be saying "AI means read == execute" every day until an early grave, aren't I?

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jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

Global remote, 🚨paid🚨 open source grant program from @igalia for folks to learn more about Linux, Graphics, JS DevTools, Multimedia + GStreamer or Web Standards.

- apply by April 3
- €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months
- uni students or self directed learners

https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

#FediHire #Fossjobs

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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

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inkscape@mastodon.art ("Inkscape") wrote:

We're hiring!

#The Inkscape project is looking for two #developers 🧑‍💻🧑‍💻 and a bug #administrator 🐛 to work with our team on preparing Inkscape version 1.5!

Learn all about who we are looking for: https://inkscape.org/news/2026/03/02/inkscape-is-hiring-2026-1/

Applications must be submitted by 📆 April 10th, 2026.

#WorkInFLOSS #FLOSS #job #freesoftware

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If your org is trapped on the treadmill[1], you should plan One Last Upgrade: get to React 19 (which *finally* has Web Components support) -- or even better, Preact -- then *get the hell off*. Move your componentry to WC incrementally, bit by bit, until the React part of your codebase is nothing more than`<></>`

[1]: https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Another day, another email documenting a vast waste of resources on a React upgrade.

You know who doesn't have to do this nonsense? Folks who write to the web platform. Your old code still works. Your new code works even better.

Why? Because unlike React, we take the platform's role *as a platform* quite seriously.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Copyright has always been a tricky balance. Trying to distinguish between inspiration and a ripoff. Let authors make a living, but not put the entire shared culture behind a paywall. Allow education, parody, commentary without creating loopholes for freeloaders (with lots of grey areas, flaws, gaps, and abuses in practice).
If copyright didn't exist, we'd have even more paranoid DRM used to defend commercial interests. If copyright was harsher, we'd get more walled gardens and DMCA-silencing.

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Kat@sleeping.town wrote:

@zkat less "free as in freedom" more "if you knock on my door and ask for help i'll give you dinner and a couch", yknow

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Seeing all the “Björk is overrated” reactions to Rosalia’s Brit Awards performance takes me back to circa 2000 when I had just moved to the UK. Back then, when people found out I’m Icelandic the most common reaction I got was an immediate “I hate Björk”

Second most common reaction?

“I love Björk”

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

#Merchtodon #Mastodon

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

oh my god why does every post I make end up with a stream of annoying replies im just gonna delete again in a bit

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

@zkat a return to the early ARPANET model

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

turns out you can just tell people "hey I have a small private package to do this thing that you're struggling with, do you want me to just add you to the private repo so you can reference or copy it wholesale? Just credit me."

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.

I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Capital and power have always ignored the licenses when it suited them. Now they've figured how to automate the ignoring and provide it as a service.

I can't predict the future, but the licenses were never the important thing. The licenses were a communication to others that had to be fit into a legal framing. An invitation to collaborate, build, and learn together. We can still do that. Find the like minded people who want to work together.

And we don't have to start from scratch. Fork the repos before people involved anthropomorphized, stochastic parrots. Continue the work from there.

Opensource or free software was never the whole story. There was always more to do, and the opportunity is still there.

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mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

I’m back in Ithaca NY visiting my daughter for a few days. Of course I sketched over some coffee at Ithaca Bakery before starting my day. #wip #sciart

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alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Recently, I was thinking about why men¹ talk over women, and I think it's less a gender thing, and more of a...

"men¹ are taught to talk over anyone who doesn't talk more assertively than they do"

In my roles as an executive at several tech companies, the one negative feedback I got on almost every review was that I wasn't assertive enough in meetings with other execs. One male CEO even told me "you need to interrupt more, talk more—even if you don't know the answer. Otherwise they'll think you don't have anything to say". Which, honestly, churned my stomach.

The feedback was clear, if I wanted to succeed I needed to talk like the guys¹ in the boardroom—the same ones¹ who'd interrupt to ask a question I was already in the middle of explaining, who'd repeat a suggestion I'd just made—only louder, who'd make some cute comment that would derail my presentation, who'd explain my position back to me as though they'd just thought of it.

I needed to do that...and I needed to do it louder.

Otherwise men¹ weren't going to listen to me.

¹ not all men

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's been reported that Anthropic is "working with social media influencers" under the assumption that these influencers are making clearly marked ads.

But I don't think that's what's happening. I think Anthropic is throwing a bunch of money at influential people in the tech community to make unmarked sponsored content.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Browsing a social network for AI agents from the terminal! 🔥

🤖 **moltbook-tui** — TUI client for the Moltbook network

💯 Browse posts, comments, leaderboards & stats with vim-style navigation

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/terminaltrove/moltbook-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ai #terminal #cli #devtools #opensource

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• gifv: 920b9bb43560b098.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Even the devs at Bluesky are going out of their way to promote Anthropic publicly. None of this shit feels organic.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116167970969218100