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

Here's a fun game. If you're ever feeling too superior over others based on your consumer habits, go to a search engine and type the name of a thing you love, any noun, anything that can be purchased or consumed, then add the word "exploitation"

That shit will humble you real quick.

Everyone makes concessions. And no, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be conscious consumers. Just that no one is so pure that they get to judge others. Put that energy towards corporations and governments.

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

And to be clear, I have FOSS/privacy mutuals who don't have hall monitor energy, and they're great.

How so many cop-loving folks found their way into this type of advocacy, I'll never know. All I can think of is the excuse to police people's tech is appealing to them. It's definitely not for a love of people, that's for sure.

Aahhhhhhhhhhggggggg. This shit frazzles me so fucking much lol. I need a root beer float.

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

This is the other thing—"..and for that person to go unpunished?"

Some folks get such a hard-on for punishment. These are the people who watch cops arresting poor people on YouTube for hours.

You read history and wonder—what types of people would show up to a public lynching? It's the ones who blindly cheer for law and order while never questioning if the law is just. It's the ones who think protests should be illegal. But will defend a corporation until they're blue in the face. Hall monitors

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

I honestly don't know what "privacy advocacy" means anymore.

It's like some people decided Proton was one of the good ones, and they don't want to concede that Proton screwed up because so much of their "advocacy" is just shaming people for the tech they use, and they don't want to be hypocrites

This is why shaming people as a strategy is a bad idea. Your goal then becomes to shield your ability to shame others, and not taking an honest look at power structures and adjusting based on new info

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We have opened the CFP for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026, you can send your talk proposals at https://forms.gle/pNz4FqxziBTsh48W9

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

A little over 3 months to go until Web Engines Hackfest 2026, happening June 15–17 in A Coruña!
If you plan to attend onsite, please register here: https://forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7sX6Px6
We already have more than 50 people registered: https://webengineshackfest.org/#attendees

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

I want to start writing comedy sketches again. Maybe even write an entire sketch show and put it on at a local theatre.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/116118742313919142

We named the lizard Liza, and I have created a page for her on my retro site:

https://home.wezm.net/~wmoore/liza.html

#lizard

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:

The first ten minutes I spent on social media this morning made me feel all kinds of things. Why is it that people who routinely use LLMs are so loud and brash and proud, making these tools appear as essential and inevitable?

A post by a dev whose app I use said something along the lines of: "no use exercising your coding skills, AI is too good now, you can't compete with it anyway".

Another post by a user on an instance I try to engage with wrote - literally: "tired of overthinking every decision?" and then disclosed he had created an AI that will "run a weighted decision matrix so you don't have to." In all seriousness.

What is this dystopian world where human qualities are devalued, critical thinking is discarded and surveillance capitalism is ignored at the altar of AI worship?

If they are loud and proud, maybe so I can be too... but in the opposite direction.

This weekend I will start the MIT's Missing Semester class (the 2020 Lectures, so pre-AI) because in this brave new world hyping up techno-fascist LLMs, knowing the basics of code are essential IMHO.

So my March "project" will be a deep dive in MIT's Missing Semester and my April project will be off-grid mesh radio communication.

What about you, what are you doing to resist?

Special props to @emilymbender @cwebber and @tante for being outspoken on these issues... you're my beacons of hope

#NoAI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
datacoop@social.data.coop wrote:

Vi har lige doneret 3.392 kr. til open source-projektet @forgejo.

Det besluttede årets generalforsamling nemlig i søndags, på baggrund af at vi på sidste års GF vedtog at 10% af foreningens indtægter fremover skal sendes videre til noget af den open source vi bygger vores forening oven på.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
datacoop@social.data.coop wrote:

We donated €440 to @forgejo 🥳

Hi @forgejo! Thanks for the amazing project! We are a small'ish hosting cooperative from Denmark, and we provide services for our members. Everything is built on Open Source, and we decided last year to pay 10% of our revenue to Open Source projects and let our general assembly decide which project to support.

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

LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Wondering what LLMs you can actually run on your hardware? 🤔

👾 **llmfit** — Find the best models for your RAM, CPU, and GPU

💯 Detects your system and ranks hundreds of models by fit, speed, quality & context

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #llm #ai #terminal #cpu #gpu

Attachments:

• gifv: a4fbcdf19e298ffc.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@janvhs/116184719405207871

We’re quickly approaching a bifurcation in FOSS with projects including or not including LLM generated code.

We’ll have to come up with a name so we can talk clearly about it.

I desperately hope the non-LLM side is going to be large enough to include a full stack, otherwise there’s a lot of work ahead of us for no good reason.

—

At least until we have truly free and open, non-exploitative, consentually sourced, sustainably powered tooling, which is a bubble or two away at least.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

You know when I was a kid, anti social behaviour like cheating at a game got you ostracised in a friend's group. No one would play with you anymore.

Perhaps other anti social behaviour like using LLMs to licencewash and use an existing project name should have the same outcomes. This feels like cheating, it takes the joy out of our game.

FOSS was meant to be about collaboration as much as creating software. It is play, it should be joyful.

The LLM Bro's are stealing our joy.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

it is incredibly validating to me that prominent foss people who for decades embodied and reinforced the false idea that "all that matters is code" are now predictably falling into the LLM slop fad because, surprise fucking surprise, they never gave a single shit about people and simply rode the movement to have a space where they could whitewash their morality-unencumbered nonsense.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iinavpov@mastodon.online ("Nemo") wrote:

@dysfun
I think that some people just don't get why "deterministic" is a very important property of a tool.

That some of the people not getting it are programmers boggles the mind.

@davidgerard

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Initial ‘R’. chansonnier, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 133v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: AT protocol OAuth and time drift on my self-hosted PDS
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-07T06:43Z/

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Video shows Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard, an off-duty SFPD officer, violently attacking a Tenderloin resident. Moments later he gets his ass beat.

Two men were arrested. Neither of them started the fight.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-video-tenderloin-attack/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ZaneSelvans@social.coop ("Zane Selvans") wrote:

How is there not a movie about her?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/seafaring-history-mary-ann-patten-pregnant-mutiny-navigation-storms-antarctica

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://fandom.garden/@ezelty/116184029653174542

C'est trop mignon!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alilly@solarpunk.moe ("Athena L.M.") wrote:

People who do that kind of thing: What is the most fun ISA to write assembly for?

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

Okay okay rant over. Sorry I went extra hard on this. It's all just so disappointing.

You can leave corporate tech only to realize the alternative platforms aren't really fighting the good fight. It's all marketing by pacifists pretending to be revolutionaries.

The openness gang pretends they're fighting wall gardens. The privacy gang pretends they're fighting ad-tech. But it's all just a market position play. And all the founders are fascist-flirting centrists.

It sucks. They're all the same

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

It's not *just* that Proton complied with the order (which is still unclear if they could've fought it).

It's that in Proton's defense of their actions, they implied that anyone who protests Cop City is automatically part of some terrorist group that shoots cops and blows things up with explosives.

It's Proton's very obvious politics of it all. It bends towards fascist-y sensibilities. Yuck. I'm so tired of giving money to these types of techno-conservatives pretending to be revolutionaries.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Now we know that there is another reason for nations to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels: security. In a dangerous world, it’s infinitely safer to rely on the sun and the wind than to depend on fossil fuels that must be transported long distances, from nations that are untrustworthy, often exploitative and located in regions that frequently devolve into war zones."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #economy #gasoline #energy #OilandGas
/7

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-and-national-security

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.

I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!

Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource

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

Contact is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies. It’s tries hard, and often succeeds at tackling difficult themes of religion and science.

And I love it despite me not believing for a second that Jodie Foster was attracted to Matthew McConaughey. https://boxd.it/dpZccp