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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Home of the WOPR") wrote:

They're threatening us with a good time again

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡

Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡

Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty-co-founder-claims-activision-put-very-awkward-pressure-on-infinity-ward-to-make-a-game-about-iran-invading-israel it's pathetic how this war profiteer, who essentially built a career off the US death machine, finds his most viable defense is to push back on only the most overt propaganda. building an entire multi billion $$ franchise around making war and mass murder look awesome and normal? totally fine. having to pull the mask all the way off and propagandize for the most openly and prolifically genocidal nation of the 21st century? whoa, that's too far.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

@davidgerard building a grift around a product that will tell you literally anything you want to hear is inevitably going to be way more broadly persuasive than crypto's "get rich doing nothing (actually you have to work a shitty and obviously evil telemarketing job)" pitch. so it's not too surprising that the crypto venn circle is mostly nesting inside the llm circle.

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reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:") wrote:

#directorytraversalmemes

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• gifv: two scary looking monsters labeled Cisco and Fortinet cringe as the cute moopsie stands in front of their enclosure and says "../"

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vitalis@dirtyknight.life wrote:

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• video: 791a1f2dd44c9640.mp4

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joelpomales ("Joel Pomales") wrote:

La cosa más mona que verás hoy. Peluches de pasteles. Uno de yuca y el otro de masa. 😅

#PuertoRico #MastodonPR

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

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scottsantens.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Scott Santens") wrote:

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

Patients say measles 'worse th...

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

This is a photo of my family playing something called The Muffin Man Game. It’s a long lasting tradition of inflicting shame on anyone who falls for it.

How it works—You ask an innocuous question about an unnamed person. “Did you see her come in?”

If someone asks “who?” Or inquires who “her” is, you reply with “THE MUFFIN MAN”

Everyone in the room then loses their shit and shames the person for falling for it.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just unpinned #python from my Mastodon app view. Realized I hasn't been really paying attention to the pinned column for quite a while. It was my last pinned programming language tag, following the fate of #rust and #clojure before it.

I'd say my recovering from software industry is going well :-)

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I made a little basement with (labeled) storage under my house. #pokemon #pokopia

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• video: A brief tour of the basement that I build under my house in Pokémon Pokopia, showing the storage and labeled frames above each unit.

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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