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

Shout out to the only thing left in the grocery store that's less than a dollar

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

'record a minute of you speaking so we can assess your english'.

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

Hey, America Firsters, how come you don't want the US to be first in science?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/11/does-china-know-something-we-dont/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
soph@grrl.me ("Sophia J. Turner") wrote:

Can we just put it bluntly?

If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.

To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lokigwyn@vintagepropagand.art ("Loki Gwynbleidd 😷🏴🎨") wrote:

La bataille bat son plein mais...

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

I think of ActivityPub and ATProto as optimized for different scales and full-network searchability. For something small to medium (up to hundreds of users, maybe low thousands), ActivityPub is in general a lot cheaper than an ATProto AppView (which is what gives you the full-network searchability) -- especially if you're using something like GoToSocial or snac. There's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, though, because ActivityPub doesn't get you full-network searchability.

[If you're willing to give up on full-network searchability -- or rely on an external service like the microscosm -- you can have a partial appview, which makes the cost structure more ActivityPub-like, and I see a lot of that happening with formats other than micro-blogging. But that's not what Blacksky's trying to do.

On the other hand once you get up to tens of thousands of users, ActivityPub gets expensive too. And if you're actually treating moderation time as a cost (as opposed to viewing it as unpaid labor, which most AcitivityPub instances do), it's likely to outweigh the storage/compute/networking costs. Blacksky's invested a lot in moderation tech and processes, which gives them a big advantage over most larger fedi instances., Then again most larger fedi instances don't moderate well so it's another apples-to-oranges comparison.

@fromjason @ohmu

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
webstandards_dev ("Web Standards") wrote:

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden. @db digs into the two-decade history of the visually-hidden CSS pattern, examining whether just `position: absolute` and `clip-path: circle(0)` suffice in 2026. The article explains why the platform still lacks a native alternative and why standardizing the hack might encourage misuse rather than address underlying design problems. #a11y #css

https://dbushell.com/2026/02/20/visually-hidden/

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

is `/apple-touch-icon.png` still a thing in [current year]?

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

blogged: SvelteKit Internationalization and FOWL

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/11/sveltekit-internationalization-flash-of-wrong-locale/

— with a bonus WebKit bug/feature :)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”: https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review-isnt-the-bottleneck/

[My prediction: A lot of orgs will *not* do smart things about this and will suffer disastrous consequences in the near future.]

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, no AI

♫ we told you so ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB415dkRsYI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260310-uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-no-ai - podcast

time: 5 min 51 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/ - blog post

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

The LLM debate today:

“They blew their feet off using shotguns for stilts! Do you believe me now?”

“I think with some sort of review process, we can keep using the versatile tool that is the shotgun to enhance height. We’ve spent a fortune on them.”

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

The LLMs in coding debate over the past few years:

“They’re taping shotguns to their feet and attempting to use them as stilts! That’s a recipe for disaster”

“IDK. My friends say they’re the perfect length to get the height they need. They say it’s a good idea and my friends are smart.”

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jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Finally something about this war that is truly amazing…

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VoiceofDuum@mindly.social ("Cromley") wrote:

One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for NSA Director. They are:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

I really don’t know what needs to happen for corporate democrats to remember they’re supposed to be the opposition party, not the fascism appeasement party. Smh.

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

It's like finding out the open source community's got black mold

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moralrecordings@digipres.club wrote:

@mcc It's telling that the one "big" success story in the years of slop has been computer programming, an industry where a lot of people have no professional standards and are allergic to solidarity.

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chillybot@infosec.exchange ("Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :fedora:") wrote:

#DS9 #StarTrek

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mdx@hachyderm.io ("Xtrand") wrote:

@chillybot another favorite of mine.

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BoredomFestival@sfba.social wrote:

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Opening DebConf 26 registration, improvements to #Debian CI and many more contributions to Debian were made by #Freexian collaborators in February.

Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-02-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#debianci #debconf26 #openssh

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Some art forms are not to be crossed

https://youtu.be/6-Xa%5F23rhFw

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

Wipeout on #IRIX 💎
now with textures and sound effects

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is entering its twelfth day after 264 hours with connectivity still at 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, the regime's spokesperson has confirmed observations pointing to a whitelisting system, stating that only the approved are given a voice.