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Boosted by jwz:
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

hearing gullible 20-somethings say "this technology DOES have good use-cases, like in medicine for example…"

is going to turn me into the fucking Joker

Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

it is not a good day to be a conscientious user of modern technology, no.

i just read the financial times article (archive) on the use of confabulation machines in war planning, specifically the scope of use in target planning, and it's bad, bad, terribly bad.

even if it is what we suspected anyways, knowing the lack of ethics of the tech companies and the bloodthirstiness of hegseth & al.

there is no hope for this industry.

Boosted by jwz:
coral@empty.cafe ("Coral (bleached era)") wrote:

the FT reports today that the US Military is using an AI kill chain, built by Anthropic and Palantir.

They use it to launder inadequate evidence into kill decisions no-one can be blamed for, to perpetuate a terror program where it's impossible to tell who counts as a "combatant". And they will kill you, your children, your neighbours, and your children's entire school, for reasons you will never know.

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Dark high contrast black and white computer-generated animation. Eight tentacles made of shiny discs swirl in sync, reaching towards the center.

Boosted by jwz:
jpm@aus.social ("I love this, so I") wrote:

@zzt for real, I wonder what they’d do if they encountered U+130BA ?

https://unicode-explorer.com/c/130BA

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

i am far too busy to be wasting hours trying to score the god run on this! please block my IP

i swear i saw 39/40 once but i keep fat fingering when my phone decided to sleep

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=ANkgKP%5F%5F89fU

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

noted: idle thoughts on the element
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-12T06:37Z/

— can't see myself ever using this thing

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

Seen today on my bike ride up to the market.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Z@jorts.horse ("zeevacation@gmail.com") wrote:

logging in like

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

Turned out I had a (unpaid) Grammarly account.

Emphasis on "had".

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Look, I strongly believe we will get through this and we will be better than whatever the fuck this is right now, and I will work to get us there and so will lots of you, but I resent that we will still have to live through all the time between here and there and I wish we were all there already.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Did a code review today where somebody who obv used AI created a button styled like a link to open a page with window.open... instead of, ya know, creating a regular link. 🫠

It bugs me that this person didn't seem to review the generated code AT ALL and instead pushed that shit to me to review. What's worse is half the team rubber stamps PRs, so I know there's some nasty code making it to prod.

#software #javascript

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

left pack

gagging to be made into an npm library

jwz wrote:

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116213005270150379

So Danny Bluejeans is now driving around town, hopping out of the car, and having his non-uniformed security detail assault random people.

And then they get their asses kicked.

Normal mayor. Normal city.

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

Artificial German Insertion (AGI)

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

Marcia Roy

I suspect some of you may say this is where I'm stretching this theory. But Marcia is where I think the theory is the strongest. Or, at least, she's what made me want to explore the theory more.

Marcia represents Israel. She has Logan's ear in a way that none of the kids have it, and they're suspicious of her influence.

Even more interesting, I think the show hints at the possibility that Marcia might've been an Israeli spy...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wordshaper@weatherishappening.network ("Dan Sugalski") wrote:

@soatok and you can even pronounce that “no” like “the ROI on collecting that data is negative” because it is for basically everyone. The suits often need you to speak with an accent that way so they can hear you clearly.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116212999782522947

People: You need a union for representation and collective bargaining.
SWE: No! We are special. We are powerful. Hear us roar! RAWR!
People: Great, tell your boss no.
SWE: Oh no, we could never do that, we'd lose our jobs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
canacar@ioc.exchange ("Can Acar") wrote:

@soatok 100% agree that "No" is a great answer for both security and privacy related problems. It is good to always question what problem they are trying to solve. If nothing else, it is one less thing to worry about if you manage to shut it down. It is not always an acceptable answer, however, if they are already (committed to) doing it. Then you would have to go into damage reduction mode.

Sometimes, "if I don't get involved they will ship it anyway" realization leads to proposing such alternatives.

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

i've got a knackered old combine harvester and you can hotwire it for free

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

@soatok respecting privacy is the ultimate privacy-enhancing technology

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Last thing: When I said "No" is a Privacy-Enhancing Technology, I didn't just mean an opt-out.

I mean the engineers growing a fucking spine and telling their boss, "No, we shouldn't collect this data in the first place."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rasta@mstdn.ca wrote:

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people" - Howard Zinn.

#Quote #USA #Murderers #War #TrumpWar #Epstein

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

During the coffee breaks and dinner conversations, everyone I talked to about these things echoed my frustrations.

In 2024, a speaker from Intuit spoke about their distributed key generation protocol. It involved multiplying a number by a hash. They did not elaborate on whether that's just a bigint operation or an elliptic curve group operation. @sophieschmieg was like, "Why would they do that? What if they set it to zero?" and the backchatter was full of "Why are the tax people rolling their own crypto?"

So, like, I'm not super worried about adtech rotting the RWC community.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
r0k wrote:

@soatok most of the problems in this area stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of consent

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

At an earlier track, one of the invited speakers suggested using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to allow folks to have private conversations with an AI chatbot for therapy.

My mind was instantly filled with news stories of OpenAI and self-harm. Lawsuits from grieving families.

Are they deeply out of touch?

Or was it just "hmm, what do people want privacy for? I'll just throw a bunch of hypothetical examples of things FHE would be good for without interrogating them deeply"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:

@soatok "No" is also Ecologically friendly. as it take maybe 1 packet to say "No." and not an endless CPU cryptographic reach-around to tickle the users balls because you refuse to accept "No." and instead put a "Maybe later." increasing energy usage for everyone.

See, this is why I can't be a speaker at these events.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I'm not sharing this to shit on anyone at #RWC2026. My favorite people in tech are often found there, and the organizers put a lot of thought, effort, and care into making the vibe good.

I also don't ascribe any malice to the speakers. They probably didn't think to ask these questions, and didn't think to put them in their slide deck. Maybe they've self-selected into an environment that doesn't foster that kind of inquiry. Maybe they considered it but cut it out for time.

But if we're going to talk about this sort of thing,, we need to actually address these questions, even if there isn't a comfortable answer.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

If Iran blows up Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos I promise you here and now that I WILL convert to Islam and join the Butlerian Jihad.