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fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:
I am an excellent writer with an MA in English Lit, but in the last six months have been repeatedly accused of using AI to produce my work. I am now deliberately sabotaging my own copy so it seems more plausible that I wrote it. I hate living in this timeline.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hellomiakoda@pdx.social ("Miakoda :neurodiversity:") wrote:
Could you imagine how much money could be made if a company showed up and put out a video like "Your stuff keeps falling apart, food is pricier yet crappier, everything is a subscription, companies trick you in to paying anyway, and they think you're too stupid to notice. Us, here at [brand]... we just make good things you'll want to buy from us. No tricks.", and then actually stuck to it?
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Oh Hello Ana - Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart”
https://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-ai/
> We will lose good people in exchange for cheap, quick and shit outputs.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Chasing Simplicity - jan’s thoughts:
"Simplicity means fewer things that can go wrong. Less to fiddle with. Less to maintain. A smaller attack surface, if you like."
Chasing simplicity is something I related to hard. That desire has manifested in everything from my mission to preserve my digital assets, to how I make my morning coffee. https://jangobrecht.com/blog/chasing-simplicity/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
craigduncan@mastodon.au ("Craig Duncan") wrote:
moustache man is on masto and threads unapologetically promoting personal use of ai llm tools.
Mastodon FeedTried to uninstall Photoshop and got asked to sign in to Adobe Cloud to proceed.
Have you lost your fucking mind, Adobe?!
Nothing says "you don't own this software" like needing permission to delete it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
"Your device’s trustworthiness hangs in the balance. These laws could force every Linux distribution and privacy-focused Android fork to implement identity verification or face legal liability. The choice between surveillance-free computing and regulatory compliance is coming faster than you think."
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Frequent reminder that Meta employees are participating in the development of next-gen social web / activityPub architecture.
And that Meta has funded the Social Web Foundation. We don't know how much the org receives or how frequent the payments are, because SWF has refused to provide that information, opting to remain completely opaque besides a Meta logo in the "partners" section of its website.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.
Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.
Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about
Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech:
"A Reddit researcher just exposed how Metafunneled over $2 billion through shadowy nonprofits to push age verification laws that would force Apple and Google to build surveillance infrastructure into every device—while conveniently exempting Meta’s own platforms from the same requirements."
Using this yahoo summary as a placeholder for now. But holy fucking shit.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
Designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and Einar Erlendsson, the house is clearly not in great condition. Guðjón Samúelsson is one of Iceland's most famous architects. His work includes, among many others, Hallgrímskirkja and the University of Iceland.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #architecture
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
Final house I'll be posting from Vífilsstaðir. Built in 1925, it was originally meant for the steward of Vífilsstaðir and was later used for housing workers at the hospital.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
idris is developed by humans, for humans. idris will not be doing an agda, lean or rocq
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:
The first **Terminal Tuesday** is live! 🎉📢
We had Dolev Hadar showcase a super clean workflow built around **tmux + neovim + gh-dash**
▶️ Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q%5F-qOpwDBb0
💯 Lots of practical tips for improving Git/GitHub flow in the terminal!
👀 Wanna present your setup next? We're looking for guests!
#terminal #cli #tui #neovim #tmux #git #dotfiles #devtools #opensource
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
autoiue@ı.xyz ("Antoine Pintout") wrote:
@gerrymcgovern The original article has it at 20000× worse x)
https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dpnash@c.im ("David Nash") wrote:
@gerrymcgovern The stats for the vibe-coded SQLite rewrite in Rust being literally thousands of times slower than SQLite are simply wild. Such as needing almost 2 seconds to do 100 single-ID lookups. I'm pretty sure I could improve on that operation just by slurping a CSV with unique row IDs into memory and doing a binary search on said row IDs. Would I want to? No, but I'm also not *trying* to build an actual RDB engine either.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
navi@social.vlhl.dev ("witch_t *navi") wrote:
"but, what does 'LLM code' means??? and how would we police it???"
it... ain't that hard fam, we're not trying to solve the philosophical conundrum of sentience
occam's razor applies, the simplest explanation, it's "code that was generated by a large language model" and if that's not clear enough then nothing is, and words are meaningless
how do you police it? well how do you police people sending plagiarized code? do the same for LLM code, if the project policy says no LLM code, assume people to respected that unless proven otherwise
i'm so tired of this argument that basically just tries to derail from the actual topic
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
on a related note, here's Ryan Dahl last week using "blockchain" and "LLMs" in the same sentence 🫠
https://xcancel.com/rough%5F%5Fsea/status/2030846821627736179 found via @thomas
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
PSA: it's very okay to wrap extra parentheses around stuff so you don't need to know the operator precedence tables off by heart, in fact it's recommended.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“AI still doesn't work very well in business, reckoning soon • The Register”
> "Even within the coding, it's not working well," said Smiley.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
35 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 527 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for gnutls28, xrdp, ClamAV, tomcat9, zabbix, linux kernel, ceph, glib2.0, MUNGE and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm) , Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable. In addition, improvements were made to documentation and tooling used by the team.
Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-02/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
Mastodon FeedBoosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:
Software Harm Reduction | 🔗 https://brennan.day/software-harm-reduction/
#TechCriticism #DigitalCulture #OpenSource #AIEthics #SoftwareEthics #DigitalSovereignty #Community
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
noted: Deno employees leave - how does Deno survive this?
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-18T07:00Z/
— idle speculation until an official statement is made
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
jkirkendall@wandering.shop ("Jon") wrote:
Seen on my way home this evening in Washington DC.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
jessamyn@glammr.us ("Jessamyn") wrote:
@jwz I am a reference librarian and would be happy to go on any podcast and say that this is entirely accurate.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
billyjoebowers@mastodon.online ("billy joe bowers 🗽") wrote:
Everything makes sense if you frame it as "How does this help Putin?"
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Just rewatched Dreamworks' Sinbad, which I have only seen once as a kid. It's such a good movie! Beautifully animated. It should be up there with Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A wonderful overview of some of the pain folks are wading through to make good mobile UIs on the web today. We need to fix the Chromium/Android issues; some of it likely comes down to Android kbds themselves...we'll have to dig in.
But the iOS situation Apple uniquely controls? Disgraceful.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents.
Their only victories in the state were where they contributed money towards outcomes that were already highly likely. They opposed Robert Peters (H-02), who had been polling in third place and ultimately received 12% of the vote. They supported Bean (H-08) and incumbent Budzinski (H-13).
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
nomi@shark.community ("NomiChirps") wrote:
Does anyone know a museum or other institution that would be willing to take this large vintage railway wheel(?) press? It's marked "Chambersburg Engineering Co., No. 863", and a long time ago it was used to help maintain rail cars at the Port of San Francisco. Unfortunately it's going to the scrap yard this week because no museums we've tried are willing to come haul it away. boosts appreciated.
