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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“What must be done is to bring the future into the present, to make power tangible *now* by means of actions which demonstrate to the workers their positive strength.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/reformed

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violent suppression.

That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it comes down to what kind of relations you believe do and should and must not structure the world.

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

Marisa Simonetti is a monster. Don't vote for her.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/18/republican-landlord-abuses-tenants-and-spiders/

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

RE: https://types.pl/@koronkebitch/116248000434747343

Real or Slop PL papers quiz

This is hard. I just identified a logical inconsistency in a paper and used that as 'evidence' to guess it was slop.

So clearly it's difficult to detect slop papers with just a skim already. imagine you waste a few hours trying to review this shit...

I got 6/10

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

"Miyazaki"

> I'm not a violent person but I make things with aggression

Paris Paloma continues her streak of being extremely topical in her music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-E9vn324Qk

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

Looks like the App Store bit was removed from the legislation after Apple and Google freaked out and lobbied lawmakers for its removal.

But, then lawmakers made that part into its own bill. Google is fighting against it.

Love how the fate of our privacy and free speech is just: which company can give me more money the fastest

https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/article%5Fbd840623-8738-433a-98be-c6ae37d39cd7.html

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

"This is where it gets interesting. Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her. The bill as drafted required only app stores (Apple, Google) to verify user ages. It did not require social media platforms to do anything."

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i%5Ftraced%5F2%5Fbillion%5Fin%5Fnonprofit%5Fgrants%5Fand%5F45/

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

Ban reason: Revealing forbidden knowledge to unprepared mortals

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In today's Coding Black Mirror episode: what if AI code generators get sped up to emit tens of thousands of tokens per second?

For now we're pretending LLMs are just sloppy devs and try to review the output, which is already exhausting.

When it gets to the point of being able to rewrite the whole project on every keystroke, source code won't be the source any more, but a discardable compiler output. Switching languages will be like applying Photoshop filters?

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

I'm not a slut, I'm a GNU/Bottom

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

Good summary for those of us who absorb info better via video

https://youtube.com/shorts/KyjAv2QDGHI

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

Banned from the Linux user group for saying "so this is like a kink thing, right?"

#FreeAsInFreeUse

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

RE: https://mean.engineer/@indutny/116245283352156779

The slopfairy is coming for Node.js and it is coming from inside the house.

Proposing, let a lone merging 18k LoC PRs are a surefire way to ruin any project, but especially ones with small volunteer teams.

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

Boosted 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?

baldur@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.

fromjason ("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/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
craigduncan@mastodon.au ("Craig Duncan") wrote:

@fromjason

moustache man is on masto and threads unapologetically promoting personal use of ai llm tools.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Tried 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.

fromjason ("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."

fromjason ("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.

Boosted 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.

fromjason ("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.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Boosted 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

Boosted 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

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

idris is developed by humans, for humans. idris will not be doing an agda, lean or rocq

https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/pull/3755

Boosted 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

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Boosted 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

Boosted 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.

Boosted 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