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

Jeez, this joke is so stupid.

Maybe there's a reason scientists are reluctant to joke in their talks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/18/biologists-arent-funny/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger effect is probably not real:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

Like Freudian psychology, Hardin's tragedy of the commons and any number of other popular pseudoscientific narratives, it caters to our preconceptions and makes fore entertaining, easy to re-tell stories, but it's also... not true.

And - again, I am entirely saddened by this - that means that if we keep using these metaphors we're legitimizing the false ideas behind them.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

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

So basically an enclave in our hardware with all of our data.

They found a way to centralize our social graphs 💃🫠

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bullsworth@meow.social ("Bullsdonk") wrote:

@soatok being kicked out because all the freedom got me GNU/Hard

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
z_everson@journa.host ("Zach Everson") wrote:

"Mullin’s Significant Investments in Companies with DHS Contracts Raise Red Flags"

(I did some research.)

via Public Citizen

#news #uspol #markwaynemullin #congress #DHS #trump

https://www.citizen.org/news/mullins-significant-investments-in-companies-with-dhs-contracts-raise-red-flags/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

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

- Opens pull request with 19k added lines of code written with Claude Code.
- Claims he reviewed them all.

Even if that were true and even if he hadn't used any AI, I would shout that guy out of the room.

Pray that this PR doesn't get merged.

#JavaScript #nodejs #LLM

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

End-to-end encryption for Instagram is gone.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Stephanie@thetransagenda.gay ("Stéphanie") wrote:

@soatok@furry.engineer So that's what "use after free" means

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116246999502878371

My language nerd self just can't wait to have copies of the translations into different languages all lined up next to each other :)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

Happy Sheelah's Day. This feast, largely no longer celebrated in Ireland, commemorates either St Patrick's wife or mother, who probably didn't exist. So let's celebrate a similarly-named mysterious figure today instead: the sheela na gig!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Here is the screenshot @sleepyowl posted on her site of her being tipped off. She also says:

> Who I am NOT
>
> Some of you think of me as such a big deal that you think I am some threat actor wanted by the Five Eyes.
>
> (screenshot)
>
> I am not this "Gideon Teagarden" person and have no idea who they are or if they even exist. Whatever they've done however, I certainly don't envy their position.
>
> If the Internal Security Department is paying attention, you think maybe it's a good idea to consider recruiting more... reliable persons as third-party fixers if you have to recruit fixers at all in the first place, and not someone like Mercury Jamie Alice?
>
> I don't want to tell you how to do your business, but you do realize that this isn't a good look for Singapore in the global intelligence community, right?

https://bitowl.online/about

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you have seen me posting about the dangers of ID laws, and about the need to have hardware options we can trust, a lot of the information on that stuff comes from talking to @sleepyowl

That's the kind of person she is: someone who wants to build solutions and use computing skills to advance human rights. You can see that stuff just by reading her fediverse feed. My experience is that Joyce in private is exactly like how she is in public. She isn't a threat actor, she's someone who wants to help people.

I hope she is safe.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
frosty@furry.engineer ("...Frosty! ❄️🦊") wrote:

@soatok Does systemd count as Masochism?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
marlena@kif.rocks ("/Users/marlena") wrote:

@soatok I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Bottom, is in fact, GNU/Bottom, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Bottom. Bottom is not an sexual role unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning BDSM scene made useful by the GNU coresubs, submission utilities and vital sexual components comprising a full BDSM scene as defined by Wikipedia.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Visual Basic's `On Error Resume Next` can be galaxy-brained to `On Error LLM("rewrite the program to stop doing that")`

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mudkip@wetdry.world ("enderman0125 :neofox_flag_nb: :neofox_flag_pan:") wrote:

in a world where all the news is bleak atleast there is some good out there

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.