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

This has a genuinely sinister elegance to it. You want to know if models can “reason” instead of merely repeat? Point them an esoteric language and see what happens.

https://types.pl/@edwinb/116263613083616062

Boosted by jwz:
Joshsharp@aus.social ("josh's harp") wrote:

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

read this and try to tell me cloud wasnt a mistake

https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

RE: https://wikis.world/@quarknova/116262006249339183

I celebrate the people who made this happen! Keep up the good work.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tammy@social.lol ("Tammy Lee") wrote:

Trying out a different process for drawing goldfish. This is a work in progress. It feels good to stretch my brain and do something different!

jwz wrote:

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116264352643279335

Boosted by jwz:
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge%5Frequests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

Boosted by jwz:
ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:

All together now: fuck systemd

First to tongue the boot when it comes to this age verification shit I see.

jwz wrote:

https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116264184185228738

Boosted by jwz:
izzy@social.shadowkat.net ("Izzy :QueerCat_Trans:") wrote:

remember: most android malware is available on the play store

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

Unrelated kinda but if you need a cheap burner laptop or something. $200 for an old Intel MacBook Air

(Saw on hacker news)

https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/macbook-air-13-3-inch-8gbram-128gb-mqd32ll-a-mid-2017-refurbished

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
quarknova@wikis.world ("chaotic enby") wrote:

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing%5Farticles%5Fwith%5Flarge%5Flanguage%5Fmodels/RfC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ododopress@bookstodon.com ("Ododo Press") wrote:

Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
saltywizard@beige.party ("Дими́трий") wrote:

read this somewhere:

"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant.

The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to America’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #globalWarming

https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna, creating Trump-approved broadcaster reaching 80% of US
Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fcc-lets-nexstar-buy-tegna-creating-trump-approved-broadcaster-reaching-80-of-us/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
dnkboston@apobangpo.space ("Deb Nam-Krane") wrote:

#scribesandmakers Self-promotion day. Shame optional (untrue--there's always a little shame for me).

This is the series I wrote that's set in Boston. Starts out as romance, then segues to politics and mystery. Kind of messy, just like Boston.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/8375

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

OpenClaw demand in China is driving up the price of secondhand MacBooks:

"So many people in China are rushing to try the OpenClaw artificial intelligence tool that they’re driving up prices for secondhand Mac computers."

This is exactly what American tech companies are trying to avoid in the states https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/19/openclaw-demand-in-china-is-driving-up-the-price-of-secondhand-macbooks.html

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

OH: "we should restart the internet, finding available usernames is impossible these days"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scy@chaos.social wrote:

So, in the #PHP ecosystem, people can build a package like roave/security-advisories, which has a huge list of "conflict" dependencies.

These don't say "install this as a dependency", but instead "I'm incompatible with that dependency in that version". And the versions listed there are those with known security vulnerabilities, effectively preventing you from installing them, which is good.

Is there something similar in the #Python ecosystem? Is it even possible?

https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories/blob/latest/composer.json

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

Our commitment to Windows quality:

"[W]e are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."

Oh no not snipping tool! 😭 https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

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

Python is faster than assembly for real

doing it wrong.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"The SDK directory is not writable (/opt/android-sdk)"

Well I sure hope it's not. Are you suggesting you need this to be writable to compile a simple app?!

Boosted by jwz:
lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

drives me insane when even supposedly ai skeptics act as if there is any factual value to the stuff that comes out of Claude or whatever. has anyone considered carefully baiting Claude into confessing to a bunch of unsolved murders? We could close so many cases this way

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In all seriousness, how hard can it be to compile Gadgetbridge?! Their docs refer to an sdkmanager that just crashes on start up and the Docker image they point to has been out-of-date for about 8 years now.

How do people work like that 😕

Boosted by jwz:
lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

"i prompted an output from the machine that outputs crazy bullshit with no basis in reality and what happened next will shock you"

grandpa no!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Java tooling in 2026:

"Install JDK 21."
"Actually keep JDK 26."
"Also set JAVA_HOME to something."
"Gradle will ignore it unless it won't."

Jeez, I just wanted to compile an app not perform an ancient ritual.

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

NVIDIA: Our new AI enhances game graphics!

The enhancements:

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

these are almost as good as opinionated frameworks