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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Khrys@mamot.fr wrote:

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

It's one of the most popular Python libraries for interacting with large language models [...] It has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, and it's an important dependency in a lot of AI tooling. It's also been compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine.

Sorry but... 🍿

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
robertcarlson@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robert Carlson") wrote:

The sparse "looks nice to me" comments about DLSS 5 get at what's fundamentally insidious about AI-generated art. It's gotten good at passing at a glance to untrained eyes, while still falling apart upon closer inspection. Good art is the opposite: it rewards attention and consideration.

#gamedev #ai

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

Epic Games is "laying off 1000 people." 23% of its workforce.

That number is bonkers. I feel like we've grown so desensitized to layoffs at this scale after a few years, that we don't think about the scale of 1000.

That's a highschool in a dense city. Or a small town in Canada, or a high-rise or two. That's so many lives and people who are dependent on that income.

What a nightmare world where we hear about layoffs constantly at this scale.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

self portrait

Boosted by jwz:
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

It is possible he interpreted the way I phrased my request as rude. I may have said something like "you are selling us as meat".

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

Boosted by jwz:
t54r4n1@mspsocial.net ("insurgency bureaucrat") wrote:

#fediblock alpaca.gold 's admin throws your posts into an llm for "summarization" so you can "catch up on doomscrolling". not my posts you don't

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the shills are less frustrating because the shills are all just cross-posting from LinkedIn using Buffer and spamming hashtags; they're never going to see my replies and so I can easily just block them after one or two posts. no real hope of useful engagement there anyway, that's not what they're here for.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd really like to reply directly and try to engage in discussions but *everyone* doing this is way too angry and dysregulated to respond to personal feedback, and half the time I will see six pages of Leftist Theory buzzwords thrown into a blender, click through to the bio to see where they're coming from, and see "20 y/o comp sci student" and like, I hate age verification too but I feel like we all might have been better off if we couldn't post until we could rent a car

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it is tooth-shatteringly frustrating to watch page after page of rant thread from dozens of different accounts scroll by (for my sins, I follow several hashtags around my interests, so it's not necessarily people I follow) where they have identified real problems but have zero understanding of how corporations or large open source projects are organized or make decisions, and invent fantastical conspiracies. it's 4chan shit. please stop

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

when commenting on companies like Apple or core open source technologies SystemD it seems I have two options, either get lumped in with the shills or the truthers. I really do not like either of these options

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

new, wonderfully simple, yet delightful game just dropped. much better than doomscrolling.

i dare y’all not to get hooked.

https://100jumps.org/

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

Godzilla Minus 1 was great and I might do a legitimate review later

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

SFPD’s complicity in ICE’s abuses violates San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance as well as SFPD’s own policies.

Please join the FREE SF Coalition for a rally this Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 pm in front of SFPD headquarters (1245 3rd Street, San Francisco) to:
Demand that SFPD stop standing guard for ICE while it rips families apart
Demand the truth about how deep SFPD’s collusion with ICE goes.

https://indivisiblesf.org/events/2026/3/25/protest-sfpd-standing-guard-while-ice-abducts-our-neighbors

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

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

I'm so hopeful that they can pull off a good Sinners sequel.

Either a brand new story with all new actors. Or maybe they pick up in the 90s where they left off. The former seems the most interesting.

Boosted by jwz:
joeress ("Joe Ressington") wrote:

Just updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit card. I did not let it. It then told me I might not be able to access certain things. The future is fucking shit.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
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 questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

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

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

every time I see this dialog box it feels like I am being asked to confirm that my referendum on Apple's product line is still accurate, and every time I say "yup"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also, not for nothing, it's completely wrong. *I* wasn't "opening" it (it was auto-launching at boot, in the background, before I unlocked the machine). Also it *is* open already by the time I see this dialog box. Also it's perfectly responsive to all my inputs. The gestalt effect of this dialog box is a sea lion sneering down his[1] nose at me, arrogantly incorrecting my pronunciation of a word that I know and they obviously don't

[1]: gendered language intentional

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

After system updates I routinely get error dialogs like this and they trigger a massive wave of Weltschmerz. Who is this actionable for? What does it mean? Why does it happen? I understand the design goal of couching highly technical concepts like checkin failures and stalled event loops in "normal" language, but this is layperson-izing to the point of gibberish. I am begging you to just let your users learn things.

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

if even google can't stop their maps ai from being used for all manner of irrelevant shit, this does not inspire confidence for lesser resourced companies doing it properly.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
normplum@fosstodon.org ("Norm") wrote:

Today I learnt (realised) that #Python's `json.loads()` and `json.dumps()` functions aren't plural versions of `json.load()` and `json.dump()`. The `s` stands for `string` (since they read/write from strings instead of files).

#TIL #programming

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
alilly@solarpunk.moe ("Athena L.M.") wrote:

Tired: Push notifications via HTTP
Wired: Push notifications via XMPP
Hired: Push notifications via PostgreSQL NOTIFY/LISTEN

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

@atsuzaki @dev getting there

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

"scientifically accurate" is not a term to throw around lightly, especially not to promote a movie with sloppy science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/24/im-still-cranky-about-project-hail-mary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgzqt7zLg0

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

lmao 🤡

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

me before: PR going back to Spain is a hard-line right-wing position for sure

me now: wait. Becoming a Spanish "nationality" would basically mean PR is heavily autonomous, while still having "federal" representation, protecting its culture/language stuff, and people wouldn't need to be afraid of us "ending up like our neighbors", which seems to be a big hangup? And we'd get EU membership as a nice side?

I feel like I need to think about this more, but it's looking really fucking nice compared to becoming a US state or the current status, and it would ease fears about having to fare for ourselves?

Other boricuas only: What are y'all's thoughts?

#PuertoRico

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

I’ve a great idea for an AI startup, using leftover Juiceros to squeeze more performance out of GPUs.

Pls send $10 billion