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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

nice pixels can i get some alt text i don't read jpeg artefacts

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
lacroixboi@beige.party ("presentdad🙋🏻‍♂️") wrote:

shoot for the moon and if you miss you are not a good moon assassin

Boosted by jwz:
fredy@tacobelllabs.net ("fredy cosmoline :tblverified:") wrote:

americans don't understand how right-wing Top Gear was in its original context because we have no frame of reference for how abnormally evil you have to be to be a Car Guy in england. imagine you're surrounded by steam engines and yet you go out of your way to like cars

Boosted by jwz:
eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

We need to start building a list of Open Source infrastructure projects (and project forks) that categorically reject contributions from LLM slopmongers, so we know what’ll be safe to keep using and contributing to in the long term.

That’s a good task for the Butlerian Jihad.

#ai #llm #slop #OpenSource #ButlerianJihad

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

There are fake ICE videos circulating, because people want the clout or whatever.

Please verify scary shit before you re-post it. Non-citizens in the USA are scared enough already with actual things happening, we don't need to forward fiction around.

Is it posted by an actual news org you recognize? If not, is it a legit immigrant organization? Or is it a random wannabe influencer you've never heard of who posted the video? Think before you repost.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

TiL you are opted-in by default to Copilot training on your data in GH. The toggle to turn that off is here: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It goes without saying that I wouldn't try to use anticompetitive tactics to prevent competing browsers from making safe, interoperable versions of them available. The embarrassment!

Obviously, it would stand beyond the pale to use standards process jockeying to get my way instead. It would only serve to highlight the incoherence of allowing native apps access.

Obviously.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apropos of nothing, if I were a company that was both an OEM and OS vendor, and I didn't want the web to access various device sensors, I would just remove those sensors from the devices I sold and the APIs my OS exposed to native apps.

But that's just me.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yossarian@infosec.exchange ("yossarian (1.3.6.1.4.1.55738)") wrote:

I once again feel vindicated in believing that there’s a perfect negative relationship between companies being serious security vendors and having names like CYBER SHADOW GLOCK

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

@whitequark biblically accurate sysadmin

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jacob@jacobian.org wrote:

I do believe that people can change, and that there can (and should) be a path back to good standing in a community.

But that path needs to involve taking ownership of the harm they caused — even if, heck especially if, they’re no longer a person who would do those things. And they need to at least attempt to make amends in some way.

Without these things, I’m not going to be able to assume good intentions of someone trying to come back.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Physical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:

Hotels wisely don't put the room number on guest keycards so if someone finds your card, they'd have to exhaustively search the hotel to find the room it opens.

Some hotels now have elevators programmed to only let you call the floor for which your keycard is coded, preventing guests from wandering to other floors.

But it also means the elevator can be used as an efficient oracle to determine the floor of a found key.

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

i just learned where a phrase i've been using for many years - below the fold - comes from.

OHHHH

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

Mariah Carey has a lost punk album and I want to listen to it so bad

Boosted by jwz:
mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org ("media archaeology lab") wrote:

(no)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116287575482074849

this was a subtoot of roughly half a dozen people, some of whom have (with no direct interaction) now blocked me, so mission accomplished I guess

jwz wrote:

"Official Video, Full HD, Remastered"

Now, I'm old enough to remember when "remastered" meant "we re-scanned the 35mm negative". Let's take a look at the upper left quadrant of the first 15 seconds of that video at half speed. On the left: a 702x576 rip I made of the video in 2003 from the SD DVD release, Directors Series Volume 3: The Work of Michel Gondry; on the right, the 1392x1062 "Official Full HD Remaster"...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5U

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jond ("Jon Dubovsky") wrote:

Big shout out to Tusky, ActivityPub, et al for being well-made and letting me browse cat pictures and other vital entertainment while _in the middle of $/#@ rural nowhere on the train home.

The cows are impressed.

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
Attac@mamot.fr ("Attac France") wrote:

Grosse semaine pour Bernard Arnault : après un record de dividendes avec 3,2 milliards d'euros reçus de LVMH, on apprend que son méga-yacht est immatriculé à Malte.

Celui qui prétend être le plus grand contribuable français adore décidément les paradis fiscaux !
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/260326/pour-son-nouveau-megayacht-bernard-arnault-reste-fidele-aux-paradis-fiscaux

#ParadisFiscaux #TaxonsLesRiches

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
berru@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I really think it is time for us to treat LLM usage as another form of metadata, such as licensing.

As a user, I want to know if my software contains LLM.

As a developper I want to know if a project accepts LLM usage.

As a web-surfer I want to know if this content has been made by a human.

I don't think we can trust people (especially companies) to disclose their usage, so it's essentially a web-of-trust/web-of-shame.

Is any RFC already up? I wanna talk about this.

#vibecoding #llm

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca ("Sean Boots") wrote:

“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github%5Fai%5Ftraining%5Fpolicy%5Fchanges/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

Brains trust: for Reasons, my wife occasionally needs to wear a sports jersey as part of her work at a primary school ("wear your favourite team's jersey instead of school uniform if you donate to a fund raising effort" activities).

Neither of us are really sports people, but we *are* readers, so she has historically worn the jersey of a ... notable fictional magical broomstick-based sports team. But she would like to avoid supporting that particular franchise.

Any suggestions for a. Current front runner is a "Brakebills University Welters Team” jumper (from The Magicians) - but (a) it's not likely to be licensed content, and (b)... she teaches primary school, and might have to explain it 😆

Suggestions for a fictional sports team from she could support? Bonus points if it's YA *and* has official merch.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Someone appears to have tried to insulate this shed using old fur coats. Or perhaps it was for decoration.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Anyway, if you need to help a child develop a love of reading and magical fantasy, give some money to B.B. Alston instead https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240817-amari-and-the-night-brothers

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Pretty cool how white collar criminals suddenly started behaving so much better under Trump! 🤷🏼 It probably definitely isn’t that they just get away with everything now

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is of course a strong identity component here. Trans people who want to feel a certain way about people portraying symbols from the series, or engaging in intra-community discourse, have feelings that are beyond my purview to criticize. But there's a growing contingent of straight, white, cis folks who have started to take it upon themselves to be competitively cruel to HP fans to demonstrate their allyship and it's really not a good look. Cruelty is never good allyship.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
UnePorte@eldritch.cafe ("Door et de platine") wrote:

This is peak malicious compliance and I love it

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

Edit : the blog author is on the fediverse if you want to follow him https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116287307838318731

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

People need to know what a monster she is. Providing good factual information about what she is doing with her money is great. Critiquing the books is great; giving people some analytical tools to help them let go of emotional attachments to some its shitty themes is also good. So I'm not saying "don't be critical". But being mean for the sake of mean because you're *right* doesn't prove anything except that you're an asshole. Ironically the kind of asshole JKR valorizes.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess moderation is the theme of the day, so, here goes another one: denying resources to JK Rowling is unequivocally a good thing. Being personally vicious to people who like Harry Potter—particularly if they are already mourning its destruction and AREN'T giving JKR any money—is performative bullshit.

Personally I never liked the series much; I fell off entirely around book 4. But I know *several* trans people that the story still resonates with. They don't need you to tell them JKR sucks.