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drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

@jwz It is immensely reassuring to hear that I am not the only person who finds Wikipedia articles about math incomprehensible.

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sand@kitty.haus ("Neputunu") wrote:

@jwz i started to update my computer to check out the new screensavers, but then i remembered that i'm on debian stable.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

For the people who complained that the Curta was overkill and I should use a sliderule, I tried it this morning and calculated that 2.1*10^-2 kg coffee at a 1.5*10^1:1 ratio is about 3.15*10^-1 liters. Or something like that within a few powers of ten.

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered day 32 with most users cut off from the outside world for over 744 hours.

Extended digital isolation is bringing new challenges for Iranians, from expired domains and accounts to unpatched servers on a degrading national intranet.

ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

never a dull moment when playing npm roulette

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

@soatok Honestly I'm offended that more cons didn't offer it.
Sadly the dogwhistle tactics work - I think I told you about pushing for safe-sex kits in ConOps at one of the UK cons and being told "the media will have a field day, are you trying to destroy the con?"

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Feel you, Mr. Plant

https://ledzepnews.com/2026/03/30/robert-plant-said-he-hasnt-been-writing-new-music-because-the-world-is-in-such-a-mess/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
smagnusson@graphics.social ("Spencer Magnusson") wrote:

I'd recommend every artist to follow feeds that include beginners, no matter what skill level you are. There's something so invigorating about seeing others take their first steps and creating things.

Remember: even your first steps can inspire anyone. #art #programming #FediArt

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh") wrote:

Something I think about a lot is when I posted something on here critical of genAI, and soon after got a text from a very talented friend who I look up to saying that they had been thinking the same thing, but didn’t want to say anything publicly for fear of negatively affecting their career by criticising genAI.

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ddayen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Dayen") wrote:

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

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stephenjudkins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stephen Judkins") wrote:

That's right

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Does a defendant who used an AI translator retain attorney-client privilege?

Not according to a recent decision from a judge in the Southern District of New York. On Feb. 17, Judge Jed Rakoff issued a written opinion in United States v. Heppner. This first-of-its-kind ruling found that documents created by a criminal defendant using Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-and-privilege-after-united-states-v.-heppner

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Oh lord, I am so tired of people not listening to me and then demanding I bail them out of the extremely foreseeable consequences

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

One definition of legacy code is code that you're afraid to change. (And you should be afraid to change any code that doesn't have automated test coverage.)

Aren't LLMs just legacy code generators? You can generate tests, but until you've tested the tests, they're legacy code too.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

employers should just put on their social media profiles that their opinions do not represent us

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tomdar2@mas.to ("Tom Schmidt #DEI 🥄🇺🇸:v26:") wrote:

#NoKings Antarctica. All 7 continents represented on Saturday. 🇺🇸

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

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

If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.

Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.

https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Any Democratic candidate who does not put this headline into an ad is politically negligent

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

#USPol

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@daisy/116312358923253621

This. The conversations are incredibly fraught. I hear this over and over

.. and also, the flip side. Anyone who finds it useful tends to find the need to keep it hush-hush on the fediverse. It's really preventing the "how do we steer" harm-avoiding conversations from happening. The net result is that only the careless touch the stuff. It’s not a good time.

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

It's clearly going to take the tech industry a while to understand that the "AI" brand is well and truly toxic

If you have a software or feature, sell it on what it does for people. If it's actually useful, then calling it "AI" will just make people assume it's yet another money-grabbing con.

Especially if you aren't using an LLM or diffusion model and instead are just using a non-generative ML model. Why willingly adopt all that negative baggage when you don't have to?

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

I think the evidence for alien visits to Earth lurks in the same fantastical nether world inhabited by evidence for gods.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/30/theres-a-sane-reply-and-theres-the-batshit-crazy-reply/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The GOP wants you to die at home so they can kill overseas

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

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

Now we'll have another week of objects rusting in nature, starting with whatever this is.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Grammarly quietly made an #AI to sell bad writing advice using famous writers' names. They quickly had to backtrack as soon as people found out.

This gamble reflects a broader trend in the #tech industry: everyone is shipping features as quickly as an #LLM can write lines of code, with no way to spot problems until something breaks or someone sues them.

Vibe prototyping replaced thinking through things. But without direction, moving faster is worthless.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/grammarly-shows-how-prototyping-turned-into-an-excuse-for-not-thinking

#ux #uxdesign

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

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fiore@brain.worm.pink ("φ") wrote:

Bjarne Soup, inventor of C++, created the language after he forgot to null terminate his legs.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

Hey gang, I need your help.

For @cloudfour’s design practice to survive, we need more projects.

If you’ve ever benefited from any of the 25+ talks, 80+ code repos or 500+ articles we’ve shared for free over the past 19 years, please read and share this post: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

#GetFediHired #OpenToWork #WebDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

"Lenders who originated data center loans—including the private credit facilities described in Section A—have begun pooling those loans and selling tranches to asset managers and pension funds, spreading risk well beyond the original lending institutions."

IS
THIS
FUCKING
GOOD