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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

The right wing understands that when it comes to dismantling good things, *action* trumps anything else. And that the Courts are too slow, esp with the current SCOTUS' ridiculous ideas about injunctions, to stop the damage from being fatal.

That's why fascists rely on compliance in advance: if VOA employees had just kept going to work and doing their job, making trouble and breaking doors to get to their stations, the Courts would have been forced to rule, and VOA would still exist.

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ") wrote:

@adactio I have not read the article yet, and am replying partly to bookmark this for myself to read when I have more time later.

I do agree that Apple sometimes supporting their own standards instead of common/open standards is frustrating. (ex: requiring Apple audio containers for some codecs)

BUT, I'm also wary of "The Web" requiring supporting *every* web standard and every feature that Google's Chrome supports. Web sites *should work* on older/smaller browsers, or for example, without JS!

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Seeing a lot of hot takes on the ongoing #anthropic source leak hilarity bemoaning just how terrible the code is.

Folks, you're missing the point. Their idea is that code is now a low-level implementation detail, it's not for reading. You only program with prompts, and nobody cares how hard it is for agents to read their own code. That humans still need to review it is considered a temporary inconvenience, which they are solving (for now) in the usual way: hiring more bodies. (cont.)

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ") wrote:

Coincidentally, just today my company installed some "metrics gathering" extension to our enterprise Claude account which Claude warns "could allow execution of arbitrary code or interception of your prompts and responses", so I won't be doing this myself anytime soon. šŸ˜…

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ") wrote:

I have a friend who felt like he was between a rock and a hard place politically at work. So he wrote up the situation and fed it to an LLM to brainstorm for ideas.

It told him to quit. (In multiple related conversations.)

A mutual friend thought that using an LLM like that was a good idea and fed her situation into an LLM as well. It also told *her* to quit.

I would be interested in hearing more data points on this. šŸ˜†

#AI #LLM #chatbot #claude #chatgpt

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The CFTC (the US commodities regulator) has just sued (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9206-26) Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois for their efforts to "outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain" prediction markets like Kalshi.

This is another escalation by newly appointed CFTC chair Mike Selig (and sole Commissioner at the agency), who has taken it upon himself to assert the CFTC's sole regulatory authority over prediction markets. Recently, the CFTC filed a supporting brief in Crypto .com's lawsuit against Nevada.

As I wrote then (https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/#cftc), "Since the CFTC has filed no enforcement actions against prediction markets after embracing the sector following Trump’s election, Selig’s jurisdictional claim seems designed to shield the sector rather than regulate it."

Nevertheless, the CFTC's press release accompanying these lawsuits claims that state regulatory intervention could result in "poorer consumer protection and increased risk of fraud and manipulation".

#PredictionMarkets #Kalshi

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/116336026699518351

Congrats on the launch @mike!

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

So, turns out Angine de Poitrine (Pectoral Angine? Chesty Angine?) is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

ETA: one of the replies provided a proper translation: angina (pectoris), or y'know, chest pain.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers šŸ•·") wrote:

Why can't I use jokes from Oglaf in my biology classes?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/02/lessons-i-probably-shouldnt-use-in-my-classes/

Oglaf cartoon

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

url.town has surpassed 800 entries! If you haven’t yet visited the omg.lol community’s little home-grown web directory, stop by and poke around! It’s a delight.

https://url.town

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

sudo

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
drmambobob@ecoevo.social ("Raptor's Nest (He/Him)") wrote:

There’s a massive misunderstanding about how Japanese eat noodles. We don’t slurp it up, we inhale it. There’s a huge difference. The former makes a wet slurpy sound, but the latter is a sharp airy sound.
#japan #ramen #food

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

warning: viewer indiscretion advised

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

Journal: Mistrust

How Apple’s penchant for breaking the web has given me more empathy towards developers who are suspicious of the web platform.

šŸ”—https://adactio.com/journal/22507

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

light pen (finger)

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
RnDanger@infosec.exchange ("2xfo") wrote:

Stolen to add alt text

An image composed of text as would be displayed on a terminal in the eighties, or imagine it's typed  A stick figure holds up a sign that says "there is no trans debate, you're just transphobic" Underneath there's a caption: "trans debate"  is the newest version of such classics as "the Jewish question" and "the negro problem." People are not debatable.

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

The Linux Foundation getting in bed with Coinbase to develop a web payments standard.

No thanks very much

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-is-launching-the-x402-foundation-and-welcoming-the-contribution-of-the-x402-protocol

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
expensive@shitpost.trade ("Expensive Shitpost LLC") wrote:

this account is quantity over quality. we throw shitposts at the wall till they stick.

the hey guys meme with c++ and "C with classes" and instead of not my name it says "segmentation fault (core dumped)"

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina MarchƔn"):
andnull@social.nouveau.community ("... and and and and ...") wrote:

I really like how watching the uxn channel on the concatenative discord has really left a permanent mark in my brain. Me and the rest of the mods basically let it operate as an automous zone in the discord. I even had it muted for the most part. Unbenounced to everyone outside that channel however, an AI booster and vibecoder had joined.

In a matter of a month or so, he killed the whole channel. Strangled it with his refusal to think. Every word someone said was feed straight into an LLM. Then, thrown back at chat cause the LLM could predict the correct code, and he could understand anything.

Eventually everyone grew so tired they began leaving. One fucking person leeched off a whole community. Never. Again. Ever inch you cede to LLM contributions in your community is another step towards its implosion. There is a reason so much of the art community has vehemently rejected whole sale.

But programmers need their new toys. And programmers demand every space follows industry trends and recommendation. And programmers cannot handle the idea of someone saying "no, we don't do that here". Cause nobody gets to say No in the software world. Things are always forced to evolve, consequences be damned.

I made the mistake once. I will not be making it twice. Do not help build the new car depedent infrastructure or everything you care about will be paved over.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

An argument I've been stewing on for a while is that the place stochastic language modelling will be most effective as a dowsing rod for _classes_ of both errors and overlooked needs and growth-paths. I think that @cwebber is partly correct but that attacker/defender is a reactive framing; not wrong, but: narrow.

We have a mirror here that can show us ourselves, reflected in patterns. What would we want to see if we could see anything? How would we change?

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116335331872866600

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

5 days of not smoking. starting to breathe a little easier, which is to say breathing at all up to a point.

very mixed feelings tbh, but inclined to consider this is a permanent change now.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mnl@hachyderm.io ("mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl") wrote:

@aredridel one thing that grounds me is that this is mostly an online keyboard-driven debate. Normal people in the real world a) don't give a shit where the software comes from b) are delighted when you build them a little tool that solves their problem c) feel empowered when they realize they can build bigger things.

And now that software copyright is dead I legit dgaf anymore. I'm not going to launder opensource software for the sake of pretending I made something, but I'm sure as hell going to launder anything proprietary/company backed I run across.

legit where is the "hack the planet" spirit? opensource has been coopted by bigtech for decades now, every opensource project landing page looks like a fucking startup, but the stuff llm-assisted devs do is _weird af_ and quirky and creative. And usually deeply human, mirroring the creators personality, which is so ironic.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mnl@hachyderm.io ("mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl") wrote:

@aredridel as if copyright as a hack to open more sourcecode through the GPL has worked in the last 20 years. All I've seen in practice is that there companies will rather build shitty in-house replacements of GPL'd software than open any of their own source.

I am absolutely flabbergasted, as someone who wants everybody to get value out of their computational devices, to get them to do what they want when they want on their own terms, and seeing how LLMs facilitate exactly the kind of "a single html file with local storage application that i share with my friends" malleable software so often dreamed of, to then be "but i have copyright on this pedestrian piece of software that presumably is 'remixed' by LLMs so no." and then attacking everybody studying and using the tools as "hubris driven tech bros wanting to keep their toys" when no, I want everybody to play with my toys.

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

hi i'm nilegreen and this week i'll be synthesising computrons out of some dangerous chemicals and last week's jam.

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

ludicrous as in wouldn't really be acceptable to most people rather than really good, obviously.

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

c'mon, you knew i would have some absolutely ludicrous desktop setup, obviously.

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

finally got around to putting a fan on my cpu cooler. it makes quite a difference....

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mnl@hachyderm.io ("mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl") wrote:

@aredridel definitely something driving me up the walls. The hype-AI and the anti-AI debate is... accepting the same framework that AI tools are labor-replacing thinking-replacing magical widgets. Either irredeemably bad, or unconditionally amazing.

It's however much easier to have a nuanced discussion with the hype-AI crowd, because by virtue of them using the tool are very aware of the current shortcomings of the technology and of the spectrum of skill using them.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/116333185599071224

This. This is how it is.

Startups can ship slop faster than ever _and that is the correct decision for them for the most part_. If we structure business so that they are existentially constrained like they are, this is the correct answer for how they will behave.

And if we want real engineering, the tool isn't the problem, it's the incentives.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

@regehr @ryan This matches what I hear from friends in industry.

I hear a lot of stories of projects where someone outsourced thinking to an LLM and spent days or weeks debugging something and not fixing it when applying a bit of human judgment would solve the problem. A friend of mine makes good money as a consultant who cleans up people's LLM-assisted messes.

On the flip side, the growth rate of startups is faster than ever because you can ship at previously impossible velocities.