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rusty__shackleford ("Rusty Shackleford") wrote:

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

A random phrase from an LLM, but accidentally a poignant one:

"I didn't steal it. I curated it."

Now I'm afraid I won't be able to understand "curated" in any other sense :-)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange ("cR0w :gayint: :ifin: :brdKnife:") wrote:

@Sempf @darkuncle

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

Very happy with wonderful opinion from the 3rd Circuit. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/another-court-rules-copyright-cant-stop-people-reading-and-speaking-law Philadelphia incorporated by reference the ICC code, in it's entirety, which in turn incorporated by reference 10 ASTM standards in their entirety. Incorporation by law is recursive.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156

I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.

Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.

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

Fun fact: Brian May and I are neighbors, in that our respective minor planets have numbers very close to each other. Hello, neighbor!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@brian%5Fmay032/post/DW51FGvCHIL

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

DuckDuckGo has a handy feature called "bangs," where you can turn anything you type into your browser's address bar into a search of a specific site just by tacking on a special code associated with that site starting with an exclamation mark. This saves you a lot of clicking around.

You just have to be careful to use the right bang code. !mw, for instance, will pipe your search through the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which is useful all the time. But if your finger slips and you type !me, your search will be piped through the Mass Effect fan wiki

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:

so it cost anthropic $20k to find this openbsd crash bug which amounts to putting a negative integer in a tcp field where a negative integer was not expected by the c code which does some cavalier int cast bullshit, ie. a vuln which is totally fuzzable, and quite certainly would have been found by the fuzzers of the 2010s had anyone cared to burn that much compute on fuzzing openbsd.

The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.

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

Hello, friend. Could you use a pup pic in this troubling time?

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

They've been pulling it down from their site, but until recently Red Hat was proudly advertising how they could use AI to kill people more efficiently.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en%5F3.pdf

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

to be clear many dear friends have said this in an attempt to be fair. I do not wish retroactive violence upon anyone for having made this error. I just want this to set a baseline for future discussions so everyone knows they can’t do it any more

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

here’s the “AI regulation” that I want: if anyone proposing utility for an AI tool utters the words “I could imagine…”, a big cartoony boxing glove on a spring needs to pop out of a box and punch them through a wall

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Intaglio_Dragon@furry.engineer ("Intaglio Whitegraven") wrote:

@soatok Shoutout to the TREE(3) reference in the thumbnail. :aneobot_explode:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
linuxiac ("Linuxiac") wrote:

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#linux #opensource

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

edge computing is where it never quite works well enough to satisfy you

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

Fuck. I need to make a new playlist I guess https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UsbqgMhFaN0

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Tea, transport, and a life update

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d8fZ2CeJebpr1N5yAAETC6

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

Oh what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--ReEmXTCg

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

oxidised vibes

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Rob_T_Firefly@masto.hackers.town ("Rob Vincent 🎙️") wrote:

"Leave me alone! You're not my real can!!"

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Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

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

Yes and also let people know about your book anyway, people need their momentary rest and respite and you can feel good about providing it to them

RE: https://www.threads.com/@rosebrikpoet/post/DW6uoeKlO-w

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

Yes please

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/europe/orban-hungary-election-trump-ally-intl

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

I have a difficult time tossing out books but there are definitely authors who have lost "books on regularly photographed bookshelves" status

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

monthly routine ^_^

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@collinsworth If you zoom out a bit, this is actually a consistent worldview.

Companies: We are easily conned. We're looking for people who are a good cultural fit.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
treyhunner ("Trey Hunner 🐍") wrote:

Python Tip #99 (of 365):

Don't convert pathlib.Path objects to strings

Using a pathlib.Path object in an f-string or a print call is fine and I do this often.

But if you THINK you need to convert a pathlib.Path object to a string to pass it off to some other path-handling utility, you probably don't need to. Most path-handling utilities in Python support pathlib.Path objects just fine.

#Python #DailyPythonTip

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Casual reminder: The war on Iran has already made six oil companies US $130 BILLION richer.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@johnzajac I also like how their press releases are now framing data centers as "1.21 jigawatts of AI compute" or some such cringey phrasing. YES, please keep doing that! Please keep pretending that we measure computation in terms of how many lakes it boils! There is no way this framing will backfire.