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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

If you want to know whether your AI system is accurate, I recommend this question: "When did Elon Musk heil in public?"

Source criticism and information verification must be a prioritised school subject in every democratic country.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

if LLMs are just AI tools that are safe in the hands of experts, then a ban only ensures you’ll get the quality you claim exists

if they’re just tools then banning LLMs is like banning emacs: if you don’t spew config noise across the repo (and you really shouldn’t for most projects) and your output isn’t fucked up in some identifiable way, then nobody will know what you’re using

if on the other hand I’m right, then banning LLMs is the only sane choice if you’d like to keep doing FOSS at all

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

Dillo 3.3.0-rc1 released 🥳

Let us know if you encounter any issues to fix them before the 3.3.0 release!

https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0-rc1/

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the V in Unix System V stands for vvorkstation

Boosted by jwz:
eldersea@expressional.social ("the elder sea") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
announcements@sfba.social ("SFBA Announcements") wrote:

Hi #SFBA folks,

We’ve temporarily limited mastodon.cloud due to a wave of phishing spam. If you’re getting tagged repeatedly, consider a domain block on mastodon.cloud if you are not following any accounts on that server.
Unfortunately you will lose your follow relationships if you do a domain block and are following accounts on there.

Because so many people on SFBA follow legitimate accounts on mastodon.cloud, we don't want to take such the drastic step of suspending it globally at this time.

Please keep reporting the problematic accounts as you see them. The @moderators are trying to keep an eye on the problem on the back end as well.

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Step 1:
Take normal, legal, everyday things that Black people do, and make them illegal! Just invent new crimes! Like "jaywalking!" Or "putting in cornrows without a license." that's a real crime now!
🤡

Step 2:
Take illegal things that white people do, like this, and make them not crimes anymore!
🤡

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0186

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Every consensus position paper I read from software research about AI right now:

- AI should provide assistance
- but also make sure people don't use assistance
- should be a command center
- but not make people "managers"
- should synthesize data based on patterns
- but never reify patterns and ignore outliers
- "critical thinking"*

*which is what exactly

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

Carry yourself with the confidence of a person who charges $500 to read a single paragraph.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

China’s internet is shaped by censorship and strict regulations – insulated from the rest of the world, but not completely isolated.

This is the second of three posts I’m publishing this week about China, censorship, and technology: https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web

#China #Censorship #InternetFreedom

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've been putting this off for several years both because it's good to not buy unnecessary stuff but also because everything seems to have some huge bizarre inexplicable downside, or be mind-bogglingly expensive and depreciate at a rate of ten dollars a second. And why don't these things all have photovoltaics on their roofs yet?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I found gas for less than $6 today and felt a little thrill, which tells me that maybe it's time to get an EV. I am—obviously—not getting a Tesla, and I'd just like a reliable, regular EV that can fit a kid and a few friends. But the offerings in the US seem confusing and gimmicky. I don't want a big truck or an experimental mess full of panel gaps and slow charging. I don't want my feet nailed to the floor of some proprietary subscription HUD; I want to use CarPlay like a normal person

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116398465167508670

This argument is an abusive manipulation tactic. If you see it being made, the person making it is an abuser stoking fear to control others. Period.

They probably *also* fancy themselves the overclass, but don't concern yourself with that as much as the openly abusive behavior.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A retiree delivering DoorDash to the White House to pay for their spouses cancer would be a national embarrassment in a sane world instead of an opportunity to celebrate “no taxes on tips”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Not even really fully out of the woods yet but the fact that I managed to get this written at all today is a good sign.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A somewhat dispiriting update for the last couple of weeks, as I have taken what amounts to some involuntary personal leave from coding, writing, and basically everything else too. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-155475515

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Not sure what to say to someone who thinks software isn't political. It's like talking to a carpenter who thinks trees are a hoax.

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

A nice spot of good news for the day

https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-rainbow-flag-trump-lgbtq-historic-preservation-ac4ab59d3251476139700db6687828ca

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

This is how we can keep building a web worth wanting in the face of disingenuous veto players [1] and subversion of standards venues based on degraded competition [2]. The humility to admit your first idea is *probably* wrong (at least in part), combined with urgency to fix real problems for users and developers, puts a premium on responsibility in leadership. I'm proud of the team for taking that seriously.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/
[2]: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

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

In the end, this focus on developer needs dovetailed with the Blink Launch Process's prescriptive gates for launching before consensus, including:

- a strong spec (even if not yet a standard)
- good tests
- wide review (including the TAG)

These are calculated to allow other vendors to implement cheaply, without IP risk, should they change their minds later. And once again, the Project Fugu process design is working as designed; enabling Mozilla to join us without drama.

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

Sal Mercogliano turns to our current “would anyone who is not blockading the Persian Gulf please raise your hand” absurdity

https://youtu.be/xddTUc14iOw

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

What does shipping responsibly mean when you're that far out ahead? A few things:

- requesting developer feedback at every stage
- making working versions available behind flags, then iterating
- asking for wide review despite disinterest by other vendors
- being honest and iterative about feedback
- shipping the "base subset", then iterating to solve follow-up problems

You can see that whole journey here:

https://chromestatus.com/features?q=web%2520serial

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

@firefoxwebdevs I would be remiss if I didn't also point out the role that Blink and the Project Fugu team (particularly @reillyeon, Josh Bell, Vince Scheib, Chris Mumford, and @kennethrohde) played in leading on this feature responsibly. Everything was built in the open, with invitations to all vendors to participate in development, and in a collaborative way. There wasn't much non-developer feedback, but it didn't keep the team from building and shipping responsibly.

Boosted by jwz:
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116389911016512033

Operation dildo at ICE has reached Portland

#pdx #Portland #ICE

Attachments:

• gifv: DHS police officers kicking dildos away in the driveway at the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon

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

First Web MIDI, now Web Serial! Could not be happier to see Mozilla returning to an expansive vision for the web. The idea that we should download unsafe native binaries to get things done was always naff, and an abdication of the browser's role in the lives of users:

https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

/cc @firefoxwebdevs

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

Doesn't it look cosy?#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #yellow

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
balloob@fosstodon.org wrote:

WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !! 🎉

Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes 👌