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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116397605266279416

It's a bit of a trope to say "this is an important talk" when somebody tackles an sombre topic, but this is genuinely an important talk on the acceleration of dehumanisation enabled by "AI" and how we can resist it, all wrapped in a decent overview of the discourse so far, from a leading expert in the field

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is most excellent, a sign of growing software maturity:

https://mastodon.social/@benpate/116403046724832335

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
benpate ("Ben Pate 🤘🏻") wrote:

Have you seen this news?

#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.

So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse

Im so excited about this.

Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.

Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.

#E2EE

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History April 14, 1816: Bussa led a slave rebellion in British-ruled Barbados. Because of this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #rebellion #racism #barbados #bussa #BlackMastodon

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Trump is claiming a "blockade" of the Strait of Hormuz, but this appears to be true only for some definitions of "blockade"... if your ship is connected to the PRC, for example, then there is apparently no "blockade" in place at all.

an attempt at a quiet "nod nod, wink wink" TACO move? or just, once again, action/reaction that was not actually thought through? I can no longer tell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/world/middleeast/us-blockade-strait-hormuz-iran-ships-traffic.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.a1A.Wtei.-98nSQOP3ED8&smid=url-share

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
paul_denton ("Nils Wilcke") wrote:

Macron isolé, la purge a débuté avant 2027: ses conseillers se pressent pour quitter l'Elysée et les téléphones sonnent dans le vide. Et une enquête sur la première année de mandat de Ferrand au Conseil constitutionnel. Le macroniste bouscule l'institution, au risque de l'affaiblir? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=447Pq6JPPxw&t

#Politique #ConseilConstitutionnel #Macron #Compol #Justice #Droit #RH #Elysee #Presidentielle #Guerre #Eglise #Vatican

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

okay bear with me here but if you get NaN, you done fucked something up already. personally i'd rather know instantly, but if you want your data to be silently corrupted, why not just use NaN as the null value?

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

hmm i wonder how much people would hate it if NaN and null were interchangeable

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

What's new in #SmolFedi v1.0.11 the html/css/no-js fediverse #smolweb client :

• Register/Unregister to new posts on profile page
• Manage follow requests
• Add Favourites, Local and Federated timelines
• Manage post moderation : mute/unmute thread / report post
• Manage user moderation : mute/unmute block/unblock report
• Allow hr tag in html post (thx daj)
• Add poll posting
• Define session handler (compatibility)
• Add info 'follows you' in profile info page
• Permit post edition
• Manage word filters
• Simplify page width system
• Permit to mark media as sensitive
• Add search form

Source code of smolfedi

Demo instance

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

He's not the antichrist. The antichrist wouldn't be that stupid.

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

does anyone have numbers on NaNboxing overhead?

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

Me and Drew are playing a little Div on #Owncast

https://live.freebooters.uk/

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116402441445902779

This but also ratcheting up quantization to reduce cost.

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

UK/EU web devs - have you noticed US business enquiries have gone quiet in recent years, or is it just me, did I scare them away?

Mastodon wrote:

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉

This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116402682761183769

even pilots are fed up of javascript

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

hypothetically, where would one start if one wanted to add a new index type to postgres?

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

i kinda feel like i should learn enough verilog to design an actually good SIMD ISA

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Baa@mk.absturztau.be ("Baa 🐑") wrote:

@mica

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

(There are some additional nuances to this, but not as much as you’d think. The “AI” vendors are astoundingly bad at a lot of basic stuff, so as the use of a specific tool grows they have a strong tendency to shit the bed on scaling. But anybody who has been paying attention to LLM user discourse on social media and Reddit has seen the above cycle happen a number of times now, with all of the major vendors.)

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nerdpr0f/116398784891083900

We had bullshit coverage of this on RÚV here in Iceland, our national broadcasting service that was mostly just end to end bullshit and hype

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

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116401934993867994

it's fun how genAI has people going "well now architecture and code review are even more important" and you look at the vendors' own code and it shows no evidence of either

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

dirty talk like llms

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

The seven step “OMG! My AI tool is suddenly degrading” cycle:

1. An LLM tool is released. The company claims it’s a miracle that will change everything

2. Early adopters try it on straightforward tasks, find it seems to work, though they don’t really check it. “OMG! It’s a miracle that will change everything!”

3. Adopters apply it to an increasing variety of tasks. Some work; some don’t because the tool is still fundamentally random

4. Novelty wears off and error reports start

1/2

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

5. Company announces that they are working on the next gen “this time we really mean it” tool

6. “OMG! They must be intentionally degrading their old tool to sell the new one!” (No, what you have is a stochastic piece of shit that sometimes works out of luck and you suffer from a mind whose only mode of thinking is a whatever confirms your existing biases.)

7. The co releases the next gen and the cycle starts again

2/2

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

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