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zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

like jesus fuck I'm not even ragging on LLMs or fighting anyone. I'm literally just saying "this is not the space for this discussion" and marking replies as off-topic, including my own responses to them, so as not to detract from the completely unrelated issue.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
roblen@microblog.at ("Robert Lender") wrote:

#smolweb oder das schlanke Web

Beschreibung (übersetzt): Heutzutage sind die Hardware-Ressourcen unserer privaten Geräte im Grunde genommen überdimensioniert, um aufgeblähte Websites zu bewältigen. Wenn wir Webdesigner dazu anregen, zu einem schlankeren Web zurückzukehren, könnten kleine Geräte wie alte PCs, alte Smartphones, Retro-Geräte und kleine Boards wieder nutzbar werden.
Das ist das Ziel des „Smolweb“-Konzepts.

Mehr dazu unter https://smolweb.org/index.html

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

some nerd: "I just want to have a discussion about LLM use in your project"
me: "this is not the place to be having that discussion. I have already established a boundary"
some nerd: "I am offended that you are not having this discussion right here, on my terms"

fuck you, this is my own damn repo

this is literally on one of the 1 or 2 open source projects I'm still willing to maintain at any level. Just absolutely not giving me any reason to keep doing open source at all. Fuck all of these people, and fuck open source.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
knasman@fosstodon.org ("Keith Nasman") wrote:

I just added some little cgi scripts to my gemini capsule. I'd love a little feedback from any geminauts out there.

gemini.nasman.us

#GeminiProtocol #SmolWeb

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(I'm also using scare quotes there because changes to the mind are just neuroplasticity and that's a good thing, "brain damage" in this context is not a clinical observation like some kind of blunt-force trauma but a value judgement on the kind of changes *I* don't like, personally, as someone who is not undergoing them.)

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

They want you to feel comfortable, no matter how close you are to the kill line, and willing to let others die to preserve that comfort. They want you to feel mature and sensible and pragmatic for being so. Your outrage and grief and hope and compassion are weapons and they want you to disarm yourself.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

They want you to feel like you've already lost and just need to make the best of it. They want you to believe there's nothing you can really do for your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, students, fellow citizens, humans. They want you to feel like once you've "made it" - from renter to owner, contractor to full time, pedestrian to driver, nontenured to tenured - that there's nothing so wrong with the world it's worth sticking your neck out.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116410267466134747

I am, personally, really worried that AI might in fact cause something like "brain damage". Informally, I have seen manic behavior, risk-taking, and troubling personality changes from some heavy users, and I've seen similar things reported in the press. I think it's something we should worry about. But I co-sign this take enthusiastically because so many "studies" are framing "we made a task easier, and then people rationally invested less in learning that task" as some scary injury

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@glyph @cstross @mitch @lasagne

As Trashfuture's Riley Quinn and November Kelly said on this morning's Trashfuture, American politics is a game with two health-bars: "racism" and "the number on the gas pump." They can be traded off for one another to a limited extent, but if you let either one dip too low, you are about to lose an election.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Task avoidance is pretty much exactly what several hundred studies are claiming is "brain damage" re: how people are using AI. Do I think the default uses of these tools is necessarily great for learning, no; do I think they're designed well, lol, I hardly think any products are designed well

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

A note on how we frame effects & causes. As many of you know, I and collaborators have studied Code Review Anxiety. We even did an empirical intervention on it. We documented the sizable negative effect that experiencing a hostile code review can have on how a developer faces their future work tasks

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

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

I love the Fediverse. I have been on it for years, and it remains the only social network where I actually enjoy spending time. No algorithmic feed pushing outrage, no dark patterns, no surveillance capitalism. Just people talking to each other over an open protocol.

But every time I wanted to recommend it to someone, I ran into the same wall: the clients are heavy. Mastodon's web interface ships megabytes of JavaScript. Elk, Phanpy, Ivory, beautiful apps, but they require a modern browser, a fast connection, and a device manufactured in the last five years ...

New blog post :

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

Edit: try #SmolFedi :

https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

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

#SmolFedi 1.2.1 brings some features/fixes

• Display media size limits in attachment panel in compose page
• Style nav menu with active link
• Choose date and time format in prefs
• Reuse pagination code. Add link to the top of the page in pagination nav
• Use preview images in post attachments instead of full size ones.
• Disable preload of video/audio media
• Add entry box to copy the original url of a post in Moderation panel
• View modification history of modified posts
• Link static/custom.css if exists

Enjoy!

Source code/Download Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse #php

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The new Fellowship crypto PAC has filed its first fundraising disclosure. It reports a $10 million contribution from Cantor Fitzgerald (previously headed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, now controlled by his sons) and $1 million from Anchorage Digital.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mbroome@infosec.exchange ("🎤🧹 (KR4ECS)") wrote:

@llorenzin and I were in Asheville over the weekend and were on campus at AB Tech for an event on Saturday when we saw a sign for the Asheville Radio Museum.

Following the signs through the building and up to the 3rd floor, we found a lovely museum with working tube radios including the centerpiece Zenith Stratosphere (of which there are only ~40 left in existence). They have a Bluetooth to AM transmitter setup in the museum room so they can play music the radios will pick up, and it sounded amazing!

They also have a lot of ham (and other) radio gear and a full ham radio station setup in the corner that operates as W4AFM.

Wonderful little museum, and both the docents we talked to were great! It was fairly random that we were there, the museum was open, and we had the time to stop in. I highly recommend going to the Asheville Radio Museum if you're in town.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Museum

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

Second batch of trumpet cup lichen. Filled up after the rain. About 2cm(?) high.
CW: tiny fly visible im image 2&3 if you look closely.

#lichenSubscribe #mosstodon #MoosMittwoch #macro #flechten #Moos

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

The amazon rainforest was NOT natural

oh yes, aliens 3d printed all the trees

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
clacke@libranet.de ("clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛") wrote:

Many programming languages were originally written or are even still partially written in C. Rust was originally written in OCaml.

Are there any languages that were originally written in Ada?

#Ada #AdaLang #AdaLanguage #bootstrapping

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

a vibe coded proof assistant is hereby known as a fallacy assistant.

jwz wrote:

Emphasis on "Con"

SantaCon promoter arrested for charity fraud: Stefan Pildes [...] allegedly diverted funds from the event to a "slush fund" to pay for extensive renovations to a lakefront property in New Jersey, luxury vacations in Hawaii, Las...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6O

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

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/g75gRtk2tmKyFGxa5fNPJT

#peertube #fediverse #podcast #freebooters

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

after all the Hasan Discourse last week I took a quick peek over at this YouTube channel and, holy shit

these view counts. this subscriber count

I understand the ways in which social media metrics are gameable and don't always represent the most accurate gauge of public sentiment, especially once you get over a million or so

but holy shit, these aren't cracking *a hundred* views.

these people Do Not Have The Juice at a truly staggering level

https://www.youtube.com/@ThirdWayVideo/videos

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kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

On the prowl

🦈 Revyshargon
✂️ Westscustoms & Starslikeroses

#BatPics #Fursuit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Sargoth@scholar.social ("Sargoth (skateboard aspect)") wrote:

I wrote a belated reflection on what I thought as the Artemis moon roundtrip went on, and how it was one of the few remaining things that got people to think "ah yes, humanity can still do things"

the post also serves as a primer on why the state of Florida banned sociology from its universities. these things are related, see

https://discursiveanomalies.com/2026/04/15/a-sociologists-take-on-the-artemis-moon-round-trip/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

re:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The very rational markets right now:

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

AI bros admiring their artificial girlfriend

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF of the dance scene from "Metropolis"

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

I sprained my torvalds and now it’s making unhinged noises about AI tools, please send a sports medicine doctor

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

All my shoes gone.

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jwz wrote:

@jalefkowit It has entirely destroyed my ability to enjoy memes, because now before sharing them I have to research a book report on each one first.