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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

welcome to the resistance, #clojure

https://clojure.org/dev/contributor%5Fagreement#%5Fno%5Fgenerated%5Fcode

jwz wrote:

Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.

If anyone is an "AI vegan" it's me -- I don't use these tools at all, ever, because they are unethical. Telling me that they are delicious is not going to make them ethical.

Also, I will endlessly berate you about your use.

That's veganism, you're welcome.
https://jwz.org/b/yk6V

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

Remembering, and really feeling that bit from Douglas Adam's "Life The Universe and Everything" :

He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope... ... He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arms out wide.

‘I will go mad!’ he announced.

‘Good idea,’ said Ford Prefect....

#DouglasAdams #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #LifeTheUniverseAndEverything

Boosted by jwz:
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Quiet down! You're scaring the baby.

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

The Onion: Get your RFK Jr. news a month early.
#RFK Jr

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Soooo... you're complaining about the noise from a nightclub that's been open for forty years when you bought a flat opposite eight years ago?

Why am I unsurprised this guy is a property developer?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/16/man-pleads-guilty-ai-false-statements-shut-down-london-nightclub-heaven

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nonehitwonder@tenforward.social ("None Hitwonder") wrote:

I want to take a break from talking about how awful everything is to show some love and appreciation for the greatest character in all of Star Trek.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

EDIT: Well the text is now out and it's as bad as you could imagine. It's not even just that you need to verify your age to access a website... operating systems must verify your age to let you *use a computer at all*

EDIT EDIT: Thanks to @Andres4NY for pointing out that it also holds responsible anyone who has any software shipped on the operating system of a computer, meaning FOSS developers eveywhere

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

@campuscodi FYI, this thing is almost certainly slop. Also see the nonexistent OAuth8 (??) and other proposed specs, none of which exist.

Boosted by jwz:
jaredlholt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jared Holt") wrote:

woman hired to say "yes sir" to Elon Musk and post stuff like "What's everyone's favorite coffee?? ☕ I love conversation!!🥰🥰" absolutely petrified at the thought of paying more in taxes

Boosted by jwz:
jaredlholt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jared Holt") wrote:

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Wild, a database of the dynamic range of over 191,000 albums.

https://dr.loudness-war.info/

Kind of like citizen science but about a very specific (and annoying) aspect of commercial recordings.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match,
Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more!

Check out the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/Rust-1.95.0/

Boosted by jwz:
pathunstrom@ngmx.com ("Piper Thunstrom") wrote:

Advice for community managers:

Use the Olivia Hill rule.

It's surprisingly easy to enforce:

Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.

You then ban them.

That's it, that's all the work it takes!

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

Ideally you would give the new AI product a distinctive name that clearly articulates where it fits in your overall product strategy. Something like "Eyestab" or "Footgun"

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josh@joshtriplett.org ("Josh Triplett") wrote:

Diseases that are contagious before people are symptomatic are especially hazardous and epidemic-prone. The epidemic is time-delayed from the initial outbreak. LLM usage begets more LLM usage, and LLM-written technical debt takes time to become symptomatic. Exponentials are harder to see from the middle.

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

Not to mention *moral injury* to the people who know better and are forced to use it by their bosses, or watch their teams use it and see their ability to do what they used to be interested in essentially disappear, and the quality of their work precipitously decline.

And the externalities!

No, LLMs are not capable. They shouldn't be "given a chance" nor should people "keep working on them". They should be banned outright, relegated to small instances in research facilities.

Fuck 'em.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It's a good thing ATProto is distributed, so that one company going slopcode doesn't tank the entire network accessible via that protocol.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The backlash has begun. Anti-AI as marketing point. #ButlerianJihad

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Minnesota continues to lead the way. Hennepin County is prosecuting an ICE agent for felony assault. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/minnesota-ice-agent-assault

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

i wonder if the compiler would have spotted that little optimisation...

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

@mattblaze There is a big divide on social media between the people who have a folder full of screenshots labeled "Death Threats (personal)" and people who do not.

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

By the way, my conclusion from this is, if anything can be done with "AI", we should look into it and figure out how to optimize it away, so that a human would only provide an input they're fully conscious about.

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

I think Normal People™ are excited about AI because it's good at completing dumb, performative tasks required by social formalisms.

I'm now filling up a medical questionnaire consisting of a myriad maddening UI patterns and unanswerable questions. I'm sure no human is going to use it to understand my problem. It's just a thing that "must" be presented and filled out. A formality.

So I can't blame people for wanting to let an AI agent do this. It doesn't deserve their cognitive time.

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

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

omg.lol’s Postmaster, @faisal, has published a fascinating analysis of DKIM key support across major email providers. Put on your thick nerd glasses and dive in! https://redsift.com/blog/ed25519-dkim-support-weak-keys

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

oh, i managed to miss that he bought a private jet.

but wow, trying to pass it off like he's not really bought a private jet or if he has he's not some smug private jet-owning bastard, that's something to watch.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehmatthes@fosstodon.org ("Eric Matthes") wrote:

@glyph > So enforcement of boundaries may sometimes need to be pretty confrontational.

A fairly obscure project of mine somehow gained the attention of some LLM thing, and I started getting multiple terrible PRs and issues every day. I rarely curse in writing, but the only thing that stopped the trend was closing each one with a simple "f****** bot" message.

That's been the best way to get from AI CS chatbots to a human a number of times as well.

Such dismal interactions.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

To me, what this calls out for is a new type of contributor role, a person who can run interference to help the core technical maintainers actually maintain some enthusiasm and momentum for their own projects. FLOSS has long been starved for issue and PR triagers already, but the spampocalypse is escalating the deficiency into a catastrophe.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

On the resistance side, we need to figure out ways to talk to people who think that this is an acceptable way to conduct themselves in public understand that:

1. they should believe in their own abilities more
2. if they want a feather in their resumé cap, there's no credit or glory in getting an LLM to do the work, even if it gets the code into the project; it just marks you as a plagiarist
3. almost no project with *any* degree of popularity needs "more PRs", it needs more *maintainers*