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

Always disheartening to be reminded that a certain rapist exists when you get an IETF mailing list email

https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Jacob%5FAppelbaum%5Frape%5Freport

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

New blog post: Theseus, a static Windows emulator
An new old approach to emulation.

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/04/theseus.html

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

Prediction markets are doing a better job of policing insider trading by government officials than the actual government agencies whose job it is do that.

From “drain the swamp” to “fill it with monsters”.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

brb changing my social media bio on every site to "guy who might one day write a blog post about LLMs"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I want to be clear that this is pretty divorced from my own views of likely scenarios, even likely nightmare scenarios, so they're not getting this from me.

If you're reading this and you're involved in LLM hype, I'd really like you to take a moment to pause and examine the fact that this is the commonly accepted peer wisdom in a 2nd-grade classroom right now. That their parents' generation is actively involved in betraying them to a distant and inscrutable machine-god of pure greed.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Talking to my 8-year-old about my upcoming Way Too Big Blog Post About genAI. I explain that my goal is to describe why I think it's bad, because it's really complicated and hard to understand, and so I don't blame people who disagree.

They ask, matter-of-factly, "Oh, are you trying to get people to stop using it because if they don't stop then by the time my generation grows up, nobody will have jobs any more and everyone will be poor because AI will just do everything and keep all the money?"

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I'm not aware of any witch activity in Monterey. Now Capitola on the other hand is infested with sea witches:

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

My brothers and sisters and other siblings of the Triple Goddess, meet your new Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao: "There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lovers Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point, but now it’s become, they took out the ‘Christ,’ it’s Lovers Point and it's really, Monterey is a very dark place now, with a lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over and we can’t let that happen in Virginia."

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pleaseclap@techhub.social ("Stanley Black-Decker") wrote:

"How paranoid are you?"
*guy who is me who just built a web application to get notified when imaging satellites fly overhead*: "Just paranoid enough to be funny"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I know y'all are nerds (non-derogatory) but please do keep in mind that one of my goals with converging on a term to use consistently is making my writing easily comprehensible by a large audience. I am talking about the crud that we all have to talk about all the time now, and I want to be as congruent as possible with common usage without unnecessarily contributing to hype

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Bonus round!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Style guide question: how to consistently refer to the umbrella of generative AI, including LLMs and diffusion image/audio generators?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
wachoperro@rebel.ar ("Wachoperro") wrote:

@davidgerard
Speedrun: Prompt injection into Bluesky outage%

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Grouchybeast ("The Grouchybeast") wrote:

@davidgerard The otherwise great paper on LLMs hallucinating images in image analysis benchmarking made me facepalm when they used ChatGPT to assess some of the output. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LLMS MAKE THINGS UP WHEN ASKED TO ANALYSE DATA! THAT IS LITERALLY THE ENTIRE THESIS OF YOUR PAPER!

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I'm really really liking GTS so far, dang. I'll give it a few days and then do a migration, I guess. Feel free to follow this account. I'm going to be posting primarily from here and boosting from toot.cat for now.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

lfggggggg
https://boriken.social/@Iusef/116445255501902770

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

new, highly-relevant header image just dropped.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

can someone remind me what I need to do so people's posts and accounts actually show up for me when using a single-person instance? Cause I keep going to accounts and they say "0 posts"...

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

And the code is now live! https://source.tube/neatnik/php-ircv3-filehost

It works, but still hasn’t been tested exhaustively, and definitely needs some more thought put into the list of allowed file types.

I’ll soon update my IRC guide (https://www.neatnik.net/setting-up-an-irc-server/) with detailed instructions on how to get this up and running on Ergo IRC servers.

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

take up smoking or die in a plane crash -- AI Bertrand Russell

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

please enjoy this old documentary about the winscale reactor disastor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgSlFkv71U

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

you do not eat 7 spiders during your lifetime - they don't want to crawl in there

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

this is actually really fucking good. I'm loving @gotosocial already.

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

if god wanted us to believe in sets, he wouldn't have only given us cons cells to work with.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Doing a super brief livestream to wrap this up and put the code in a public repo. https://tv.neatnik.net

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

deepfake chopra

😂

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

rumour has it that ukraine has started deploying graphite bombs with drones in occupied ukraine.

graphite bombs are a nonlethal munition where they basically drop graphite strings over power infrastructure and let shorts take out the system. the idea behind graphite weapons is to take out power for a short while while you attack and watch everything fall apart without grid power.

they're traditionally deployed by fighter jets and cruise missiles, that sort of thing. and if the rumours are true, ukraine has brought them down to drone costs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cloudhop@equestria.social ("Erik McClure") wrote:

god if this isn't a summary of everything pissing me off these days I don't know what is https://aria.dog/barks/every-platform-is-hitler/ (from @woof )

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

the vehicles that were delivered were riddled with bugs - broken traction systems, engine fires and doors that flew off at high speeds

okay two of these are not bugs, they are the sound of people getting fired for sheer incompetence wtf?!

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

deadlines were so tight there was no time to design a prototype

gee, i wonder why this went wrong