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

the will to work today is at an all time low

maybe i'll go walk around the park

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
retrolasered@hostux.social wrote:

@db if they are training it on the lambda functions ive written, then they are the ones losing in this transaction

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

oh good, it overflows to cover half the next page as well 🙀

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

trying to read a paper and i've made it to page 4 and oh fuck, it's an entire page of figures, only about 10% of which is diagrams.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@%5Felena/116165003587967912

Update: the Heltec v3 is here!!! 🥳

I'll keep you posted regarding my experiment with off-grid mesh communication.

And if you are intrigued about this world, there is a SUPERB documentary about it by @nastasiahadjadji on ARTE (thanks @stereo for the heads-up!)

French version: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/126484-047-A/tracks/

German version: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/126484-047-A/tracks/

(most of the dialogue is in English so you could follow along even if you don't speak the two languages)

#Mesh #Meshtastic

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

it's weird, isn't it? i thought non-compsci mathematicians being interested in formalisation would be a good thing, but mostly what it's gotten us is mathematicians pissing around trying to get confabulators to make them redundant.

then i remember that they always hated type theory anyway and have no inclination to learn how to use it.

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

just me, or is this poorly written?

https://www.netlify.com/blog/stance-on-ai-training-data/

— why all that waffle about opt-in when there is nothing to opt-in to and therefore no user setting

(jaded take: they're softening the blow before they start selling data and redefine what "consent" and "your data" means)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jukkan@mstdn.social ("Jukka Niiranen") wrote:

LinkedIn shitposter: "I invented Clawpilot as a parody of Microsoft's AI strategy."

Microsoft: At long last, we have created the Clawpilot from the classic shitpost "Microsoft will pivot from Copilot to Clawpilot".

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7430947857916039168/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/project-lobster-week-1-update-omar-shahine-hrwsc/

One for Pivot To AI, @davidgerard

#Microsoft #OpenClaw #Copilot #Clawpilot #TormentNexus

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

random notes on bespoke WordPress development in 2026
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-23T06:04Z/

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

I'm done with Democrats that want civil rights and accountability for everyone except the police.

https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/02/xavier-becerra-police-misconduct-records/

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gumnos@bsd.cafe ("Tim Chase") wrote:

Okay, whoever authored this deserves a raise

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
merlinwisdom ("Merlin's Wisdom Project") wrote:

When you die, your family will be charged $100 for every time you've ever honked your car horn. I cannot tell you how I know this, but please just understand with all sober certainty how very important it is that you never again honk your car horn.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
QueerMatters@mstdn.social ("Bloo (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉") wrote:

I have no idea what I'm gonna do if I don't get this coding job. I've applied for 100s of roles, I have a 100% failure rate with all the interviews I have had (even with good feedback).

Being an autistic worker sucks. So few jobs are WfH, even fewer of them actually involve NOT fucking other people up or making society worse.

It feels like I have to forge my own path, but that also has its huge downsides.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MaskedRyder@cyberpunk.lol wrote:

EDIT: got the $45!! Thank you so much!! 💜

I need help making ends meet for the remainder of the month. Part of my goal has been met on Bluesky, but help has dried up there. Anything helps. Including letting me know what Mutual Aid accounts to tag/follow.

I only need $45 more and I'm covered until payday. Please. Bills are covered, I just need some groceries and hygiene items to last the next week. I get my disability payment on the 1st of May.

$120/$120

@mutualaid@fedigroups.social
@mutualaid@ovo.st
@disability
@lgbtq

#MABoost
#MutualAid #DisabilityAid #TransCrowdFund

https://venmo.com/u/Onua-Ryder
https://www.paypal.me/nevaronua
https://cash.app/$OnyxOnua

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town ("Ember in the Pattern Buffer") wrote:

47%

Still trying to make rent this month. Please help if you’re able.

https://ko-fi.com/maddiefuzz

#mutualaid

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
startups@vivaldi.net ("Pirates.BZ Tech Startup News") wrote:

SpaceX has warned in its IPO filing that orbital AI data centres may never work, citing significant technical complexity and unproven technologies. The filing contradicts Elon Musk's claim at Davos that space-based AI was a no-brainer achievable within 2-3 years. SpaceX targets a 1.75 trillion USD valuation. https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-orbital-data-centres-ipo-risk-disclosure #Tech #Startup #News #SpaceTech

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?"

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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:

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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!