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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
computer@glamour.ovh ("computer_glamour") wrote:

i only recently found out this :3

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

Concept: A new ShatBot™, but it's really just a search engine for a curated list of quality resources with a smattering of the expected plausible text generation prefixing the results. :thonking:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lumi@snug.moe ("🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱") wrote:

@mgorny i understand why you would think it's a lost cause, the odds are definitely stacked against us. however, that is part of the strategy employed, to make this technology seem inevitable, to make adoption as fast as possible and in that way crush all resistance. it's very much a blitzkrieg on humanity

i believe this is because they fear us getting together and making a stand against it, there are way more of us than there are of them and we can make a stand against the dehumanization machine

this is even more true if we band together with other affected professions, like writers, artists, translators, etc. we need to have a unified front against this abusive technology. and i am sure we can do this if we find one-another and band together in solidarity. listen to one-anothers problems and make genuine bonds and communities

there was a time when the fight against proprietary software seemed this dire. but we banded together and created free software projects, slowly taking over the world. i'm not saying the situation here is perfect: free software did get co-opted a lot by corporations and rebranded into "open source", it is a bittersweet victory to some extent, but no-one is going to say free software is niche

much the same can be said about codes of conduct in projects, many projects now go against toxic behaviors and try to be inclusive. is this all projects? definitely not. but there are many

what i think the best way forward is here is to band together, create many overlapping communities against it, create (and fork) free software projects and support other professions in solidarity (and receive their support in return)

we need to make our own free software movement, where "free" is interpreted in a much more holistic way: free of any hierarchies and against all oppression

so, do not lose hope, we have not nearly lost the fight. it is exactly their strategy to make it seem hopeless. have a lot of projects accepted slop? yes. will we have to begrudgingly use slop projects in the near term? also yes. but we are at the starting point of forming a movement against it

we can and will create ethical, holistic alternatives

also, check out noai.starlightnet.work for a list of projects with stances against slop. try to support them, if you can. if you know others, add them. if you're able, get involved!

we're in this together, and together we are strong ✊ ​:neocat_heart:​

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

I hear some people think about ancient Rome a lot. My thoughts tend to drift to the vastness of space and how thin this lovely protective atmosphere is in comparison to what lies beyond it. And the fragility of life on Earth and how we're all connected by virtue of evolving here together. Plus my own mortality, but everyone thinks about their own mortality. Anyway, tzag! o/

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

You ever wake up in the morning and the first thought that pops into your head is, "Oh, thank goodness nothing happened to Earth's atmosphere over night!"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ericjames@booping.synth.download ("ericjames* 🐺‼️ (they/it)") wrote:

apple pushed a crucial iOS security update yesterday (including iOS 18 versions) that fixed the vulnerability that let the FBI snoop on someone's signal messages through the notification cache. recommended to update ASAP

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/22/ios-26-4-2-notification-database-security-fix/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
TritTriton@shelter.moe ("Trit’") wrote:

Et un nouveau client (très léger !) pour #Mastodon et le #Fediverse en général, en #PHP et sans nécessiter #Javascript :
https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Par Adële @adele :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md
https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

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

hey! you over there, with someone else's bridge to sell me: fuck off.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
lothcat ("Curious Loth-cat") wrote:

This is what being rich means to me.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
w3cdevs@w3c.social ("W3C Developers") wrote:

A character encoding defines how text is stored as bytes. If you’ve seen “café” instead of “café,” that’s an encoding mismatch. This intro covers how encoding works, how #Unicode and UTF-8 relate, and why mistakes break apps and websites. It also matters beyond #developers, affecting readability, search, data exchange, #accessibility and whether people see text correctly online.

🎬 Watch @xfq, @w3c's Internationalization Lead, explain what character encoding is: https://youtu.be/y2ay7otbFWk
#i18n

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scottgal@hachyderm.io ("Scott Galloway") wrote:

@faraiwe @pluralistic Ironically that painting was elevated to a work of international importance (prior it was nothing notable) and the woman who started the restoration became a celebrity. I stopped using it as an exampel of failure and instead as one of a HUGE mistake paying off.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

To be clear, IMO, this feature is great. It is also quite difficult to get right, due to the huge Jackson API and myriad of ways to use it.

We need to pitch in to help stabilise this.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

In ~3 weeks, I found 10 bugs in the reflection-free Jackson serdes feature in #Quarkus, which will be *on* by default in 3.35 coming out _next week_ (see https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/53161 and linked issues).

I don't know if I can find more bugs but I think all Quarkus users should try and report them.

#java

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

This technology will not disappear, only those who do not learn to tame it will.

Oh, are you going to wave your magic wand and disappear us?

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

Determinism is achieved automatically since rules are implemented in C++ which is executed deterministically.

:dragnthink:

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

(since i had to go look that up for the joke, i'll spare you: it's the xz-utils backdoorer)

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

openclaw instance called Jia Tan

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

MimIR looks interesting, but i'm rather put off by having to write c++ to extend it. https://anydsl.github.io/MimIR/

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

llm_ptr

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

Legal sanction implies the existence of legal sanction

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
neonsnake@kolektiva.social ("NeonSnake") wrote:

Clearly I'm not the first person to make this observation, but there's a very odd thing about being a person in the their late 40s, where I grew up being the "kid who programmed the VCR"

My elders don't know how to use Excel (etc). Neither do my younger colleagues, which leaves me in the odd position of "how the bloody hell did you do that?" after I've, like, done a vlookup.

Bonus is that I can do 2 minutes of work, then go and spend 50 minutes in the kitchen (I'm WFH), occasionally wiggle my mouse (oor-er!) just in case, and they'll assume that what I've just sent them was an hour of solid hardcore work.

I am not in a mind, right now, to correct them.

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

My blog has been up and running and updating pretty much daily since 1998. Come around and take a look: scalzi.com.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@goneliss/post/DXaZ4spDAiB

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

Another #PeerTube exclusive video from me and @uoou

This time Drew introduces me to a really interesting game, that takes its lead from #DungeonsAndDragons

Let's play Esoteric Ebb for the first time
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aUfTZU2KDuNW3nRHCMqqiX

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mmeier@social.mei-home.net ("Michael") wrote:

@frederic Yes. People who couldn't be arsed to write a single word of documentation for their human colleagues suddenly don't have any issue at all with writing miles and miles of instructions for their AI colleagues.

Same for people who previously couldn't find time to mentor a student or new junior colleague because "it's too much work to describe the task in enough detail". For their LLM? No problem at all. 🤷
That's the one that really gets under my skin.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

Consider the following: rust rewrites of projects like coreutils exist purely to remove copyleft licensing. The supposed security and performance gains are irrelevant, and while memory safety is important, logic bugs don’t suddenly cease to exist just because it was written in Rust.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts**

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/why-you-should-refuse-to-let-your-doctor-record/

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

kinda wish i understood it 😅

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

This framework naturally extends to dependent types

🤯

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hth@androiddev.social ("Hrafn") wrote:

Color me not surprised...

"Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger "
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic%5Fmythos%5Fhype%5Fnothingburger/