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

Many variations, or flavors

😬

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Wiz got RCE on the cloud version of Github.com and access to every customer environment.

To do this they just reversed the on prem version and found a simple vuln.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Kick Murder Squad Pleasurebot") wrote:

The problem with this announcement is that it’s not limited to blenders. I mean this would be bad enough, I use my blender for pesto, roasted red pepper paste, all kinds of things.

But any food processor is under threat. Think of what this means for mire poix, shaved ice, blitzed almonds for cakes.

KEEP AI OUT OF MY BLENDER!

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
leftylabourtech@mstdn.social ("LeftyLabourTechToronto") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-zc5ZcFicQra9S-tt3tjT1g%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

While Wab Kinew's move to ban algorithmic pricing was a good one, this move is an extremely BAD one. It's impossible to implement privacy respecting age verification as @pluralistic describes here.

#privacy #cdnpoli #Manitoba #mbpoli #surveillance #surveillancecapitaliism

https://doctorow.medium.com/privacy-preserving-age-verification-is-bullshit-0aefd53019e0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

There were uncountable books in the library, none of which I knew. I picked one at random and read the blurb.

"A cosy fantasy?"

"Yes," said my host.

I picked another. "Cosy mystery?"

"Yes."

"Are all your books cosy?"

Cthulhu shrugged. "If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd want comfort too."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

We have met the Great Filter and it is us.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

For how long have you been on the #Fediverse? Feel free to boost and quote and use the result after the poll has closed!

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

RE: https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01KQADF24A2G3QSE2SN5D5KZPV

I quoted this toot from a #gotosocial instance with #SmolFedi

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

“Can you win an Oscar for Best ActivityPub Actor?”

#fedidevs #FediForum

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

Hey, remember when they tried to make beef tallow happen

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dicenbuttons ("Carson Hill") wrote:

I'll say it: None of this would have happened if we as a society had actually taken the time and effort to prosecute video for killing the radio star. To hold it accountable.

We all knew about it. We all knew it was the right thing to do. Yet we did nothing. And now we have only ourselves to blame.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

This weekend, I had the opportunity to give a difficult talk. It's not much of a surprise if you've followed my writing this year, and it's certainly a heavy topic.

And to be honest, I don't think there is too much new info there, particularly for individuals on this platform.

But connecting the dots into a full picture can sometimes have a deeper effect, and that is partly what I was attempting to do here.

The video has now been posted over here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf2b1CBz-wc

#NBPy #LLM

1/n

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@hachyderm.io ("T🌸🌸: dustmouth enthusiast") wrote:

Computers are still cool. We just have to work with hard constraints like those provided by a 9¢ chip.
https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dollar-handheld-gaming-console/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Special. #grickledoodle #love #family #witch #wizard #robot #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I've always been on the outskirts of tech, living on the border between web and other media, like publishing, so I've always known that I wasn't fully a part of the industry, but I always thought I belonged to the field of practice and felt a kinship to the people working in it

That's largely gone

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It had already faded quite a bit because of the rise of React but now my sense of kinship with the rest of web dev is largely gone.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I came up in web dev in the aftermath of the dot-com bust. Most of us believed in the web as a medium that would do good

Now I'm thinking this permanently skewed my idea of the character of those who do the actual work in the industry

(No illusions about the execs/managers, though)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I've tended to work with idealists: accessibility, education, publishing, etc so in hindsight I think I never updated my internalised assumption about the industry

The people who run it have always been mostly scumbags, but I basically always assumed that most of those doing the work actually cared

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116478503783177069

This is from July, but I missed it at the time. If anyone says "Oh but streaming video takes energy too," this is the response. Netflix is not planning 50GW of data center energy usage by 2028. They are not advocating for the use of federal lands for data centers and power generation—including natural gas. This document outlines a terrifying future for power usage and generation in the United States.

It's a threat in ways other data center usage is not.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/build-ai-in-america

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Flounder Mode") wrote:

@glyph

https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/112013892778162041

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

Is there someone using #SmolFedi with a #Mastodon version 4.5+ ?

Could you try to "Quote" a post (this one for example), using SmolFedi, to see if your post is rendered correctly, including the quoted post?

Thanks for your help ^^

https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

#smolweb #fediverse

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like the fact that LLMs "really can" do some parts of programming reads to me not as a demonstration of their economic utility but as a brutal indictment of our tools *for* programming. it feels productive to have these things emit mountains of boilerplate because *we constantly need mountains of boilerplate* and gosh I wish we could address that problem

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

for example, long-term, I think one of the uses of LLMs might be as a sort of cognitive red-team. right now the economic orientation towards them is "look at all the work these things can do!" but in a just world, you might use an LLM to automate part of a task, and *the fact that an LLM can automate it* could be seen as evidence that the task itself is unnecessarily adversarial, or duplicative make-work. if spam can solve your problem maybe you're solving the wrong problem

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

relatedly my personal emotional orientation towards the AI chatbots themselves has been evolving a little bit. I needed to do small bits of experimentation, mostly to inform my skepticism. doing that in the past largely had the valence of constant frustration and anger. now I feel more… mournful. LLMs are doing something really fascinating, and it would be so great if we could actually study it to discover what it *is*, instead of pretending that whatever that thing is is "thinking" or "work"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this might sound depressing but it's actually hopeful. if we could get everyone to recognize this basic reality there's a very different course of action we could take to address it, which is not "constantly freaking out about robots taking our jobs"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

you will not lose your job because an AI will replace you. you *will* lose your job because the white-collar criminals driving AI's fraudulent circular financing are going to cause a global financial crisis when the bubble pops though

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

can the web please stop breaking all the time? I'm tired.

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

- joined new patient community
- immediately recruited to the Evidence War Against Insurance because I can read papers
- now providing lit reviews to fellow patients

I am grateful for the skills I have. However, it would be nice if I could spend some living and breathing moments not Doing Work. The world is so critically cut off from evidence that this is impossible for now.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

I really wish we'd used the term 'confabulate' instead because that's what's going on, mixing things together to make plausible stories and explanations.

That mostly works, but doesn't change its fundamental nature of _making shit up_.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Ooooh, so close. Maybe next time.