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

reading: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

Sigh.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Yesterday was one of those days that simultaneously felt incredibly exhausting and like I did nothing.

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Natanox@chaos.social ("Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸") wrote:

Why didn't I hear about this until now? :bernd:

I'm not crazy enough to install local #AI tools outside of a VM, but I don't blame anyone for trying them out either.
#Anthropic is just another untrustworthy US company though.

Given the stark difference between the websites of US garbage and European #MistralAI I'm curious if mistral-cli does something this bad (aside from slopping around)… 🧐

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.

Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
⸻
#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Remember that “supreme” means “covered in a cream sauce”.

A Supreme Court is a court, any court, which is covered in a cream sauce. The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces? Dripping in delicious sauce, perhaps with some morel mushrooms and pancetta.

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jack@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Jack Graham") wrote:

It's #Walpurgisnacht, beware!

On this night, Kash Patel's eyes leave his head. They merge with RFK Jr's voice, Hegseth's booze breath, Drumpf's micropeen, and Erika Kirk's pleather jeggings to form a single horrid creature that prowls this haunted night, drunkenly exposing itself to teenage girls and making unfounded claims about vaccines.

#monsters

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Every time I yearn for a car microscope, I hesitate at the thought of the horrific eye injuries that afflict my fellow yussies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/01/this-post-will-probably-make-the-infestation-worse/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The #1 term creationists don't understand but that they invoke all the time is "information."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/01/i-have-to-roll-my-eyes-when-a-creationist-says-information/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSs5fzV3Ejw

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

New Freebooters #PeerTube video. Where we mostly take a look at Drew ridiculous movie takes:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/22ryKWwXywSYancqdM46px

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Drew's terrible movie takes - Freebooters live and the stream that never started

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/22ryKWwXywSYancqdM46px

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

Ellen did a great version of this a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGA6B4xopY

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

Here Halldór Laxnes sings his poem to the tune he originally intended. He's... not a great singer, but he delivers it with feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7%5FCnZ%5FVZA

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

It's become a tradition for me every year to post a link on the first of May to the performance of Halldór Laxnes's socialist anthem Maístjarnan at the centennial of the Icelandic Confederation of Labour. It captures the solidarity and hope that his poem conveyed.

> En í kvöld lýkur vetri
> sérhvers vinnandi manns,
> og á morgun skín maísól

> Tonight every worker's winter will end and tomorrow the sun of May will shine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtJDD4Z2kg

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

i have a feeling i won't like the answer to this, but what do people like for autoscaling in a non-cloud-specific manner?

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

Moody picture of a blackbird with its beak full of worms. #bird #birds #iceland

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It was pretty cold that day, so I took these in a hurry.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #snow #trees

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Sometimes I come across abandoned summer cabins completely by chance. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #snow #trees

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A very colourful cement plant.#Iceland #Akranes #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #blue #green

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

The black-tailed godwit has arrived. #birds #bird #iceland

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

90% of working developers I know personally now use LLMs

i'm sorry, get better friends.

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

I believe the top performers are overwhelmingly using LLMs

ah, i see you're still measuring performance by lines of code. we knew that was bad literally decades ago.

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

Me and Drew are playing Divinity on #Owncast

https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

I’m so tired.

#a11y #Accessibility

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lina@vt.social ("Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!") wrote:

Why are AI people so monumentally *bad* at copyright?

I'm looking for ethical/copyright-safe training data sets. Common Corpus sells itself as that... but then I go read the paper and they include CC BY-SA scientific papers and GPL stuff from GitHub, and then in models trained on that dataset they proudly state:

> Only trained on open data under a permissible [sic?] license [...] By design, all Pleias model are unable to output copyrighted content.

Um, no?? CC BY-SA is not public domain, it's a copyright license. You can't train on CC BY-SA content and then claim your model is any more copyright-safe than whatever Google and Meta are releasing. It just means you're violating the copyright of people releasing content under open licenses only.

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

“Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say that subscription pricing removes the incentive to make good products.

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

THE IRONY

https://mashable.com/article/south-africa-withdraws-ai-policy-for-being-ai-generated

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

ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!

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

noted: performative slop and the token measuring contest
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-01T08:05Z/

jwz wrote:

I love when Pitch Meeting tells me "don't even bother downloading this movie for free." It's an important service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7BR3fWQSHM

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historyofpunkrock@sfba.social ("Punkrock History") wrote:

38 years ago today
Fugazi at Lafayette Park, Washington DC, May 01, 1988.
All for zero bucks 👍

Photo by Bill Crandall

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory