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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hllizi@hespere.de ("Dieu") wrote:

@gabrielesvelto when they took down half the Internet twice with just a little break in between I suspected AI shenanigans to be the cause, and maybe I wasn't the only one. Announcing now to fire the people who might correct the next mess may not be reassuring.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
promovicz@chaos.social ("prom™️") wrote:

Don't say "the AI did". Don't say "the AI didn't understand". Say "the AI company's system did" and "the system did not succeed". It guards against personification and misattribution at the same time.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I started elementary as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal #smbc #ai #comics

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@hachyderm.io ("Ol' Dustmouth Flowers") wrote:

This is so silly. I mean, I kind of love the ideas because I am also silly but the build looks a bit weak for my rattletrap lifestyle. Mine would need to be sheet metal encased with all of the mechanisms in brass with tough bearing surfaces.
https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-glyph

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
circlejtp@hachyderm.io ("JT Perry") wrote:

@aredridel airport security checkpoint

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

@ryanc @oscherler @petrillic describing the exact challenges to this process is very difficult because they tend to be ad-hoc where you learn a new, specific, annoying thing about a technology you didn’t realize you were relying on for each problem. but a metaphor may help. running a CA is like holding your arms out at your sides. ridiculously easy for the first minute, lightly challenging for the next 20. but with a CA you rely on there are no breaks; you have to do it for 10 years minimum

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​ :icosahedron:") wrote:

The relative orientation of the window vs the computer monitor for the computer I mainly use at home is:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ancoghlan ("Alyssa Coghlan") wrote:

"It’s making developers dramatically more effective, but it’s also introducing security vulnerabilities, increasing technical debt, and producing code that can be difficult to maintain." is one heck of a sentence that appears to be relying on a rather novel definition of the word "effective" to be in any way coherent. (It's a pull quote from https://thenewstack.io/acm-vibe-coding-ai-agent/ that pretty much brought my brain to a juddering halt from the level of cognitive dissonance it implies)

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

My mistake in debating buffoons was in failing to wear a goofy enough hat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/is-ai-a-bigger-clownshow-than-creationism/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

One would think that in a situation where everything is falling apart and marginalised people (especially trans people) are getting hit very hard, people trying to change it would try literally *anything* other than the kind of networking event that creates nothing but misery and liver damage. Alas.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/networking-house-live-cnn

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

Wow finally found the gitlab k8s agent config docs

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent/-/blob/master/pkg/agentcfg/agentcfg%5Fproto%5Fdocs.md

Did they just tell me to go fuck myself? I think maybe

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

Here's an AuDHD hack I found:

For stuff I don't want to lose in a pile of crap, get it in a bright color -- orange, hot pink, neon green, etc. Don't do this for everything you own, just the stuff you really don't want to lose (I.E. for me, things like my phone).

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

The neologism "slopist" reminds me of solopsism, and they're probably not too philosophically distinct

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
resistbot ("Resistbot") wrote:

📈 “STOP WEAPONIZING “COUNTERTERRORISM” AGAINST PROTESTERS AND LGBTQ AMERICANS” hit 50 signers! https://resist.bot/petitions/PNTBIT

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gregatron5@vmst.io ("Gregatron5") wrote:

I don’t remember where I saw this, but I finally read it, and I suggest you do, too.

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
thatandromeda@ohai.social ("Andromeda Yelton") wrote:

@aredridel "whatever's going on in Harvard Square and/or Boston Common"

with a (dis)honorable mention for "oh, girl, extract yourself from this date NOW"

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

Can the Trump administration please just admit that they want to kick Chinese students and scientists out of the country? They don't like science anyway, they're just digging up pretexts to shut down labs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/this-is-where-were-at/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

@aredridel Trainstation

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl ("Dee Lux Fiat") wrote:

@aredridel “kids being mildly mischevious”

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

You want to export your timeline, a specific tag, a list of followed accounts... in your pocket for an offline reading ?

#SmolFedi permits it now!

You can choose, in prefs, the number of exported posts, CW/sensitive media inclusion, width of images...

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader #epub #ebook

demo instance source/install

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

What’s your favorite genre of people watching? Mine is either “surprise reunion” or “dad takes kids to the diner”

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

i have been dockering for 4 days and i already freed up 8 gigs of diskspace by 'docker system prune'

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

“Real signals or artificial stereotypes? - by Adam Kucharski”

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

> Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.

I know too many people who are using LLMs for exactly this kind of data analysis and refuse to listen to me when I try to warn them

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

oh c'mon, this is slower than waiting for AWS to spin things up for terraform

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

the clue was that my cpu spiked - the gemma 4 model i was being gaslit by before was more like 10t/s with minimal cpu involvement.

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

i'm trying a qwen3.5 model. it seems to be a bit much for my gpu - 0.2 tokens per second and two minutes to respond to "say hello".

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

every few years we find a new way to make people wait on large files to download and call it progress.