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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vicfroh ("Victator") wrote:

#ceos

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

There IS NO LLM USE not associated with the project to seize all information as a product. That is the WHOLE gamble being made that is driving all those billions into getting as many people as possible dependent on the most preposterously expensive and inefficient model of computing ever devised. It is only worth it if the upside is owning the whole economy.

Every step you take towards building LLMs into your daily habits and work ratchets the spring tighter on the mousetrap until, surprise! It clamps shut while your whole ass is wrapped around the cheese. Don't make me laugh with local models nonsense, if you think that those don't get deprecated the moment they pose the slightest whiff of a threat to the profit model - meta isn't releasing weights to be nice, it's to capture labor and control the tooling space. Don't be a sucker.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

LLMs that work with audio data are apparently vulnerable to attacks using human inaudible commands because nobody who put together that LLM thought to impose a limit to the human audible audio frequency spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks

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

I only ask because igalia IIRC was founded in Spain? So it looks like an example of a European organisation with both wide and deep expertise in browser engine dev.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

I wonder if we'll see a new term for "the web" that's somewhat like "the dark web". Something that marks the open web as unclean, unruly, dangerous, bad and only marks the LLM filtered version as desirable.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dch@bsd.network ("dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:") wrote:

@coldclimate @stefano https://xcancel.com/i/status/2056949168208552080

"Microsoft’s GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer using Microsoft VSCode installed a rogue extension from Microsoft’s VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft."

-- CorboDT

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

Seems like it would be sensible for the EU and related governments to commit to long term funding of Igalia’s browser engine dev, I think?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
yatil@yatil.social ("Eric Eggert") wrote:

Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia.

I’m done mincing my words about this.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

That's the weirdest realization:

With their Search reconceptualization Google might get closer to "the Metaverse" than Meta ever managed to.

https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
OddJob@beige.party ("Dude") wrote:

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

blogged: Google just spat in my face

https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/

— go on then, one last blog before my holiday 🫩

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

i have apparently been writing c too long again already and typed 'uint32_t' where i meant 'u32'.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you've ever thought to yourself, "sure, Twisted sounds neat, but isn't it done yet, it sure seems like network sockets are more or less a solved problem", I would encourage you to read this decade-old issue and all the discussion (both recent and historical) and also the resources it links to https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/9101

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and his business partner Dario Amodei want to change this law, they are in a significantly more efficacious social position to do so than I am. I hope they will devote their considerable personal resources to its fair reform. They should go do that. Until then, though, regrettably, they must all go to federal prison.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bengerman@hachyderm.io ("Ben Berry") wrote:

Health app: There's been a change in your steps per day (over the last 5 days)
Health app: There's been a change in your hours of sleep (over the last 5 days)
Email app: Take the #PyConUS attendee survey

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is a bad law and I oppose its presence on our books. I do not think that copyright infringement should be a criminal offense. But the only thing that I dislike about copyright law more than its bad design is its selective enforcement. We cannot have "heads I win, tails you lose" enforcement of the law for oligarchs.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116602626276300598

I really want to stress that copyright infringement is a civil infraction unless you pass the specific tests set out in US law that make it a criminal infraction (>$1000 retail value worth of infringement). I am not a lawyer but it seems clear to me that every frontier model provider should have its models seized (as they are derivative works) and all their executives should spend a year in jail https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506

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

this morning i have to pollute my CV with uh... current trends. can't wait 😬

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are layers to the irony here; to wit, the faulty page is the one that lets you schedule repairs when your Apple hardware is broken

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.

Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

shot, chaser

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

OH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I cannot express how much I love this 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MhS9uEv2M

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

now it's time
for a fancy little bookend

now it's time
to tie up all the loose ends

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

liberating this classic from a followers-only conversation because you all deserve to behold the long-ago glory of the height of my powers https://legacy.python.org/workshops/2002-02/papers/09/index.htm

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop ("Alex is Adjusting") wrote:

Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest weakness?

Me: My commitment to quality. I can't stop myself from making sure I understand what's expected of me, or that I get the job done right.

Interviewer: ...how is that a weakness

Me: have you *seen* the tech industry lately. In the age of AI, doing your best work and caring about your impact is a fireable offense. That's how I lost my last job.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

- Me: You see, the question really is this: can we eat the rich, burn all AI data centers, run our entire economy on renewables AND move to real engineering for any and all software BEFORE global warming catches up with us?

- Them: Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@MichaelWest also available in Amsterdam