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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga") wrote:

A bouquet of beans for Paw Day!

🦊 @Polarie_Fox
🐉 @karb

#PawDay #Fursuit

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

I'm getting better! Don't euthanize me yet!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/20/stirring-feebly-in-my-sick-bed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGWHTG8KSjU

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My hard drive has basically evolved into a glorified cache layer for the internet.

Nothing truly "lives" there anymore. It's just:

- 14 copies of outdated installers I'll re-download anyway
- memes temporarily awaiting repost
- a Steam library that functions as a bandwidth benchmark
- and 4TB of Linux ISOs I'm apparently emotionally attached to

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

:boost_requested:​ A few months ago I was wondering if it's possible to create federated search indexes to solve the scale problem when building searches. From what I understand, this is one of the big factors behind search becoming essentially a monopoly. (The other one is dealing with spam).

I have not got very far beyond the "wondering" stage but if anyone has a better grasp of the technical concerns involved and how to get funding for such a project I would be interested to hear about it

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

"Hype machines are at full power, sir."

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

"If I merely *boost* LLM themed posts, that doesn't count, right?" he hoped.

(It's hard not to talk about things when the hype machines are set to full blast.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604745957981805

"links will become an afterthought" is not even coded language for "the rest of the internet is merely training data and we will own the entire means of accessing information online"

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I feel like I'm getting gishgalloped by terrible company decisions.

I was already thinking about Zulip's pivot to AI and the need to build better group chat infrastructure and now it looks like search is getting fucked.

This is a big fucking deal. First, search is essentially a duopoly, with Google taking the lion's share and Bing taking the rest. Duckduckgo? Ecosia? Kagi? Mostly Bing and Google in a trenchcoat, with some smaller indexes tacked on. And Google tends to be the more comprehensive and less spammy one (but your mileage may vary on that).

So if Google kills its index then it fucks with the smaller providers too, they're basically reliant on Bing (who could very well do the same rug-pull).

And most users doesn't even use these alternative search engines. They will keep using Google, despite the hallucinations, despite the way Google has basically stolen from the entire Internet and is now killing it like a wasp parasite kills its caterpillar, despite the way Google has probably now eaten its own fucking slop, because that's what they're used to, and now my job will be trying to convince people to change their workflows so they can actually find data and not just slop.

Sincerely, fuck you Google.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

We followed a couple of years later with further arguments about, inter alia, protecting the information ecosystem:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

While Nora Lindemann was writing about similar ideas:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-01944-w

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
beandreams@friendhole.social ("Sarah dreams of beans") wrote:

@cwebber @transitionalaspect I've had some luck posting in all my signal group chats about bill C-22-- people really respond to signal's threat to pull out of Canada if it passes

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

basically the (actually un)reasonable prices stop at 16GB. beyond there everything shoots up dramatically to i can't believe they get away with that levels.

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

i was just researching graphics cards with lots of memory and HOLY SHIT THEY WANT HOW MUCH?!

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

What if you wire up 100 usb3s in parallel?

what if you don't?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5

> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.

:blobcatpopcornnom:

#AI #Hype

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/116605052950779161

let’s give a round of applause to Microslop’s #infosec, ladies and gentlecritters

typst ("Typst") wrote:

@rustnl Livestream available on YouTube. If you are attending RustWeek, we'd love to meet you: Join live in Cinema 8! (And ask Laurenz for stickers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTwtyuj69M

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Tune in today at 16:20 CEST, 10:20 EDT to learn how Typst achieves best-in-class performance and dive deeper into the implementation of the Typst compiler in the #RustWeek talk of Typst founder Laurenz Mädje.

@rustnl #Typst

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

To expand just a little bit: the point of a Google Alert was to gain access to things that people were saying about a topic that you were tracking, which you otherwise might not turn up. And every (blue, even!) link that you clicked on brought you to a web page you could examine to get a sense of who was writing, in what context, and why.

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

But all the academic papers in the world showing why something is a bad idea won't stop companies from doing it, if it's profitable and/or fits into their quasi-religious beliefs that "AI" is the future, alas.

So let's look at what Google is up to now, or at least says they are, via TechCrunch as stenographer:

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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 🫩