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

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talonracer@mstdn.ca wrote:

For she is art or possibly a dragon keeping an eye on her horde. Or both. 🐈‍⬛🐉

#cats #choosehappiness #art #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
eliza@chaosfem.tw ("Eliza") wrote:

@cwebber

✋ Absolute geociites ✋

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

welcome to my homepage!
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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tomchadwin@en.osm.town ("Tom Chadwin") wrote:

Don't take too much care of your #JoyPlot.

https://teenusa.shop/campaign/damnit?s=hanes-5250&c=Black&p=FRONT

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

How to switch away from Google as your default search engine right now!

Right click in the search box you want to add in Firefox, pick "Add search engine". So do that for the search box on https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

You can then select this search box as your default search inside of settings.

You're welcome! You can add all sorts of "search engines" this way!

@R1Rail @silvermoon82

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It's terrifying that the tech has been taken over by broligarchs who given the Trolley Problem think "we can capture the trolley supply chain, jack up the prices, and get US military pay billions for dual-track double-kill trolleys"

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116607182534277080

Counterpoint: AI agents are only good as personal scale technology and having an advertising company try should be doomed to failure

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

Set up https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ as my default search engine

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Javvad@infosec.exchange ("Javvad Malik :verified:") wrote:

The agency tasked with securing American infrastructure left its AWS keys on GitHub with passwords in plaintext CSV.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
AnneTheWriter1@universeodon.com wrote:

Bonus #DadJoke
Q: Why did movies 4, 5, and 6 come before 1, 2, and 3?
A: Because in charge of directing, Yoda was.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJokes #StarWars #Yoda #StarWarsTheForceAwakens #TheMandalorianAndGrogu #TheForce

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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