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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/116606591908387955

If you want on to Microsoft's internal network, CORPNET, publish or own an existing a VSCode extension.

The Visual Studio Code Marketplace, which Microsoft own, is completely uncontrolled.

Anybody can publish an extension, it provides code execution on endpoints, extensions auto update by default, "verified" blue tick extensions just need any domain registration, and there's no endpoint security controls at all around what users can install.

VSCode is an absolute security shittip as a result.

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

Enjoying this bike techno from Mezerg and JOUBe again this morning. "How to Ride a Bike":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDca2OdJ0U

I really want the full track. But then I also found this one from JOUBe and Singer sound System. I'm digging the treadle action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKk3724Ev1s

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

If there was any argument to be made about "responsible AI" or "trustworthy AI" or "ethical AI" before, Google's announcement that their intentions are to use these tools to enclose the commons and destroy a participatory web in the process have settled that argument.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The trouble with the iron triangle is that it's very easy to end up with NONE of fast, cheap, or good

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Today seems an apt day to repost this: proposals for how to rebuild a web for humans, by humans.

https://taggart-tech.com/human-web/

And a small realization of part of the dream: Ringspace, a protocol for cryptographically-verified webrings:

https://ringspace.net

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Say it with me. SKILL.md is not documentation.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
anolandria ("Nol Malone ☭") wrote:

Yes, but the capitalist still dreams of Mars because they truely think workers are the problem.

This is why AI is so important.

They "need" to leave workers behind because they truely believe a planet of all wealthy people (and a few boot lickers) would be a paradise.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Y'all I'm destroying my arm and shoulder while I sleep and I can't figure out what I'm doing but I keep waking up to pain. My arm muscle feels torn (it burns) and my should is sore. Help I'm 44 and I'm insuring myself while I *checks notes* sleep.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My deepest sympathies for the town. But I think it's interesting what's happening here. The old world has rules for oppression that respected racial lines. The new world, ran by the tech oligarchs, don't give a fuck about race. Most of them truly are not racist in the strictest definition.

All poor people can get it now. Equal opportunity oppression. Not to say that farmers and rural communities had it great. But there used to be an understanding. That's gone now.

https://www.404media.co/township-leader-resigns-in-tears-over-openai-data-center-death-threats/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.

Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.

If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

I'm at #rustweek2026 and Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Foundation is PREACHING🙌 :rust:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Who gives a single shit how good the "AI" can code when the purpose of "AI" is and always has been enclosure of all information in an ad-driven surveillance platform. If you love LLMs, this is the future you, yes you, are actively helping create.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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 glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

gonna gently push back that there's no reason (according to github's version of the story) to associate this with AI or with spectacular incompetence on the part of the employee; the issue is that industry standard, extremely widely used text editor Visual Studio Code has a big button that says "click here to add useful functionality to do your job" that has a 1% chance of installing ransomware

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

"I'd also go so far as to remind sensitive AI boosters that this sort of indiscriminate rage at our corporatist authoritarian alliance is going to prove useful in the months and years to come-"
https://karlbode.com/anger-at-ai-is-inextricably-fused-with-justified-loathing-of-the-extraction-class-deal-with-it/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
stopthatgirl7@famichiki.jp ("Stop That") wrote:

Remember how I had my students rewrite a scene from Macbeth as if they were live-streaming it?

Y'all, I am F U C K I N G D E A D reading these. 😂

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

“XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None”

https://scotthelme.co.uk/xss-is-deadly-for-passkeys-the-hidden-risk-of-attestation-none/

This seems suboptimal?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

With xilinx dropping linux support on the free tier, I've tried to point a few people at nextpnr-xilinx. But it turns out it is not obvious exactly what repo to use and how to use it, so I wrote a small quick start guide that worked for me and which I can point people to https://codeberg.org/TheZoq2/nextpnr-xilinx-quickstart

#fpga #xilinx

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
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 🫩

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

“LLemdashes”

https://wil.to/posts/llemdashes/

> These tools, to the extent they can or should ever be personified, want rid of me pretty bad — but not half as badly as they want to prevent another one of me from ever happening again.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

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

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.

1/2

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

[insert the future you want here]
[build the future you want here]
[don't give up]
[you can make a difference]

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

:mastodon: social.lol has been updated to Mastodon v4.5.10+glitch.

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.10

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

new laws trying to block our shit
"free speech absolutists" sure like to block free speech huh
pulling down old CS papers
staying up all night coding
building my own computer from spare parts
running a mesh network
open source revival
making a veganism exception for diy estrogen from horse piss
time for the sneakernets
spritely and ocapn
dropping off microsd cards with open source at peoples' houses

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

hey everyone this is my new website
fyi came out as trans
trying out a new static site generator
I'm on the fediverse (I'm on bluesky???)
hey this ai stuff is getting interesting
hey this ai stuff is total shit
wtf google won't even link to my site anymore
got laid off, "embracing the new AI era" they said
disillusioned with big tech
fuck this shit
okay everyone what's next

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

There's still a 2023 email I need to respond to.
It still haunts my mind. and inbox.

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

Buy this domain on godaddy!

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

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

brief bio
here's my twitter
here's my tumblr
I'm trying out identi.ca?
Ubuntu vs Debian
new job in devops
switched to a mac!
I don't really update this site anymore
see me on social media

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

As coding agents become better and better, the coding increasingly stops being the bottleneck, and the bottleneck is how many things you can keep juggling comfortable. As the number gets greater, you'll tend to lose context, drop things, etc. Your ability to handle many things is probably one of the greatest strengths in these workflows.

Which is to say, thanks to LLMs, attention is all you need.