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

Can't wait until someone figures out how to exfiltrate your emails with a Google link

jwz wrote:

The AI botnets cannot be stopped.

I am constantly getting scrape attempts for avatar-image-JPEG URLs that have not existed on my blog since a restructuring in 2022. They come in bursts of about a 100 per minute, each from a different IP address, and in random order.

I thought: enough is enough, I need to figure out what clown service these are coming from and start blocking whole networks.

Nope, they're almost all from cable modems, not from hosting facilities:
https://jwz.org/b/yk7g

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

Watching the Google AI announcement for my sins.

Good News (?): I haven't seen them talk about pulling traditional search (yet). (If anyone has found them mention that, could they post the timestamp, as I don't have the time to watch the full thing; I did try scanning a couple of news reports on the matter and couldn't see them mention that there)
Bad News: That "weekend planner" that you destroyed a small rainforest to build could have been a spreadsheet. Personally, I'd rather have the rainforest

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

As a comparison: Folding Ideas' "Why Was I Invited To Mr Beast Studios" got 2.1m views and 102k likes.

That is to say: A quarter of the views and 4x the likes

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@dalias the problem of "how on earth do you make a new search engine today" is a super interesting problem since a significant part of the web has some kind of anti-bot challenge screen. I figured they must have had to make an under the table deal with cloud flare or something. Aggregating google and bing would be much simpler though.

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

For people with the "restore YouTube dislike" button: how many did the Google keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU) get?

I'm noticing 26k likes for an 8 million view video and that like/view ratio looks low

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Good News! Laika is making a new film: https://www.laika.com/our-films/wildwood

I became a total fan of them after visiting an exhibition in Seattle[1] and then watching a few more movies besides Coraline. Kubo was my favorite.

#animation #laika

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720314967669/

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dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@tezoatlipoca @aeva And like social networking, this is a problem that fundamentally will never be solved by capitalist businesses and hierarchical power structures.

Thinking a search startup has any hope of solving what's wrong with Google is as foolish as thinking Bluesky had any hope of solving what was wrong with birdchan.

Like with the fedi, the only way this problem will be solved is with real decentralization of power.

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tezoatlipoca@mas.to ("Third spruce tree on the left") wrote:

@dalias @aeva

Yeah. DDG etc. are search "brokers" in a way - but they license index/crawled results from Bing etc.

Running the engines to index/crawl _the whole web_ is a real computationally expensive affair. There've been a few attempts at peer-2-peer or indie indexing but its a hard problem to solve so those don't go very far.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@mttaggart I like the "Human Web" idea. I had a lot of those same thoughts in my mind when I was designing Diskuto (https://github.com/diskuto/diskuto-api/#diskuto-api)

But, you touch on aggregators being part of the problem, which it unfortunately took me a little too long to learn.

Aggregators have their purpose, of course. But the more you automate/aggregate things, the more it gets exploited for attention.

I wrote a bit on it here: https://nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/07/smallweb/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason I think the cultural benefit was "Pennies aren't worth the effort to carry and manage." and electronic payments solved that.

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

I should add that I don't think it's helpful to create tickets about every little thing that is "wrong" about the code. Just create tickets for things that are identified as bugs (prevents the product from working as intended) or features requests.

I don't see much point in creating tickets that will not be resolved. This is especially true if you work with others. Don't flood the ticket system with an endless stream of bug reports that other people have to wade through every time they search the tickets.

We already know everything is wrong about the legacy code. Unresolved, unassigned tickets will not change that by themselves and are not generally useful documentation.

(Now my succinct comment has become much less succinct.)

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

There is really only one thing keeping me tied to Google stuff: the fact that I don't really know how to use Signal without having an Android'y device.

I actually don't want any kind of Android or Android-based device. I could use Graphene but I don't want to use that either.

I'd like to get less reliant on Signal too, but here's a challenge: is anyone successfully running Signal with *no* iOS or Android-type devices involved in the process and maintaining their account? How are you doing it?

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

I wonder how much the leave-a-penny-take-a-penny system contributed to spreading viruses like the flu. Now that it's essentially dead, thanks first to the debit card and now doing away with the penny, I wonder if there's a non-trivial reduction in flu rates?

Also, was there an anthropological benefit to the system that we've lost. Does LAPTAP (lol lap tap) have a cultural benefit? Sense of community?

Someone write a book: The Death of The Penny

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

New site: google just killed search https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

yeah, we know. We saw a massive drop in SO/Wikipedia traffic over the last 2 years, so yday's announcement was just closing the deal. Google has officially killed the web that was made of links. It is now a giant box that steals web pages/images/videos from all websites and pretends to know everything with its model and weights often with lots of wrong information. I hope this madness leads to a better search engine and EOL of Google.

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

@cwebber Yes! \o/

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alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @DAIR as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134?aff=oddtdtcreator

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

I'm making art 💜

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atsuzaki@types.pl wrote:

@dysfun nope! the "seeds" are actually the tiny fruits with seeds in them, and the part we think as the fruit is accessory. there's still wild strawberries, often used for landscaping here. they make basically the same fruit as commercial strawbs but round and tiny.

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

did strawberries develop from something with hard seeds like modern bananas did?

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GeePawHill wrote:

Anti-LLM folks, and I'm one, ask over and over again, why do so many people, like his secretary, need the LLMs as safe and trusted confidants?

It's not cuz the program is a safe or trustable confidant.

It's not cuz they're stupid.

It's cuz their lived experience in the world has robbed them of any belief in safety and trust, and the program, no matter how silly, apes that experience.

...

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

I know this is the commercial arm of the BBC but painting Google as the victim of manipulation is disgraceful journalism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

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

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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.