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sinvega@mas.to ("Sin Vega") wrote:
A big thing I am still learning with adhd is fighting off the urge to overcommit to things because you feel ashamed and guilty and frustrated about the things you weren't able to do before
It's still really hard. Medication went well for me, but that's double edged, because even two years on, I'm still getting used to managing my new capacity.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
btw, a former samsung exec and current advisor to samsung says memory prices will probably be back to normal within a year.
so hold out if you can, it's so worth it.
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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:
RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116613185928093652
Don't find yourself cheering a brand for criticising another brand. They are laundering their own reputation.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
the good news is i correctly guessed at the zig pattern to use.
the downside is it's not quite as ergonomic
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ello@void.ello.tech ("gemma lynn") wrote:
please enjoy this photo of my happy dog being happy
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masukomi@connectified.com wrote:
Someone shared a link to Hister
I have wanted this for YEARS but - until now - all the implementations sucked & I didn't have the time / energy to write my own.
It's a private self-hosted search engine that indexes all the pages your browser visits so that you can search for things you've seen but can't remember where.
Really nice UI. Easy to exclude domains / pages via the browser extension. Optional advanced query syntax.
Just getting started with it but so far,
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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
An immensely frustrating thing about all this isn't just how little any real sophistication is needed to ablate the worst of these threats but how hostile stewards of these ecosystems are to making changes that might mitigating them.
So much of this stuff is just... wash your hands. We can get to penicillin and vaccines eventually. Please just wash your hands. The default settings should look a lot like a checklist with "did you wash your hands" on it.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Coding agents, the inattentiveness, automation and confirmation biases, their inherent insecurity, and the common insecurity of their output all exacerbate the issue but what's coming to a head is the fact that we've been letting software quality, design, and usability slide for over a decade.
When you let things slide for over ten years, there comes a point where everything simply falls apart.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/116612806345022171
People have been warning for years that VS Code extensions, npm, GitHub Actions and similar systems were all insecure as designed. Add to that a pervasive monoculture and slop automation and we're in a disaster that simply didn't need to happen. npm could have been safer by default. GitHub Actions could have been better designed. VS Code could have sandboxed extensions better.
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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/116612806345022171
Dunno, maybe FLOSS projects should not pool themselves in a single centralized forge (incidentally, owned by a company famously hostile to FLOSS, but that's kind of beside this particular point).
By the way, I honestly haven't a clue why hackers have to be dragged into every "computer security bad" story. "Attackers". "Malicious actors". Plenty of options that do not besmirch a creative community of fun people.
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malcircuit@thingy.social ("Mallory's Musings & Mischief") wrote:
One cell to another: This cancer thing is the future. It's here to stay. You really need to adapt and learn how to incorporate cancer into your critical functions or you're going to get left behind.
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
hissing and crawling out of my grave
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BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:
Racial colorblindness is racism. Pointedly ignoring race just lets racism fester and breed. These are facts that can and must coexist with the fact that everyone's just people.
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BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:
This also applies to people from countries whose governments are committing atrocities, btw.
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BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:
No ethnicity is magic. No ethnicity is savage. No ethnicity is inherently wise. They're just people.
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brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:
This Saturday May 23rd, 8pm-9pm ET,
I host a comedy fundraising auction benefiting the Otherwise Award (celebrating scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our notions of gender). I'll make nerdy jokes. You can come and have fun without bidding on anything. It's online (Zoom/YouTube livestreams + Discord).To attend, register for the feminist sf/f convention WisCon.Tickets are sliding scale, USD$0-$5-$25-$65. And you'll also get the chance to enjoy well-moderated panels, readings of new work, a curated fanvid show, and other sessions, May 22-25, many of which will include CART (real time captioning by a human). More info:
https://wiscon.net/2026/05/21/how-to-wiscon/
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Pokétmin Village
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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
On the way home from #PyConUS 2026. Quite an experience this year; very intense. No point in sugar-coating the part where there is a pervasive vibe-sickness, open source is suffering a massive sustainability crisis, slop security PRs are overwhelming everyone (etc etc). But there was a lot of hope, a lot of energy, a lot of effort toward mutual understanding, and (surprising to me) a lot of *appreciation*. Including for my own work, both writing and coding.
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colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:
I'm still angry/mad that the display/model tents in stores aren't actually just a tent for your pet that you can buy.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Trump seems to think Venezuela & Cuba are basically the same situations. I think Trump is going to order an attempt to kidnap Castro, as an attempt to shore up MAGA popularity in Florida in this midterm year.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
breakfast
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Comparing the pre-2022 web with the current web is fascinating.
Sometimes I notice LLM writing quirks before 2022 and go "oh, yeah, sometimes people just write that way". Sometimes there's a mysterious adoption of LLM writing quirks coinciding with when LLMs got more mainstream. I notice older writing tends to be much more information-dense. Sometimes I see LLM patterns in text I have no reason to believe is LLM-generated, simply because That Style is absorbed into people's brains now.
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gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:
"But behind the headlines, lies the truth: AI is taking all the cash from the biggest names in the market. In fact, in just five quarters (2025 through 1Q26), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Oracle (ORCL) burned a combined $563 billion in free cash flow (FCF)."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/05/20/ai-is-devouring-all-the-cash/
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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:
@devilslattice a number of things including but not limited to:
- expressing design intent
- verifying that specific workflows work as expected
- verifying that specific failure modes occur as expected
- controlling for regressions
but not including:
- describing how the current implementation happens to work without any input from its designers
(except in cases where you have a legacy system you're trying to replace and have to reproduce its behavior exactly, which is not the case here or pretty much anywhere else this AI-produced garbage would be posted.)
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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:
Spotted on the tube
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wizbean@tech.lgbt ("christina wizbean") wrote:
@ShadowJonathan the IT department is the powerhouse of the cell! :ablobcatwobwork:
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ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:
If you think about it, IT really is like the deep state
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wizbean@tech.lgbt ("christina wizbean") wrote:
I enjoy watching cyberdeck builds, but I'm unlikely to build one of my own. I think a cyberdeck should have a specialized use case, not just to be used as a toy or novelty computer. What use do I have for a pocket or briefcase computer? Maybe I'll build one once my laptop dies, if commercial laptops happen to become prohibitively expensive.
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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:
i wish the tech industry would just collapse already
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elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:
File under: AI Resistance
I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.
I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:
"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!