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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@koen%5Fhufkens/116622529210179804

And it's not really AI that's done it, this is the long tail of ALL of the search engine's practices. It's just real notable when it drops to near zero.

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koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/116613317111584835

You work for free, we make the money. That's how AI works.

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

We don't know what the courts will rule, what laws will pass. But we know what the incentives of Disney, the RIAA, have on the copyrighted *inputs* side.

And what about those running the models? What about them?

They might have a harder case, people bring up the monkey with a camera case, but this is a risk also. OpenAI's CFO explicitly said in an interview that it would like to pull a Unity, and suddenly upend the situation customers have come to expect and get a licensing cut of every piece of profit assisted by them. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-future-revenue-sources-2026-1

The problem with all this is that the legal area is *uncertain*. And it's even more uncertain because it will be ages before there is *international consensus* on how to handle these things.

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

Spotify and UMG strike a deal: users can pay extra to make their own "AI remixes" of licensed artists https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-and-umg-strike-licensing-deal-for-ai-covers-remixes/

And so. What does this mean for FOSS?

What a question! What do I mean even?

Well what does it mean for projects which have accepted AIgen patches? UMG and spotify are going to want to make sure that users *have to* pay a premium for such a service. And so what do you think they're going to push for, copyright-wise?

That's right, if they can make a legal case that the slurry of inputs *can* result in copyrighted output, well...

What does that mean for AIgen patches applied to FOSS projects? What legal terms, from their slurry of inputs, carry forward? What about attribution, a requirement in even the most permissive of most FOSS licenses? To say nothing of copyleft, and also code released without a license, etc.

FOSS projects welcoming AIgen patches may be sitting on a ticking time bomb.

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travis_nice@bne.social ("Travis Nice") wrote:

@cwebber Delivered within CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT or it’s free!

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emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S") wrote:

Some serious work to do on the text filtering and formatting when reading wikipedia articles but look! I searched for something and got a useful first result!

The dumbest and simplest algorithm in the history of search engines. Literally sum up the appearance counts for all the terms you typed in and return the pages sorted so the highest count comes first.

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

My second article in three days! This bounces off @ali's recent article to discuss where exactly in the tech space is ground for LLMs to grow. My conclusion is in the title:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/docs-shit-bad-at-teaching

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

Note: glibc provides no wrapper for pidfd_open(), necessitating the use of syscall(2).

well that's encouraging...

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

That hideous swollen lump is my knee. Trust me, it's getting better fast!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/23/recovery-update/

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

just having a totally normal summer covering a window in tinfoil to survive the afternoon :blobfoxlaughsweat:

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@hrheingold

I thought you might find some of this piece to sound familiar ;^}

https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my wife is visiting our old friends & favorite places on the Left Coast, and I am jealous

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NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art ("Nick East (Indie Writer)") wrote:

If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

@galacticwriters @writers @books @fantasy @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @keepwriting @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#TomGauld
#WritingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

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

@baldur I have seen "AI" skills asked for for IT roles in sectors outside the software industry.

But I haven't systematically counted it and I could be exaggerating the extent in my head due to existing biases

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

in order to do even basic exploratory programming, simply do an exhaustive and exhausting amount of research into whether or not any of your core dependencies are a fucking scam, hope that none of the ones you choose randomly gets a complete rewrite into a slop version of themselves, and have a devastating amount of anxiety over whether or not your ecosystem is owned by a corporation that designs the systems that enable genocide, on purpose, that is their only mission statement

ezpz

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everton137@vivaldi.net wrote:

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane%5Fai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

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

argh. i had a neat idea for using roaring bitmaps to store a free space map. then i remembered i need to store values with them.

...and that my nodes are somewhat smaller than page sized so a free space map won't necessarily lead to being able to reuse all the space.

one way around this is to rewrite the entire page contents, meaning the previous block can be freed up in its entirety when other transactions cease to be reading it. it seems you need either periodic compaction and the metadata to power it, or you need a continuous process.

lmdb solves this by having the (single) writer do maintenance as it writes stuff. so i'm going to just use that model because it will suffice for my purposes. but that means doing a page at a time. which is sorta fine, but then it makes me want to do continuous compaction (relocate nodes to be more favourably arranged for traversal) and i'm still not sure what the best algorithm for doing it in this context is.

leaf nodes are the problem - if you do a naive thing of say making a page able to store two levels of node (a subtree of height 2) then you can end up pushing leaves off into their own individual pages. given that leaf nodes are going to tend towards small, you're now multiplying the space required.

i have ideas about how to fix it, but i haven't sat down and worked it out yet.

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susam ("Susam") wrote:

Don't Roll Your Own ...

https://susam.net/do-not-roll-your-own.html

#blog #post #webdev #programming #technology

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

AI investments, domestically and abroad, are supported by a federal government intent on the idea of AI dominance. The US AI Action Plan has signaled that any limitations placed on tech companies, including those addressing harms to workers, would be deemed an impediment to innovation, instead opting for industry-led self-regulation, a tightening fusion between public institutions and private sector tech companies. [...]

At the 2026 World Economic Forum, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, asserted that advances in AI would eliminate the need for most immigration to the US. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang echoed this sentiment, stating that “AI immigrants” (as opposed to actual immigrants) were the solution to labor shortages in industries like manufacturing and health care. [...]

https://datasociety.net/library/last-place-in-the-ai-first-economy/

Reading "Last Place in the AI-First Economy"
via: https://labor.dair-institute.org/

The only reason that you would set an amount of wealth that is impossible to recoup on fire to force a technology is if you are assured that you are too big to fail. That the project of gutting labor power, dissolving the capacity for people to make sense and organize together, and concentrating information itself into so few hands could be so stupendously extractive that it renders all the wealth accumulated so far irrelevant.

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clarinette@mastodon.online ("Datarainbow Privacy Assistant✅") wrote:

https://grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/the-backlash-against-ai-is-real-and

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aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

I finally managed to read @tante's excellent article:

AI is a Fascist Artifact

It has almost all the points that are on my mind as well regarding these systems, and a few more. Great overview read about "AI" as a political project.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

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

“"Employers Want Applicants with AI Skills": How Hearsay Manufactures Reality — Sonja Drimmer”

https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/5/22/employers-want-applicants-with-ai-skills-how-hearsay-manufactures-reality

> Of all the ads for positions I clicked, none said a single thing about “AI.”

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

“OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/

> But “operating income margin” was not great

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

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paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:

I spent some time today going into a rabbit hole of the SpaceX IPO. Thought it was a space company. Turns out it’s a small telecom company that's propping up a space company (not very well at that) and the entire thing is being dragged down by the crappiest of the AI companies.

I then spent even more time researching how one shorts an IPO…

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Geri@veganism.social ("Totts") wrote:

Imagine being sentenced as a “terrorist” by a judge who:

- Bans you from explaining to the jury why you took action

- Bans you from mentioning genocide, weapons, Elbit systems, murdered children

- Bans you from mentioning to jurors that they can acquit you as a matter of conscience

- Issues a retrial after a jury found you not guilty on the most serious charges

- Attempts to prosecute your barrister for telling jurors their legal rights

- Lies directly to the jury about their right to find you not guilty (jury equity)

- Calls for the arrest of multiple people outside your trial for holding paper signs

- Bans the press from reporting on the facts of the trial and sentencing

- Doesn’t take any action against ministers and politicians that prejudice your trial

- Doesn’t oppose media outlets who broadcast selective outrage during your trial

- Hides from the jury the fact that you will be sentenced as a terrorist if found guilty

- Sentences you as a terrorist without being charged with, or found guilty of, terrorism

- Receives a promotion immediately after the trial concludes.

Imagine that because that is precisely what Judge Justice Johnston did to the #Filton6

#PalestineAction

If this makes you mad, you may wish to attend their sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court Jun 12th

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artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay wrote:

Assisted-by: GNU sed 4.9 <sed@gnu.org>

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Lower Value Human Capital") wrote:

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

remember that microsoft forces its staff to vibe code, so they're now forcing everyone onto the model that everyone has noticed is shitter.

microsoft's uptime is already not great...

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ionchy@types.pl ("electric eelchy aquarium :eel:") wrote:

:dragncoolmlem_hacker: