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fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:

man streaming sure is lucrative for indie musicians

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lunareclipse@snug.moe ("luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian:") wrote:

thinking about this post

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silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

I consider it to be a successful con when your room looks like several cartoon dogs have exploded in it Sunday morning. #fursuit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

"Don't use AI because it's bad" is possibly not a nuanced or complex position.

"Don't use AI because it's bad due to this list of careful considerations" is a nuanced and complex position by construction.

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

That is not a simple position to hold, but precisely none of those complexities point to embracing the relatively extreme position of AI adoption, let alone AI boosterism.

Nuanced and complex positions are not necessarily those that coincide with popular discourse. You are not necessarily a more careful thinker for hedging your own internal cognition towards media narratives.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.

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

There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "complex" views about AI.

I ask that you please reject that temptation and recognize that full and complete abstinence from AI is a complex view that considers the tradeoffs, compromises with the relative extremes of direct action, and that comes from a comprehensive understanding of what AI is.

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

Why is Apple’s iCloud still so useless? After all these years, every ”improvement” regresses away in the space of a few months. The iCloud Photos sync lag seems to have returned, albeit not as extreme as it used to be.

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

I don't love how much time this writing piece is taking to come together

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

okay, so the good thing is it merges errors nicely etc.

the bad thing is the errors are limited to c-style enums. by default it uses a u16 to indicate the error.

so i guess what you're supposed to do if you want more info is pass a union pointer as an out param? or have a thread local?

not sure i like this.

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

i suppose i ought to see in which ways zig gets error handling wrong.

this could be problematic.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)

He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.

Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.

#AI #microsoft #LLMs

Boosted by jwz:
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope") wrote:

I bought a car. I’m trying to get Toyota to stop sending telemetry. I call support. They tell me I can just sign in with the app and make changes.

I point out that installing and using the app binds me to terms and conditions, one of which is binding arbitration. So I will not be installing the app.

No, no. The customer service agent confidently contradicts me. You don’t sign a contract by installing the app. It’s just like making a Facebook or google account.

🤦🏻

jwz wrote:

"Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more."
https://jwz.org/b/yjRH

Attachments:

• video: 1aa22a5aa85e8ce4.mp4

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

i tried out zig's new "translate this c header file to zig" functionality. seems they replaced the import a c header primitive that reminded me of early swift. it's quick and it seems to work.

jwz wrote:

https://trek.epicrandomness.com

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

...there is a theme

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
celestia@tech.lgbt ("Celes 🌙") wrote:

someone boosts my post

yayy I'm happy someone boosted my post :akko_yay:

but also:

oh no now I can't compulsively edit it 50 times in quick succession because I don't want to spam the booster's inbox :neocat_sweat:

jwz wrote:

Time for you to retire, old friend.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7l

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

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live:

Tarja
Within Temptation
Epica
Amaranthe
Babymetal
Delain
Sum 41
Keane
Fall Out Boy
Black Veil Brides

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

Y’all, we need to talk about upcoming #IPOs, and the insane rule changes that #nasdaq has just announced.

Nasdaq rewrote its #index inclusion rules to accommodate #SpaceX’s mega-IPO, implementing a "Fast Entry" provision that allows the company to join the Nasdaq-100 index just 15 trading days after its initial public offering, down from the standard three-month seasoning period.

They also eliminated the minimum float requirement of 20% available public shares and instead stocks with less than 20% of shares publicly traded, Nasdaq applies a 3x multiplier to the free-float for index weighting purposes, artificially inflating low-float giants like SpaceX in passive funds.

Ok, but in English? #SpaceX, #OpenAI and #Anthropic have just figured out a scam to force every passive #IRA, #401k, and index fund to buy their stock before pricing evaluation.

They’ve figured out how to steal your #retirement.

#AI #LLM #Scam #guillotines #YouWillOwnNothing

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-s1-spcx-stock-nasdaq-qqq-elon-musk-2026-5

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Trish Greenhalgh") wrote:

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Dro...

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
celestia@tech.lgbt ("Celes 🌙") wrote:

I made a thing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

So, games with reptile protagonists!

Brok the InvestiGator (anthropomorphic crocodile)
Lil Gator Game (anthropomorphic alligator)
Gecko Gods (gecko of indeterminate species, non-anthropomorphic)
Gex (anthropomorphic day gecko)
Yooka-Laylee (anthropomorphic chameleon)

Any others you know of?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

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

A red pixel in the snow: How AI found a lost climber

oh wow you guys, they found a use for AI. you could never write a program that scanned for red pixels, that's really hard

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

Lawyers getting caught and sanctioned for using AI and wasting the court’s time and clients’ resources happens so often now it barely makes the news anymore

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

oh good, there's still no usable minio replacement.

jwz wrote:

@glyph It's extremely ok for the attacker

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cyberlyra@hachyderm.io ("Cyberlyra") wrote:

Very Important Words the Tech Industry Ruined:
- Friend
- Like
- Engagement
- Smart
- Connect
- Contact
- Intelligence
- Search
- Insights
- Data
- Chat
- Mention
- Reaction
- Stories
- Tweet
- Viral