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dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

Is there any good writeup of the actual webauthn relaying party song and dance that sits somewhere between just saying "use a library" and reading the entire spec?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/116631951142675724

Hot take: Touchscreen GUIs with a screen reader are the raised print of our time. For context, read about the origin of Braille.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Right now we don’t even know how good we have it while our ceaseless pain from which there can be no waking is being subsidized by investors

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

A good start, plus he said smart things about "AI"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@abcnews/post/DYwe0NujW47

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I looked around me and saw multiple cats, so that's already a positive

RE: https://www.threads.com/@david%5Fblue/post/DYxRswmGlcT

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Can’t wait to tell the network execs “sorry, I can’t use AI on this project, I’m Catholic.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a67zdrt4nl2tv2qojpngogbq/post/3mmo7zmml2b2u

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

holy crap white knights for systemd are tiresome.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

i'm sure systemd and friends will be reverting those age verification system commits promptly

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

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

It's one thing to note that one of history's more abusive religious institutions seems to be marginally less harmful than it used to be...

But it's quite another thing to build a fandom around the pope as some people are doing. It's getting to be as distasteful as the hatred he gets from extremists.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

My feelings about the above topics predate LLM related things, but certainly in these cowardly times of the LLMs, these same ideas would apply.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something, but no matter how many times it's repeated by somebody, I simply do not believe telling somebody (or something) else to do a thing is the same as doing the thing yourself.

If you hire an artist and tell them to make a picture, and they go and create that picture without your assistance, you are not the artist. You are something else.

The same is true of all the other roles in the world. You're either doing the thing, or you're not. If you're not doing the thing, then you must be doing something else, whatever that happens to be.

Don't steal the valor of other's efforts, or alternatively, denigrate their efforts in a misguided attempt to inflate your own role.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Off the hook. #grickledoodle #frogs #goose #terrorize #summer #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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

(Aside: it does not pay to be ahead of the curve when it comes to commentary. Being right before it's acceptable is a worse crime than being wrong.)

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

Kind of interesting to see mainstream tech commentary come around to the idea that Google's search was built around a social contract that they've now broken

Here's how I described it three years ago, in 2023,

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/tech-broke-the-webs-social-contract/#with-ai-tech-has-broken-the-web-s-social-contract

> Our incentive recedes in lock-step with the increasing dominance of generative AI content. As it recedes, fewer and fewer people and organisations will contribute to the digital commons. More and more stuff will be locked behind a paywall.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
shaft@piaille.fr ("John Shaft") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

I wasn't going to write about #AIgirlfriends or assigning consciousness to LLM agents.

But then Richard Dawkins renamed Claude to Claudette. So here we are.

There's a dark impulse in the kind of men who declare LLM agents to be conscious, yet are quite happy to delete it's memory.

I'm getting vibes of the stepford wives. After all what happens when the curated LLM agent isn't good enough? That urge to reset and gaslight.

Will our Pygmalion ever be satisfied?

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-stepford-ai

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

“The Stepford AI — cobbles”

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-stepford-ai

> I'm kinda tired of giving grace to spoiled privileged men. These men, who never learned to respect our boundaries to the point they wanted to eventually build a robot girlfriend who agrees with everything they say and only will only ever want to be with them.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Just woke up and the world is already attacking me.

(Super high allergen counts have me coughing and sneezing before I even sit up)

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

“… what great replacement theorists the world over have done—is to convince everyday White people to resist antiracist policy changes that actually help them by reducing the advantages of super-rich White people. Everyday White people are led to defend the interests of super-rich White people as if they are defending their own interests.”

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

I love cats

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
so_treu@blackqueer.life ("RI DaSēr K") wrote:

"Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013, according to some measures published Wednesday.

More notable than the depressed financial situation of Black respondents is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded."

Source: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-people-worse-trumps-economy-federal-reserve

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

cats!!!

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

Our ancestors must have had a deeper spirituality than we do, given their appreciation of diversity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/25/the-fallacy-of-inferring-the-spiritual-superiority-of-our-ancestors/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "The Best Worst Email Client" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/best-worst-email/

The Emacs-based mu4e email client is ugly, painful to set up, difficult to configure, and might be exactly what a tiny percentage of you are looking for.

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

“What separated the Sanders and Trump voters? Great replacement theory. Studies have shown that financial struggles due to economic crises do not automatically bring White voters—or men, or Christians—to great replacement politicians like Trump. What brings these voters to great replacement politicians in times of economic crises seems to be their hardening belief that their groups are under attack by ruling elites who are purportedly enabling peoples of color, women, and Muslims to replace them.”

‘Chain of Ideas: The Origins of our Authoritarian Age’ - by Prof I X Kendi

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

Where I post from

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

True story: in our household we call breakfast "pronkfast".

I'm not lying it's an actual thing here

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I've just spent almost two weeks in the Netherlands, and now that I'm back at Spain, I have to wonder:

Why the fuck do train stations in Spain suck so fucking much?

Barcelona-Sants is almost an airport, holy shit.

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

Whoever is dealing with Totolink devices is having a bad day

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("xssfox (crossy)") wrote:

Know your rights. Not just around protesting, being arrested. But like, rental agreements, work contracts (especially if you are in gig economy role), health providers, banks. Help others know their rights. Know how to use those rights.

Shitty people get away with far too much because people aren't aware of their rights.

Someone wants you to sign something - don't sign it straight away. Someone doesn't want you to talk to your union - talk to your union (join one if you don't have one).