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

Yes!!! Finally crossed under 240. 238.6!

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

I'm reminded of the "The NeverEnding Story" where the Nothing is slowly but inexorably destroying everything as people attempt to flee to ever shrinking areas of safety...

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

Re LB[1]: There's always been a small subset of software that you could rely on to be rock solid and do its job dependably. I considered rsync to be in that group, but hearing about the recent news... Every update now to our systems feels more and more like gambling.

[1] https://narrativ.es/@janl/116656659069842703

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fogti@chaos.social ("Έλλεν Εμίλια Ά.ζ.") wrote:

@zl2tod @hailey sure https://codeberg.org/fogti/rsync-nai

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jfkimmes@tinycyber.space wrote:

@peter According to this Elsevier report [1] the EU publishes *more* than the USA and they have similar amount of citations (EU is without UK and Switzerland btw).

I haven't looked into this in detail but if only look at "scale" then "no where close" is definitely false.

[1]: https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-research-stacks-against-world-three-charts

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eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

There's tremendous value to being a strict LLM Abstentionist in the current political climate, whether or not there are any "valid use cases for LLMs" (there are—not nearly as many as most people think, but sure, more than zero) or the LLM was "created ethically" (to my knowledge no such model exists, but yeah, it's technically possible that someone has or will eventually build one).

Tech workers especially who refuse to interact with this technology are telling their coworkers and employers that ethics and morality are more important to some people than convenience and profit. This is a bold stance to take during good times—and downright foolhardy in the current job market—but the more people who draw the line here, the better the outcomes will be for literally everybody on the whole planet (except, perhaps, for some billionaire investors).

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simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:

@urlyman I wrote about this five years ago. It's not a pretty scenario, but on our current trajectory it's our almost certain future, and within the lifetime of people now living.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2021-11-15-the-everyone-dies-event-class/

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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116654444798985436

Le sigh. Et tu, rsync? :(

[Update, OpenBSD has it’s own version: https://cathode.church/@meena/116654702820939443]

[Update2: OG rsync is already borked: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390]

For the uninitiated, rsync is one of the very few tools in computing that you used to be able to trust to work every time and not surprise you.

That trust is gone now.

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smallcircles@social.coop ("🫧 socialcoding..") wrote:

@ingo_wichmann

I don't think it is enough to call for just open source at this point. Big Tech is built on open source and LLMs wouldn't be what they are today without open source.

We need FOSS that (in-the-large, emergent) responsibly contributes to societal progress, and the starting point for that is that proper healthy environments exist to give the extra amount of attention and detail to focus on the entire supply chain and software lifecycle. It is not enough to just do the coding, create the tech, and dump it into society. Externalities must be better addressed.

For all that to be possible the conditions must be created where people can sustainably work on FOSS, eek out a living in it if they want to. Right now FOSS is inherently unsustainable except for the privileged who can spare the time and money to work on it, and a happy few who have a job in it.

Call should not just be "use FOSS" but "adopt FOSS and help sustain responsible FOSS ecosystems".

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116316524763055082

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superrr@social.tchncs.de ("SUPERRR Lab") wrote:

There’s an overwhelming amount of information out there about AI – here are some of our current favourite resources:

_Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000

This podcast dives into the AI hype, with special guests and an unapologetically, extremely well-informed, critical take on AI.
https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

@DAIR

(1/5)

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sodiboo@gaysex.cloud ("sodiboo :pride_heart:") wrote:

I've heard the sentiment that "personal data is highly radioactive", in that collecting it at all has unforeseen consequences.

a famous example from history includes census data on Jewish people in the Netherlands being used in the Holocaust; and how significantly fewer French Jews died because France simply didn't collect that data.

but there's a specific example I recall, about a more subtle element of this. I can't find the original source for this; searching for a good half an hour yielded nothing last I tried. but the story is about how even seemingly innocuous and necessary data can be used to draw correlations and deduce much more sensitive attributes.

the details are a bit fuzzy, but paraphrasing, it goes something like this:

there was a power company, who wanted to charge people more accurately for their utility use. previously, I guess they were just playing a flat rate? not sure. so, the power company went out to every home and installed an electricity meter. to measure the power usage in that home. they collected this data, for the intent of calculating the bills and probably also to better anticipate loads on the grid and plan more efficiently. the power company now has statistics about the power usage of any given home over time. surely nothing could go wrong here.

during the holy month of Ramadan, Islamic homes fast during the day. again, the details on this are a bit fuzzy, but i understand kitchen appliances to be very power hungry, so it seems plausible to me that this directly translated to abnormal power usage. perhaps significantly lower during the day, and significantly higher after sunset.

and an employee at the power company notices this anomaly in the data. "why are so many homes acting unexpectedly for 30 days a year?". and they realize that this is Ramadan. and they realize that. "oh shit. we've accidentally created a very accurate dataset of every muslim home in this region. oh fuck."

(I'm not sure what the deal was with installing the meters? maybe they had meters already but upgraded them to "smart" ones that phone home? again, for the legit purpose of better anticipating grid load or whatever, this was not an unnecessary thing to collect, and yet, the dataset encodes a highly sensitive attributes that you absolutely do not want to collect)

what power company was this? whose words am I paraphrasing? this story didn't just like, spawn suddenly in my mind palace, did it? I strongly recall the phrase "personal data is radioactive"/"information is radioactive" or some variation on those being used in the source I've heard it from. specifically the adjective "radioactive" I'm very confident about.

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

“No, that post never existed. Stop listening to that thing.”

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/05/05/404/

> The worst part is that everyone who's decided to willingly lobotomize themselves is going to have to come to the realization that these things are full of shit. It'll have to happen one by one, and nobody else can make it happen for them.

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

My house needs tidying but I'm too tireding

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

“The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/

> SpaceX is doing a crypto-style fraud, but on the real stock market. The S-1 filing is the white paper. The IPO, lined up for mid-June, is the rug pull.

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mavica_again@computerfairi.es ("maple "mavica" syrup [6502]") wrote:

i miss making music for video games

is anyone making a cool video game that needs music

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

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       uses: actions/git-pages@v2
       with:
         site: https://${{ forge.event.repository.owner.username }}.preview.codeberg.page/${{ forge.event.repository.name }}@${{ forge.event.number }}/
         token: ${{ forge.token }}
         source: _site/

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

@ratsnakegames beAfraid: norway

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tastytronic@teh.entar.net ("Petey P. Twelve") wrote:

I'm interested in commissioning an #artist to make some "box art" for a fictional 1980s home computer video game. The game is about a heist in a San Francisco office, and I'm envisioning a montage showing various heisty / officey things. The game is not commercial, it is educational software produced as part of a research project -- but I obviously expect to pay the artist.

I'm interested in vintage-looking artwork in the style of 1980s game box art. I'm not interested in AI-generated art. If you're interested, please reach out! If you're curious, please boost!

#art #commission

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

i will say it again, the proof is in the pudding and every time the pudding is basically toxic

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

re: LB, just in case you were wondering how the rsync enslopification is going

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niki@mouse.photos ("squeaks at u :ace:") wrote:

if you need to explain to someone what ruined the economy, show them this

GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G") wrote:

RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/116654017875769278

#WWF reproche à son ex présidente de ne pas être “apolitique”… alors que certains membres du CA veulent rencontrer le RN dès maintenant en vue de leur éventuelle victoire 😂

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majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com ("Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers") wrote:

I need more like this!

Union work sustains me!

UK-Based Rockstar Game Workers Formally Announce Union

https://aftermath.site/rockstar-games-workers-union-public-announcement/

#Unions #UK #Rockstar #Gaming

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

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116654060969377526

I am constantly impressed at how smart these birds are

Also I kinda want a crow friend now 😃

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dyckron@cosocial.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Crows keep giving 'thank you gifts' to B.C. woman https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/sawatsky-sign-off/article/woman-who-rescued-injured-crow-keeps-getting-thank-you-gifts-from-other-birds/

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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

Can you all share blogs that do all kinds of link dumps and or fiction roundups in general? Both, actually? I love reading all kinds of link dumps, so give me all your link dump blogs/newsletter with an RSS feed! but I am also looking for more things such as https://buttondown.com/sff #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

IBM ThinkBoy

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Become unlaunchable:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/9412d37c-d584-4c9d-9f9a-5b45af51c4b6

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ehashman it’s part of the same conversation

“write an enhancement proposal”: “fuck you”

*actually writing the enhancement proposal*: “no, fuck YOU”

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

As spotted by Ryan Estrada on Bluesky, HOLY SHIT

Paramount+ created a thumbnail for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" where it genAI-filled a closeup shot of Shatner, giving him a sensible haircut and a suit and tie.

LEFT: Paramount+
RIGHT: The shot from the movie