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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

So like what's the argument that local models are somehow ethically better than the duopoly models?

Citations appreciated.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thestrangelet@beige.party ("TheStrangelet :bc:") wrote:

I've worked in tech for over 20 years, and I've never been threatened for not using particular tools until this year. I think that says a lot about where we are.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hypercritical ("Hypercritical") wrote:

EV Stupidity Checklist: https://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
driusan@doomscroller.social ("D") wrote:

The year is 2026. A cult of transhumanist billionaires has infiltrated every government on the planet. Their TESCREAL religion seeks to merge humanity with AI. The resistance from a ragtag group of transexuals, open source programmers, and the first American Pope consists of humanity's last hope.

Will they stop the cultists before the planet runs out of water? Will the clathrate gun get to them first?

Once thing is certain--you really want to miss the next episode of Oh My God What The Fuck Reality Seriously??.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn.fyi@bsky.brid.gy ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

Say what you will about the current Pope (I often do), but it sure is useful that there is one person in the world who is paid exorbitantly to be a scholar of _some_ ethical code and is given a large amount of attention in that role.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tdque7aiu4isr7w2ykaxmidz/post/3mmz5tynhls2t

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

I’m proposing a new Law of the Internet:

In any conversation about AI agents’ flaws that lasts long enough, the probability that someone will make an unfounded assertion that everyone else is just using slightly inferior tools that they know how to get around approaches 1.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
ieure@retro.social ("Blackadderall") wrote:

I am once again wondering if there's something out there better than NFS. I want something designed for intermittent networking, basically:

- It can tolerate client/server (or peer/peer) disconnects without completely killing my machine like NFS does, and
- Has a cache, so recently (or often) accessed files can be used when disconnected/offline.

Boosts and/or suggestions appreciated!

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cap_ybarra@beige.party ("Cap Ybarra") wrote:

@slightlyoff my corollary: the best dependency in javascript is no dependency. the second best is a dependency that you have read the code of and that has no other dependencies. there is no third best

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

Unpopular opinion: it’s actually good that it’s hard to make software and that it takes a long time.

Saves people from a lot of bad software and from a lot of unwanted updates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Apologies for the disruption with our Mastodon server. Looking into the cause now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged

‘Delete all jqwik tests and code’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdlrxqIYac&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260529-test-software-tells-code-bots-delete-me-ai-bros-outraged - podcast

time: 7 min 30 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/29/test-software-tells-code-bots-delete-me-ai-bros-outraged/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

I’m not here to convince LLM boosters to not use LLMs

I’m here to protect myself and other vulnerable people from the damage the boosters are causing with LLMs

no I won’t be nice about this

being nice neither convinces the boosters nor protects anyone

debating the merits of using LLMs only legitimizes the damage being caused

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

Being willing to go off-script is so powerful in transforming everyday social annoyances. So many of them are the low-energy state of it could be better, but someone would have to put energy in. And it's exhausting to always be the person who does. But spending that little bit of energy can yield such nice outcomes and that leaves us all with a little more cope instead of less.

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

And maybe my favorite, though I had to do a little preparation: when someone's playing a video on their phone out loud, instead of suffering in silence or telling them off, I pull out a spare set of cheap bluetooth headphones and offer them to them, as a gift. It's been the best $2.50 Aliexpress purchase I've made a couple times.

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

Here's a great one: something breaks in a rental apartment and it's kinda trivial to bother the landlord with. You can just replace it without asking.

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116660398257328329

the pilot is not impressed with his lunch.

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

Greyed out options are more obvious when there's a false binary choice before you but they happen in all kinds of situations, our habits driving us to ignore good options. So many of them are based on social convention patterns we pick up that may not even be real rules.

You can go on a walk after dark. You can take a picnic to eat instead of staying home or going out to a restaurant. You can cut the crusts off the bread if you don't like them.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Bluetooth is fascinating technology because it somehow combines the reliability of radio with the usability of dark magic.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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

Another one I missed early today. Laptop battery was running out, I didn't have my charger with me, just a spare battery that was also dead. Go home, or stay and wait for it to die, neither have a great outcome for timing.

But wait: third option! I have an e-bike with a USB port just outside. I could go get the battery and use that and it DEFINITELY has enough charge to power my laptop.

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

I really like the concept of noticing "greyed out options": perfectly reasonable if sometimes wacky things that you can do in a situation but that you accidentally treat as unavailable, like a greyed out option in a dialog box in software.

Once you start noticing them, you unlock a whole lot of self-awareness.

An example tonight from a moderation decision: someone who's kind of a jerk and often gets their messages blocked on the forum, and it's never quite over the line but often borderline. Do we ban the person or not?

Wait: there's a third option! We can send them a message and tell 'em to knock it off and contribute better.

Unlocking that not only gets you a lot more information as a moderator to decide whether to keep someone, but also gives them the opportunity to change their behavior.

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

our sink is full of slop?

jwz wrote:

Normally I trash the political mailings without even looking at them, but this anti-Scott Wiener one goes hard:

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

there's a problem with our sink? is it blocked?

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

i have to say, i'm greatly cheered by the rsync ensloppification.

it seems like distros have suddenly noticed that it's terrible even if they are in favour of vibe codding.

it's a sign of the end times for vibe codding, if you ask me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

@slightlyoff NPM dependencies bad

• the NPM lady

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

sometimes the ol' imagination just won't cooperate

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

Looks about right to me.

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

I realised that my TL was needing more plural systems. If I randomly followed you in the past 30 minutes, I probably found you on https://yip.gay/@cryptids/116299360497173257 after browsing the #plural tag.

But I run a small server so not everyone will federate.

If you are plural or know a bunch of plurals, please boost :boost_requested:​ so I can find you all!

#pluralgang #plurality

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

@cryptids Oh yay, I found the Fediverse plurals! 😃