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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

A judge orders Trump's name removed from The Kennedy Center, and the child-in-chief loses it completely.

This is perfection. 😘👌

jwz wrote:

Help me keep home.mcom.com online.

I am once again seeking a contact inside the Yahoo DNS team.

Early this morning the "home" record vanished from the "mcom.com" domain. I need it put back.

My last contact there was Paul Frieden, in 2023, but the only email address I have bounces. Ideally I would ask Paul, "Hey, can you introduce me to your replacement?" Failing that, I'd like to find anyone currently on the team responsible for Yahoo's DNS records.
https://jwz.org/b/yk76

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

A short, fun diversion for the evening. "Emersion":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgFtwXie1dA

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

An abandoned building, Tuscany.

📷️️️️ Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Real talk: the real "supply chain risk" is that you treat your open source "supply chain" like shit and assume that we will all take any amount of abuse from you and just keep doing volunteer labor forever without ever complaining. And, equally real talk: most of us—myself included—actually do love the process and the community so much that you're right, and there will never be any real consequence.

But not all of us.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Remember that point in history around 2021 where suddenly there was a rush of supply-chain attacks that were all *VERY* focused on infostealer malware that could detect metamask wallets, specifically? Now imagine that instead of a few threat actors uploading a few scam typosquats, the people who are motivated enough to target you and want to ruin your life are your entire dependency supply chain, and the Metamask that marks you as a target is your Claude Max subscription.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Your chatbot being (hypothetically) momentarily commandeered to delete your local copy of the project that you were *already explicitly forbidden to use it on* is the gentlest possible introduction to this type of direct action and if it happens to you, you should be *very grateful* that this is how you got the message and not via something much more elaborate, insidious, and potentially life-changingly bad.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like the fact that I show empathy and understanding and, increasingly, have a sort of "no ethical consumption" / "harm reduction" message about LLM use makes me a bad messenger for the message that not only are LLMs abstractly "harmful" but that there are people who you *are harming* and some of those people are not going to take it lying down.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement crowds as speakers wax rhapsodic about "AI" destroying their careers and their futures.

https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

Hey have you (reading this) used Tauri. How do you feel about Tauri

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
samd@social.coop ("Sam") wrote:

Normalize having a map of the starship in the front of science fiction novels like we have a map of the fantasy world in the front of a fantasy novel.

#scifi #sciencefiction #sff #reading

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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: