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

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@simon%5Fbrooke/116668171591394157

“The Dead Economy Theory - by Owen McGrann - The Palimpsest”

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

> Over ninety percent of firms surveyed in 2025 reported no measurable impact on employment or productivity despite a quarter-trillion dollars in AI investment.

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

If you read only one essay today, make it this one. It pulls together and helps one understand many of the large developments in the world today which on the surface seem disparate.

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

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

> LLM-assisted coding is fine.

Depends on what you mean by fine. If you mean in an ethical sense, then no. If you mean in a practical sense, then also no.

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044

all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

So rsync rewriting all the tests puts the entire project in play. Now the entire protective surface has been sloshed through a layer of probability, so the loop must accelerate. Followup PRs add more carveouts with lengthy LLM justifications that sound perfectly plausible but amount to an erosion of the protective surface. We go from cumulative improvement to a random walk.

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, serial tooter") wrote:

for programmers, this thread is morbidly interesting. what's going on with rsync is worse than I thought, and I didn't think good for starters
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116667218484408879

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

If you previously donated to the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. via the beg notices on Wikipedia), it is still good to donate to the local chapters if there's one in your country. They're chronically underfunded (e.g. by the WMF) and generally are tax deductible charities too.

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kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work ("kopper :colon_three:") wrote:

nocoffei.com/?p=451

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

imagine a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for LLM usage. cause it worked out so well for gays in the military.

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

oh dear. i may have to switch distros after all.

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

what I will say is that should the council push this policy forward, I will likely be forking Alpine, and anyone who is presently an Alpine or postmarketOS developer is welcome to join me

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

I am not happy with the LLM policy that the Alpine council has proposed. I am evaluating where I go from here.

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

Btrfs (pronounced as "better F S",[9] "butter F S",[13][14] "b-tree F S",[14] or "B.T.R.F.S.")

oh good, well that's cleared everything up 😬

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

maximal fanout: 235

they don't mention what size of page they're using for this btree, but at the smallest it will be 4k.

i'm currently leaning towards 16k pages for the HOT. fun thing is i can squeeze 2 layers into a page, so it's effectively a 1024-way branch in a page. so the wins could be substantial here.

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

St. Matthew writing his #Gospel. Gospels, Britanny 9th-10th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 2. 16, fol. 28v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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SeaFury@aus.social ("SeaFury 🦜🍃") wrote:

Made some greeting cards because brain needed recovery #art

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xinicit@beige.party ("Xavier Horatio Xinicit") wrote:

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

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

so here's a fun thread about a plane that had a bluetooth speaker in the hold with the id "bomb" https://reddit.niko.lgbt/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua%5Fflight%5Fturn%5Fbluetooth%5Foff%5For%5Fwere%5Fturning/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New episode of Freebooters is out on #Peertube

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/cruPKiUoidwmaATnCMwdjN

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

'You can't encapsulate this rambling fucking nonsense with a description'

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/cruPKiUoidwmaATnCMwdjN

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

A great roundup of the current state of things vs. what vested interests hope you assume:

https://youtu.be/HgBTARXEfxU

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

"How exposed to AI do you want your business to be when the bubble bursts?"

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lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

Okay, let me be random for a second.

This being Fedi, I know there will be someone reading this who is a chronically depressed, poly disaster transfem always narrowly avoiding poverty by being a somewhat-but-not-really successful self-employed freelance web developer, who has strong opinions about the modern web, free software, the semantic web and structured data, and who kind-of-but-not-really mourns what XHTML could have been while actually thinking HTML5 as written is kinda neat, but who is constantly forced by Society (tm) to work with React, Wordpress and awful bloated web app frameworks to create terrible, non-semantic style-first web applications for ungrateful clients.

I can't guarantee anything but let's say, I know someone who needs a static website for their business. Hypothetically, uh, where could that someone reach out to you? Paid, of course.

#webDev #webDesign #askFedi #trans #xhtml #semanticWeb #freeSoftware #queer #getFediHired

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Hot diggity dog.

The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

New blog post! I came across a fully-interactive offline archive(!!) of a BBS from 1994 and wanted to share an interactive walkthrough of it. Let's explore 90s Kansai online and see what people were chatting about.

https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html

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sus@timeloop.cafe wrote:

But how do I become clam?

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

Well said (and yes, I also hate that a lot of great writers on on Substack these days...*sigh*):

https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/john-major-is-a-better-former-pm-bf2

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

oh no, hackchan might flood your issues with discussion points they know damn well don’t make sense because their goal isn’t to help you or anyone else, their goal is to burn out your resistance

kick them the fuck out. you owe them nothing.

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bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber :mediawiki:") wrote:

Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.

It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.

I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.

You should organize your workplace too.

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sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party ("Fortune's Fool - He/Him") wrote:

My first fursona just turned 30.