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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
verge ("The Verge") wrote:

I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933916/ai-powered-crypto-cannabis-vape

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Bluetooth proxies in #HomeAssistant are cool. For me BT went from useless to the most reliable protocol that has coverage everywhere in my house.
Thread was supposed to be it, but Thread is ruined by devices with shitty firmware that can't handle the complexity.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Shelly has gadgets that work well with #HomeAssistant without any cloud or custom app nonsense!

Their UK plug is one of the smallest, and even doubles as a Bluetooth-over-Wifi proxy in HA
https://www.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-plug-uk

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chaotic_evil@jorts.horse ("Florist vs the Anthropocene") wrote:

be sure to check out my new essay on tariffs in the economist

https://www.nyan.cat/

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

> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. Whether proprietary or open source, these systems require urgent attention to establish clear frameworks for accountability and human rights protection before their impacts become more deeply entrenched in society.

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

This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to disagree with any of the conclusions.

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

> Many of the fundamental design features of the generative AI products discussed within this briefing, in particular those pertaining to OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion appear incompatible with aspects of international human rights law and standards. The design principles of these products involve massive data collection without consent, biased training processes and the potential for manipulative outputs.

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

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

> In our analysis, we find that both the scale of this data gathering for training purposes and the representational issues in the training data span multiple international human rights laws and standards, from privacy violations and non-consensual data collection, to discrimination, harassment, and threats to the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of thought.

From the Amnesty PDF report:

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

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

“Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International”

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

> Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

🎶 Despite all my age, I can build quite a blueberry cage.

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

“We appreciate the community’s candid feedback” 😆

Good news! AMD listened. Linux will be supported by the basic ($0) version of #Vivado: https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001aT5IcKAK/adding-linux-support-back-for-the-basic-free-version-of-vivado?language=en%5FUS

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

Opinion: "Previous opposition politicians had described Orban’s regime as “corrupt,” a relatively mild term suggesting some aberration from the government’s intended function… Third lesson: Don’t mince words.

[fourth lesson]… instead of trying to build coalitions among other parties, he focused on conscripting as many actual people as possible, from across the political spectrum, ultimately building a giant organization capable of taking down Orban’s political monopoly."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

I guess I'll be spidering by proxy for a while. Mary took this photo, I couldn't get near it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/31/i-have-been-replaced/

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

Opinion: "outlandish xenophobic and antisemitic propaganda had served Orban well for years. It didn’t work against Peter Magyar — probably because so many Hungarians got to see him in person, many of them repeatedly. This is another lesson of his success: Old-fashioned in-person politics can be a powerful antidote to media fearmongering."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

please, yes… someone tell me when:

“can someone please tell me when it will finally be time for America to move past its unhealthy attachment to the Kennedy political dynasty?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/opinion/kennedy-jack-schlossberg-political-dynasty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org ("jj the Santa Barbarian") wrote:

Happy #Caturday

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
juliepagano@toot.cat ("Julie Pagano") wrote:

I am *really* glad I've been getting into not-programming hobbies lately because it's a great way to find things that still make my brain happy now that coding is getting stranger and less fun. Gonna take that grief and make a bunch of yarn and plastic objects about it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@elebertus
Ive read so much LLM code at this point, there are still patterns that are present but elude my understanding, but one thing that's clear is that there are foundational flaw categories that are not improved upon by model version and appear in wildly different projects using wildly different models and harnesses. Testing is a big nexus of those flaws. I am not close to what would be a satisfying explanation of the dynamics, but every project suffers fucked testing problems.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

…Owen’s essay is a great, reasoned, erudite rant.

But there are serious road bumps to what the likes of Amodei and Altman are building.

Let’s hope that what Trump and Hegseth are engineering through similar levels of stupidity will undermine the economics of it so it falls apart. The trouble with that is the destruction of millions of lives to get there

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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
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.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
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