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

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

i still have to do some very hard thinking to be absolutely sure it's correct, but i do believe i've just finished my critical correctness bottleneck, er, i mean highly scalable reclamation mechanism.

and then comes the fun of trying to get a friend with enough knowledge to verify it. oddly enough i will not be relying on a bullshit machine to determine it's fine.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
weirdunits@chaos.social ("Weird Units") wrote:

Smoots per BBC Micro

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

Linda Perry discussing how she wrote "Get the Party Started" is a hoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672iyyTuJHU

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

TIL Shirley Bassey covered Pink's "Get the Party Started" and Linda Perry wrote it.

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ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

"As long as you have fun and you learn from it, nothing is wasted. Any time that you practise is not wasted. If you're going to be good at anything you have to practice. That's the price you have to pay." -- Bob Ross

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116647387354163140

This is really great "actual use"

But read with context: this what an investigative journalist does. This is very prudent in their line of work, and the threats that come with being a journalist who can incur the ire of powerful people and entities are in play here.

You really have to have a bit of a threat model to make good choices. A few things are universal, with little to no downside, but remarkably few.

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

I may propose that we forbid entirely AI/LLM for one year

lol, as if anyone's going to wait a year to fork.

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

i was just saying that i have no reason to believe that the paid models are substantially better and we have a perfect demonstration of it here.

the ai boosters say "add guardrails" but "guardrails" clearly do not work. on allegedly the best model ever (i do not deny that it costs the most to use, but 'best' is one of those weird words that doesn't imply 'good').

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

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/116669455830842672

in which the brand new opus 4.7 demonstrates that it's still unable to checks notes not delete files when told not to delete files.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Moos-a-dee 🫎") wrote:

This is cool as hell!
[ 2D Internet? So 1995. Building a '90s VRML-verse with SGI! by Wave Design ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X%5FNKRbuPf4

#RetroComputing #90s

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

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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

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cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org ("jj the Santa Barbarian") wrote:

Happy #Caturday

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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