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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
schratze@todon.nl wrote:

"the Alpine council" oh you mean the Swiss government?

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

One of the bravest people I've ever known is Jey McCreight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/31/i-wonder-what-happened-to-the-coward-who-attacked-jey/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

🎥 New video on my #PeerTube channel!

Exploring an abandoned and collapsing house, somewhere in Portugal

Join me on as I explore this spot ➡️ https://lostpod.space/w/dvwbHXdZ9BdiPJ2hD3nfWf

#Portugal #Video #UrbanExploration #Urbex

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

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

“Albert Camus broke with Jean-Paul Sartre and the French left over the most concrete political question there is: can the people alive today be treated as acceptable casualties in the pursuit of a better future?2

[…] Any system of thought that subordinates living people to a hypothetical future has already committed the foundational moral error. Once you accept that logic, there is no limiting principle.”

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

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

with so many of my own projects to work on, i simply do not want to waste any time on projects that don't have the courage to take a hard stance against AI, even if i didn't think quality was going to plummet.

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

oh good, i needn't consider adelie linux again

We therefore discourage (but do not ban) the use of generative artificial intelligence tools, with one strict requirement: all contributions must be verified and submitted by a human.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tay@transfem.social ("Tay") wrote:

Types of Sytem:
- nervous
- plural
- The

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
milla@mastodon.art ("milla🧷") wrote:

Daily doodle 142. Wanted to try this excercise where you draw colored blobs, then fill those with whatever comes to mind. Featuring #brushbuddy

#MastoArt #dailydrawing #dailydoodle #digitalArt #Krita

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
astronot@mastodon.online ("Astronot") wrote:

@nora This juvenile roadrunner was out and about in my hood yesterday. #NewMexico

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

There’s a certain kind of article that well meaning people regularly send me about something I could try for my migraines.

They’re about a habit (listen to this specific frequency of sound!) or exercise (this extra slow yoga!) or diet (no dairy!) or supplement (moar electrolytes!) that can help migraines.

Newspapers - even mostly reliable ones - publish these articles constantly around migraine and other chronic illness. The treatments rarely have any scientific evidence supporting their use or actually have evidence showing they don’t work. Even when the article mentions this, it’s drowned out by an avalanche of positive quotes.

Do not share articles like this. Do not read articles like this. They are harmful and stigmatizing.

They are part of constructing the social norm where people with chronic illnesses are expected to try to get well forever and devote effectively infinite time, energy, and resources to the task.
It’s part of why it’s basically impossible for most people to understand that someone can stay sick and still deserve support and build a meaningful life. (You may think you don’t believe this, but consider how often you’ve shared those articles, or how all of our actual real systems in the real world treat disabled people.)
Articles like this also subtly and not so subtly do a bunch of other shitty things like

• shift blame for the illness onto the sick person
• create exhausting cycles of hope and disappointment
• privilege anecdote over lived reality/epistemic injustice (i could run a large corporation with the number of people who refuse to believe yoga and veganism didn’t cure me) and related epidemic injustice (why do you believe an advertorial over the experience of me, a real person you have known for years with the disease)
• undermine disability identity. (Some parts of illness are just physical suffering. Other parts are because you won’t give me giving accommodations. Don’t make my body the problem when the problem is you.)
• obscures the actual state of medical knowledge. (This happens a lot with the breathless and overhyped reporting on real medical advances. Like a lot of chronic illnesses seem less difficult and scary than they actually are because of the ways these articles cling to progress and overcoming narratives)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brie@do.crimes.brie.gay ("Brie (:neobot:)") wrote:

Hi, I made a text editor for writing fiction: https://brie.gay/cheese-paper (1.0 released today!)

Why Cheese Paper?
- Move scenes around however you want
- Keep notes with the text
- Organize in a way that makes sense to you
- Simple files you can edit on a phone
- Use your favorite file sync program

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brie@do.crimes.brie.gay ("Brie (:neobot:)") wrote:

Cheese Paper has taken up a significant portion of my free time for the past year and a half (oops)

This wasn't a solo project. Special thanks to @evening@alico.nexus, who made significant contributions to the codebase directly (more than 100 commits!), and helped a lot with early rust design, Cheese Paper would not be as complete or nice without her help

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

A health tracking app that makes users log their weight with a spinning picker view is just psychotic user-hostile UX.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

A lot of people who should know better seem to be letting LLM bots blithely commit unreviewed code to critical projects—like rsync!—and this is just banana crazypants. Apparently, my Debian servers are still on rsync 3.2.7, and it looks like Apple ships a fork of openrsync, so I’m safe.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Mudlark@bark.lgbt ("Mudlark :verified_trans:") wrote:

@soatok Yeah, it's hard to accurately guess at these timelines. Lots has happened between now and then - I'm a little surprised that it's spacex/xAI going public first instead of openai, and the fact that Nasdaq has changed the rules specifically for them means that investment and retirement funds will be left holding the bag after 14 days.

All signs (to me, based on how there's still no amazing use for this tech) still point towards a catastrophic bubble pop, now made worse by the nasdaq rule change. I don't want to even try and guess a date now, because there's too many moving pieces financially.

spacex/xai's chart of total addressable market in their IPO document (below) really says all it needs to say about the ai hype scam.

Meanwhile, many software companies/projects are putting themselves on the path to an immense amount of technical debt and employee skill loss with this garbage (even my workplace is starting to show signs of going in that direction) :floofMug:

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

Some people by just looking at the AGENTS.md file will immediately jump to the conclusion that the project is vibecoded and low-quality.

imagine that :blobcatangel:

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

Because from what you've shown, the design is actually elegant

bows

do not ask how long it took to get here 😅

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
icing@chaos.social ("Stefan Eissing") wrote:

When I get a report which is obviously LLM output, I do not read it.

Instead, I ask the sender to summarize the novella in their own words, because I do not have the time, unless they explain to me why it‘s worthwhile.

My advice: do the same. Deflect, politely, LLM dumps. Let‘s make this a conversational norm.

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.

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