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

tell me, how many managers have you had who would stomach this one?

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tomrittervg@infosec.exchange ("Tom Ritter") wrote:

There was a blogpost that made the rounds with the comment "As an aside, if you're wondering, Mozilla Firefox screwed up their WebGL fingerprinting protection" and implying the Blink has more protections - that is decidedly not the case, and I have graphs.

https://ritter.vg/blog-webgl%5Frenderer.html

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

basically, that's it, affordable proprietary agents are over. even at this price they are still losing a fuckton of money and they're already hilariously expensive.

it can't work out. it never could. people are already noticing their bills are much bigger. next month, managers will look at a whole month's worth of usage, maybe even 150x what it used to cost.

how long do you think they'll write that one off for, when it costs significantly more than people?

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

so prices went up today. we had estimated it could be up to 100x more expensive, but according to the builtin projections, some people are going to spend somewhat more than 100x what they did before if they carry on as they have been 😂

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This was the first nostalgia meme on the internet (prob not but it's a good one)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/116674379710223964

This was built long before current "AI." I had Cigna insurance and looked into this specifically. I met software engineers who worked on it. It was a system that blocked my access to care while I was struggling to breathe so I dove really deep into it. If you want to criticize data and software you need to actually be real about what it is. Don't use AI as a distraction from considering what software systems do.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Does anyone have a newer paywall bypass now that archive.today and 12ft.io both shat the bed?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
thisstevejames ("Steve James") wrote:

@fromjason this is when you realise that the kids will be alright. Wu-tang is for the children!

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

Peter Mandelson is the godfather of Labour Together – the group which maneuvered Keir Starmer into power.

ohhhhh, that's why...

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

And I'm a relative hardliner on these matters! LLMs are shit for any serious work. But I've been directly turned down for interviews because I said that in public, and I'm in a very precarious economic situation, and like... we get punished a whole lot harder than cis people for compromising on LLMs, and yet the same people who do that have no answers when we ask how we're meant to keep living.

Or is it that we're meant to die beautifully to justify the compromises of others?

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

We really can't afford to keep saying "this is bad" about everything the tech world throws at us without coming up with some tactics for either breaking the power of the industry or at least mitigating its worst effects on the most vulnerable among us.

This website often feels like a lot of older men demanding that vulnerable people take the most hardline possible stance on questions of tech ethics but being utterly silent on questions like "how will we feed ourselves?", and it's exhausting

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

there were borgars on offer today! it had been so long

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Lost in all this, we're living in the golden age of screen savers and lock screens.

Attachments:

• video: The screen saver on my MacBook is a video of dolphins swimming in a vibrant blue ocean

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

There's a small cadre of genderpanicked wet-wipes out there who, when they wish to impugn my masculinity, post a picture of me wearing a regency dress, and I FOR ONE AM APPALLED, that picture is more than a dozen years old, there are much more recent photos of me in that regency dress, one is included here, please update your records you fragile little dingleberries

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@tlhInganHom Someone at my local pride, for the last few years, has brought little necklaces with a tiny brick on them to give out. <3

But this picture just reminded me of this:
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bricks-vancouver-crosswalk-pedestrian-safety

Maybe we should all bring (foam) bricks to march in Pride parades. 🤔

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Meanwhile, this racist, sexist piece of shit

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.m1A.sxqa.OHSNeNW5SIRU&smid=url-share

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, I wrote about using LLMs to restore an old computer game I wrote in college:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/

Over the weekend, I made it open source:

https://github.com/bcantrill/BattleTris

Today on the podcast, @ahl and I are going to talk about the restoration of BattleTris, how LLMs were invaluable in getting it working again quickly -- and what it might mean for the way we think of the longevity of software.

Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1511056219710820613

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My 11 year old nephew texted me today to inform me that he's into Wu-Tang. The music I grew up with is now sort of like vintage enough for kids to explore it. I'm into it.

It feels good to explore the things you love with borrowed new eyes.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://freethought.online/@pzmyers/116675893928216941

Happy Pride Month!

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

Can we just let people live their lives?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/01/the-gop-tactic-from-now-until-doomsday/

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

Happy Pride month y’all! Survival is resistance.

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

great timing too, with subscription costs having gone up 10-100x on github copilot today

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

this is so fucking good, vive la resistance

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

RE: https://det.social/@jlink/116674285765783839

in which the german lawyer says that leaving little messages for agents is probably not illegal in germany.

have fun, friends in germany.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

"Posting My Lyrics"
CC BY-SA 4.0 - Christine Lemmer-Webber

there is no accompanying melody or song
it's unlikely anyone will but if you manage to make a song with these I would play it forever

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

🎶 🎵 posting lyrics
on your timeline
it feels so meaningful
as you post them

feels like everyone
could know what
this means to you

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah
it's such an internal experience
oh

but I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics of mine
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

in my instant messager away message
(uh oh)
on my fedi feed
(bloop bloop)
to you in my DMs
(ding ding)

you say it's outta context
you say it's outta nowhere
but baby they're my lyrics
babe they mean so much to me

I'm gonna keep posting
just gonna keep posting
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
oh oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah 🎵 🎶

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

happy pride month! 🤗🏳️‍🌈

boost this post to make the post below it gay

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tlhInganHom@mspsocial.net ("Hal") wrote:

Happy Pride

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber mollytime, any musical instrument,

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

it's honestly pretty amazing they've managed to get it to appear this good at stuff just by running it over tons of text. i honestly never would have thought it'd get anywhere near this.

unfortunately, 'this good' isn't very good. to get good results out of it requires leading it to the answer already in your mind while avoiding the traps it tries to slip under your radar.

to compound this, by the time you've actually got it to appear to understand what you already designed, you've actually achieved something difficult, because it requires such careful tending to get there.

the endorphin rush is real. no wonder people are addicted to this shit. although i suspect most of them actually get lost earlier before they've gotten good output, they just don't realise it. because it's a gaslighting little shit and it will sneak stuff past you even if you think you're being careful.

i think people are just addicting to rolling dice