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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social ("Amber :neodog_box:") wrote:

@cwebber@social.coop small, fragile part you need for something but it feels good in your hand so you stim with it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I’d much rather just be comfortable and lazy than be proud of myself for my fortitude but I will take what I can get

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

by the way, i have recently gained some expertise in sandboxing and running local models. if your organisation is afflicted with AI and doesn't want to give it up, i can probably help with the only even vaguely viable for long alternative

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

for the third time this year I have successfully confronted an all-consuming phobia, one which results in week-long, unbearable panic attacks. not really possible without the staunch support of friends, family, and a cocktail of extremely powerful anti-anxiety drugs, but I did it nonetheless with all of those things

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

On our walk near Cardross we met a 95-year-old lady who invited us to visit her woodland garden. It is an amazing place, a wood full of rhododendrons and azaleas amongst tall trees, paths winding through it with bridges across a little burn, wild flowers, beehives, so many things to discover.

#nature #Scotland #garden #woodland
#bloomscrolling

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

(Also if anyone thinks this is me being snarky about Ms. Swift, nah, she's a generational talent and we all know it, and if you wanna be pissy about that, it's your karma, not mine)

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

Ms. Swift working toward her EGOT, I see

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/taylor-swift-toy-story-5-announces-1236764185/

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

a new uk prime minister called liz truss - you may not remember her

😂

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

the senior guy's attitude was that they truly believe github copilot is going to roll out their own model and go back to unlimited "because they own their own compute", he said.

😂

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

here is where the upset clanker fuckers are hanging out btw https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

The Month of Zig

https://jasongullickson.com/the-month-of-zig.html

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

i'm declaring today FIND OUT DAY

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

I stopped the running agent within SECONDS when June 1 was reached. It still cost $3.26

😂

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

so the only real question left is how many will bother trying to run a model on their own machine.

i think it's going to be fairly close to the roundest number

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to ("De Programmatica Ipsum") wrote:

"Reading this series of AI memos in 2026, which are written in a straightforward, tutorial style, gives one first the feeling that understanding the complexity of computers and programming languages might not be so difficult, after all. Then, one remembers that their current problem involves multiple programming languages and script files and YAML files and TOML files, and the effect is more like being Charlton Heston looking up at the Statue of Liberty."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/guy-steele-gerry-sussman/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.

https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eliocamp ("Elio Campitelli") wrote:

TIL:

```
if not path.exists(path):
return None

with open(path) as f:
f.readline()
```

can fail if the path is deleted between the first and the second block.

#Python.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein, RIP Ira
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/06/01.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

reddit are having fun

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

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

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
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...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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