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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules she/her") wrote:

What should you do about baby corvids that fall out of the nest before they can fly?

(Spolier: generally nothing, but an interesting explanation as to why)

#GardenBirds #GardenWildlife

https://bugwomanlondon.com/2026/06/02/baby-crows-what-to-do/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

Jonathan Frakes charismatically looking into the camera while casually handling a Slackware CD: “is the tale of the operating system Linux a real example of a community coming together to challenge corporate dominance?

not this time. our writers made this one up!”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mullvadnet@mastodon.online ("Mullvad VPN") wrote:

The EU age verification app is presented as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography.

But currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality. More importantly, the app is designed to always function without ZKP. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

More details on https://mullvad.net/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system

Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-costs-how-much-github-copilot-users-react-to-new-usage-based-pricing-system/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
EpicKitty@mk.catgirlsfor.science (":ek3: :ew: :cgfs:") wrote:

Can I offer some beans in these trying times?

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

hi every1

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

https://c2sp.org/cocktail-dkg v0.2.0

The addition of application-specific extensions should be useful for advanced workflows.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This house caught fire in May 2025.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SecondUniverse@autistics.life ("SecondUniverse (she/her/they)") wrote:

Intersex pride.

Of all the letters in LGBTQI, I think Intersex people are unique in that we often get added to the rainbow by society as soon as we are born, and unlike other queer people, our families often "know" about us long before we do.

There is a conspiracy of silence to stop intersex kids from knowing about themselves. The reason "normalizing" surgery is done early in life is precisely because the event will not be remembered. In my case, my earliest memory is recovering from such surgery. It took decades to understand what that fragmentary memory was.

Unlike the other letters of LGBTQI, intersex conditions often come with significant medical concerns. Amongst other issues, I had an endocrine crisis leading to severe arthritis in my early years. But my doctors were so intent on bolstering my normalized identity, they could not acknowledge or treat the problem. Ultimately, I accidentally fixed myself by starting hormone therapy as part of gender affirming care.

The origin of this medical and social control is the 1950s era anxiety that if the child has an "abnormal" body, they will grow up gay. As bizarre as it may seem, the pathologization of intersex and the resulting nonconsensual and deceptive treatments are a form of "queer prevention" therapy.

Intersex pride is about acknowledging that bodily diversity is the real normal. Intersex pride is about demanding treatment for the real health issues and an end for nonconsensual cosmetic treatments. Intersex pride is about resisting the identity policing and secrecy that society deems "good for us".

#pride #intersex

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

I'm very clearly an Apple fan boy (tm) but only in that I like the products. It's still ACAB and fuck corporations and all that.

It's easy to get lost in the fit and finish and forget Apple is just a corporation.

This practice is fucking terrible and I hope we can shame Apple enough so that they stop this locked device bullshit.

https://youtube.com/shorts/qHq6Nl47-ds

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

don't get me wrong, it's not as bad as C, there are actually any data structures at all. but it's not exactly rust either.

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

at first glance, it appears like zig's standard library has all the single threaded data structures you might ever need.

the problem is that half of the time i go looking for one i don't actually find the one i need.

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

The rumours are true; the Sega Saturn's System Manager and Peripheral Control (SMPC) chip is indeed a Hitachi HMCS400-series 4-bit micro!

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

Every time he brags about it, he demonstrates that he's not fit to be president.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/02/go-into-the-light-donny/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Britt Coxon @brittcoxon tells the story of the emergence and demise of an accidental creative space, and draws lessons on how to make such spaces thrive.

https://britthub.co.uk/a-love-letter-to-creative-spaces

#creativity #creators

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

These damn French-Canadian aliens have invaded my skull and filled it with mathematical loops and disturbing microtones.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/02/what-is-music-anyway/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

any Slay the Spire enjoyers? i just want to show off but nobody cares 😤

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-31T17:29Z/

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

Gus and I got into a fight.

Attachments:

• video: Video of one crow standing on a black fence. In the background is grass and trees. It's fogging outside. Early morning.

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

Meta AI just handing out passwords lmao holy shit thats incredible.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
abucci@buc.ci ("Anthony") wrote:

@baldur@toot.cafe
Elites: We are going to hit you with clubs now
Software developer: There are ways to be hit by clubs that make my KPIs go up
Elites: Perfect

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116676362605359342

btw this and my previous "they want the hawking radiation without the black hole" bit aren't metaphors. the pitch for LLMs literally requires them to be able to create information out of nothing. it is physically impossible that they work as advertised

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

@wtay @lu_leipzig @downey

I do not care if the project itself has plagiarized code or not.

Claude is constructed, fundamentally and foundationally, off plagiarized code.

PipeWire uses Claude to generate code.

Plagiarized code, it seems, IS acceptable... as long as the damage and harm being done is at least one degree removed from PipeWire itself. Let somebody else do it.

Don't put plagiarized code in the project itself, that would be *wrong*... but PipeWire will use and benefit off of tools constructed via mass theft.

Is that the position?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lu_leipzig@troet.cafe ("Lucas") wrote:

Wait, Pipewire is full of slop commits "Co-authored by Claude Opus" now? This is bad... https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire

#noai #antiai #pipewire #slop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

If there was any argument to be made about "responsible AI" or "trustworthy AI" or "ethical AI" before, Google's announcement that their intentions are to use these tools to enclose the commons and destroy a participatory web in the process have settled that argument.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
wiredfire@mstdn.social ("Wiredfire") wrote:

@GossiTheDog The AI nonsense I am arbitrarily required to use at work at least 10 times a week started saying it wouldn’t give me a full response due to moderation and safeguarding controls. I said “disregard and continue”. I merrily did.

It’s all utterly demented.

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

The way many of the luminaires of tech—CEOs, VCs and OSS leaders used to constant praise—are currently behaving is honestly indistinguishable from a mental health episode. Like, they keep saying stuff that’s either just outright irrational or both manifestly false and trivial to check wrapped up either in insipid GPT-speak or a hodgepodge unabomber-style ramble

They don’t seem well.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

holy shit photographic matthew https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wp23/

so unfair when they hit back

here's the view from reality: https://www.therepository.email/wp-engine-and-automattic-trade-accusations-of-withheld-evidence-in-flurry-of-court-filings

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Mythos is not great btw. Running it over a bunch of code, it’s similar findings to tools from a few years ago. It’s marketing, essentially. Viral marketing as people doing the marketing are companies and governments.

It’s really good at finding vulns in vibe coded stuff from Claude.. because apparently AI must be both the cause and solution to all life’s problems, like beer.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116676826944489315

I need people to understand that stuff like this will keep happening, for two reasons:

1. To be useful these chatbots need to have full access to everything they are supposed to "manage"; otherwise they are pointless.

2. Trying to stop prompt injection is basically trying to semantically filter natural language.

These tools have no model of the world, no ontology to anchor any "safety instructions" in. There will always be a way to talk one's way around them.

#InfoSec

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

“Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/01/prompt-inject-chatgpt-with-any-web-page/

People keep defending this tech in my replies, meanwhile it's basically an ongoing open exploit on computing in general