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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

You have 10+ years of experience with some specific open source technology.

Someone posts extremely detailed, but also extremely nonsensical and evidently AI-generated technical pseudo-information to the public mailing list related to that technology.

What do you do?

(Not a rhetorical question; not sarcasm. I'm genuinely interested in people's opinions. Boosts appreciated.)

#AskFedi #AISlop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

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

That we should unconditionally trust people who violate our trust is abuser logic and, at the moment, the free/open source communities are full of this kind of abuser logic.

“Trust the leade” is how cults and dictatorships talk.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
feilen@meow.social ("Feilen") wrote:

I feel like plurality is gonna be one of those things where it turns out like 3-7% of people are this but we never knew cause everyone assumed that's what it was like for everyone

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mynameistillian@plush.city ("tillian 🦊🇰🇿:antifa: ACAB") wrote:

genuinely sad how capitalism can worm its way into someone who hates it.

you're not immune to propaganda.

but also. there's more to life than looks and money and profit.

don't let those fuckers tell you that it's the only thing that matters. you will be miserable.

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

“What Bun Can Tell Us About AI, Open Source and Anthropic – tecosystems”

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/06/04/bun-two-lessons/

So, I keep track of what some of the usual analysts in tech are saying and most of the time it's flawed but internally coherent

But this one is weird. All those words about Bun and "AI" and not one mention of Zig’s LLM policy or other context to bun’s hasty transition to rust?

How is that not a core part of anybody’s analysis of Bun, pro- or anti-“AI”?

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@drahflow/116696527142706215

Been wondering where I want to go next in neuro and I never before now had considered "botanical neuroscience

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
drahflow@infosec.exchange ("Drahflow") wrote:

@ansuz @jonny https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8903786/ makes a decent argument for the "it is actually looking" hypothesis, no?

They put trifolata near plastic plants. Mimicry still happens.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

look I know LLMs are problematic but this is my favorite one and I promise it’s fine, everybody else just isn’t using theirs responsibly enough. it’s great; you should really give it a try. you’ll love it

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Holy shit new side quest acquired

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I just think it would be fun to be invited to be inconspicuous background human shape

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

My friend and I are signing up to be seat fillers and extras and literally every seat filler company's website screams that it is a scam, but apparently the more like a scam it looks the more real it is

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

@jonny it looks like nobody mentioned Boquila trifoliolata, AKA Chameleon Vine, at least from the replies my instance can see.

Lots of plants mimic the appearance of others in their environment through natural selection over many generations. This one does it within its lifetime. The mechanism behind this is not yet understood.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I was 50/50 on whether it would be just a classic "the most terrifying thing in the world is a woman" trope, but I thought it did a great job of making the man who mind controlled the woman into the villain in a way that wasn't like a hamfisted cartoonish evil. The way that the cursed woman becomes aware and in touch with the situation and the two characters shift their culpability and who is "supposed to know" also really helped this without hitting you over the head. Trying to stay to mild spoilers but the mechanism implied by the phone call and the dream conversation made the curse land as like the hazards of a consumer product that was very resonant with a certain class of other consumer products that sell a disembodied form of a person that dominate the world rn. Rather than it being "women be evil" it pulled off a good balance of knowing and unknowing evil by the person who actually laid the curse

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Just watched Obsession and I love how it handled the "magical object" that did the monkeys paw. just enough information about mechanism to make it fit within the otherwise normal world without becoming Midichlorians, and the idea of "crystal shop that knowingly sells cursed items and matter of factly acknowledges that you did this to yourself and for whom of course magic is real" worked so well. Without spoiling it, I thought the support line call scene was perfect

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Sigh. OK. rsync discourse:

This is not a story about “vibe coding” or “slop” or regressions or even open source sustainability or whatever: it’s a story about mental health.

The timeline of Tridge’s response in particular can be broke down like so:

1. AI skeptics say "LLMs create difficult-to-evaluate defects, even if you're careful"
2. Tridge introduces defects even though he was careful
3. he gets yelled at
4. His response is to say "you dinosaurs don't appreciate how *careful* I was!"

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Cars now have too many options. Yesterday for example I was reversing and it showed me a video of someone getting run over. I tried to watch it again, but I couldn't find the rewind button!

jwz wrote:

In case you needed one more reason to shake an angry fist at Bezos.

Joseph Mallozzi: Stargate cancelled, for the fourth and likely final time. Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8M

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

WaPo: House passes bill cutting food aid for pregnant women, children

Under the legislation, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — more commonly known as WIC — would lose $141 million in funding for fruit and vegetable benefits for the nearly 5.4 million children and pregnant and postpartum women enrolled, according to an estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Senate has yet to consider the legislation.

#WIC #uspol #hunger #economy

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Elindur@retro.pizza wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@squishymage42/116692076148476089

I burst into tears seeing this. Sesame Street is locked behind a paywall with HBO and Fred Rogers Productions went "NOPE" and made sure that the magic and compassion that Mr. Rogers taught is available to everyone, no matter your financial status. They're making sure underserved kids have access to education, and VERY important emotional education at that.

Also, please remember that Mr. Rogers started saying he was feeding the fish because a little girl who was blind was worried he was forgetting. He made his show accessible before that was even an inkling of a thought in so many entertainers' heads.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

Let your pride flag fly.

Art by Tidehardt

#Furry #furryart #xander #bat #falsevampirebat #Throwback

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MHowell/116695233151696804

This is not superficial, I mean this sincerely. This is the most effective kind of protest.

Project the core message onto an asset that clearly illustrates how the rich get a different kind of treatment.

Don’t let them show their faces or their assets in public without branding them as tax-evading fucks.

How cool would it be if every time Mark Zuckerberg even showed his face in public a “tax the rich” message was projected onto his face.

Boosted by jwz:
MythingPerson ("Charles Castleberry") wrote:

It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.

AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.

Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.

Henson & Co ftw. ❤️

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ebooksyearn@pixelfed.social ("Jon Renaut") wrote:

Four doors. #doors #darktable

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

If your website doesn’t load in under 3 seconds* on an expensive phone in The Software Town, you did it wrong. Yes, this means every social media company and every newspaper are doing it wrong. I said what I said

*The true quality bar is 0.5 seconds, but I’m feeling unreasonably generous today

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

You would be hard-pressed to find any modern laptop that can't run a word processing program, so literally any laptop you have will probably be good enough, and the best laptop for a writer is the one they can afford to use.

That said, if money is no object, a recent MacBook Air is going to do the trick and then some. Also, when at home plug it into a decent keyboard and monitor, your wrists and neck will thank you.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@sam%5Fparkerauthor/post/DZK6geYjgVH

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
dona@mastodon.art ("dona 🌿") wrote:

Ever wondered what over 20 years of doing art looks like?

The not-so-secret Archive contains my full body of work starting from age 6, with a short summary for each year.

Can you lose your artistic skill and regain it years later? Well... yes. Come see:
https://dona.neocities.org/secret/context

#CreativeToots #MastoArt #Website #ArtProgress

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

I freely admit that I am incredibly nostalgic for the period when we were not expected to carry an advertising and surveillance device on our person at all times.

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

Getting increasingly nervous at the prospect of getting a Googled Android device:

https://www.safebreach.com/blog/gemini-voice-assistant-prompt-injection-exploit/