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

Im not a lawyer but a lot of what "AI" does seems like it would be uh illegal or at least disastrously bad from a risk management POV. tight race between financing or insurance for what will precipitate the pop
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Complain against ersatz materials.

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Ship With Confidence Without Getting Stuck In PR Traffic Jams or Causing Pile-Ups In Production Using This One Weird Trick!

Last Codemanship Code Craft workshop - possibly ever? - July 7-9.

Only 3 places left.

https://codemanship.co.uk/codecraft.html

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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

OK. I've skimmed the decision (35 pages). This is NOT based on the EU AI act. The court sees the "AI Summaries" that Google produces as content created and published by Google, hence they are liable when their work produces wrong and harmful statements, as was the case here. So quite a normal decision. Google's argument that they are somehow exempted failed. They have to remove the wrong statements and pay 80% of the costs.

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momo@social.linux.pizza ("Momo") wrote:

@aral
An important lession we kids learned in germany when talking to older people:

There might be people who decided to ignore the genocide. And later say "But we just followed orders!" or "But we didn't know anything about all of this. We would have protest, but we just didn't know!!"

And then you go to the archive and check the local newspapers from that time, read through the articles and realize: It's a lie. Everyone knew.

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sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

Absolutely wild to see this and the reactions to it, we must be entering the stage where everyone pretends they never thought it would speed things up in the first place

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116724214815495661

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scy@chaos.social wrote:

Recently, a colleague (who would prefer to stay anonymous) told me that they got management to sign off on basically half a year of refactoring, tidying up code, and documentation.

How?

They said it was required work to make the codebase "AI ready".

It's fucking genius. If you can't stop the hype, just take advantage of it.

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

“Return of the Revenge of the Son of Software Process Engineering – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-software-process-engineering/

> it’s fascinating watching a whole generation of AI-assisted and agentic developers reinvent something that’s been around for a long time.

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nicole@oldbytes.space ("Nicole Express") wrote:

We're moving Super Mario Bros. to an agentic workflow. Rather than controlling Mario, you'll simply prompt the agent with something like "beat 1-1", and it will take direct control of Mario for you. This frees up more time for more important things like doing your taxes or being stuck in traffic

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Fun Luddite Facts: Both Signal and WhatsApp seem to let their desktop/web apps sync with the smartphone off.

This still requires a smartphone (to download the app and set up) but means you can leave it in a draw and access chats on a computer instead

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bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber :mediawiki:") wrote:

ok let's see if i set this thing up right :D

https://liberapay.com/bvibber/

Opened a LiberaPay to accept recurring support for my general Open Source work; this will cover general bug fixes to things like:

* MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions where I'm not being contracted to do specific work
* emscripten, binaryen, and other WebAssembly tooling that I use and sometimes help with
* GNOME and other free desktop bits
* Browser and JS/wasm stacks
* ffmpeg stack

as I have been known to do

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

Two things are going to happen in Australia's main grid in the next few years

- Renewables are going to overtake coal
- Battery discharge is going to overtake gas

🥰

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

(1998)

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

But sure, 'ChatGPT is just like 10 seconds of watching Netflix' 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2026

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vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Incident Creator ❎") wrote:

Doctor: "Can we use AI for this appointment?"
Me: "Certainly, as long as you give me a copy of the transcript so that I can verify it."
Doctor: "OK, let's not use AI."

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

when i am allowed to add my cat as a coauthor, i will, but for now she goes in every acknowledgements section.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is very good (and I'm very late to read it):

https://daverupert.com/2026/04/claude-no/

/via @db

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elk@webtoo.ls ("Elk") wrote:

🧡 Finally, Elk v1.0.0 is out! :elk:

💬 Support quote feature
📅 Introduce scheduled post feature
🏖️ New well-being feature - disable timeline autoloading
🔕 Add global option to hide replies and boosts from timelines
✨ UI tweaks and fix virtual scroller issue

Check out full release note
→ https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/releases/tag/v1.0.0

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

In the meantime, it has just dawned on me how easily so much of life can get surveilled if the government is sufficiently interested in this

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@thomasfuchs I yearn for the days when all it cost was money

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

u ever just wanna use an undeclared identifier

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jlink@det.social ("Johannes Link") wrote:

My side of the jqwik anti AI logging drama: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

TIL even feature phones can go out of date

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

How much do you want to bet that this just means it has a CLAUDE.md file that says “do not hallucinate cases”

https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/

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matildalove@wetdry.world ("Matilda Love") wrote:

@mcc not sure. i'm gormbivalent

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

So here's the other thing that bothers me about all this. Regardless of the eventual results, this thing they're doing is *incredibly* resource intensive. They routinely spend billions of dollars on training these models, and billions more on operating them. It's not simple to parse out what fraction of that is directly attributable to the massive scale vuln finder/fabricator. But for the sake of argument lets just pick a plausible number, and call it 50-100 million dollars.

What could we have gotten for 50-100 million dollars of sponsorship for security audits? Prior to this, the largest single investment into FOSS security I'm aware of was the 2015 audit of openssl, after the heartbleed incident. It's hard to find precise costs for that, but I found a few sources estimating 1.2 million dollars, and that is arguably the most security critical piece of software in the world.

But suddenly there's 100x more resources available to do this work, now that producing the artifact can be done with stolen labor? Now that they can externalize the cost of false positives onto the already mostly unpaid maintainers of these projects? Even if their claims are true, which we have no reason to believe and very good reason not to, it's still a travesty

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Over here writing code line by line, comment by comment. You know, like someone who "hates technology."

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I'm also mildly shocked a YubiKey is £50 without (good) cheaper alternatives, I expected this to be a solved problem

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Side question: Given the push to smartphone bans, how the hell do kids log in to educational sites? Do they simply never enable 2FA? Are there a bunch of easily hackable child accounts out there because no-one has engineered a working solution to this problem? Does that keep kids safe over teaching them effective security practices? Do schools have the money to give out YubiKeys? Can parents afford YubiKeys? Do these educational sites support passkeys? Do passkeys work on school computer systems? Is anyone working on this?

jwz wrote:

This ended some time last night. I really want to know, and can probably never know, how these fuckers got shut down.