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

It's 20% bad. What's your performance metric?

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Yuvalne@433.world ("Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️") wrote:

you know what's an actually good way to make kids less addicted to social media?
bringing back third spaces.

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

Every single one of us is prone to blunder now and then. It's how we learn.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Happy Father’s Day to all of the rad dads out there.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
audubonballroon ("Audubon Ballroon (he/him)") wrote:

Growing list of those born or died on June 22 in any year

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo,

#blackwomen #blackhistory #indigenous #blackmastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

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#Juneteenth #History #CivilRights #AureFreePress #SundayPost

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chriswarcraft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Chris Kluwe") wrote:

HAPPY SPAWNING DAY, FELLOW FLESHLINGS. MAY YOUR OFFSPRING FIND NOURISHMENT ON SUCCULENT STARMEATS AND VOIDBLOOD.

AS NORMAL HUMANS DO.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

eggplant plant planted

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
alienghic@timeloop.cafe ("Diane") wrote:

Has anyone ever heard of a microwave that can tell if someone is attempting to run it empty and beep or turn off or otherwise protect itself?

Elderly relatives appear to have broken a microwave by running it empty for a while.

It seems like "microwave beeps if empty or turns off" would be an obvious safety feature.

But all I can find is manuals that say "don't ever do that".

Apparently not understanding how distracted elderly people can be.

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

If I encounter any further issues in the course of this project, I will make sure to angrily post about them in capital letters

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

Additionally, I was able to get Luajit to compile with code-signing, albeit through a less convenient method than I'd like, but what I can't get Luajit to do is correctly follow the ABI when generating function call sites, or rather, I currently believe I have either caught Luajit generating improper function calls or discovered a significant bug in libSDL2-compat, and I'm not sure which.

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

I’d be very wary of restructuring all of education, software development, and media around a technology whose economic viability beyond a few months to a year is highly dubious and whose long term sustainability is contingent on figuring out a way to rearchitect it from scratch on a shoestring budget

But what do I know?

🤷🏻‍♂️

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

now they tell you about their "AI art" and vibecoding projects instead

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

@cwebber I don't understand what is wrong with people. That movie was funny and great. And Chris Hemsworth played a great himbo.

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

they once told you about their bored ape. they don't tell you about that anymore

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

they think everyone should just get a thicker skin but have a full on meltdown when even the slightest amount of antagonism goes their way

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

all their relationships keep falling apart because they want their girlfriend to be a gamer, but also believe that women cannot be gamers

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

they seem uncomfortably interested in whether or not you have a uterus, and if you do, what should happen with it

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
sushee@ohai.social ("Su-Shee") wrote:

let's assume for a second that LLMs will actually stay, get good and turn out to be really useful and that this is the beginning of a next industrial revolution..

does anybody remember what the beginning of the first one had cost us? in nature destruction, pollution, in human death and sickness not to mention war?

and then it took 50 years to fight for basic labour regulation, for not sending children to the mines and another 150 years to come almost to our senses and start cleaning this up?

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
pedro@social.pollux.casa ("Pedro 🦫") wrote:

Je me pose une question sur les préférences en termes de #navigateur sur le fediverse. Je me suis éloigné récemment de #Firefox et vous, vous utilisez quoi à titre perso ? (je sais que pour le boulot, on n'a pas toujours le choix)

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

they also really like marvel movies and hated the all-women ghostbusters reboot

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

watch out! they're "really into" "norse mythology" and "roman history" (without having done any actual studies of those things)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
prietschka ("Paul Rietschka") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenextweb/ecosystems-aj8kk6atz/-/a-KvDNdak0T5CTTNZhqtllzg%3Aa%3A47933081-%2F0

Lol.

The sector will never recover from all this; it will take a decade or more to rip all the agentic asbestos out of the walls, and ceilings, and floors when all this is over.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gwenthefops@transfem.social ("Gwen the em dashing Fops :therian:") wrote:

AYO!!! The fanfic is finally on AO3!!! you can read it on there now!!! AAAAAAAAAA ​:neofox_scream:​

here's the link aaaaaa ​:neofox_sweat:​
https://archiveofourown.org/works/87120376/chapters/230710246

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
pernillet@mastodon.online ("Pernille Tranberg ✔️") wrote:

Today, tech opportunists and chatbots define Luddites as anti-technology, naive, backwards, anti-progress. It is wrong, acc to this very good read by Brian Merchant: The real Luddites were not opposed to technology. They were opposed to the way technology was being used against them.
My take; The real Luddites of today are fighting for human rights, democracy (playing by the rules) and a clean planet - in direct opposition to the tech bros who fight for their own wealth

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-luddites-in-the?publication%5Fid=1744395&post%5Fid=202157698&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=8lzrcg&triedRedirect=true&utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email

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

"The first-ever, free-to-the-public SUMMER OF LUDD will take place in New York City from June 28th to July 5th, 2026. Drawing from a rich tradition of social movements and growing out of a burgeoning community of hundreds of organizers, artists, and concerned citizens, the SUMMER OF LUDD will be a joyous celebration of the organic and unpredictable connections that arise and flourish when we reject the extractive surveillance technologies that have increasingly come to dominate our lives."

Despite my current display name, I'm not endorsing this event as I know only as much as I read here:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/201501075/new-yorkers-get-ready-for-the-summer-of-ludd

But sounds intriguing. I'd probably try to check it out if I was in the area.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
pedro@social.pollux.casa ("Pedro 🦫") wrote:

Salut le Fediverse,

@adele a réussi à me motiver pour découvrir le Fediverse. Cela fait des années que j'ai quitté les réseaux sociaux, écœuré par les propos qui y sont mis en avant par les algorithmes, mais il parait qu'ici, c'est bien différent... alors explorons.

Ah oui, il faut aussi une #introduction :

Je suis informaticien dans une grosse boite (peu importe laquelle), certaines choses m'y exaspèrent et je fuis autant que possible les solutions proposées par les GAFAM. A titre perso, j'utilise un PC sous #Debian #XFCE

Je m'intéresse aussi aux solutions #lowtech avec pragmatisme. Exemple : j'aurais pu installer une instance fediverse et un blog sur une machine faible conso ou un portable de récup, il me semble plus intelligent d'utiliser un service existant qui consomme déjà peu. merci Adële <3

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

I advise you to read the whole thing, as the current centrist rhetoric is "you clearly haven't read the whole thing."

It turns out, you can read the whole thing, like I just did, and still be deeply disappointed in the Software Freedom Conservancy's guidance. Its attempt to compromise between people who live in houses vs house-burning arsonists is fundamentally soft-headed, and @onepict has written more eloquently than I ever could about the freedom of association problem in Point 3.

If I can add anything to this trainwreck of a discourse, it's that you *need* to understand why LLM vendors are operating their business as a blitzkrieg, and I choose that word very consciously. It's not just the short runway before the economics collapse. They need to become Too Big To Ban, specifically in terms of copyright. Accepting GenAI contributions into FOSS infrastructure directly enables this.