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

A good cartoon.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable, I think, is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors. You can set that bucket down and step out onto firmer ground.

This does require going against the mainstream, but that gets easier when a) you find you're not alone and b) you see how much of mainstream opinion on this is actually the result of marketing.

/fin for now

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

poll

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

6- Exceptionalism. "I know this can be dangerous for people in general, but I know how to use it carefully."/"I know how to verify every output, and I am not deskilling myself." How do you know? Also, if you acknowledge the dangers to others, what example are you setting by talking about/talking up your use?
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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mat@friendica.exon.name ("Matthew Exon") wrote:

@cwebber Scared that it won't pop. The bubble popping would be a catastrophe. The bubble never popping would be outright grimdark.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
cheeaun ("Chee Aun 🤔") wrote:

This account and accounts that I own ( @phanpy , @checkweathersg ) now have #AltText for both profile picture and header.

Available on Mastodon 4.6 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/#:~:text=possible%20to%20add-,alt%20text,-for%20profile%20pictures
Editable and viewable on #PhanpySocial too.

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

just watched a veritasium video and it's about dijkstra's algorithm and throws in a few good dijkstra quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-CGkiPetQ

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

in hindsight a 5k run was not the play :sweat_blob:

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

How do you know that a HN commenter worked at Google - they will tell you.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

#Debian LTS contributors released 56 DLAs fixing 877 CVEs in May, a larger number than usual. The Kernel team deserves a special mention for handling the disclosed vulnerabilities on #linux regarding Local Privilege Escalation with public proof-of-concept exploits. On the LTS side, the Front Desk team also triaged a significant flow of high severity CVEs and notable security updates were released for exim, gnutls28, krb5, lemonldap-ng, imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, php7.4, python3.9 and more.

Several patches were prepared by Catalyst for #Samba 4.17 shipped with Debian 12, to fix vulnerabilities disclosed in May, thanks to Freexian's partnership with them to extend the support.

LTS team also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases, #bookworm and #trixie.

Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-05/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debianlts #freexian #exim #imagemagick #linuxkernel #LPE

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
wizbean@tech.lgbt ("christina wizbean") wrote:

Q: but communism means no one can have property of their own?
A: false. communism wants to get rid of private property such as land ownership and factory ownership, not personal property such as cars and toothbrushes.

here's another example of the difference between private and personal property:

Sam Altman and Jensen Hwang are hoarding all the computer components being produced, because they want to get rid of your personal computer and force you to use their private computers (data centers) instead.

Boosted by jwz:
smallsco@oldbytes.space ("Scott Small 🇨🇦") wrote:

If you're old enough to remember the “NETSCAPE US-ONLY SOFTWARE ELIGIBILITY AFFIDAVIT”, it's time to get your colon checked

https://web.archive.org/web/19970301095907/http://www37.netscape.com/eng/US-Current/index.html

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Arseny Kapoulkine") wrote:

Accidentally quadratic? Please. This code is intentionally and proudly quadratic.

Boosted by jwz:
rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

google's search engine continues to decline

Boosted by jwz:
Edwin085@mastodon.nl wrote:

Just Don’t.

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

i remain convinced no one at Figma has ever built a website

today's struggle: read-only access locks down way too much, I have to export as base64 embedded SVG and manually remove a crop 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reddit.com/r/FigmaDesign/comments/165bf0s/how%5Fto%5Fexport%5Fan%5Funcropped%5Fimage/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

http://patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

i love all my subscribers equally but some more equally than others

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

current mood

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

Wow! This #NoAI list of things that don't use it at all has grown massively! https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #Programming #Software #WebDev

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
hemisphericviews@social.lol ("Hemispheric Views") wrote:

It’s June-boree!

Challenege for June 24

Show the most ridiculous chain of tech adapters or dongles you can assemble to connect two incompatible devices!

Forum: https://chat.hemisphericviews.com

June-boree info: https://june.hemisphericviews.com

Tell your friends!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

And it's not going to go fast. I'm the kind of player who reads through all optional menus and goes through all tutorials. Very afraid of losing, whatever that means :-)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

as a writer I'm never going to be an Ed Zitron or a Molly White but some days I can manage to be a Glyph Lefkowitz and hopefully that's enough

(Thanks, Juan Luis, for the kind endorsement)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7v4p6njfpdv6gen4bllnkqm/post/3moz4leaht22n

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I haven't seriously played computer video #games since... oh... Doom 3 may be? Suddenly something poked me to try this pastime again. Starting Sid Meyer's Civilization VII right now. Feeling very excited. Like a college age youth again :-)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is definitely going to alienate some existing community members who don't agree with me on this, and further demoralize a community with precious few volunteer resources. So if you're the sort of person who'd like to see more projects adopt this stance and NOT get burned by a collapse in contributions as a result (and are not ALREADY spending half your life maintaining AI-free forks, you know who you are), consider helping draft policy language and jumping in to review PRs or fix bugs?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've had a lot going on and have not wanted to have this difficult conversation with the community, but apparently we have reached the point where it absolutely needs to be laid out clearly. To be honest I am still kind of shocked that anyone would consider it acceptable to start putting LLM output into open source libraries at all, just purely based on IP concerns alone. The way that the vendors' IP indemnification works only makes sense for proprietary code.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Sigh. It's go time, folks: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12676

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've had a lot going on and have not wanted to have this difficult conversation with the community, but apparently we have reached the point where it absolutely needs to be laid out clearly. To be honest I am still kind of shocked that anyone would consider it acceptable to start putting LLM output into open source libraries at all, just purely based on IP concerns alone. The way that the vendors' IP indemnification works only makes sense for proprietary code.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Sigh. It's go time, folks: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12638

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pathunstrom@ngmx.com ("Piper Thunstrom") wrote:

Seeing talk about a +93000 line pr and reminding folks that a good rule of thumb for how long a good code review takes is 1 hour per 50 lines of diff.

Which means to have reviewed that "properly" would take ~1860 hours, assuming the rule of thumb is accurate and scales linearly.

To reduce that further, if I convert that to work weeks, that's 46 full-time work weeks doing nothing but code review.

(I could grab other stats to point out that more likely that's over two calendar years of actual knowledge work patterns, but this is already dire.)