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

“A Note to Our Customers and Partners | Snyk”

https://snyk.io/blog/a-note-to-our-customers-and-partners/

> We are simplifying our structure so we can move faster for you, and that includes reducing the size of some teams.

Do we have a name for this genre of "our glorious AI future means we fire people" announcement? Like the "Our Incredible Journey" startup shutdown posts?

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

@glyph It's nice to not feel so alone, seeing another FOSS project lead say "we don't want our project to become a legal experiment"

I feel like the fact that we haven't seen enough leadership in FOSS say "hey, we DON'T know the licensing implications of this stuff" is catapulting the greater FOSS ecosystem into one giant legal experiment that seems, frankly, very likely to be grim for us.

I might say more in a separate thread. This has been brewing on my mind quite a bit lately.

Thanks for saying what you did in choosing to make a policy!

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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.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

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

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silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

@puppygirlhornypost2

:headpats-u:

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

fast fourier mpreg (ffmpreg)

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neatchee@urusai.social wrote:

This can't be real. We are living in the most absurd timeline. ffmpreg is actually happening

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xeiaso.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Xe") wrote:

ffmpreg

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adriano@lile.cl ("Adriano") wrote:

The interesting thing about ffmpreg is that it suggests you need two females to successfully impregnate a male.

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aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

@OliviaVespera ask and ye shall receive https://codeberg.org/gruf/go-ffmpreg

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NaClKnight@c.im ("Juneteenth NaClKnight 🧂⚔️🥊") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustaceans/115846786686735886

FFMPREG is one of THE software names of all time... right up there with GIMP.

Gahdamn....

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ma3ke@hachyderm.io ("Marieke") wrote:

I'm making such a nice movie now. I hope it turns out well once I pump it through ffmpreg

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julia@eepy.moe ("Julia :v_bi: :therian:") wrote:

Kagi no I actually want ffmpreg

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lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

@foone ffmpreg or another one?

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bloodwrites@fandom.ink ("bloodwrites :guillotine:") wrote:

@introvertcatto this issue: https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg/issues/8 🤣

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gruik@piaille.fr ("Gruik") wrote:

@batterpunts yes and now it's also a real thing https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

@geheimorga ffmpreg

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geheimorga@chaos.social ("Geheimorganisation") wrote:

ffmpegging 😳

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problematic@chaos.social ("Dr. Bernd Schröder (DSGVO ✅)") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@geheimorga/116697285566748941

Wir stehen auf ffmpreg 👉👈😣

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avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world ("Avebury Rosetta :transistor: 🍉") wrote:

ffmpreg

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

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

Her Majesty’s Office

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

stretch blit achieved

Attachments:

• gifv: witch portrait being scaled up and down over a 3d dungeon view background

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

If you can't trust the NY Post and Hal Puthoff, who can you believe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/24/why-is-their-evidence-always-nothing-but-assertions-and-cartoons/

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marymessall@mendeddrum.org wrote:

@cwebber The sooner it pops, the less destructive that "pop" will be. So "can't wait" kind of encompasses "I'm scared" to me.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So while I don’t think the bubble is going anywhere *good*, I also don’t think that I have any way to get a handle on what other surprises are still in store before something really bad happens: at the scale of resources sloshing around here, nobody really can

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In this vague hypothetical, there’s fifty billion dollars floating around in some skunkworks team at openai or anthropic or maybe even somewhere else, working on something that isn’t even an LLM, that adds some strange and truly useful new capabilities to their *product* without really solving any fundamental issues with this *technology*. I know I could do a hell of a lot of novel R&D with fifty billion dollars.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A world-historic pile of resources is being wasted in service of inappropriate and unsafe technology, but an even MORE world-historic pile of resources is being deployed around it. Some small fraction of those resources will probably be used to solve problems in surprising ways. Like, there’s a trillion dollars or so floating around in this bubble. Let’s say 95% of that just goes towards useless GPU datacenters and chatbots and it’s more or less set on fire.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116784839262285554

I should offer a universal caveat with all my AI predictions like this.

While I do think that something *like* this will happen, the straightforward collapse of the sector based on some of these fundamental scaling problems is not going to happen without anyone reacting and trying to stop it. Don’t short a cult, and don’t short an apocalyptic fireball of capital either.

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cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:

Employers in March: Your salary, bonus, and eligibility for promotions hinges on demonstrating you use AI constantly. If not, don't expect to keep your job.

Employers in June: We are shocked, _shocked I tell you_, that employees have been frittering away our very expensive tokens on unnecessary shit like converting PDFs to slides.

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/