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

arrived in Toronto, visiting daKid& her hubby

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

Finally got a small feature in place that’s been requested for a while: you can now gift a year or more of membership to any omg.lol member! 🎁

To do it, visit https://home.omg.lol/gift-time. You can also find a button for gifting time at the bottom of any address lookup (using the address lookup page at https://home.omg.lol/lookup).

All gifts are totally anonymous. If you want to tell the recipient about it, go for it! Otherwise, it’ll just be a mysterious surprise.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nlnetlabs@social.nlnetlabs.nl ("NLnet Labs") wrote:

What we do ship this Friday, is a published policy on LLM use in the open source projects we maintain. We hope it’ll help potential contributors assess how to spend their time and ours in the most productive way. https://nlnetlabs.nl/llm-policy/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
lumi@snug.moe ("🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱") wrote:

@cwebber we cannot change the past, but we can affect the future

we can object to proprietary software, generative models, fasciscm, remote attestation, centralization, closed standards, industrialized animal agriculture, capitalism, nationalism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism and all of the other awful things

what we need to do is to find one-another and band together. be loud

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
treejo@plasmatrap.com wrote:

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

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

yeah boomers may have been hard on millenials for our avocado toasts and things were not as easy from a financial perspective as it was for boomers / genx but also, we've still had it better then genz and also we got to experience a time where computers were exciting, promising things, rather than prisons we built for our kids to suffer inside of

and the irony of ironies is that, recognizing that kids are suffering in these environments, many people in my generation are just trying to make the prisons worse

so fucking depressing

I hoped we'd do better

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

while in many ways I think I was born in the best generation to experience being alive I also am deeply disappointed that my generation is failing to make efforts to extend the kindness of experiences such as computing freedoms and a habitable planet to future generations

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dirtypair/116812187078463995

Dirty Pair says #TransRights

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

and you can have it all

my empire of egg

I will not value goose

eggs do not lay eggs

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
fieldexplores.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("FieldExplores (Gator Days)") wrote:

Field Attempts a Yuri

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Meow*

*look into my eyes

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
leonerd@fosstodon.org ("Paul Evans") wrote:

It was great to be alive during that brief period of human history after the invention of the smartphone camera but before the invention of generative AI that can create images. It meant that, for a few years, I was able to trust that pictures I saw online were of something that actually happened.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

OpenAI has shared the system card for GPT 5.6 and the key message is it’s dangerous but not THAT dangerous.

I expect all the major AI companies will pivot their safety messaging in this direction now it’s clear the Trump administration is willing to block their broad release.

https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview/introduction

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

Be aware that a malicious website is using guttenberg.org (two “T” not one) to distribute malware. We haven’t been able to neutralize them yet, still working on it.

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

someone should make Fribidi toilet

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

windows 3.1 CTF.

i'll let that sink in a second. it might be difficult.

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

He cannot imagine anything more important than being popular, which to the gaping void inside him means love, and I am so very tired of being trapped in the psychosexual drama of these people.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116815738467957424

Yes: look to •systems•, not just individuals! And if you're looking at individuals, ask •which ones•.

Yes, we should all take what individual action we can take. Yes, we all share responsibility. But there are in fact specific people to blame — and yet it is not those specific ultra-wealthy people but rather the poorest, people who've individually done the least among us to destroy the climate, who will pay the greatest cost for the damage humans have caused.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒") wrote:

Just a quick reminder that I post highlight videos of my adventures semi-regularly at my #PeerTube instance: https://video.seasonsofjason.com/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I wanna get a little flash tattoo on my arm today maybe. Any suggestions?

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ParisWeb@mamot.fr ("Paris Web") wrote:

Conférence #ParisWeb : le 25 septembre, @imanijoy et @renchap, Product Leaders chez @Mastodon, reviendront sur la refonte réalisée pour le 10e anniversaire de la plateforme.

https://www.paris-web.fr/2026/conference/mastodon-50-behind-the-scenes

Programme complet et inscriptions sur notre site : https://www.paris-web.fr/2026

#openSource #design #retourExperience

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
appassionato ("earthling") wrote:

Lift-off

"Huddled in a Zodiac boat in icy waters off the Antarctic peninsula, I waited patiently for an Adélie penguin to propel itself from the water to the safety of an iceberg. Persistence delivered as I captured this penguin in an almost levitational-like state, as if posing for the camera”

Photograph: Mat Bell/Australian Geographic

#photography
#Antarctica
#penguins
#AltText

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

Kimchi has psychoactive effects I swear. Every time I eat it I just feel my whole body get this wonderful buzzing feeling and my head clears up a bit. Plus its the only form my body will accept very spicy chilis without doing nausea.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tael@yiff.life ("Tael 🔜 AC26") wrote:

Ok, just to sum it up for those following along at home:
NordVPN: confidence scam, the Raid: Shadow Legends of VPNs
Mozilla VPN: reseller of Mullvad
Tailscale: partners with Mullvad
ExpressVPN: Israeli
Private Internet Access: ditto
ProtonVPN: sponsors French fascists
MullvadVPN: donates millions to Swedish fascists

am I missing any?

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
paulrickards wrote:

CMYK Halftone Roses. Drawing halftones with a plotter is brutal on the pen up/down mechanism (so many dots!) but the results are very pleasing.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

OH: "The mind has gulags"

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

i suppose it helps that queen is one of those bands i've listened to enough to get the feel for what an original queen track might look like.

sorry freddie, mine's better.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116817499565264483

It's worth reiterating, always worth reiterating:

In this situation, the LLM does not in any sense •understand• why it did what it did, and its response is not in any way an explanation or a window into how it works. Its response is not even based on whatever underlying mechanism made it start responding in a different language. Really, it's not!

Its response is a generic response to being asked “Why did you switch to a different language?,” generated from answers people typically gave to similar questions in the training dataset. That's why it answers with a stereotype about Hindi.

It's roughly the same process as a kid making up an excuse when confronted about some impulsive thing they did. First comes the action, then comes the question, then they look at the question and try to generate a reasonable-sounding response.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

This is just to say

I have valued
the goose
that was in
your portfolio

And which you
were probably
saving for
the eggs

Forgive me
it was annualized
depreciated
and written off.

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

fear me, i have grade 1 music theory.