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

Wow so much happened at DWeb Camp this year, I don't even know how to start processing it

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tommi@pan.rent ("Tommi 🤯") wrote:

My DWeb Camp highlight was ending up in a basement rave with @cwebber (we managed to drag @paulbutgold too, even he was sleepy) and @Kailii using a custom build of Mixxx on my laptop to play.

Plus, Christine is now in possession of a video of me questionably sober improvising a song about the Fediverse and other things by randomly looping C and G with @adz’s guitar.

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technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

tangentially related to the https://human-emacs.org project, I've been thinking about distro policies

several distros have no-LLM policies applying to packaging scripts, but afaict no one is tracking LLM infection in the upstreams themselves, probably because it's just a huge amount of work and no one distro could be expected to actually keep track of all that!

if I hadn't just started this Human Emacs project, I would be looking at coordinating across distros and coming up with some way to pool effort to track which upstreams are infected, which have strong protections in place, which are at risk, and how badly

similar to the "vibe-check" package metadata suggested by @cwebber here: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/13#issuecomment-15774065

if you're looking at all this wondering "what can I do about all this?" I'd suggest approaching it from this direction, especially if you have experience packaging and working with distros

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

Watching an amazing discussion about the "Future of P2P" between @gwil, @adz, @cwebber, @matthew and @dholms.at at @dweb

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Jeremiah@alpaca.gold ("Jeremiah Lee") wrote:

~“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many queer people are working on peer-to-peer things because so many are worried about themselves and friends being made illegal.” — @cwebber

#DWebCamp

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tommi@pan.rent ("Tommi 🤯") wrote:

The future of p2p is NOW (and here, with this people)

Aw it’s happening for real

@gwil @adz @cwebber @matthew @dholms.at

#p2p #DWebCamp #peerToPeer

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gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w28

This week, Sammy and Aljoscha are at DWeb camp, and leave updates to @danmw and @Miaourt. We even get a guest comic from @cwebber!

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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

@kirschner @cwebber thanks for taking photos! much appreciated as I couldn't be there this year!

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kirschner ("Matthias Kirschner") wrote:

Great presentations during demo night at #dwebcamp. Here @cwebber during an entertaining performance.

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PicardTips@mas.to ("Picard Tips") wrote:

Picard management tip: Withhold advice on matters you do not understand.

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jessamyn@glammr.us ("Jessamyn") wrote:

I have consolidated many of these suggestions into a document with a few other links. Anything major that I am missing? This is mostly for the types of users I interact with (mainly older adults) so I did not include things like Slack and I'm not sure about things I don't use much like Outlook or Facebook. Other suggestions for links about removing AI geared towards not-very-technical people?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYLmQLYZy%5FMg-Dh6iME6R61Jjh4L6sRrw1v2dLXs9aE/edit?usp=sharing

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JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Overlooked as the obituaries come in is Sam Neill's fight against a goldmine project in Central Otago, South Island, a few clicks from his home. The mine would make a hole 1km long & 300m deep, and risk poisoning surrounding ecosystems.

Referring to the Māori concept of kaitiakitanga (to be a custodian for future generations) he said:

"I own land, but I’m not a land owner. The land is part of me, and I’m a part of the land".

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=UNung9Gw5MQ

R.I.P

#conservation #aotearoa

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GeePawHill wrote:

So I reached way back to the late '80s when I was teaching beginners, and I reminded her of what I used to teach those total noobs on the first day.

The first rule of computing: "The computer is always wrong."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
Jenetrix@shrimp.creatures.club ("Jen, Resident Yote") wrote:

it enby peeps day, you can celebrate by giving your local enby a headpat

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

of course they were on mastodon.social

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iVlSNpq8i8

Latest song I am putting on infinite repeat 🤩 🐦

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

you know what else is not debatable? the quality of the generated code.

and weirdly enough it's not just me saying that, it's just about everyone whose opinion on development i have any respect for.

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juliette@mastodon.green wrote:

@CiaraNi I have become the mood killer at lunch who takes any discussion of the heat and reminds people this is actually probably the coldest summer for the rest of our lives.

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CiaraNi@mastodon.green wrote:

@juliette I am comforted to learn that it's not just me.

"This is the hottest day of my life."

"The hottest day of your life so far."

I am starting to tire of people making mention of climate collapse seem like a mood killer and social faux pas. We're going to tone-police ourselves and the planet to death, all because those of us in the 10% don't want to feel guilty about all the city-break flights and consumer goods.

#ClimateDiary

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

So, photographers not getting paid for their photos used via the stock image feature of Canva is apparently a thing

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-07-14-myndin-farid-vida-an-thess-ad-ljosmyndarinn-fai-kronu-481286

In Icelandic, but honestly you’ve already got the gist of it

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

today i got a bonus 'the ethics are debatable and unsettled'.

nah, i'm pretty sure they're not.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

I picked up a copy of "How AI Will Change Your Life" by Patrick Dixon from the library about a week ago and what struck me about it was even the author didn't seem to like AI all that much, even when he was saying how it would create benefits for humankind. The benefits were oh so vague and the risks were oh so specific. I found it interesting how the futurists attempting to promote the technology could barely bring themselves to spell out why it's a good idea, and seem to have mostly resigned themselves to the "inevitable" train.

My friend pointed out it had a complete lack of references, so it's got peak academic rigour too

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

one take i keep seeing and find absolutely incredible is "the legal issues are unsettled" as an argument to press ahead with slopping.

like what, you thought it was a good argument and decided to steal it and make it your own?

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stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

https://rose.systems/animalist

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cxandru@types.pl ("Cass Alexandru") wrote:

@mc @JacquesC2

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@dysfun @cohentheblue If by disclaiming all responsibility you mean telling you that I am literally not in charge/owner of the project since end of last year, then yes, absolutely.

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

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964

hate it when the money is like "ahh nooo owieee you spent all of me"

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heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de ("heise online English") wrote:

S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level

S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/S-P-downgrades-Oracle-to-BBB-only-one-notch-above-junk-level-11363472.html?wt%5Fmc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md%5Fbeitraege.md%5Fbeitraege&utm%5Fsource=mastodon

#CloudComputing #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #Oracle #Rechenzentrum #Wirtschaft #news

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

@Gargron @cohentheblue oh, you mean you're just disclaiming all responsibility now there are other people to blame?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@dysfun @cohentheblue 🤨