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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
kathhayhoe@fediscience.org ("Dr. Katharine Hayhoe") wrote:

Most people assume caring about climate change makes them the odd one out. But that isn't true! And by keeping silent, we perpetuate that myth.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop @kirtai @whitequark I think that the lists generally pivoted towards that projects after receiving this specific criticism a *lot*, but in a world where a project with half a dozen maintainers is “big”, it dissolves into a distinction without a difference

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph @kirtai @whitequark Fair. I guess I'd been thinking of them as lists of projects, not people. I do prefer the "positive" lists. 👍️

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop @kirtai @whitequark I realize that it is frustrating to see a structural failure of the community and the industry being perpetuated by people who will never face any consequences for their roles in that failure, but Making Lists Of The Bad People is not the way to get any kind of restorative justice, and it is going to be an absolute magnet for lots of potential stochastic future harm.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop @kirtai @whitequark https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115871486722827977

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Haven't had power for an hour or two. It's supposed to be back on in a couple hours 🫩 I'm guessing a substation let the smoke out since half the island is out. Grateful that Safeway was still open and had a couple cold beers left

#bainbridgeisland #kitsap

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@azonenberg @soatok @hazelnoot

Here's what the UI looks like:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@azonenberg @soatok @hazelnoot

When I was working on #Diskuto (https://github.com/diskuto/) I settled on a UI that performed signing outside of the browser. You can have a little trusted tool that receives the representation of a post and signs it. Paste the signature back in to the browser (which verifies it) and click Post.

It's equivalent to signing a message with PGP/GPG before posting it to a forum.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop @kirtai @whitequark no. there's a guide for removal and more steps are required than just that. but also the steps for removal are quite muddled? also there are multiple lists, with different criteria. also this doesn't allow for people who *are* opposed to "AI" to continue to contribute to "tainted" projects without harming their own reputations. there's a huge list of problems with this approach.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Despite my ethical objections I’m being force to use at least a _token_ amount copilot tokens at work to stay off of a naughty list. I’ve mostly just used it to do a preliminary code review before I open PRs, but today I one-shotted a 1000 line bash script that polls our flaky CI/CD pipeline and re-adds failed builds to the merge queue so I don’t have to babysit my own PR merges.

I spent a couple hours up front playing PO and documenting exactly what I wanted and how, but it probably would have taken me a few days to dig through the CI api docs, gh docs, get the syntax right for graphql & jq, etc to write myself, while sonnet 5 turned my spec into a working script in less than 10 minutes.

I can see how some might get addicted to this if it wasn’t an environmental and ethical nightmare.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@kirtai @whitequark @glyph

Is that what's going on? Don't you think a slopperator publicly saying "Heyy... turns out y'all were right and this AI thing is bad." would result in updates to those lists?

"people who have had covid infections" is a bad analogy. It's the anti-maskers coughing in your face telling you what a scam all the vaccines are.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

On Wednesdays we wear pink.

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

https://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

It's getting through to Republicans folks.https://youtube.com/shorts/02OFbNxJFxQ?is=ZU20rQZgUUcYBrzw

Now vote accordingly. Don't vote for pedophile protectors in either party.

Any American who wants to restore sanity to Capitol Hill should take a look at Thomas Massie, MTG and other conservatives who don't like liberals , don't support certain policy elements of either party but know that liberty and freedom are at stake .

Our BELOVED America needs real patriots who aren't traitors to foreign interests , billionaires etc.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

Vance says Trump administration 'screwed up' communications around Epstein files
https://apnews.com/article/vance-epstein-files-mishandled-bondi-eae0ad789db8bc3d0af38edfaadaca1f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk

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

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/-/a-wsYlIZOcSI22r0roGFV2Og%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

“a Republican write-in candidate for Florida's 5th Congressional District”

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

this is truly disgusting

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/state-dept-ice-iran-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

LOL, just one Tesla battery factory in Nevada has had at least 11 (11!) battery shipment thefts this year.

Some thieves just rolled up in their semitrucks, hitched the trailers up and drove off with them 😂

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

Situation: There are 16 competing standards.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Once Upon A Time At Google, a team presented results that had confounded them: making the system load several times faster increased engagement somewhat, but in line with Tammy's findings, engagement went WAY up for every 100ms improvement *below* the 1s threshold.

Going fast enough to become "dial tone" changed user behaviour and expectations in a hugely positive way for the product.

This sort of "no such thing as too fast until you prove it" lesson is *everywhere*.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@tammy Now, obviously, performance is situational and the wetware is strange; some folks take this as license to imagine that they can cover all sins with an animation (looking at you, React community). But that's not generally borne out in data.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

New research points to another easy way to conduct prompt injection attacks: LARPing. Talk like an LLM in a prompt. The LLM may interpret this part of the prompt as its own "thinking." Imagine an agent running on your browser or computer being exploited in this way.

I wrote about how newsrooms should approach this and overlapping issues in our newsletter. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/the-s-in-llm-stands-for-security/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you make websites for a living, stop what you're doing and read this research by @tammy; it shows what many of us have been saying for a long time: even if there is such a thing as "fast enough",[1] it's generally *much* faster than you are targeting:

https://embrace.io/blog/research-core-web-vitals/

[1]: there isn't

Boosted by jwz:
guerrillastickers@mastodon.bida.im ("guerrilla stickers 通信") wrote:

:anticapitalist: #DIY t-shirt by #PunkWithCamera

#anticapitalista #anticapitalist #anticapitalism #tshirt

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

https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/

These Honest Government ads are indeed what they say on the tin.

I wonder when they'll cover Count Binface?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
morix@loci.onl ("A Part of Bee") wrote:

@cwebber I heard it was built using this cool new thing called Goblins from Spritely (https://spritely.institute/) which has some cool ocap stuff so your posts are only visible to people you want to see them and lets you edit your posts atomicly so no one ever sees an old copy on the network!

It was built by Nistrine Wemmer-Lebber who's quite a hoopy frood and I hear she's often available to answer questions about the deep lore of its structure.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

Me: Geez I didn't expect this post to blow up

Jupiter: <mimicking me, laughing> Hey I didn't expect this post about We Hate Big Internet to blow up on the We Hate Big Internet Social Media Website

Me: You're such a smartass

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
gtsadmin@wiseowl.club ("Super Owl Hoo") wrote:

Today I found a fun nerd toy. Did you know QR codes can be in color, to make them a bit smaller? These color QR codes are called "HCC2D" codes. I tested out generating these codes (both these codes shown link to the same URL: my resume).

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Just to give an idea how LLM nonsense is affecting #Wikipedia, perhaps a quarter of threads on ANI, the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents, involve LLM use—either crap articles generated by LLMs, or people using LLMs to write extremely wordy, unhelpful replies to concerns about their behaviour.

That's a huge externality right there - whatever uses AI tech has, it has enabled a DDoS attack on the hardworking volunteers trying to maintain the commons-based project the damn LLMs trained on.