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

IT WORKS!!!! AASDFHKKL

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

I should not declare victory too soon, I don't even know if it works

Boosted by jwz:
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:

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

So, I built a game controller. Second time soldering (although the first time involved people who weren't me fixing the mistakes I made......)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jonyoder@mstdn.social ("Jon Yoder") wrote:

I'm getting really sick of #AI culture and hype.

It can be useful as a tool, but the people running the corporations providing the LLMs, like Anthropic and OpenAI, are the real reason it's toxic. And the toxicity is spreading.

They direct people to train models on copyrighted data without compensation and push for more environmentally-damaging data centers. They are the ones giving CEOs excuses to replace people with automated tools.

They are the enemy, not the technology itself.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay we are going to have a bit of a natural experiment here, since I had to wait around for some devices to charge before leaving home, and now (due to the overwhelming majority vote) I must head out.

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

If you’re still using anything made by 37signals, this is the shit you’re supporting. https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116895347041158720

«What unites both reflexes, despite their apparent opposition, is that neither provides a sufficiently precise account of the mechanisms underlying LLM behavior such that we could specify what is and is not at stake in particular acts of delegation. The dismissal reflex stabilizes prematurely into the metaphor. The accommodation reflex senses that the parrot metaphor has become a comfort blanket and concludes that the critique must be updated rather than sharpened.»

…

«The literacy frame is not a neutral response to generative AI but a strategic one…the practical consequence of taking that seriously is not better literacy but principled un-training.»

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ppossej@aus.social ("Michael Jessopp") wrote:

I'm sitting in on a "citizen developer" AI bot review, and the presenter just said "we had a problem with the agent hallucinating from time to time, so we just added to the prompt "don't hallucinate" and moved on"

jwz wrote:

Let's try the question this way: Instead of saying "huh that's weird", can you:

- Do a fresh install of Debian 13.6 on a Pi (I used Raspberry Pi Imager)
- Do raspi-config / Performance / Overlay
- Does it work?

Second question same as the first but "on a non-Pi".

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

Lord save me I am writing a blogpost about AI things, as if that's what the discourse needed right now

and yet, I think there are some things I have to say, because though few observations are new in this post, I haven't seen other people put them in the narrative I am laying out.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Privacy is another word for dignity, autonomy is the heart of democracy, dependencies are a kind of complicity and an empowered people in a healthy, free society should always be our primary constituency, above corporations, shareholders, trends or money. It feels like a lonely, alienating set of things to believe; definitely career-limiting. But it beats having a moral framework that spins like a pinwheel some greasy invisible hand is fanning with a stack of twenties.

Sorry, that "pivots".

Boosted by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
0x1C3B00DA@piefed.social wrote:

searchmysite - Six year anniversary

https://piefed.social/c/tech@programming.dev/p/2217625/searchmysite-six-year-anniversary

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

hit post, 6th vote for the coffee shop rolls in, I can see you are all unimpressed

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

dang y'all are harsh to the TV dock. It's got 2.5GbE, a 4K display, a split ergo keyboard, and perfect quiet! Surely _somebody_ thinks this would be an improvement over 2Mbps wifi and strangers yelling about AI

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

My usual office desk is blocked off for the morning. Would I have a better chance of getting something useful done today if I…

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
wopr@beep.town ("W O P R") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: general what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

One of the most important things I learned at Mozilla was the idea of an explicit “priority of constituencies”; that is, if you have responsibilities to different groups for different reasons, being clear and honest up front about who is at the front of the line and why. As with The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, there’s always a hierarchy, and letting those hierarchies stay hidden means letting power escape scrutiny.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116935764227731524

It’s a form of asymmetric warfare.

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

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@miranda%5Fblue/116935608086213327

This is showing one thing that I think should become general principle: Using an LLM for someone else _is rude and bad_. Presenting something untranslated that _they_ can have an LLM translate is better than doing it yourself, and not showing that input — the prompt here is not included and is a key piece of context, and the results are also bad _with no recourse_.

Information has been destroyed. Trust has been broken (or in the case of commerce, failed to be established). Even if the total amount of LLM-use were the same, this is worse than the reader using it.

PROMPTING AN LLM FOR SOMEONE ELSE IS RUDE.

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

Do you even box? :blobcatstrong:

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

you say "touch grass" but did you know some people have grass allergies

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
byroncclark ("Byron C Clark") wrote:

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort

Crossposted with @openvibe

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
beepsfoxdragon.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Beeps/Hachi") wrote:

YOU THERE! you're awesome!
#FursuitFriday
📸: Vagran Studios

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
joeyh@sunbeam.city ("see shy jo") wrote:

Wrote a 58 line shell script and now #gitAnnex can treat Internet Archive items as remotes, tracking changes to files in them and downloading files from them as needed like from any other remote.

This is a new git-annex feature and it really just comes down to a few lines of shell script, with the meat of it being a `curl | jq`. The rest is boilerplate that would be the same in any script doing this for any web resource.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/special%5Fremotes/external/git-annex-remote-internetarchive

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
edeverett ("Ed Everett") wrote:

A spatula and spoon that grew in our hedge. Damson wood

I’m still very novice at these but they are fun short projects that are ultimately disposable so don’t need to be perfect

#woodworking

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

But, you know, every Texan has the right to decide what's best for the residents of New York! And anyone who might disagree is, of course, a moral busybody.

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

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782094395296

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign.

So, let's do it.

Short thread with the input I gave them:

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

I think Manton is upset that some people take issue with things that any moral person would take issue with, like... defending bigotry, licking the boots of AI billionaires, integrating with Nazi platforms, and, as recently as *yesterday*, outing himself as advocating for datacenter construction in another state despite the protests of the people who live in that state. https://www.manton.org/2026/07/16/new-york-data-center-pause.html

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

RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/07/17/moral-busybodies.html

"The man without a moral code, like the animal, is free from moral problems. The man who has not learned to count is free from mathematical problems. A man asleep is free from all problems."

— C.S. Lewis