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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

god so many web designers have never tried to navigate their website with the tab key and it shows

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

my ratio of blocking overzealous critics who take AI discussions as an opportunity to be gleefully cruel to blocking Enthusiasts who are doing a lot of bad-faith time-wasting is quite low but it sure isn’t zero

Boosted by jwz:
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

HIGHLY ISOLATED WITH GUARDRAILS

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

So this keeps happening, and I think we need to talk about it:

> them: React manages state in our app.
>
> me: It does? Then what are <various_libraries> for?
>
> them: Oh, those manage state.

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/

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Boosted by jwz:
DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

The Embarcadero, 1991
Embarcadero Freeway Demolition, view northerly, demolition in progress, the former stub end and second deck removed
John Holtzclaw photographed the demolition in detail over the months it took. more here : https://sfmemory.org/search/index.php?q=%22Embarcadero+Freeway+Demolition%22&%5Fds=1&bn=0&bs=50&so0=contains&so1=contains #sfmemory #sfhistory

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

Been sitting with this old gem from Ze Frank as I figure out how to go from 0 to 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL%5Fg

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

Our first ever omg.lol Office Hours session is today (or, uh, tomorrow... timezones, lol)! I've added a calendar feed that you can subscribe to in your calendar app, and I’ve also updated the Office Hours page with the full schedule and links to relevant stuff: https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

See you there!

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Slopfree Software Index Announcement

Proud to announce that @notimetoplay will be helping me maintain the project and merging in all the awesome contributions you have submitted over the past few months! Please give them a big thank-you for their help!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
allisonchinart@mastodon.art ("Allisonchinart") wrote:

Above Ancient Seas

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Cosmic Inflation

YES IT HAPPENED AFTER THE BIG BANG GET IT RIGHT YOU NERDS

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hankgreen/post/DbJDCl0DiBU

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

Periodic reminder that bad arguments UNDERMINE your point.

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

What if they made a movie about climate change, and only let Republicans speak?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/23/conservatives-gimmicky-title-bad-movie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FxeLpABGJe4

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

supercooled large droplets - about the thickness of a human hair

"large" my ass 😂

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://macavity.cat/@elisehuard/116969487897666732

Unique engineer on the market klaxxon. You will not regret hiring Elise. Thank me later.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elisehuard@macavity.cat ("Elise Huard") wrote:

Hi, I’m a seasoned engineer with 25 years of experience. I’ve got experience in data engineering with high volumes of data, some ML, lots of AWS and IaC,some security.
I’m used to managing and communicating choices and trade offs to implement customer focused solutions, and running them in production.
(FWIW I also sew and grow vegetables)

I’d like to work for a company looking to make a positive environmental impact on the world.

Based around Bath/Bristol or remote #fedihired #mastohire

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

If this press release is true, then if I was a hacker who made their money by pwning billion dollar shitshow startups, what I would know is
A) huggingface has no idea what they are doing and is a rich target
B) they cannot respond to threats, the best they can do is ask an LLM to fix it, and even multiple days later are still issuing truly pitiful patches that dance around the vuln
C) since they will just ask GLM 5.2 to fix it, I'll just pre-rehearse all my prompt injections with GLM 5.2 until they stick, and then in my next attack litter the logs with injections and PWN THE WHOLE IR TEAM TOO

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

oh? you want to hate on rsync guy, who has done nothing but work on free things for free? maybe you forget that he can do anything he likes with his code and software. dont like it, fork it. [Codeberg decides AI isn't welcome] wait. stop. please. you can't do this. this is entropy discrimination.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

Weird how a lot of people who played the "but it's free software worked on for free. why do you hate freedom" card about rsync are now weeping and crying that Codeberg made a decision they don't like. Why do you guys hate freedom?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

"An insecure sandbox is not a demonstration of cyberprowess."

-Loren Kohnfelder (on Openai's model "escaping containment" and attacking Hugging Face's servers)
https://designingsecuresoftware.com/writings/commonplace/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
octonion@tech.lgbt ("Popstar Tourist") wrote:

@cwebber As for the hypothetical you posed, I'm very interested in seeing the blog posts. Ultimately though the questions I'm interested in for any new technology under our present socioeconomic system is how would people use it, and how would governments/corporations/law enforcement/the military use it?

If the question were phrased as "would you prefer a better AI ecosystem that maintains tech oligarchs' power, or the current horrible ecosystem that's going to implode and take Oracle along with big chunks of Google and Microsoft with it?" the results might be clearer.

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

this also makes it hard to take seriously claims that the marginal cost of inference is not a serious contributor to the resource use of data centres. your program has polynomial running cost and people run it for hours on end

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

somehow I only recently learned that LLMs need the whole conversation fed back to them on each prompt so their i/o cost scales as O(n^2), something that would be considered completely unacceptable in almost any other production network-accessible software

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Cannot emphasize this enough: the single fact that made the software business as insanely profitable as it is is that the incremental cost of delivering software rounds to zero.

The entire provisioning model of AI as a business has broken that.

It's not that LLMAAS isn't profitable or won't be profitable. It's that LLMAAS can't be profitable.

https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116968429653967850

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

agentic poker

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

There's a pretty simple reason for this: all the large AI corporations are betting on becoming centralized gatekeepers over information and its production. So any chance of a better future involves failure of said business models succeeding

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

The only variations of an ethical future which incorporates "AI" are ones where large AI corporations are unprofitable

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

Also I spent some time on the @spritely call today talking with @dthompson and @tsyesika about what the architecture of this machine would look like, and both of them thought it sounded very interesting, and so given two of the engineers I trust most in the world think it's interesting, it might indeed be worth writing about.

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

@aredridel I feel like news got turned up to 11 a while ago, and hasn’t been turned down since.

Which is a very different meaning of “news at 11” than I grew up with

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

It's too bad the "Claw" space is already occupied in "AI" tech, because given my initials are CALW, it would be funny to transpose a couple of letters and call the design I am talking about a "Claw Machine"

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

I think I would like to write a couple of blogposts:

- A rumination over whether or not a "more ethical AI future" is possible *at all*, the post of which is bit more agnostic as to the technical approach taken
- And, I think there was enough interest shown in the last hour, coupled with a *disbelief that any other approach is possible* (which still irks me), that maybe writing up the "Christine Approach to an AI Machine" (which is NOT achieved by beating LLMs to death with more data) might still be worthwhile and interesting.