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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ballpark_frank@mastodon.world wrote:

CD #Burning

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

:prami: omg.lol Office Hours for Europe, Africa, India, and early-birds in the USA are starting now!

Here's the info on how it works and how to join. https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

See you there!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

"Misogyny and homophobia are central to the reproduction of violence in radical activist communities. Scratch a misogynist and you’ll find a homophobe. Scratch a little deeper and you might find the makings of a future informant (or someone who just destabilizes movements like informants do). "

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements - Courtney Desiree Morris

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/courtney-desiree-morris-why-misogynists-make-great-informants

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
magezwitscher@det.social ("MAgetröte") wrote:

@remaster
Yes, great! Here's my proposal for the 200€ bill.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

"Water autonomously found faults in the dam structure and successfully exploited them to break containment!" :blobcatscared:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ross@rossabaker.com ("Ross A. Baker") wrote:

@eclecticpassions I don't have a more eloquent explanation that Codeberg's own post, but I do have:

- hours spent defending my own server instead of creative pursuits.

- legacy GitHub projects where it's no longer worth sifting through slop to find the genuine PRs.

- the alienation of trying to exchange ideas with other developers and realizing I'm talking to a bot.

FOSS in 2026 is miserable, and Codeberg is taking positive action to fix it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
groctel@floss.social ("Groctel") wrote:

It's fascinating reading people cry "CENSORSHIP" about Codeberg's LLM policy when the whole thing about #Codeberg is that it's a medium-sized nonprofit forge designed so anyone can host it themselves under free licences.

This is not the State incarcerating you for your opinions, it's an association of people deciding where their limits are.

Do they expect people to open their doors so they can ransack their pantries as well? The Open Source Entitlement Complex runs deeper than I imagined :(

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
robinince ("Robin Ince") wrote:

It is #london #trans #pride day - here is a #poem I wrote when I saw a proud dad at #plymouth trans pride

Attachments:

• video: My big face in the vestibule traveling from Plymouth

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

sigh

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

“The Spiral — cobbles”

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral

> We know the personality isn't an ally anymore, and perhaps they never really were.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Mae@is.badat.dev wrote:

PSD3 will require that users can perform strong consumer authentication with methods "which are adapted to their needs and situations and, in particular, that those methods do not depend on one single technology, device or mechanism, for instance on the possession of a smartphone"

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/qanda%5F23%5F3544

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
patigallardo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

«Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets»

AI Companies Are Trying to Hid...

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

i have put tens of thousands of hours into FLOSS over the years, at least. i have released hundreds of projects under FLOSS licenses, all hand written by me (and sometimes other contributors). I've done the time, I've worn my values on my sleeve and I've learned a thing or two about software development in the process.

I'm even prepared to go out on a limb here and say I care about FLOSS software more than every single one of these shitheads who are telling us we should just embrace the new era of buggy unmaintainable shit.

If they were really on the side of FLOSS, they'd be looking at what happens if the bubble pops. I mean it is going to pop, but they will never accept that, so let's leave it open. What do you do when your FLOSS software has hemorrhaged quality and become unmaintainable junk? And what of the unsettled legal status of generated code and the copyright concerns?

The FLOSS movement has weathered storms before and it will weather this one. But I think it's clear that we've got a lot of work to do building slop free replacements for the shit that's being contaminated in the meantime by the metaphorical asbestos.

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

Here are a couple of attempts of mine to take moody photos of the geothermal fields behind the horticultural school, by the Fífilbrekka cottage. #nature #iceland #blackandwhite

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

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

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

none of us asked for any of this divide and conquer bullshit from big american tech cos. the bot fans sure are insistent they should be able to do what they like everywhere on the internet and any fighting it is obviously our fault for not letting them shit all over everything.

well i reject this outright - if you insist on using LLMs, you're the one splitting the community. how does it feel to be a tool of big tech?

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

the only argument i found even vaguely convincing for a moment was "it lets a nontechnical user have agency over the code". and superficially, it sounds like a good point. except...

• it's not really agency in the way we'd intended if you have no options but to pay someone to do it (no, i don't want to hear about local models thank you, i had fun laughing at some)
• if it comes at the cost of total destruction of the craftsmanship of programming, i'm happy to say "fuck these users".

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

LLMs generate far fewer bugs in absolute terms, but they also generate far more code, so it probably balances out if everything is equal.

uhhh. well i agree on the latter part, but fucking hell do you know how to spot a bug? 😂 cause like i do and i have done a fair bit of evaluation and i still believe they cannot write code for toffee. in fact that's really too mild, they just shit all over your codebase.

Where LLMs win though is the severity. An LLM will write buggy code in the sense that it doesn't do what you wanted it, but not so much in the sense of security or data loss bugs. They get that right more than humans because they're trained to care about that stuff.

they might get this right more than humans who are bad at programming, but i can assure they do not get it right more than i or many of my friends do 😂

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Ormond Hightower is a psycho #HouseOftheDragon #GameOfThrones

Attachments:

• video: A video discussing Ormond Hightower from House of the Dragon

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

some truly bizarre takes on this thread

• not letting fascists in is basically fascism
• make everyone have a tiny quota if it's all about resource usage
• it's the scrapers that are the real problem so ignore the fact that they have observed LLM users eating all the CI resources.
• codeberg does not meet the bar of free software
• actually, codeberg is kicking off the only people who care about free software

and my particular favourite

• charge for usage

i'd love to say that only came up once, but i think you know it didn't.

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

I really do wonder what it is about Threads that has made it such a good home for such appallingly bizarre takes about writing or publishing, not a day goes by here without someone crawling out of the woodwork to confidently assure other people that you need to rub your manuscript vigorously with brie to entice an editor to publish it, or that using first person in your story is now punishable by 18 months in the Otisville Correctional Facility

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

The main problem is that so many LLM users are selfish bastards and they won't respect the spirit of such rules and will only stop when the hard disk quotas force them to.

🔥

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

1. Yes! Acknowledge your editors and artists - and the copy editors! And the page designers! And your publicists! And so on! It's kind to acknowledge their labor, people like to be appreciated, and it's good to show people books take more than one person to make.

2. I've had 40+ books over 20+ years, including award winners and bestsellers, and I've written acknowledgements in nearly all of them, so the person who says it's "amateur" to acknowledge your editors, etc, can go fuck themselves.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@brookeclonts/post/DbGpktxFGqR

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

LLM generated code that is reviewed by teams of professionals, for example, is a huge win, and should be encouraged.

no, absolutely not, that's hilarious 😂

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

go slow and fix things

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Variety@flipboard.com wrote:

Guillermo del Toro said ‘Absolutely No Goddamn AI’ in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ 3D Re-Release: ‘We’re Protecting a Lineage of Art’
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/guillermo-del-toro-no-ai-pans-labyrinth-rerelease-1236815109/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into VARIETY @variety-Variety

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ah@goto.boserup.eu ("asta") wrote:

HAHAHA well it happened

Claude Fable 5 right into my Emacs

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/3735384b193

EDIT: several things seem a bit off, so maybe there's a charitable interpretation here??

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
draken@masto.nyc ("Draken BlackKnight") wrote:

@janbeta

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Is the #Plushtodon made of marshmallow, or the marshmallow made of #Plushtodon?

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

I'm not claiming that the fediverse doesn't have its problems. It certainly has its drama. We even have a term for that.

But recently I've been feeling depressed about how little it feels like, despite all the urgent problems of the world, people feel like it's worth trying to participate in changing them.

But I see people on here dissatisfied with the status quo every day. And people are trying, often culturally and even technically, to do good and different things.

I'm glad for that. It brings me hope.