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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
EINS_Institute@infosec.exchange ("Dr. Jim Ellsworth") wrote:

From the article: "This isn't fair competition; it's product degradation driven by a small group of self-serving complainants, with European businesses and consumers taking the hit. Regulation should improve products, not make them worse."

No, regulation should improve SOCIETY. If your product instead ENSHITTIFIES it for profit, regulation should hold it accountable.

You know, LIKE THIS.

cc: @pluralistic

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/23/google-1-billion-eu-fine-dma.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space ("ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼") wrote:

Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.

This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.

But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.

A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.

#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space ("ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼") wrote:

Yesterday, queer people were attacked. One is dead. Many are injured.

Today, the ghouls crawl out on schedule.

They laugh. They celebrate. They joke about corpses and broken bodies. Under their real names, no masks, no shame. Hate has become so normal that they don't even bother hiding it anymore.

Imagine being so morally bankrupt that your idea of humour is a murdered queer person (or an immigrant, a Muslim, etc.)

No. These people didn't appear out of nowhere. They were cultivated. Excused. Platformed. Told they were "just asking questions." Told their bigotry was "a valid opinion."

This is where that road leads.

So don't ask us why we need Pride.

Ask yourselves why so many people have become perfectly comfortable cheering when queer people bleed.

#Pride #LGBTQIA #NoPasaran #StandUpToHate #BerlinPride #Solidarity

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

remember kids, the #1 rule of debugging:

MAKE SURE YOUR CODE IS ACTUALLY RUNNING

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@NfNitLoop oh wow that's expensive :-) But I'll keep it in my bookmarks for whenever I make up enough courage to deal with this problem. Thanks!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Anyway, LLMs are only the most recent in a long line of questionable tech that the biggest and most influential (in terms of employment and investment) businesses have been cramming down our throats. This isn't the first time I've thought about leaving my field for something else. Although, it's certainly possible it might be the final time. 😆

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: I hope I didn't add to any sense of inevitability about certain things today. I know I was feeling a little defeated, but I also don't believe any particular technology choice is inevitable, especially when it is mostly being forced on people from the top down.

I haven't given up. I'm just trying to figure out what to do. Zuzai, everybody!

[1] https://thecanadian.social/@action%5Fjay/116987371329094746

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The natural evolution of vibe-coding? Frankenware.

You stitch together random pieces of code, skip the architecture, ignore the warnings and forgotten dependencies, apply a little electricity... and then act surprised when it starts screaming.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
action_jay@thecanadian.social ("Action Jay 🏳️‍🌈 🐾") wrote:

I really like the idea of the #zuzai label. Creators make it out like how we coined Vegan and very quickly had cultural understanding of what it stands for.

We're looking at intellectual resilience, a stark rejection of tech that heaps on layers of ethical infractions, and especially refusing to fuck with the products of said tech.

It's a point of pride, a beacon of humanity, a mark of beautifully imperfect but intentional quality.

Make it happen!

https://zuzai.org/

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

Mistakes were made, but we’re mostly back online.

Replaced the semi-fried gen2 dish with a refurbed 4x. Tried to re-use the cable that I buried in 120 ft of conduit 3 years ago, but it had a proprietary connector.

It is just a shielded ethernet cable, but I think they used 23AWG wire or maybe even thicker, and my cat6 ends only go up to 24AWG.

So I made an emergency run into Cape to get a new 150ft ethernet cable which is currently strung out across the yard. I’ll order new cat6 ends tonight and hopefully get back on the buried cabling by next weekend.

The heat index as over 120 today, broiling me alive, but I did get to watch some heat lightning in that cloud on the horizon at dusk.

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

please enjoy this video of some slightly unhinged russians changing the oil on a car while it's moving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpz64cEHFU

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@isagalaev I'm currently using one of these:
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udm-se

It's got built-in settings to set routing rules for devices. (TBH, most consumer routers these days should. Though they may be branded as "parental controls".)

It's more than I'd like to spend (& WiFi module comes separately 😅) but I got frustrated with off-the-shelf routers.

(See: https://blog.nfnitloop.com/u/42P3FTZoCmN8DRmLSu89y419XfYfHP9Py7a9vNLfD72F/i/2YQzAhB9mVhjNMdiNovq1RXDT67GLePWoag4abRtoaaQDJ7hZaDFvpgjSq2DWsDx5eWNvNNpwQp2xEdvDacGA4Ye/)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop yeah this is a metaphor I have invoked many times

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph Immediately makes me think of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background%5Fsteel

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

scrolled up one post to see this https://thecanadian.social/@action%5Fjay/116987371329094746

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a distraught alien emerged.

"What's happened to the library? It's gone! The one thing your civilization had going-"

"They moved to a new building," a passer-by said. "Don't you have ways of finding these things out?"

"Yes. I ask at the library."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I used the word "fresh" here just to mean "novel" as in "written more recently than the aipocalypse" but the more I look at it the more I am realizing that this is maybe a great word to use? There are two kinds of information, fresh and slop? Slop code is always somebody else's reheated nachos, even if you don't know where the nachos originally came from, whereas fresh code is original.

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

i realise i am not constantly self promoting like certain thoroughly incompetent journalists from el reg i could name who called me a gatekeeper, but actually i have spent a significant amount of time and effort trying to get people into programming and to help them get better at programming.

if that is what gatekeeping actually looks like, so be it

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

Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

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

oh good lord, i've been called a gatekeeper by someone who thinks mencius moldbug's writings had technical merit.

i think i need a lie down.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

While in Tokyo I had a few hours to myself and visited the Extinct Media Museum.

What a cool place! It's a tiny museum filled to capacity with cameras, audio players, cell phones and computers. What's really great is that you can grab all of the objects and handle them - most are not operable, but it's amazing to get the sense memory of holding an old flip phone or a 1980s camera. (1/2)

https://extinct-media-museum.blog.jp/otemachi/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

If you wish you were an artist, become an artist.

You can use any medium. Just make a thing. Then make another thing. And another thing. And another.

And just like that: you are an artist.

Create things. It's good for you. You'll get better over time, but honestly, even if you don't... you're still making stuff!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

The largest digital camera ever built has started filming a 10 year movie of the universe. From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera is now photographing the entire southern sky every few nights, producing roughly ten terabytes of data per night. The goal is an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse of the cosmos: pulsating stars, supernova explosions, asteroid orbits, & clues to dark energy and dark matter https://rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-rubin-works/technology/data
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

If you have a platform, and someone criticizes you, consider not responding.

I know, it's hard. I had a hard time figuring this out myself. It can be challenging to walk away when folks are saying crummy things about you.

But you'll never please everyone, and you don't have to be right all the time. Sometimes people won't like you and you just have to live with that.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

they earnestly believe we’d be happier if we did it too, and they want us to enjoy the sweet relief of letting our minds go along with them. this is not to say that it’s harmless, you still shouldn’t do heroin even if your buddy *sincerely* enjoys heroin, but I think it can inform our resistance

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

so the mustache twirling LLM capitalist would be overjoyed to “respect the decision” of the codeberg crowd, make lots of noises about everyone using the tools that work best for them, and quietly continue hoovering up fresh data. instead they are high on their own supply, telling us to try some

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116986805020926545

this is one reason I ascribe more incompetence than malice to most boosters. the boosters were mad about the codeberg ban. a calculatingly evil conspiracy would understand that a brutal model collapse is inevitable for coding models if there is no fresh, nonslop option for modern code.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The giant red SUV really took me out from the movie being set in England. Having been on country side roads here that thing wouldn’t fit anywhere. The neon sign on the police station was a wild choice too.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Blogger Ilya Remeslo, who spent years aiding in the repression of Team Navalny before recently going anti-Putin, has been taken to Moscow's Serbsky Institute for a psych eval. Remeslo was jailed July 17 on charges of spreading "fakes" about Russia's army. https://www.fontanka.ru/2026/07/26/76554026/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection and when I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!