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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NG0E@mastodon.hams.social ("Jon Harder") wrote:

ALERT: the dxview propagation maps will be offline Thursday starting around 0930Z to transition to new server hardware and new database. Hopefully the downtime will be less than two hours, but it is possible that unforeseen problems will extend that time.

https://hf.dxview.org/
https://vhf.dxview.org/

#HamRadio

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

watching a british classic in german and it feels wrong. although they're shouting at each other a lot so i guess german is good for that?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Or if you prefer to hear from the community, https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/47nvmi/superhot%5Fis%5Fthe%5Fmost%5Finnovative%5Fshooter%5Five/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay it seems like people are confused, but it's really quite straightforward. SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years. Maybe this review will help clear it up: https://www.pcworld.com/article/419799/superhot-review-the-most-innovative-shooter-weve-played-in-years.html

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

oh cool, somehow the Symbolics Lisp Machine is now an LLM grift:

> Outproduce engineering teams. Lisp Machine productivity (1,000 lines of debugged Lisp per day, equivalent to 10,000 lines of C) compounds with LLM coding agents driving the image directly. The leverage approaches one hundred to one against conventional C engineering teams. https://hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/117044268951603975

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"

→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Have you ever worked in an organization where you were directly aware of how open source software (maintenance, devrel, upstream contributions, releasing internal code, operating an OSPO) was accounted for on the business's chart of accounts? I would love to hear from you about it.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny @davidgerard @skington truly one day Claude will remove Herobrine

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34") wrote:

See y'all at #DEFCON34 soon! :3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34"):
defcon@defcon.social ("DEF CON") wrote:

The #DefCon 34 Original Soundtrack (OST) is live! Enjoy sick beats on your way to Hacker Summercamp!
https://media.defcon.org/
https://defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34"):
49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:") wrote:

and no amount of werner koch tears prevent the fact that this "not a vulnerability" is a real vulnerability because it requires "social engineering" that every other gpg user does to themselves

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:") wrote:

it loves the gnu privacy guard. especially when it has to open a nix-shell to get it running to test whether its attack poc works. and indeed, it does lol

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:") wrote:

idek what exactly a boltz exchange is but they have a canary that is completely worthless bc its vulnerable to gpg.fail. best solution is running a spoofed fork and posting a screenshot of that on twitter

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

Reminder that novels written by "AI" are not copyrightable, anyone can take them and legally sell their own copies of them so if anyone was hoping to make a lot of money off of them, I got bad news for you about what's going to happen the very instant you put one on the market

RE: https://www.threads.com/@flumcake/post/DbpgAbRDbsG

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

and so begins the #aislop #bailouts con.

i was opposed and campaigned against the bank bailouts in 2008, am even more rabidly opposed to this grift.

don't just let the bubble pop. let them burn.

❝ A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’ https://thenextweb.com/news/a-fed-official-is-asking-whether-ai-is-becoming-too-big-to-fail

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

@cwebber

Inspired.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
shapr@recurse.social ("Shae Erisson") wrote:

Time to assemble this Corsi-Rosenthal box[1] was about one hour and fifteen minutes.

I hadn't done this before and was careful to cut the cardboard into the right shape.

I suspect this takes fifteen minutes the fourth time you do it.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/12CK7luxkK2RnA8xDacrJ0jJnYfmOfVKU/view

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

Everything that you could possibly need to know about Dave Winer's rss.chat project can be summed up by the fact that there isn't a single line of code dedicated to moderation, reporting, content removal, blocking, muting, filters, or any trust & safety considerations at all.

If you're building (or, in Dave's case, asking Claude to build) a way for people to connect with one another on the internet in 2026 and not designing the entire thing around trust & safety, you're doing it wrong.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

This is an excellent essay for the new Luddites among us. And for anyone who appreciates the wisdom of Wendell Berry.

#Tech https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/08/the-wendell-berry-moment/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

@ambv A benefit missing from the survey: Type hints help highlight squishy thinking and improve the structure of my code.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPz4V8cyu8

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
elle@weathered-steel.social wrote:

@pac85 imho, contributors should never see the direct output of sashikobot, it should solely be visible to reviewers/maintainers, and let them sort out the bullshit from the useful. oh wait, then this grift to the Linux Foundation's corporate overlords would actually have negative consequences for the almost entirely corpo-backed maintainers... hrm, I wonder why they don't do it this way?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk ("Prof. Catherine Flick") wrote:

Good chance I'll be on BBC News 24 after 21:15 but if I'm not it's because there's something more interesting on

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

So. I now have a few months' more experience with LLMs than I did when I wrote that post and everyone said I just needed more experience with LLMs. And my opinion has not become any more favorable.

The bottleneck still is not speed of code generation, and even if it did become the bottleneck, LLMs would not be a silver bullet for it because of the code quality issues that they continue to have and that have been widely reported in the literature across multiple generations of "oh, those older ones were bad, but THIS time it's the revolutionary leap" claims.

Put simply: the work that I am doing right now would probably be going *faster* if no LLM had ever been involved in the process.

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

It's done now. Those of you who did not keep it down HAVE BEEN NOTED.

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

(a)bort, (r)etry, (f)uck up your computer forever

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I finally realized that there may be a more disturbing reason that every booster uses the exact same phrases, right down to the wording — "you'll be left behind", "it's here to stay", "it's a tool" — even when they are barely coherent and clearly out of context for the discussion at hand. That reason is hard to understand if you haven't played SUPERHOT though. You have to check out this game. It's the most innovative shooter I've played in years.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ambv ("Łukasz Langa") wrote:

You can help shape the future of #Python typing with the power of having an opinion!

Fill out the annual Python Type System and Tooling Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/python%5Ftyping

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

The CSA swearing in some dumbass fuckstick tech execs as LTCs, 100% unearned, is the worst thing I've seen all day. All week. (This happened a year ago and GEN George, the former CSA, was fired by Pete Kegseth. He deserved firing for doing this brokedick circus act, not for being woke.) #military

Anyway, the article: The rise of the military-technology complex; How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.
https://thebulletin.org/2026/07/the-rise-of-the-military-technology-complex/