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

The embroidery art on the new Nidoran♀ Pokémon card is really something. This is the debut card illustration by the embroidery artist tayu (not counting their prior illustration contest submission).

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

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

genius https://www.pandora.com/artist/hank-mobley/another-workout/hanks-other-soul-remastered-2006/TRqmfP9Kxrw3KjV?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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ehashman@cloudisland.nz ("e. hashman 🇵🇸") wrote:

New blog post: some bash shenanigans for managing Python virtualenvs https://hashman.ca/managing-venvs/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

("wrong" in that the media believes that climate change is real)

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vicfroh ("Victator") wrote:

#usempiredecline #Rome #fallofrome #christianity #SeperateChurchAndState #oligarchy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

technically speaking, this is actually secondary gell-mann amnesia. primary gell-mann amnesia is the phenomenon where everyone forgets that michael crichton coined this term in a speech explaining that "the media" is wrong about climate change, because sometimes their reporting on cutting-edge theoretical physics is oversimplified to the point of being wrong

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BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC #News Evidence that South African special forces murdered top detective shared with BBC https://w.st/JrML9

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dimsumthinking wrote:

Australia part one- any must dos, must sees, or must eats for Sydney?

I will follow with more cities later

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

washing dishes https://www.pandora.com/artist/miles-davis/someday-my-prince-will-come/i-thought-about-you-feat-hank-mobley-wynton-kelly-paul-chambers-and-jimmy-cobb/TRpdzl3zfbm56Zk?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the gell-mann amnesia effect is when you read a journalist writing about some topic that is close to the heart of your own expertise but far from theirs — usually some specific cutting-edge technical expertise — notice that they are incorrect about some details, and then assume that they are also incorrect about a bunch of stuff that they know much better than you do, like political corruption or investigating the consensus of experts on well-settled science

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cara.city@bsky.brid.gy ("Caræsten 🇵🇸") wrote:

hadn't seen this yet

(though assuredly it's been done)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wc33ikadg53lobua2ivtxbcx/post/3msgtdqcvnt2s

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

relaxed rubiks-balanced tree

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kris@social.lol ("Kris") wrote:

I realized why AI bothers me so much. It takes away the reason to celebrate new achievements of individuals.

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sunnydeveloper ("Emma Irwin") wrote:

Slides from our #FOSSY Talk:

"AI depends on #OpenSource to function, both as a technical dependency and as a source of data. Model builders who consume the output of our labour MUST also be aligned with the values, norms and governance of those communities. Our hypothesis, being that AI builders who prioritize alignment with open source communities will have an advantage built through trust."

https://sunnydeveloper.com/ai-alignment-metrics-for-open-source-communities/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love a good trail.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #TheLakes #LakeDistrict

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like yeah, if somebody is playing Russian roulette at massive scale with a trillion dollars of shotguns tied to elastic cords and industrial motors whipping them around at speed in a giant warehouse I am not saying that this is _not dangerous_, of course it's extremely fucking dangerous, but it's not some terrifying new unforseen capability that our adversaries can leverage against us, it's just a mind-boggling level of normal irresponsibility with dangerous technology that needs to be stopped

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the huggingface hack has escaped containment (by which I mean it's getting covered by the mainstream press, not the thing where it literally escaped a container), and it's *so* frustrating how they are all falling for it.

this is a shotgun trigger tied to a jumprope, not an atomic weapon

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

#defcon34 Suiting up one last time!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this product would solve exactly zero problems for me and it would create a whole new category of management headache as well as ongoing costs but I want it so baaad https://amzn.to/4wOWoEj

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

This story should terrify any open source project or company that allows LLM-generated code into their project.

Someone created a new app, using Claude. Only it wasn’t a new app, it was clearly plagiarised because it happened that there was an example in the training set that exactly matched the requirements. The similarity was well within the range that courts have previously used to determine a derived work.

When you have this level of similarity, the requirement comes to you to prove that there was no way that the original work could have flowed to your project. Companies that have this concern usually do it by ensuring that no one on the team has been exposed to the original and that the code for the original never goes near their systems. But when one of the systems that you use is a language model trained on, among other things, all of the open-source code that it could scrape (and which does not disclose its training set), being able to prove that there was no path from some other codebase to yours is impossible.

Just because the US copyright office has ruled that you, as the person promoting an LLM, cannot assert copyright on the output, does not mean that someone else can’t. If you take a DVD and transcode it to H.264, there is no creative step and so the new copy is not something subject to independent copyright, but it is a derived work of the DVD (itself a lower-quality derived work of the original masters) and so subject to the same copyright.

Importantly in this story, the person prompting Claude had no idea that the original app existed. To safely use the code, they would need to search everything in the training data and discard outputs that would meet the bar of being substantially similar. And that’s something that requires human judgement.

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

south korea is having a normal one

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Weird how nobody's AI has gone rogue, broken containment, and become profitable.

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hyc ("Howard Chu @ Symas") wrote:

@glyph who could possibly have predicted this... https://mstdn.ca/@cdegroot/117066803368492387

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

I very often forget that I'm a creative genius and then I'll stumble across something I have made real and smugly nod to myself that actually, yes, I do have my moments.

This is one of them.

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

I'm not sure needing 160MB of RAM for a weather app is such a boast you're trying to make it look… Even with all the graphics, it's just an HTTP client querying some service. It should fit in hundreds of KBs.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-vs-windows-weather-app-ram

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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117043346514398510

Super happy I contributed to this round table. Hope to continue contributing in the future! #Mastodon #Fediverse

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

"Four men gathered 25 years after the moment that first brought them together - you won't believe what happened next!"

Also, they look super recognizable

RE: https://www.threads.com/@people/post/DbysZrJFHfa

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adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

The Bank of England is cutting coal from its collateral. From October 2026, the central bank will stop accepting bonds linked to thermal coal as security against its loans to commercial banks, a step stricter than the European Central Bank’s. Campaigners hope it nudges lenders like Barclays and HSBC to reconsider holding coal-linked assets at all. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/19/bank-of-england-bonds-coal-loans-assets
#ShareGoodNewsToo

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

Orange lifesaver. I saw these orange round boxes on some people's photos but never knew what they were. Turns out, those contain lifesavers for throwing from the pier.

#darktable #photography