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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Defund the police.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

chatGPT son booktok daughter

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

well this doesn't look like it speaks modbus, but okay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5xOs3l9Bc

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Help this is funny am I a boomer 😭

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

The thing is, *if we can create community structures that allow AI haters to find each other, join together and collaborate without distraction*, we will be able to defeat the slop-infection community every time. Because once you allow AI users into your decisionmaking pipeline, you wind up doing shit like this https://www.theverge.com/tech/979583/this-is-instagrams-new-logo

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

fun additional bug: Mail will also incorrectly display the recipient as the original sender rather than the forwarder as it should, but the profile picture will be of the original sender

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

today's bug preventing me from completing basic administrative tasks without doing backflips and wasting hours:

1. someone receives a message from iCloud Hide My Email
2. they forward it to you.
3. you receive it in Apple Mail, with the banner "This message was forwarded to you by Hide My Email" presumably because of the still-intact X-Icloud-Hme
4. you forward it elsewhere, carefully selecting the correct outbound address
5. Apple Mail ignores that address and just forwards it via iCloud

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

several evenings of playing on hard mode and grrrrr

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

oh ffs. i thought i beat a game without using a gun once, but apparently i must have done once without noticing so i don't get the achievement.

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

@glyph @wronglang Yeah, at that point you're very much guessing which way the cops are most likely to fuck with you and protect against that.

And it's not just the cops! At the most dangerous protest I went to, the most dangerous party were the fascists not the cops (but admittedly, the cops really did not help....).

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

@glyph @wronglang The one I struggle with is passkeys; I understand what the purpose is in theory, but in practice, between "the pop ups are annoying" and "don't forget to add account lock-out due to lost devices to the threat model", I haven't felt them easy to adopt

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

The obvious corollary is that privatisation shrinks provision and creates pervasive inequality of access. That is, firms marketing privacy by telling you they think it's "a human right" (which you can access by purchasing their product) are cynically *reducing* net privacy.

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

Working on an already too long pice about the unbridled cynicism of Big Tech re: privacy (very much including Apple), but the (unoriginal) core idea fits on a postcard:

Privacy is a public good. Anyone trying to sell it to you is looking to privatize gains and socialise losses.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's not adulthood, I fear. It's capitalism that's inherently lonely. Our economic system takes an overworked, isolated population to thrive.

I'd imagine adulthood would be pretty dope if we had a community-based society instead of rugged individualism.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like from all these allusions I gather that _something_ happened in El Paso or some other border community that made a bunch of people mad and motivated even the latino population to shift right a bunch but:

A) I still literally don't know what it was despite being informed to an unhealthy level, and
B) it really seems like a lot of the electoral consequences of this landed in places like Idaho and Montana which does call into question its material immediacy

was it just noise-machine bullshit?

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

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

once again I am begging moderate libs who immediately concede the "chaos at the border" during biden's presidency explain what the fuck you are talking about. I don't even mean that as an open-borders advocate I am ideologically opposed to acknowledging some problems with lax immigration procedures, sometimes mass movements of humans create big logistical problems. but I literally don't know what events you are even referring to beyond a bunch of fake news stories about imagined "caravans"

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

"How did I not know about it!?"

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

Just blew my kid's mind with the knowledge that our local libraries have what they call "maker spaces" where they have 3d printers and laser cutters and other stuff. Now I see a half day trip to a library in my near future....

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

How might things have been different if so many of us weren't convinced that devaluing our own labor was essential to our careers, let alone betraying labor solidarity!

AI is only possible, I'll posit, because so fucking many of us never saw ourselves as laborers in the first place, and actively resisted any kind of identification with labor (to wit, "uber but for" is antagonistic towards labor, not a cutesy way of marketing an app).

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
SamP20@chaos.social wrote:

Realtime London Underground tube tracker API integration into buttplug.io. You feel a rumble whenever a tube train passes underneath you.

Riding the tube? Nope the tube is riding you now until you get off or get off, whichever comes first.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
alexia@app.wafrn.net ("Alexia ΘΔ") wrote:

Remember: the term "AAA game" or "Triple-A game" came from investors, as A, Double-A, Triple-A etc is used to describe how 'safe' an investment is

It doesn't say anything about the quality of the game at all, and was coined by people which don't care about that, just about money.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there are a lot of actually extremely well-meaning people working on these technologies, I know some of them personally, I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that what is going on is not _just_ a corporate land-grab at the expense of users. but _some_ of it is a corporate land-grab. and if we had independent, popular infosec public intellectuals who were not beholden to these interests, it would be possible for the public to disentangle these two truths and get to the nuances involved.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

to put a finer point on it: the underlying problem is that the authority in the "infosec community", such as it is, comes _exclusively_ from a few megacorps with an overtly monopolistic level of control over different user populations. These corporations are under no obligation to explain themselves, so they just… don't. There's no public record of why they are doing what they're doing, and they either strictly mandate certain practices (codesigning, TLS) or aggressively promote them (passkeys)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Floppy@mastodon.me.uk ("James Smith 💾") wrote:

“Black academic hounded to death by the press for plagiarism allegations started by a known racist” versus “AI companies owned by white billionaires pushing industrial plagiarism machines down everyone’s throats whether they want them or not”

I don’t see the lawyers or academics who let an LLM produce fake citations getting the same treatment. Remember kids, plagiarism is *super cool* if you use Claude to write your code, or ChatGPT to write that essay!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Quick raven sketch, mid call. Worked the .3 and .5 graphite pencils to get that near black feather range without losing the shape. Ravens hold grudges for years apparently, feels right for a bird drawn looking this deliberate. Done at a coffee shop table in Ithaca, NY #sciart #bird

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
a@paperbay.org ("Alexandre Dulaunoy") wrote:

How mature is this repository? My long quest for open-source software metrics

When I discover an open-source software project for the first time, how can I estimate whether it is mature, healthy and usable?

I just released OSSTRL - Open Source Software Technology Readiness Level to help me calculating the maturity of open-source projects.

#opensource #metrics #open #floss #osstrl #freesoftware #community

🔗 https://www.foo.be/2026/08/Open-Source-Metrics.html

🔗 https://github.com/adulau/osstrl

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

but the rollouts are almost all done in a way which looks like "well, we tried to ask you to turn this on, and nobody did, so, time to opt you all in without your knowledge or consent. don't worry it's easy and fun!"

I have zero evidence to prove this but it feels to me like the pitch of this skepticism has gone up as this tone is also adopted by AI companies rolling out obvious bullshit, making everyone feel like maybe security tech has also always been obvious bullshit

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have some sympathy to the folks doing these rollouts because to some extent, the necessity *is* just too complex to explain to the mass market who needs to adopt them. I am not saying that we should be giving lectures on Bleichenbacker attacks and PQ cipher suites at the local library, but there needs to be like a public, standard reference threat model that we can refer to so people understand what *their* part is

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

to be very clear: *no shade* to anyone expressing such skepticism, the problem is not that people are saying dumb things, it's that infosec in general has done a very bad job of communicating the problems that these technologies address and why the tradeoffs have been made. the downsides are obvious to everyone because we're smacking into them every day, the necessity is obscure and complex. so much advocacy is done with such condescension and "don't worry about it, it's easy!" dismissiveness