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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

He's going to need a bigger pillow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/20/election-denial-is-a-psychological-disorder/

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Issues in the Repo - refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/20/issues-in-the-repo.html

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

A neat security vulnerability in Python caused by str.lower(). Also includes lots of RFCs so I’m having a good time :)

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability

#security #python #idna

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

Attempts to govern AI fail because it's diagnostic of deeper changes in the order of things https://zenodo.org/records/19457404. Decomputing aims instead to decouple critical services from technocratic collapse. Next week I'll post the preprint 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.​io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted.

For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref/

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RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND MADE NAPKIN RINGS

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

i dunno though. if people realise now, they're going to feel pretty embarrassed that noone will ever trust their technical judgment again.

but doubling down just moves it til bubble pop and makes it even worse.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Memory prices are up 500% in the past year — because of AI

get your shiny new DDR-4 motherboards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Un7g%5FvyePI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260819-memory-prices-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 14 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/ - blog post

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

it would be pretty fun if bun was the thing that made everyone realise LLMs are shit. and totally on brand for AI companies to sail too close to the sun.

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

Never mind the fact that the US government marks a quadrupling in price of a TV as deflation 😬

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

One of the ticking time bombs in the "AI"-driven price hikes for electronics are hedonics. Basically, many inflation calculations rely on electronics to downplay real inflation: they expect the price to only go down and new hardware features are marked as deflation

An electronics industry that isn't delivering new hardware features and raises prices is going to hit inflation indexes with a double punch

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-answers.htm

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

i'm telling you guise, it'll be so intelligent, it will leapfrog a fruit fly

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

NEXT NEXT MODEL BRO. THEY'RE USING THEIR SECRET NEXT MODEL TO BUILD THE NEXT NEXT MODEL

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

meanwhile, it's now switched from being mostly a person telling clod what to do to clod telling clod what to do.

there's no way this ends well.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kuriko@wetdry.world ("vivi is trying new names") wrote:

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

i see the AI bun rewrite is going about as well as you'd expect. 3 months since the last release, skyrocketing amounts of unsafe and promises every week it'll be available tomorrow

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
GlitchEngine ("Lix") wrote:

It has been just over a month since I moved several hundred tables across the site at EMF build-up, and I only just realised I didn't make a single database migration joke the whole time 😭

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orva@social.orva.fi wrote:

I was clicking through "previously maze" in @jwz blog while emptying the nth cup of coffee and once again ended up in one of my favourite blogposts of all time https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/

I can't really pinpoint what it is, but that post always makes me smile.

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Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org ("Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧") wrote:

Hmm, apparently not just Amnesty International UK...

https://en.inkluderendefeminisme.no/anti-gender-movement-anti-rights-movement/#2

#AntiRightsMovement

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Carbisari@yiff.life ("Horrible Creature") wrote:

STOP making games about humans and start forcing gamers to play as fucked up beasts and creatures already

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

“Memory prices are up 500% in the past year — because of AI – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/

If you ever wondered why many gamers are vehemently anti-"AI", it isn't entirely down to the fact that generated art looks like shit. It's also destroying their hobby by making everything unaffordable.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

Your new password can’t be identical to one you’ve used in an alternate reality

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
CMFrancoise ("Camille Françoise") wrote:

And so I was navigating the internet and then I found this generator of Donjon and Dragon Kittens :psyduck:

And that's how I ended up looking like that.

https://generateur.chatons.jdr.coffee/

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

One particularly popular npm package has at least 14 pinned and outdated crates with open advisories on them.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Fun new rabbit hole, finding all the -sys crates embedded within node/ruby/python packages, so you have C/C++ inside rust inside another package.

Then going and looking up vulns in those C/C++ projects in the sys crates to see how many sneaky vulns are being shipped via npm/gem/pypi.

Boosted by jwz:
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

We are all made of stars: Gassy, too hot, very old, probably exploding soon

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

I am away, back 1st September 🫡

don't break the web while I'm gone

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Kinda sucks being ruled by people who'd all fail The Voight-Kampff test

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Boosters, before you "not all men" me in the replies here, please _carefully_ consider whether your own use is _really_ as responsible and careful as you think. Have you checked? Maybe check first.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The PSF is putting a brave face on this but since I do not need to speak for them institutionally: I'm mad because "AI" is effectively stealing from the commons.

This commons was built with the express purpose of being useful to profit-seeking corporations, so just _using_ it isn't stealing, this is an explicit goal of the whole enterprise. But blowing the doors off with carelessly deployed "agentic loops" that are just chewing up public resources to no useful end is antisocial behavior.