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Boosted by jwz:
loeff@hessen.social ("Falko Löffler") wrote:

@tante @jwz I always have this on me.

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

My "lived experience" is that your shit stinks.

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

Also, I warned about exactly this – that "AI" fans risked getting pulled into the same kind of mindset and false ideas as naturopaths and homeopaths – over a year ago under the heading "Self-experimenting with psychological hazards is always a bad idea"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/#self-experimenting-with-psychological-hazards-is-always-a-bad-idea

The usual suspects responded with something along the lines of "well that makes me a proud naturopath"

Boosted by jwz:
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Also made some of @jwz's cards. For my sanity's sake.

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

Did not expect this to draw out the antivaxx crowd, but I should have. What a world we live in.

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

Citing “lived experience” as evidence something works is literally the tactic of homeopaths and antivaxxers when confronted by large-scale or structured studies disproving their claims. That this now seems to be the go-to argument of the pro-“AI” crowd is a huge red flag.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
sophie@catgirl.cloud ("⛧-440729 [sophie raven]") wrote:

wash body 3 min
wash hair 2 min
rinse 2 min
dissociate 3 hours
shave 5 min

someone who is good at showers please help me budget this my hot water bill is dying

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nmott/117108218793305138

Not only is secure usability very hard in its own right, poor security- and non-security-related UX breaks the now very tenuous narrative that even top-tier software is trustworthy at all. Even if your product is perfectly fine, the shittiness of the ecosystem affects everything!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nmott@infosec.exchange wrote:

the thing is, when companies insist on making software worse and worse and worse, “this makes no sense and i’ve never had to do it before” stops being the first line of defense against low-effort bullshit like this: https://bird.makeup/users/moonlock%5Fcom/statuses/2088010016926109872

you know what else companies never insisted on until they did? sharing phone numbers for multi-factor auth. completing at least one motherfucking captcha every time you want to view a website. or, alternatively, watching a strange catgirl fill a progress bar or complain that your browser won’t accept cookies every time you want to view a website. having a microsoft account to install windows. agreeing to have your whole-ass face scanned to, again, view a fucking website. being asked to set up something called a “passkey” even though you just signed in with your fuckin’ pass*word* and a code you retrieved from an app that generates these funny six-digit keys but always makes it so you have enough time to view a key but not enough time to be confident it’s going to be valid when you copy it so you have to wait for the next one to be generated.

“$COMPANY would never ask you to do $STUPID_BULLSHIT” only works if you aren’t living in the era of every company asking the people unfortunate enough to still use their products to constantly do stupid bullshit.

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 21st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 10 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The core argument from an upcoming piece; something I've come to view as nearly an iron rule in BigCo's:

Going from decent to excellent performance is a technical challenge, but moving from poor to decent performance is fundamentally a management and culture problem.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Pretty much.
#USpol

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sustainoss@hachyderm.io ("SustainOSS") wrote:

Daniel (@daniel) and Matias (https://patak.cat/) of npmiX (https://npmx.dev/) join host Richard (@richlitt) explores community, governance, inclusion, burnout, and sustainability beyond nonstop productivity.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/293

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
wolf480pl@mstdn.io ("Wolf480pl") wrote:

@andrewnez
I hope no software forge uses go to generate git-archive tarballs on the fly, that are later used by distros to build packages,and checked against a known-good hash...

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, triumphant over the precepts") wrote:

for the rest of our lives, whenever capital owners try to guilt trip you for pirating anything, we’ll always remember how LLMs were trained, and what the global justice systems did about it (cheered them on).

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inherentlee@flipping.rocks wrote:

just finished this :)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
NorcalGma2@sfba.social ("Norcal Gma 2") wrote:

I guess I won't be giving up my embroidery hobby any time soon.
It appears that someone purchased a dozen flour sack dishtowels to be shipped to me.
I know I didn't order them so if you did.
Thank you.
I do have enough to last me for the rest of my life now.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp ("Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ☀️") wrote:

Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid 🤔

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

I would kill copyright even if it killed copyleft in the process:

Boosted by jwz:
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Only previous time I've had to switch aircraft was when the ground crew accidentally unplugged a 777 from ground power before the APU was running, and apparently cold booting a 777-200 involves a large stack of floppies and is not a rapid task, anyway, was fun getting to see what the emergency floor level lighting actually looks like in the dark

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luckytran ("Dr. Lucky Tran") wrote:

With all these recalls, the only left that’s safe to eat is the rich

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Oh boo hoo you tried to not do any work and now you are saying that's my problem?

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I'm not sure how it became incumbent upon me to accept and adapt to my colleagues use of LLMs instead of how we usually react to people taking shortcuts and hilariously self owning themselves while trying to get ahead at the expense of everyone else around them.

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Just over a week until the DNA Lounge does Hackers again and while it was such an absolute joy accidentally ending up standing at the back and so watching Iain Softley appreciate several hundred nerds love his work at @emf last month, doing so in a more rollerblade friendly environment than, well, a field is a wonderfully different experience

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

They Knew and the congressional inquiry into When Did They Know and How Else Is Star Trek Costumes/Props Ahead Of Known Psychometrics SOTA

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Corrolary: all the evil guys are the most rubberized: the cardasians have whole head and neck pieces and can't really look around. The ferengi have their whole top half of their face and teeth covered. Klingons. Etc. And then they made the good versions of the bad guys like the bajorans just have little accents. The symbiote species just have leopard spots.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I'm sure this won't cause anyone any headaches:

"Since DEFLATE is the underlying compression used in archive/zip, compress/gzip, compress/zlib, and image/png, the outputs from those packages may also have changed."

https://go.dev/doc/go1.27#compressflatepkgcompressflate

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Is this anything: Star trek's costumes/props designers create all humanoid species by adding rubberized ornamentation to the cheeks, teeth, eyebrows, forehead, neck, and scalp, which is very rigid. So the only facial features left for the actors are their outer embouchure and eyes. A diagnostic correlate of autism is greater dispersion of gaze over the face when attending to emotion.....

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

sorry, that's single-use, single-author projects or projects that are by or for LLMs.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i see this happening all over and there are basically two flavors of reactions, "not even acknowledging anything about the code anymore because in space" and "desperately trying to mask the consequences" and i am still only seeing "very happy with LLM code" occurring in single-use, single-author projects.