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dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

With diff preview, and the same "panel_right for details", "tab for next chunk" logic than for search matches:

Boosted by jwz:
jas@fosstodon.org ("Simon Josefsson") wrote:

@jwz @leah Your quote from 2016 reads like it was written today. #debian #llm ”I guess you want Debian to be the kind of operation that uses the work of others while blatantly and explicitly ignoring the wishes of the person who *did the actual creative work*.” https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#168

Boosted by jwz:
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

It doesn’t come as a shock that so many OSS “personalities” are coming out fascist. So many have been vocal libertarians.

And that’s just a fascist in a frock.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AliceMarshall@dmv.community ("Aunt Tifa") wrote:

Greg Palast, the Guardian reporter who first busted the theft of the election in Florida in 2000, says the Jim Crow tactics which will be used in 2026 to block Black and Hispanic voters from the ballot box are the worst Jim Crow trickery he's seen in 26 years on the “vote suppression” beat. So, he’s launched SaveYourVote.org, along with Black Voters Matter, NAACP Atlanta, Southwest Voters Latino Mobilization and RainbowPUSH to prevent the King of Orange and his state-level tangerines from wiping away the votes of 4.7 million Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL%5F0cNTzCuU

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Remoman/117180038912906646

eww

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

RE: https://masto.ai/@venitamathias/117179437022225663

a$$hole

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@leah Welp, I won't let this change my opinions of the ethics of the Debian community. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/

Boosted by jwz:
leah@blahaj.social ("Leah Neukirchen") wrote:

Debian has voted to not reject use of AI for contributions to the distribution. I've seen people blaming the voting system, political centrism, or 'being tricked' by AI-written proposals to rectify this result. I will instead blame the voters, the Debian Developers themselves, for the outcome: There simply was no majority to reject genAI contributions, and likewise no interest in regulating it. >>

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

it sure is weird how having anyone associated with Palantir or Anduril or any of the companies whose purpose is making software that kills (“are you ok with your software being used to kill people” is a standard Palantir interview question, no I’m not kidding) in an open source project always leads to control over key parts of the project being yielded to untalented right-wing stooges, an exodus of core maintainers due directly to the actions of the Palantir/whoever plants, and a barely functioning project overall

there’s lots and lots and lots of nontechnical reasons to not allow fascists who write software for murder in your project, but uhhh the technical end ain’t looking good

if you don’t believe me you can look at Rust, NixOS, and neovim

no I won’t just tell you what happened to these projects. what happened was public and loud, and you weren’t paying attention. it’s time for you to learn what a fascist takeover looks like and what happens when it works.

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

i can now turn from clauses with joins with on expressions into sql. badly, because i haven't done anything about parenthesis in expressions, but it's a start!

quite happy - it's like the sort of code i'd like to write in most languages, despite all the dependent types machinery

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
babe@duck.rodeo ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Are there any distros other than NetBSD and Gentoo that have explicitly banned AI-assisted contributions?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

The results of the Debian vote regarding the use of LLMs for project contributions are in:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/

Disappointing, but clarity is good and allows people to direct their energy to projects where it might do the most good.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org wrote:

I'm seeing more and more folks embrace the crayon drawing. The "even though it might not look as polished as something I could have prompted, it was made by me, with intent and by my own effort without stolen labor...and that makes it inherently more meaningful" philosophy.

The world needs more crayon drawings right now

RE: https://musicians.today/@venya/117175616971195297

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

There is a new documentary about Mary Oliver on PBS.

https://www.pbs.org/video/mary-oliver-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world-ljjirm/

#Film #Nature #Poetry #LGBTQ+

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@chris "to entertain you for a few seconds without ever letting you absorb anything you've watched"

That's a *lot* of the content. But I've also learned things I never went looking for.

Recently. This American Life posted a preview of one of their episodes on TikTok, which got me to go listen to the full episode. So there are paths to the deeper engagement, even if the platform itself isn't great for that. When it works well, it can help the audience that hasn't found you yet find you.

jwz wrote:

My friends call it the big D.

Periodically, the "d" key on my keyboard stops working. Always and only "d". Power cycling the keyboard doesn't fix it. Plug the keyboard into a different computer: works fine over there. Rebooting the Mac fixes it. And I have now discovered: the mere act of launching NoMachine (without typing anything) fixes it -- for a while.

It just █i█ it again, 5 minutes later, go█ █ammit.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5FQ

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

Fixed the eyes!

#embroidery

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

I made a list of websites that offer royalty-free, human-made images for your blogs and social media posts. I’ll keep the list updated over time.

Use these images instead of #AISlop! No more excuses!

Please reply with additional sites and I’ll add them to the list.

#AI #NoAI #art #images #publicDomain #royaltyFree

https://humancode.us/2026/08/28/royalty-free-images

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Like.

cffi
libffi.
libusb.
Most distros now.
systemd.
kubefleet.
Probably Rust soon.
Anubis, ironically.
helm-charts.
Linux kernel.

This is where we're at. More and more projects just adopt AI every day, many in very obvious "we barely reviewed what it's doing" ways, and it's just not stopping and pressure is obviously not working.

And can you blame maintainers, when no one is stepping up to help, they're getting flooded with AI bugs, and people just don't give a fuck unless it's highly visible, even if the blast radius is immense if it breaks?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@firepoet ah, sorry, I actually mean this sULID. (which I'd posted about just a day or two ago):

https://crates.io/crates/signed-ulid

I was going to call the crate `sulid` but someone beat me to it. 🤦‍♂️

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@firepoet When I started Diskuto (2019-06-09) Nostr didn't exist.

When I learned about it, I did play around with Nostr. It was fun to work in a system with actual users. 😆

https://github.com/NfNitLoop/yastr

I ran my own relay for a while. But I found the community a bit too crypto-bro, and the protocol a bit too "whatever you can fit into the JSON payload". It ended up trying to do too many things with too little specification.

I liked some things and learned some other lessons from it, though. 😃

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nystre.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nystre") wrote:

leaves, acorns, pinecone, wood chip, flint. a lil meditative drawing but I liked it enough to post

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space ("Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍") wrote:

RE: https://beige.party/@adub/117179364417550935

This is good to see

#disability #mobilityaids #accessibility

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

testFrom = Join (From "z" Sample) "y" Sample ("y"~>"a" == "z"~>"a")

holy shit this is awesome

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

Every time I write about something like this, people get mad at me on the ATmosphere, so I've not even said anything over there, but maybe I should.

The thing is, I'm not even trying to play a partisan battle. I've talked to them quite a bit about how to fix their infrastructure. I'm making an analysis.

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

There are only a smattering of "full participants", if there even are that, it's unclear in which ways everyone is relying on Bluesky's infrastructure still, certainly every time Bluesky goes down it appears there's still a lot of reliance. And yet there still are these level of problems already

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

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/117164715463719268

Now that the ATmosphere has some more nodes on it, the big reason given for not using ActivityPub, missing replies, turns out to be also a problem on the ATmosphere.

All stuff I called out as being likely to be challenges, it's just that the ATmosphere (Bluesky etc) didn't have enough decentralization happening yet.

In fact, it's going to be harder to get this right on the ATmosphere as more full nodes appear, because the fediverse has an *imperfect* mechanism with directed delivery (with some improvements in spec for the server at the top of the thread helping to share replies it's seen, and other implementation such as Mastodon have also added good features like reply-fetching, so this isn't even a big complaint you see from users anymore). But the shared heap architecture doesn't have that.

ATproto *could add* addressing and directed delivery, and I believe to address these issues, will have to.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@mirabilos @ska @lanodan Wow.

As I read this (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Debian project secretary Kurt Roeckx is an AI pusher, accepted late slop-generated options to the ballot, and accepted slop code into the voting software. All during a vote on whether to accept slop.

Bonkers level of corruption/conflict-of-interest.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
hellocatfood@post.lurk.org wrote:

I am supposed to be writing applications forms but instead I'm generating jpgs and videos again

#creativecoding

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