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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Con man Musk is one of our age's most monumental sleazes, and his hugely deceptive -- and dangerous to your privacy-- "votesafe" website is just one more egregious example. https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

The whole "OpenAI uses mathematicians' prompts to claim their models solved maths problems" seems to be a pattern...

(Article title: Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-training-data

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we decided the easiest way to make sure we cover everything was to go through amd64.e, where the assembly words are defined, and do them each in order, searching the output for examples

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

okay. now we're doing the slightly tedious work of making sure every single assembly instruction comment that Evocation's hex transform outputs is formatted exactly the way we want it to be - covers the correct span of bytes, has the parameters in the correct order, all that

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

trying to work and your brain feels like it is melted and you are going 1 mile per hour and you look and realize its not just you, your computer has throttled itself down to like 15% speed, it is programmed to not become too hot to touch by scooting too hard, the air temperature gradient is too shallow, and you have only been typing one character per second for like an hour

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

like much of LA, my apartment is basically outside, or at outside levels of insulation. no AC but I do have um tap water to constantly dampen myself with I guess.

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

really bad my dogs

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
michel_slm@social.coop ("Michel Lind :TwinPines:") wrote:

@aburka @neatnik I tell people who bring Omarchy up enthusiastically about DHH's fascism and about how bad the code is.

So far even two very AI pilled individuals (one fight at the time) are horrified enough to either say they won't check it out anymore or to stop bringing it up.

But it's worrying how being aligned on vibe coding makes these people enthusiastically extol this shiny new thing without the most rudimentary background check - another example of AI addiction eroding critical thinking, or increaaing people's impatience I guess

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Anyone can become disabled at any time.

It’s not a moral failing.

It’s not laziness or a lack of effort.

It’s a part of the human condition.

People get sick. Bodies break down.

It’s a minority group you can join any time.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay I find it hard to re-listen to my own talks so it's been a really long time since I have revisited this but god _damn_ y'all should have listened to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgWFQp9Gpo

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

goddamn it I've done all the Posting, I thought I was going to be Through It by now

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
benno@eigenmagic.net ("Benno") wrote:

Saddened to report that I will no longer be walking 500 miles.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/10/the-proclaimers-graham-linehan-trans-views/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

everything is microtonal if you're not such a little bitch about it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It is endlessly fascinating to me how radically some code's architecture can change once you start getting serious about documenting *exactly* how users should use it to solve a particular problem

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

that apple commercial where they destroy all of the arts with a comically large pneumatic press and give you a fucking ipad like the good little consumer you are, but instead there's no pneumatic press etc, just a person throwing their old thinkpad onto their pile of art supplies musical instruments books old arcade cabinets and so on. the thinkpad's shit aftermarket battery falls off as it hits the pile, the person turns off the light and closes the door. then the laptop starts booting plan9

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

post Pandemic, San Fhas become a dog city.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the bitter pill for critics to swallow here is that we are going to find ways to be forgiving or at least diplomatic when dealing with boosters. we need to find ways to offer boosters community. this is going to involve being clear-eyed about the *very big difference* between the kind of booster who runs Omarchy because they get some free tokens with it and it had a cool YouTube video and the kind of booster who runs Omarchy because they are Excited About The Whole Project.

Big year for nuance.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(sitting bolt upright in bed)

wait! did they mock him as “often-wrong Soong” because he started with LLMs before he discovered the positronic matrix?!?!

(falling unconscious again immediately)

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:") wrote:

RE: https://functional.cafe/@otfrom/117247476175023575

I have pondered this before, and think there might be some truth to it, sadly :(

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Megan Fox") wrote:

Got a new public post up about Godot phys traces: https://www.patreon.com/glassbottommeg/posts/how-to-do-traces-167022203

(also a bunch of still private ones though they'll go free/public soon, some cool Affinity Design videos n more Godot stuff!)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

I just lost my job today, so here we go..

I'm a ~30 years career Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.

Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")

Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.

I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.

Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.

Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.

I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.

I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.

If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.

Remote only / West Michigan maybe / not willing to relocate

#getfedihired #unix #linux

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
C0rn3lius@aus.social ("Cornelius") wrote:

The cat was agitated at the window. Glanced down into the backyard.

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

if Prof Jacobs says this is a good place to work and that he is a good leader to work for, then you can trust that:

https://lnkd.in/p/gkf4dvaP

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lemay ("laura lemay") wrote:

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat):

I have stolen
the plums
that were on
the counter

and which
you probably
would have preferred
I did not

I'm not sorry
they were so rolly
so fun
I put them
under the couch

#Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by pixxl:
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

It’s hard to convey the scale and scope of how cooked a generation of people are by LLM slop.

“You can use AI to improve efficiency but make sure you double-check all its output to make sure it isn’t just hallucinating bullshit” thanks that’s actually more work and thus less efficient than not using an LLM at all.

“You have to double-check LLM output, but also if the task is too complicated or complex to figure out on your own, you should use an LLM” thanks but if it’s too complicated to figure out on your own, then you can’t double-check the output.

Just absolutely cooked.

Boosted by pixxl:
delafin@climatejustice.social ("A.A. Delafin :RedFlag:") wrote:

@HeavenlyPossum "AI is only to be used by people who understand the subject matter, so they can check its validity."
vs
"AI gives everyone access to things that were previously only done by experts!"

Similar contradictory statements that are routinely touted by slop-pushers

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

@sabrina By contrast, all modern software is much more streamlined, functional, and flat, lacking even the texture of skeuomorphism, let alone the physicality of earlier experiments like eWorld, a BBS, a FirstClass node, or an MMO. People engaging in community *decorate* their shared spaces; they commemorate things. They don't just paint the walls a pastel neutral blue and lower all the chairs into a hidden cabinet when the meeting is done

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:

After a while I'm going to become nothing but memories that I won't remember.

https://zzclaybourne.com/write-on-right-on/2025/1/22/regarding-lost-socks-amp-kindling

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

do these people know you can turn computers off

that's a thing you can do, it's allowed

it is now safe to turn off your computer

it has always been safe to turn off your computer

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the next phase of AI resistance is probably going to look like engaging in some long-term projects to build this kind of stuff, since it seems the rhetorical battle is at a standstill, even on mastodon where anti-AI sentiment seems to have the largest possible numerical advantage