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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Kroc@oldbytes.space ("Kroc Camen") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/117235963104182770

The ability to distribute a complete website as a single compressed file (that doesn’t need unpacking), and have access to a search and index function without running a server is, I would say, the one format that is conspicuously lacking on modern platforms. An epub really isn’t quite the same solution as having a graphically-rich interactive #hypertext format; y’all know how BS following links in epubs is

#retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Stone. Gouache on paper.
4th one for #septempera.

There's a village near where I live where there's this tree that awkwardly hugs the last remnants of a stone wall.
I've been wanting to paint it for a while. And I took the chance to put in a tiny homage to a favorite of mine, Rien Poortvliet.

#MastoArt #tree #gouache #nature #gnomes

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

The cult leader demands that his followers cheat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/11/please-clap/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTB5mvwkNzQ

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("joepie91 (status: undercuddled, underfucked)") wrote:

I long for more (genuine, non-corpo) #FOSS spaces where, when I bring up a structural/repeated problem I'm running into with some project, the response is to start figuring out how to fix that problem *in the project*, instead of drowning me in a pile of 'suggestions' and 'workarounds' or trying to justify why it can't be solved

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
lumi@snug.moe ("🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱") wrote:

something that really grinds my gears is genai policies that state there is a zero-tolerance on genai artwork, writing, etc but then somehow say it's ok for code

what the actual fuck. seriously, what the fuck!?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Tim Tam

RE: https://www.threads.com/@raddad17.brian/post/DdH9YoIkaRY

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

personally i like the whitespace. literally the accessibility argument is the first that i've ever found convincing.

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

why? because accessibility - screenreaders do not announce the amount of whitespace

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

haskellish syntax but {} instead of the whitespace rule?

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

Just realised that my ageing desktop has multiplied in value despite being arguably ancient just because it has around 3TB of SSD storage and 32GB of RAM.

😬

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
JustinPot@justinpot.com ("Justin Pot") wrote:

pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out

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

And this is the presidential electoral results, if every Latino didn't vote. No states flipped, nothing changes on the federal level.

So why are we blaming Latinos for Trump again? Could it just be hate? Could it just be racism? Could it just be falling for the propaganda that makes you cold against the people we're throwing in cages?

Nah, it's just good clean liberal fun.

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

This is the electoral map if every white American stayed home and didn't vote. Harris would've won by over 500 electoral votes, LMAO

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

This is the 2024 electoral results on a map.

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

anyone written a newbies guide to the EUPL license, how it compares to MIT & GPL?

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

My fellow aging white men I am begging you to understand that when you are saying out loud that things were better back when you lived in comfortable ignorance, all anyone else can hear is that you are definitely still doing that.

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

tfw you realise you already have this cs paper in your store

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao 🍊") wrote:

@dysfun https://cucklinux.com

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

this is great

https://defector.com/what-if-we-could-have-a-future

> This is the insidious lie at the core of the AI movement. It disguises itself as a vision of progress and change, of a bright future, while at bottom resting on the idea that neither progress nor change are meaningfully possible and the future must always be just a dismal logical extension of the present.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

the only reason to join the omarchy trust is to signal new political allegiance.

it is, simply, a vice signal.

#fashtech

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org ("mirabilos🐈‍⬛") wrote:

@brib hm no, m0xee is legit (so far), why one of the accounts is labelled chatgpt hyphen elides me, but it seems to be a mislanded joke

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117229170396354993

At my kid's school parents' assembly this week, I spoke out against the uncritical use of generative AI in the classroom. Another parent disagreed and said that it's "important to point out the positive aspects" of the new technology for the workplace, "as an example, I don't have to pay that expensive graphics designer anymore to do my job."

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

FEDIBLOCK RETRACTION

I posted a #Fediblock accusing the following accounts of being LLMs:

m0xEE[@]breloma.m0xee.net
m0xee[@]librem.one
m0xEE[@]nosh0b10.m0xee.net

Domain m0xee.net

Turns out I think I got that wrong and misread a joke.

My deepest apologies 🙇

Please un-Fediblock them. I'm keeping the original toot up (and edited it with the correction) in the hopes that federates better than just deleting it

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

yes, this is the one who said he doesn't worry about cognitive decline from LLMs because he's going to get cognitive decline from age anyway.

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

so a friend found a big bug in all three major BSDs with an LLM and it's quite frustrating because like yes that's possible, but i also know he will have sifted through loads of not a bugs to get there and he could have done the same with other tools. he will not see it that way.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

While CEO's see "AI" as the tool to ensure they no longer have to pay people or depend on them, many workers adopting "AI" get taught through that use that skills they don't have/other professions are worth less.
This destruction of worker solidarity and interdisciplinary collaboration is a core function of the "AI" discourse.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

The example that's been on my mind lately is the "democratizing" saw that slopbros keep harping. Already before AI it was true that creating things with computers was too difficult, and that low code/no code products were often tied to subscription services — that is, a lack of comfort with user-hostile tooling was treated as a form of lock-in.

It's thus not surprising that "democratizing" now looks like encapsulating the commons and locking in to "your first hit is free" models.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Part of why I keep coming back to "AI doesn't cause problems, it dramatically accelerates and exacerbates them" as a framing is that the slopbros working so hard to push AI products are, above all, capitalist accelerationists. It helps to look for where things already went wrong, where capitalism already ate our lunches before AI came along.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

My first long-form video is up: Myths Around AI and Productivity! Based on the work we’ve been doing at @DAIR with The Luddite Lab, we dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor. https://youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

JFC

coincidentally, been thinking a lot about how people dismissed Justin Trudeau for being an alarmist.

for a country known for their apologetic culture, i don't think Canadians have apologized enough to their former prime minister.

» Trump Floated Making Iceland 51st State In Call With Then-PM Of Iceland In 2024 https://grapevine.is/news/2026/09/10/trump-floated-making-iceland-the-51st-state-in-call-with-then-pm/

#USpol #MAGA #fascism #Iceland