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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Another drawing for St Jude has arrived, this time for @hazbra. The prompt was "A giraffe in a 70s style blue football jersey dancing or listening to Enrique Iglesias".

Get one for yourself https://stjude.omg.lol

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202609111437/

#Analogue #StJude

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
dawgeth@pixelateddimensions.com wrote:

@neatnik Admittedly ignorant over all of it. I'm a .NET developer who uses Ubuntu for some selfhost stuff and on a spare laptop to do some dev work when Im mobile.

However .. forcing myself to read, understand, and push through the uncomfotable "this really isn't my world, I dont have skin in the game" feeling to make it part of my world, and my problem .. because if it happens here, it expands, grows, festers, is normalized, and becomes everybodys problem.

Great post @tante and thanks for sharing @neatnik

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

so are the BBC getting paid or getting played by Anthropic?

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
andybalaam ("Andy Balaam") wrote:

Feeling sad about AI

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/rYgQFwrqs9mpWydyoUCakY

I talk about why I've been feeling sad and encourage myself and you to feel some hope.

Transcript: https://artificialworlds.net/blog/2026/09/11/feeling-sad-about-ai/

#ai #video #programming

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

What’s something that you used to type every single day, but haven’t typed in a very long time?

I’ll start: +++ ATH

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

Boosts appreciated. #videogames #gamedev #nintendo #xbox #playstation #steamdeck

Boosted by pixxl:
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

"Oh my god, my AI agents are talking to one another!"

This seems incredibly impressive to anyone who hasn't, at any point in their lifetime, been in an IRC channel that had two misconfigured bots that started talking to each other until someone kickbanned one or both of them and then told the operators of said bots to sort their shit out before letting them back in the channel.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117252555828757015

This piece is essential reading, especially for anyone lazily dismissing Omarchy as insignificant or irrelevant, or for anyone who still doesn’t grasp the deeper problem.

The conclusion is critical. We need to start normalizing secondary sanctions. The network effect operates in reverse as well, and we can all play a role in influencing what thrives and what suffocates. So we should.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab."

I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem.

https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

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

weapons-grade cheese

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
In_Otter_News ("InOtterNews") wrote:

BREAKING NEWS: Otter receives head scritches.

Attachments:

• video: BREAKING NEWS: Otter receives head scritches.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

nazi punks fuck off!

https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

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

please donate ten million dollars for my operating system One Thousand Zero Days In A Container

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

What a lovely song from Inara George. "Love is Love is Love":

https://inarageorge.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-love-is-love

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

(it will be a miracle if we're as fast as smalltt. not because GHC is amazing, but because i will fail to notice at least some of the laziness implicit in the haskell version or not know how to translate it.)

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

(i've been warming up to porting smalltt to idris and one of the perf tricks they use is a mutable map, so we'll have one of those obviously.

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

mutable maps in idris outside of IO? don't mind if i do. didn't take long to bind what i need.

Boosted by pixxl:
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Project Glasswing:

Claiming to have found 26 thousand real vulnerabilities but only 0.8% of them have resulted in a real fix in a real project after five months is dire. They blame it on the human independent review bottleneck, but human experts being paid for their time definitely have a higher throughput than that when working with data that’s actually actionable.

The assigned-at-Claude severity ratings are also dire. It assigns “high” or “critical” to 91% of findings. Most findings in the real world are low or medium. This should be especially true when using a magic machine to shake out every last little issue that was overlooked by humans focused on the biggest risks.

[Edit: I should be more careful and note that this figure is calculated only from findings which have received a second opinion from project maintainers, which is much higher than the 0.8% fixed rate but much less than the entire dataset, so there’s probably bias towards reviewing those with critical ratings first. However, the maintainers found the high/critical rate to be quite inflated.]

Together this implies it’s generating thousands of trivial or nonsensical findings and labeling them HIGH DANGER CRITICAL MUST FIX, and the human independent verifiers are sifting for the rare needle in this haystack worth passing on. This isn’t really an improvement over the high-noise automated scanners we already had

(This is a corporate blog of someone with their own vulnerability management services to sell, so apply an appropriate number of grains of salt to their analysis. Filter keywords: AI LLM Anthropic)

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-receipts

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/117252410933786678

Money in politics working exactly as John Roberts hoped it might.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@andycarolan/117197174695090800

My Profile Pics are currently paused due to workload. However, you can sign up to the waitlist and be informed when slots re-open!

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

This man is only remembered today as a bad example and a corrupt scientist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/11/anyone-else-remember-brian-wansink/

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

omg.lol members are already familiar with https://eph.emer.al, an experimental temporary web page thing that I made a while back. For today, I'm opening it up to anyone who might want to share their own 9/11 story. No login required. Just share, or read, or both.

This is a space to put something out there, have it seen by someone else, and then let it vanish forever. It's temporary by design. I hope it offers something helpful to you today. 🎗️

Boosted by pixxl:
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

I’m really convinced that the current artificial intelligence trend will accelerate the evolution of mankind.

For instance, in the movie Idiocracy. it takes 500 years for humans to evolve from 2005 human to full blown idiots.

Well, with ChatGPT, Claude and all the others, I’m sure we can attain that idiocy level on a worldscale in less than 10 years.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Just got a spam email that introduced itself with

“Happy meatsuits,
…”

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!?