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

I also remember the enormous pride we felt when our early VoIP network survived 9/11 and in fact, we ended up carrying 50%+ of the long haul traffic out of NYC for well over a year. My stupid software switch actually worked.

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

EVIL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HYPERGOD VERSUS HUMANITY: CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ScottEdelman@wandering.shop ("Scott Edelman") wrote:

"She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide." https://variety.com/2026/tv/features/lilly-wachowski-jk-rowling-harry-potter-trans-the-matrix-1236858104/

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

for those who haven't known us long enough to have heard this before, we were on that team when the Cambridge Analytica allegations dropped, and we won't say it changed the course of our life, we were already activists, but it gave us a powerful direction that we followed as far as we could, holding the line to the best of our ability.

it sucked. incredibly isolating work.

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

psychological profiling was the single biggest danger to the world that we spent all our time in Google advertising privacy fighting against, btw. it kept coming up, from so many different angles... we have no illusions, there's no way the company isn't offering things that can be used that way now that we've left.

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

and it makes us wonder if that's because of psychological profiling drawn from adtech (we are familiar with the measurement techniques that would be used to do that, from our industry experience), choosing this specific manipulative strategy over others

or if it's just the strategy everyone's political spam takes lately

seems really bad for society, either way

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

lately, the political spam has taken the tone of trying to surprise us with flattery, like making absurd claims about how important we allegedly are as an individual, which is both facially untrue since it's clearly a form letter sent to millions of people, and a very dangerous thing for anyone to believe about thesmelves

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

for years now our public-facing email inbox has been mostly political spam about that fucking country that we don't live in, vote in, or donate to political campaigns in. this is just how life goes, it's why corporations and political campaigns only ever get that address and not the other ones, sigh, but anyway --

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

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics https://mathandai.org/

A very powerful open letter, signed by 25 leading mathematicians (all Fields Medalists), on the ways AI corporations rushing to complete problems has been harmful, and the way LLM usage threatens the fruit from the work that grows out mathematical research.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

careful you don't get doored while riding your bicycle for the mind

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

So I don't know if you saw, but last week the VR game SUPERHYPERCUBE received a new release for Playstation 5 / PS VR2!

I've now uploaded to YouTube a stream me (I did the programming on the port) and Heather Kelley (who worked on both the port and the original) did this weekend. I play through the game and Heather talks about its creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2OWutcQyfY

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

GOOD THING WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE OF THOSE AROUND TODAY

https://bsky.app/profile/eb99.bsky.social/post/3mvawhnzlgc2d

h/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social

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

we read this academic paper a while back which mentioned in passing that it's apparently well-known (if you're in the right field of study...) that fascists and authoritarians always have a very backwards-looking idea of culture, they define their aesthetics in ways which only allow nostalgia and never new ideas, predictably and repeatedly

and once we had that idea, we've started seeing it everywhere ><

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

~75% of HTTPS traffic to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com is now using post-quantum key exchange.

Thats pretty cool.

Also < 1% using RSA certs. Wasn't expecting it to be that low, first time I have looked in a while.

(this is data for yesterday)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
quux@mastodon.online ("L⭕️rd Quux RCX CCX") wrote:

I saw what you did there… 😏

Boosted by jwz:
spitfire@mastodon.de ("Spitfire") wrote:

Oh wow, the XScreensaver-hack "handsy" just goatse'd me. Uhm, thanks? 😆 🤣

#xscreensaver

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

18 USC § 597 not only makes it a crime to merely *offer* to pay for votes, but it's written so that it could be charged separately for each person who would receive the bribe. So, two years in prison times 170 million USA voters... You do the math.

https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-597/

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

I had no idea The Exploratorium in San Francisco had moved to a bay-side location in 2013. It had occupied the Palace of Fine Arts for roughly 43 years after opening there in 1969.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thomasadam@bsd.network ("Thomas Adam") wrote:

#tmux #noai

I've done a fair bit of tmux development over the years.

Here's the last version (tmux-3.6a) before any known AI was introduced:

https://codeberg.org/opentmux/opentmux

IRC is where it's at for chatter:

`#opentmux` on irc.libera.chat

I'm absolutely willing to maintain this and make it available, etc.

Depends on how much appetite there is for it.

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

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

- Sandburg

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

and i oop

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

we lived here when they moved in took over these docks… and they were so stubbornly territorial that they made the fisherfolk move 😀

I had to come by & say hello

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

More stories have been shared on https://eph.emer.al/september-11/ than I was expecting. I've been reading all of them and genuinely appreciate that people are willing to share their reflections, even if temporarily.

If you'd like to read others' stories or share you own, feel free to stop by. They will all go away at the end of the day.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
plaguepoems ("Plague Poems") wrote:

My friend showed me a clip
from a game show
and when the crew was seen
all in masks, she said:
“Oh, I guess this is from
back during Covid,”
and before I could stop myself
I replied: “you had Covid last month,”
though I didn’t add that
it had been her fifth infection.

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117253501564617071

not sure how this pilot expects to be able to read the ACARS response to their ACARS question

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thePluff ("Comics by thePluff 🧸") wrote:

Hi, I'm Nat. I draw silly, little comics about my life and things I find important. I'd like to give the Fediverse a try because I'm tired of fighting predatory social media, algorithms, and poop-faces of tech bros.

Let's hang out and be nice to each other. :BlobhajReach: #Introduction

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

So, I read the "Omarchy Doctine" document, and I'd like to save you a click.

"I'm very old now and I don't like it at all. Nobody listens to me and I desperately want to feel like I did when I was 21. Computers were better when I didn't need to care about other people, and I don't like it and I blame women and minorities. Here's an ersatz 80s esthetic and permission to make sexist, racist jokes as long as your code compiles."

That's it.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
halle@infosec.exchange ("Halle Winkler") wrote:

Very big fan of accessibility and inclusion, have enough real-world exposure to the technical realities to feel OK noting that there are certain recurring contexts where it is presented as the first-order concern.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
halle@infosec.exchange ("Halle Winkler") wrote:

Audio Intelligence also proves my personal theory that if the leading advertisement for a new privacy-affecting feature is helping people with a disability, it's dystopian and the company is aware. In a perfect world this would be a sign of inclusion, but in this world it's a sign of framing concerns as anti-inclusion.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
halle@infosec.exchange ("Halle Winkler") wrote:

Apple Watch Audio Intelligence + Siri Transcription is going to be a mass relationship killer for people who think that the reason they have arguments with their SO is because of a lack of objective proof of what was said, and not because the area of conflict is a proxy for a problem relating to acts rather than speech.