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

No more ads!

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

I can now run uBlock Origin Lite on it

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

#Vivaldi for Mobile have added extension support and it's great

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/

this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy.

anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a lot more soon because this is a playbook.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (making toys)") wrote:

I grew up in the bible belt, in the south, in a recently rural farming community that was urbanizing so quickly that it was in the top ten fastest growing counties in the country for a decade.

I went to school with a bunch of self proclaimed rednecks who plastered the confederate battle flag on everything. They were fond of the phrase "heritage, not hate" which they used to mean "I want to use the symbolism of hatred, while being free from consequences."

These guys, usually, didn't know much about the history of the army who's battle flag they loved, and were, as a rule, pretty horrifically racist in ways big and small.

So when I see the rails chucklefuck talking about "Heritage is our duty" I just see the smiling face of the violent bigots that beat me and my friends for "race mixing."

And when I see him say "you're somebody now" ... I guess that's it's own post.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aby@aus.social ("Aby, full of whimsy and rage") wrote:

I'm so tired of seeing men make comments that are literally just a rewording of the original post written by someone who isn't a man.

Just stop doing this.

Not only isn't it necessary, but it pushes the harmful idea that nothing is valid unless it's rubber-stamped by a man's explanation of it.

_____
* inb4 - I know there's going to be some man who will think it's humorous to do that on this post—it's not funny. Don't be that guy.

#men #sex #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #misogyny #patriarchy

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Brynndylow@chatty.frogawampus.co.uk ("Brynnbo The FrogMxstress") wrote:

Not bad for a first try :HeartIntersex: :BlobHajMlem:

#BrynnSews

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
healyn@normal.style wrote:

I know a lot of filmmakers have been depressingly open to generative AI over the past year, so in case you missed this recent Werner Herzog quote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
oli@social.tchncs.de ("Oli") wrote:

"Meanwhile, what’s really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare. The climate catastrophe is a real thing that could be exacerbated by what these tech companies are building. Bosses are using AI as an excuse to get rid of their pesky workers. This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these."

Yes, a thousand times this. There is no AGI or SkyNet lurking around the corner.

https://www.wired.com/story/one-of-ais-fiercest-critics-says-all-the-doom-talk-is-meant-to-distract-us/

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

“Power grab”

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

> DHH is using his position and his influence to accumulate donations that he then can distribute to projects that align with his fascist worldview and ambitions. And in a time where many important projects and infrastructures are strapped for cash running just on the goodwill of a handful of people that is increasingly dangerous.

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

I don't know if the final line - "You are somebody now" - of DHH's "Omarchy Doctrine" is *intended* to have this connotation, but the first thing that popped into my mind is the final stanza of a poem written by the Danish resistance fighter Morten Nielsen, published posthumously in 1945. Here is my (poor, non-rhyming) translation. I've taken the liberty of capitalizing the interesting bit.

Fast bright voices, whirling into the blue
you were miserable, Fatty, but we couldn't understand
Sweaty and fat and stupid, Hell leapt forth
to knock over you and your bike; we stood around laughing.

You sat on the front bench - never cry, just stare, stare, stare
when a frightened and funny substitute asks you to add two and two
middle school subs saved a fraying discipline
by turning it all against you, who defenselessly became a joke.

When springtime came, for us who were 15 years old
and the trees stood shining over the girls' soft hair
and you came, cautiously and sincerely,
the one who laughed the loudest of us, was her it was all about.

Now revenge is yours! You wear shoulder strap and jackboots
you raise your arm, a light shines in your pale blue eyes
for a human being can take hatred, mockery and threats, but never - no, never! - being laughed at.

YOU ARE SOMEBODY NOW, Fatty, man and party member.
And should we go to the wall one day, your hand will be ready
Ready to smash your brass knuckles into my mouth when you strike.
And now you're out to kill, Fatty, all the cruel years.

(I think every Danish schoolkid still learns it. DHH is almost exactly my age, so he certainly did.)

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

“AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/11/agi-benchmarks-eugenic-origins-by-valerie-veatch/

> This was the beginning of the relentless use of white-nationalist, white-supremecist, eugenicist definitions of ‘intelligence’ deployed by the computer sciences to define what eventual machine ‘general intelligence’ might look like.

Boosted by jwz:
gedankenstuecke@scholar.social ("Bastian Greshake Tzovaras") wrote:

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside%5Fray%5Fban%5Fcovent%5Fgarden/

#pervertglasses

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

penning an RSS-only post, make sure to subscribe :)

https://dbushell.com/subscribe/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

RE: https://aoir.social/@rwg/117250266480905624

I've been hearing a lot of people say of late that the web sucks now because you can't find anything by searching, because all that comes up is AI slop.

This is true, and enormously frustrating. But make no mistake: when you search on things and can't find them, that's not the web sucking per se. That's SEARCH sucking.

1/n

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Today’s poem is called ‘You Can’t Judge a Book’.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
OurLostArcade ("Our Lost Arcade - The History") wrote:

Untitled, Goose Game.

Not coin-operated, but too good to not share.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Billthoo@mastodon.art wrote:

Dance
Ink

#Art
#Ink

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ck@chaos.social wrote:

@soatok @charlotte

Waiting for Matthew to pop up to exclaim in a most handwavery fashion how this is totally not a problem and that matrix needs more money.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

the French titles for Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves are making me laugh like an idiot. me when i'm posting about my virtual critters but i'm a little toxic about it

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

Put another way: if you get the answer without the learning process, there’s nothing there for you to leverage when tackling future problems

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library

Six years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Soatok's Guide to Side-Channel Attacks in which I discussed the general topic of side-channels in cryptographic applications, and how to avoid them, with example code in PHP....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-undermined-my-constant-time-javascript-library/

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

Dog if Claude code worked as well as how they say Claude code works then they would have just posted a fully generated custom world simulating simcity game that simulates behaviors across the entire lifespan of a worker. They have the fucking compute for baking a simulation like that but they only use it for consumer word generators instead of anything cool

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

It's Christlike to Love Immigrants and Transfolk

https://brennan.day/its-christlike-to-love-immigrants-and-transfolk/

#religion #christianity #socialjustice #theology

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

The website is misleading in a way is skillful and subtle - the way you would think things would work is that the simulation actually worked at the task level, like actually having a mixture of tasks modeled within a worker. Thats a very different kind of model than the macro model they've done here. The thing in the paper is a lot more like "let's construct an equation that always goes up" than "let's simulate what the world could work like and observe the results"

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
tillybridges ("Tilly Bridges") wrote:

if you won’t listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to Lilly Wachowski

because if you actually care about trans people

you gotta drop Harry Potter

https://variety.com/2026/tv/features/lilly-wachowski-jk-rowling-harry-potter-trans-the-matrix-1236858104/

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

alright, so, I feel like probably switching to Twisted is going to start paying off in a big way here soon (other than the simplicity of using Klein and being able to integrate existing `asyncio` stuff into) because I wasn't quite sure how I was going to handle scheduling and doing backup work (adding scraped results to the database, etc)

aaaand yeah, it looks easy as fuck: https://docs.twisted.org/en/latest/core/howto/time.html

mostly I just need background tasks to handle updating the database and *potentially* checking for new things and firing off one-off tasks and it seems those are both built right in. niiiiice.

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

"it's inevitable! you have no choice, so get used to it!"

"also it's very fragile and would immediately be destroyed if it had to follow even the simplest safety rules!"

well that sounds very well-reasoned and impossible to argue with /s

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
d6@merveilles.town ("∴ esoterik ∴") wrote:

"'Vibe coding?' No, you mishread me. I said I'm really into 'scribe coding' these days. I get a bunch of physical reference books, write the first draft of my programs with pen and ink, and generally try to create the most beautiful, compact, illuminated software possible."

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

been a while since I was out running to see the sunrise! 🏃