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

$9.5 billion

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/doge-payments-federal-worker-leave?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)") wrote:

Random question.. who here is doing any work with reticulum? I have started to dip my toes in and am having a powerful urge to make it accessible to everyone.

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Meanwhile, down here on earth, this is what's really happening while we're all forced to entertain the "super intelligent" machine god killing us cause its too smart 🙄

Best believe Anthropic & OpenAI sales people are lobbying hospitals to adopt these tools at full speed.

You think they're asking for regulation AGINST this stuff 🙄

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

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

AD&D second edition was the best version of D&D and we will not be moved from this position

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

when we left, BART ended at Daly City. now, BART goes all the way to and *past* SFO.

yay public transit 🚊

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Toppstöðin was actually built with assistance from the Marshall Plan.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #history

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]"

Amazon official statement after DCs were blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region."

(yes, more than one DC was blown up, but, like other failures, of course DCs being blown up aren't uncorrelated events)

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
Max@corteximplant.com ("Problem Fox") wrote:

Love it when a site says "sign up for our newsletter, but if you don't want to give us your email here's our RSS feed instead".

Let's have more of this!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scottwilson@infosec.exchange ("Scott Wilson 🌈") wrote:

I’m posting this again, specifically so I can say:

LOL.

LMFAO.

#privacy #flock #infosec

https://micahflee.com/flock-cameras-are-riddled-with-security-vulnerabilities-and-hard-coded-credentials/

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

Blockchain will solve precisely zero problems the Fediverse has for E2EE.

We don't need it.

I will not use it.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

After my comment on "Concerned AI bros" I got a message that basically went:
"Congrats, your article got some traction. We both know that you are just saying those things cause you are a contrarian and want to make money."

And I hear that not often but sometimes so a quick reality check.
- you don't get paid well to criticize tech. A few people might get to make it work but mostly the other side is the one with the money
- my criticism has basically destroyed my opportunities to find a different job right now that aligns with my qualifications
- A lot of the work I do is not paid at all but goes towards upskilling and informing unions and NGOs etc.
- if I wanted to make money I'd do the "reasonable AI guideline" shtick. That one can at least pay. I just don't believe in it.

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babe@duck.rodeo ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

I have just been reminded of (one of) the excessively horny french orangina adverts and so I guess it's only fair you all get reminded of it too.

You're welcome.

Attachments:

• video: Advert full of CGI anthropomorphized animals dancing and posing while scantily clad. There's a whole lot of tits and ass.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

I think something that doesn't get appreciated all that much in discussions of how to leave GitHub is that MS heavily sponsors CI runners. It's relatively easy in principle to turn money into Linux runners, even if it's a giant headache in practice, but Windows and macOS runners are much more difficult even in principle.

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

you know the site of that battle with the necromancer, 800 years ago? with all the walking skeletons? the skeletons are outside our remit as they're not alive, but a traveler recently reported seeing a finch that was thought extinct, nesting in their skulls. please see if you can verify this.

don't destroy any skeletons, they're registered historical artifacts.

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

Lmao they all suck, man. We need to swap out senators like underwear.

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

there's a territory dispute between the three-meter-long bullfrogs and the one-meter-long poison jumping frogs. there's not much you can do to directly intervene, but please go study their habitat for any ideas. wear your slime suit in case you get eaten.

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

these red butterflies are attracted to blood; a flock of them can drain a large mammal in ten minutes. their usual prey is in decline in recent years, please do a controlled feeding. feel free to consult your colleagues for practical tips on how to survive it.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

today has been crazy. anyway,

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

imho “Jimmy Iovine” was the best track

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it’s a big week for those of us who unironically loved not just Thrift Shop but _all_ of The Heist and would like to just play it all the time

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

let's attempt baking with too few ingredients again.

peanut butter and chocolate brownies.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

The biggest challenge in the short-term future is apathy, and the underlying belief that change is impossible or intractable or beyond a single person or a small groups ability to tackle.

Fuck that weak, self-defeating bullshit.

It is important for the future of all that is worth anything that you (yes *you*) believe that you can make a positive difference to the world.

You don't have to fix everything or anything all at once. Just make a small ripple, the waves will take care of themselves.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

ffs, 4 years after publishing QP I was giving a public evening lecture in Switzerland on breaking their e-voting.

I has spent literally all day running around Zurich with a tv crew talking about the research, and it was like 9-10pm and I had just finished the lecture and was chatting with people in between talking to (so so many) people at the end someone came up to me with a copy of Queer Privacy in their hands.

In a day so full of experience, I remember that part most vividly.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

On "most people won't use it so why bother"

10 years ago I compiled a list of essays for a book project (Queer Privacy).

No where close to perfect. There are a million things I would do differently.

It sold ~1000 copies (mostly ebooks) - by most metrics...insignificant.

Yet everywhere I have gone for the last decade people have gone out of their way to tell me they appreciated that work / that it helped them / that it made some small difference in their lives.

Work worth doing.

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

our feelings on surveillance topics tend to come out like an oil seep

no apparent motion for a week or two at a time, then a whole bunch all at once

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
timmy@goblin.camp ("an interesting bean :flow:") wrote:

it is pretty funny that flock’s response to the hackers who hacksawed down their camera and found the encryption keys in plaintext is “why didn’t you submit a responsible disclosure?”

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
minmi@sfba.social ("MinmiTheDino") wrote:

I need to talk to whoever is out here manufacturing scientifically inaccurate toys cause it’s causing a real issue.

This tarantula either has 6 legs and palps or 8 legs and no palps and in either case my 5yo is very mad about it. Don’t even get him started on the eyes!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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

(a lot of concurrency work relies on packing data into 64 bits so they can fit into standard atomic operations without extra sync. this usually includes a pointer but often also includes some bits for a state machine)

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

Ideas are technologies. So as an anarchist FOSS technologist, let me give you a technology for $free.99, as they say - a technology that will forever change the way you parse conference talks, AWS product descriptions, and cloudtech whitepapers.

"Scale is where software development ethics go to die."

The one thing to be careful of, is this will give you the wrong *kind* of negative impression of a lot of speakers. It's half-useful to hear scale described as an unexamined good and think that a speaker is crowing about building the torment nexus, because that *does* accurately reflect the long-term goals of the speaker's employers. But you have to understand that most of these people don't have the class-consciousness to hear the problem in their words, and that's actually much scarier.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Society really thinking hard how they can optimally take away friends from children while also making it required to track adults with IDs on the Internet, conveniently erecting a total surveillance state plus further cut off access to people that don’t have IDs

marvelous stuff