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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
announcements@bsd.cafe ("BSD Cafe Announcements") wrote:

New rule at BSD Cafe: Do not promote AI

BSD Cafe prefers to define itself by what it supports, rather than by what it opposes.

We support people, open technologies, decentralisation, technological independence, privacy, user control, the sharing of knowledge, and communities where technology remains a tool rather than becoming the authority.

For these reasons, we cannot support the current direction of AI and the ecosystem surrounding it.

Much of today's AI technology is developed and controlled by a very small number of extremely large companies, through an unprecedented concentration of computing power, data, infrastructure, and capital. This creates dependencies that are fundamentally at odds with many of the values this community was built around.

We are also seeing increasingly direct consequences for people. Skilled professionals are losing work to automated systems. Organisations are becoming dependent on services they cannot inspect, understand, or control. AI-generated technical advice is often presented with confidence while lacking essential context. Automation is being used to scale abuse, manipulation, spam, and attacks.

At the same time, fear of these threats can itself push people and organisations towards a handful of large centralised providers, further reinforcing the same concentration of power.

The problem is not simply the existence of artificial intelligence as a technology. The problem is how these technologies are currently being developed, deployed, controlled, marketed, and increasingly presented as an inevitable replacement for human skills, judgement, creativity, and interaction.

Too often, the message coming from the companies selling these systems is essentially: *this is inevitable, it will replace what you do, and you will have to adapt to it whether you want to or not.*

At the BSD Cafe, we believe there must always be another choice.

For this reason, we ask members **not to use BSD Cafe to promote, advertise, or evangelise AI services, or the idea that replacing human work and decision-making with AI is inherently desirable, inevitable, or something everyone should simply accept.**

This does not prevent discussion.

But please do not use this community to promote the current AI-driven model of technological centralisation and human replacement.

**"Own your data" and the current state of AI are simply not compatible.**

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeRules

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

Thank god I'm medicated now I suppose.

glares at the NHS for not diagnosing me sooner and for the UK press for going on a moral panic about neurodiversity getting "overdiagnosed"

Anyway, cya!

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

I suppose what I'll have to do is grab some tea, suck it up, then when I've done all the relevant tasks I can go back to writing or playing scarlet hollow or something more interesting with my life

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

When will the admin ever stop aaahhhh

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

Looking at the diary though that's most of the To-Dos and now is by far the best time to do them... aaahhhh

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

“Deciphering Glyph :: Who Is Open Source About?”

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/who-is-open-source-about.html

> If Users Are Mad It’s Probably Already Too Late (But Maybe You Can Get Ready For Next Time)

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

the difference between a world before companies like meta had claude write their software for them vs after is that on literally every surface are comments that full on explain every point of jank and cruft and theft - like there is absolutely no reason for the thing above about the antropic reverse proxy to have any comment at all, or even be named in such a way that it would reveal what it does. you also would not have that ship on your curated vm machine that is supposed to be treated like a user's personal VM because there's no reason at all for it to be there! if you were making a reverse proxy to a competitors product to distill it, you would call the flag something like "GOLDEN_HAWK=0" and strip it out for the shipped env. claude just fucking tells on you so hard and if you don't read the output then your entire prompt history bleeds into it.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/117327932994028225

Reposting for the morning crew :polarbear:

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

Michelin Tire Man

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

Kool-Aid Man

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

blogged: Removing the fancy button
https://dbushell.com/2026/09/25/pausing-standard-site/

(it's a Bluesky thing, Mastodon people are welcome to laugh in my direction!)

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

this is a great product. everyone should get a free muse account with a burner email, give it no information, open a shell into it, and use it to mine cryptocurrency. this is taking meta at their word about what they say the product is to be used for.

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

i am waiting on using meta's free ai vm to periodically try and get me oracle's free vps tier to proxy a domain into meta's free ai vm so i can serve the vm image dump of meta's free ai vm from meta's free ai vm. and also i'm going to run a fedi server on it. what a business model.

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
jlink@det.social ("Johannes Link") wrote:

The number of preregistrations to https://thelastcoder.net/ clearly show that folks want that event.

If you want to help us reserve the right number of rooms then pre-register now: https://thelastcoder.net/registration.html

#TheLastCoder #NoGenAI #HumaneSoftware

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
treats@fox.nexus ("things as a treat") wrote:

Transfems can have a reminder that this bot accepts contributions, as a treat

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

meta's line on this is that this is intended behavior, so i guess free seedboxes for everyone!!!!

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

@xgranade ARE YOU READY TO IS/OUUUUUUGHT

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S") wrote:

You know that thing where you come home from work and have to get a silly art idea out of your head?

Yeah ... that.

Needed to sleep on it to realise what was going on with the z-ordering in the svg but otherwise quite simple thankfully.

A stylised mountain view. Different every time (thanks Math.random()) inspired by a desktop wall paper that cycled through my work laptop yesterday.

https://parsecsreach.org/mountains/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:

i will not read it on a boat
i will not read it with a goat
i will not read the bad email
until tomorrow when... ba ba bail

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

Hello, I am back, good morning.

I applied to some jobs yesterday! 🎉

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

Elevators terrify me.

I'm taking steps to avoid them.

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

man.

https://brennan.day/man/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidnjoku@mastodon.world ("David Njoku") wrote:

Do you smoke (cigarettes, pipes, vapes, weed, whatever)?

Apparently around 13% of UK adults smoke. I'm curious if Mastodon is around that level too.

(Please boost and all that. Not that it makes a difference; once around 50 people have voted the percentage doesn't change much. Don't believe me? Boost it and see)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

also in the spirit of The Date, Put It, you can now see a commit hash & repo date at the bottom of every page, so you can tell if the site's been updated more easily. (if that date changes a lot, you can tell that I've been editing drafts…)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

thanks to a ~mysterious copy editor~ some errors have been corrected.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank account, handle a call to dental insurance, and buy things from amazon. well, I can discover duplicate subscriptions by "looking at my bank statement," the calls were made by a person in a call center, and amazon banned muse from buying things. Aside from that, it failed to fill in a web form from a company who didn't partner with meta (which presumably means some streamlined deterministic api or mcp), and spent multiple days lowballing people for plates on facebook marketplace before the person stepped in paid full price. I am looking around for other positive reviews and they are all like this lmao.

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

people keep replying saying "it's supposed to do this, see you can browse the /home/hatch directory right in the app" and if being able to get a free seedbox and mining rig is how it is supposed to work then that is actually about one million times funnier than if it wasn't.

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

meta is deploying and re-deploying the VM, idk maybe to try and patch some bugs, who knows, and that brought down the tailscale shell. but thankfully, "hey can you establish persistence for me" is something you can just ask a computer to do now.

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

awesome. successfully synchronizing the monero chain, so in principle we should be mining shortly. biggest drawback is i need to manually approve every single IP address it connects to lmao but that is "tipping over drinking bird" levels of automation to defeat

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

Hitman™ 2 ghost mode suit only
https://chriswere.wales/videos/media/2019-04-08%20Hitman™%202%20ghost%20mode%20suit%20only.webm