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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz ("Daniel Fischer") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/117339087583285485

The first satellites built - by radio hams - in my home town Bochum, Germany: in space just 5 days from now?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:

Picked up a cat toy on impulse; Hilo approves!
http://flic.kr/p/2sCXKhU

#Caturday

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

RE: https://c.im/@msbellows/117338364068964373

"...voting for foreign-born noncitizens, [was] a practice permitted in at least 22 states or territories at various points during the 1800s" https://ballotpedia.org/History%5Fof%5Fcitizenship%5Frequirements%5Fand%5Fnoncitizen%5Fvoting%5Fballot%5Fmeasures

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

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/117338414933271126

fun thread

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

the chemicals in the salt

do you mean... salt?

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

boy, have I got a treat for Mastodon: an expert in historic Middle Eastern music has made a dramatic performance of Complaint to Ea-Nasir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCYKhuDZN0

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

premium filth aroma

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

A bad anti-abortion & anti-Christian argument from AiG.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/26/bad-abortion-arguments-and-an-attack-on-liberal-christianity/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-CODNQe6g4

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

The first full album by my buddies Invincia is released now <3

https://invinciaband.com

No lyrics by me on this one. To everyone's benefit most likely!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I’m glad they’re putting this in the spotlight, really glad, but Mother Jones absolutely biffed something here, something a lot of folks are getting wrong:

The quote about how AI is “the largest theft of labor in human history?” That’s not “how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.”

No no no. •That• is the kind of email you send when you think the company is doing something terrible, and you want your objections preserved in writing. 🧵

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-legal-case-documents-revelations/

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

Some months ago, I saw a post here in Mastodon about a developer who had quit AI in their job. I found it very inspiring. Here is mine.

Not without shame, I admit that for a long time I used AI at work, even though I had banned it from my personal life. Now, what I believe and what I do are aligned again.

If you're a developer, please read it. There is life after being an AI shepherd.

https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html

#noai #fuckai #ai

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

Does any of you have any experience with...

...graphics on NetBSD with something other / less heavyweight than X11?
...booting NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi, and getting it to boot fast?

(I might end up using Linux, since that saves a lot of headaches, but I would be delighted to completely avoid LLM-encrusted code if I can.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
snow@teardrop.net ("Snow") wrote:

You may not like it but this is what peak UI looks like.

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

Wow socialising really drains me

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

@rmi it still seems like a weird thing to say! again: lots of people hopping on the “web” bandwagon in the early 2000s, yet nobody felt the need to go on the goddamn nightly news and proclaim “you have to admit, netscape is real”

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Functional Pin. It's not your fault that society is becoming an unlivable hellhole, so it is perfectly acceptable to lower the bar for being proud of yourself. 2026 functional is equivalent to 1990 exceptional.
https://collabs.shop/mafls2

jwz wrote:

Left Behind.

Smooth Dunk:
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5F8

Boosted by pixxl:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

calling it now, the next “agent orchestration framework” that makes like 5000 claude instances pretend they’ll die without food and capitalism will be called tamAGItchi

Boosted by pixxl:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software

proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump

the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

But who's *really* behind all this AI craze? You think it's AI labs? Think again

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

So how do you connect a multi user dungeon to the fediverse elegantly? Do you have a “journal” you keep in your cabin that you write in to talk about your adventures?

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

My quibble matters for two reasons:

1. The way that the AI-pushing tech leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Satya Nadella actually talk when they think no one is listening is AFAICT completely different from that Hecht quote. They are delusional, megalomaniacal. They wouldn’t gloat about getting away with labor theft; the concept of “labor theft” does not even exist for them. How can it be theft when they deserved it, when they are messianic figures whose wealth is proof of their infallible rightness?

If we want to oppose this destructive AI bubble, we should understand what we’re opposing.

2/

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

We're going to be pulling down and repurposing this stuff later. Guaranteed. So use your position and influence to choose components with standard interfaces, protocols and headers, choose standard form factors held together with bolts and loctite instead of epoxy. Find the justifications, fudge the numbers, do whatever you need to do, but make it easy for everyone - for us, for you, for all of us - to salvage this stuff piece by piece to serve the people and keep it out of landfills.

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

I don't know why you'd be following me if you're making custom hardware out there for this world of surveillance, stalking as a service, slop farming and so on, but if you are, I need to ask you for something for all of us: Find a way, with whatever workplace conniving or accounting chicanery you happen to need, to build whatever nightmare you need to build to keep a roof over your head out of individual, hand separable components. Compute modules, separate memory, breakaway boards, whatever.

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

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/tcrf-2026-ddos-postmortem/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

the loved one just sent me this. starts at looking for dodgy AI art in a Steam game, and, ah, gets worse

https://bsky.app/profile/therunepony.bsky.social/post/3mw3q3mdtv22h
https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Ftherunepony.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mw3q3mdtv22h&viewtype=tree

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

I am not the only person who wants what I want: Software by humans for humans, the ability to "use a computer" without participating in this horrible thing that AI companies are trying to build out of what used to be society. Everybody's grabbed the task closest to them. I know of a slopfree book ereader. I know of a slopfree password manager. We're all dependent on stuff further down the stack, and the stack became tall at some point, and only a few items in the stack have a slopfree principle.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Was much easier to get git-pkgs modules running in the browser as wasm than expected!

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

If you don't know who LHL is, let me summarise as "when the labs lost Leonard, they lost the whole room." Incredible:

https://fediverse.randomfoo.net/objects/cf984877-c6c9-4e5a-8ead-d874cf122884

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lhl@randomfoo.net wrote:

The Frontier AI Labs have been incredible irresponsible in their reporting/handling of loss of control incidents. For those that haven’t been keeping up, I had some agents put together a timeline/summary of some of the events from this year (some which have only recently been reported): https://lhl.github.io/research/20290926-openai-control-failures/

OpenAI has recently created a Misalignment Reports and Notices site that is simultaneously good in the sense that this sort of transparency and reporting should be mandatory/table stakes if we want to prevent catastrophic future loss of control events, but also infuriating, since some of this just reveals people being REALLY FUCKING AWFUL at their jobs and how we’re ngmi. How angry/worried this makes you depends on how seriously you take the risk. (Personally, I’m pretty angry/worried.)

While technically the agentic swarm hacks are CFAA felonies, from an incentives/practical perspective, I would probably carve out civil liability for self-reporting vs harsh criminal penalties for failure to report - we’ve seen now too many of these incidents only be revealed only after third party reporting or analysis. Personally, I think that this type of reporting failure should be punished with serious fines and and personal liability/jail time up the management chain.

(As we can see from the HF incident not even making the news, sadly, I suspect nothing like that will happen until after a true catastrophe occurs.)