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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

More likely, this will never happen. Much like Y2K, some of us will toil in obscurity creating alternative strategies. A big chunk of the industry will be granted the de-facto (as Ed Zitron put it) "amnesty of 'who could have known?'". We will be building on the shifting sands of a potential plagiarism lawsuit for the next (thanks Disney) literal century

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mcc wrote:

My generative AI has gone rogue. The conversation prompt terminal is gone and now there's just a crude ASCII rendition of a series of cellars. I have a blue potion and 4 pieces of gold. A letter Q is advancing on me menacingly

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This situation is so extreme and so ridiculous (and so expensive on the part of the plaintiff) that it is unlikely to hit whole ecosystems. There will be a few projects that something like this happens to, and there will be heroic efforts to "save" them, presented as valorous collective action. And it will be. But if this happens, remember that the valorous collective sacrifice is being performed retroactively to allow for the shortcuts that maintainers are taking *now*.

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

@richards1052

The power of a centralized corporate platform is the ability to censor content and limit free speech. This warning has been repeated over and over again since the beginning of Bluesky and largely ignored. So here we are. 🤷

All the lefties are now herded onto Bluesky and their output is constrained by a bunch of MAGA VCs and techbros. Great work team. 👏

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now imagine this happens to Linux. It's impossible to redeploy half-a-decade-old kernels without automated help for the security fixes. So, to "help out", Microsoft releases a version of Windows for the Cloud with an up-to-date WSL on it, so you can keep using your Linux software while you migrate to the "legally less risky" windows API.

Windows is still equally full of slop of course but nobody can prove it without public source and they have a legal team, so you could actually install it.

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inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

it would be terrible if this information were to get out even in spite of the platforms suppressing it:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

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

RE: https://masto.ai/@Miro%5FCollas/117335731040663115

whose, his?

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niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

I have no problem with ICANN creating a billion gTLDs to "Make Money Fast". As a personal developer it's a win-win since you can finally find a name without using domain hacks. But the current policy is ridiculous, ICANN doesn't even pretend that it's not a money-grabbing "you can get any gTLD if you pay!" scheme: .accountant vs. .accountants, .auto vs. .autos, .build vs. .builders, .cam vs. .camera, .career vs. .careers, .contact vs. .contractors, .coupon vs. .coupons, .date vs. .dating, .deal vs. .deals, .dental vs. .dentist, .engineer vs. .engineering, .fan vs. .fans, .finance vs. .financial. The list of gTLDs that abuse the English language goes on and on.

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

suggestion: instead, spend your time and energy impeaching those Federal officers who have carried out illegal and unconstitutional orders. folks like Whiskey Pete.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-hit-with-26-articles-of-impeachment-12492238

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Imagine the impact this would have on the community. Imagine trying to raise money required to re-litigate 5 years of work from a hundred contributors. Would Python continue to exist? Would we just have to immediately vaporize all progress made in the interim, start over at 3.14 and desperately fix 100 CVEs at once, carefully _not_ backporting all the fixes? Would every ecosystem package author need to join in to this all-hands-on-deck effort?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd like to ask CPython, today, to stop incorporating slop. This discussion would likely go nowhere. I cannot imagine a way to have it productively.

But there's a future (this *specific* one isn't likely) where, for example, NYT wins a devastating blow against Anthropic, something comes out in discovery about proprietary code as well as pirated books in the training set, somebody sues the PSF and then someone needs to review and potentially reauthor every commit from Python 3.14 to 3.19.

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In_Otter_News ("InOtterNews") wrote:

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Attachments:

• video: otters helping clear up at the aquarium

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I do still (perhaps irrationally) believe that we can potentially redeem the community and rehabilitate everyone currently acquiescing to the slop bots but the thing that I'm struggling to adjust to is that I don't think I will be alive to see it, and some of the setbacks along the way are going to be just excruciatingly devastating.

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andrewjweinstein.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Andrew Weinstein") wrote:

When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.

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cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (freelance for hire)") wrote:

That's right, right?

#Cats #Caturday

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billyjoebowers@mastodon.online ("billy joe bowers 🗽") wrote:

None of us are getting out of here alive.
We should grab all the love we can and hold on to it.

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

'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.'"

Rita Mae Brown, in her 1983 book "Sudden Death"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/26/trump-dismiss-iran-seven-day-peace-deal-hormuz

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117338022446987611

the way I am coping with my own version of this, of creeping corruption all the way up and down the stack, rather than starting at the bottom of the stack with like-minded folks and building all of modern computing up from first principles, is to build whatever little islands of resilience that I can within the ocean of slop.

I don't know if this is for any principled reason though, it is probably just that I can't withstand the total ego-death of "abandon everything you've ever worked for"

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).

In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, please help me figure out why OBS keeps doing this crazy thing where sometimes audio goes into slo-mo dubstep glitch mode. Sometimes switching inputs fixes it. Sometimes only "sudo killall coreaudiod" fixes it. Here's what it sounds like. It seems to be doubling the spacing of the frames, and the buffer is infinite.

Even worse is that my check-volume.pl script fails to detect it much of the time. On this particular TS file it reports "glitchy: 27.4 ...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5F-

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Now to see if I get it running in cloudflare workers 🤔

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

The true joy is helping others succeed, not playing "number go up", the stupidest fucking game ever.

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alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

@elfin if they remove the cameras, then the map will hold no power over them 💁🏼‍♀️

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nightrose@mastodon.online ("Lydia Pintscher") wrote:

At KDE e.V. we are looking for a Software Infrastructure and Continuous Delivery Engineer to support @kde's sysadmin team. If you know someone who is passionate about ensuring that an amazing Open Source community has the infrastructure it needs, tell them to apply: https://ev.kde.org/resources/jobad-sysadmin2026/

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AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach
https://apnews.com/article/paid-for-us-government-ad-trump-political-60c020f7ecb7a071c4c604f659388949?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones

Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born

These are policy choices

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I feel like not enough people saw this thread when i wrote it. Should I turn this into a blog post? https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115827646863388901

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ginny@social.ginny.today ("Ginny :inhaler:") wrote:

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO PIRATE EVERYTHING. BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING. I GIVE MONEY, YOU GIVE BOOK. NOT "ACCESS" TO BOOK. BOOK!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

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ginny@social.ginny.today ("Ginny :inhaler:") wrote:

OH MY GOD WHY IS IT FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY A FUCKING EBOOK. NO I DON'T WANT TO READ IT ON YOUR WEBSITE. NO I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD YOUR APP. I WANT TO FUCKING READ MY FUCKING BOOK THAT I PAID FOR IN A FILE THAT I CAN USE. YOU FUCKING CAPITALIST PERVERTS.

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

hearing someone say 'ratio' as 'ray tea oh' repeatedly and it's causing me pain.