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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The thing that creeps me out about AI is that people anthropomorphize it while *also* excusing its behavior FAR MORE than they would a person.

If a person constantly lied to my face, then, after being called out, said "Oh, you're right, I totally made that up", I would disinvite them from my life.

If some person on the internet said "I'll write that code for you, just give me access to a shell on your computer", I'd say FUCK NO!

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netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org ("NetBSD Foundation 🚩") wrote:

We gain on average 800 new followers per year, but in the last year (since before Linus made the GenAI-code-in-Linux posts) we gained around 1200.

It's great to see the wave of new interest. We're a community that's had 30 years to develop its culture, and things here might work a little bit differently than you expect. But don't let that discourage you from getting involved. This mastodon-account-manager first became a developer in 2018, and it's easily one of the best things she ever did.

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all.

Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Don’t you just love the vibe era? Every day a new UX in your apps, with random things not working; but all fixed¹ tomorrow. It’s like the Heisenberg Quality Principle.

¹ differently broken

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lindamciver@aus.social ("Linda McIver") wrote:

Saying that large language models feel pain because they have been trained to avoid certain actions is like saying that calculators can breastfeed because you can spell out BOOBS on them.

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

pass 1 just well-scopes everything in co-debruijn and inserts metavariables, so we're not dealing with some random raw syntax that might not even be well scoped during proper elaboration.

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

today i gave up on trying to do everything in one pass and now the first pass is complete. one 86-line function. you'd love it.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Here's a great video on setting things up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hfejNXqOzA

Though, I used the "httpChallenge" method to set up #letsencrypt certs, which IMO is much easier to set up than the DNS method in the video.

I also used Podman instead of Docker, and found this blog post very helpful:
https://blog.cthudson.com/2023-11-02-running-traefik-with-podman/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

In migrating some services off of #DigitalOcean, I'm taking the opportunity to properly containerize them. I started setting up an #nginx web proxy to the containers, but kept running into silly roadblocks.

Friends recommended #traefik and it was a very big improvement:

1. Can auto-configure proxies based on Docker/Podman container labels.
2. Can auto-provision Let's Encrypt certs for them.
3. Handy little web console to check on things.

Definitely will be using/recommending this more!

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rms@mastodon.xyz ("Richard Stallman") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/01/how-misinformation-ai-hallucinations-infiltrating-australian-parliament

Australia's government deliberations are being poisoned by slop from LLMs.

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SecondUniverse@autistics.life ("SecondUniverse (she/her/they)") wrote:

@nicuveo A lot of analyses of drunk driving focus on the deaths and injuries, but they ignore the hidden costs of enforcing driving regulations. In fact the strict regulations create a dependency culture that encourages more drunk driving. /sarcasm

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

How to force chatbots into GNOME - a proposal to block anti-slop projects from the GNOME GitLab:

> Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab.

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/

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

okay i'm properly freaked out now.

i just plugged in a USB-A connector in only two tries.

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lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

me at work

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mhoye@cosocial.ca ("mhoye but seasonally spooky") wrote:

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nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

i am so tired of "ethical concerns aside" being a phrase i see every single time someone tries to defend the use of LLMs. fuck that! ethical concerns front and fucking center! it is very revealing that tech is currently in such a state that the quiet part can be said out loud without any pushback.

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nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

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gabe@mendeddrum.org ("Gabe") wrote:

@lcamtuf

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

FLI is the one organizing Bernie Sanders's alliance with Steve Bannon and all that to supposedly stop the existential risks to humanity from machine gods.

These men sure seem like people concerned with "existential risks."

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

We've said a lot about the current leaders, but a little gem in case you're wondering about the history.

Anyyyyhow, your favorite Anthropic so-called whistleblower's media blitz was organized by MIRI.

Let's not even forget about the Future of Life Institute and the type of money they've given organizations like Lighthaven and stuff.

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

For the uninitiated, Bernie Sanders' AI bills are being written by a eugenicist cult full of predators organizing "rape orgies."

Michael Vassar in that list is also the former president of MIRI, the organization closely advising Sanders.

Guys, we can't except our "leftist" politicians preoccupied with the 1% and all that to care about eugenics or sexual assault or cults or anything like that right?

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

Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about.

In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler.

Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed indeed."

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

It's Sunday evening, do you know which user agents your residential proxy scraper farms are using today?

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maartje@blahaj.social ("Maartje") wrote:

It was 5 years ago that i was invited to the Blåhaj Enterprises board meeting

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deborahh@cosocial.ca ("Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦") wrote:

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hugovk ("Hugo van Kemenade") wrote:

"This report was found and written by an automated property-testing tool I run (bugforge). The reproducer above was executed and its output is pasted unedited; no person reviewed the report before it was filed."

90 issues in 10m57s, one every 7 seconds. Now all closed as not planned.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%3Aclosed+author%3Aaugusto-rehfeldt

This is against the AI policy, which is referenced in AGENTS.md, but neither the human or their spam generator paid any attention.

https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/ai-tools/

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OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city ("Octavia Con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars: Succubard's Library") wrote:

:boosts_appreciated: I know the Malfoid thing is the newest craze, and I know there are far fewer artists following me than I follow, but in case any of you see this:

if you have even the barest shred of empathy for trans people, even the tiniest scrap of desire to see the hell we go through eased, please ignore anything to do with Harry Potter, and please tell your friends the same :shiba_please:

JK Rowling weaponises every last bit of both money and attention she and her products get to make our lives measurably worse, to degrade our rights one court-case and political rally at a time, and not giving her products attention by your hand is one way you can help the hundreds of millions of trans people around the world hope for a better tomorrow :hug_love:

edit: also, "foid" is channer speak, evidently, so that's just one more thing to consider :ditto_yikes:

#Art #Trans

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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Powder Douce Enby") wrote:

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117379160076062611

This should immediately end any consideration, they should be fined per tree, and barred from all construction for 5 years.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#SilentSunday

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danielaKay@chaos.social ("Autoerotic Defenestration") wrote:

This is one hell of an article:

"Dr Saul Newman has uncovered the “secret” to living to 110"
(Spoiler: it's 'poor record-keeping')

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/dr-saul-newman-has-uncovered-secret-living-110

Money quote: "Dr Newman’s research was supported by a 2010 Japanese government review which found 82 percent of people over 100 years old in Japan were actually already dead – including the country’s oldest man, whose corpse had been hidden by his daughter while she pocketed his pension for 30 years."