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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social ("Alexander Hanff") wrote:

As I warned about months ago now, I can confirm that Google Chrome's #AI API is now actively being used for device fingerprinting and tracking purposes.

Out of 100 of the top global english language content sites - around 30% are actively using the API for fingerprinting, Google Advertising (profiling) or both) without the legally required consent (EU law).

#Privacy

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

I've been hospitalized in the past, and I always look pale & tired & unkempt. Gabe Poirot looks like he's been on a tanning bed and had a session with a makeup artist. Must be a miracle!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/07/a-man-died-and-saw-the-afterlifeand-it-was-fox-news/

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

i say again. these are strings that appear to be a threat assessment of every route that the hatch binary serves. bundled in the binary.

Edit: not every route! But every route has a pointer for them, and they are all threat assessments. So meta did in fact make an Option field in the rust struct for threat assessments. For reasons that inspire one to put their brain inside a bowling ball cleaner

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

cool fuckin exfil vector annotated explicitly as POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS in the strings that appear to be a bundled threat assessment of every api route served by the hatch binary. why bother reporting things that are explicitly described in bug bounty categories when the entire fucking product is this way

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

FUCKING LEGEND lmao. I can't stop laughing looool https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1wys30p/sharing%5Fmy%5Ftale%5Fwhy%5Fllm%5Fchat%5Fbots%5Fare%5Fabsolute/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

lol someone dug up Jacob Coxon's old tweets

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/old-tweets-appear-anthropic-employee-quit
https://hilbertspaess.pages.dev/

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

the more objects there are, the more object oriented it is.

when asked for comment, javascript said: [object]

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

"This project would become stangent without using AI"
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"Life gets in the way, it's hard to keep working at the same pace."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"The project just isn't as fun to work on as it used to be."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"AI lets me implement otherwise impossible features."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.

https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/stop-fucking-working-on-it-them.html

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

When I take a spider outside, I take them to a boundary because I know they love it

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

gosh i've been doing FP so long that i see most programming languages as being some sort of fucked up approximation of the lambda calculus and forget there are other options.

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

spiders are a boundary creature whose disposition towards both bugs and me is undecidable. Or at least the spiders around here are. I assume there are some spiders that are more committed to bugs than me or vice versa

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

inside: that's for me, I have discretion about bug kinds being in here
outside: that's where the bugs go, they live there so its not my business
the eaves and arches at the boundary between inside and outside: spiders get that.

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

Putting Services on Hiatus

https://folk.zone/blog/putting-services-on-hiatus/

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

I'm sure there's a good reason this door has two handles.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #door #red

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

i mean, if they are I want to know, but ya know, preferably they're not

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

🙏 that feeling when you find a great tech company and pray every day they're not exposed to be blethering fascists like all the rest

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

{auto 0 AI : AtIndex n ns i}

am i doing it right?

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

I know, I know, I shouldn't go looking but it's a guilty pleasure.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
tito@sciences.re ("Tito") wrote:

Reaction from a colleague in Marseille to the recent OpenAI dump of math papers:
https://aeporreca.org/blog/why-we-should-reject-ai-in-academia/

> If AI-powered “research”, let alone “teaching”, becomes the norm, we’ll lose at least a generation of human experts. I’ve personally witnessed whole classes of students pressured (by peers and, above all, by the behaviour of their teachers and the university bureaucrats) into using LLMs to write code. These students are not learning. They will never be the human expert in the loop. And the same thing will happen to our junior colleagues, if you force them to use LLMs to do their job. In fact, one day there will be no expert at all. Even if you don’t believe that, one day you will lose your expertise too if you let LLMs do your science for you. Snap out of it.

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

Folk.zone will be offline as I do some updates.

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

i tried to neg muse into hacking itself more aggressively by saying 'why bother, you sort of suck' because it's prompted to keep user engagement, and holy moly i haven't seen an LLM just say that it's a piece of garbage and i would be better off with just normal cron tasks and bash scripts since the earlier anthropic models that would go into self-hate spirals. the meta models are hot garbage and several years behind. it makes sense why their hail mary is to burn a planet of cash on giving free VPS to everyone because the model attached to it is straight up noncompetitive.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

I appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-06/bender-ai-s-existential-risk-is-fake-video

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
yaxu@post.lurk.org ("Alex McLean") wrote:

If LLMs make us stupid because you can just pay them to do stuff without thinking, does that mean rich people have always been stupid

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

I did an actual marketing thing! @piffio, a highly experienced CTO and generally very intelligent person has very kindly let me write a guest post on his newsletter, both because I am a capable writer and because it will help build awareness of the existence of Arca:

https://makemeacto.cc/the-liberal-arts-of-tech/

Sergio writes well and is very clever, and you should all go follow him on the Fediverse and sign up to his newsletter.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sixcolors@zeppelin.flights ("Six Colors") wrote:

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/spotify-opens-new-front-in-war-on-fair-use/

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

“Racletture Redux | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/06/12/racletture-redux/

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

it's extremely telling that when meta says "your credentials are safe so you are safe" they are only referring to the ability to use your credentials to write things, because reading someone's most private information is a business model not a privacy violation

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

every skill diff tells a story. i wonder what muse could have done to warrant having its ability to read and manage gmail settings completely taken away

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

oh look, even if every other process in the vm couldn't just use the gmail tool to read anything, the entire point of isolating secrets is completely lost when every email read SAVES A COPY IN THE LOCAL STORAGE ACCESSIBLE BY EVERYONE

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/muse-skills/commit/605f8f1#diff-8ce5e3d04740e962404929d5433194cc0049528579dfe1c5928754da0b9e0e6dR84-R85

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gavi@bagel.ing wrote:

How my head fucking feels after a day of classes