just so we're clear about the facts: it is fucking obvious that _no matter what you think of the iranian regime_ this american attack is an illegal war of aggression, illegal both in light of the international law, and the federal law. and it's fucking obvious that the international reaction […]

Kansas goddamn. God damn it all.

i mean, can you accept the fact that 57000 shaheed drones falling down at ukrainian homes _might have_ coloured the ukrainian perception of iran?

the american attack against iran is at once a crime against humanity, a massive blunder, a terrible product of the decaying mind of a wannabe tyrant, you name it; but focus the attention where it needs to be: it is an unilateral american decision. and if you expect people fighting for survival […]

RE: https://mastodon.design/@alx/116147889607983490 people wondering about the tone of ukrainian reaction here should perhaps consider which country produces the shaheed drones that russia is raining on ukrainian cities

so you probably have seen at least a few press releases that look like this: > COMPANY fires LARGE NUMBER of employees because of AI and when you read the details, almost every single one of them is bullshit in most cases the company simply continues layoffs that started some three years ago […]

And fine, not everyone is a fan of the official unofficial fediverse logo, l will concede there. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-history-of-the-fediverse-logo/ Does the Atmosphere even have one?

if – for whatever reasons – you decide to use zabbix for anything else than a toy installation, there are three things to remember: * use postgres, * tweak postgres for the workload, don't use defaults from the distro, * install and enable timescaledb as early as possible. no need to […]

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

RE: https://mastodon.art/@colossal/116139168522888037 i note that the last image is not too dissimilar to @babe's famous figurine of a rumpy mastodon

people who uncritically push the “cloud first” approach in the year of their trump 2026 in an european company could probably do some room reading exercises.

still looking to #getfedihired I have 15 years or experience in windows and linux support, change management, SACM, in ITIL and Agile environments. I also speak English and German. Located in Poland, German/EU national.

RE: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/116132803703187692 the management of pro publica is clearly ready to destroy the great thing that they have because they don't understand shit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg/116091870281045546 Yes I've posted this before. And I expect to unapologetically do it again.

i've been reliably informed that armin ronacher is again defending random internet nazis on the lobster site. leaving the place was clearly a good idea.

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired […]

“i would prefer not to” is a great ethical stance, and it should be used more, frankly.

the personal notes feature of mastodon is a blessing; to have all reason for a block written down is so useful. (the latest one is “vigorous promptfondler”; i hate this timeline.)

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@The_Underground_Sage/116105231224022215 american leftist, showing the typical american left's mastery of communication by insults and condescension they can't stop thinking they're masters of the universe even when they think they oppose imperialism.

So, the “Ukraine coup”… I’m sure you’ve heard about it, didn’t you? Caused all the war and stuff - but what really happened? It was **21 February 2014** and here’s how what #Russia today calls “the coup” _actually_ looked like. A bit… unusual setting for a […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

barbara engelking's “szanowny panie gistapo”, “esteemed mr. gistapo”, a little book about the denunciations polish people sent to gestapo during the time poland was occupied by the nazi germany – to snitch on things small and large, was quite crucial for my understanding how humans behave under […]

one thing i really enjoy here is getting a like notification for an old post: it's nice to know that something i wrote, sometimes off-handedly, months ago resonated with someone _now_.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

general reminder prompted by my last (CW’d) post but applicable to everyone: if you’re not part of a research organization with psychology training, a legal department and an ethics board who needs to approve the plan, you’re not “conducting a social experiment”, you’re conducting harassment

i wonder if we're going to se justifications of the _obvious known and foundational behaviour of the confabulation machinery_ as _teething issues_ up until the bubble pops and the crash brings down the companies that ride it right now.

so it seems that the slop companies don't need to raise their prices to make computing more costly for everyone, eh?

If you're telling me we should leave aside the ethical concerns for the moment, then you *know* that what your advocating is terrible

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116084714037569788 americans need to learn that you can criticise someone elses's government without being condescending gross annoying fucks to whole countries.

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116063698259881178 obviously, the results of the survey are in no way representative, but also, the perception is almost entirely wrong. _the conscription age in ukraine is twenty-five years, lowered from twenty-seven after biden's administration […]

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116080616274217433 a recommended thread

🇺🇦 🤝 🇵🇱 Tak bardzo prawica chce skłócić społeczeństwa, tak bardzo się to nie udaje 👍 "Witold Gadowski: Kardynał Ryś zadecydował, że składka niedzielna w Krakowie pójdzie na Ukraińców - będą puste koszyki. To prosta droga do spadku wysokości ofiar […] [Original post on mastodon.com.pl]

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116063698259881178 feel free to boost, also if you don't know the exact answer, choose the one that appeals to you the most: this is about perceptions

i've recently started using matrix (via web client), and let me tell you, if anyone claims that matrix is ready to be a replacement for discord, especially usability-wise, they're either lying or have never used discord. to a discord user matrix has a feel of early brethren wright plants, just […]

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call their slop out this way.

happy _tłusty czwartek_ to anyone who observes it.

fwiw i don't know if the ability to attach quote posts in replies was planned or it's an artifact of the way mastodon's web interface is working, but i quite like it.

this is just a note reminding everyone that the international olympic committee was never any good, was always bad, terrible and supportive towards authoritarian regimes.

i'm watching the peter gunn series and thoroughly enjoying it; almost every episode is a gem

oh for fuck's sake, he stupid fucker had grok summarize heinlein's _the moon is a harsh mistress_ to him, badly, hadn't he now.

Donald Tusk: Polska nie przystąpi do Rady Pokoju - https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/donald-tusk-polska-nie-przystapi-do-rady-pokoju

This is another good read about Anglosphere bias in humanities in general: https://dariuszgalasinski.com/2018/04/14/foreigner-academia/ Anything dealing with humanities in English-speaking societies is human universal. Anything outside is very specific to local community.

i want my software written and maintained by reasonably decent, reasonably ethical people who want to stay that way. the rest, including programming prowess, is teachable.

The complaints about voter fraud in the US are just the new variation on stopping Black people voting. Every place they mention, every place they've investigated, has a large Black population. Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Fulton county. They've come up with a new way to try and deprive a […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adbenitez/116043036060057520 so this is another incredibly effective communicator, i'm completely convinced to never run any software written by them and i'm going to bookmark this for the next time i'm tempted to try delta chat. (i would consider trying delta chat […]

say what you want about the _developer relations_ and _developer advocates_ , but they're incredibly effective. to wit: the mozilla's developer relations lead jake archibald made me switch away from firefox only in few weeks of communication, and i was using firefox since it was still called […]

what we hear when you say "I used an LLM to help me with my writing": https://web.archive.org/web/20181229052512/http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6327-j

The future I want: Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. The future I seem to be getting: Fully Automated Luxury (for 1%) Heterosexual Boiled-Earth Authoritarianism. The part that gets fully automated is the authoritarian oppression.

this is a very specific nerdsnipe: did anyone manage to get the linux IM working _in linux gui apps run via wslg on windows without running a full linux graphic shell_? NOTE: i've tried most of what is findable on the web, including starting the IM engines manually and modifying wsl's weston […]