I do not wish to chat with my expense software, I do not wish to gossip with my 401k portfolio, I do not wish to go to the ball game with my home equity loan.

Fedi, where do people go to follow news on all the cool hacker cons? ...I need to go to them and I keep missing them

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." (Original title: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making) […]

Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be a little less rich is considered radical and unhinged.

okay clearly this is a sign that I need to add my odroid boards to my bedroom testing network so I can just do automated testing via ssh (et al.)

if buying isnt owning, piracy isnt stealing

Okay, LISTEN UP DO NOT BUY LG. Not ANYTHING LG. Not only are they actively spying on you, not only have they updated their TOS to include requiring you to NOTIFY GUESTS ABOUT WIRETAPPING LAW, on Windows they're pushing ADWARE through WINDOWS UPDATE along with their monitor drivers - including […]

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]

update on nolish: we met up today and did some soldering, but we ran out of time to solder jtag unfortuntately. luckily, we now have a far better plan for how we'll get it done. also, we have been working on making a free and open source implementation of the original computer-side software […]

[out of context quote from a friend] "EE? ESTROGEN ENGINEERING???"

@QuadRadical federated nexus is down, please fix it

being called "boring" by a slop defender who is employed (apparently) by microslop, this is fucking sending me

thinking about how a bunch of people who are pro-slop are also complaining about the consequences of other people using slop

I wonder how successful these types of channels ever end up being, pumping out content with a seemingly automated pipeline about absolutely any idea or thing that you can get information about. They don't seem to actually get enough views to make it worthwhile, assuming they pay for whatever AI […]

Strange things happen when your blog post gets on the front page of Hacher News, I'm being talked about by YouTube Shorts slop channels now

RE: https://federate.social/@jik/116940546189930197 When I see "Network Key" I worry that one of two things is the case: 1. It's a WEP network. 2. It's not a WEP network, but they only actually understand WEP.

proud to announce that upon taking it apart I have confirmed the mcu chip is what we expected it to be. it's also super easy to open!

update on the nolish project: sorry (didn't know this was going to happen, I did not mean to bait and switch) but the v1 model arrived instead of the v2 model. luckily we understand its hardware better anyways and we can always buy the v2 model elsewhere online later too.

You Cannot Make A Leftist Slop Bot

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782094395296 slop! slop! slop!

in the fuck off ai code movement we believe that ai code should fuck off! so fuck off!

not a huge fan of "AI is just a tool, the technology itself isn't a problem" because the technology itself is explicitly fascist

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/116932284545917242 also the fact that microslop used their bot to do a "modernization" is a really strong indicator that they no longer have the institutional knowledge to port between their own APIs

*steals your ram* YIPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116935501435173786 "Responsible inclusion of ACM Publications can help improve the quality and factual grounding of AI systems while making advanced computing knowledge more accessible across languages, regions, and levels of expertise." ACM is supposed to […]

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782064773116 The ACM wants to open up their library to LLMs for inclusion in synthetic text extruders. This is obviously massively misguided. There's a form for you to tell them about your thoughts […]

pro tip: we do not care about the purported explanations coming from slop purveyors, because their brains are cooked due to the slop

look, Canada, I love you, but you GOTTA stop trying to kill me.

we removed the slop that microslop inexplicably added to comic chat because we are part of the fuck off ai code movement? https://github.com/theAlexes/comic-chat-deslopped

for a variety of reasons homebrew sdk launch may be delayed for a few weeks, sorry :(

"oh yeah lets just totally squander this opportunity to use my position of influence to at least nudge things a tiny bit into a positive direction"

I am increasingly leaning away from calling "AI" generated stuff "slop" towards calling it "corrosion". Because that's what it does. To our information landscape. o the quality of artifacts around us. To our social connection. To our menal health. To our cognitive abilities.

Dear Linus Tech Tips, As someone who actually lives in northern Virginia, fuck you.

Folks, I have amazing news! I terminated my first proper #rj45 CAT6 ethernet port! The last time I tried when I was being mentored at a local hardware meetup did not end well 3 ports and one wall keystone. After the first port, I freestyled the other two, 8/8 first try :D A friend definitely […]

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

Linus Torvalds needs to shut the fuck up.

I'd like to showcase our new and very original ad for Federated Nexus 👍 #federatednexus #parody

happy international non-binary day! :neocat_flag_nb: (UTC±0 (fuck, it's too late for my timezone)) to celebrate I am compiling linux and updating gentoo

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116921019327102880 I have been designing flyers from scratch (no templates - at most stock clip art) since middle school. It's not that difficult at all. Even if you don't know what you are doing, you can easily make something that looks far better than […]

Out of curiosity: How often is pair programming done in practice? #AskFedi

I recently heard someone say opting out of AI was like refusing to drive a car, and riding horses instead. I want to object to this analogy, but tbqh equating AI usage to car culture is a pretty sick burn (even if they definitely did not mean it that way).

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@gnutools/116919946234800731 True FOSS is built on not giving into technofascism. This includes refusing to allow generative AI. But for you, I guess that's too much to ask. Including in your own Mastodon posts.

reminder that you can write c code which writes and executes raw machine code

youtube comment: > Never interrupt the enemy when they're pivoting to AI.

Reminder: Hash verification doesn't work if the attacker controls the hash it verifies the file with.

In elementary school, one of my friends said that there would be a PS5 but no PS6 and generations after that. One of the teachers quickly called that out and told them to stop saying things that are obviously not true. ...but honestly, given the current state of gaming, I have a suspicion that […]

An update on the toolchain thing: I looked into the build dependencies etc. and... yeah... unfortunately LLVM is not very viable to compile for this. We'll probably still have it as some sort of optional component though, for those who want it.

I have been testing Kyanite recently, which is a native GTK4 text editor by @pastthepixels with some nice features you would expect from an IDE. It's still very early in development, but it is already at the point where it almost replaces everything I have been typically relying on VSCodium for […]

I keep getting reminded of why I don't use bluesky anymore...

gpg key C9266AAD57099336 is me btw, although I don't plan on using it to commit to public repositories yet (this computer is going to be used for a project that will be kept private until it's ready)