Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

people make fun of programmers who come home from a programming job and open the editor again, but consider: there are truckers who come home and open Trucking Simulator 2026. they're living their best life, and that's worth admiration

Ireland has some excellent writers. "It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @Tupp_ed #TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney's strategy for #UKLabour was disastrously wrong, as Labour aren't […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

The Onion is just on a roll lately.

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday: https://www.subvert.fm/ It is a #coop, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators. ✊️

One of the most terrifying images in history: Gaza transformed from life into death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026 💔

where were u wen affordable computers die

neither right nor wrong but a second third thing

The thing about the lesbian hanky code is, where were femmes in the 1980s even finding skirts and dresses with back pockets anyway

Formulating an #emfcamp policy: if I'm in your talk and your slides have #llm slop on them, I'm walking out. No ifs no buts. You couldn't be bothered making them, I'm not interested in looking at them, and I have to presume that whatever you're saying has had the same amount of thought put into it

discord on fire, letsencrypt on fire, weve got an orange cat in our lap and we're sipping yerba mate

#meme #memes #autism #autistic #neurodivergent

bitte zurückbleiben 🥺👉👈

Responsibilities will enlarge until morale improves

I’m still trying to find a home for this camera kit … free! A very lightly used Olympus 35mm SLR kit that was given to me by a neighbour when they downsized last year. Includes: • Olympus OM-10 Body • Olympus Manual Adapter • Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8 Lens • […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

just had to explain Ed Balls day to the Germans

it is amazing that the same industry with the same people who would swoop down on you for even _breathing_ the idea of handrolling encryption code is now totally fine with people running vibecoded TLS stacks

Age verification

IPv6/7

in the haskell-using astrology company they do performance reviews before you are hired

They should invent a kind of nap where you wake up and you aren't tired anymore

My annual gripe: Trans visibility has overwhelmingly been a bad thing. Most trans rights were secured when we were less visible and lost once we became more visible. And despite our marking this day every year, there are still no recognizable trans community spokespeople, leaving that task to […]

SECURITY ADVISORY: musl libc up through 1.2.6 (present version) is affected by CVE-2026-40200 affecting qsort with large arrays. Unless you have a setup with at least tens of terrabytes of virtual memory, this does not affect 64-bit systems, only 32-bit ones. But all users should patch […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116375068810844089 when writing this post i did some benchmarking, as an afterthought i would not have thought 5-6x speed improvements relative to spidermonkey and v8 were still possible, but they are!

Zionism is the true #antisemitism. The latest UK YouGov asked participants questions to test their take on Jewish and Israel, and it breaks down those results by political affiliation. The further you move to the right, the more likely you are to find […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

My fellow journalists, I need you to stop talking about the Turing Test; it was never a good metric. Turing was a computer scientist, not a psychologist. Eliza passed it, and also was a decent Person-centered therapy bot. Some people actually used it that way, even knowing it was a bot. A) […]

sorry I’ve posted in all caps like three times today, but the power of seeing corporations suffer the exact dire consequences we all warned them about fills me with determination

I am in a hell entirely of my own making; a hell where I get the reply “but there are still two nines in that number,” forever

as a crew member of spaceship earth i would like you wish a very fuck you very much to nationalists of all varieties

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115888223755005534 If you're a European citizen, you can sign today the European Citizen Initiative to demand full suspension of EU-Israel Association Agreement. Or you can wait until petrol, gas and food get more expensive, as you prefer.

It never made sense to me that the Mac Pro “had” to change away from this general design. A well-designed computer can be respected as art, but its primary purpose is still to be a computer. An all-in-one box that can be thrown in the car between gigs. Just plug […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Well, turns out I don’t get my salary for March. And it was an expensive month. Thanks to the unemployment system here, I will *eventually* get paid something, but I don’t know when or how much; and very probably I will be out of a job entirely. I would really appreciate help for me and my […]

NINETY DAYS NINETY INCIDENTS NINETY PERCENT YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE #github

The main reason I left Brazil, one of the most unequal countries in the world, was violence. In this regard, Germany is a paradise compared to what I experienced, even as a white, middle-class man who grew up in São Paulo. Inequality is one of the main sources of violence, and it is increasing […]

Der gestern erschienene Firefox 149 hat eine echt coole neue Funktion: Geteilte Ansicht. Ich kann zwei beliebige Tabs nebeneinander darstellen. Hier benutzte ich die Funktion, um Fotos der gestrigen Maischberger-Sendung mit strukturieren Daten zu versehen […] [Original post on social.cologne]

The rest of world never sees the poor and desperate America, they mostly stay in the decently rich bits of New York or California, and have no idea what a "food desert" is.

Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are. It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us […]

Sooo, with CRA looming ahead, I was pondering how this affects robotgirls sex workers. The question boils down to: Is prostitution offering a service, or "selling" your body, i.e., a product. In the latter case, a robotgirl selling itself for sex would definitely be a "product with digital […]

Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech. I do believe the Bluesky people really do want to try to do this. But […]

Was mich an #ki auch so stört: Die Illusion von Empowerment. »Schau, auch DU kannst programmieren! Hilf dir selbst!« Nein, es ist kein Empowerment. Es ist eine Illusion, es ist das Gegenteil: Man lernt nichts, man wird abhängig. Man verlernt sogar eher sich selbst zu helfen.

Love to wake up to "Your Government Are Embarrassingly Suggestible Rubes" news > In her lecture, Reeves will promise to achieve "the fastest AI adoption in the G7" thanks in part to government investment in British tech. She will add that quantum computing is to create 100,000 UK jobs […]

Even school kids know that passing off something AI generated as your own work is lying, cheating, and also means you're not learning. #whatileanedtodayatfossbackstage

Is Bielle-Biarrey single #sixnations

A.I. Isn't People https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people <- We know EXACTLY how LLMs work. It is not that complicated. You can express it in 200 lines. They absolutely, canonically, by definition, are not aware. They cannot think. This is not controversial or hard.

math wikipedia is topologically a klein bottle, which is to say, up its own ass. unlike literally any other discipline it has an amazing ability for every sentence to be an escalation in a war with the reader

> Sie sagen, dass die KI-Antworden ungenau sein können. Was passiert, wenn der KI falsch antwortet, und die/der Kund:in nicht weiß, dass die Antwort falsch ist? > > Der Risiko dahin ist klein, weil das Thema Deutschlandticket einfach ist. dear gods #kontikileaks

There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop. Did you know there’s also no technical […]

thanks to AI demand, Lattice cannot make enough FPGAs to fulfill orders on iCE40's (and probably ECP5's) with less than a year of lead time. this is likely to cause supply chain issues for Glasgow revD * […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

I would never describe myself as a "capitalist" but I do kinda understand the structure and function of markets a little bit, and it's sometimes frustrating chatting with leftists whose entire experience of markets has been watching the enormous trash-fire of post-2008 dysfunctional crime-based […]