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2026-07-28 21:42:13 UTC

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(Cc @npub1sl7…lnx3 )

2026-07-28 21:41:33 UTC

There is no path; these footprints lead nowhere. But on the day you seek what I am seeking we will surely meet in the forest.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/999/631/048/315/857/original/dc46ea160e596c73.jpeg

2026-07-26 22:42:57 UTC

Hear me out: Jimothée

2026-07-16 17:15:38 UTC

A bit of joy from work, in getting to write the rollback planning and policy documentation.
One super-secret way you can drive the major cultural improvements of psychological security and emotional safety, not to mention the million invisible efficiencies of a well-functioning workplace culture is by writing the documentation about what people should do and who they can go to when things go really, really wrong.
@npub18g0…0a9e has been a huge inspiration for this.

2026-06-09 13:06:09 UTC

"Cognitive pollution is actually great, what matters is how well individual people can filter some things out" says the cognitive pollution industrial complex.
This is the Personal Carbon Footprint play redrafted for slop.
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-will-make-content-infinite-human-taste-will-decide-what-matters

2026-05-24 19:11:30 UTC

The only difference is that electron wrapper is a browser that works for them, not for you. Tracking protection, adblockers, none of that in here for you!
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116623276420116169
#note1eth…t2sg

2026-05-19 17:17:55 UTC

If you rely on Bitwarden, they've changed leadership and are now on the PE extract-and-exit track. Start working on your backup/exit strategy as soon as you reasonably can.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

2026-05-15 16:48:38 UTC

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It took me a stupid amount of time to find the lyrics for this joke, I had convinced myself that it was a Neil Young tune and a band calling itself "America" seems too cornball to be real.

2026-05-15 16:44:11 UTC

if the horse's name is actually "a horse with no name" then the whole song is hinting at the existence of an entire new who's-on-first skit lying undiscovered since the seventies

2026-05-11 01:41:23 UTC

I see that today @npub1m49…yl0h has chosen violence.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

2026-05-06 18:26:11 UTC

It's kind of amazing how many veteran Linux greyhairs I've seen, downstream of the age-check-in-systemd decision, saying well I guess I need to get comfortable with a BSD now. Thirty plus years of deep-grooved Debian/RedHat muscle memory to a one, quietly tidying up and looking for the exits.

2026-04-22 16:16:28 UTC

Fediverse, a question:
If you could invite somebody on the Fedi to just... think out loud into a microphone for like an hour, who would it be?
Alternatively, what _two_ people on the Fedi would you love to hear just bounce around ideas together?

2026-04-17 02:22:20 UTC

ok so the US president threatens the pope via the avignon papacy that we've definitely all heard of but the pope doubles down on how world peace is good and war with iran is bad so the president makes an ai picture of himself where he's jesus healing john stewart but then iran jumps in saying we're on the pope's side and jesus is a holy man and that's not OK so the secretary of war and not defence anymore recites a made up bible verse from a tarantino movie and somehow this week is not over yet.

2026-04-15 18:32:41 UTC

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bad news about how prohibition worked out, I guess.

2026-04-15 18:00:18 UTC

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"Age verification is not a fix, but ignoring the problem isn't a fix either, so we're going to verify age" is silly, and this whole exercise is an attempt _by social media companies_ to push the burden of responsibility for age verification - and the liability for failure - away from the people who _should_ be verifying the ages of their customers: those same social networks.

2026-04-15 14:01:39 UTC

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At the implementation level data is just data, and in a democratic society, human privacy and state sovereignty are the same thing. You wouldn't think so, until you take a hard look into how to implement them, but they are the same thing. And both of them are national security issues.
Nobody will be made safer, by age verification. But everyone will be put at risk by the systems that have to exist to implement it.

2026-04-15 13:54:22 UTC

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If this system exists at all, then everyone subject to it is one state-coerced software update from away from their computer working for them only at the whim of that state. Age, gender, race, disability, debt, credit rating, citizenship, neighborhood, search history, political affiliation, all of that plus the state itself is one breach away from no computer working - or only the _right people's_ computers working, you understand - at all.
Age verification is the footgun of public democracy.

2026-04-15 13:32:51 UTC

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There is nothing special about “age” as a differentiator. It’s just a data point, a condition and a branch. And if a system exists that can start from some condition of your identity and decide that you don’t get to use a computer today - meaning, talk to your friends or employer or read the news or get medical information or, you know, _participate in society_, then that system can use _any_ data to make that decision. Age, gender, race, credit rating, anything about you and anyone like you.

2026-04-15 12:25:57 UTC

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

2026-04-15 02:02:09 UTC

!!!!!
https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21852v2
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/406/243/369/250/610/original/d7e4d81e35b3a968.png

2026-04-14 15:50:49 UTC

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Ages ago somebody pointed out to me that making up explanations for things is how tech nerds show off their plumage and strut around each other like peacocks. And I have to tell you, there have been days when knowing that when the "well actually it's because" starts you should be hearing "caw caw caw (waggle)" has improved my outlook immensely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDvFdj-pFMc

2026-04-13 21:44:19 UTC

Loved the "get your own ASN number" talk, I have great respect to people who decide they're going to learn things the hard way. #tornog

2026-04-13 19:24:10 UTC

My kingdom for a "presentation browsing" browser mode, "demo browsing" as distinct from "private browsing". Regular browsing but hide toolbars and don't offer to autocomplete or show history/bookmark suggestions. Private-in-display, not private-in-data-storage.

2026-04-11 21:20:03 UTC

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Listen, if your kid trusts you enough to ask for a burner, help them. Wipe your old phone or find something cheap, teach them about threat models, private browsing and factory reset, then teach them how to teach these things to other people. The only question you need to ask is, is this for you or for someone else, and you don’t ask who or why.
You don’t need to make the first conversation perfect, you need to make the next conversation possible.

2026-04-11 21:06:01 UTC

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again am reminded that domestic abuse is absolutely the flagship threat model in this industry, the place the victim is closest to real physical harm and has the least recourse and resources available to them. The hardest problem, almost totally unaddressed, exaggerated when the victim is underage.

2026-04-09 17:53:12 UTC

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"We spent only ten billion dollars training a machine and now it can unreliably do a thing we never spent a goddamn cent training humans to do" fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" you know what you're participating in and what it costs the world and who you're enabling and fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" no you're fucking not, and even if you were fucking listen to yourself, listen to what you're saying. Look at the world you're building. Fuck you.

2026-04-09 17:48:57 UTC

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"We need a sovereign AI strategy!" Fuck that and fuck you. If you don't have an every child sleeps in a warm bed under a safe roof and studies on a full stomach strategy, if you don't have an everyone who wants an education can have one strategy - and you can have all of those for one percent of your sovereign AI strategy - your sovereign AI strategy is worth nothing.

2026-04-09 17:45:36 UTC

It's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.

2026-04-09 16:48:45 UTC

Process without verification.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/375/764/695/358/818/original/8c386ef11a9c77c9.png

2026-04-08 18:39:06 UTC

Israel has unilaterally ended another ceasefire and the strait of Hormuz is closed again.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-central-beirut-without-warning-after-saying-iran-ceasefire-doesnt-apply-there/article_752a5523-6569-53e0-ab5a-a3a1515af969.html

2026-04-07 12:11:23 UTC

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"I've heard of one woman who did a bad thing, therefore structural and historical sexism don't exist."

2026-04-06 19:16:40 UTC

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On a more serious note, I didn't realize that Hamilton coined the term "software engineer".

2026-04-06 19:15:31 UTC

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/359/346/646/309/159/original/99b557b9b4e64639.png

2026-04-06 17:38:37 UTC

"Netflix opens a pop up restaurant" feels like an improv comedy prompt.

2026-04-06 15:59:49 UTC

@npub1ppe…qv2g I found this and felt you should be notified immediately:
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/358/590/352/152/076/original/6dea815ca308ab93.png

2026-04-06 12:47:26 UTC

Re-upping:
You need to internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're hypocrites. That you are bound - by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some basic moral consistency, anything at all - and they are not? That is the right's conception of what power is and why they seek it: that they can exercise power, for its own sake, without constraint, and you cannot. It is its own justification.
Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

2026-04-04 20:21:36 UTC

On Firefox for iOS you can get reader view back by disabling the new “AI-summarize” option in preferences. I don’t think there’s a way to have both. Lucky for me, I don’t want AI summaries of anything ever.
I have to admit that I thought replacing the “I want to read this” button with an “I don’t want to read this” button was exceptionally insulting for a number of reasons.

2026-04-01 13:13:47 UTC

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My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”

2026-04-01 13:09:46 UTC

This clause code dump is sincerely embarrassing. Acres and acres of pure waste, begging the machine to burn hours of gpu time doing work that someone with basic computer knowledge could do with basic arithmetic.
“Claude code is written by Claude code” turns out to mean “pleading with the software to make more software I can plead with harder forever”. This is a humiliation engine, it’s no wonder the Gastown/agentic crowd end up hollowed out like some psychological vampire’s empty juicebox.

2026-04-01 01:56:07 UTC

It’s sort of incredible that the core lesson of this chart is that if you’re considering migrating to Azure, you really, really don’t want the people who own and operate Azure helping.
https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757
#note1eg4…f9tn

2026-03-31 22:22:08 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsUGomHw85o
I basically try to imitate this guy’s recipe with what I have to hand, but I don’t want to spend guanciale money so I smoke a pork belly on the grill instead and use that. Today I’m adding some a bunch of leftover mushrooms that need to get eaten; it comes out _really_ rich - egg yolks, pork fat and parmesan make any pasta dish a lift - but as a once in a while treat for a grey day it’s great.

2026-03-31 21:56:09 UTC

“Pasta Carbonara A Proximativo Con Funghi Alla Miguel”, which translates roughly as “an approximation of pasta carbonara involving mushrooms and some guy called Mike.

2026-03-31 20:57:23 UTC

Hobbyist-electronics friends, I am looking for a flat battery to fit in a flattish enclosure, thinking there are plenty of phone batteries that would be perfect for this but I can't find the kind of flat, clip-and-pigtails enclosure for it that would be ideal.
Does this thing exist and I'm searching wrong, or am I trying to do the wrong thing?

2026-03-31 11:55:04 UTC

Baffling morning scroll as axios the publication and axios the npm package are both getting attention for being bad at their jobs.

2026-03-29 21:07:47 UTC

jfc
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

2026-03-27 22:13:54 UTC

I do not get tired of the fact that my phone insists on correcting “Angine de Poitrine” to “engine de poutine”.

2026-03-27 17:14:20 UTC

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what what what
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/259/126/976/268/original/c3b0650ff3a6db3c.png

2026-03-27 17:05:15 UTC

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"Do you want to die fast or slow" is a whole product genre in this space.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/222/857/085/606/original/f21cad7f81a97dde.png

2026-03-27 17:02:08 UTC

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Fame but at what cost
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/205/086/677/710/original/f7958a72ebf0880b.png

2026-03-27 16:57:51 UTC

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"Cigarettes".
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/194/003/028/435/original/78e4afe6f77c59ad.png

2026-03-27 16:54:31 UTC

I'm looking for cases I can repurpose for a meshtastic project without needing to 3d print things and I'm reminded once again that the AliExpress cultural chasm is a lawless, unhinged cultural free-fire zone.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/170/247/553/162/original/31357d665da25eed.png

2026-03-27 11:29:34 UTC

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the thing porn and software have in common is that they’re both more difficult businesses to be in than you’d think because so many people are willing to make it and give it away for free.

2026-03-26 12:22:22 UTC

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."
I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

2026-03-26 12:18:45 UTC

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined. Stop fining near-trillion-dollar companies in the millions and start fining them in percentages of their market cap. Fifty million dollars is shake out the couch money to these guys. Two percent of market cap and you're goddamn right they'll pay attention.

2026-03-26 02:42:42 UTC

“Clearly, there are only four kinds of student: brave but not smart, smart but not evil, evil but not brave, and chubby.”
“Well yes, obviously.”
“And the way to teach these students is to have a talking leather hat decide which one they are and then make them fight each other.”
In hindsight Rowling’s self-loathing and hatred of any idea of self-selected identity is obvious from the text. None of her characters choose for themselves who or what they want to be.

2026-03-25 16:44:38 UTC

I used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, but thanks to modern innovation the invention of llm summaries has automated the being-an-asshole process.
Somebody in a leadership position who uses language models to summarize what their reports tell them, and then send generated replies back is adding zero value to an organization and their dismissal will cost the company nothing.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116290410669187001
#note10a4…scsk

2026-03-25 15:54:44 UTC

A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a central-vac system that I have no intention of using ever. What alternative uses might I have, for this idle series of tubes? Right answers, speculative answers and hilariously wrong answers equally welcome.

2026-03-24 18:31:56 UTC

accidentally typed 'meshcore' as 'menshcore', which makes me think of a ska band made up of orthodox jews who write loud songs about how some people are good people sometimes

2026-03-22 15:47:00 UTC

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Seeing “callout culture” discussed like it’s about having the courage to shame other people isn’t just a misunderstanding, it’s the kind of ugly ignorance that can only come from parting something out of someone else’s culture, stripping it of context and history and acting like whatever’s left belongs to you. The other term for cultural appropriation is culture, sure, I get it, but there’s such a thing as taking without context, without understanding and without giving back

2026-03-22 15:23:21 UTC

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I also believe this was at the core of a lot of the fedi’s disputes about quote posts: “we don’t want quote posts because it leads to pile on behavior that’s better handled by blocklists or mods” v. “We have to have quote posts specifically because our community doesn’t and can’t trust outside mods to understand or even see what we see”.
It’s reasonable for a community to hear, “you can’t have the tools you need to self-police safely” and to interpret that to mean “you’re not welcome here”.

2026-03-22 14:47:22 UTC

I believe that in authoritarian-leaning cultures “callout culture” has a perfomative shaming function, but in cultures authority-averse cultures it becomes a form of soft self-policing. If you’re comfortable calling the cops, you might find it tasteless or pointless! But if your community - reasonably - does not feel any safety around cops or formal authority structures, it’s a necessary tool for community safety.
https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/116271640740835563

2026-03-22 13:17:03 UTC

“/home is a temp file” wasn’t enough of a warning, I guess.

2026-03-20 12:16:23 UTC

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260908095581163
#note13l5…50ew

2026-03-18 15:53:41 UTC

Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger effect is probably not real:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real
Like Freudian psychology, Hardin's tragedy of the commons and any number of other popular pseudoscientific narratives, it caters to our preconceptions and makes fore entertaining, easy to re-tell stories, but it's also... not true.
And - again, I am entirely saddened by this - that means that if we keep using these metaphors we're legitimizing the false ideas behind them.

2026-03-18 02:29:47 UTC

There was a time when Dril’s identity was leaked and we all just agreed to ignore that and mind our business as if it hadn’t happened and I think we owe Banksy at least that much.

2026-03-17 17:50:27 UTC

Is there an elegant way, in the shell, to say “run this program until this other program is finished”?
I know I could run a thing, get a PID and then append a command with “&& kill pid” or something but that feels clunky.

2026-03-17 17:07:36 UTC

Imagine being a newspaper editor looking out at the world, chomping that cigar and shouting "this whimsical protest graffiti has to be stopped. Find out who he is!"
Even J Jonah Jameson set his sights higher than this.

2026-03-17 14:02:05 UTC

Two games, both called "Piece by Piece", were coincidentally released within a few days of each other by their developers.
They got in touch with each other, and now both games are available together as a Steam Bundle, because reasonable people can find mutually respectful, no-drama ways to solve problems.
https://www.polygon.com/steam-games-piece-by-piece-bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68985/Piece_by_Piece_Double/

2026-03-17 01:15:18 UTC

ok I laughed
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/241/850/875/120/526/original/caba33a591950118.png

2026-03-16 17:39:19 UTC

"By taking a total dependency on this privately-owned, centralized system that generates the thing, the thing will be democratized."
because i actually think words mean things
and I have to ask
will it
will it really

2026-03-15 21:52:28 UTC

Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?
I do.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

2026-03-14 20:14:20 UTC

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"Do you have any formal training in in this field at all?"
"I believe you can get equivalent expertise through alternative, non-academic paths, like reading books."
"Did you read any books on this topic?"
"No."

2026-03-14 14:14:39 UTC

Amazing watching these doge kids testifying. Moral toddlers.

2026-03-13 20:43:43 UTC

Where all these age verification laws seen to be coming from: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

2026-03-12 17:58:59 UTC

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What options do I have, if I want an operating system and software that is created reproducibly by non-proprietary generators?

2026-03-12 17:23:16 UTC

Devuan it is then.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

2026-03-11 14:37:15 UTC

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You burn 6M tokens, and what do you get / you get another day older and deeper in debt /St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go / I owe my soul to anthropic and claude

2026-03-11 14:20:44 UTC

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Great news, our company won't be charging you when you use the washroom in the office anymore, you can use the washrooms for free, we're calling it our Whole Body Compensation Strategy.
You'll still need to badge in to the washroom though, we aren't turning that off.

2026-03-11 11:24:45 UTC

“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3

2026-03-10 13:43:43 UTC

I wonder how often we're going to see "popular app leaks private user data in massive breach" and "common misconfiguration of Google Firebase" before anyone at Google starts to take some sort of responsibility for their tool.
https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
https://news.google.com/search?q=firebase%20misconfiguration

2026-03-08 22:23:15 UTC

Saddened to see vim, neovim, fresh, all vibeholed.

2026-03-08 22:18:02 UTC

“Appears to contradict” is one of those sentences I wish journalists were only allowed to use once per subject. Afterwards, you just have to say, this person’s claims are unverified, or cannot be taken at face value.

2026-03-06 13:22:56 UTC

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"Respectfully, there's no such thing as providing mechanism without policy. There is only mechanism with safe, well-considered default policy or unsafe, unconsidered default policy."
Going to bite my tongue after that.

2026-03-06 13:14:59 UTC

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight on github after being told that a package manager should implement _mechanism_ not _policy_, a canard I haven't heard in probably 15 years.
Deciding not to set safe, reasonable defaults is an abdication of responsibility. It's negligence. We've tried doing it that way and we just know that now.

2026-03-05 18:21:46 UTC

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/177/947/651/869/577/original/15630afbc243efd2.png

2026-03-05 18:18:36 UTC

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Welp.
I wonder if there's room out there for community management as a service, for people who suddenly find themselves being FOSS-main-charactered and need help fighting the indignant-nerd-tide.

2026-03-05 16:49:28 UTC

Thinking about that old line that Twitter is a game with one main character per day and the goal of the game is to never be that person.
Please listen to me: if FOSS turns into that, then FOSS turns into Twitter.

2026-03-05 15:45:34 UTC

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Who knows if it will help but not trying never does.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005991360

2026-03-05 15:22:25 UTC

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As gross as I think Claude is, I also think that if the end state of open source projects is that devs are left to work alone for years on the keystone projects of this jenga tower we're calling modern infrastructure, and then we collectively jump all over them when they turn to the kind of help that, however reprehensible it might be, _actually shows up to help_, then the entire FOSS project is a popularity contest where the losers get to join a slow, lonely suicide pact.

2026-03-05 15:12:53 UTC

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.
And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.

2026-03-04 16:27:56 UTC

I begging for an image format that includes transcription, and a tool that lets you copy an image and include transcription in one motion.
Accessibility would be so much easier if all of these tools were not negligent makework bullshit.

2026-03-04 15:25:25 UTC

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I will say this again: if the actual people who build these systems, those comfortable, very well paid engineers, managers, directors responsible for their design and operation, if they all had to spend one week every quarter and maybe one day a month doing the work they foist off on people paid pennies an hour in underdeveloped, overexploited countries on the far side of the planet, Facebook would not exist in a year.
And they all fucking know it.

2026-03-04 15:22:25 UTC

It is important to understand that these are not "Meta workers" in the way you might think of them as "extremely well paid engineers in California."
These are the underpaid contractors in Kenya and Nigeria doing the soul-destroying work of watching every horror of the world so that some American congressman's kid or hyperindignant ragekaren doesn't inadvertently see a boob on a slow news day.
These people aren't being creepy, they're being exploited.
https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116168368689889090
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2026-03-02 23:18:48 UTC

Well, this probably means that using generative AI for development is incompatible with any foss licensing, but it also means that there’s no such thing as “proprietary” GenAI code.
https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html

2026-03-02 15:47:22 UTC

It's difficult for me to believe that three F-15s were shot down by friendly fire in two days.
It's much, much easier for me to believe that the American - and world's - military-industrial apparatus will say and do whatever it takes to keep the headlines from reading "$100,000,000 F-15 Strike Eagle Brought Down By $5,000 Drones."

2026-03-01 15:37:26 UTC

It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it, just call it 'autonomous' and yolo'ing it out there.
There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.
https://social.coop/@cwebber/116154573042963148
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2026-02-28 14:40:24 UTC

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

2026-02-27 15:38:17 UTC

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An externality is just a subsidy that's been extracted from people who weren't given a choice in the matter.

2026-02-27 15:34:03 UTC

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"But people want this" - Just one hundred accounts are responsible for the great majority of the conspiracy theories being peddled in Canadian social media. Do "people really want this", or do a handful of really loud assholes with a handful of system-privileged amplifiers want everyone to want this?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada

2026-02-27 15:31:34 UTC

I'm glad we're looking at ethical alternatives to imperialist tech generally but my position remains that the ethical alternative to large-language-model SAAS is "don't."