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Give the people what they (really) want. #c15 #tesla #ElonMusk
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It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy
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"British government, insane. Sally Rooney, fully sensible", says writer Colm Tóibín to RTÉ News At One.
Publisher #Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying #SallyRooney's books in the UK, but says copies already held by retailers will not be removed from sale.
The publisher clarified the position to #RTE after announcing that UK legislation meant it could no longer pass on earnings from sales to the Irish author because of her support for banned group #PalestineAction.
In physics, curved spacetime is the mathematical model in which, with Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity naturally arises, as opposed to being described as a fundamental force in Newton's static Euclidean reference frame. Objects move along geodesics—curved paths determined by the local geometry of spacetime—rather than being influenced directly by distant bodies.
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This is Schrödinger's Cat. The relativity effects...
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Au niveau du cirque d'hiver, j'ai tenté de rejoindre Répu mais c'est confus ! Beaucoup de monde dans les rues, les gens quittent Répu vers Bastille par le Bd Voltaire et rue Amelot mais ils/elles arrivent encore vers Répu par le Bd République. De nombreuses détonations. Répu est déjà sous les gaz. J'ai aussi vu les Brav-M remonter la rue Oberkampf à contresens. #17octobre #manif
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.
Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).
As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.
(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)
@luca Copyright issues are now accelerating, considering the next level hacking available to #AI and #TechBros #AbuseOfPower.
Just because your average coder and end user sets aside a smaller, simpler code set, doesn't mean it's not easily archived and quickly (read: at the speed of the fastest AI available) aggregated into newer agency, outside of any human intervention.
So does that leave any equitable accountability, solely up to the most powerful AI, while the .01% wealthiest remain greedily, and blissfully, ignorant?
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I don't know how to describe Ann Leckie's "Radiant Star", but I enjoyed it.
Ghequest ben ik van binnen,
Duerwont mijn hert soe seer,
Van uwer ganscher minnen
Ghequest soe lanc soe meer.
Waer ic my wend, waer ic my keer,
Ic en kan gherusten dach noch nachte;
Waer ic my wend, waer ic my keer,
Ghy sijt alleen in mijn ghedachte.
(This is the first verse of the "Every breath you take" of 14th century Flanders.)
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I would not date someone who doesn’t know how to take a bus or subway
@evan @pixelfed @vernissage @w3c Oh perfect, will look into this!
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@Jeremiah is lead and can help with getting started!
"without facts, you cant have truth.
without truth, you cant have trust.
without trust, there is no shared reality.
without a shared reality, there is no rule of law. there is no journalism. there is no democracy."
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“huh huh huh if you’re so unhappy with how linus is leading the kernel, you can always ask for a refund”
bet. where do we send the invoices for all the labor we donated to the Linux ecosystem under a promise that’s now repeatedly been broken? the Foundation can cover it at standard consultants’ rates for commercial work. I haven’t done the accounting, but I imagine they should be able to cover at least a few million dollars worth before they have to start dipping into torvalds’ paycheck
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@gbargoud Could be a quick win for @MastodonEngineering to add a check for tokens that have not been used for, say, 12 months and show a warning/notification to the user to check if this token is still needed. Or maybe even automatically delete such tokens. @stux
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I’m serious about this too, by the way
Linux as a project and as an ecosystem asked for our labor under false pretenses
why hasn’t its organizing foundation been flooded with itemized invoices for that labor?
and if you do this, include the hours you burned doing advocacy, too. that shit ain’t free.
@luca Yeah. It's fast fashion https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/
@tante @luca "Fashion" is an apt description for software development, and "fast fashion" fits the slop coding. I've often referred to software development as a popularity contest due to the lack of measurement. Developers will follow trends without asking why or to what benefit; just look at all the misuse of Python these days. From the reports of slop projects, I'm sure that actual measurement would put slop use in the avoid column of the process spreadsheet.
Oh this is good too. You don't even need to know anything about what this is showing, it's just neat looking.
@sundogplanets It reminds me of zentangles. ☺️
I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's just a weird coincidence that a Zacharia is slightly *less* than half of a Scaramucci
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The counterargument for keeping Imperial (and to be clear, I'm *extremely* pro-Metric) is that the surviving units tend to be of handy sizes for doing day-to-day stuff and can easily be defined in terms of their metric counterparts and converted between them with low-precision FP arithmetic.
