@mariusor AI costs a lotta resources, but simple microblogging isn't cheap either :)

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"... The functionality of Artificial Inanity still exists. You might say that those Ita who brought the Ret out of the Dark Age could only defeat it by co-opting it. So, to make a long story short, for every legitimate document floating around on the Reticulum, there are hundreds or thousands of bogus versions—bogons, as we call them.”

3/3

@danluu now do the ai company announcements over the same time

“What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.
“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors—swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”
“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid–First Millennium A.R.”

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@mariusor @smallcircles Hi! I'm aware of your FEP. It's too big and it does too much. There's no way to declare support for the whole thing or only part. And it does id string manipulation in an ecosystem where ids are otherwise opaque.

SeekItem allows declaring support for one feature for one collection. It supports a few important user stories, like membership check and last-seen activity, with a very AP-native API.

Just a reminder that we are updating a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document here, regarding the technical aspects which might affect our users:

https://keepitfree.ai/technical-updates/frequently-asked-questions-august-2026/

Please check it out before reaching out to us for support!

I had this nagging memory for months that Neal Stephenson foresaw this moment in history in the novel Anathem. Finally managed to find it...

"Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.
“Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.
“Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

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So my amazing bikepacking bike that I lovingly customized and that I just had a blast riding around Jasper and the backcountry last week that made me fall in love with it?

Fucking stolen from my garage this morning, along with my partner's Trek ebike.

"Crushed" is the closest word I can find to how I'm feeling but it still doesn't even come close. 😭

https://bikeindex.org/bikes/2722187

https://bikeindex.org/bikes/2714761

#yeg #yegBike #BikeTooter

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@shezza_t/117200084047660334

Un petit resto fait des sandwiches cubains, et prend son nom de ces sandwiches.

Ils sont sur l’application deliveroo pour la livraison de leur nourriture.

La banque américaine de deliveroo voit mention des sandwiches cubains, dans un contexte où l’administration américaine renforce son blocus de l’île.

Donc ils bloquent le compte deliveroo du resto, qui ne peut donc plus toucher d’argent sur les livraisons via cette app.

Complètement stupide.

In silent screams of the day:

Me: [trying to slide my smartphone into my pocket, but the pocket isn’t deep enough]

Dude next to me on the train: [Stuffs a 500ml drink bottle into his trouser pocket and pulls out a book.]

Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules

https://www.nordiskpost.com/2026/05/08/sweden-power-cable-dispute-freezes-link-to-denmark/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533809

#HackerNews #Sweden #Denmark #PowerCable #EUGrid #EnergyNews

@bagder and curl-container v8.22.0 released try it yourself - podman run quay.io/curl/curl:8.22.0 -V

Having to learn to use one type of comment and not another for the C preprocessor for assembly language on the Arduino.

Lmao no such set of problems exist in Common Lisp.

#horrorstories #clang

Closed source. You may think you are protecting yourself against "copying your idea", but you are actually just not getting feedback on how much of the same everyone is doing. Echo chambers from your level create an illusion of progress.

@mariusor

The size is still 🤯

@dngrs @fasterandworse @mathew i mean, this is your homework not mine. but also, you don't have a list because fedi already alleviates most of the problem through social means rather than a fancy algorithm.

@mahryekuh @mathias @hetzner Yep.

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept 2. What was the last thing to interrupt you while writing?

This adorable little terrorist! (It happens several times a day.)