When I say "I hate AI", I mean #AI driven #LLM that produce endless streams of slop

I hate AI in it's current form

There are ways that would benefit humanity drastically with improving AI but the goals are wrong

We need to create cures against a LOT of diseases, support people with disabilities, find a better way to combat poverty, solve complicated equations and on and on..

At it's current form it's eating and hogging resources doing things humans want to do

They made me hate it

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/european-parliament-votes-overwhelmingly

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Breaking the spell of vibe coding

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

#HackerNews

@lauren Spying + Speaker == Spykers. The first time I heard of this, I could not believe anyone would have such a thing in their house. I still don't. I wonder, considering how society has flowed around me and into this new surveillance capitalism form, whether I'm now the equivalent of a hermit, living on my hill with only some Olde Timey Tech.

I've always found it cute that the #FSFE kind of leverages valentines day, as "I ❤️ Free Software" day.

https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/index.en.html

This year, I kind of want to talk about #FreeBSD, because its powering my personal desktop and laptop these days.

I've run it before as my daily driver, and I've always been impressed by the stability of the base system; alongside ports, which gives you the freedom of choosing between quarterly or bleeding edges packages.

I went back to linux last time, mostly due to a frustration over a lack of electron based apps being unavailable in FreeBSD & issues with Widevine.

Im happy to report, BOTH of these things have really become solved problems on FreeBSD.

There is some stuff which could bear improvement. BUT I've been really heartened and excited too to see the #FreeBSD foundation really tackling things via the Laptop/Desktop Working group.

AND im suspecting, Ill still be daily driving FreeBSD next I ❤️ Free Software Day. #ILoveFS #FLOSS #ILoveFSDay

@sidereal

i agree! maybe some QSL card templates would work: https://www.kb3ifhqslcards.com/

Videos https://rmendes.net/videos

The Big Tech broligarchy are trying to take over the planet, while supporting fascist movements everywhere because they won't stop them doing it.

"...Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier. The company has informed some users in the UK they may be part of "an experiment" with Persona, an age verification vendor whose investors include Peter Thiel, co-founder of ICE's premier surveillance provider, Palantir."

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

@pjacock I think I'm saved by living in a place where getting anything shipped to very hard 🤣

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

They say shoot for the moon, but I know it's not really recommended for night sky photography. I tried it anyway for curiosity's sake.

#photography #nightsky #stars #moon #landscape #arizona #astrophotography

@sebsauvage la compét c était du counter strike a Krakow ?

@grahamperrin

I think that advice predates the unified buffer cache.

I have a machine with 64 GiB of RAM and 64 GB of swap, mostly because the disks are big and it’s sometimes useful to have a partition you can nuke (I installed FreeBSD on a BIOS-only machine and then replaced the motherboard with a UEFI-only one, so it was very useful to have space to pop a UEFI partition). But I don’t think I’ve seen it put even 1 GiB in swap.

Quite a few processes have some pages that are used on startup and not touched, and if you leave them for long enough these will eventually be swapped out and the RAM used for hotter disk pages, but these days a lot of RAM is typically filled with disk cache and will be preferentially evicted in case of memory pressure.

I’ve seen large swap cause some real problems with processes with run-away allocation. The process grows to fill RAM and swap, then segfaults and dumps core. Dumping core requires paging in every page that was swapped out and writing it to disk. That can take a really long time, hurt system performance while it’s happening and, if you’re really unlucky, fill up the disk (bonus points if the program was running as root).

The other night I relistened to another half-dozen Magnus Archives episodes! Wow, there was a lot of death in that batch!

It included a suggestion that WWI soldiers heard a melody (on some sort of pipe instrument) before they died in battle, a serial killer of occult practitioners, another serial killer of vampires (Sims's depiction is grotesquely alien!), & death-prophetic dreams.

Also there was an episode with a couple ghosts (who were exorcized), & another episode with weird burn victims.

just deployed my app to production without testing it because i am a “move fast and break things guy” and the thing i broke was the entire hospital’s patient records system. i have been told to not move at all anymore. there will be some casualties,

@pjacock "I can stop any time. Or at least if my job requires me to" 🤣

@douginamug thread of violence: not physical violence, but psychological violence

Our paper "Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems" has been accepted at ACM TheWebConf '26 (WWW '26)! 🎉

We built JudgeGPT and RogueGPT to study how well people can spot AI-generated news. Spoiler: it's harder than you'd think.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21963
Code: https://github.com/aloth/JudgeGPT

#WWW2026 #misinformation #GenAI #LLM #AcademicMastodon