if the cost of making anything has gone to zero then why is any technology company worth anything any more

I resent that authenticity will be the currency of the future, when it should be as free as the air we breathe

I got a message from my spouse, and with no interaction on my part my phone recommended a complete sentence in response. Why is it so much to ask that my technology stop trying to steal my voice?

Went to see Cake live. It (vibra-)slapped.

Some of us didn’t get into tech for the tech. The tech was only interesting because it connected us with our fellow humans. Seems like there’s no place for us anymore.

Crystal Quest on Mac SE/30.

Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 6d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

s/to financial queries//

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 7d ago

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ ft.trib.al/oImlEFY

Morgen latscht wieder die jährliche Demo der christlichen Fundis durch Berlin (und Köln) — oft auch inkl. AfD-Prominenz. Jedes Jahr fuckt (pun intended) es mich ab, denen zu begegnen, aber Gegenprotest ist wichtig. Deswegen: Ran da! www.sexuelle-selbstbestimmung.de/termine/akti...

Aktionstag für sexuelle Selbstbestimmung

Wir fordern die Entkriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen als Teil der Gesundheitsversorgung und die Sicherstellung des kostenlosen und wohnortnahen Zugangs für alle.

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Including my book. I just couldn’t get the payout because I’m not a US citizen.

absolute horses@jcoglan.com · last wk.

we already have precedent that AI vendors had to pay out to authors whose books were in the training data. why are they allowed to keep stealing everything

you should definitely keep putting material supplied to you by a guy who is on record saying he stole it into your open source projects 👍

AI boosters for years: it's not theft, it's creating innovation from insights gleaned from synthesising all our creative output AI vendors: it's theft. it's like the worst theft ever

big AI vendors: "yep we've done world historic amounts of theft and it will destroy every online business and information source including our own" governments: "we have got to encourage more of this"

I promise you half of the apps on your phone do this

it's also baked into the design of oauth that client software bakes in a secret token and has some way of keeping it safe

jenn schiffer 🍦@jennschiffer.com · last wk.

a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world

a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world

Micah Lee@micahflee.com · last wk.

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

i once had a client give me full read/write db credentials containing all their customer pii over the phone without even asking my name

jenn schiffer 🍦@jennschiffer.com · last wk.

a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world

WantED: mass-compatible musical act without any political opinions whatsoever for US tour. Free PR guaranteed.

I genuinely think we will look back at this time in a few years, after the inevitable market crash, and collectively acknowledge we were in the grips of the largest techno moral panic in modern history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_p...

Moral panic - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

@fraying.bsky.social Shana Tova

This is the real red pill.

Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

lololol this reminds me of when my pal had the /soundgarden fb url taken away and it’s how we found out soundgarden reunited

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 2w ago

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has kicked Muse off their longtime social media handles. Yesterday the company launched a new AI product, which is also called Muse, and now the band has been relegated to “@museband.” stereogum.com/2510793/meta...

Frag-den-Staat ist gar kein Quake mod?

"democratisation" is when like five guys control all knowledge production. I am very smart

"the inventors of this perpetual motion machine that will produce abundance and radically change the world are set to become rich beyond the dreams of kings" -- story about the word shuffling machine instead of solar energy for some reason

it is good that apple can't, but the problem remains that the watch's owner can. having people record your conversations without consent is creepy and enables abuse

The Verge@theverge.com · 2w ago

Apple says it can’t access users’ raw audio from its new Audio Intelligence features. www.theverge.com/tech/992919/...

tech companies stop giving millions of dollars to ethnic cleansing enthusiasts challenge

anyway, people bragging about their token consumption sound like Guy Who Just Bought a 50mm f/1.2, to me

Spotted a really cool Ams based Rust role: @nlnetlabs@fosstodon.org is a nonprofit that funds open source projects Looking for 2+ years Rust experience, security mindset, excitement about supporting open source projects. 4 days a week in office. nlnet.nl/foundation/j...