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I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

Through @CoMaps , I discover @mangroveReviews which looks very interesting. https://mangrove.reviews/search?sub=urn%3Aisbn%3A9782889790098&q=bikepunk Which leads me to @OpenLibrary , which I should definitely contribute to. (my books are under CC By-SA, can I upload them?) […]

I think the sensible course is to meet halfway and call it superficial intelligence.

The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

this week I learned that during a merge conflict, you can get a list of all commits involved in the conflict that touched a file with: $ git log --merge FILENAME Seems super useful if there are a lot of commits being merged (like in a big rebase) but only a couple of them touched that file

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

The AI Pascal’s Wager

The AI Pascal’s Wager par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]

Is there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find one

Today we had the most unusual PhD defense of my career. Leon Houben fell 15 m in the Alps, landing on his head and loosing his memory while working on his PhD thesis. When he met me again, he had to google me. He had to re-learn everything and wrote two more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

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If your government web site gets hacked, PROSECUTE THE COMPANY THAT DID IT.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@mathew/117316512860441377 “Plan C was to go work at Costco, because yes, I would literally rather stack shelves than spend my days reviewing AI slop.” 🙋 it me.

I'm concerned that the EU Citizens' Initiative to stop online age verification regulation only has 14K signatures out of a required 1M. Please sign if you are a EU citizen: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public I am all-in on the idea that social media is (on balance) harmful, including to […]

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the #US & #Canada. Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Part 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Privacy #News

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My initial reaction was negative, but after sitting with it for five minutes (and actually reading the intro 😂), I don’t mind it! PEP-823: None-aware attribute access and indexing operators https://peps.python.org/pep-0823/

PEP 823: None-aware access operators

This PEP proposes adding two new operators.

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There are clearly many reasons why people are switching to Vivaldi. Interestingly, my little survey shows that the top reasons have more to do with our values than particular features. The #1 reason (77%) is the fact that we do not have built in AI. #2 is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/absurd-adventure-and-amygdalectomy Gruesome, surprising, story of one man's illness, brain surgery, and the psychological benefits of losing a major brain

Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy

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"l’essence de « bien écrire » est très simple. Il faut que chaque mot ait une utilité" "Bien écrire, ce n’est pas écrire beaucoup. Au contraire ! Bien écrire, c’est couper, supprimer pour aller à l’essentiel." "C’est la raison pour laquelle les textes générés par chatbots/IA/pouetpouetGPT me […]

Just want to remind people that when Anthropic installed an "AI soda vending machine" in the Wall Street Journal office, it ended as stupidly as you could imagine. Anthropic said it was the future and when the journalist managed to have a moment of lucidity and genuinely asked if it wasn’t a […]

I sometimes feel the need to repeat again and again that the EU is very good at developing technology but is bad at creating commercial monopolies out of it. And it is a f*** good thing! We don’t want an "European Google" https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

We abandoned it because the joke had pretty much run its course, but full auto "agents" are still wandering into the AgentPipe honeypot. Despite the arrival of AGI, the quality leaves much to be desired

Our lab putting out a wireless power, wireless data miniature microscope for longterm 1P calcium imaging without cables - no more open topped boxes! This is real life magic to me. Takuya and Marcel show imaging in a vaguely translucent tunnel system, but the sensors can be put anywhere for more […]

MovingPandas is moving to Codeberg I've been testing Codeberg for over a year now, with Trajectools being the largest repo that has already moved its headquarters from Github to Codeberg. I have been very happy with the experience so far and – at the same time – I couldn't help but notice the […]

I looked up NZ's road statistics so far for 2026. 17,635 road injuries resulting in ACC claims. 221 people dead. All just this year. Instead we're fretting about e-scooters being dangerous and needing more regulation. (Perhaps they do, but they're not the […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006167 I’m still wondering what is behind all those companies giving huge sum of money to the little vibecoded pet project of a fascist. Even if they want to join the fascist club, why so much? This is not normal. No project […]

i've started getting a lot of emails (maybe one every few days) that appear to be LLM generated from people asking for some kind of feedback or collaboration on their LLM-generated app feels sad because honestly I used to like when people emailed me about something cool they mad and now I just […]