This artwork of Naga from Super Famicom Slayers deserves a post all of its own away from the main thread. 😳

He was a dick for NO REASON and Gwen gets suspended? Fucks sake.

FromFB: 😂

when I looked into my logs I found that Claude was walking the history of my QMK clone and for every commit, downloading the .zip of the entire repo for that point in time, and that's literally just "I put my QMK fork on my forgejo" which I bet is super duper common.

Should have hit the bots with the ol’ “topological anomaly”

i recently read this story about this site that had stats on box office movie numbers that was all done by hand. not only did it get crushed by ai bot traffic, but polymarket chuds kept trying to hack it to get early results to win bets. the web is completely fried.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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this is the cyberpunk version of fae or vampires being forced to count grains of rice. as it turns out skynet can be stumped by a game of hangman.

The process we call “software engineering” is unfortunately not actually engineering, and this lack of assurance of fitness is just one reason why. It *should* be a proper engineering practice — again for precisely this reason

it should be illegal to make a computer that's a dipshit

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools)

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Classrooms didn't work. Distros did. Need to manage our own data again. Need to unashamedly steal. Not even to rip or remix. They are burning libraries. We need to lock it down, back it up, send it over the wire. Steal it before they raze it. You're right, THIS is OUR world. Hack the planet.

“It’s worth understanding that our digital world is fundamentally democratic by design. Anyone has the power to learn, break, hack, and create tools that break predatory technology or tech trends. The only thing stopping anyone is knowledge that it’s possible.”

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 4d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

OpenAI: “It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree” Anthropic: “The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet.” “here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized”

If this is allowed to become normalized, you won't even just need to worry about these services losing your ID in a breach, you'll also need to worry about scam/compromised sites asking for your ID for the express purpose of stealing it!

NW

A Web Revival: the Internet didn't die, you're just not on it

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If my calculations are correct (and in this story I'm always right) limb-lengthening surgeries could take me to around 7'1".

It works but we’re having a bit of a gain problem and cant beat 2kv, im fresh out of suitable transistors, guess I gotta order some

Rai ‼️@retroriley.bsky.social · 3d ago

got the ic down finally, heres the horizontal oscillatior circuit

Pixel for poetdoe! #pixel #pixelart #furry #furryart #deer

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀

Every company with scavenged '90s IP is SO excited to piss everyone off by announcing ModRetro partnerships.

Really not enjoying the final death blows to consensus reality.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Took me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...

Google's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

do you seriously think anyone is going to develop software that uses the metaphor of 3d space effectively in a world that gave up on making user friendly software in 2016? i don't think most people even test their websites on phones now and everyone who knew how to do ui/ux seems hella unemployed

you used to at least have the option of having devices made for and tested by humans by making a cursed bargain with apple to have 85% of things work basically the way you expect, 10% be fixable by a computer toucher relative and 5% flat out not work at all, if you stay in their wallet garden

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 2d ago

do you seriously think anyone is going to develop software that uses the metaphor of 3d space effectively in a world that gave up on making user friendly software in 2016? i don't think most people even test their websites on phones now and everyone who knew how to do ui/ux seems hella unemployed

im using janky open source shit for everything i can now because i want my own janky shit. i am tired of other people's jank

should be more of a scandal that the FCC is banning a ton of electronics in the US (routers, cameras, drones, roombas) unless they go through a murky process to get an exception, and which largely only right-wing-friendly companies (SpaceX) seem to have managed