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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Claude.ai rightly points out that when reviewing code, we should focus on the code and not on its author.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19h

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

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 […]

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What I like most about it, I think, is that it asks the question, "When did humanity lose control of its destiny", in a world where it most definitely has, and then lets its different characters give different opinions, with some saying it happened in the real past, and some in the fictional […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

What if there was like a knock off version of Graham Hancock but instead of going on about ancient lost civilizations and Atlantas or whatever he just insisted there were ants in the Edicaran? 😆

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Anders Heger @andersheger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Meg i lønsjen på jobben: «Har dere prøvd å få en pakke støvsugerposer levert av Posten/Bring til nærmeste hentepunkt, eller? Det er en opplevelse jeg kan anbefale!»

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Trump turns to Putin and Russia for diesel, before the midterms, during a war, where the USA is — apparently — on the Ukrainian side. Russian stocks spike. Sanctions? what Sanctions? Allies? What Allies? Oh, and also on the same day that the USA […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

The fascist uttered:

Donald J. Trump « *
@realDonaldTrump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with
President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that
Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel
to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons
during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately
thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel
Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time,
3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of
the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian
Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will
be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower
prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers,
and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and
important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood,
that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your
attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I'm really glad that someone at ICE spoke to the media about what is going on in NJ. Putting people in a literal warehouse is disgusting. One of the people who spoke to the media said that "Miller" wanted it to be "inhumane" and dismissed their concerns about the dangers of this idea. Talking […]

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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Jonas Bals @jonasbals.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Har svart tidligere statssekretær for FrP, advokat Ove Vanebo, i dagens Morgenbladet. 1/4

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Mockza @mockza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

De förbjuder böcker och lägger ned humorprogram, men för all del, här är lite livestreamad arkibusering.

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Let's have a look at collective nouns today! 🤭 #Language #Comics #ThrowbackThursday

Illustration with the caption "Collective Nouns" divided in four panels. The first panel shows a group of sailors with the caption "A group of sailors is called a crew". The second panel shows musicians and the caption "A group of musicians is called a band". The third panel depicts a group of thieves as "a gang", and the fourth panel depicts Nazis as "a pile of excrement". The watermark of the author "Linguist Gone Foreign" is at the bottom right.

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filid @filid.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

'Ente (2CV)' #FotoVorschlag FASTER THAN A FERRARI. AS MANY WHEELS AS A ROLLS ROYCE. MORE ROOM THAN A PORSCHE. THE £2,584 CITROËN 2CV. All you'll ever need in a car

FASTER THAN A FERRARI.
Travelling flat out at 71.5mph the Citroën 2CV will
easily overtake the Ferrari Mondial travelling at 65mph.

AS MANY WHEELS AS A ROLLS ROYCE.
The £255,240 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit. How many wheels? Four, The £2,581 Citroën 2CV. How many wheels? Exactly the same.

MORE ROOM THAN A PORSCHE.
With a possible 30cu ft, boot space there's no need for one of those plastic luggage racks on our little run-about.

THE £2,584 CITROËN 2CV.
All you'll ever need in a car

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

David Swan has written an article about the people behind Firmus, an Australian bitcoin mining business turned data centre start-up that withdrew its $43.7 billion sharemarket float this week. It's really quite something: "Oliver Curtis, Firmus’ 40-year-old co-chief executive and the husband […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's important to note that we don't know if the person who was shot with his five year old kid in the car with him today was even the person ICE says they were looking for. The person they claimed to be looking for "had been arrested for robbery" Not "convicted of robbery" or "charged with […]

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026

Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Chris 🦑 @sturmsucht.de · 08/10/2026

The Fediverse story is also: You found a cool software, and realise the dev is an idiot. You found a cool service, and realise the CEO is an idiot. You found a cool OS, and realise the maintainer is an idiot. You realise that 2/3 of these idiots have a questionable understanding about […]

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Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Abstraction is the original sin of technology. It's essential to do anything and we have taught two generations to treat abstractions as real, but not what's beneath the ones they use nor the implications of this lie, and we wonder why no one can see the impact the lie has on their work and world.

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Bjørnar (he/him) @btuftin.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

For no particular reason I today translated my 30-ish years old unstarted epic poem, The one-legged knights of Grôt, from Norwegian into English. The one-legged knights of Grôt In the valley of death, back to back the two. One with a sandal, the other a shoe. #writing

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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Vigdis Olden @vigdisol.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Staten eier 67% av Equinor. Derfor hører 0.8 % fornybarandel ingen sted heime. Aktivt eierskap? Hvor ble det av? Når verden er urolig og små og mellomstore bedrifter blir nervøse, må en rik norsk stat kunne tenke mer langsiktig enn bankkontoen til investorene i et olje og gass-selskap!

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Doing way too much research for a silly, little novellette I'm writing I'm now looking into the fascinating Catholic practice of in utero baptism via a syringe. And in the process I might've found a version of the XKCD citogenesis problem. There's this German […] [Original post on tutoteket.no]

A part of the Talk page on a Wikipedia article

Hi. Sorry for writing in English. I'm looking for a source for this claim: "Die Verwendung einer Taufspritze ist erstmals für 1480 bezeugt." I first found this claim on the museum website that is linked to here as a source. But it does not itself point to any sources for this. When looking for a source, the only thing I can find is this Wikipedia article that linkes back to the museum article.

The museum also say that "Das Reformkonzil von Trier hatte den Hebammen 1310 vorgeschrieben, bei einer Kopfgeburt, die aller Voraussicht nach nicht zu einem glücklichen Ende zu führen war". But when I look for a source for that claim I can not find any, and in fact I find that the Reformkonzil von Trier did not occur until 1545-1563, not in 1310 as the museum claims.

This makes me doubt the truthfulness of all the claims of this museum website.

If anyone here could point me to any other sources for either of these claims I would be grateful. Thank you! --Forteller

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Bjørnar (he/him) @btuftin.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Apple TV is showing button variable names instead of the text they hold. Nice vibe coding, chumps ...

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is […]

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

University libraries (including mine, now that I check the catalog) are paying for LLM-generated ebooks from Springer Nature: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view… (If you do a search for "machine generated overview" or […]

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Bjørnar (he/him) @btuftin.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Absolutely trivial, but to me obviously wrong, new annoyance. Android timer has a circular "time remaining" visual, with a pulsing animation! Instead of just the smoothest possible "remaining time decreasing" animation, the visual decreases every second (presumably, but who knows), but each […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@davidgerard Are they really making gradmas use moltbook? On a scale of one to evil how wrong would it be to set up a facebook marketplace store that sells "the thing that make the owner of any agent happy instantly and solve their request perfectly for 10000 mega bucks?

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 20/09/2026

"Nearly every #OpenSource license, from MIT to the GPL, is unambiguous about the obligation to keep the copyright notice and attribution intact. Developers offered their work to the world on those terms, and anyone who builds on that work, including companies building #AI tools, should honor […]

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The criminality of England's oldies cintinues to shock. #MerseysidePolice today arrested a 94 year old #terrorist in Liverpool. Even worse, the terrorist #MargaretOwen is also a Jewish human rights barrister,. It's scary to think of the risks to #AndyBurnham's […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Onkel Idiot med opprykk @schish76.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mine damer og herrer. #Offerrollen

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“Ow! It stung me. What the fuck was that?!” “Copyright enforcement drone.” “What the literally flying fuck?” “You were humming again, lover, and your hair is obscuring your license QR” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Enforcement_Droid_Zero_Point_Two_Oh_Nine #BonusEdition

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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Bjørnar (he/him) @btuftin.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Live your life so that you can be in a video game ad with the daughter you named after the video game series. youtu.be/KJRV1kvF1sE?si=320xllHL85V… #legendOfZelda

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Why is there a movement to discredit the existence of 2022?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

New levels of "being assumed I am a student" reached. My own dept charged me a key deposit, assuming I wasn't staff. I did think it was weird to have to pay to do my job, wish I'd pushed back 🙃

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Israel annihilated *all* of their schools and universities, but the folks over at Jerusalem Post wanna know: hey, are those kids being taught to hate us? Your brain on Zionism. You can exterminate at least 20,000 children in 3 years and still see yourself as the f-ing victim.

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Gaza's back-to-school coverage misses the crucial test: what are children being taught?

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nya siffror: EU satsar mer pengar på att subventionera fossila bränslen (SEK1 000 miljarder) än på stöd till förnybar energi (SEK850 miljarder). Politikerna använder våra pengar till att förvärra klimatkrisen som dödar oss och förstör vår planet ec.europa.eu/transparency...

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Having Opinions about specific versions of LLMs feels a lot like Knowing Your IQ. Like, I understand that you believe it's important, but it's telling me much more about you than you think it is, and not in any kind of good way

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Ulrik Eriksen @ulriken1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Denne er virkelig ille. Frykter presedensen her. Drep myk trafikant i ruspåvirket tilstand. Skyld på blindsone. Bli frikjent for uaktsomt drap. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/QJ...

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Frifunnet for uaktsomt bildrap etter sparkesykkelulykke

Den mannlige bilføreren i 50-årene ble først dømt til 45 dager i fengsel for å ha kjørt på og drept Aud Andersen Sandodden (60).

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

News is often biased but there is something surreal and disorienting when the lies are this transparent. The truth is that ICE shot a man, possibly the wrong man, possibly they lost their temper over nothing. The local people were instantly outraged and the police responded to shut down the […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I've had people ask before why I post art that's been drawn on lined or grid notebook paper and not blank drawing paper. It's honestly a big psychological hack: blank drawing paper is for "real" art and I'm afraid to mess it up, but art on lined paper is legally "a doodle" and the art cops have […]

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