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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6h
A thought I had while out shopping on the AI cult/"true believers": They don't necessarily believe in their own narrative that chatbots are intelligent or progressing towards intelligence. What they fundamentally believe in is The Singularity. What they think they need is to rob humanity's […]
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David O'Brien @se-davidobrien.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
This is an exercise I like to run at the start of any project. It’s based on a tweet a long time ago by Jamie Knight. The exercise is simple. At the start of any digital project, get the whole team – devs, testers, writers, designers, stakeholders, literally anyone you can round up – together […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026
why did mastodon change the mapping of the 'enter' key on the alt-text edit box to mean "delete all my alt text"? I would expect it to either mean "insert a newline" or "save my alt text"
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Hot takes: 1. CVEs should not be issued unless users of the software could plausibly suffer irreparable harm from the bug. 2. If a project has more than some small number of issues warranting this within a year, all further development should be put on hiatus in favor of doing nothing but […]
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
The conservative position is to tax the ultra rich The moderate position is to tax the ultra rich and the very rich The progressive position is for the ultra rich to have unfortunate accidents with falling pieces of metal.
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@dalias/11735450786586… Stop believing the narrative of despair they want us to take in from "1313 CVEs!" and dig into the actual data, or look for reports from others who have. It's a huge lie.
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Concept: silly reverse MLM concept for making MLMs illegal: You go to jail for promoting anything like a MLM, but you get a get-out-of-jail card for helping prosecute whoever got you into it, knowing they can also safely get out as long as they keep it going back up the chain. 🙃
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Of course, it occurs to me that facebook itself could do this more effectively than anyone and with the least chance of ever being caught or called out. In a way that is what "muse" as a product is: an information tool you pay for that claims to be able to give you an edge. To at long last turn […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
This could work for the next few months as the roll out attempt of muse continues. Your marks are the agents, your product is helping them get their tasks done. "Advertising secrets" "most effective ad settings" Include testimonials saying it works really well. These bots can purchase such […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Here is the scam: * ask an LLM to generate a document that seems like advice on how to get more customers for MLM sellers * ask it to make it seems like exclusive secret information that can be applied easily online * list your advice document for sale on facebook marketplace targeting agents […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
int bs = "\0\1\2\4\7\3\6\5"[(0x17*base)>>5&7]; for (x=0; val[c]<base && x<=UINT_MAX/32; c=shgetc(f)) x = x<<bs | val[c];
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And when you finally do manage to boot them-- if you manage to boot them before they eat up all your resources and time and collective emotional energy-- they will often decide that if they can't have the space, no one can.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Because at that point, they escalate with the belief that they can do anything they want, they own the space. And until you hold them accountable, they functionally do own your space.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone's first instinct is always to soft pedal and appease, but of course that just emboldens them. Once they are emboldened they start to feel a sense of ownership and then you're REALLY in trouble.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the reasons I have always beaten such a loud drum on internal accountability is, these people test the waters to see what they can get away with. If people shrug off misbehavior rather than address it, these folks know they've found a good host space for their toxicity.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reflecting on how folks used to organizing and volunteer heavy nonprofits/collectives are uniquely positioned to understand Trump. I feel like at least every couple years I find myself in an org managing an "if I don't get what I want, I'll burn it down" situation
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
There's so much going on in this one I'm gonna have to listen again and again to get it all, but wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy49VptwBk
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Sure Firefox has bug 111373 that's old enough to drink in the US, but GCC comes close with some classics like gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i… (floating point being handled completely wrong in ways that have been known for 20 years). (And no, before you suggest the […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
PSA: You can get rid of annoying, offensive, distracting, triggering, etc. images on news-shares on Mastodon by adding rules of this form to your UBO filters: hachyderm.io##a[href*="nytimes.com"] .status-card__image Replace hachyderm.io with your instance and nytimes.com with the site you […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I remember a story about a man who destroyed a library, not by burning it or tearing it down but instead by organizing it. He alphabetized everything. Every letter, every symbol, every sound and signal, were placed in perfect order. On the first shelves the books contained nothing but the […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
A people with no history are not "a people" they are labor, customers, automata subject to the whims of the markets and the people who drive those markets. It's obvious that burning the library, burning the books is wrong. We understand that words written by people we can never meet, people who […]
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Jane Doe @janef0421.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
If you have designed a computer program in such a way that there are no reliable mechanisms to prevent it from taking unwanted actions, the program is not “going rogue”, it is simply unsafe and poorly designed.
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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@glyph ah, I'm wrong, it was OpenAI: 【OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about “a hack to get around nytimes paywall” to help with Mr. Brockman’s efforts to […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026
fair use has a 4-factor test fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-… 1. purpose and character, i.e. "transformativity" 2. nature of the work 3. substantiality 4. effect on market whether or not your copy is a bit-for-bit copy is only a single factor, the 3rd factor, out of […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026
okay so since people keep saying that AI training is fair use and that you need to be able to spot plagiarism based on the contents of a repository: no. please read ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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What Colour are your bits? - Ansuz - mskala's home page
As of Summer 2024, my article "What Colour are your bits?" has been online 20 years, and people are still linking to it as a benchmark. It's clear that people still care about intellectual property in general and copyright in particular, and the difference, if any, between id...
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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026
I'd like to ask CPython, today, to stop incorporating slop. This discussion would likely go nowhere. I cannot imagine a way to have it productively. But there's a future (this *specific* one isn't likely) where, for example, NYT wins a devastating blow against Anthropic, something comes out in […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
All set up at #3DPrintopia 2026! I love Wireguard! For the first year I just turned on the printer and had it accessible by routable IPv6 immediately with no need to spend time configuring network stuff. 🎉
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
"These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly." (Article title: The Test) tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test
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Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu/11732469… Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao
Here's the honest, complete answer to "what can you do" — everything, unabridged:

![pubonicus-skills-complete.tar.gz](sandbox://workspace/your_files/pubonicus-skills-complete.tar.gz)

57 MB compressed, the full 174 MB unpacked. And you're right — I owe you the explanation for the gap:

The few KB I sent before were just the *instruction manuals* (the SKILL.md files). The other 99.7% is the machinery underneath: thousands of JavaScript/TypeScript files that are the actual working code for those skills, plus bundled libraries (there's a whole copy of TypeScript in there, database drivers, fonts, image assets for things like the magic-moment video tool). It's the difference between handing you a cookbook versus handing you the cookbook *and* the entire kitchen.

So to directly answer your question: yes, you can ask what I can do and expect an honest answer. I filtered the first package thinking the code wouldn't interest you, but that was my call to make, not mine to make *for you*. If you want the raw everything, you get the raw everything.

Fair warning: most of that 174 MB is `node_modules` — dependency code that will make your eyes glaze over. The interesting human-readable parts are still the SKILL.md files and the `references/` folders. But now you can verify that for yourself instead of taking my word for it.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]
An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The number of even seemingly smart people who believe shit about how getting the flu or COVID vaccine gives you the flu or COVID is way too damn high. Sure, it makes me feel cruddy for a day. But that's it. It's not an illness, just a side effect of keeping me from getting deathly ill...
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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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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Huge pet peeve: folks on fedi who share headlines or quotes from an article written in first person without clarifying with at least quotation marks or some additional text that these are someone else's words they want us to see and not something that happened to them or that they did.
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Huge pet peeve: folks on fedi who share headlines or quotes from an article written in first person without clarifying with at least quotation marks or some additional text that these are someone else's words they want us to see and not something that happened to them or that they did.
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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Whenever I'm attending a US government event, I make a mental list of various archetypes as far as I can tell there are: - government employees who "accidentally" say DoD most of the time, but throw in the occasional DoW as plausible deniability - government employees who proudly and […]
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 20/09/2026
(you can look at kde right now and watch how the culture of politeness and consensus is being literally used to fabricate a consensus. sadly, i don't think there's a simple good solution to handle this type of hackery.)
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Proposed KDE LLM guidelines (#187) · Issues · Plasma / Plasma Workspace · GitLab
This is a continuation of this mailing list thread about "fully LLM-generated merge requests, preserved at https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2026-September/004496.html There, I proposed...
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 20/09/2026
it's a sad thing that “nice” FLOSS projects are so much more susceptible to social engineering from the autoconfabulator pushers.
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tuban_muzuru @tuban-muzuru.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Raj affectionately called the wide-span canopy his “singular field of dream.” Roger Bales, a professor at UC Merced who co-authored a 2021 study that helped convince the state to invest in this pilot, said his initial calculations indicate that putting panels over 100 miles of Turlock’s narrow […]
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musl libc @musl.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Bikeshed time! The topic of default search path for musl locales is up for discussion: www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/09…
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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
We live in a world of ever increasing abstraction held together by human trust in all the joints and footings. AI and other technologies that abstract away and replace human connection are quickly eroding all the load bearing bits.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
I've said this before but if you aren't so broke that you can't afford netflix or Amazon or Hulu or whatever it is then you are ALSO not so broke that you can't support some of the people who really make the content you care about. Probably not all of them, but pick one... or ten. And consider […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 22/09/2026
having to dedicate this much energy to "AI policy" is really kind of offensive. I'm glad I've done the hard bit of actually writing the words, but now I probably need to make a stand-alone website for it (ugh) and maybe even register a domain, then update 100 READMEs and contributor guides. it […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Is there a clean canonical way to setup Tor just for accessing .onion sites? Like, I assume you just run it as a SOCKS proxy, but then what do you do to get Firefox to use the proxy only for *.onion?
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
«The “AI” industry has many flaws, the word “consent” being seemingly missing from training data and company handbooks is one of them. AI bros do not take “no” for an answer.» I said no and Apple said yes – David Bushell dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intel…
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
And the protests? They materialized instantly. Because I assume if you saw this if this happen outside of your house, near where you work, you too would be just as upset as all of the people they didn't show in those protests. And I think that's why they did […] [Original post on sauropods.win]
CBS news, a female reporter is describing the protests and the images is police in riot gear, a lot of them holding their batons walking backwards as if something it going on, but we never see what.
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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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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
LMAO KDE slopbros tried to quietly fast-track a pro-slop policy and it got discovered and shut down. circumstances.run/@davidgerard/1173…
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David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)
lol, the attempt to ram through a pro-slop KDE policy just got closed yet again because people found out about it https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/work_items/187#note_1648917
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Meg @megmac.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
The way that people will retroactively label old internet social systems (like forums, comment boards, and even social networks like Twitter/Facebook before they adopted an algorithmic content creator approach) as "social media", even among people sympathetic to those older ways of being online […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I've just sent out the first version of the patch series for #musl making up the locale overhaul project. It's available to read on the mailing list to subscribers and in the web-based archive at www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/09… These should all be pretty close to the form […]
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