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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 19h

Replace your toilet seat and lid with a soft close. No toilet seat should be hard close. Life is hard enough! Soft close everything

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I see your "Tiffany is a valid medieval name" and raise you "Alexander the Great's wife was named Roxanne"

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

As one UK university after an other goes into “restructuring”, a euphemism for hollowing out by administrators, you never hear the phrase “fiduciary duty”. It is clear that these people see the university primarily as a business that they can leave behind. Lost is the idea that they are […]

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Ɲєιƚ Ƃιɍƌ 凤 @fnxweb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social Is that AI as most people use the term (LLM) or Machine Learning?

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Somebody is putting a *lot* of work into creating spam Fedi accounts, you can spot them by a post containing “google.co.<some-country-code>/share.google?q=" and then a whole lot of random hashtags. Please report if you see one.

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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms. We don’t know why. It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS #BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH #LULA.” Share it if you can.

The image of a hand signing the “L” in Lula - “The world needs Brazil. The World stand with Lula.”

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Every election should have a “none of the above” option and if that gets the most votes then they have to do the election again with new candidates

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

People who find LLMs useful when "used correctly" don’t understand that they manage to use them correctly because they spent 20 years of there life learning their craft without LLMs. LLMs is the only tool where the less you use it, the better you become at using it.

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

When I read that Anthropic source repository post with the "every bottleneck we remove immediately leads to a further increase in the amount of code we produce" quote, I just think back to Ken Thompson's famous quote: "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." […]

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Ɲєιƚ Ƃιɍƌ 凤 @fnxweb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Finally turned off automatic-backup in [Google] Photos — #Immich is my photo store now¹. Can't *delete* the current photos yet as we still have a couple of Google displays that cycle them. One day. ¹ — i7 #ProxMox mini PC, Immich in a #Docker container running under an #Alpine VM. Auto backed […]

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

CAPTCHAs are getting more difficult these days 🫪

parody of a CAPTCHA form, where the user is asked to select squares from an image of the ship of Theseus (a reference to Theseus's Paradox).

credits: unsure, i did not make this one and am unable to find it on reverse image search. it is NOT ai, as i had previously posted it back in 2022 but am resubmitting with alt text and a different caption.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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kjaerulv @kjaerulv.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The S in AI stands for Security

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let […]

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Janko Luin :terminal: @gufo.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Oh my goodness. OpenAI just lobbed 400 huge slop grenades onto the mathematics community just so they could make a press release. Seemingly without even trying to check the results?! Absolute madness. The only reasonable response here is a huge “nope” […]

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

So… the USA is buying oil from Russia… Russia is aiding Iran… Iran is at war with thei US causing the shortage in the first place… Just how many people are being blackmailed, extorted, or paid off to enable this grift?

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production”: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf?ref=404media.… [Long and dense, have only scanned it, which was enough to convince me to share it.] #genAI

Artificial Intelligence in the Firm:
Bottlenecks in Software Production
Fiona Chen
Harvard University
Job Market Paper
James Stratton
Harvard University
Current version: August 4, 2026
First version: January 7, 2026
Click here for current version
Abstract
We study the impacts of AI coding assistants and agents on software engineering work, using
a novel proprietary dataset from an engineering analytics platform, covering 300 million work
events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events — across
718 firms. We use a staggered difference-in-differences design, exploiting variation in firm-
level adoption timing of AI coding assistants and agents. Both technologies increase coding
productivity. However, productivity gains do not fully pass through to changes in software output
or employment. For AI agents, this incomplete pass-through reflects a bottleneck from code
review: review times increase, a larger share of code updates require revisions, and reviews
involve more comments. We develop a model of software production to structure these results, in
which AI affects both productivity and quality of intermediate outputs, and in turn can generate
a review bottleneck and limit pass-through.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

With all the new G's (New GTLDs that ICANN has approved) coming up like .pdf now is a great time to disable search from your browser bar so you don't accidentally end up at a malicious site. For FireFox or Tor Browser do: - about:config - set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false - set keyword […]

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026

I was immediately reminded of @catsalad

caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Beware. If you are looking for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film "Naza" based on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers, that is currently in film festivals and cinemas, you won't find it online. Instead you will find the IDF's "Naza - The True Story" that presents a very different picture of […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food

Greg Ip
Oct. 2, 2026 at 5:30 am ET

Bar graph of proportions of GDP for
Health: 18%
Food 9.1%
AI services (assumed for 2032) 8.8%
Energy: 5.1%
Construction: 4.4%
Computers, software: 4.4%
Defense: 2.8%
Communication, Internet: 1.22%

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

RE: toot.cat/@plexus/117291912937658483 This is one of the reasons that despite my strong feelings I think we need patience and grace for a lot of maintainers. Particularly the ones who have been good on DEI, good on CoCs, good on technical excellence, good on compassionate processes… […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Lance Bachmeier @lance.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

In case you can't read what I boosted: Anthropic's 2025 financials were just revealed: $6B in revenue $8B in operating losses $42B in net losses

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