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yay the witcher 3 remaster update is free and shows up as an update to an existing witcher 3 install! uh oh the witcher remaster update just _completely_ breaks the game on crossover. pouring one out for the fine folks at codeweavers today, that has got to be a stressful event

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RE: wandering.shop/@phildini/1173552092… hell yeah let's bring some of that "but how can we possibly afford it" energy to the concept of cops. if you care about budget discipline we cannot afford to have cops, and now we have the data to prove it.

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Utilitarianism is broken because quality of experience is not actually a scalar value. It does not ideologically admit the possibility of the need for things like balance and rhythm. Consider the fact that you can die of thirst and you can die of drowning. While you *can* reflect this fact in a […]

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So, this is just a single data point, but an interesting one. Maybe OpenAI's new ad product is completely worthless? (Again: single data point. Be careful how much confidence you place in this.) […]

meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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How I'm structuring things with @glyph 's new Automat API -- or, "how to use 6k+ lines of Python to draw a small diagram" ;) meejah.ca/blog/new-automat

A nice-looking but very simple GraphViz-drawn state-machine diagram with two states ("on" and "off") and a "push_button" transition between the two.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For no particular reason, say you found a vulnerability in a piece of software. This developers of this software claim that a bunch of things that would normally be considered vulnerabilities are actually intended behavior, but this is still beyond that and definitely in their bug bounty list […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/09/2026

Update is up for patrons. It's still Friday, right? www.patreon.com/creatorglyph/posts/…

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/09/2026

New Blog: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed? blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-pr…

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Deciphering Glyph :: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I hate the 'make X Y again' snow-clone and honestly I think less of people who use it

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blog.glyph.im

Deciphering Glyph :: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]

Tiota Sram @tiotasram.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to […]

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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

okay, I'm feeling like I have enough left in the tank today to have a peek at the unsealed motion for summary judgement against OpenAI in the NYT et al. suit let's get ready to rumble

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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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RE: mastodon.social/@mcc/11733802244698… the way I am coping with my own version of this, of creeping corruption all the way up and down the stack, rather than starting at the bottom of the stack with like-minded folks and building all of modern computing up from first principles, is […]

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

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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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I just had a thought, and, uh, this is disturbing www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22th…

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Do we have a word yet for the faction of pseudo-skeptic "but what if the golden mean fallacy were a good idea actually" people like Mo Bitar and "House of El"? I am reluctant to just dismiss them as seminar grifters, allegedly El has a PhD and Mo has written some real software. And they seem to […]

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we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of […]

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please, as a favor to me, do not post dunking on Last Ditch or the weird backlash against them. I do not think that their community is by any means healthy, but a bunch of immunocompromised lesbians in rural massachusetts is going to be a group of people in extremely difficult circumstances. if […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

problematize the eschaton

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i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 24/09/2026

I realize I'm in a strong minority here but I just _cannot_ perceive submitting LLM-generated work to a volunteer project as anything but an extremely rude and thoughtless thing to do. I _know_ that the consensus social etiquette is that I'm supposed to have a prominently-posted policy […]

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[mh (-)] I would describe my current level of motivation to do things as “catatonic”. could everything stop happening so much, please

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"Political organizing is a labour of love in which people who are already ground down by capitalism, squeeze out time and energy from their stretched thin lives in order to struggle for a better, more just world.... The emotional processing needed to clearly and responsibly state specific […]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

love reading email They used to sign it as “agent on behalf of X” but I guess the reply ratio sucked. Is there a Pangram for GitHub with FOSS subsidy?

Pangram classifying an email I got as 100% slop.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 23/09/2026

I really think somebody is telling college students, particularly in India, that it is a good strategy to lie to open source maintainers to get commits integrated into their projects. They all set up some similarly-configured bot (openclaw, maybe?). I cannot fathom who is giving them this advice […]

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

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it's really embarrassing that when you report malicious spam on github, first the form is janky and kinda broken, and then you get this automated reply email that clearly is meant for support tickets and that reminds you that "the community" can answer most basic questions. they still treat the […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

github threat model dot png

the classic xkcd 2347 comic of the wobbly tower resting on a hobby project of some guy in Nebraska, but the labels are "all infrastructure of EVERY government and corporation in the world" and "a website that encourages you to swap mystery binaries with anonymous strangers for free"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it www.wired.com/story/us-dat...

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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

also for a small list of games made by fedi people that will make Steam think you like dragon washing games, see danfixes.blog/coolgames:fedi

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coolgames:fedi [Dan Fixes Dot Blog]

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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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I am reserving the tiniest sliver of grace for AI "what about meat" whataboutism, in that a few times now I have heard vegans or vegetarians use "but what about meat" as a shorthand for "I *have* considered the ethical calculus on AI and I think the cost/benefit is one I can live with, I know […]

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sometimes it's the little things that finally push you over the edge www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments…

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RE: wandering.shop/@phildini/1173109396… Folks let's get this some more boosts on this and connect to a Grafana expert, we can't have this AI harm mitigation strategy absolutely face-plant on the _first try_. (I am Very Bad At Grafana™ so this one's beyond my ability to just […]

laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

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RE: mastodon.social/@benroyce/117307005… 🧵 1/ I see there are many people in the replies to this post getting upset and claiming this is an unspoken social requirement in interviews and that it's unfair to the neurodiverse. I did hundreds of interviews during my time in tech […]

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