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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.fedizen.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hey #FediForum attendees: what was your favorite demo or session?

Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/09/2026

@ben yeah, and they're feeding into each other as well. if i tell an agent to search for something and it comes back to me with 'i found this article but it costs x cents', im always gonna tell it to search again and find something comparable. so you actually get the double barrier, an […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 31/08/2026

the readme of the repo says "Topics for coverage: Primarily ActivityPub and related specifications as a developer stack" both the terms "primarily" as well as "related specifications" dont make it particularly clear that a link to ap-next would be out of scope @j12t @liaizon @evan @silverpill

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 27/08/2026

@ntnsndr @serapio yeah exactly. i think that would work for a coop-like structure, specifically because memory/context design for agents is hard, and there is fine line where more context makes the agent perform worse. so for shared agents you need some trust that the people designing the agents […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 27/08/2026

@ntnsndr @serapio yeah specific purpose makes the most obvious sense, but i think general-purpose would also be interesting actually. like, i think i can push llms to get interesting and useful noncode outputs, and i know other people who can too. a finetune based on our collective transcripts […]

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 27/08/2026

Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads:

BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE

On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI
International celebrated the successful
completion of tests by sending an electronic
message from a computer set up at a picnic table
behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via
a radio network to SRI and on through a second
network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event
marked the beginning of the Internet Age.

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 27/08/2026

hard to imagine this going wrong in some way really

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 27/08/2026

@ntnsndr privacy but in reverse. like, id be interested in a coop that does explicit data sharing within the coop for various aspects. something like building a collective dataset of the members for a rag or lora or something like, neoclouds that offer zdr or full green energy exist, and those […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 18/08/2026

like, there is/was an ai bubble, but its kospi, not ant/openai. and every time something like the Situational Awareness (lol) blowup happens without further collateral dmg it further decreases any possible transmission from the obvious leveraged bullshit to the wider market

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 18/08/2026

archive.is/TjIsb#selection-1671.172… what the actual fuck lol i keep being wrong on thinking theres gonna be any crash at all, i should stop doing that. i think i keep having the right intuition that the economics of big labs dont indicate […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same period a year ago, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.
The Claude chatbot maker reported a preliminary revenue figure of more than $11.5 billion in its latest completed quarter, compared to $787 million in the corresponding period in 2025, and $4.73 billion in the first quarter of this year, the documents show. The second quarter of 2026 saw Anthropic report positive adjusted operating income, according to the documents.

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 04/08/2026

everyone talking about the ai bubble popping in some abstract future tense, but have you seen the kospi lmao

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 24/07/2026

reality construction is fucking weird bro

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 24/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@laurenshof/1169290… tbf the implication of this is that the referent is now actually Real

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 23/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@laurenshof/1169693… only the referent is Real and the object does not matter, apparently

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 23/07/2026

what a bleak way of understanding the world

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 23/07/2026

everything is marketing and nothing is real

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026

@thisismissem yeah! had some great chats with Meri about it last week at dweb camp. good reminder that i need to just get on a call with @erlend again to hear more

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026

@Edent right, exactly. and the problem is that an independent judiciary is whats missing here, so it will have to be solved via collective deliberation somehow plus this issue is obviously very salient to people, for good reason, which means that the boundary questions will also actually be […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026

having a collective project be governed and operated on a shared worldview and ethic is very good! i want this! but that does mean actually having to do the work of figuring out how to run a collective project on a shared worldview

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026

i will never not be fascinated by the idea figuring out operational governance is juvenile for a project that is explicitly about governance

It passed.

codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pull

Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

(EDIT: No, I do not want to debate the percentages of LLM code allowed or "how will people enforce this, I can still vibe code and not tell". This is a statement about intent by a community. It will be a moderation challenge, especially with so many people who have made "coding with an LLM" their whole personality but it's doable. But don't waste your and my time with these boring, juvenile arguments)

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 20/07/2026

this is wild

$hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)$

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 16/07/2026

the collective social perception of a social network is in itself a Real Object that is more real than the software or the data

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 15/07/2026

what protocol is the most goblincore?

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 01/07/2026

the theory that like half the fediverse things data privacy is just a thing you can will into existence via discourse vibes stays winning

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 01/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@laurenshof/1168276… it gets even better, the person who started the drama about their posts being boosted by relays was just a week ago floating the idea of a fediverse dating platform in a popular post absolutely incredible

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 29/06/2026

logging into the torment nexus for another workweek in the discourse mines

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 28/06/2026

this is genuinely the most bewildering drama about fedi and consent that ive ever seen

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 25/06/2026

mechanism being STRC=>MSTR=>USDT withdrawal, and because USDT is now backed by treasuries, that will lead to a dumping of treasuries by tether, which spikes yield, which hits the rest of the speculative asset prices

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 25/06/2026

ok fuck it, bold prediction time. i think well be seeing a bubble pop soon, but that bubble popping being the crypto bubble (again lol), which causes contagion leading to a reset in prices for ai as well. so since everyone is primed for a bubble pop to be the ai bubble pop, everyone will think […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 17/06/2026

@johan the problem is worse: this is federalization in its purest form. WSocial is federating (for now, doubt its gonna stay that way) with the rest of the network, they an independent actor from bsky/eurosky/etc. So its the EC in a federatilized network specifically, with knowledge of the […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 11/06/2026

RE: mastodon.nl/@Marloezovic/1167267614… Good article! Really like this section (translation in alttext), as it is one of those subtle signals that actually provide a good indication of what makes this place different: neither mastodon or […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Our conversation lasts two hours, and I notice that he is not attempting to foist a Mastodon server on NRC. Just as Berjon isn't trying that at Eurosky. In the short online comments, the competition on alternative socials seems fiercer than what I experience in these conversations. Chaput: "In the galaxy of social media, we are ultimately the closest to each other."

"The technical side is easy," Chaput also dismisses some of my questions. "The truly complex questions are social. They revolve around people." When a technical adjustment needs to be decided upon at Mastodon, they first hold an extensive brainstorming session with the central question being ‘how could this be misused?’. "Bad people have many ways of behaving badly online," says Chaput with a resigned laugh. He, too, advises thinking carefully beforehand about what kind of community I want and, above all, who should be able to get an account on the NRC server.

"You will have policy discussions like you've never had before," he predicts. Regarding rules of conduct, identity verification, topic selection, moderation, the use of algorithms, whether or not to allow advertisements, and so on. "But that is a good thing. Instead of putting those decisions in the hands of a few billionaires, people need to think about them."

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 03/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116686738… like, i understand why mastodon put out this blog post, thats just what youre supposed to do and thats how politics works but im not sure if the mastodon team themselves fully gets how deeply they are getting fucked over by the EC in […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 03/06/2026

@sraible i cant believe they actually just put it in there like that

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 29/05/2026

@jonny @tchambers the well-run smaller servers handle this by collaborative backchannels and membership deliberation as you mention, and that works well. but i dont think that scales, and that it does not really provide a way to govern the commons of the network as a whole

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 29/05/2026

@jonny @tchambers yeah, fair. My concern here mainly that the formal channels and structures for collaboration that are missing. same when it comes to federated diplomacy, the layer missing here a framework for how to federate between servers that have a mismatch in policies. For example […]

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these: "If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each […]

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 20/05/2026

"it seems to me that we're doing carcinization for protocols" - @laurenshof connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16…

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