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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Actually this is a good reminder to get your stuff sorted out before the time zones go kerplunk in about 2 weeks www.cbc.ca/news/canada/time-zone-ca…

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

namely, using slop is a choice, whereas being born in a country is not, so you see the qualitative difference between the statements, right?

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"saying all LLM output is slop is just like saying everyone from country x is a criminal" sure is a fascinating take in light of the accusation/confession dynamic

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

it's always the ones you most suspect fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117453005618069047

Bradley M. Kühn
@bkuhn@copyleft.org

@copiesofcopies

We are more in agreement than you realize:

I guess now is a good as time as any to “come out”: I'm using #Anthropic's #Claude on a regular basis to help me figure out what types of policies we should set for reasonable & ethical use of #LLMGenAI in #FOSS, & also to actually improve FOSS codebases.

I believe it is reasonable to use proprietary technologies as long as our eyes remain on the prize of defeating those technologies.

@cwebber, I suspect, doesn't agree.

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

BC election notes: seems like everybody in town had the same idea to vote on the first day of advance polling, about 50-75 people were in line at the nearest advance polling place at about 3pm. "is that good chat"

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Gorgeous na Shock! @indigoparadox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So, the thing about using an SBC with an SD card to run Linux is... you *really* gotta track down those log files! journald or syslog generally wrangle them up well enough to throw onto log2ram (which backs them up on reboot) or a remote syslogd, but... if you're using X11, that doesn't include […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

LB x2: tbh i didn't have people making jokes about linux losing the bsd-linux mindshare battle after 34 years on my bingo card

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

2006: we're tired of windows' bullshit, we're moving to linux 2026: we're tired of linux's bullshit, we're moving to netBSD

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

whether intentional or not, torvalds' stances like the kernel debuggers thing end up looking like just a moat for his own preferred workflow at the time

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

linus torvalds won't use a debugger but he will use claude? jesus fucking christ

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

just in case you didn’t know that “it’s only for code reviews, I don’t see the problem” is always bad faith horseshit: www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvald… > Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

LB x2: honestly there is so much stuff like this that i've bounced off of, like for instance almost everything to do with containerization since virtualization and paravirtualization proper

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

surreynowleader.com/2026/10/09/l... the political deftness of this letter or even just its headline is a good reminder -- the bc conservatives essentially rotated the leader as a rebranding exercise without actually changing any of their policies,

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LETTER: Is It SOGI the B.C. Conservatives oppose, or LGBTQ acceptance? - Surrey Now-Leader

LGBTQ identities should not be treated as 'controversial'

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Thinking about not just the ICC opposition but all the various US stuff and things over the past 25 years, 'in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect' is not a description of conservatism, it is a description of the american […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Did i favourite this post? yes? is it basically just the dril drunk driving tweet, by other means, like the other 95% of social media politics discourse? also yes

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

LB: it's funny, yesterday i was riffing on the disinfo sponsorship cancellation thing, but when you talk about the spineless sort of diplomacy it's really the ICC that comes to the top of mind; it's kind of amazing that in literally 24 hours a peace prize followed by additional bullshit has […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

i guess when i follow somebody on another site with the canadian flag in bio i can't say i wasn't forewarned when they suffer from their own excess of center-left tone policing how other people engage in that unique media-literacy-puzzles-fan kind of way ;P

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

this; at the very least, if they won't bleep the audio why block out the word in the subtitles? this is a sort of google institutional brainrot

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

LB: See the PQ isn't actually centre-left, it's just that sometimes people can make social programs a matter of national prestige...

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

and like i'm actually being somewhat unfair to actual airplane cockpits to compare this to it, but you get the idea -- just nonsense overload

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

You ever see something designed so bad, by an outfit that knows better, that it feels like they are deliberately trolling?

A partial screenshot of the Firefox "Manage Your Themes" settings page

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I'm starting to think that there's a kind of cynical decentralization that in practice exists to dodge attribution for its actions from people using a posiwid lens, in the same way that i think the let's say the desktop ecosystem in linux has a lot of excessive modularity, beyond module […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

LB: this is kind of the trouble with google: do they just hire the worlds dumbest contractors for all actual staff functions? is it straight up abuse of their monopoly position to achieve their goals? is it just deliberate antagonism just hoping the project will go away? hard to say because it […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

LB: I mean, let's not be too hasty handing out plaudits that we don't have all the data points to support just yet :P

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

A friend of mine in high school once told me they read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when they were a kid, and they didn't get it, because they didn't realize that it was a parody of science fiction

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

LB: If you like that sort of metaphysical angst, I'm just going to leave a link to this podcast episode from a couple years ago lying here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfbI0_hWyxE

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

To put a very fine point on it I don't even know if what lewis is saying these days _is_ having an impact, or if it is just a kind of delayed indicator that politicians feel they have to say something, but this is the only part of the iceberg visible to the post what it definitely is a sign of […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

LB: in some ways it's sort of the ideal situation for newspaper columnist "just asking questions here" guys to be situated in a larger culture you can just ask questions about but at the same time you very explicitly reject following the values of yourself in maybe the most severe way possible

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

catching up with recent trashfuture episodes, and it brings to mind the old question somebody asked me about a supposed autodidact one time: is this person actually self-taught or do they just not know anything? I now treat media claims that some person in tech is an autodidact as an implied […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LB: like i want to underscore that risks of a massive incidents involving this technology are likely to be ones where it is sort of incidental, like some kid vibe coding the next morris worm for drones or something; and "massive" is relative, we're not talking about something that's existential […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LB x2: like I hate to say it but vibe coding comes from an underlying cultural problem

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

LB: the roughriders vs rough riders thing is very much a saint john vs st. john's (vs saint jean vs fort saint john, etc.) situation

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

LB: this somehow feels unexpectedly ambitious from single-issue civil liberties org

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

with that said i don't fault anybody for not wanting to use it for reasons; even if personally i think for instance not using it specifically to avoid becoming llm fodder is a sort of lost cause at this point

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

it's funny, my experience was that stack exchange literally displaced the bogus "experts exchange" type sites that were very literally just a cynical corporate paywall attached oftentimes to the mere hint of useful knowledge

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

LB: at the very least the optics of that are breathtaking

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

who better to ask than geoffrey hinton? like literally anybody else. hinton is simulaneously an llm booster who thinks that capabilities are *underhyped* while also being the cliche doomer in line with the quasi-religious pr campaign www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7362…

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

LB: in a way it's like the ultimate "beating the averages"; you never have to worry about the people whose idea of an implementation technology is religious beliefs about the capabilities of entire warehouses full of gpus to simulate programmers tuned with a focus on getting the aesthetics right […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

LB: lol, ok mr. cameron, we'll take your judgement on this matter for what it's worth :P

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

having to test a couple things in wayland, i'm running a gnome session, and you know I talk about the capriciousness of it as an endeavour, that they are so preoccupied with dismantling and undermining what already exists with preoccupation with some long lost goal they will forget about before […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

LB: to be blunt, i think if there is a law of mandatory mediation on the government's say-so in proscribed conditions that passes a constitutional test, one where the proscribed conditions are some wishy washy language about "national interest" ain't it.

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

LB: I actually think the full nature of software correctness -- that what matters is not what the implementing code does or the calling code expects today, but what the actual intent of the interface is, and the actual actual intent not what some spec says -- is something a lot of devs […]

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) @rakslice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rakslice/117265905… ok, exactly this happened again, with firefox 156.0.1 and ublock origin 1.75.0 -- all previously open and new browser tabs stopped being able to load anything online, but about: tabs still load and about:networking still able to do dns […]

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