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  when's the last time you ran a backup

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  Perhaps I could have gotten a laptop with a beefier GPU; my intel integrated GPU is *sweating* trying to render some of these scenes in Blender. But it's doing it. I kinda have this vague opinion that it's good to not have to rely on "top end" hardware, that doing so puts you in a position of building or using or advocating for tech that many people can't access

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  your password must contain at least twelve letters, three numbers, two special case characters (but not too special), and seven extremely un-special riciculeable "mid" characters

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  One of the top threads on the ClaudeAI subreddit right now: "I am done with this shit" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/ Curious to see just how much of the thread on a quite pro-genAI subreddit is people commiserating on the exhaustion of their work turning primarily into tedium and poor engineering. Bonus in that the Claude AI summary bot in the thread says: > The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You're not an engineer anymore, you're a...

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  I get so stressed about paperwork. Way more than most people. Way more than makes sense

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  please copy that floppy we really need the information on it future generations will thank u -- digital librarian friend

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  Hack & Craft! Today from 2-4 ET (18:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring a craft project, bring a coding project! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/ As for me, I'm going to try to figure out how to make this grass I am working on in Blender better. But also when I took a screenshot of it, somehow that screenshot corrupted in the most beautiful way. Rather than show you my visible WIP grass screenshot, I'm going to share this corrupted screenshot because it looks kinda beautiful

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  So: you started vibecoding your FOSS project? And now you don't really understand your codebase anymore *without* asking agents what's happening? And you basically outsourced all your favorite part of your passion project to managing a robot that doesn't care? And you're more burnt out than ever? I have to say that it's very difficult for me to feel sympathy for this. I see more people reporting on this, but it feels fairly predictable. But it also feels like it was clearly...

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  A decade ago: someone on your timeline is telling you not to be worried about advancements in AI because it was going to result in fully automated gay luxury space communism. You ask them how we are going to switch to that from capitalism by using capitalism to do it and they link you to an article about UBI. Don't worry about it, you're going to have time to work on your code and art finally Today that person is either fully disillusioned with all of it or is working at Anthropic

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  Everything that makes you cool and part of youth culture eventually makes you cringe and part of old culture But trying to be "hip" and "with it" is the biggest cringe of all

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  A friend pointed out something about the "Little Weird Guys in FOSS" list that was bothering me but I hadn't articulated: lots of queer people describe themselves as "weird", and lots of transmascs who didn't get T until after puberty self describe as "weird little guys" in a charming way. So if you are such a person and are like "why the hell is my self-descriptor being used with a list of people like, Eric Raymond," I just want to say... From a...

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  the reason people bedazzle clothes is because they learned from RPGs that wearing shinier clothing makes them more powerful

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  It's pretty simple. You're hearing "We're so scared of the AIs, we need to reign them in" from the very US companies building and selling them for two reasons: - They're about to IPO, and it's amazing marketing for them - They want a regulatory moat, since they're deeply worried about the open weight LLMs. They want everyone dependent on this tech and to be *the only ones legally permitted to dispense it*.

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  A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics https://mathandai.org/ A very powerful open letter, signed by 25 leading mathematicians (all Fields Medalists), on the ways AI corporations rushing to complete problems has been harmful, and the way LLM usage threatens the fruit from the work that grows out mathematical research.

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  I think *local* LLM model usage for certain problem domains and work can be justified (but much less often than the LLM-maximizing hype is pushing for), but using hosted LLM models is *never* justified. The power asymmetry is too great. This is a great example of why.

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  The holes on the Ocarina have never looked this good before

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  The post that caused the greatest fedidrama and defederation across the whole fediverse history: "I'm eating my favorite berry! (a banana)"

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  It appears that Tristan Buckmaster raising alarms that AI corporations may have snooped on their research so the companies could throw compute at developing proofs for, and gain credit for, advancements in the Navier-Stokes equations. OpenAI then threw a massive amount of compute at the problem, and seemed to try to coerce Tristan into getting credit for it: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf > I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with wha...

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  Hack & Craft! Tonight! From 20:00-22:00 ET! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/ Cya there! I'll be blender'ing, almost certainly!

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  I detest copyright *and* I detest genAI You can detest both

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  I really feel like we had several prominent FOSS organizations fail us by not saying "hey hold on, don't use generative AI in FOSS projects, we're not sure what the legal, community, environmental implications of this are but there are serious problems and we have a history of taking a stand" and I worry that maybe we lost our moment to be principled, except in niche spaces, and the walls are closing in And... I'm really sad about it. I think we're underestimating the...

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  Don't forget, don't ever forget: catastrophic climate change didn't need to happen.

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  The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/ But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://web.archive.org/web/20260828071449/https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083/2 I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to i...

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  RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117044615886264428 One of the highlights of my career is being able to collaborate with @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org on the @spritely@social.coop mascots (really, David did so much to transform my little doodles into real characters). David has been making beautiful, fantastical artwork in the commons and I have been a fan since Sintel. The prolific, high quality, and availability of David's work means that his art is a strong reference point within image...

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  we're not the only org that cares about empowering users by helping them better understand and participate in computing itself, but increasingly, it feels like Spritely is one of only a couple of places and it's getting harder and harder to get people to care, or it feels like it which just makes me care even more about our work but everything feels so precarious in this world rn

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  my hair stylist tried to figure out what my fursona was yesterday but I think my fursona is just that I'm a witch that drags all the fur girls behind her panting and desperate on a leash as her helpless and faithful familiars

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  you wouldn't favorite this post

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  ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bwananada phone bododolodoodoo

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  I have become even more powerful

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  helo