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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117344152985017612 and that brought me a ban fron the @kde@floss.social account, which is reportedly managed, inter alia, by nate graham. so, folks, better do not talk about ethics in kde nate graham's hearing.

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  nate graham of the @kde@floss.social fame thinks that bringing up ethical issues with the confabulation machinery should be generally avoided because it can make the fans of synthetic text extruders sad: I have a recommendation for everyone: in the future, either don’t discuss the ethical dimensions of the topic, or do it only with an extraordinary amount of empathy for diversity of opinions and value judgments. Anything else is just gonna devolve into negativity and broken relationships. i&#...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/117319524866786422 it is so nice that the fash always announce themselves

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  RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@m0bi/117304877302426798 how to behave in case of air attack alert, an official polish government's video guide

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117302336573323503 think i'm exaggerating? the money put into the the autoconfabulator investments goes into fucking multiple trillions (order of magnitude: 10¹²). divide that by a million, and you get the order of magnitude of fucking millions. and instead we're getting things of the quality of the whisper model, famously trained on subtitle databases, and the extremely costly pervert glasses, neither of which is actually targeted at or half-use...

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  there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are at best adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up. now imagine what we could have, if a promille of a promille, one-hundred-thousandth of the money put into the autoconfabulators was spent on fucking actually developing accessibility tools.

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116216770988247289 an appropriate song for the moment: Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown "Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun. Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun. Some hav...

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  of course the people habitually taking money and tokens for the promotion of the confabulation and war crime machines do not understand why they can be blamed for promoting the confabulation and war crime machines.

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  my enlightened take about russophobia is that russophobia simply does not exist. pushback against aggressive, domineering imperial culture of consummate colonizers, a culture where any crime done in support of the empire is praiseworthy – is not an irrational reaction. it is the only decent reaction.

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  in the meantime the new ceo of the bluest sky is concerned about the site being liberal bubble and plans to introduce more diversity of ideas

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117033084947697291 comparing steve yegge's essays from 2015 to his current ones gives a very sad example of how the LLM-mediated cognitive decline looks like.

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  it's really fascinating how angry the slop peddlers can get just because someone says “no”.

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  @mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @abaczuk@mathstodon.xyz i specifically said organized crime.

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  i've just seen a vegan whitewashing of the use of vibe-coding, and as you could expect, it was hilarious.

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  “and what will happen if i lie about the code being generated by claude and commit it as mine?” “then you'll be the person who lies about provenance of the code you ship”

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  having a genuine “cryptocurrencies can be used by marginalized people, so saying that main use case for cryptocurrencies is financial fraud and extortion is a sign of privilege” conversation in the common era year of 2026, and i'm fucking tired.

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  if you don't like crypto you're transphobic is the new if you don't like plagiarism machines you're ableist or the other way, perhaps: i'm sure i've heard that one from crypto grifters before crypto collapsed.

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  RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116974074736145592 ethics aside should be treated similarly to “i'm not a racist, but”, as a clear vice signalling ethics is the barrier between yourself and your acceptance of whatever atrocity you find personally convenient.

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  can't help but wonder if there are the so-called open weights models that are, all at once, (1) ethically sourced and (2) trained, (3) general purpose, (4) generally useful.

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553 cancel your subscriptions, demand return of the money, don't do business with fascist supporters

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116930424727064763 this isn't a compliment

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  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964 good news, everyone (enabling the reader view works around the nag screen)

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  we're of course aggressively censorious shits here: we've defederated from at least six hundred instances in nearly four years of running circumstances. most of them are nazi or nazi-adjacent, some are pure terfery, and a two or three dozen either are openly supportive for pedophilia or at some point distributed csam. a lot of these domains is probably not functional anymore, but i never got to checking them back; it doesn't cost us anything to keep them on file.

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  bitching about gay porn but not blocking known CSAM sources or even limiting naziverse servers is certainly A Choice.

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  people who migrated from twitter post-2022 might remember an account called big serge, with a handle of witte_sergei, a smug motherfucker persona spewing russian propaganda, anti-ukrainian hate and, to the surprise of no-one, right-wing and nazi tropes. the success of the twitter account was followed by branching to popular nazi-financed and nazi-financing blog aggregator substack, and media appearances on rabidly racist and anti-ukrainian podcasts like “russians with attitude” as the investig...

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  the rule #1 during a public relation crisis is that you don't rush to help on your own but wait for the professionals to handle it. you will not help.

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  so, regarding #mullvad, not only the founders don't understand what's the problem with funding a fascist party, the employees don't understand either.

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  do we know any followers of the heresiarch lefebvre, or do they all congregate on the defederated naziverse servers? #heresy #lefebvre #SwissSchism #Schadenfreude #tradcath

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@amtiskaw/116517213230368583 tl;dr: i decided to stop the offline migration, bring up the vm again, and run the migration manually. it might take much longer, but the downtime will be limited. now for the slightly more technical details: the i/o on the outgoing machine is terrible (spinning rust be damned), i decided to run manual migration via zfs incremental snapshots, and then do the necessary vm configuration lifting, new box has nvme. when the migration fi...

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  RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116519061550403952 there's a bit more fun happening, as it seems that our network link inexplicably went down and then up at 10Mbps, instead of 1000Mbps. the provider is investigating, and will need to bring down the whole vm host. apologies for abrupt notice, things are in flux a bit.