What is Hackers' Pub?

（x4のクロスフィルター、買ったその日にしか使ってないな……もっと使わなきゃな）

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115899865680907343

this was very annoying yesterday, twenty bucks feels low, but i have no idea what a fair dollar amount for one day of cellular inconvenience should be.

자괴감을 이겨내는 방법은 한심한 짓을 멈추고 일을 하는것 뿐이다..

@brucelawsonBruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)
"Reason to avoid"? 🤣
#NoAI was my reason for joining #Vivaldi after 15 years of being on #Firefox (and I'm so happy about this decision!)

Alameda is gearing up for another year full of festivals, food, and fun. This week, rejuvenate yourself with a sound bath, learn to prune roses, take a photography class, see a new art gallery, and hear some good news about marine mammal rehabilitation. https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/all-around-alameda-flora-fauna-art/

#alameda #AllAroundAlameda #arpd #FactionBrewing #FreeEvents #gardening #lectures #RhythmixCulturalWorks #SoundBath

@brucelawsonBruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time) very thankful that Vivaldi does not waste ressources on AI-slop.

Lamo. This shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.

Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.

https://creepylink.com/?

I've been giving lots of feedback to the @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe guys. They're taking things up SUPER fast. It's been absolutely incredible.

I recommend folks try out Bonfire, because it's honestly shaping up to be the one stop shop platform for social networking, consuming news, eventually handling calendar events, etc.

They just let me know about the new Git they just put up about Bonfire Widget suggestions. What would YOU want to see in Bonfire?

github.com/bonfire-networks/...

According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/

I need a T-shirt that simply has "ed(1)" printed on it and nothing else.

"Donald Trump is now openly threatening to invoke the insurrection act for Minnesota following a night of demonstrations across Minneapolis."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-threatens-to-invoke

If you happen to see a cop in public and it's a totally neutral situation, thank them for their work and tell them you really hate how the actions of ICE are making their job to apprehend actual criminals harder and damaging their reputation among the neighbors they serve.

No, you don't need to believe a single word of it. It's about planting seeds. The police lie to us all the time. This is lying for the greater good. Propaganda isn't just for the ruling class.

„Leistung heißt für mich, dass jemand viel arbeitet, etwas aufbaut, ins Risiko geht. Leistung heißt nicht, dass jemand etwas geschenkt bekommt und sich dann noch weigert, Steuern zu bezahlen.“

Blinkist-Gründer @sebkleinSebastian im ARD-Morgenmagazin zur #Erbschaftssteuer für Unternehmen.

주아이슬랜드 미국 대사 예정자가 아이슬란드가 52번째 주가 된다는 소리를 농담이랍시고 함. 2400명이 이 사람의 대사 승인 거부를 촉구하는 연판장에 서명.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxl27llozeryg5tevagbsal2/post/3mcfxi4bxyk24

크리스락 정말 싫은 게 윌이랑 제이다 아니고 다른 백인 배우 부부였으면 그런 얘기 안했을 거잖아 그래서 진짜 싫음

서양은 수백 년간 변한 게 없다는 생각을 얼마 전에 했는데 이 정도로 안 변했을 줄은 몰랐다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mchllwg6nc2i

A collaboration with time: beautifully decayed and damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of one of the most celebrated 19th-century photographers Mathew Brady, who died #onthisday in 1896: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/decayed-daguerreotypes

도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 막내아들 배런(19)과 덴마크의 이사벨라 공주(18)를 정략 결혼시켜 그린란드 문제를 해결하자는 주장이 해외 네티즌들 사이 화제다. n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 거대한 엿을 마음을 담아 날립니다. 이 계정은 지난 8일 게시글을 통해 "배런 트럼프와 이사벨라 공주가 결혼하고 그린란드를 미국에 혼수로 주면 될 일"이라고 주장했다.

"트럼프 막내아들·덴마크 공주 결혼시키자"…그린란드 신...

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

Link: https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378

New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

Link: https://webkit.org/blog/17746/new-safari-developer-tools-provide-insight-into-css-grid-lanes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626210

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it https://www.theverge.com/news/862607/verizon-will-pay-you-20-following-its-nationwide-outage-heres-how-to-get-it

おやすみ世界

I remember when Scott Adams used a Black character in one of his strips - the first and only one that has ever appeared in any of his strips - just to deliver the line "I identify as white."

Because most newspapers didn't run the full-color version, the character in those papers who ran it ended up looking like a white person identifying as white.

#ScottAdams #RestInPiss

hi #digitalSovereignty and #privacy folks!

are there any #Canadian organizations that work in the online privacy, #interop, and/or digital sovereignty spaces?

basically like the EFF, but Canadian; the Chaos Computer Club, but Canadian; you get the idea.

The CCLA seems to be doing some work on this (https://ccla.org/our-work/privacy/), but I am looking for more targeted/focused orgs.

There's also https://openprivacy.ca/work/, which I had not heard of.

Boosts OK & encouraged! Thank you!

#Canada #boost4reach

Heute ging wieder eine Meldung rum, dass sich Journalist*innen ab sofort für den Herbert-Quandt-Medienpreis bewerben können. Wenigen scheint bewusst zu sein, in wessen Namen sie da stolz über ihre Preise berichten. Wer also war Herbert Quandt? Quandt (*22.6.1910) war ein Großindustrieller 1/2

Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:

Feed sensitive internal data into an LLM. Include private credentials.

From @MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115896936490108026

서양은 수백 년간 변한 게 없다는 생각을 얼마 전에 했는데 이 정도로 안 변했을 줄은 몰랐다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mchllwg6nc2i

がもうちょっと一般化するために自分にできることないかなあということを最近考えてる。

そもそもそんなことを実現する力は自分にはないし、 とかがソーシャルメディアのメインストリームになるべきだともあまり思ってないけど、
いつか時代が多少の後押しになり、また自然と注目が集まるときがポツポツとあるだろうという気はしており、その時まで大きくなりすぎずともこれが続いていてほしいなという気持ちは結構強くある。

メールとか #RSS みたいに流行り廃りとは多少距離を取りつつ、しっかり標準技術として世の中に生き残って欲しい

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

주아이슬랜드 미국 대사 예정자가 아이슬란드가 52번째 주가 된다는 소리를 농담이랍시고 함. 2400명이 이 사람의 대사 승인 거부를 촉구하는 연판장에 서명.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxl27llozeryg5tevagbsal2/post/3mcfxi4bxyk24

삼립 내랑당 처럼 이름 바꾸려나봐~ www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy...

Am I the only weird being that likes dried tomatoes (pomodori secchi) in olive oil and spices?

Die nächsten PRÜF-Demos sind am 14.02. Ich habe Lust, das Thema Valentinstag totzureiten. Aber formal korrekt!

- Bundesrat, mach uns nen Antrag!
- Ja, ich will!
- #ordnungsliebe
- Weird: wir verheiraten die Leute mit Artikel 21 Absatz 2 - aber erst, nachdem ordentlich geprüft wurde
- Willst du mit mir gehen? (Zur Demo)

Habt ihr bessere Ideen?

#pruef

“마크 러팔로의 턱시도 위에, 진 스마트의 드레스 위에도 작은 배지가 달렸다. ‘BE GOOD’이라는 두 단어가 적힌 배지다. 여기서 ‘굿’은 미네소타주 미니애폴리스에서 이민세관단속국(ICE) 요원의 총에 사망한 러네이 니콜 굿을 추모하고, 부당한 공권력을 행사하는 트럼프에 대한 저항을 촉구하는 구호다.”

‘비 굿’과 미국 민주주의 [한채윤의 비 온 뒤 무지개...

Replacing human support with crappy AI chatbots, threatening to fire people unless they embrace AI, using exploited labor to train models: This all points to a worldview in which humans are sometimes necessary, always inconvenient; the least-worst option to fulfill some economic roles.

Hence, they should be replaced whenever it can be done profitably, and optimized when it can't. That's what reverse-centaurs are: inconvenient humans optimized for a task.

And fuck if that doesn't rhyme with a lot of current and historical systems of exploitation: "Scientific management", offshoring, gig work, Amazon warehouses, two-tier contracts, etc.

I don't claim that those are all equally bad, but they have something in common. They're ways to wield power in order to create one or more underclasses that can then be treated like tools.

Maybe this makes me a radical, but I feel like human rights and dignity are more important than profit. So forgive me if I don't give a shit that your agent can write code, poetry, or a recipe.

2/2

I'm so sick of LLMs and AI. Let me try and organize my thoughts into something vaguely coherent.

I don't have any real qualifications to discuss this; I'm just a random anarchist, social science nerd working in tech. This isn't trying to be objective or the truth™.
Just giving voice to some ideas and hurling them into the not-quite-void of my Mastodon community.

Obviously, there's the slop of it all. That has been discussed extensively (and still is), but doesn't fully explain the ick.

Smarter and more qualified people have already covered the environmental catastrophe of the massive datacenters this technology relies on.

I'm not even getting into how the scale of current LLMs is made possible by massive non-consensual data extraction and the quasi-monopolization of the internet by a few giant corporations.

My main issue is the vision of the world and values implicit in this push for AI.

Some people have found LLM tools to be empowering (as Cory Doctorow is fond of saying: centaurs). Good on them. But I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that this isn't why bosses and tech companies are cramming AI into everything.

1/2
#AntiAI #WorkersRights #BigTech

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

Very poignantly put @terminaltilt

“Don’t be violent - it gives them an excuse for a crackdown”

WTF do you think *this* is? You really think not being violent is gonna protect you? You think they need an excuse?

The crackdown will happen to you regardless.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115899817163633936

what the actual fuck @wikipedia? who is steering this ship and how can we sink it?

Ich bin ja dafür, dass wir ekelhaft ab sofort immer auf "d" enden lassen.
Einerseits um zu jederzeit klarzustellen, was von rechtsextremistischen Parteien zu halten ist.
Andererseits um die #LLM zu verwirren, wenn sie unsere Texte als Trainingsdaten scrapen.

Also: #AIslop ist ekelhafd. Die #AfD ist ekelhafd.

Spread the word.

Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage

Link: https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488

학습 능력이 뛰어난 일부 개들은 다른 사람의 대화를 엿듣고 새로운 단어를 배울 수 있다는 연구 결과가 나왔습니다. 이는 18개월 된 인간 유아 수준의 언어 능력으로, 개도 다양한 사회적 인지를 통해 의사소통한다는 점을 보여줍니다.

사람 말 엿듣기만 해도 단어 익히는 똑똑한 개들…18개...

고양이들 그루밍 하는 거 보면 진심 귀엽고 웃김

ん？自分のプロフ花火上がってる？

엄마를 지켜보고 있다.

“싼값에 인공지능 학습하자”는 정부…저작권 단체 “정당한 보상은 당연” n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 정부와 산업계는 인공지능 학습에 사용하는 저작권에 대한 보상은 저렴해야 한다고 주장했다. “인공지능이 학습할 때 사용하는 한 권의 저작권과 사람이 공부할 때 사용하는 한 권의 저작권을 단순히 동일하게 생각할 순 없다” 미친 것들. 지들 특허하고 코드도 다 까라고 해야할텐데.

“싼값에 인공지능 학습하자”는 정부…저작권 단체 “정당...

What would be optimal maximum number of poll options in #Mastodon?

(Note: the participative polls, Google Doodle style, would be great for eg. negotiating meetings... but I understand the technical difficulties and risks and it is not supported by #activitypub just now ...)

RE: https://loops.video/v/df7TyJdDx5

this is my son.

he is a menace, but he's my menace 🥹

ㅈㄷㅅ는 아니지만 나도 포탈 안 해봤다고 하면 일단 스팀으로 포탈12 보내고 봄

In my heart, I know it was a hate crime against a member of my community. That is certainly how ICE itself celebrates it.