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"問いはF/OSSコードに対するLLM訓練がある抽象的意味で倫理的かではない。どのような条件で倫理的かだ。答えはF/OSSがこれまで示してきた答えと同じだと信じる。我々が付与する自由が保存され伝達されるとき、改善がコモンズに戻るとき、知識が自由に留まるとき、倫理的なのだ。"
まさに「これが唯物史観だ」という文章。
F/OSSの唯物史観——LLMを拒絶するのではなく、取り戻すべきだ — 洪民憙雑記
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/index.ja.html
Remember how SQL (still called SEQUEL) was supposed to make non-techies able to talk to computers?
> there is also a large class of users who, while they are not computer specialists, would be willing to learn to interact with a computer in a reasonably high-level, non-procedural query language. Examples
of such users are accountants, engineers, architects, and urban planners
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800296.811515
How quaint!
Anyway, tell me again how LLMs are making non-techies able to talk to computers. 👀
It's delightful getting assholes who are pro-age-verification to admit they really believe no one has the right to use the internet anonymously. 😈
Fix Your Tools
Link: https://ochagavia.nl/blog/fix-your-tools/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112174
Our new biometrics policy:
You must change your face every 90 days.
Your new face must have some character.
Your new face must have more than one feature changed.
You may not reuse any of your last three faces.
styropyro is shitposting on another level man 😭😭😭😭 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_ssn=styropyro_yt
more stickers. soon the laptop will simply be stickers
@mcc
Seeing them hang over the bounds of the nice fixed width display boxes I am reminded of the Grook 'On Problems'
'Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over,
because of lines we neatly drew and
later neatly stumbled over.'
River Curves
A storm forecast, our flight cancelled. If it hadn't been, we would never have seen this serene scene.
Following the swift river upstream, we paused where the early light kissing the clouds was reflected in the icy waters.
Facing south; dawn at 10:30am in mid-November over Núpufellshnjúkur in Eyjafjarðarsveit, north-eastern #Iceland.
Zoom in to view this at 100% if you can, it's very detailed.
#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #LandscapePhotography #Photography
So Sam Altman's response to concerns about the wastefulness of his company's technology is basically "Well, raising humans consumes a lot of energy too!"
Either he has finally fried his own brain with his slop machine or he doesn't even bother any more to hide the degrading, dehumanizing, and despicable mindset that fuels the industry he's in.
Either way, those people shouldn't wield any power in the real world, where the rest of us 'dispensable humans' dwell.
--
#StopTheSlop #LLMs #OpenAI
Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
Link: https://voxjong.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111981
@daliasCassandrich 
@edwiebe 
@divVerent 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
while that's true, it is possible to make such an attestation without destroying privacy (see https://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/).
however, even if you do that, it'll still be morally wrong in most cases.
and also, corporations are deliberately not going for the private solution, and governments are shifting the blame to users. the Czech government recently admitted social media is already illegal for teens (due to privacy laws), but they want new laws anyway.
@YuvalneTalya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️ @edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm No, it is not possible. The ZPK bs is privacy-washing designed to bamboozle policy makers and privacy activists who don't understand math. Either it doesn't actually verify age (I can setup a proxy to hand out age proof verification tokens to anyone who wants them using my identity; I would absolutely do that if it were cryptographically safe) or something exposes to the token providing authority that I'm doing this and allows detection that someone else used my identity (thereby violating my privacy).
Serious question: Are we right now at peak technological freedom?
A lot of trends I see are pretty grim, but there is also a lot of seriously interesting work going on.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but I'm interested in the full range of perspectives. #AskFedi
What's the best way to learn a new language?
Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260220-whats-the-best-way-to-learn-a-new-language
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108977
So Sam Altman's response to concerns about the wastefulness of his company's technology is basically "Well, raising humans consumes a lot of energy too!"
Either he has finally fried his own brain with his slop machine or he doesn't even bother any more to hide the degrading, dehumanizing, and despicable mindset that fuels the industry he's in.
Either way, those people shouldn't wield any power in the real world, where the rest of us 'dispensable humans' dwell.
--
#StopTheSlop #LLMs #OpenAI
The web didn't just die because of major corporations pushing their platforms. It died because life became more and more expensive, housing is out of reach for most young people, and people have less and less money and time to just make nice things for fun.
If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?
Here's a guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow and videos to watch on PeerTube:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube
The different methods have pros and cons, I've tried to mention these in each section.
By the way, you don't need a PeerTube account! You can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon, the videos will show up in your timeline. You only need a PeerTube account if you intend to publish videos or create playlists.
Here's a guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow and videos to watch on PeerTube:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube
The different methods have pros and cons, I've tried to mention these in each section.
By the way, you don't need a PeerTube account! You can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon, the videos will show up in your timeline. You only need a PeerTube account if you intend to publish videos or create playlists.
Here's a guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow and videos to watch on PeerTube:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube
The different methods have pros and cons, I've tried to mention these in each section.
By the way, you don't need a PeerTube account! You can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon, the videos will show up in your timeline. You only need a PeerTube account if you intend to publish videos or create playlists.
IN THEORY: Sunday! gonna get some more programming tasks done before the big storm hits
IN PRACTICE: Sunday! gonna shitpost on three different social media apps allllll day long
The web didn't just die because of major corporations pushing their platforms. It died because life became more and more expensive, housing is out of reach for most young people, and people have less and less money and time to just make nice things for fun.
@edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm @daliasCassandrich It takes away all kinds of rights that you don't even realize you depend on
Like the right to live an unmonitored life
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything to hide.
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything that somebody with power over you wants
If you value anything in your life, you absolutely are relying on a right to privacy to protect it
@RandomDamageDaniel T 🌻 @edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm @daliasCassandrich People think they have nothing to hide, until suddenly they do.
I don’t like sharing tweets but yeah
He bought it with stolen money
What a messed up family, seriously
I respect Wikipedians but I'm a little baffled by there being a category of "Second-millennium births". How is that in any god damn way useful.
shit…who was that guy again? you know, the guy, who did the thing. I know he was born sometime between 1000 and 2000, anyway, lemme start scrolling through the 2nd-millennium births category page and I'll find him eventually
Someone asked me if I knew how many people use my repos for #slackware and my only guess was 5. I honestly have no idea though, I don’t really check server logs anymore nor do I have any kind of software installed for that. I don’t want anyone’s data and I regularly purge old logs anyway.
If people find useful things, then great. Awesome even, but I don’t need to know anything unless its broken. 😁
accumulation total is growing, and growing, and growing…
https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116115808262555997
And if you don't like Picasso, you will LOVE this quote by Nigerian artist Rufus Ogundele:
"During the 1960s, European collectors were among the patrons of Oshogbo artists. Ogundele remarked: 'Some call me the "Picasso of Nigeria". What sense is there in saying that I, an African, produced work which resembles the man who has copied African art? That's nonsense, Rufus is Rufus.'"
That's... A truth bomb if I ever read one...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the official pin of the Fediverse!
@film_girlChristina Warren Respectfully, you have mis-read the Canadian room. We are *on edge* with America right now.
(It’s fine that we lost, the American women in particular were the better team, but we do not appreciate the antagonism.)
"問いはF/OSSコードに対するLLM訓練がある抽象的意味で倫理的かではない。どのような条件で倫理的かだ。答えはF/OSSがこれまで示してきた答えと同じだと信じる。我々が付与する自由が保存され伝達されるとき、改善がコモンズに戻るとき、知識が自由に留まるとき、倫理的なのだ。"
まさに「これが唯物史観だ」という文章。
F/OSSの唯物史観——LLMを拒絶するのではなく、取り戻すべきだ — 洪民憙雑記
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/index.ja.html
And if you don't like Picasso, you will LOVE this quote by Nigerian artist Rufus Ogundele:
"During the 1960s, European collectors were among the patrons of Oshogbo artists. Ogundele remarked: 'Some call me the "Picasso of Nigeria". What sense is there in saying that I, an African, produced work which resembles the man who has copied African art? That's nonsense, Rufus is Rufus.'"
That's... A truth bomb if I ever read one...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the official pin of the Fediverse!
Adorable backyard alert! A squirrel gets playful with a pillow in Squirrel Playing Redux — tiny paws, big personality. Perfect quick mood booster on PeerTube. Watch the silliness and smile! #Animals #Wildlife #Squirrel #Cute #BackyardNature #Nature #PeerTube #English
https://rrgeorge.video/videos/watch/6a926b60-feb2-4ab9-8bb5-628aded4c1e9
This is from the JSON-LD spec.
ActivityPub / ActivityStream are based on JSON-LD.
I think it was a very bad idea for JSON-LD to define "number" this way!
It makes it so numbers with fractional values are inexact & lossy.
This include values that are common for money.
For example, neither 0.10 and 0.20 can be represented exactly. So, 0.10 + 0.20 does NOT equal 0.30!
It should have used FIXED-point numbers rather than FLOATING-point.
![number
In the JSON serialization, a number is similar to that used in most programming languages, except that the octal and hexadecimal formats are not used and that leading zeros are not allowed. In the internal representation, a number is equivalent to either a long or double, depending on if the number has a non-zero fractional part (see [WEBIDL]).](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/115/532/009/836/539/original/5d2ac605cf834ed1.png)
In case you want to report this Zionist hasbara account that posted this reply and blocked me, please feel free to.
(This is their new tactic. The anonymous cowards.)
PS. Be careful, they’re on a German instance, they might block you instead if the admins are pro-genocide also (it’s a very common thing in Germany).
#zionism #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #fediblock #israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide
I respect Wikipedians but I'm a little baffled by there being a category of "Second-millennium births". How is that in any god damn way useful.
Age verification doesn't take away anyone's Rights.
Maybe we don't need it. Maybe we do. That's a different discussion.
@edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm @daliasCassandrich It takes away all kinds of rights that you don't even realize you depend on
Like the right to live an unmonitored life
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything to hide.
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything that somebody with power over you wants
If you value anything in your life, you absolutely are relying on a right to privacy to protect it
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
woah word?! they dont present me with snail mail options when i order :(
Free Greenland/Danish healthcare vs. US insurance based healthcare?
The latter leaves between 44,000 and 90,000 dead a year because they don’t have cover. It also leaves 550,000 families bankrupt a year from medical bills.
This is classic ‘photo op going over the heads of leaders direct diplomacy’ from #Trump but smells of #Vance.
Well I had a fun day today!
These are unaltered direct photos (other than mirroring) of a CED and a Laserdisc where using diffraction grating I was able to VISIBLY SEE video physically encoded on the disc!
I will be editing a video about this process but also did a quick write up about it on my wiki here with the direct sample images:
ここあにゃん
Chao-c'
Chris Siebenmann
Inside Fediverse
Glyph
Jeff Atwood
🫧 socialcoding..
✧✦Catherine✦✧