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Huh. Probably not great that I'm down to a few GB free.
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
Alles gut gegangen heute. ๐
me: makes a harmless, pleasant pun
her: "Why are you like this?! What God-forsaken neuron miswiring are you suffering from to emit these words in this order?!!"
I was asking Claude Desktop some questions about the NodeBB API and it was blocked from https://docs.nodebb.org/
I think it would also be helpful for Claude Code to be able to access those docs as well. In CF just block the "surge bots" from China and Singapore and that should help. Plus, isn't docs a static site?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116178002926045553
This is what I mean when I say the Fediverse is centralized around Mastodon. The number of calls I hop on where people say, "Yeah, but I need it to function with the Mastodon API first," is a problem.
The Atmosphere has a similar Bluesky-ification issue as well. We all need to do better here, and I wish the biggest platforms on both sides would take the lead on this if they care about the broader ecosystem.
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
somewhere in rural america a divorced dad has recreated his entire family with character ai because his real kids don't call anymore
RE: https://mastodon.social/@esraa_ii/116177824398254814
Please help Asmaa, Esraa, Sama and Soso buy food to survive the coming weeks in #Gaza
https://chuffed.org/project/152432-save-asma-and-her-sisters-from-death-in-gaza #mutualaid #palestine
This is what I mean when I say the Fediverse is centralized around Mastodon. The number of calls I hop on where people say, "Yeah, but I need it to function with the Mastodon API first," is a problem.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/post/3mgdgyyaaw22a
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116178002926045553
This is what I mean when I say the Fediverse is centralized around Mastodon. The number of calls I hop on where people say, "Yeah, but I need it to function with the Mastodon API first," is a problem.
The Atmosphere has a similar Bluesky-ification issue as well. We all need to do better here, and I wish the biggest platforms on both sides would take the lead on this if they care about the broader ecosystem.
I've just filed issues with npm and uv (edit: and pip) proposing that if their dependency-cooldown options are unset they should default to seven days. No safety measure is perfect but sensible defaults can hopefully improve the situation.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794
AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.
Sounder at Heart @News@www.sounderatheart.com
Sounders will be first MLS team to play at a Liga MX opponent in Leagues Cup.
Read more โthe world seems to be healing atleast somewhat. my parents are joyfully playing some wow retail to pass their sick-leave for the first time in 15 years and are enjoying building their small house and running around in azeroth :)
tech, "AI", bad news
Quoting https://bsky.app/profile/baldurbjarnason.com/post/3mgcpckb5qk27 :
As
@davidgerard has posted elsewhere, the maintainer of the library HarfBuzz has gone all-in on vibe-coding.
(see: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597 )
A note on why this is a worry in the thread ->
Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn't memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution
HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world's user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.
Irrespective of the vibe-coding issue (code review is not an adequate defence against "agent" bugs) this is a piece of software that, due to its position in the industry, should be MORE conservative than the rest. Core infrastructure is not where you want experimentation
if someone says "it's a tool" one more time I'm going to create something.
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The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
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ใ็ตถๅฏพ้ ๅใใฏใคใฉใคใ่กๅ https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n6e54d7d788f7
็ทๆงๅฉใใใใชใใ ใใงๆฌๅฝใซๅฟใ่็ซใใใใซใใใชใ่ชญใใ
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
The #ActivityPub for #WordPress team is just crushing it. They just released 8.0.0 of the integration. Itโs getting better all the time.
Huge thanks to 
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle for amazing work!
https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
You're really on the cutting edge of far future trends! The rest of the industry won't go in that direction for some years yet, it would seem.
They used to talk about Future Shock (book and phenomenon) and shockwave riders (the phenomenal SF writer John Brunner; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider).
You clearly are one such.
I know some people are thinking "well pulling off this kind of thing, it would have to be controlled with intent of a human actor"
It doesn't have to be.
1. A human could *kick off* such a process, and then it runs away from them.
2. It wouldn't even require a specific prompt to kick off a worm. There's enough scifi out there for this to be something any one of the barely-monitored openclaw agents could determine it should do.
Whether it's kicked off by a human explicitly or a stray agent, it doesn't require "intentionality". Biological viruses don't have interiority / intentionality, and yet are major threats that reproduce and adapt.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber what i think is interesting about this is the potential for it to get so out of control that they have to pull the plug on the entire agent service
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(comic) Thinking on your feet https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-thinking-on-your-feet
Railway End Table Powered By Hand Crank
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/railway-end-table-powered-by-hand-crank/
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US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5llg0e9g9o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265291
The Brand Age
Link: https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756
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OH: Herr Prรคsident, heben sie sofort die strafzรถlle auf Twinks auf!
#mucccleaks
(From 2023) "The wife of a former Republican congressman said Sen. Markwayne Mullin [who's replacing the outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] put his fingers in the noses of sleeping congressional spouses for photo ops on a trip to Israel."
I can't even.
I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
่ชฐใฎใใจใ่ซฆใใชใใใงใใใบใ ใงใใใใใ๏ฝใกใใ ใ็ตถๅฏพ้ ๅใใฏใคใฉใคใ่กๅ https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n361266e20faf
Here's another way to put it: if those using AI agents to codegen / review are the *initialization vectors*, we now also have a significant computing public health reason to discourage the use of these tools.
Not that I think it will. But I'm convinced this is how patient zero will happen.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber just today our org had a big "how to set up coding with agents" preso and in the chat someone's like 'here's how to connect your agents with windows credential store or the macos keychain" and I all but wept
Max & Norbert eat like this so each knows the other is still there - while their faces are buried in food
Slurs are just really never something you need to use.
Unless itโs to call me a slut while spanking my bare ass. Then they are absolutely necessary.
Hi! I'm new here and I'm looking forward to being involved. I'm sick of Meta and their censorship. I'm interested in anything that helps remove Trump and maga from our lives.
In the countryside, there are rituals that have endured for hundreds of years, unchanged.
This elderly woman, her body bent by time and hard work, walks each day to meet her chickens - who roam freely across a vast open space.
She gathers a few branches and leaves, then returns to fetch the food sheโll give them, to complement what theyโve already foraged in nature.
The chickens, friendly and orderly, follow her all the while.
And watching them, Iโm reminded of people who are no longer here - people who were part of my life for a long time, who lived those same rituals, even if hundreds of kilometers away.
Even as everything around us changes, there are places that never do.
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wakest โ
KDE
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