I really need to move instances; yiff.life softblocking (or whatever the hell it's called, I can only see stuff from there if it's replies or I followed the ) mastodon.social is a real fucking pain in the ass if you actually want to use the service.
Any suggestions?
One more reason why your social media platform should not have an attached, easily accessible API.
It's far too easy for LLMs (through coding agents) to stalk others for you.
"look through the last 1000 posts of this person and figure out if we can hire them, we have offices in <insert list of cities here>" is absolutely doable right now. That's an euphemism for "I want to know where my ex lives right now" that is palatable to LLMs.
On this day in 1998 the first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was laucnhed. That's 26 years ago.
I've been avoiding new music lately. It's a painful thing, because I actually don't want to. But I also don't know what else to do. The truth is that everything could be AI, and I'm so skeptical of artists I don't know. Every new release, every song a service suggests, I'm asking. And the paranoia sucks.
Please don't tell me to just move past it and accept it, this is something I feel strongly about and I'm allowed my own convictions. I just hate the concept with a passion and cannot figure out how to simultaneously avoid it and be able to try/have access to new things.
Ironically, this is where TikTok comes in super handy. Most of the songs I hear on there are sung live, as some kind of demonstration or promo, and if the artist on the original sounds the same, I'm relatively convinced.
Your creativity is definitely not threatened by AI. If people choose to listen to it and prefer it over music that people put their soul into, that's their problem. If you enjoy what you do and you do it because you enjoy doing it, nothing else matters.
I have been rejected because of AI from a huge company that values quantity over quality these days. Was it disappointing? Sure, when you can't pay your bills because you don't have a job it's more than disappointing. But you are empowering AI more if you give up doing what you like because of it and I can't do that.
Today I'm reviewing soundness. I'm so used to thinking about proofs as establishing truth (compelling belief) it was hard for me to distinguish the |- (derivability) and |= (semantic entailment) worlds.
I think I got it eventually, but it's not a very natural way for me to think, at least yet.
A real Hackerone #curl report title!:
"Out-of-bounds read in *** potential crash. This is sharp, <reporter name>. We've got a real memory safety bug"
The AI is helpfully cheering the guy onwards to slopping. Of course, it is a false positive.
Network Storage #NAS #HomeNetworking
Which of the following would you choose?
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#Accessibility Statement
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This statement was last updated on [enter relevant date].
We at [enter organization / business name] are working to make our site [enter site name and address] accessible to people with disabilities.
"
I really believe you.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Realizando el desempeño de las tareas correspondientes a mi puesto de trabajo de forma diligente y cumpliendo la jornada y el horario establecidos.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not.developers.slashdot.org
If all the people who work at airports told you, "don't fly that airline," I hope you would listen.
When all the musicians who have the freedom to be honest tell you, "don't use Spotify," you might consider other options for listening to music.
If I might weigh in here with some personal experience as an indie artist. I’ll refer to my streaming stats for March 2025 which totalled a bit over four dollars in streaming earnings.
Amazon Music: 6 streams, $0.00
Spotify: 84 streams, $0.00
Tidal: 2 streams, $0.01
Pandora Plus: 3 streams, <$0.01
Deezer: 1 stream, <$0.01
Facebook/Instagram: 21 streams, <$0.01
YouTube: 87 streams, ~$0.21
Apple Music: 27 streams, ~$0.15
Soundcloud: 23 streams, ~$3.78
If you are paying a Soundcloud subscription, a portion of that will go directly towards the specific artists you’re streaming.
I haven’t mentioned Bandcamp as I think of it as a music shop rather than a subscription streaming service, but straight up purchasing music there is a really great way to support your chosen artists.
> This security update will give you assurance that when you receive a message from a contact, you can effortlessly assume it’s really from them.
What does this mean? You can forge messages as other users on Matrix?
I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪
The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.
No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.
My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.
Yours shouldn't either.
omg, so much this ☝️
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We value your privacy so much that it only takes four clicks on drab-looking buttons and tiny checkboxes to opt out of our invasive data slurping...*or* you can click the single big green "I consent to being slurped by you and your 9k partners" and we can just move on with our day like pals. So whaddya say, pal?
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If you think the GDPR has made banners asking you to accept cookies mandatory, this comic is for you.Grise Bouille
second day without nicotine.. #dobréRáno #goodMorning
edit: in fact without cigarettes still wearing nicotine plaster 😎
“Oracle is already underwater on its ‘astonishing’ $300bn OpenAI deal”
Of course it is. *Nobody* is making money on AI.
(Except Nvidia.)
(For now.)
ft.com/content/064bbca0-1cb2-4…
AI’s circular economy may have a reverse Midas at the centreBryce Elder (Financial Times)
Well, so much for the that one for the kids! Off the Christmas list! 🤪
CNN: Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/foloto…
November 19:
- International Men's day
- World Toilet day
Coincidence?
The easiest way to install chatmail server is a small project written by a single person, meanwhile the #deltachat official server installation process is cluster of unintelligible documentation and a docker image that need multiple commands to setup properly.
How does that one dev build a better hosting experience than a company?
@phnt Please feel free to open an issue at github.com/chatmail/relay describing what you did/intend to do.
It's true that the repository for now targets Debian12 but the deployment client (where cmdeploy is installed) should not be distro-dependent. There recently landed a new documentation side btw chatmail.at/doc/relay/
chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Alright so I got a USB hub that can pass through power as a replacement for my Thunderbolt dock as I suspect the Dock's USB hub was failing and surprise surprise I can't use the HDMI ports on it, not picked up by my laptop.
Oh also the laptop's own HDMI isn't working. Monitor seems to detect something for a split second and then signal lost
alright the new USB hub runs "usbconfig" instantly, but with the old Thunderbolt3 dock it would hang for 2 seconds sometimes. It must have been failing. That explains why I'd have issues with devices refusing to communicate through it properly sometimes without a power cycle of my laptop, even.
could that have also been a reason why I had some weird MacOS issues? That same USB hub in the dock was misbehaving and it was screwing with my Mac?
Who knows. What a weird issue though.
We're told that a gardner named Nick picked some bad seeds out of a cave. This stupid mistake is responsible for his tomato shortage this year.
Erm...This is why we're the social media hampsters, we get stuff wrong.
Inside the Showcase is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Full Circle with @Liz is live on HKC Radio!
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in reply to Neko May • • •If you don't mind the local timeline being all Germans talking about Nazis bad and trains delayed chaos.social is honestly nice enough, I can hook you up with an invite just lmk.
They do block the worst scum and they ended up defederating Threads after seeing their moderation policy, but they don't seem to block instances lightly.
You are expected to at least somewhat CW some stuff I believe and mods can get annoyed if you are careless but I never ran into trouble myself.
Sylvia
in reply to Sylvia • • •I'm not complaining about the local timeline btw, I'm glad the general consensus here is "fascism is bad actually, let's not do that again"
Though I wouldn't mind more cut content