the AI slop in security reports have developed slightly over time. Less mind-numbingly stupid reports now, but instead almost *everyone* writes their reports with AI so they still get overly long and complicated to plow through. And every follow-up question is another minor essay discussing pros and cons with bullet points and references to multiple specifications.
Exhausting nonetheless.
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We should talk about the availability of basic medicine without doctor’s prescription. Basic painkillers, nose sprays, typical medicine for seasonal viral infections.
This is not available in Austria without prescription and I’ve had enough of this paternalistic bullshit attitude.
I don’t believe doctors want to clog up their waiting rooms with very simple cases of flu/covid infections.
I think one reason we still have this is without it doctors visits would be just about the paperwork.
I’ve just created a new Django starter pack on FediDevs 👀
It collects non-human accounts only: Django projects, conferences, podcasts, news, and community initiatives.
No personal accounts, just things you may want to follow once and forget.
If you know other Django-related project accounts on the Fediverse, please reply and suggest them.
Happy to keep improving this together 💚
Please reboot 🙏
#Django #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #FediDevs
CC @fedidevs
Gotta take my cat to the vet and my cat is very anxious about it and the last time I had to do it, she stressed herself out into a fever.
Advice, please?
I just tagged a new release of slidge-whatsapp, the (objectively best (unbiased opinion)) #XMPP to WhatsApp gateway. It fixes a lot of long-standing issues and starts much faster than the previous releases. Enjoy!
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Imagine that the government has decided that, to stimulate the economy, every adult citizen MUST go on a TV reality/game show.
What type of show would you choose?
This is what happened to PM2.5 particle counts in the air in the Netherlands, at New Year's: stofradar.nl/2025_2026.mp4
Edit: more at stofradar.nl/
I think this is mostly true, but the introduction of "quote posts" is absolutely meant to tear people down
You can defend it and say "sometimes it's useful to add to a point", but give me a fucking break. The point of that shit is drama, just be honest about it
@FreakyFwoof @fabienmarry I've seen plenty of people add insight via quote post. But that's like 10% of the time, generously?
Quick scroll through Fabien's timeline, not much "value add" there imo
We tortured these shellfish to check that they're aware of physical harm and yep -- they are. So weird, every living thing we check we can find some kind of electrical or chemical response to damage. What are the odds?
earth.com/news/crustaceans-cra…
Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.Eric Ralls (Earth.com)
How We Automate Accessibility Testing With Playwright and Axe, by @bojanvidanovic.bsky.social:
dev.to/subito/how-we-automate-…
#accessibility #testing #automation #playwright #axe
At Subito, accessibility (a11y) is an important requirement for ensuring all users, regardless of...Bojan (DEV Community)
Five predictions for web accessibility in 2026, shaped by AI-driven development, dynamic rendering, and how modern websites are built and maintained.Jason Taylor, Chief Innovation Strategist (UsableNet Inc.)
If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.
If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:
1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.
2- I have no idea what your own voice is.
3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.
4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.
5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.
Why would I want to engage with any content like that?
• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).
• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.
• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.
If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are 
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Link to issue number: Summary of the issue: 64 bit NVDA can no longer support SAPI4. Description of user facing changes: SAPI4 is again availble on 64 bit NVDA. Description of developer facing cha...GitHub
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A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.The HTML Elements Time Forgot - HTMHell
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
So, the upside down is just the Twilight Zone.
Toward the end of 2024 we added a feature to Thunderbird desktop and Android to import accounts via a QR code (desktop generating the QR code and Android scanning it).
I think this feature should be abused by websites helping their users set up mail accounts (in TB for Android), so I've created a little library that helps with generating the QR codes: github.com/freaktechnik/thunde…
Generate QR codes to import mail accounts in Thunderbird for Android - freaktechnik/thunderbird-account-qr-codeGitHub
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Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
I wonder how bad it is to do Paris to Hamburg by train. Experience welcome.
(also how bad it is to book it from Canada)
around 8½ hours and €90 with one change in Köln or Frankfurt.
I haven't ever done a trip involving SNCF, but this should be bookable directly on bahn.com. I've had no problems with that, even with a Canadian credit card.
Constrict by Wartybix was accepted into GNOME Circle!
It compresses your videos to your chosen file size — useful for uploading to services with specific file size limits.
Congratulations and welcome! 🎉
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#gnome #circle #libadwaita #flathub
"Woman falls from 3rd-floor balcony after being pushed: Montreal police"
Wow that's.. I mean I guess the headline technically isn't the passive voice since there's someone taking an action but I think they might have written it with the wrong actor verbing.
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/wo…
A woman is in critical condition after being allegedly pushed from a balcony and falling three storeys in Montreal’s Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)
still. she didn't push herself. "Man allegedly pushes woman to her fall from 3rd story balcony" doesn't really ring the same bullshit...
This is journalist malpractice IMHO.
There have been thousands of potholes, PRE-freezing rain this week... what about THOSE POTHOLES?!?
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo… #polMTL #MTLpoli #nidsdepoule #potholes #LIARLIAR
The City of Montreal says it’s working to make getting around safer after the freezing rain and snow that hit the city this week.Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)
... does the cost of adding it reduce the number of buyers and therefore their profit?
Of course!
"Lanier [Black & Decker's national coordinating counsel] expressed concern that if any manufacture licensed the safety feature, all others would be forced to do likewise, or risk litigation following injuries with their products."
Gah!
When all your competitors are forced to pay the same costs (such as a raise in the minimum wage) then your customers will always be the ones paying for the change.
It seems like business owners do not understand competitive markets.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Form...
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directed from the very top and the damage this legitimiza…David Forbes (Trans News Network)
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •We need another AI trained on Linus' kernellist posts.
"Please rewrite this slop into something short and concise, as if Linus had sent it"
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Hopefully the AI deluge with end when the novelty wears off and people realize sounding like you work in marketing and customer care isn't the way to communicate tech.
Hugo 雨果
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •whenever I ask an LLM something, I prefix my question with “briefly:” or “be concise”.
I’m curious if this would work, considering that many may copy-paste your response into an LLM.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •On the first point: I imagine that an LLM improving in style is way way easier than improving in substance. So if LLMs read your posts and improve in style, you'll get the same substance-slop but harder for you to detect. That's bad for you.
On the second point. I'm not so sure about that. I'll come back on this point.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Back on the second point. Here's a link
[1]This article calls this "poisoning" because they're talking about malicious attacks.
[1] anthropic.com/research/small-s…
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
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in reply to cake-duke • • •Here's the passage I wanted to show you:
> poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model and training data size. This finding challenges the existing assumption that larger models require proportionally more poisoned data. Specifically, we demonstrate that by injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor LLMs ranging from 600M to 13B parameters.
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in reply to cake-duke • • •To me this suggests that an LLM could indeed learn from one specific individual if it deems that individual "important" enough.
In that article they talk about triggering on a "specific phrase", but an LLM has its own internal representation of the text, so in principle might trigger on different things like specific phrase plus the name of the user on a certain website, or something.
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in reply to cake-duke • • •A new breed of analyzers
daniel.haxx.seChristian
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Agreed. But as a non programmer trying to submit to any project is mostly replied by "Not enough data, what about FunkyMethodYouCantKnow()?" - AI helps mitigate this.
Either developers accept the fact that there are incapable human beeings on the other end OR they accept its a LLM. Whats not going to happen: 100% qualified bug reports.
DeeAnn Little
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in reply to DeeAnn Little • • •James Healy
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •reminds me the oxide GenAI RFD
“Finally, LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual exertion. (That is, it is more work to write than to read!) For the reader, this is important: should they struggle with an idea, they can reasonably assume that the writer themselves understands it — and it is the least a reader can do to labor to make sense of it”
Teixi
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