Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.

Reminder that your hilarious Ai prompts and resulting garbage are burning up the planet and wasting a shit load of water

@joepie91 I think in Dutch "smeergeld" is a good one.

It is kinda funny. Terminal applications are always seen as too clunky and unwieldy for average non-nerds to use but that's exactly what chatbots are: Command line apps with unspecified parameters and outcomes.

Good interfaces derive their structure from the task the user is trying to solve and the expected knowledge and domain model that user has. This is not how most "AI" solutions' interfaces are built.

As someone who has been employed as a janitor I’m always struck by how the handwringing over the sanctity of gendered toilets never seems to consider the men who clean women’s loos and women who clean men’s loos. I suspect because cleaners are not considered real people.

[Muting as this has spread way out of my zone, but happy that it's resonating.]

Now that #GoToSocial v0.19.0 is out, we're going to start the process of transferring our coding workflow from Github over to #Codeberg (@Codeberg), to get away from Microsoft's endless parade of crapola.

This means that some time in the next week or so, we will "lock" the Github repository so that only superseriousbusiness.org members can create new PRs and issues etc (similar to what we do when we're on holiday).

Then, we will migrate the repository over to Codeberg, using Codeberg's migration functionality to keep issues, pull requests, comments, etc intact.

Once we've validated that everything is in order, we will mark the Github repository as a read-only mirror of the Codeberg repo, and start using Codeberg for issues, pull requests, CI/CD etc.

To avoid breaking people's automated builds that rely on that Github repo, we are planning to keep it as a read-only mirror for a while (eg., 6 months or so, not sure yet) . At some point though we will fully remove it, to avoid contributing our code to Microsoft's "ai" garbage. But we will warn in advance about this so that people can update their scripts and stuff in time.

There will probably be some turbulence in our CI/CD pipelines and workflow and whatnot during this transition period, but nothing that should affect end users of the software: releases up to v0.19.0 will remain available on Github and Docker as normal, and snapshots should remain up to date on our Minio S3 bucket and Docker.

We're looking forward to the move, and to putting the sloth in its new home and seeing it wander around sniffing the furniture and exploring Thanks for reading!

Today I got a personal message from a co-worker that was in large parts written by AI. We had a short back and forth.

My concerns regarding personal messages that are written with the help of AI:

Who wants to read what somebody else didn’t want to write? It feels like receiving a birthday card with no handwritten notes on it.

In our culture, we value authenticity. What does that mean in the age of AI? It feels like receiving a serial letter.

When receiving a text that seems personal, I feel betrayed by the part that was written by a machine. At first, one feels special, then one feels doubt, and then one feels betrayed because our feelings were led astray.

How do we feel about people who want to make their personal interactions more efficient? It feels somebody who would like us to invest more into the relationship with them even though they don’t want to invest much. It feels exploitative.

How do we feel about getting a message that required a lot of extra energy to make it longer for all the wrong reasons listed above? As the Earth is burning? All of the electricity demands, economic disruptions, exploitation of the creative and the poor, and many more things besides, all to deliver the kind of message I didn’t want.

Don't write your personal messages with the help of AI.