Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Such an absolute scorcher on the state of generative Ai. Hard to pick a favorite passage, but this one works.

"The entire tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost them more money to serve than anybody would ever pay."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

#genai #tech #enshittification

Do not ever, everrr, EVER, under any circumstances, mention ever having consumed any controlled substances, including cannabis, to anyone in a position of authority in this country - not your GP, not a psychologist, not anyone working for a government agency.

Whatever you may think the benefits of being open about it are, it will literally never go well.

You can be denied vital medicine, you can have your driver's license revoked, you may even have your children taken away. If you get a direct question about it, don't hesitate, just lie.

Unless they're the cops pulling you out of traffic, they have to believe you (also most psychiatric services will demand urine tests before offering you any kind of treatment, but any mental health-related services in this country are mostly a Potemkin village anyway and will bill you hundreds of kroner for a pat on the back and a "Just pull yourself together, you'll be fine").

The birds aren't real people bought the Enron trademark for $275 and are doing this incredible bit and all I want to know is how do you buy a trademark because between infowars and this every impish bone in my body aches to acquire some toxic IP

boss: why did this stop working

me: gremlins i guess

boss: it looks like someone smashed it with a hammer until it stopped working

me: fucking gremlins, they get trickier every year

fun fact, gremlins are not some old folkloric creature, they’re something airplane mechanics made up in the first half of the 20th century as an explanation for mysterious problems arising with machinery that have no obvious cause.

i feel like gremlins should therefore appeal to the fediverse at large on the basis of
1 being an extremely relatable experience for people who write software
2 being emblematic of industrial sabotage

True joy is finally letting go of the irony poisoning you've internalized since you were a teen.
Embrace the cringe! Embrace the edge! Do it all unironically! Just genuinely enjoy things that judgy teens would call lame! Who cares! I certainly don't!

ℹ️ After consulting the todon.eu/todon.nl community it is clear that almost all of you want this new rule.

There are some concerns about how this will be moderated. First note that this rule is *only* about *local* (todon.eu+todon.nl) posts. Remote posts AI can still be reported when it's misused for another rule violation (e.g. disinformation). Because we trust our existing users not to use AI on purpose, we don't expect to much trouble. New users will have to explicitly accept this new rule during sign-up. Of course it is difficult to see if something is AI or not, especially texts. Therefore we will only take action when we are really sure that it's AI. We are also won't automate this, so we rely on your reports. And if you report someone for AI, please add proof. If displaying AI is necessary to illustrate e.g. criticism about AI (someone called it fair use), we don't have any problems with that.

The rule is now being added to our Terms of Service, and the server rules on the about and sign-up pages.

The child who stands up to their bully is someone confronting the status quo.

This disruption of normal is what is being punished when the adult reacts with hostility towards the bullied, but not the bully.

This explains a lot about liberal ideology.

hrmpf, linux/computering gets harder day by day with the ever faster progression of the AI-sloppyfication of the internet. My bluetooth-mouse is "loosing" clicks every now and then, and after having to open the fifth website that starts with introducing the history of Bluetooth I don't really want to fix it anymore..

These are tough ethical challenges with real pain involved, and the possibility of additional harm depending on your actions. In these situations, volunteer moderators fall under intense pressure to balance conflicting policy, harm reduction, and privacy constraints. They also face emotional pressure from third parties who want to weigh in on the decision, often without access to complete information.

I keep this in mind when deciding whether to amplify or join in arguments over moderation.

What the actual fuck

Any good replacements?

It's a silly joke but I find it incredibly funny... And what more can you ask for a joke to be that Mario, Zelda, and HTML altogether? I wish I had thought of it for comiCSS.

#cartoon #joke #html #webDevelopment

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.

GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.

Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.

Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

Wakker worden #Nederland. We kunnen er nog sneller dan de Hongaren worden ingeluisd. De weg naar een #fascistoïde staat heeft minder grensblokkades dan we denken.

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/rechters-waarschuwen-ultrarechts-kabinet-kan-rechtspraak-sneller-uithollen-dan-in-hongarije-gebeurde