@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-07-17 16:21:30
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-10 23:21:08
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-11 00:05:56
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-06-03 13:21:51
POL-HK: Bad Fallingbostel: Raub auf Discounter - Polizei sucht Zeugen Heidekreis (ots) - 02.06.2026 / Raub auf Discounter - Polizei sucht Zeugen Bad Fallingbostel: Am Dienstagabend kam es gegen 20:20 Uhr in einem Discounter in der Düshorner Straße in Bad Fallingbostel zu einem Raubüberfall. Nach bisherigen ... https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-11 03:53:50
Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) indicated that he and other Republican lawmakers
were exploring ways to reinterpret the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause,
following the Supreme Court ruling last month against Donald Trump’s attempt to do so through executive order.
In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Johnson cited the dissenting opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas,
who argued that the 14th Amendment o…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-07-09 07:40:20
"People…suffering while…people w/…power to change it argue…Children…falling asleep to…bombs. Parents…wondering whether they can keep…people they love alive. People w/disabilities…watching…hard-won protections…dismantled piece by piece. Older adults…wondering whether dignity has become too expensive to protect. Families…carrying burdens that grow heavier while those w/…power…keep finding new excuses…Communities are paying…price while power protects itself."
@Neybulot@pawb.fun2026-06-11 00:33:32
I'm feeling so directionless right now. I was considering moving to the Pacific Northwest, but from the people up there I've talked to, it's getting worse.
When I visited Portland, there were so many tweakers and a furry at the convention literally got beat the hell up.
A friend mine sent me a furry chat up there and it was just filled with a decent amount of people talking about their drug addictions and delusions, was incredibly scary.
To top it off, many of the worst ind…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-08 11:59:44
Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-07 02:11:55
Just pulled a now empty PDU and tidied up a few cables. Main IT rack is looking pretty good now.
Everything below the 1GbaseT switches (except the PoE injector) is pulling a combined total of just under 1 kW; the rest isn't metered yet.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-08 00:39:06
“Takeovers” or mass gatherings starting online seem to be gaining traction,
with authorities warning of violence stemming from recent incidents,
including the fatal shooting of a
19-year-old man-during a “teen takeover” in Pensacola, Florida, over the weekend.
Also, in Chicago, seven people were injured in two shootings over the weekend following a “teen takeover”.
The trend has led the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, to “increase enfor…
