@zachleat@zachleat.comToday the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013.
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@primonatura@mstdn.social"We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@cdarwin@c.imA patient in France has tested positive for Ebola
after returning from a humanitarian mission in an area where the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
the French Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
It marks the first reported case in France
and the first to test positive outside of Africa
amid the second large Ebola outbreak on record in DRC.
The outbreak is driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus,
which has …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDoc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialMore on the good news on constructive actions that address #Climate and #Ecosystem problems.
We know what to do - but the #ClimatePolluters are still blocking meaningful policies, and there is too …
@paulwermer@sfba.socialMore on the good news on constructive actions that address #Climate and #Ecosystem problems.
We know what to do - but the #ClimatePolluters are still blocking meaningful policies, and there is too …
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"is there (still) a lot of use of "signage" emojis like 🏪 or even more abstract 🛅?" - These complex ones are not so frequently used. BUT emojis are often used for signs in real life (= meat world, not digitally). I have a huge collection of photos I put together with the help of students. I think emojis are particularly good for this because such signs are often about rules, what we're not allowed to do or supposed to do. And emojis "soften" this face-threat (being told what to do) a bit, by being cute and colorful and generally perceived as positive. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
@Techmeme@techhub.socialModels like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193
@pre@boing.worldRE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074
This looks like mostly positive changes. Not that I use the web interface much. Wonder if Phanpy client will copy the new public/quiet settings language.
@servelan@newsie.socialU.S. health agency now says cyclospora finding at produce company was false positive | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cyclospora-false-positive-taylor-farms-9.7276107?cmp=rss
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#AI bros be like:
Of course I'm opposed to slavery! I wouldn't even have thought of owning a slave! Nobody should be allowed to enslave people!
Why are you picking on the fact that I'm using slave labor from these companies? Why should I sacrifice my convenience when others are going to be using their services anyway! They're still going to keep enslaving people whether i use their services or not. In fact, I'm actually doing a good thing, because I'm using that to make a positive contribution to the world! The problem of slavery really needs to be solved at state level.
Besides, I'm pretty sure that thanks to the developments in slavery soon enough we'd be able to ethically own a small number of local slaves.
#NoAI #NoLLM
@buercher@tooting.chThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK “the Islamic republic of Britain” in a podcast interview, where he also described the country as the “first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon”.
Netanyahu praised positive coverage of Israel by the journalist Randolph Churchill, the son of former prime minister Winston Churchill, over half a century ago, then said: “Go find that in today’s Britain, in what is called the Islamic republic of Britain.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/benjamin-netanyahu-describes-uk-first-islamic-republic-to-get-nuclear-weapon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsComputers used to be fun. I used to use Windows 9x, and it was unstable as hell, and you kept having to lean over backwards to get things to work. Then I used bleeding edge Linux, and at some point I've ended up running pure framebuffer tty for months because X11 was broken. But despite all the breakage (or maybe even because of it), it was fun. It was fun because random accidental breakage was the worst you could expect.
Nowadays, accidental breakage is rare. Things are relatively stable. However, every step of the way you have to watch out for bad actors. No, not criminals, they are rare. Evil corporations who are looking at every opportunity to fuck you up. Using computer is no longer fun, it's no longer a tool that helps you, and it's no longer your choice. You are forced to use it, and if you don't want to be hurt every step of the way, you have to spend all the effort on fighting back. And you're fucked up anyway, because even if you manage, your family and all the people around you won't care and will let their devices, their computers and their smartphones fuck you up.
I've started using FLOSS so many years ago, for the trivial reason that I didn't want to pay for software. I stayed because I enjoyed doing it. And I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to contribute positively to the world. Even if in a little way, but I wanted to be able to say that as much harm I've done to the planet, there's at least something positive to balance it out.
But nowadays I hate FLOSS. It's been overrun by the worst people in the world. The people who aren't happy with just fucking you up. They want everyone to keep fucking everyone up. It's the kind of horror where whatever you do, it turns out you're causing harm.
I don't trust my #Gentoo #packaging work anymore. So much of the software I touch turns out to be #slop. When I file a pull request, I'm worried it will trigger #LLM reviews. When I file a bug, I'm worried it will trigger LLM responses. And today, I've learned that my old bug report to a #NoAI project resulted in a dozen slop pull requests already. Whatever you do, #AI folks smile and tell you "see, you fucked up the world even more after all".
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I hate all of this so much. But even if I managed to figure out something else to do for a living, I can't escape computers. And if I stop doing them, if I stop fighting them, I will only end up being fucked up more.
#NoLLM #AI #FreeSoftware
