@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 13:58:45
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728862461466293
It’s funny that I’ve gotten lots of replies but none answering the question that’s clearly stated as the first sentence.
People like to read parts of posts and then reply to posts as if it doesn’t contain anything else than the part they were interested in.
@sperbsen@discuss.systems2026-09-10 13:43:46
This IMHO is the greatest thing since sliced bread:
Now that Apple has discontinued the AFP protocol of old Time Capsules, James Chang figured out that Time Capsule firmware is based on NetBSD, hacked it to provide SMB, and did a beautiful UI frontend to make it super-easy to install.
https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsu…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-08-10 18:32:26
What would it look like to cancel Thanksgiving...
No Black Friday sales where people are obsessed with Capitalism and Consumerism? Good!
No celebrating the colonization of Indigenous People? Good!
You can still gather with friends and family and have a meal. Call it whatever you want! Thanksgiving, Fall Harvest, whatever.
Don't fall for the bullshit the establishment is pushing.
@sakhavi@aoir.social2026-09-10 18:43:37
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117247934124927735
“You’re somebody now” is 100% true inasmuch as it describes a big spinny wheel, half of which is labeled “somebody” and half labeled “vermin,” with some hegemon constantly spinning to determine who’…
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizza2026-08-09 16:17:54
I'm very thankful for the coldest summer of the coming few decades...
I will be just as thankful next year, even though it will be warmer than this year.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 14:55:32
“No one can write a 20-page essay without AI!”
[staring forlorn at the hundreds of books on my shelves]
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 01:03:10
Not only is this super invasive surveillance cop shit (opt-in or not, doesn’t matter); it’s also super easily faked.
Never mind that people will start to measure how long your pauses were and weaponize this against neurodiverse authors.
Literally worse than useless, it’s anti-social tech wankery.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 00:59:50
Saw a word processing app touting a new feature to “prove you’re human” which essentially is a keylogger, so people can follow the process of your writing.
How about people who don’t write themselves must declare so instead of humans being forced to proof they’re not robots?
Fucking misanthropic dystopian shit nightmare.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 01:24:49
Has anyone reductio ad absurdum claims of LLM creativity?
E.g. assume an LLM trained on all human knowledge in say 2000. Would it come up with LLMs?
Trained in 1900. Would it invent relativity?
Trained in 1500. Steam engines?
Trained in 100,000 BC. Could it even talk?
(I’d love to know if there’s papers on this.)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 00:27:39
RE: https://hci.social/@cbecker/116728336094142084
I’m not going to renew my membership. Why should I support this? I could just generate my own slop.