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RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117507186194815039 I ...

2026-10-26T14:07:38Z

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117507186194815039

I didn't expect so many answers to literally sound like people trying to talk away an addiction problem. This is grim.

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note16kk…39np

Serious question: If you willingly use generative "AI", do you believe you're immune to or sufficiently protected from de-skilling, cognitive decline, and what's commonly known as "AI psychosis"?

If yes: What makes you believe that? How are you special?

If no: Why do you still use it, given that you're aware of the risks to your cognition? Do you just accept it?

Serious question: If you willingly use generative "AI", ...

2026-10-26T12:22:47Z

Serious question: If you willingly use generative "AI", do you believe you're immune to or sufficiently protected from de-skilling, cognitive decline, and what's commonly known as "AI psychosis"?

If yes: What makes you believe that? How are you special?

If no: Why do you still use it, given that you're aware of the risks to your cognition? Do you just accept it?

this is why my TV only has power and HDMI going into it and never ...

2026-10-25T19:30:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…z28w
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this is why my TV only has power and HDMI going into it and never sees any network

If "AI" boosters were farmers, they'd only buy more ...

2026-10-24T10:46:13Z

If "AI" boosters were farmers, they'd only buy more combine harvesters in order to be more productive because they think reaping is the only thing there is to do.

HAHAHAHAHA. fuck https://fedi.katze.sh/@elise/117479383739450605 ...

2026-10-21T16:01:01Z

HAHAHAHAHA. fuck

https://fedi.katze.sh/@elise/117479383739450605

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note1hk7…qxfy

still works on 8.5.12!

installing a PHP update over potentially compromised TLS … ...

2026-10-21T13:40:00Z

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installing a PHP update over potentially compromised TLS … it's like your Christmas gift might be angry bees

Did I just write almost 5000 words about why generative ...

2026-10-19T23:06:52Z

Did I just write almost 5000 words about why generative "AI" should be resisted, going through every single one of my reasons?

Yes. Because I need this article to exist so I can point people to it.

Enjoy and share widely.

https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html

A lot of cis people still think that HRT medication is something ...

2026-10-19T18:17:55Z

A lot of cis people still think that HRT medication is something that trans people do for fun, like it's recreational drugs or something.

Instead you should really think about it like insulin for people with diabetes or L-thyroxine for people with thyroid deficiency.

Fuck. A community center for trans people in Berlin was raided by ...

2026-10-19T07:43:10Z

Fuck. A community center for trans people in Berlin was raided by the cops.

Don't ever tell me history isn't repeating itself.

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/10/razzia-berlin-trans-zentrum.html

Is anyone in or near Berlin looking for a rigged Blackmagic ...

2026-10-16T12:43:16Z

Is anyone in or near Berlin looking for a rigged Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K with cage, D-TAP battery, and SSD?

Any video creators out there looking for an upgrade maybe?

I'm looking to sell mine as I don't do much studio video stuff these days.

(boosts welcome)

We'll have to do "AI" rehab for folks once this hype ...

2026-10-14T15:43:40Z

We'll have to do "AI" rehab for folks once this hype is over. I'm not even kidding.

"AI will solve the simple problems so humans can focus on the ...

2026-10-12T20:24:44Z

"AI will solve the simple problems so humans can focus on the hard ones" is such a ridiculous fail at understanding anything about how humans acquire skills and knowledge.

Humans HAVE TO solve simple problems and then advanced problems in order to learn how to solve the really hard ones. This is not optional.

Good luck solving any difficult problems in the future with a generation of people who spent their entire education typing every problem into a chatbot's prompt box.

I still have no genuine use case for generative "AI". Not ...

2026-10-12T17:32:05Z

I still have no genuine use case for generative "AI". Not one.

Yes, I know what other people are using it for.

But none of those are things I would want to use it for, given its errors, (real) cost, side effects, ethics, and politics.

And this isn't an "oh, if they fix this one issue, I'd be onboard" kind of thing. They would have to fix ALL of them and they are all inherent to the product. None of them are even fixable.

This isn't just similar to 2008. This is as if people watched ...

2026-10-12T09:16:32Z

This isn't just similar to 2008.

This is as if people watched the dramatized version of 2008 in The Big Short and decided to just do exactly that in real life.

https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-underwrote/

I made a cute little bag! This is by far the most complex leather ...

2026-10-08T22:30:17Z

I made a cute little bag!

This is by far the most complex leather piece I've made so far. It has an inner lining and everything.

When your employer explicitly un-invites you from an event during ...

2026-10-07T11:21:35Z

When your employer explicitly un-invites you from an event during work hours because some more important people they want there are probably transphobic assholes and obviously it's easier to just not have the annoying tranny there.

I'm tasked with preparing a kind of hand-out document about ...

2026-10-07T10:17:26Z

I'm tasked with preparing a kind of hand-out document about "responsible use of AI" for patients..

Of course I have ethical issues with this because my own honest advise would be "don't", but that's probably not very useful in this case where the assumption is that people are already using these things. So I'm approaching this with a framework of harm reduction.

I'd be very interested in ideas for this, if anyone has maybe done a similar thing.

LLM vendors are like an arsonist who lights up a couch and then ...

2026-10-06T14:05:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…wjhd
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LLM vendors are like an arsonist who lights up a couch and then writes a column in the local newspaper about how we should worry about the intentions of upholstery titled "Rogue couch burns down house"

It's not "a chatbot tried to ..." It's ...

2026-10-06T13:34:52Z

It's not "a chatbot tried to ..."

It's "someone tried to get a chatbot to ..."

It's so refreshing to read something again from an author who ...

2026-10-06T11:16:25Z

It's so refreshing to read something again from an author who is actually good with words after months of slogging through three Frank Herbert novels.

I lift very heavy weights multiple times a week. It helps to some ...

2026-10-03T08:06:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…8vrl
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I lift very heavy weights multiple times a week. It helps to some extent.

is this a US American politeness thing? because over here in ...

2026-09-25T09:49:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…wfhk
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is this a US American politeness thing? because over here in Germany I can totally see people pointing it out as criticism right away when they notice

leider ist eine sehr wichtige Voraussetzung für erfolgreiche ...

2026-09-24T14:44:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…wdmm
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leider ist eine sehr wichtige Voraussetzung für erfolgreiche Therapie, dass Patient*innen die angestrebte Veränderung auch selbst wollen.

I'm thinking about writing some pieces each explaining one ...

2026-09-24T09:17:48Z

I'm thinking about writing some pieces each explaining one statistics concept in a way that makes sense so anyone who hasn't had much math since highschool.

I'd start with the binomial distribution and why it's important since that came up recently.

Others could be:

Relative risk
Sampling biases
Popular incorrect inferences
(Open to suggestions)

The goal would be that each piece can be read and understood on its own. Without reading a whole series.

Would that be of interest?

#statistics

wait what happened there?

2026-09-22T09:24:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…yq30
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wait what happened there?

probably, although I don't think these people actually ...

2026-09-21T14:06:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…49m4
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probably, although I don't think these people actually experience happiness

So "AI" coding so far ... Users are unhappy because ...

2026-09-21T13:57:47Z

So "AI" coding so far ...

Users are unhappy because there's more bugs.

Developers are unhappy because it sucked the last bit of joy out of their profession.

Executives are unhappy because the productivity gains didn't materialize.

Who except the vendors of the coding agents and by proxy Nvidia is this for again?

do ittttt!

2026-09-18T11:23:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…rhwx
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do ittttt!

Here's a petition to the European Commission against privacy ...

2026-09-16T17:28:07Z

Here's a petition to the European Commission against privacy violating online age verification:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/

Please share widely and sign 💜

About the claim that an "AI" model could just copy itself ...

2026-09-15T07:57:24Z

About the claim that an "AI" model could just copy itself on other machines:

These big models used in ChatGPT, Claude, etc have hundreds of billions of parameters. Even assuming that each parameter is a single 64bit floating point value (8 bytes), a 200 billion parameter model (a very conservative estimate, GPT-3 had up to 175 billion parameters 6 years ago) would be 1600TB in size.

Yeah, that will certainly not copy itself on to your laptop or phone. The claim that it could is utter nonsense.

One thing we learned through all this "AI" nonsense is ...

2026-09-14T14:59:36Z

One thing we learned through all this "AI" nonsense is that many CS majors have no idea how a computer works, nor what the point of programming is.

I want every "AI" doomer to actually walk me through ...

2026-09-14T10:18:50Z

I want every "AI" doomer to actually walk me through their little sci-fi horror scenario.

Tell me how and why exactly an LLM kills all humans or whatever you claim this week.

Don't just say "uhh, it'll be so powerful". Tell what you think it'll do, how it'll be prompted to do it, and why it couldn't be stopped, step by step.

I want to play a little game with every journalist writing about ...

2026-09-14T10:06:41Z

I want to play a little game with every journalist writing about "AI killing us all".

The game is called: IS THAT TRUE?!

You draw a card from a deck with some outrageous claim on it and who made the claim and you have to make a judgement on whether that person may have an incentive to lie and how realistic or even possible the claim actually is.

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2026-09-11T07:41:51Z

And yes, a language model that can be under your own control, ...

2026-09-09T14:11:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…0p5c
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And yes, a language model that can be under your own control, e.g. fully downloaded and run on your PC, would be a tool in this framework, and I'd agree (although still with a lot of criticism against that particular tool).

But that's not the case for things like ChatGPT and Claude, the models that "AI" boosters want to sell you as "the future".

Another nice example is MS Office. It used to be a tool, back ...

2026-09-09T13:40:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…vp3l
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Another nice example is MS Office. It used to be a tool, back when you could buy it, install it your computer, and then it would just sit there, for you to use whenever and however you saw fit, forever.

Office 365, or whatever it's called this week, is not. It's a service that can be changed right under your nose or withheld entirely.

One issue I have with the "AI is just a tool" excuse is ...

2026-09-09T13:37:44Z

One issue I have with the "AI is just a tool" excuse is that it's just not true.

Would you say an airline is a tool? Probably not. It's obviously a service where labor is performed and materials and energy are consumed, and that you don't control at all.

Generative "AI" just abstracts those material aspects away to the point that they are hard to recognize. But ultimately it's the same.

they're not really tools though. They're services that ...

2026-09-09T13:29:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…244r
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they're not really tools though. They're services that the user has no control over. And that's an important distinction

typo: "NVIDA"

2026-09-07T09:04:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…snsu
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typo: "NVIDA"

Lesempfehlung für alle, die immer noch glauben, der AfD ...

2026-09-06T19:56:41Z

Lesempfehlung für alle, die immer noch glauben, der AfD irgendwie sinnvoll intellektuell begegnen zu können.

Es ist nicht lang, locker an einem Nachmittag gelesen.

One of the outcomes that programming produces is understanding. ...

2026-09-05T12:17:27Z

One of the outcomes that programming produces is understanding.

By building a system you gain knowledge about it as it is created. There's probably no better way of gaining that information. I would even argue it's the more important outcome than the actual executable code.

Using "AI" coding removes this outcome entirely, so why should I ever want that?

New little business card style website. Just so my "mail @ ...

2026-09-02T15:09:59Z

New little business card style website. Just so my "mail @ name . com" email doesn't point to an empty domain

https://estherweidauer.com/

Funny how "democratizing computing" is used as a ...

2026-09-02T08:47:21Z

Funny how "democratizing computing" is used as a pro-genAI argument, while it's not even true, this isn't democratic at all, but nobody ever talks about "democratizing blacksmithing" even though a very large portion of people use kitchen knives.

The idea that everyone should be able to do everything without relying on others is counter to the entire course of human history.

And of course genAI doesn't actually remove the dependency on other people. It just abstracts it away by means of capital

"It can't be fascism if it was decided by popular ...

2026-08-30T19:19:09Z

"It can't be fascism if it was decided by popular vote"

1933 would like a word with you please

it is wrong though, that's a wrong fork

2026-08-28T12:33:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…3tn5
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it is wrong though, that's a wrong fork

Big success of this week: I got all my coworkers to stop using ...

2026-08-23T15:25:08Z

Big success of this week: I got all my coworkers to stop using LLMs by making a pretty good security and data protection argument.

Please clap.

if I'm not mistaken this has implications on cryptography. Pi ...

2026-08-21T13:42:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ds7q
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if I'm not mistaken this has implications on cryptography. Pi is a random sequence of digits and so are cryptographic keys. If it's possible to recover missing parts of a key, that seems important

define "not great"

2026-08-15T13:11:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…ekky
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define "not great"

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117088002952048045 Ok, I'm ...

2026-08-15T07:34:44Z

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117088002952048045

Ok, I'm taking a bit of a risk by getting an even older model, a T480s. But it was really cheap and it's the last series that's really repairable.

I'm excited to try this.

quoting
note1rzw…zauj

ThinkPad T14s (1st Gen, from 2020) as a Linux (Debian) machine ... opinions?

Should work fine, right?

Wow. Disclosure Day is one of the worst films I have ever seen. ...

2026-08-13T20:41:17Z

Wow. Disclosure Day is one of the worst films I have ever seen. Straight to the 1/5 star bin.

it feels like the script was generated by an LLM trained on fanfiction of various popular works of sci-fi.

It is also intellectually insulting to the audience on every level.

ThinkPad T14s (1st Gen, from 2020) as a Linux (Debian) machine ...

2026-08-13T11:38:58Z

ThinkPad T14s (1st Gen, from 2020) as a Linux (Debian) machine ... opinions?

Should work fine, right?

empty reply?

2026-08-12T05:09:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…xt8k
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empty reply?

I'm selling my MNT Pocket Reform laptop, ideally to someone ...

2026-08-11T20:43:00Z

I'm selling my MNT Pocket Reform laptop, ideally to someone in or near Berlin, but EU shipping is possible

More details here:

https://community.mnt.re/t/selling-pocket-reform-berlin-germany/4550

(Bulbasaur is not included)

#mnt_pocket #mnt_reform

more insults. Ok. If you just want to be mad online, I'm not ...

2026-08-04T12:26:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…fsa6
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more insults. Ok.

If you just want to be mad online, I'm not going to stick around for that and just mute you. I have better things to do that to listen your little tantrum.

Btw: you can turn off quote posts, if you're that upset by them. Take some responsibility instead of complaining to strangers.

not everything is about you. At no point did I say anything ...

2026-08-04T11:51:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…lhg3
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not everything is about you. At no point did I say anything negative about you or even suggested that you did something wrong. This is all coming from yourself. You're projecting things that I never said.

And you're the one resorting to personal insults and attacks here.

informing people about a not well known issue around a popular ...

2026-08-04T09:14:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…dduc
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informing people about a not well known issue around a popular figure that people keep uncritically admiring?

Yeah. Horrible really. So awful.

I guess you just really wanted to get personal with your insults, huh?

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117035458851531894 Adam Savage ...

2026-08-04T07:26:39Z

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117035458851531894

Adam Savage settled a lawsuit alleging him sexually assaulting his sister.

quoting
note1zv8…ut94

Something for the *really* hardcore Trek fans: Original blaster, original Nimoy-worn uniform 🤯🤩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOxUK-LpCE

#Propstore #Tested #AdamSavage #StarTrek

My Wifi theoretically also does up to 1Gbit/s but that's ...

2026-07-27T17:17:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…egld
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My Wifi theoretically also does up to 1Gbit/s but that's really just theoretical.

A real 1Gbit/s cable connection is so much faster both in ping and bandwidth, it's not even funny.

It's not elegant but exactly because of that it will work ...

2026-07-27T17:07:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…lhyl
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It's not elegant but exactly because of that it will work flawlessly forever

and before anyone says "why didn't you drill through the wall?", please consider the girth of wall you're talking about

moving stuff from and to my NAS is so much faster now, damn

2026-07-27T17:01:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…6xaz
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moving stuff from and to my NAS is so much faster now, damn

Ethernet at my desk!! Finally. Only took me nearly 10 years of ...

2026-07-27T16:57:31Z

Ethernet at my desk!! Finally.

Only took me nearly 10 years of living in this apartment before I gathered up the courage to drill through a wooden door frame for this because my landlord might give me trouble for it.

There's a vigil today for yesterday's attack on CSD ...

2026-07-26T07:41:58Z

There's a vigil today for yesterday's attack on CSD Berlin: Pariser Platz, 14:00

A totally non-techie coworker asked me today if I had heard of ...

2026-07-23T17:36:26Z

A totally non-techie coworker asked me today if I had heard of "that AI that broke out" and I had to do a little damage control by explaining that it's not like the scifi horror scenario they were imagining after seeing it on the news.

(it was the OpenAI/Huggingface security fuckup)

I compared it to an industrial chemical spill. Bad, sure, but a spilled toxic chemical won't continue and take over the planet, and I think that metaphor landed pretty well.

If we ever make a real AI that's actually conscious instead ...

2026-07-19T16:03:26Z

If we ever make a real AI that's actually conscious instead of slop generators, you can be sure the vast majority of articles will be about how it's definitely not conscious and certainly not a person in order to justify its continued exploitation.

This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered ...

2026-07-08T13:00:18Z

This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:

Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.

An absurd design decision imo

TIL there's a whole DIY community around repurposing crypto ...

2026-07-06T16:33:13Z

TIL there's a whole DIY community around repurposing crypto mining e-waste (BC-250 boards) into budget Linux gaming PCs and that honestly rules

A Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM is 200€ with shipping now. The ...

2026-07-06T12:17:16Z

A Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM is 200€ with shipping now.

The 16GB model is over 300€

Haha. Good joke

Do any of you know someone in Berlin who's a trained ...

2026-07-02T19:39:19Z

Do any of you know someone in Berlin who's a trained counselor or social worker and can moderate difficult talks around trans discrimination in workplaces? Someone who actually knows what they're talking about

One of the weirder US things (that's not a super serious ...

2026-05-21T12:46:50Z

One of the weirder US things (that's not a super serious issue) is blue-bubble pressure.

I can't personally tell how big a deal this really is but I hear about it a lot so I guess it is to some people at least.

This is not a thing in Europe, like at all.

What manual camera app do you use on Android, if any? (one that ...

2026-05-17T14:26:37Z

What manual camera app do you use on Android, if any?

(one that lets you set ISO, shutter speed, etc manually, should also have adjustable timer ideally)

if you’re on an Apple device, you can use this shortcut that ...

2026-05-16T09:55:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…facy
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if you’re on an Apple device, you can use this shortcut that does it automatically for most popular platforms:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac969c798e1d4e78af488fea9530921a

i’m sure a similar thing exists on android but I don’t have a non-ancient android device.

you can anonymize the link by removing the part of the link after ...

2026-05-16T09:54:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…6sww
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you can anonymize the link by removing the part of the link after the “?”

(at least for youtube currently, this can be different on other platforms and may also change in the future)

You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links ...

2026-05-16T09:53:57Z

You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.

They started showing a popup about who sent the link and offering a (maybe new) DM feature, potentially revealing your personal account name to anyone who opens the link.

I maintain: in terms of outright hostility from strangers, ...

2026-05-08T23:57:39Z

I maintain: in terms of outright hostility from strangers, nothing has been as bad as here, not even Twitter.

Every time I try dipping my feet in again, it immediately turns to shit again.

And people here are wondering why so many left again.

Fix your damn hearts!

No amount of political theory will make you act righteous as long ...

2026-04-26T14:41:07Z

No amount of political theory will make you act righteous as long as you fundamentally still believe that some people just deserve better than others.

Imagine seeing post by a woman, looking up her email address and ...

2026-04-14T10:46:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…stf4
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Imagine seeing post by a woman, looking up her email address and telling her that way "you look like trinity from the matrix".

Men are so weird.

New level of Fediverse weirdo behavior: sending emails with ...

2026-04-14T10:39:26Z

New level of Fediverse weirdo behavior: sending emails with creepy compliments

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can ...

2026-04-10T18:34:17Z

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can adapt your workflows to them or get left behind.

At my company every employee has to use at least one per day. It’s a vibrant and competitive field full of potential.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail-house-headquarters-rcna273694

Humans are a fundamentally social species. Generative “AI” is ...

2026-04-02T11:48:29Z

Humans are a fundamentally social species.

Generative “AI” is a fundamentally anti-social technology, as its whole purpose is to abstract social relations away.

It is therefore an anti-human technology.

Transphobia doesn’t start at wanting to harm trans people. It ...

2026-03-30T16:37:09Z

Transphobia doesn’t start at wanting to harm trans people.

It starts at hoping your child won’t be trans.

My Wifi just deactivated because of ... RADAR? What? Apparently ...

2026-03-19T00:30:57Z

My Wifi just deactivated because of ... RADAR? What?

Apparently Wifi routers will shut down 5GHz frequency bands if they detect "higher priority users". It's called Dynamic Frequency Selection and is a mandatory thing in Europe.

Linux users: How often do you run your system's update ...

2026-03-18T11:03:02Z

Linux users:

How often do you run your system's update procedure (like an `apt upgrade`, etc)?

(boosts welcome)

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2026-03-17T16:30:44Z

they really aren't "just tools". This analogy is just ...

2026-03-13T11:01:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…0kc4
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they really aren't "just tools". This analogy is just wrong and extremely misleading.

They are services provided by an organization that have politics embedded into them.

A pen doesn't influence WHAT you're writing. An LLM's training process, which is controlled and managed by people with certain politics, very much influences what it's output will be.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/116216126344465142 Excuse ...

2026-03-12T19:44:42Z

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/116216126344465142

Excuse me, I'll be in the basement for a while, screaming
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I wish more people would remember or even recognize the ...

2026-03-12T13:44:02Z

I wish more people would remember or even recognize the eugenicist theme of Idiocracy (2006) instead of treating it as prophetic about today's politics.

The whole premise of the film, stated explicitly in the prologue, is "the wrong people are having children".

It's one of those old pieces of tech that seems basic and ...

2026-03-10T10:40:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…xcxv
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It's one of those old pieces of tech that seems basic and clunky at first, but then you learn what it can actually do and it's so powerful and eliminates the need for several other tools that came later.

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2026-03-10T10:37:50Z

It's 2026 and Makefiles are still so good and useful.

Funny how "AI" advocates are always like "yeah but if ...

2026-03-06T18:49:55Z

Funny how "AI" advocates are always like "yeah but if we ignore the negatives for a moment ..."

That's fiction then. I might as well talk about how great fossil fuels are assuming they don't have any negative effects on the Earth's climate.

And you're free to write fiction, but don't try to sell it to me as real.

Peanuts for the crow friends! ...

2026-02-25T17:29:43Z

Peanuts for the crow friends!

"ten years ago tech was still doing good things, what ...

2026-02-05T21:41:15Z

"ten years ago tech was still doing good things, what happened?"

ten years ago you didn't know shit, now you do know some shit. that happened.

RE: https://wetdry.world/@lucydev/115965825897311202 I have quit ...

2026-01-27T14:08:49Z

RE: https://wetdry.world/@lucydev/115965825897311202

I have quit a whole industry that was ruining my mental health, and that felt really good.

I like to put a lot of effort into my presentation slides but I ...

2026-01-14T21:02:10Z

I like to put a lot of effort into my presentation slides but I think this time I've outdone myself. These are so good. Their existence alone tells a story.

The utilitarian layout, the flawed laser print, the additional artifacts from photo-copying, the dust, the scratches, the marker, the tape. It all comes together into something resembling an old file from some dusty archive

And it'll come to live on an old overhead projector.

TIL: people at a copy shop in 2026 will be quite confused when ...

2026-01-14T15:18:56Z

TIL: people at a copy shop in 2026 will be quite confused when you ask to have something copied onto overhead projector sheets

when was the last time the reply/reply-all buttons in any email ...

2025-12-18T13:19:27Z

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when was the last time the reply/reply-all buttons in any email program weren't consistent in what they do?

This The number of university professors (!) who I see throwing ...

2025-12-18T10:53:41Z

This

The number of university professors (!) who I see throwing up their hands when their laptop puts the wrong desktop on the projector is embarrassing. These are people who spent their entire careers presenting stuff digitally and somehow this is acceptable.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/

Calling .unwrap() on a value in Rust is like asking a German ...

2025-11-26T15:28:01Z

Calling .unwrap() on a value in Rust is like asking a German "How are you?"

You *might* be fine but there's also a chance that you'll be here for much longer than you bargained for.

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about ...

2025-11-26T08:26:57Z

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies

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2025-11-20T23:38:41Z

Logistics!

It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could ...

2025-11-19T17:33:59Z

It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.

Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?

Full transcript: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/