Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Who's ready for the pivot to quantum?

We need one more translator/reviewer for Greek! If you speak Greek, please let me know.

60 yr old "Martin" harvests #Halloween pumpkins in Ventura county for min. wage. "The work involves very heavy pumpkins, which takes a serious toll on my back. There's often large orders to fill, so we have to start early and often there's no set time to leave work." #WeFeedYou

I don't care for the preview image cropping of this comic, either, gang. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/11/6/800123989/cartoon/bluenami-or-bust/

the actual function of this technology is to produce a totally overwhelming volume of spam

also for all the "the models are good now" people: the actual content of these submissions is, on the whole, terrible. if any of it identified a real problem I would rewrite the fix myself. I am yet to see a single nontrivial work produced by an LLM I thought was even acceptable let alone good

Bro, poor Rust programmers, I just saw someone saying "the Discord client rewrite is probably vibecoded".

Not because it's Discord, and that company sucks, but because "it is being made in Rust, and only sloppers use that language".

DUDE I FEEL BAD FOR RUSTACEANS NOW

"I'm using Rust so that it's easier to have AI safely generate code for me!" sounds a lot like "I installed seatbelts in my car so I can safely drive drunk!"

Curious to see whether there's a meaningful correlation between a developer's affinity to writing (blogs, scripts, etc.) and AI. Reposts are much appreciated to get me out of my echo chamber.

If you're a developer, what statement align closest with your opinion?

I think I’m ready to add translations to https://whynoai.info

Because I’m not an expert in every language, I’d like to *pair up* translators for each language so you can check each other’s work.

If you’d like to help, let me know. Communications will be mainly on Signal, and maybe Codeberg if you’re technically inclined!

DM me on Signal at drahardja.81 if you’re interested!

#translation #ai #noAI

Dear non-crafters.

Please stop suggesting that hobby crafters who do things simply for the love of it start selling their work. It is not the compliment you think it is. It's like seeing someone with children and saying "wow your children are not misbehaving. You should consider being a babysitter. People would pay you for that.".

Sincerely, someone who was told yet again that I should monetize the hobby that I use to escape capitalism.

This week's comic: A cartoon to train AI models

#internet #technology #cartoon #comic

@gael @Research_FTW

I'm an engineering manager in SF and read a lot of research on AI. The most likely scenario of Murena incorporating it is...

1. A temporary boost in productivity that lasts about 6 months and increases output with no business impact.

2. Increased maintenance costs due to technical debt accrued by LLMs and loss of context among your engineers.

3. Loss of customer confidence as they run into more bugs that take longer to fix.

I've seen it at multiple companies now.

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The real story of gen AI is the story of widespread, uncoordinated, unreported resistance.

When you see a CEO firing people who don’t use enough AI, the real story is that many of their employees refuse to do so unless their livelihood is held hostage.

When you see AI added to an application, present on every page, impossible to remove, the real story is that customers won’t use it unless it’s forced down their throats.

AI rejection is everywhere if you read between the lines.

#noAI #antiAI

401(k)s are a financial concept designed to tie the long-term survival concerns of workers to the success of the ultra-wealthy and they should be abolished.

The work of refusal continues to be the most important work. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

@mathzy
Have you checked out https://disroot.org
Email, nextcloud and more from a dutch not-for-profit.

I think I'm mostly just tired of the US-centric, Tech-Bro mindset that endless growth is literally the only metric by which anything should be measured, that Mastodon not having as many active users as Twitter is a sure sign that it's dead or dying.

They give very little consideration to the quality of a thing, only to whether it's profitable, or growing, or winning. Speaking for myself, the connection with the people I've met on here is worth far, far more to me than whether it has more active users than Twitter.

To be fair, I have the privilege of my income not being tied to the popularity of a social network. But there's nothing stopping those people from finding other forms of income. Mastodon doesn't owe them a living.

I'm very, very much done with the notion of the biggest thing being the best thing. I couldn't give a tuppeny fuck if Mastodon 'wins', I'm just happy to be here, chatting amongst good people who care.

Indeed, my original notion applies to literally anyone who thinks that Mastodon is dying.

Just fuck off. Please.

Fuck off to Twitter, or Bluesky, or Threads (if Threads is still even a thing).

Fuck off and leave us to enjoy ourselves over here.

Fuck off, and take your refusal to add alt-text to photos with you.

We're perfectly happy chatting amongst ourselves. You're just pissy that people don't kiss your arse as much as they used to over there.

Oh, and you're on .social, which a huge number of servers block because that where so much of the spam comes from, so if you don't get as much interaction as you used to on Twitter, that'll be why.

Just fuck off.