Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We've seen this coalition Government taking funding away from social services so that they lose viability & therefore public support, which *makes them easy to sell off* to private interests. We've done exactly the same with our natural environment. Especially our rivers. It's all part of the same human neoliberal disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZ8uo4heaU This is our legacy.

@cmccullough Agreed.

It's awful for good creators too. I've seen a few photographers in the Fediverse get angry with people who asked if an unusually good photo was AI. I can see that this feels frustrating or insulting from the photographer's point of view. It's frustrating for others too though, that we have to check. It feels insulting to belatedly discover something we praised was not real, but AI. The AI ruins everything, including social relations between the humans caught in the middle.

@mnl@hachyderm.io @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @newhinton@troet.cafe through repeated checks and knowledge that humans are consistent.


And like, really, you don't trust your code at all? I, for example, know that the code I wrote is not going to cheat by unit tests, not going to re-implement half of the things from scratch when I'm working on a small feature, nor will it randomly delete files. After working with people for a while, I can be fairly sure that the code they've written can be trusted to the same standards. LLMs can't be trusted with these things, and in fact have been documented to do all of these things.

It is not a blind, absolute trust, but trust within reason. The fact that I have to explain this to you is honestly embarrassing.

I fucking hate AI.

I just watched a video of a dog doing something that I thought was cool, and then someone pointed out to me that it was generated with AI. I hate that we have to research every new video, every new image, every new song, every new everything, to make sure it's not AI generated.

AI is ruining everything.

#noai #fuckai

@neilk @david_chisnall LLMs are displacing the open source movement itself.
By flooding FLOSS projects with slop requests on one side, and copyright-washing their code on the other side.

Molly Crabapple on the tech industry's appropriation of art, and profiting by regurgitating it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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The two cows of fintech

by Teodor Kreczmar-Schuldorf

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2026/04/18/the-two-cows-of-fintech/

They simply do not care about our data being leaked. They intend to hand it to the USS Big Tech on a silver platter anyway.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

#privacy #surveillance #surveillanceState #ageVerification #ageGate #censorship #technofascism #identityVerification #EUropeanUnion #EU

Embattled Congresspeople standing up for privacy need our help. Write to their colleagues and tell them we need real reforms in Section 702. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702

To settle this once and for all: Computer programming, being applied mathematics, is an applied art by definition.

#programming #coding #LLM #LLMs #AI #noAI #math #maths #mathematics #vibeCoding

What slop will the press pigs be eating in DC next weekend? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/17/800021943/cartoon/white-house-correspondents-dinner-menu/

Comic: "Dems should move to the right"

#uspol #cartoon #comic #science #disinformation

@bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana So let me summarize:

- Without knowing the legal status of accepting LLM contributions, we're potentially polluting our codebases with stuff that we are going to have a HELL of a time cleaning up later
- The idea of a copyleft-only LLM is a joke and we should not rely on it
- We really only have two realistic scenarios: either FOSS projects cannot accept LLM based contributions legally from an international perspective, or everything is effectively in the public domain as outputted from these machines, but at least in the latter scenario we get to weaken copyright for everyone.

That's leaving out a lot of other considerations about LLMs and the ethics of using them, which I think most of the other replies were focused on, I largely focused on the copyright implications aspects in this subthread. Because yes, I agree, it can be important to focus a conversation.

But we can't ignore this right now.

We're putting FOSS codebases at risk.

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Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/trump-is-literally-negotiating-with-himself-over-how-much-taxpayer-money-he-gets-because-his-taxes-were-leaked/