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English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui

Is legal the same as legitimate: #AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate #licensing #copyright

Hi everyone,

If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.

#LikeThisExample

Not #likethisexample

Why?

A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.

B) For us signed people, it is also easier to read.

Thanks you

#TheForkiverse

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,549:

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trumps-properties-remain-an-epicenter-of-his-conflicts-and-corruption-in-second-term/

Big Journalism has done sporadic coverage of the beyond-epic corruption in Trump world. But occasional stories don't begin to show the breadth and depth of the sleaze. They could learn from this independent piece.

Cool! Just tested my personal Mailcow installation against this tool: https://emailspooftest.com - so far so good - it's blocking the spoofed emails as it's meant to!

Back in the bad-old-days (2009-11?) when MS Internet Explorer was mostly gone, but a few companies with laggard user bases insisted on supporting it, staff at my company, Egressive, *hated* working on any compatibility stuff because it felt like a waste of resources. Eventually, we instituted double-time 'hazard pay' for staff subjected to the indignity, and we charged 2x for IE-related compatibility work. Customers paid it, too.

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

GenAI: really putting "break things" into "move fast and break things"

Make sure you read that privacy policy. Persona, the creepy-ass firm selling PII to the Feds for human rights abuse purposes, is the vendor being selected by a number of firms for identity verification. Creepy companies such as these are the primary threat actors against working people and their privacy.

I understand we’re supposed to be more afraid of China, Cl0p, and ShinyHunters, but threat actors such as Persona use the appearance of legitimacy to violate our privacy and our legal rights in broad daylight.

"AI can make mistakes, always check the results"

I fucking loathe this phrase and everything that goes into it. It's not advice. It's a threat.

You probably read it as "AI is _capable_ of making mistakes; you _should_ check the results".

What it actually says is "AI is _permitted_ to make mistakes; _you are liable_ for the results, whether you check them or not".

Except "you" is generally not even the person building, installing, or even using the AI. It's the person the AI is used on:
https://thepit.social/@peter/116205452673914720

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

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I was having a discussion with someone at work last week that commented on how wrong AI often is when they ask it on a topic they already know well. So my colleague doesn't trust it. Checking the DeepWiki for my own app reveals the same is absolutely true for generated documentation.

And just today someone at work suggested we could just use AI for generating docs. It's gonna be a hard no from me at least.

#AI #Slop

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597

The jokes just write themselves. 😂😂

We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the local Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.

Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom and civil society groups:

https://www.freepress.net/news/coalition-41-press-freedom-groups-calls-immediate-release-nashville-based-journalist-arrested

Hello friends, we lost access to our old Varia fediverse account, but we are now back and ready to federate!

This is our new account, please follow us on here to connect with us again.

For those who don't know us, Varia is a member-based collective that maintains a ground floor space at Gouwstraat 3, Charlois Rotterdam, since 2017. Together we experiment with creating and maintaining physical and digital infrastructures needed for collective, cultural work. More about what we do here: https://varia.zone/en/

#introductions

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

#CfP LIMITS 2026! 🌍

LIMITS 2026 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. LIMITS'26 calls for
(1) papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as usual) and
(2) alternative contributions, stories and other formats!

Abstract submission: March 20th 2026
Paper submission: March 24st
Alternative contributions: May 1st

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/