Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@elilla "Signal-shaped noise" is an utterly brilliant characterization of what "gen AI" produces.

helpful tip

#retrocomputing

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegomonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

The thing that gets me is we already had working speech transcription, we had useful digital assistants, and the insertion of LLM based "AI" made them worse and even less reliable.

happy Suez Canal Obstruction day to those who celebrate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction

#boatStuck

this is incredibly funny (it would be less funny if i had to live there though)

breaking the law by importing a twenty dollar tp-link

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yuup2vqg3cibjwhdw2ajq36g/post/3mhqya4pffc2b

Whoa, that escalated quickly. This just got sent out by the press folks at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC says it has decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are henceforth prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the United States.

"Update Follows Determination by Executive Branch Agencies that Consumer-Grade Routers Produced in Foreign Countries Threaten National Security

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”

"The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

"This action does not affect any previously-purchased consumer-grade routers. Consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired."

"Producers of consumer-grade routers that receive Conditional Approval from DoW or DHS can continue to receive FCC equipment authorizations. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit applications to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov."

Not sure how many consumer-grade routers will be left for sale if it really is a ban on approvals for any foreign-made consumer routers like they said, and not just a bunch of already restricted Chinese makers like Huawei and ZTE.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers

FCC's "covered list" of "thou shalt not entities": https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

This is the trans fairy.
Every time you retoot the trans fairy,
a trans person gets to start HRT.
And a transphobe dies.

alright fuck you *uncurls your fries*

If you ignore the ethical and moral issues around the training data used by “AI”, there’s still the environmental issues. If you ignore the environmental issues, there’s still the social and societal issues. If you ignore the social and societal issues, there’s still the financial issues. If you ignore the financial issues, there’s still the technical limitations. If you ignore the technical limitations…

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they found the gender button... ⚧️
fullbody animation for Leskya
#furry #furryart #lumistera #myvstrica #animation #gif #tf #transformation

@da_667 The benefits are endless.

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics: Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand how race science has shaped this moment in tech

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview