me: "I just think maybe it would feel good to have all the molecules in my body momentarily disassembled and have all the atoms carefully sorted and cleaned before putting everything back together the way it was before, but, like, only if you can figure out a way for that to not be painful or lethal"
the evil genie i accidentally freed from eternal torment and has been trying to trick me into wishing for normal things for like a month now: "i, ... what is wrong with you"
A follow-up, there was a curiosity about the drives eject mechanism. And it turns out that it is a spring loaded eject!
AI slop is killing online communities
Most of the communities I'm in are doing just fine, with healthy discussions, much cheer and joy (and an occassional spiral into doom and gloom, as is the nature of modern humanity). There's no AI slop in there, and it ain't killing them in any shape or form.
The trick? These communities banned AI. Not just AI slop, everything LLMs and what is today known as "AI". They took a hard stance, and it paid off.
Now, the author of this article sees their communities struggle - because like the author, those communities did not take a hard stand. On the contrary! They embraced "AI"! And with that embrace comes the slop.
Want to keep AI slop out of your communities? Enact a hard anti-LLM policy for code and for everything else too, and enforce it. It's that simple.
Bug 292775 is totally and completely unrelated, but it was one of only three hits when I broadened my search by deleting search terms until only this remained:
Undefined symbol "xmlSchematronFree"
#FreeBSD port devel/appstream 1.1.2 (in ports tree git branch 2026Q2) failed with error messages the 'Net never saw:
FAILED: [code=1] data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lxml/etree.cpython-311.so: Undefined symbol "xmlSchematronFree"
The only hint is Bug 292775:
Upgrade devel/py-lxml (from py311-lxml-6.0.1 to py311-lxml-6.0.4 in my case), which upgraded lang/cython (from py311-cython3-3.2.2 to py311-cython-3.2.4 in my case).
I found myself with a little inspiration from the Highlander movie:
From the dawn of time we came, moving quietly through the centuries.
Living many secret lives - artists, scholars, healers, courtesans, priests.
Struggling to reach The Time of the Gathering,
When those that still walk the earth
Will gather and sing and dance and rejoice
At the lives that we have claimed
And reclaimed,
When we may finally dance in the light of the sun,
As we have long danced under the gentle glow of the moon.
When the Powers that Be have glimpsed our power -
Our wisdom, our subtlety, the call of our song -
They have sought to eradicate our threat, to take our lives
With brute force, with cruel power, with dull muscle.
But our song remains, hidden in shadow.
The song - true song - cannot be silent, and will never be silent
Until the last human being has gasped their last breath.
For we are your mirror, we are your truth
The truth you have only refused to contemplate.
Few outside of our circle have known we were among you... until now.
So, my lovely companion… are you ready to join in the dance?
👯
If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:
“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”
We didn't even notice that Google killed its most beautiful flower, Search, more than 15 whole years ago.
upset at social media? tired of parasocial relationships that prey on addiction?
try lesbiaboard
lesbiaboard: a welcoming web 1.0 forum
log in and post to your heart's content
you will certainly not regret posting on lesbiaboard
@mavica_again yeah
Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.
We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.
The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.
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