decided to install AbiWord just to try it out (on Debian; it's basically Linux-only these days alas) and just look at this. this is pure and soulful. i'd so much rather use this than LibreOffice next time i gotta write a Serious Letter

Obviously if you ever get an account notice from a different instance than your own there's no way it's legit, and even if it does come from your own instance it won't look like this

@woozle Screaming running down the street "It's a texinfo manual!!!"

To Serve Manpages

@flann has an important message to share!

Squirrels of the world, Unite!

Liberate the means of nut production!

#FurryArt #FediArt #MastoArt

@cwebber
On the other hand, you can one-up any Rust developer by saying "Memory safe? My language doesn't even know what memory is."

There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a bad career move. Not because you couldn't use other tools, you could use them with relative ease. But the author said learning them left them bitter when using anything else, because they were forever bitter that they weren't writing Lisp or Haskell.

It's a bell curve, isn't it?

@cwebber Kudos To Mark for trying to replace himself, this should be easier to do than for any other human on this planet.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

You know what, I'm trying to comment on this but I just can't think of anything funnier to say than how this is sure to turn out

computer fairies is 9 years old today

Hang in there, folks.

Your very existence pisses off some shitbag bigot.

I love that for you. 🌈

Bloomberg is covering Mythos. The journalists are VERY skeptical, and the AIBros are all like "THIS SHOULD BE A GLOBAL LAW EVERYONE SHOULD TEST WITH THIS AAAH WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE."

OH man they have Kara Sprague on and she is speaking truth. THANK goodness.

And now it's kreiger "OH NOT THIS IS REALLY GOOD YOU SHOULD USE IT YOU DON'T WANNA GET HACKED DO YOU?"

Kara: "Um, that's not how any of this works."

God I'm loving this. And she's just so polite.

I would not be so polite. That's probably why I am not on Bloomberg. Or a CEO. Or, well, yeah.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/116395935080244186

so good at finding vulns that it makes openbsd change code to avoid slop

pfsync(4) Packet Header Field Renamed to Avoid AI Bug Report Noise https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260413055845

lesbiaboard a web 1.0 forum for the end of the world https://forums.transbian.love

A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.

The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
#AI #AImistakes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y