📰 Andy Burnham’s antidote fallacy
https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/09/17/andy-burnhams-antidote-fallacy/
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🇺🇦A few months ago, I was bullied by a few people (you know who you are) on #gnome-hackers matrix channel for my "lack of evidence" (which I had clearly provided) that many anti-LLM folks are quite aggressive. I eventually left the room because of the aggression I faced (oh, the irony!).
I understand how it's hard to accept the truth because of personal biases (I'm pretty sure I have the same issue, like the rest of us) but even the most biased person has to admit that this comment is as aggressive as it can possibly get:
https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/comment-page-2/#comment-41175
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@jwz@mastodon.social autopoint is a new thing from gettext, They install their m4 scripts outside of $prefix/share/aclocal now which is causing the issue and autopoint fixes it.
If you don't have any customization to po/Makefile* id' just blow it away and let gettext to it. dshea has a comment about it https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/xscreensaver-6-16/#comment-272004
This would mean that you also need to autopoint; aclocal; autoconf; autoheader to generate your configure script before releases. That'll make sure all the macros end up in aclocal.m4.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange People on LawyersGunsMoney.com really loved this pic of Tito.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/week-81#comment-6919332030 [search down for Lot_49]
Right wingers debate horrendous Republican turnout in Virginia..."Just Conservative" is correct: "It's just that Trump is anathema here. The Trump era has seen the GOP power here broken in the spine. Rebuilding will be slow." https://bluevirginia.us/2026/08/virginia-primary-day-8-4-26-open-thread-info-on-the-candidates-plus-predictions-and-preferences/#comment-6912333886
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merci de faire tourner 🙏
A comment response on how I must have thought unconsciously at the moment I created this haiku:
https://haikucommentary.com/2026/06/22/alan-summers-feature/#comment-5889
#monostich #haiku #monoku #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingCommunity
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/06/24/forking-paths-in-llms-for-data-analysis/#comment-2416652
Re this comment and others on that page. Ultimately the thing that makes people talk about AI as "slop" and distrust people who use it is that its impossible to gain the speed advantages of using LLM bots without abrogating responsibility for the veracity and good intentions and intentionality of the process. You have to trust the *bot* if you use these tools and we dont want to trust the bot. And the people who are subject to the process learn quickly not to trust it.
"AI could prove to be one of the biggest enablers of 'sociopaths’, codifying and regurgitating their business speak and biases. My fear is that it also could squeeze out genuine innovation and creativity, making it more difficult for those who want to make a difference to gain a foothold. What we are witnessing in the creative industries (literature, music, film) is not encouraging, with #AI recycling, hybridising and regurgitating rather than creating." —Richard Martin
https://jarche.com/2026/04/end-of-the-line/#comment-374488
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@gruener_skatbruder@skatspelunke.eu
… ergänzend dazu ein Blog Beitrag von @BlumeEvolution@sueden.social wie es anfing und wohin es schon führte buchdicke Koalitionsvertäge zu schreiben, alles im Kleinen Kreise festzulegen statt im Parlament zu diskutieren.
https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-bundes-koalitionsvertrag-von-1961-als-abweg-vom-grundgesetz/#comment-207938
Wir diskutieren hier ja bereits länger, daher eine Umfrage:
Wie bereits Abgeordnete der CDU um Friedrich Merz in Zeiten der Opposition gegenüber der Ampel so rufen jetzt auch Abgeordnete der Opposition gegenüber Schwarz-Rot das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) an, um im Eilantrag wenigstens noch ausreichend Zeit für eine parlamentarische Beratung von Gesetzesvorlagen der Regierung (Exekutive) zu erhalten.
Was meinst Du: Wird das Bundesverfassungsgericht die seit dem ersten Koalitionsvertrag und Koalitionsausschuss 1961 fortlaufende Entmachtung des deutschen Bundestages (Legislative, Gesetzgebung) stoppen? Oder wird es weiter betonen, dass die MdB ja de jure alle Rechte auch z.B. zu Fristsetzungen hätten?
Zum historischen Hintergrund hier entlang: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-bundes-koalitionsvertrag-von-1961-als-abweg-vom-grundgesetz/#comment-207938
Wir diskutieren hier ja bereits länger, daher eine Umfrage: Wie bereits Abgeordnete der CDU um Friedrich Merz in Zeiten der Opposition gegenüber der Ampel so rufen jetzt auch Abgeordnete der Opposition gegenüber Schwarz-Rot das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) an, um im Eilantrag wenigstens noch aus
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that was quick! looks like the display resolution bug i reported is already fixed and in an upcoming build https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/20161#comment:8
This comment by @mjtsai@mastodon.social really struck me:
"I still get into situations where Safari stops being able to load pages and I have to restart the whole Mac. I’m using other browsers more these days."
Something is severely wrong, rotten in Cupertino, when a longtime Mac developer is driven from Safari. I personally struggle with Safari bugs practically every day.
I suspect that Apple executives don't care, though, because of the iOS WebKit browser engine monopoly.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/26/if-you-cant-stand-by-a-feature-you-shouldnt-launch-it/#comment-4432178
On today’s #transit ride on #marta ( city of Atlanta transit ) , it’s fuckin Saturday so I expected zero #transphobia , turns out a really hot looking #transmasc got on as I did and they were really fuckin cool so that didn’t stress me out nearly as bad.
Question the to the void: would you read stories about the day to day life of an #eldertrans both from a public experience to a private one ?
I’ve lost my muse and I need to find a new one ( or a new subject to write )
#comment please
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Weil der Noch-Fossilist "Realo" auf meinem Wissenschaftsblog immer wieder die gleiche Desinformation postet, promptete ich Felo.ai um eine Darstellung der Kosten "fossiler Bürokratie" in Deutschland.
Die Antwort ist verblüffend präzise & zeigt auf, wie Wissenskommunikation zukünftig aussehen wird (ob uns das hier passt oder nicht):
"Im Jahr 2025 wurden in Deutschland rund 8 Terawattstunden Wind- und Solarstrom ungenutzt abgeregelt [6]. Die Kosten für diese Ausfallzahlungen sowie für den stattdessen notwendigen Zukauf von fossilem Gas tragen die Verbraucher über die Netzentgelte [6].
Eine Analyse zeigt: Wäre die deutsche Batterie-Projektpipeline bereits vollständig am Netz gewesen, hätte ein Drittel dieser Abregelungen vermieden werden können [6]. Dies hätte den Verbrauchern allein in einem Jahr rund 800 Millionen Euro an Redispatch-Kosten & Gaskäufen erspart [6]. Die Bürokratie verhindert somit direkt eine spürbare Senkung der Stromkosten [6]."
#Fossilismus #Bürokratie #Redispatch https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/wie-der-solarpunk-den-ruf-von-wissenschaft-und-demokratien-retten-kann-und-auch-wird/#comment-207851
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"This ISA VGA card is slightly faster than other VGA cards, but the BIOS has i386-specific instructions in it, so I hacked the BIOS so that I can run my 100% rewritten in assembly-language 16-bit real-mode 8086 DOOM port on my 286 machine..."
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140155-realdoom-doom-ported-to-16-bit-real-mode/?page=10&tab=comments#comment-3019156
#RealDOOM is a port of DOOM optimised for 16-bit DOS. It can achieve 486-level framerates on a 386 and about 10fps even on a 25MHz 286!!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #DOOM
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@solonovamax@tech.lgbt @lunareclipse@snug.moe @chirpbirb@meow.social @luana@wetdry.world I mean I wouldn't say hissy fit, considering he filed a deletion request and aur people basically told him to fuck off - that's a dick move
whether he's cunt to people or not doesn't matter here. That's a separate problem and if people don't like it - they can boycott the project or fork it or just spread awareness about him being cunt (with evidence, and no, "brodie said so" doesn't count as evidence)
meanwhile specifically packaging his project he does not want to see packaged and then telling him to fuck off when he asks to take it down? that's just disrespectful and sends a very bad message to every developer
you can see my other replies in the thread for more details, I'm not gonna type the entire summary here
see also endrift's comment here, I agree with her position here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/duckstation-git?O=20#comment-1035344
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social perhaps not coincidentally, "Peter Theil" is an anagram for "Hitler Pete"
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/03/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/#comment-267261