Mastodawn

For the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.

Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".

They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.

If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.

PuercoPop 1d ago

javi 2d ago

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad

edit2: as @[email protected] pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.

Mozilla Leadership

Mozilla

PuercoPop 2d ago

Resumen del 1er debate presidencial

https://piefed.social/c/peru/p/1913286/resumen-del-1er-debate-presidencial

Resumen del 1er debate presidencial

Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. This instance is run by the founder of PieFed. [Mobile apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

PuercoPop 3d ago

Patrick Dubroy 3d ago

New post on the @ohmjs blog —

Inside Ohm's PEG-to-Wasm compiler
→ https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm

v18 is now more than 50x faster for real-world grammars while using about 10% of the memory 🔥

…this post goes into the details of how it's built.

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The Real Grunfink 4d ago

I've just published version 2.91 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Fixed some local posts not being shown if the replied post is deleted.

Fixed web UI incorrect links to public posts for some configurations.

Fixed encoding bug in Mastodon-style share links.

Fixed an error that made imposible to leave empty the following hashtags or blocked hashtags from the web UI.

Include post attachments in the RSS feed entries.

Added some OpenBSD-specific documentation (contributed by oxzi).

Fixed some timezones (contributed by matoken).

Fixed some crashes (special thanks to Louis Merlin for helping me with this).

Updated Docker scripts to avoid generating a useless log file.

Fixed several memory leaks, key generation errors and HTML inconsistencies (contributed by dandelions).

Added ostatus.org and FEP-3b86 data to Webfinger objects.

Added a new CONTRIBUTING.md file. Among other guidelines, I explicitly say there that AI contributions are NOT accepted.

snac is now available as a Yunohost app. Thank you very much to Bruno Cesar Rocha for this.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

YunoHost app store | snac2

PuercoPop 3d ago

Was reading compile.el and I learned that there is a 3rd testing gem in #Ruby file https://github.com/test-unit/test-unit, that comes bundled with cruby #TIL

GitHub - test-unit/test-unit: test-unit

test-unit. Contribute to test-unit/test-unit development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

PuercoPop 6d ago

Georg Semmler Mar 20

It's Friday again and therefore time for another update on Diesel, a Rust ORM and query-builder.

This was again a quite week, we got one new issue and one new PR. I nevertheless still struggle to go through all the PR's and suggestions from February.

I still came around to publish diesel-async 0.8.0, although there is no big announcement blog post this time. The release mostly contains smaller fixes and quality of life improvements. See the GitHub release for more details.

#rust #rustlang

Release v0.8.0 · weiznich/diesel_async

What's Changed Added support for UpdateAndFetchResults for SyncConnectionWrapper, allowing to use save_changes Bumped supported deadpool version to 0.13 Fixed a bug with postgres query pipelining ...

GitHub

PuercoPop Mar 19

Show thread

Jay Mar 19

@Daojoan “[Andreessen] summarised his own approach to life thus: ‘Move forward. Go.’”
- Marc Andreessen interview, quoted in post

“Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
- Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism”

PuercoPop Mar 19

Molly White Mar 17

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, a former law professor, has been asked to please stop filing documents on her son’s behalf in regards to his motion for a retrial (where he is supposedly representing himself)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.589.0.pdf

PuercoPop Mar 19

mekka okereke

Mar 18

This Afroman trial is giving me life.

Cops raided Afroman's house for no reason. They pointed guns at him and his kids, ransacked his house, and tried to disconnect his home security cameras. They didn't disconnect them all, and so were allegedly caught on camera stealing his money.

He then made a series of music videos using footage from his security camerasz and body cam footage. Now the cops are suing him for making the videos. The ACLU is defending him.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2m8NpGplUOM

Lawyer Asks Afroman If He’ll Stop Talking About Cops Who Raided Home

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