Mastodawn

@b_age Selbst als Biologe bin ich erst durch entsprechend drastische populärwissenschaftliche Darstellungen auf das Ausmaß der #Biodiversitätskrise aufmerksam geworden. Diese hier von @xkcd zeige ich immer noch gerne https://xkcd.com/1338/ um aufzurütteln.

Land Mammals

xkcd

cactusdualcore Mar 18

daniel:// stenberg://Mar 18

"I'm concerned about LLM code in #curl and would like to suggest a code ban"

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/20972

I'm concerned about LLM code in curl and would like to suggest a code ban (please note this doesn't concern LLM-based code reviews) · curl curl · Discussion #20972

I'm concerned about generative AI LLM code in curl, including AI auto completion use in editors, and I'm wondering whether the project should adopt a policy to ban it. Please note this doesn't invo...

GitHub

cactusdualcore Mar 16

Argals Mar 15

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

cactusdualcore Mar 10

Jaap Burger Mar 10

For several years now, public EV charging points in Amsterdam have also been used to provide temporary power supplies for construction projects and events, for example. The city is now actively promoting this as an alternative to diesel generators on construction sites.

https://www.amsterdam.nl/leefomgeving/openbare-stroompunten/

cactusdualcore Mar 10

Stupidity is not a measurement of intelligence. A stupid person can have a high IQ and be an expert in their field.

cactusdualcore Mar 9

MostlyHarmless Mar 9

“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
— Frankie Boyle

cactusdualcore Mar 9

Johanna Forster Mar 9

The chef 🥗 First illustration of a sci-fi series, for which I've had sketches lying around for so long.
How does the painting feel to you? Would you like to see more of this overgrown world?

#digitalpainting
#scifiart #robotart #fantasyart #digitaldrawing

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cactusdualcore Mar 8

@menelion This is a naive view. As you have said, a rather significant fraction of people need accessible software, so there is a monetary incentive for proprietary software.

Open software addresses shortcomings with proprietary software

cactusdualcore Mar 8

kim_harding ✅Mar 1

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

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cactusdualcore Mar 8

@yatil @dahukanna I have seen this pattern of wrapping button content in non-sensical tags in AI-generated code.