Lykso

@lykso@tiny.tilde.website
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A they/them online pseudonym. Into smol tech, music, pottery, anticapitalism, and a little retrocomputing.

No alt text, no boost.

TERFs, Nazis, etc. fuck off.

The most eco-friendly computing device is the one you already have.

#nobridge #nobot

Digital Gardenhttp://lyk.so
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@cwebber If we come out the other side of this, we need as a constitutional amendment (or core aspect of the new constitution) a ban on quotas for arrests, convictions, and/or punishment, at ALL levels of government.
BTW, when the Big Tech bros wax poetic about eliminating passwords by requiring passkeys, you can bet they probably don't deal with anyone who doesn't have a phone and whose only access to the Internet is public computers like in libraries. And please don't suggest that someone who may have all their possessions in a shopping cart carry and use a Yubikey (even if USB ports weren't blocked on public computers, as they often are). The Bros often don't have a clue about the real world.

It seems it's not just ICE anymore. Now we may have bounty hunters kidnapping people. Certainly we have unidentified, armed thugs kidnapping people off the street and putting them in warehouses unless they agree to "voluntarily" leave the country.

I'm sorry, but I'm going there. This situation deserves an armed community response. Locate her via her cell phone, arrive in force, and free the hostages.

#ICE #fascism #immigrants

https://www.foxla.com/news/mom-abducted-way-work-south-la-still-missing-family-says

Mom of 3 'abducted' at gunpoint by 'bounty hunters' in South LA, family says

Juli Pelaez Calderon said she is in an unknown warehouse with many other and believes her captors are bounty hunters, she said during a recent phone call to family.

FOX 11 Los Angeles

I got a little bit of time at the wheel yesterday. Just enough to throw a mug.

#pottery

hey uh

conspiracy theories are not a fun thing. in the best of times, when they have no political dimension, they are still quite harmful towards the people who believe in them. in the times we actually live in, even the bizarre ones involve active exploitation of people who for various reasons aren't able to see through the nonsense

starting new ones as a joke is not a funny or entertaining thing to do

thanks

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.

But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.

#LLM #AI #UXDesign #UX #Design #Tech #userresearch #productmanagement #product

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/can-designers-avoid-meetings-d6d3

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?

LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

The Product Picnic

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

"I am, to be clear, being very specific about that question. Powerful CEOs and founders never, ever get asked to explain what they’re saying, even when what they’re saying barely resembles an actual answer."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/
Make Fun Of Them

Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I think there will

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
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@Lydie They use the term "the cloud" because it's very hard to sell a subscription to "somebody else's computer".

@Lydie this was also the cloud... Well, one day it was and the next day it wasn't...

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@henomis/114139906191544477

henomis (@henomis@bsd.cafe)

Attached: 1 image 4 years ago this disaster gave us the chance to distinguish between real system administrators and those who just pretend to be. Isn't it? @stefano #ovh #cloud #incident

BSD.cafe Mastodon Portal

@Lydie I don't suppose you have a movie server of high quality copies, you know, for training AI models?

I realized it's virtually impossible to find certain old movies that I either once watched or heard about and want to watch. I mean for LLM training.

We need some sneakernets and rsync friends groups!

@purpleidea LOL I have content in my archive that disappeared from the Internet 2 decades ago!! And yeah, 14TB sneakernet would be effective !!