Mastodawn

@zyd @lritter @jk When most of your time is spent interacting with machines, maybe that's the only way not to turn into one? (edit: speaking for myself ofc.)

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Zot Nobot 9h ago

@lritter @zyd @jk I try being polite to my processes, and attempt a simple kill first. More humane.

Zot Nobot Mar 12

jonny (good kind)Mar 12

A stunningly good piece, these is exactly the space of thought that motivate our work on sciop, archives that we own, that allow for us to remember each other on our own terms with graceful loss as well as resilience when needed. Running in the opposite direction from "the one true and immutable archive of forever everything"
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?

We bet an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack, and now fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for.

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Zot Nobot Mar 10

@randahl Come on. I despise this guy, but in the clip he says "are dead *or* are walking with no legs and arms". So the "only" weird thing is having people walk around with no legs.

Zot Nobot Feb 26

Bart Janssens 🇧🇪Feb 26

Bernard Quentin over de wildgroei aan camera’s in België:

“In een rechtsstaat geldt: wie niets te verbergen heeft, heeft niets te vrezen.”

Neen, mijnheer de minister, in een rechtsstaat geldt dat de overheid geen zaken heeft met wat ik doe, tenzij ze gegronde vermoedens heeft van een inbreuk.

https://www.standaard.be/politiek/in-het-hele-land-staan-ondertussen-17.000-vaste-politiecameras-de-ongecontroleerde-wildgroei-is-problematisch-voor-de-privacy/137169059.html

#belgium #privacy

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Zot Nobot Feb 25

@jwildeboer You make it sound like there was any chance this might not have been the outcome :)

Zot Nobot Feb 20

Anne Applebaum Feb 20

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Zot Nobot Feb 19

@randahl "If everything goes right" - god no, we don't need anything to go further to the right, they're already far-right enough to my taste.

Zot Nobot Feb 2

Larry Garfield Feb 2

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

#AI #LLM #Programming

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

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Zot Nobot Jan 27

@itsfoss Around 1996, Watchtower m68k on Amiga. After a miserable and aborted attempt to switch to PCs a few years earlier, I took an interest in OSes. A magazine I read back then provided the Watchtower distro, and while it was utterly broken, I was fascinated by its alienness. Later, I switched to intel machines, and have kept running Linux as my main OS ever since.