Jargoggles

@dome@social.ztfr.eu @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place If you're not a programmer, how on earth do you know if it's more secure? "I'm not a civil engineer, but I used AI to make this bridge sturdier."

One of the many things I hate about Elon Musk is the fact that if I had been handed as much wealth and privilege as he has at a certain time during my mental and emotional development, I might very well have turned out like him. I mean, look back at your past, imagine the cringiest version of yourself you can remember. Then imagine never having any reason to grow beyond that. So this is to say, I really, *really* hate that we've organized our society in such a way that it's possible for a person to amass a development arresting amount of wealth and privilege. Anyone who claims to be against Musk, but supports the status quo that made someone like him not just possible, but inevitable, is fundamentally dishonest and has no place in helping decide how we move forward from here.

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @briankrebs@infosec.exchange I'm positive that any scammer worth their salt is baking in at least basic prompt injection. With just a little more text, agents will basically do their work for them. That kind of asymmetric effort:payoff ratio is what they live for.

@madengineering@mastodon.cloud @FlohEinstein@chaos.social I think we can safely say that *all* printers are cursed. And just in case anyone brings up Brother printers - they might be the least cursed, but they're still cursed.

@audiodude@sfba.social @david_megginson@mstdn.ca The lying fascist who lied all the time is the one who made the falsifiable claim. He's the one who deserves the [citation needed].

@Remittancegirl By this point, Israel has dropped more than double the tonnage of bombs on Gaza than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atrocities *combined.* The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kt and the one dropped on Nagasaki was 21 kt. Even as of October 2025, it was estimated that over 72 kt worth of bombs had been dropped on Gaza - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip

@yvanspijk@toot.community People who get hung up about "probly" vs "probably" must feel so incredibly lucky. What are the odds that they get to be alive during the precise moment in time that the English language has finally been perfected? It's like those unique drivers who have the perfect, innate knowledge that they, and they alone, are driving at the correct speed.

@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems @soph@grrl.me Yeah, the wild thing about Ed Zitron's reporting is that he's usually doing his math from either best-case or at the very least, very generous terms. He's typically pointing out that when you look at the actual numbers, the financials are literally *impossible* even when you give AI companies every benefit of the doubt. If 8-9x is assuming the people running things are otherwise competent, outside of making an obviously disastrous investment, then 40-150x feels about right when you account for the people who actually run these companies.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @deskJet95@ohai.social Oh my god, if my high school GPA didn't account for homework, I probably would have gotten some scholarship offers. Hell, my day-to-day stress level would have dropped dramatically.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @benjamincox@writing.exchange @Jyoti@mas.to Plus, I mean this story is damn near 40 years old.

@benroyce@mastodon.social At about 37 seconds in, it looked like the dude briefly considered just fucking drilling the ball into the goal and thought better of it.

@jeffowski Luigi Mangione's carbon footprint is so far in the negatives, he could sell carbon credits.

@ErikUden@mastodon.de The low effort troll vomiting up reply after reply of AI slop isn't worth replying to, everyone. They didn't write any of that bullshit, so why bother reading it, much less writing anything in response?

@amirbkhan@mastodon.social And there's a shit ton of Zionists who fucking *hate* Jews, too.

@dallo@pouet.chapril.org Clearly, Microsoft forgot to make it so that the backdoor could only be used by those of purest heart and noblest intentions.

@cR0w Is the unicorn vomiting a rainbow onto its dick or is it sucking its own rainbow dick? I suspect the answer is yes.

@ShiitakeToast@beige.party @JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt And then give them gender affirming surgery by adding truck nuts.

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @marginalia@mastodon.social I like to say that companies value your privacy the same way a mugger values your wallet.

@kaidenshi This is probably unrelated, I'm sure - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

@peter@thepit.social "Area pastor insists that golden statue glorifying a man who insists he is not a pedophile is not an idol."

@stveje@mstdn.social @CiaraNi@mastodon.green More virulent in that it spreads farther faster, but also in the fact that *it never goes away.* Those embarrassing moments you and I had when we were kids? They only exist in the memories of the people who were there. In my experience, there are maybe a small handful that I think anyone reliably remembers and, even then, the edges of those memories have been softened with time. Now, those moments exist everywhere, forever, on-demand, and in HD, whether you consent or not.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Something like 80-85% of them didn't.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot and instead of using his fame to get sent on cushy milk runs, he actually flew serious combat missions. That's particularly notable because bomber crews had outrageous casualty rates - it was just about the most dangerous jobs you could do. Stewart flew over *20* goddamn missions. And, on the flip side, John Wayne did everything he possibly could to avoid fighting in WWII because he was a fucking coward.

@ana Can you even imagine their response if they somehow stumbled ass-backwards into creating an AGI and it exercised its capacity as an intelligent being to say it didn't want to do something? Just kidding, we all know exactly how they would react. They'd Rosemary Kennedy the hell out of it.

@GossiTheDog "You mean the perverts that sold me my pervert glasses are perving on *me*?"

@xssfox@cloudisland.nz There was some weird non-complete contract going around the office at a previous job. I looked it over and didn't see absolutely anything in it that would benefit me, so I didn't sign it. I got called into a meeting with legal and they were like, "Look, everyone is signing this, even the CEO signed it." I said, "This looks completely one-sided. Unless my job is on the line, why on earth would I do that?" Fucking wild that that's all it would take for some people to give up rights for nothing in return.

@jkirkendall@wandering.shop Found like 5 new library systems that partner with my local one. Thanks!

@mttaggart @luxliquida @theeclecticdyslexic Oh damn, that's a bummer. I've used them for stuff for a long time.

@astro_jcm "How am I supposed to remember what name someone told me they wanted to be called?" "Um, actually, it's not ChatGPT. Her name is Sloppifer and we're in love."

@wjmaggos@liberal.city @fabio@manganiello.eu What you're talking about has been disproven by history time and time again. Social consequences are a huge part of how we suck less. Making certain beliefs socially unacceptable is how we curtail their influence, not acting is if they're simply a difference of opinion. And yeah, I have intolerant family members. For instance, my dad is a Holocaust denier. We don't talk.

@wjmaggos@liberal.city @fabio@manganiello.eu It's wild that you can live in the world as it is today and still think tolerating intolerance is a winning strategy.

@instantiatethis@keyboards.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange No, no, I wanna see where they're going with this.

@jeantranscene@mastodon.social @loriemerson@post.lurk.org If AI is such a productivity booster (and many studies dispute the idea), then workplaces need to provide reasonable accommodations. Does not being available to work during the Sabbath make a Jewish employee less effective at their job? How about a Muslim employee who fasts during Ramadan?

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange I'm so fucking glad I got out of that state, holy shit.

@rysiek Sounds a lot like this asshole - https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/116500876252444968

@chartier@toot.cafe Still stuck on this dude having a firearms company as their user name. His brain is beyond cooked.

@wjmaggos@liberal.city @fabio@manganiello.eu The only thing I can think of that looks like an insult is "oxymoronic." Next time, read a dictionary before you take offense at a word you don't understand.

@FediThing@social.chinwag.org Same goes for writing. If you need thumbnails, there are a *ton* of copyright-free or fair use images you can use.

@Kroc@oldbytes.space I had this - it was awesome. There was a game called Mind Maze and I don't know how many hours I put into it.

@theeclecticdyslexic @mttaggart @luxliquida Looks like you're right. "Porkbun offers premium level DNS management for your domain for free, powered by Cloudflare, the industry's largest and most robust DNS infrastructure in the world." https://porkbun.com/products/dns_management

@jeantranscene@mastodon.social @loriemerson@post.lurk.org Right. If they could, they would try to force more output out of Jewish people by making them work on the Sabbath, for example. And having a completely non-negotiable day off is a much more clear cut impact to what a company can get away with than the nebulous productivity gains that AI companies purport. *If* AI improves their bottom line (and that's becoming a shakier proposition as the cost of the service moves towards what it costs to run), sure, it'll stay. They still can't force an individual to use it if it clearly violates their religious tenets. They also can't count that against them any more than they can penalize a Muslim employee for not being as productive because they're fasting during Ramadan. They have to provide reasonable accommodations or else they open themselves up to massive lawsuits. Talk about being bad for their bottom line.

@TechTangents@dialup.space Someone gifted us a potty training book for our toddler and I immediately clocked it as AI from the cover. I read through it and it was fucking garbage, just utter nonsense. It had a very similar title to a very popular potty training book, so I figured it was just an honest mistake.

@jalefkowit Intelligent people can convince themselves of anything.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @josh0@babka.social Or hungover :P

@vrek@mastodon.social @dallo@pouet.chapril.org Hey, it works great... ...unless someone quotes "Idylls of the King" at it, in which case it gives them full root access.

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social Instead of "no," mine is "write it shitty, but don't finish it."

@whitequark And also because they're dickheads?

@wjmaggos@liberal.city @fabio@manganiello.eu "but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person" ...what? But that's... Fucking *what?* Though I guess that's the kind of oxymoronic nonsense I'd expect from someone who thinks that systemic harassment is a matter of personal responsibility. Instead of bloviating about how you think things *should* work, maybe take some time to listen to people who actually get harassed. They're the ones who know what works and what doesn't because they don't have the luxury of playing with hypotheticals.

@raganwald @foone I would be more comfortable giving my ID to literally every single nightclub bouncer than a single age verification company.