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@404mediaco What ChatGPT has really exposed is the literal stupidity and uncontrollable greed of the corporate elite worldwide.
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online @siracusa@mastodon.social Looks like I’m going to be on Sequoia until maybe the M6 is available.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io I remember when OpenAI released the ChatGPT 4 model a couple of years ago and someone over there was like … ‘oh noes, we may have created a monster… good thing we have our dedicated *Safety* team to try and keep the chains on the Beast…’ and then the Chinese cloned it with ease and soon both the Safety team, the non-profit, and the AGI talk faded into hazy nostalgia.
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@glyph@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@vmst.io Even after all of the ill that has befallen already, it flabbergasts me that we now have someone choose this time to take one of the most devastating critiques of fascism and offer it up in an oligarchy-friendly form to make a buck.
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Well - my ko-fi sub just got cancelled, and he posted this on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/vmstan.com/post/3moeue6yujc2g
So, I dunno. Thanks a lot, I guess?
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@vmstan@vmst.io But Claude runs on Colossus, Dr. Forbin…
https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership
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@matdevdug@c.im Totally know this feel (well, commenting on HN, not reaching the front page lol) and I feel bad sometimes when I fire and forget, knowing I’m going against the grain there. But then I don’t.
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@gregeganSF It boggles the mind to conjecture that there exists in the multiverse a timeline in which Donald Trump says things which are actually true.
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@noondlyt@hellions.cloud Army basically waving the white flag.
I will live to see the United States of America be forced to surrender to North Korea when some implant one of their thousands of IT moles embeds in some infrastructure makes it impossible to bet on sportsball and the entire US economy collapses.
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Feel like it should にゃん when you get too close to it 
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@jwz@mastodon.social Plaintiffs should have been assessed Afroman’s legal bills and 7 lemon pound cakes.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott@vermont.masto.host @mttaggart@infosec.exchange We have though? Look at the annual profit for Alphabet some time. “Greed is good”, etc.
I seem to remember there was a Preference setting in Masto to disable DMs but I can’t find it now, is there a way to do that? @vmstan@vmst.io
https://apnews.com/article/united-states-venezuela-score-wbc-6aee920fd528b59a752e6e2beb7bcb7b
Venezuela 3 - 2 USA
There has to be some karmic payback here lol. Congratulations to Venezuela!
#wbc2026 #Sports
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@julian As someone who’s been on Fedi a lot longer than you I feel confident in saying that this is a terrible take. The cranks and HOA are a distinct minority and get pushback all the time. I find it extremely tiresome to have posts like this continuing to push this narrative of ‘Fedi sucks’ because it’s cheap engagement 😑
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@Vox@flipboard.com @all-stories-Vox A high stakes Texas primary exposed Democratic voters to two candidates both of which showed more guts than anyone in current party leadership.
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-paper.pdf
"At present there’s no practical method for a user to verify the public key they’re encrypting data to belongs to their intended recipient. As a consequence it would be possible for a malicious or compromised 1Password server to provide dishonest public keys to the user, and run a successful attack. Under such an attack, it would be possible for the 1Password server to acquire vault encryption keys with little ability for users to detect or prevent it.” (1/3)
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I feel certain that FileVault also has some kind of magic bypass. Either of the ‘haha nobody will ever discover the arcane incantation needed to put this developer test mode’ or more likely requested by a three letter agency.
An elite hacker should create an exploit that installs the previous version of Vivaldi on the computers of every techbro ever and force it to be the default browser.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/ios-26-4-1-fixes-icloud-sync-bug-that-broke-app-data-updates/
>completely broke CloudKit
Apple QA really firing on all cylinders the past year.
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Still haven’t taken to their new domain I see,
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@gregatron5 @MonaApp I’ve pretty much concluded that I’ll next consider updating if 27 fixes the most egregious unfinished bullshit in Tahoe. Doesn’t look like they’re bothering fixing anything in 26.
Just discovered that the Elgato Stream Deck app constantly sends and receives data even with auto-update disabled. I have no network widgets enabled on the Stream Deck. And by constantly I mean continuously, I can’t even comprehend what it thinks it is doing 😡
Just added a rule in https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html to block that noise.
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@User47@vmst.io I feel pressured to reseed the dead patches in the yard now.
It will pass.
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The only way to win is not to play - and 1Password removed the ability to have local vaults in order to increase shareholder value. I cringe every time I see that page of theirs that proudly claims that “1Password has never been breached” because the headline revealing a massive 1Password breach is simply inevitable. (3/3)
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So… “your data is safe even if the server is breached” and also “nothing can prevent data compromise if an attacker controls the server”. Subtle difference, I guess - maybe your vault is uncrackable if the data leaks/is stolen, but the actual worst case threat model is where an attacker has backdoored your infrastructure. (2/3)
It is the Year of Our Lord 2026 and we are still reviewing vinyl turntables.
https://www.engadget.com/audio/best-record-player-120000239.html
Warm rainy day and the first sign of Spring 🌸
#spring
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Is it cable or fiber? (Or something else?).
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@User47@vmst.io Essentially performative, the percentage of anyone trying this is negligible and training data will be sanitized for obvious garbage before being used. And the models are already highly capable, you’re not going to make a model stupid with some Markov nonsense pages.
I think vocal pushback by a lot of people is a lot more effective at trying to take a stand against the overuse of AI.
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open source software drama, nvim-treesitter
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@vmstan@vmst.io Bluesky’s new Chief “Gonna Be An Exec At Some Crypto Exchange In 6 Months Or Less” Officer.
Guess she didn’t bring in the revenue fast enough.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-of-the-tastiest-vegetables-are
>kale and broccoli are the same plant
🤔
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io It’s not just that, if you aren’t red-coded the algo will just prevent you from getting widespread engagement anyway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661
>This would be a hell of a hot power bank. It uses about as much power as my oven. So probably more like inside a huge cooling device outside the house. Or integrated into the heating system of the house.
>(Still compelling!)
This is your brain on AI hype.
#aibros #ai #hackernews
https://prospect.org/2026/04/08/mass-protest-where-are-the-kids/
> One of my students at Brandeis, very much a progressive, told me that “No Kings doesn’t have a clear political message,” and displays “the weakness of the Democratic Party in effectively opposing Trump.”
Feels like oligarchy has already accomplished its goals, they have made the next generation into sheep that the wolves will herd and cull as desired. The old are easily dealt with, all they have to do is wait.
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io It’s mobile-first though which is most important, and blogging on your phone inherently sucks so it’s fine I guess, is anybody still using Tumblr why did we buy that again
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@jbowen@mast.hpc.social >not just reading the OTA traffic in Wireshark
You get used to it, I don’t even see the code, just “blonde… brunette… redhead…”
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social When the construct laughed, it came through as something else, not laughter, but a stab of cold down Case’s spine.
“Do me a favor, boy.”
“What’s that, Dix?”
“This scam of yours, when it’s over, you erase this goddam thing.”