https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zk4dllvdo4wjqmonamx7l5bb/post/3my3ukbjsd22h

My LibSyn podcast page has been fixed to the previous non-shit version!

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/

now works on mobile

There's a dust-up over an AI ad from Bookshop.org. But they didn't use AI; Meta's ad platform automatically created an AI "variation" of the original, non-AI content.

I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.

Fuck Meta for this. Consent matters. We've just pulled all paid advertising from their platforms.

@zzt I like how he couldn't learn Python, the same language I once introduced a class of eighth graders to.

@zzt Now, I'm not saying everyone should send him a physical copy of "Python for Dummies". But it would definitely be funny.

'Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in latest chip financing
High borrowing costs complicate AI lab’s goal of achieving investment-grade status'
https://www.ft.com/content/cb4034e1-475f-40b9-a5f9-256e91aacb89

#beginningoftheendnews
#aibubble

@zzt ainus torvalds

it's always the ones you most suspect

fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117453005618069047

the FOSS we imagined was real. otherwise we wouldn’t have all imagined it.

but the people who promised it to us have all failed to protect it. all of the systems and all of the protections we were told about were worthless.

all of them are currently trying to accomplish the switch portion of a bait and switch. but they don’t represent us or our labor unless we let them.

@mxchara @techokami @daemonspudguy @zzt @noiseician i have to warn you that the user experience of NetBSD is exactly like linux in the late 1990s only with a better installer

netbsd isn’t necessarily compromised, but they absolutely aren’t your friends. you don’t know them.

if we want the FOSS we all imagined, where the marginalized come together to share and contribute to a software ecosystem that can benefit humanity for many generations, it’ll involve rather more of a fight than politely switching to another OS. there isn’t a technical solution to what’s happening right now. I’m sorry.

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine.

If you run a mastodon instance, here is a postgres query I use to randomize the passwords of accounts that have been inactive for 6 months or more. It also removes logged in sessions. This doesn't lock people out, just makes them perform a password reset. Yes, I wish I didn't have to do this, but here we are. I hope it helps someone else.

BEGIN;

CREATE TEMP TABLE dormant_batch ON COMMIT DROP AS
SELECT u.id AS user_id
FROM users u
WHERE COALESCE(u.current_sign_in_at, u.created_at) < now() - interval '6 months'
AND NOT u.otp_required_for_login
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM webauthn_credentials w WHERE w.user_id = u.id)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM oauth_access_tokens t
WHERE t.resource_owner_id = u.id
AND t.revoked_at IS NULL
AND t.last_used_at > now() - interval '6 months');
UPDATE users u
SET encrypted_password = '$2a$10$' || left(replace(gen_random_uuid()::text || gen_random_uuid()::text, '-', ''), 53),
updated_at = now()
FROM dormant_batch b
WHERE u.id = b.user_id;

UPDATE oauth_access_tokens t SET revoked_at = now()
FROM dormant_batch b
WHERE t.resource_owner_id = b.user_id AND t.revoked_at IS NULL;

DELETE FROM session_activations s
USING dormant_batch b
WHERE s.user_id = b.user_id;

SELECT COALESCE(y::text, 'total') AS last_seen_year, count(*) AS locked
FROM (SELECT date_part('year', COALESCE(u.current_sign_in_at, u.created_at))::int AS y
FROM dormant_batch b JOIN users u ON u.id = b.user_id) s
GROUP BY ROLLUP (y) ORDER BY y NULLS LAST;

COMMIT;

#mastoadmin #fediadmin

the big men of FOSS told you that you were no good at organizing, at the messy legal bits, at licensing, at the social bits. they demanded fealty and money because they were the organizers. how could you hope to come up with a (laughably weak) document like the GPL? with 1000 variants of the BSD license? how could you get money and housing for giving (frankly universally terrible) talks for your knowledge? you were told that the only thing you were good for was your technical skill, and someone else would worry about the rest.

none of those big men are special. all of us are organizers. all of us can do what we will with our labor. all of us have proven to be better at both organizing and technical labor than any of the big men. they keep proving it every day.

why do we have to follow their marching orders? why do we have to act like switching operating systems is resistance?

be impolite. be a fucking nightmare. they owe us for everything they are now.

you know, I was hoping I already made this clear

netbsd taking money from a relatively unknown fascist group doesn’t damn them. they likely didn’t know who FUTO was. most people don’t.

if it runs ok on your hardware (and that’s a big “if”), netbsd is likely a more stable choice than any Linux 7.x+ kernel will ever be, and you should switch over if you can.

switching to netbsd isn’t resistance. please be real.

you already crawled up onto your cross and nailed your hands to an OS that was 10-20 years behind the curve on hardware back when you were the only linux user you knew, remember? muddling through broken shit is the easy way out, you’ve done it before. how did it end? a bunch of assholes took over. why would it end any different this time?

resistance isn’t politely choosing another OS. resistance isn’t a technical solution to a social problem.

the netbsd team aren’t your friends. there’s perhaps a future where they could be, but right now the ending will be no different.

@zzt@mas.to @dnkboston@apobangpo.space @davidgerard@circumstances.run what really pissed me off was Linus yelling at people about how Linux "isn't a social justice project" a few months ago. Was adopting the contributor covenant all those years ago not a social justice move? Remember how all the nazis said they'd be witch hunted because of it yet nothing happened?

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy

@jwz She then thought it over, and remarked that if she was "CEO of an AI cult" (her choice of words), she'd look for employees who looked like they weren't doing well and seemed to have a foot out of the door already. Then she'd discreetly offer them 20 million dollars in cash to leave with a public story about how the tech is so awesome it's soon going to become a science fiction machine overlord.

@jwz A while ago, a guy from Anthropic quit over fears that he was working on something that would kill all humans, and it made headlines that the other Anthropic guys also thought that. One of them even said that he believed that the chance of AI eradicating human life within the decade was "about 10%".

So my 70-year-old mum came over for a visit, and she had some very concerned questions to her computer scientist son. They were:

1. "Where do they get those percentages from? Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbot make them up?"
2. "How can the lead researcher for Anthropic be someone who looks like his biggest worry should be whether his parents have packed his school lunch?"
3. "Are the staff at Anthropic swindlers, or are they actually mentally ill?"

Mute Drivers: Amsterdam

from 1990, first heard this on one of the One Little Indian compilations. it's fuckin great, I played it over and over

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hjizrqb1SVs

anyone wondering what’s bad about FUTO funding netbsd and netbsd not turning down the money is welcome to explore FUTO’s YouTube channel, which platforms right-wing cranks and spreads disinformation, FUTO’s site, which is full of fascist dogwhistles and references to other fascist disinformation networks, and FUTO’s history in general

this is what I mean when I tell you switching to netbsd is a fragile solution