If you are only going to read one book about the new Right and authoritarism this year make it the Nerd Reich. It's not the best book but it does a great job at sampling the field of criticism, packaging it up in a highly digestible format and explaining parts the problems with how we got here. If you're interested in parts of the story @gilduran did a great job citing different elements and it shows you where to go to learn more.

Highly recommended 👍👍

@gwozniak https://discuss.systems/@gwozniak/117424075077140387

This type of purity politics does no one any favors and frankly is just fucking annoying. What a waste of time and attention this afternoon. No one with a passing familiarity with @elementary would think they are a legitimately pro AI organization and yet!

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/pulls/1723

As much as I am against AI, I oftentimes find the purity battle tedious. It's a losing game to try and detect LLM usage by community members. We need to be more focused on setting acceptable boundaries in our communities and welcoming back those people who are tired of LLMs and AIs or who can't escape them because some reason. Squabbling over the last 5% of those boundaries will not help us beat back the horde of AI apolgia and money.

This is one of the most moving stories I've read this year in journalism. I hope that this family is reunited and that more families in the future are not destroyed arbitrarily by harmful policy.

@bolts https://journa.host/@bolts/117333218022088379

Some weeks ago I read an excellent blog post about community building, LLMs, and Open Source that I really wish I could find again. The quick summary was that communities grow by welcoming in members deeper into them as they participate and that this was how they grow and replenish themselves. LLMs cut people off from the community because they intercept them early on. This is the loss feel twice. Once inside the community and once outside it

@janl https://narrativ.es/@janl/117184305649001148

Great. The fucking Injustice Society is throwing $10 million at Project Desktop Fascism and the rest of the desktop Linux community is just getting by on crowdfunding bits and pieces. Real cool.

I'm sure this will interest some people here.

#FediHire
https://ottawasenators.bamboohr.com/careers/197

Tell me the Linux Foundation is structured to support corporate entities without telling me it's structured to support corporate entities.

@jbz https://indieweb.social/@jbz/117038747362578954

I know that there's a lot of retro #emulation fans here so I'm wondering if anyone knows where exactly Lemuroid for Android stores save game data?

I see a lot of old posts on reddit suggesting it's in /Android/data/com.blah.blah but I can't find anything on my phone in the /Android/data directory. Any advice Fediverse???

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

It's disappointing to me to find out that LLMs seem to have become the defacto state of the at for speech to text for natural language processing. This is like the one part of machine learning I actually care about and you're telling me OpenAI has one of the best most portable models? Extremely discouraging stuff 😔

I'm gonna ask this question with as much humility as I can but can someone help me understand the point of pairing #HomeAssistant with an LLM? I've been reading about the voice pipeline and it keeps mentioning LLMs but I don't understand *why*. Are they just the best form of intent engines that we have now? Are they the current best in class solution for natural language processing? I don't want an LLM but I want a capable voice pipeline

@surf hey I went to open the app this afternoon and I got asked for my username and to set up a profile. Is this new or am I hitting a bug again where I can't login correctly? I cleared my app cache and it's still doing this even after I get a login email link sent to me

Normalize asking where your raise is when your bosses talk about how AI is making the company more productive. I'm sure it will be an enlightening discussion.

@ellesaurus https://toot.lgbt/@ellesaurus/116411870322011906

A lot good replies here. The best thing I can say is find an app like @surf that lets you subscribe to a custom feed of sources YOU trust or lets you build that yourself. I've got one for myself that includes a bunch of different news orgs present in the responses.

@ashur https://front-end.social/@ashur/116191025696195544

This stupidity with California's Age Verification law reminds me that my dream job would be something where I can combine working with Free Software/Open Source with public policy buuuut I have no clue how to get there or if that job even exists 😅

Are people really just sharing a screenshot of some rando asking Claude why it targeted a school for bombing and running with their priors?

I have seen the posts suggesting that the United States war planners used AI to find targets for its bombing campaigns and it erroneously named a school as a legitimate target but I have only seen this be repeated by the same AI that is supposed to have been used in the first place. Has anyone actually seen credible reporting on this?

I love @fontawesome commitment to the bits in their Kickstarter videos. Nice hotdog reference in yet another one. Congrats on the rebrand @11ty 👏

"The pattern is eerily reminiscent of how the xz-utils supply chain attack began, and the security community is still on high alert after that incident nearly succeeded." 😬😬😬

AI is going to end very badly for us.

@cwebber https://social.coop/@cwebber/116086570653235009