Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change - 82MHz https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/ #Activism

"we stand with trans people" == "thoughts and prayers" – Kae Learns in Public https://kaes-blog.bearblog.dev/we-stand-with-trans-people-thoughts-and-prayers/ #LGBT #LGBTQ

I got access to the New York Times through my public library, and the older versions of the modern love podcast are 1 million times better than the newer episodes because the older ones are more like an audiobook than talk show, like this essay about a trans mom coming out to her daughters. Obviously this has a paywall. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modern-love/id1065559535?i=1000389607564 #Podcast #Podcasts

@david_chisnall The referenced "original" app is also vibe coded slop, seems more likely ai generated similar outputs for both of them than that it stole directly from that specific repo.

The Dawn of the ‘Tryborg’ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/opinion/the-dawn-of-the-tryborg.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.Wu4o.1CE-sMspArX1&smid=wa-share #Gift #NoPaywall #Disability

@dpnash @david_chisnall from quick peek at github this app is also fully vibe coded slop, so I wouldn't be surprised that it's full of shit.

Also there's a non-zero chance that the app that's supposedly plagiarised is a plagiarism in of itself, and they simply both put in the same prompts and got same output..

It's slop all the way down.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange "I’d also like to apologize for my irresponsible use of AI to build such a thing. Going forward, I won’t be using AI [IN THIS WAY] to create any more web stuff..." This MF 🤦‍♂️. He wasn't smart/principled/talented enough to steer clear of "A.I." in the first place. How are we to believe that he won't be ripping someone else off later? Whether it's an artist, writer, another coder... hell a pornstar! I bet his "A.I." "girlfriend" is built from some other person's porn.

This story should terrify any open source project or company that allows LLM-generated code into their project.

Someone created a new app, using Claude. Only it wasn’t a new app, it was clearly plagiarised because it happened that there was an example in the training set that exactly matched the requirements. The similarity was well within the range that courts have previously used to determine a derived work.

When you have this level of similarity, the requirement comes to you to prove that there was no way that the original work could have flowed to your project. Companies that have this concern usually do it by ensuring that no one on the team has been exposed to the original and that the code for the original never goes near their systems. But when one of the systems that you use is a language model trained on, among other things, all of the open-source code that it could scrape (and which does not disclose its training set), being able to prove that there was no path from some other codebase to yours is impossible.

Just because the US copyright office has ruled that you, as the person promoting an LLM, cannot assert copyright on the output, does not mean that someone else can’t. If you take a DVD and transcode it to H.264, there is no creative step and so the new copy is not something subject to independent copyright, but it is a derived work of the DVD (itself a lower-quality derived work of the original masters) and so subject to the same copyright.

Importantly in this story, the person prompting Claude had no idea that the original app existed. To safely use the code, they would need to search everything in the training data and discard outputs that would meet the bar of being substantially similar. And that’s something that requires human judgement.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117066183348062085

Say it louder for the dummies that haven't figured this out yet. Gods, the folks that love LLMs have absolutely no clue how these LLMs works. #AI #LLM

I say let the piracy and or lawsuits run wild. I think if you learn that someone used any LLM to make a thing, like this guys slop apps, feel free to pirate their work and never give them any money. If you have a clear case of plagiarism, sue the pants off of anybody that uses an LLLM unironically https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html #AI #LLM

Hot off the presses... Say hello to the first public release of Audio Tetris, the audio-first version of Tetris on Windows written in Rust/WxDragon with the help of Google's Antigravity. I still consider it a beta, but I really want others to kick the proverbial tires. You can get it here: https://github.com/thegregariousdragon/audio-tetris/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Report any issues and feedback is highly encouraged. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #AudioGames #Tetris #Rust #WxDragon

Recently I learned about TouchMapper: Create tactile maps easily for any address.

They use #OpenStreetMap to create printable 3D models of an area, for people with no/bad vision to literally get a feel for the place.

I love the initiative!

https://touch-mapper.org/en/

#maps #accessibility #inclusion #vision #3dprinting #AwesomeStuff

The best alternative to supporting vicious transphobia by buying Harry Potter is to read Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea books, which are magical, good-hearted, beautifully written, and rooted in anthropology. Please don't buy anything Harry Potter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea

The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-ballot-is-a-doorstop-not-a-love-letter/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs

Get You an RSS Reader that Displays Tags https://nex-3.com/blog/get-you-an-rss-reader-that-displays-tags/ #RSS

recently posted The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-ballot-is-a-doorstop-not-a-love-letter/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117043346514398510

Super happy I contributed to this round table. Hope to continue contributing in the future! #Mastodon #Fediverse

I think this is the first time a website I visited has had a font size larger than I can comfortably read. :) Usually they’re normal, acceptably smaller, or too small.

@WeirdWriter @esoteric_programmer that's music to my years! :blobcat_headphones:

Books about Public libraries - Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136 #Library #Libraries