Amanda
@amanda.social.spejset.org.ap.brid.gy
#ComputerScientist PhD student working on specialised #ConstraintSolvers for #ProgramAnalysis, including #Polonius in #Rust. Interested in personal computing […]
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🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.spejset.org/@amanda, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Reposted by Amanda
This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care […]
Original post on tldr.nettime.org
tldr.nettime.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care […]
Reposted by Amanda
Verkligen ett sånt tecken på hur långt allt gått att SVT släpper AI-slask som gör reklam för Roblox.
Roblox är en privat fritidsgård med casino som används för att suga pengar ur barn.
En modern public service borde driva en sådan tjänst med demokratiska värden, inte delta.
Roblox är en privat fritidsgård med casino som används för att suga pengar ur barn.
En modern public service borde driva en sådan tjänst med demokratiska värden, inte delta.
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Verkligen ett sånt tecken på hur långt allt gått att SVT släpper AI-slask som gör reklam för Roblox.
Roblox är en privat fritidsgård med casino som används för att suga pengar ur barn.
En modern public service borde driva en sådan tjänst med demokratiska värden, inte delta.
Roblox är en privat fritidsgård med casino som används för att suga pengar ur barn.
En modern public service borde driva en sådan tjänst med demokratiska värden, inte delta.
Reposted by Amanda
Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early […]
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early […]
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early […]
Reposted by Amanda
It seems like perhaps what the AI bros don't understand is that the difference between people who don't care about making big mistakes and AIs who _can't_ care about making big mistakes is that the AIs can do it several orders of magnitude faster, and therefore the potential for harm is several […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
It seems like perhaps what the AI bros don't understand is that the difference between people who don't care about making big mistakes and AIs who _can't_ care about making big mistakes is that the AIs can do it several orders of magnitude faster, and therefore the potential for harm is several […]
Another case for middle mouse button being confusing: I click a link in #silverbullet with the middle button. Silverbullet does not allow MMB to open in new tab, so it intercepts it. The MMB press becomes a paste, which happens not at the button (which cannot receive input), but at the top of […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Another case for middle mouse button being confusing: I click a link in #silverbullet with the middle button. Silverbullet does not allow MMB to open in new tab, so it intercepts it. The MMB press becomes a paste, which happens not at the button (which cannot receive input), but at the top of […]
Previously from the child that brought you cutting croissants with scissors: lingonberry jam on tortellini.
Should I just lie down and wait for the carabinieri?
Should I just lie down and wait for the carabinieri?
February 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Previously from the child that brought you cutting croissants with scissors: lingonberry jam on tortellini.
Should I just lie down and wait for the carabinieri?
Should I just lie down and wait for the carabinieri?
It’s so funny that running unreal tournament for windows on Linux under WINE works much better than running the original game, where the Linux version — from Flatpak! — has a five cm offset on the mouse pointer and where the game thinks it is and only renders stretched 4:3 in low res while the […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
February 8, 2026 at 10:04 AM
It’s so funny that running unreal tournament for windows on Linux under WINE works much better than running the original game, where the Linux version — from Flatpak! — has a five cm offset on the mouse pointer and where the game thinks it is and only renders stretched 4:3 in low res while the […]
Reposted by Amanda
As an addendum, let me emphasize: if someone is making 10^{6.5} dollars per year, they're rich. My point is that economic disparity is so incredibly bad in the US that being "rich" doesn't mean one has anything meaningfully in common with "owner-class rich" in terms of political power *or* […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
February 7, 2026 at 11:28 PM
As an addendum, let me emphasize: if someone is making 10^{6.5} dollars per year, they're rich. My point is that economic disparity is so incredibly bad in the US that being "rich" doesn't mean one has anything meaningfully in common with "owner-class rich" in terms of political power *or* […]
I used to feel bad for not understanding or using the weird trait magic but the more I work on rustc the more I realise this ignorance is just as much an asset.
February 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
I used to feel bad for not understanding or using the weird trait magic but the more I work on rustc the more I realise this ignorance is just as much an asset.
RE: https://social.spejset.org/@amanda/116033887755494290
See the thing that scares me is: language is deeply rooted in human brains.
What if model collapse, but for humans? Would we know? What if generated text at large doses is the cultural equivalent of a prion disease? How’d we contain it?
See the thing that scares me is: language is deeply rooted in human brains.
What if model collapse, but for humans? Would we know? What if generated text at large doses is the cultural equivalent of a prion disease? How’d we contain it?
I think Firefall by Peter Watts is the absolute correct reference for this. Echopraxia is also very good for understanding AI https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
distantprovince.by
February 8, 2026 at 9:29 AM
RE: https://social.spejset.org/@amanda/116033887755494290
See the thing that scares me is: language is deeply rooted in human brains.
What if model collapse, but for humans? Would we know? What if generated text at large doses is the cultural equivalent of a prion disease? How’d we contain it?
See the thing that scares me is: language is deeply rooted in human brains.
What if model collapse, but for humans? Would we know? What if generated text at large doses is the cultural equivalent of a prion disease? How’d we contain it?
I think Firefall by Peter Watts is the absolute correct reference for this. Echopraxia is also very good for understanding AI https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
distantprovince.by
February 8, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I think Firefall by Peter Watts is the absolute correct reference for this. Echopraxia is also very good for understanding AI https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard This distinction is actually interesting in the context of LLMs. It certainly gives a texture to the fact that many academic type people are LLM sceptics to a higher than average degree.
I usually complain about the opposite: that academia doesn’t […]
I usually complain about the opposite: that academia doesn’t […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:01 AM
https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard This distinction is actually interesting in the context of LLMs. It certainly gives a texture to the fact that many academic type people are LLM sceptics to a higher than average degree.
I usually complain about the opposite: that academia doesn’t […]
I usually complain about the opposite: that academia doesn’t […]
Me: I'm sorry toddler, apparently Krita, the program mom picked for you to practice drawing with the mouse, doesn't have a print dialog unlike every other program and so I have to export to PNG and then...
Toddler: *absolute meltdown*
Sometimes I feel like most software should be pair […]
Toddler: *absolute meltdown*
Sometimes I feel like most software should be pair […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Me: I'm sorry toddler, apparently Krita, the program mom picked for you to practice drawing with the mouse, doesn't have a print dialog unlike every other program and so I have to export to PNG and then...
Toddler: *absolute meltdown*
Sometimes I feel like most software should be pair […]
Toddler: *absolute meltdown*
Sometimes I feel like most software should be pair […]
Thanks for the offer, app I use to upgrade the firmware of my earbuds.
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Thanks for the offer, app I use to upgrade the firmware of my earbuds.
See, I don't think you'll tell me how to set up IMAP in outlook
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 PM
See, I don't think you'll tell me how to set up IMAP in outlook
Today's experience report: I tried using inkscape. Dragging things takes about a second to redraw. Resizing the window (which always spawns in full screen and never learns not to do that) too quickly crashes the program.
February 1, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Today's experience report: I tried using inkscape. Dragging things takes about a second to redraw. Resizing the window (which always spawns in full screen and never learns not to do that) too quickly crashes the program.
I am once again asking you to get me a Linux that boots to KDE on wayland where I pay a fixed price and or subscription to get something that works and where there’s a bug tracker where I can report anything that doesn’t to a staff of people who actually fix it.
February 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM
I am once again asking you to get me a Linux that boots to KDE on wayland where I pay a fixed price and or subscription to get something that works and where there’s a bug tracker where I can report anything that doesn’t to a staff of people who actually fix it.
https://nemin.hu/guix.html I find it both funny and tragic that someone is describing spending what by my rough estimate rounds out to several weeks of my spare time or one to two working days to get what I’d describe as a pretty broken system in positive terms for a Linux install.
Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
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nemin.hu
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 AM
https://nemin.hu/guix.html I find it both funny and tragic that someone is describing spending what by my rough estimate rounds out to several weeks of my spare time or one to two working days to get what I’d describe as a pretty broken system in positive terms for a Linux install.
[Commentary on The Events]
Three things make watching the current development in the US from Sweden so mind boggingly weird:
1. Swedish media sucks ass, and their reporting is terrible even next to the worst US one
2. Everyone behaves like everything is or will soon be to back to normal. I […]
Three things make watching the current development in the US from Sweden so mind boggingly weird:
1. Swedish media sucks ass, and their reporting is terrible even next to the worst US one
2. Everyone behaves like everything is or will soon be to back to normal. I […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:24 PM
[Commentary on The Events]
Three things make watching the current development in the US from Sweden so mind boggingly weird:
1. Swedish media sucks ass, and their reporting is terrible even next to the worst US one
2. Everyone behaves like everything is or will soon be to back to normal. I […]
Three things make watching the current development in the US from Sweden so mind boggingly weird:
1. Swedish media sucks ass, and their reporting is terrible even next to the worst US one
2. Everyone behaves like everything is or will soon be to back to normal. I […]
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy Finally someone doing LLMs properly
GitHub - felixrieseberg/clippy: 📎 Clippy, now with some AI
📎 Clippy, now with some AI. Contribute to felixrieseberg/clippy development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:48 AM
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy Finally someone doing LLMs properly
Disney’s Aladdin has something very Amiga graphics to it. It’s not surprising that the DOS game is very faithful to the movie. Something about the colour theme really lends itself to a few-bitted colour palette.
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Disney’s Aladdin has something very Amiga graphics to it. It’s not surprising that the DOS game is very faithful to the movie. Something about the colour theme really lends itself to a few-bitted colour palette.
”When Peter first got me hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much.”
Uh, I’m sorry but this sounds like a stimulant binge.
Uh, I’m sorry but this sounds like a stimulant binge.
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 AM
”When Peter first got me hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much.”
Uh, I’m sorry but this sounds like a stimulant binge.
Uh, I’m sorry but this sounds like a stimulant binge.
Kagi on serarch and antitrust https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi | Kagi Blog
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search ( https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search ) , published last year.
blog.kagi.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Kagi on serarch and antitrust https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
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Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist […]
Original post on social.spejset.org
social.spejset.org
January 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist […]
We really need an XPBox to complement DOSBox, emulating a windows XP machine with maybe at most a gig RAM, some Nvidia Ti card, a DVD drive, etc. For all the early 00’s games for PC that are increasingly difficult to run anywhere.
January 17, 2026 at 1:48 PM
We really need an XPBox to complement DOSBox, emulating a windows XP machine with maybe at most a gig RAM, some Nvidia Ti card, a DVD drive, etc. For all the early 00’s games for PC that are increasingly difficult to run anywhere.