⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@pluralistic , July 2023:

"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people.

"The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist. We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg.

We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."

The Facebook Fraud Files confirms it: Zuck & Meta must be abolished.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

Japanese Volunteer Translators Quit After Mozilla Begins Using Translation Bot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0754249/japanese-volunteer-translators-quit-after-mozilla-begins-using-translation-bot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyone-hates-elon-protest-tesla-dealership-london-400042/

Again:

Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #Google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links and trusted sites, like in the 90s. I’m fine with that. You'll find my writing at my blog URL, as always.

#ai #llm #www

@fedops Yeah, kind of like home automation, if you're not building it to be independent of other people's control and observation, you're probably doing it wrong.

I'm a simple man. If I see a #getfFediHired post, I boost it.

It got me thinking, I have never seen one edited to indicate that it worked.

So at 5:08am I decided to do this poll.

What is wrong with me.

Obviously that is a rhetorical question.

A current UK public appointment application says that they

> particularly encourage applications from talented people of all backgrounds to ensure the Board reflects our diverse society.

But then it also says

> The roles are unremunerated. Travel and subsistence expenses are also not normally reimbursed for members of the Board apart from in exceptional circumstances and only with the prior agreement of the Chair.

So that is "diverse background" in the sense of "wealthy enough to work for free and pay your own expenses".

It‘a me Mario

Announcement: I will no longer be using the "so simple your mom can use it" analogy, due to me being now old enough to be a mom or technically a grandma, and also due to the fact my actual literal mother once wrote a COBOL manual. Henceforth if I need a shorthand for "computer user who isn't very into it" I will now reach for "Uncles". It is my hope any Uncles out there reading this will simply take this in stride, due to how avuncular you are

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

ICE just lost in court in Chicago.

A judge literally had to order that ICE:

- provide three edable meals per person per day

- actually supply basic as things like soap, tooth paste and menstral products

- provide people adequate water to drink, free of charge

Bruh, if you ICE has to be told in court to do the BARE minimum to keep detainees alive its not a prison, its a concentration camp.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-ice-news-judge-set-decide-not-issue-tro-broadview-facility/18115674/

#Chicago #ChingaLaMigra #ICE #FuckICE #CourtWatch #AbolishPrisons

Why reactive moderation isn't going to cut it, aka, "The Sucker-punch Problem".

Imagine you invite your friend—let's call him Mark—to a club with you. It's open-door, which is cool, because you like when a lot of folx show up. Sure, it might get a little rowdy, but they have a bouncer, and you've never seen things getting out of hand.

So, you're busy dancing when a new guy walks in wearing a "I Hate Mark" shirt and promptly sucker-punches Mark. You didn't see it happen, but Mark is upset and tells the bouncer, who kicks the guy out.

A few minutes later, the same guy walks back in and sucker-punches Mark again. Same result. Some people in the club say they'll tell the bouncer if they see him come in again.

Mark wants to leave, but you tell him it's not that bad—after all, you've never been punched, and you didn't see Mark get punched, so maybe he's just being sensitive.

A different guy walks in wearing a "I Plan On Punching Mark" shirt. No one tells the bouncer, because they've never seen *this* guy punch Mark.

He sucker-punches Mark. At this point, Mark is pissed and yelling about being punched.

The club members talk about putting up a "No Punching Mark" sign, but the owner is worried it'll hurt his club's growth.

Another Mark in the club proposes they turn away anyone wearing an anti-Mark shirt or espousing anti-Mark rhetoric at the door, but this gets shot down for the same reason as the sign idea—then someone sucker-punches him.

By the end of the night, your friend Mark is beat to fuck and says he'll never come to this club again. In fact, he's going to tell anyone named Mark to stay clear of this place.

The next time you go to the club, half the folx there are wearing "I Kill Marks" shirts, but there aren't any Marks there, so it doesn't come up.

I've been sucker-punched every day, for the last three days in a row by some of the most vile hate-speech and imagery. The accounts are using open registration servers and signing up with variations on the username "heilhitler1488". I fully expect it'll continue as long as we have open registration servers.

And no, username pattern blocking alone won't fix this, it'll help a little, but mostly it'll just make them wear a different shirt while they sucker-punch us.

#OpenRegistrationHurts

I wrote a post about DHH fash speedrun and crashout.

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

Crush Fascism.

#linux #framework #omarchy #ruby

@neil @Binder Techno + Disco = Tesco