Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

If you like large language models, know that they need regular training and the people training them are ruining the web for everybody. You are part of this, as a consumer.

Most sites don’t have the defences required, or require the execution of expensive JavaScript for the CO₂ god, or require placing all your visitor’s browsing data into the hands of another company, most likely CloudFlare, in the USA. If you object to any of that, you must do your duty and reject the use of LLMs as well. You can’t eat your cake and claim to object to the rest. It would be a most incongruent position to take.

And since this kind of shit often happens while I’m on holidays, the LLM friends reading this are responsible, in a very small way, for pissing on me during my holidays. And I resent it.

I resent it very much.

#ButlerianJihad

Help us to test the upcoming Calling 📞 feature in #DeltaChat

https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

It replaces the external video chat links with an integrated calling solution like you know from other Messengers.

If you are about to reply saying ‘no Kevin, AI is the future, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle’… that was a great talking point in 2022, which wasn’t true then either.

Generative AI is a group wank of dying men onto soggy tweets. There’s no genie and no bottle, eventually people are going to go ‘…oh, this isn’t really a game changer is it?’. No, it’s just people trying to monetise copyright theft.

@NatureMC @ChrisMayLA6

Love the combination.

But #UBI also requires serious market regulation otherwise #greedflation will just suck up all that money into corporate profits (as we saw late in the pandemic)

@anildash are people ever "genuinely objective"? You probably mean some form of "lack of strong emotions towards AI" but I'd argue that that - given the real impacts and flaws of AI - creates a bit of a false middle ground.

Even though you might not see it as that I would call a lot of them the (neo-)luddites. But I feel like you are looking for something different that is a lot harder to pin down because they can't be structurally critical which kinda limits the target a lot.

I wonder how useful defining that group is though. Is there a neutral position when looking at something actively harming many of the structures defining our world?

@anildash @simon “AI pragmatists” is better because what’s pragmatic for them may still not be pragmatic for me but it’s at least a more local and grounded position

@anildash he’s already doing their work for free, so why would they ever pay him? 🤪

Extra, extra - Crystal 1.18.0 is out now!

You can check the full release notes to see what's inside: https://crystal-lang.org/2025/10/14/1.18.0-released/

@davew @brentsimmons I fully agree, then remember that we’re also here speaking ActivityPub…

Every time I use a calendar "app" I mourn the regression from 80s-era principles of usable GUI. Can I cut and paste appointments? I can not. Can I select and manipulate multiple appointments? I can not. Can I perform search-and-replace in my calendar? I can not. Is there, then, a separation between Model and View such that I may manipulate my appointments in an alternative interaction language such as a CSV file? There is not.

every "life-changing" productivity system is just:

- write things down
- look at what you wrote
- do those things

we've reinvented the todo list 47 times

I can't quite put my finger on why Teams is so awful. It's kind of just ambiently unusable, somehow.

In fact, the closest thing we have to an ActivityPub *Reference Implementation* is the Express ActivityPub Server, which hasn't been updated recently and is only a *partial implementation*:

> https://github.com/dariusk/express-activitypub

I probably don't need to make the following point if you are a coder, but for the peanut gallery: Every substantial and mature protocol comes with a *Reference Implementation* as a testbed. And, by extension, this means ActivityPub is neither substantial nor mature.

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Today I came across ECaml (https://github.com/janestreet/ecaml) - a project that allows you to write #Emacs plugins in #OCaml. While, I don't have any issues with Elisp, I'll definitely check it out at some point. I'm guessing Jane Street are using it for their internal Emacs plugins.

I remember *years* of people saying Tim Sweeney is an idiot, the whole Fortnite mobile thing was just greed, etc. He took down Apple and Google's entire payments regime. Neither was saved by the courts. What a heck of a legacy. https://www.theverge.com/news/793610/google-epic-android-supreme-court-stay-denied

@eniko 100% this. Local control was why forums were great too, and BBS’s before that. Every attempt to make a global unified community fails because it’s not a community if it’s all ultimately controlled by Big Centrist With Growth Ambitions