RE: https://tweesecake.social/@jokes/117074551203914879
As a blind guy, I appreciate the joke!
Jokes@jokes@tweesecake.socialI am reading a horror story in Braille.
Someone is gonna die, I can feel it.
André Polykanine
A married and happy geek living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist.
My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp.
Pro-European right-centrist. Technical progress must not be stoppable.
#AI is our assistant, not our replacement nor our enemy.
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Jokes@jokes@tweesecake.socialAndré Polykanine boosted
someone should make a dating app for nerds and call it Singles Sign-On
Replying to @nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org
@nyquildotorg Yes. And it's annoying as hell.
RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@dada/117094252230687852
Heureusement !
dada@dada@diaspodon.frLe Conseil constitutionnel censure l'interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans - https://www.france24.com/fr/france/20260814-le-conseil-constitutionnel-censure-l-interdiction-des-r%C3%A9seaux-sociaux-aux-moins-de-15-ans
> Le Conseil constitutionnel a censuré vendredi l'interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans, invoquant "une atteinte disproportionnée" à leur liberté d'expression. Cette mesure est notamment défendue par le président Emmanuel Macron, qui vient de charger le Premier ministre de "travailler" à la rédaction d'une nouvelle version de l'interdiction.
Tant mieux !
www.france24.com/fr/france/20260814-le-conseil-constitutionnel-censure-l-interdiction-des-r%C3%A9seaux-sociaux-aux-moins-de-15-ansAndré Polykanine boosted
AI Finally Gave Some of Us a Level Playing Field. I Don’t Want Watermarking to Take That Away. https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/ai-finally-gave-some-of-us-a-level
taylorarndt.substack.com/p/ai-finally-gave-some-of-us-a-levelThey changed something in #ClaudeCode, and auto mode began to ask for stupid permissions about compound commands. I mean, I set auto mode, I don't want to sit here and press 1 every time! #AI
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Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.
This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.
When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.
Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.
More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore. Too often, conversations turn hostile or confrontational. A small amount of conflict and bad actors takes up a disproportionate amount of time and energy.
I find myself feeling more angry or discouraged after spending time as an admin, and that’s not what I want from social media or a volunteer project.
There’s also the financial side. I’m very grateful to everyone who donated, but donations haven’t covered costs for a long time. I’ve had to shoulder most of the expenses, time, and responsibility myself.
The server is now closed to new registrations and will remain online until 28 October 2026, so you’ll have three months to find another Mastodon or Fediverse server and move your account.
You can find Mastodon’s official migration guide here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive.
If you’d like to stay in touch, you can follow my personal account here (@jorijn).
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Whenever you see a journalist doing good work on Bluesky, but not yet on Mastodon or the wider Fediverse, ask them to follow @ap.brid.gy@ap.brid.gy to bridge their Bluesky account.
They may not be interested in joining the Fediverse, but why not a bridge? ;)
#Fediverse #BridgyFed #Mastodon
Replying to @Alice@beige.party
@Alice No joke. In Russia there is a city called Perm, Пермь in Russian (Permian era in geology is named after it — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian). Guess what the URL of their news website was. Now it's PermNews.ru, before it was the same words, but the other way around 😂
en.wikipedia.orgPermian - WikipediaAndré Polykanine boosted
Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
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YouTube shorts should be a separate app, that Google can kill off when they realize no one wants to watch YouTube shorts.
Replying to @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space
@TheQuinbox Thank you for caring about the server, Quinn!
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Sorry to anyone who's been having issues with streaming timelines on dragonscave.space in the past hour or so. Noticed this broke right in the middle of my workday, which is right when you want to discover service outages. Restarted everything like usual but actually upgraded our node.js and deps to the latest versions this time, so this will hopefully leave me alone for a while now.
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Replying to @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
Do not waste time saying 'Just use Linux.'
Not happening.
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@Angrybunnyman/117083901987685787
An exasperation.
Will ♿️@Angrybunnyman@indieweb.socialWhat’s the collective noun for a group of #accessibility experts/professionals?
An aria of experts?
A guideline of WCAG pros?
An assistance of experts?
Replying to @batzy@babka.social
@batzy Oh no, thank you! I meant I *rent* an apartment, so don't want to have lots of stuff… I mean, THAT much stuff. Anyway, thanks for your kindness!
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For those people using Suno.
It is worth saying they are changing their terms of service as of 3 September. If you are on a Pro plan, you can now only download 20 songs per month.
That's probably enough for most people, and certainly we have all of our songs anyway, but it is worth knowing.
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/117072654128435457
I've already told you Quinn is amazing. for example, that's why.
Quin@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.spaceHad a really interesting maintainer experience today that I think perfectly captures the nuance of the current AI coding situation.
I got an AI-generated PR on Paperback from a new contributor with a very small GitHub profile. My default stance isn't anti-AI and I've even used Claude on Paperback's codebase as recently as yesterday, but open source is getting flooded with automated slop, so I left a polite comment asking for a bit of human-written justification for the feature and confirming if they had actually tested it manually, and I received a well-thought-out, genuine response. The contributor is a long-time computer scientist who doesn't know Rust, using Claude Code to build an accessibility feature to make Paperback optionally match NVDA's browse mode navigation that directly improves their daily workflow. They tested it on their end, I double-checked the diff and edge cases on mine, everything looked great, and it got merged.
To me, this hits the exact middle ground of how AI in OSS should work: A knowledgeable developer used a tool to bridge a gap and ship a genuinely valuable accessibility feature to an app they use. If I had a strict "no AI" policy, this contribution would have been shut down immediately, and both the project and the user would be worse off for it. But still, human oversight is mandatory. If maintainers just let everything slip through without pushback, repositories quickly get overrun with untested slop PRs.
Replying to @shuro@friends.deko.cloud
@shuro А вот я как сторонник ИИ с вами полностью, абсолютно согласен. Да, если ты пишешь фигню, то неважно, с помощью ИИ или нет. Если ты прочитал, попросил ИИ сделать резюме (тупо, без скиллов и предварительного обсуждения), то да, ты читал жопой. И так далее. Полностью поддерживаю.
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Всё чаще слышу призывы отказаться от нерациональной предвзятости в отношении генеративного ИИ и перестать искать лишние пальцы и тире не той системы, ведь ИИ всего лишь инструмент.
Полностью поддерживаю эту идею. Давайте уже относиться и говорить правильно.
Не "зачем в статье сгенерированная картинка", а "твоя картинка говно". Не "это сгенерированное видео", а "это фальшивое видео". Не "нейросетью текст писал?", а "что за шизу ты гонишь, с тобой всё в порядке?" Не "не надо мне вставлять ответы из чатгпт", а "не надо писать то, в чём явно не разбираешься". Не "через нейросеть читал?", а "жопой читал, раз только это вынес?"
Впрочем, если что-то помогло, то и тут надо говорить не "да, твой нейрослоп сработал", а "спасибо, твой ответ мне помог".
Навязчивый поиск признаков генерации не просто бесполезен, но ещё и даёт ИИ субъектность, снимая её с тех, ими злоупотребляет. Это как "навигатор меня ведёт с опозданием" - это не навигатор, а ты опаздываешь. Инструмент не косячит - косячит всегда тот, кто его применяет. Не нейронки выдают слоп, а вполне конкретные люди, их применяющие. Зачем их лишать заслуженного авторства.
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