@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?
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@Edent cool badge!
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@Edent might be too tempting to scan if uncensored but cool design + nice concept btw
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@Edent “but I trust you…”
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@Edent Curiosity killed the con attendee.
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@Edent Out of interest, what counts as "scanning?"
Taking a photo, decoding the content, using the content, or something else? -
@Edent Out of interest, what counts as "scanning?"
Taking a photo, decoding the content, using the content, or something else?@GerardThornley there's a QR code on there.
Decoding the QR is safe. There's no way to break a QR scanner just from a code.
The destination might be dodgy - but that's no different than typing in a URl. -
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@GerardThornley there's a QR code on there.
Decoding the QR is safe. There's no way to break a QR scanner just from a code.
The destination might be dodgy - but that's no different than typing in a URl.@Edent That's what I thought. I quite often scan QR codes to read the content, but I make sure my scanning apps don't automatically do anything with them - I want to read the content myself before deciding whether to trust it.
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@Edent You can't see this quote properly because Mastodon is still not working properly
> QUOTE
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@neil I'm seeing
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@Edent off the record!
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@Edent or people know who you are and trust you that you wouldn’t do anything malicious
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@Edent, but all we can see is "This post is pending approval from the original author."
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@Edent Sadly not (at least, if I understand what the intended behaviour is!)
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@Edent Yes!
I am using the web client for a mastodon 4.4 instance (started being available in 4.4 afaik). -
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@Edent viewing this toot from my instance, I get "This post cannot be displayed as the original author does not allow it to be quoted." for the embed, even though it's public and visible on your instance. Any idea what's up with that?
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@Edent "This post is pending approval from the original author." as the quoted toot.
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The first ten minutes I spent on social media this morning made me feel all kinds of things. Why is it that people who routinely use LLMs are so loud and brash and proud, making these tools appear as essential and inevitable?
A post by a dev whose app I use said something along the lines of: "no use exercising your coding skills, AI is too good now, you can't compete with it anyway".
Another post by a user on an instance I try to engage with wrote - literally: "tired of overthinking every decision?" and then disclosed he had created an AI that will "run a weighted decision matrix so you don't have to." In all seriousness.
What is this dystopian world where human qualities are devalued, critical thinking is discarded and surveillance capitalism is ignored at the altar of AI worship?
If they are loud and proud, maybe so I can be too... but in the opposite direction.
This weekend I will start the MIT's Missing Semester class (the 2020 Lectures, so pre-AI) because in this brave new world hyping up techno-fascist LLMs, knowing the basics of code are essential IMHO.
So my March "project" will be a deep dive in MIT's Missing Semester and my April project will be off-grid mesh radio communication.
What about you, what are you doing to resist?
Special props to @emilymbender @cwebber and @tante for being outspoken on these issues... you're my beacons of hope
#NoAI
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@gian_d_gian tutto è bene ciò che finisce bene ma quando hai fatto i test al buio con l'ausilio dell'accendino, quante volte ti sei scottato?
Il pubblico ha il diritto di sapere.
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@webdevtrust I don't think he's much of a gamer. 🥲
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@Gina Nice to hear. Ensure he keeps up with that. I currently regret that I didn't encourage my parents in all of the above mentioned activities, when they retired.
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We will have a combined #XMPP and #UnifiedPush stand at #CLT2026 on March 28th and 29th. Come talk to us if you are curious about either! We will have merch for both, test devices, lots of advice, and I've even heard rumors about free Haribo.
XMPP Standards Foundation: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2026/en/programm/beitrag/204
UnifiedPush: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2026/en/programm/beitrag/411
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@Gina could you get him into gaming? Buy him a Switch + Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?
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@Gina If he's super handy, maybe occasionally ask his help doing odd jobs around the house? One of the biggest adjustments that I dealt with when I retired was loss of purpose, feeling needed. Just don't throw too much at him, he may have ideas of his own. When the dust settles, meet for lunch or drinks.
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@Gina If he's super handy, maybe occasionally ask his help doing odd jobs around the house? One of the biggest adjustments that I dealt with when I retired was loss of purpose, feeling needed. Just don't throw too much at him, he may have ideas of his own. When the dust settles, meet for lunch or drinks.
