Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

Spicy take:

Tbh I'm bored of AI discourse on Fediverse

@cadusilva You're forgetting, there was LOTS of awful with Trump 1...

I miss eras of boring enough politics.

No, I'm not interested in the technical reasons why it's not possible with a federated platform. I'm not talking about cases where the administrator of an instance is a bad actor running a noncompliant software. I'm saying it's bad that the protocol doesn't even have the notion of controlling "following only" in the same sort of level of privacy as "mentioned only".

@OliviaVespera I'm no expert in the protocol, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be performant since it'd require sending someone's entire following list to every instance, which in my case would be over 1k usernames

When you want to make an innocuous joke post but then you see a mutual's post fairly recently and know they might take it as a subtoot even if it has nothing at all to do with them, so you just don't make the post at all. And now everyone is going to think this is a subtoot about subtooting about them.

The meta subtoot subtoot.

Found my first follower who is also a TERF ... GOD I wish this fucking platform had a "only visible by people I follow". Fucking table stakes by every other website.

@dalias they weren't mask off enough that I had something definitive to report, but they were dropping some dog whistle stuff on a thread I wasn't personally participating in. Plus then there's just the mansplaining. If i.e blocked all of them, there'd be nothing left of the Fediverse.

@dalias @OliviaVespera I'm saying I want to be able to make posts that only people who I am following can read.

I can virtually guarantee you that anything coming out of a corporation anymore has at least SOME AI in it.

@dalias https://hc2024.hotchips.org/assets/program/tutorials/2-HC2024.nvidia.MarkRen.Intro.v04.pdf

@dalias was already happening in 2024

https://dig.watch/updates/nvidia-accelerates-chip-design-with-ai-agents

@dalias Hell, I'll bet device chip design and microcode and drivers are being built with AI anymore.

@dalias Good luck with that.

I hate to be doomer about it, but we're probably going to reach the point sooner than we'd like where almost all software will fall in two categories:
Software openly built with AI
Software that is built with AI, but people lie about it.

I don't believe shit about jobs numbers out of the US Government

Mastodon pro tip - there's no algorithm, and people all across time zones here. Don't be too shy about self boosting your banger toots 12 hours later or something so the other side of the world gets a chance too.

I still always feel like one of those bananas conspiracy theorists when I try to explain to people how you can draw a direct line from a woman making some YouTube videos about feminism in video games all the way to the downfall of the American Empire.

@evan @cwebber @laurenshof Though the Mastodon maintainers have been pretty resistant to outside PRs from what I've seen

@davidgerard Cryptocurrency thrives on greed. Vibe coding thrives on imposter syndrome.