Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social), page 3

"Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism."

This is genuine comedy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

The harder something is to predict, the harder it is to insure.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/insurers-move-to-limit-ai-liability-as-multi-billion-dollar-risks-emerge

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/115615047169469231

Imagine letting your whole worldview, how you learn about anything, get filtered through a silent corporate-brand-sanitization machine.

Banning books seems adorably quaint by comparison. Your brain would end up as polished and smooth as the inside of a urinal.

https://mastodon.social/@aesthr@wandering.shop/115615047257445939

@SwiftOnSecurity I have only once in my life heard of a CTO who asked to spend six weeks anonymously taking the tier 1 front line helpdesk training and answering the phones before taking the job, arguing that he had to know the product and the customers if he wanted to do the job well. Long retired, but people who worked with him still talk about him like they’d met a saint.

@SwiftOnSecurity ... and today if you go looking at what those foreign adversaries are doing, it's pretty much all unpatched, long-known CVEs, and those vulnerabilities are pretty much all elevated access via unsanitized input.

Just basic, wash-your-hands fundamentals.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-statement-from-fbi-and-cisa-on-the-peoples-republic-of-china-targeting-of-commercial-telecommunications-infrastructure

@dalias From experience, an awful lot of the bedrock of healthy community management comes from laying out the terms that give _you_ social permission to _yourself_ to tell people no, we don't do that here and you can fuck right off. Says so right there on the tin.

This is particularly difficult for kind, conscientious people to.

@dalias Even just a paragraph or two saying, "it is too easy to automatically generate code now, so any discussion about changes has to start with a conversation intended to create a shared understanding of what the issue is and how we should best approach it, and that conversation - "what should we build, and how will we know we've succeeded" - will inform the review process."

@dalias One the things that codes of conduct, even the "maintenance terms" thing I wrote up, virtually never cover is a project's internal cultural norms and expectations.

Contributing.md is always "this is how you stand up your developer environment and file a patch", but very rarely "this how we work here, you're welcome to contribute, but this is our process and trying to speedrun or bully your way past it will not be tolerated and your code will not be accepted."

Enlightened self interest but it's just me arguing that marginal tax rates should be so high that I personally never have conversations this dumb hit me in the eyes again.

@prettygood I set up a thing where I just run dmesg perpetually on tty11, so I can always watch stuff like that happen.

@prettygood Anxiety and triple checking every single time.

Businesses create their customers, and the perfect customer for any ad-revenue-driven company is somebody impulsive, angry, frightened and just tired enough that they keep clicking the things making them impulsive, angry, frightened and tired.

Ad blockers and filters aren't just basic information security hygiene, they're also practical psychological self-defense.

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

And I mean, he’s not wrong. It’s amazing that some dev environments will dump pages and pages of baffling error messages on you when you type f(); {…} instead of f(){…} - a “halt on first error if it’s a common novice error” checkbox would be a major quality of life improvement, imo.

"Oh, the many indignities of programming." - My son after putting a semicolon in the wrong place.

How many of you have ever held a phone that looked like this? When did any video calling system _ever_ look like this?

But now that everything is just one undifferentiated glowing rectangle what else are you going to do?

People say "do you feel old" here, but damn y'all where's our new iconography gonna come from if everything is a goddamn glass rectangle?

https://23.social/@leyrer/115559137012685196

Sometimes I like to remember that in 2013 Larry Page said that over 300 million people were using Google+ [300 million people were _clearly_not_ using Google+] and when that whole clownshow was over we all learned that 'using' meant 'what does that button do?' and the average duration of a Google+ session was exactly as long as it took people to see what that button did and then find the back button.

If something has a lot of very bad externalities, and just the ones we know about cause major damage to important physical, social and informational ecosystems, then “lots of people want it” just isn’t a compelling argument.

Millions of people in a contracting job market have had their livelihoods threatened if they don't use it. Millions of people are being measured by how much they use it whether it benefits them or works or not, millions use it to generate material to appease algorithms controlled by the same companies controlling the AI, and even these numbers are reported by the companies invested in their going up forever, who cannot be trusted at all to tell us a real truth.

Where is the human want, here?

@Gargron Thank you - I knew I could filter out notifications from non-followers or people I don't follow, but I think what I'm after here is something like a "cozy feed" bailout option lack of some better term. Maybe a third column after "all" and "mentions" that's just "mutuals", for those times when mastodon gets to be A Bit Much.

That said, also I don't think the Mastodon Prime web interface needs to be all things to all people.