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oh I see, now that graphene purged all their posts someone convenient has popped up to accuse me of being a CIA/mossad op and try to assert a ridiculously distorted version of events (“all they did is commit an agents.md”, which isn’t even what started the thread. david dug up the agents.md because graphene was already doing damage control claiming an LLM would never be used to write code, and the agents.md of course had instructions for the LLM to write code)

and of course it’s the activist with the credible domestic violence accusations from both the people they’ve had kids with

shitheads of a feather I suppose

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I don’t think this is smart enough to be an op, but I’d like to point out the obvious:

- graphene has no business deleting its public statements, regardless of the response they’re receiving, unless they’ve got something to hide
- anyone coming to graphene’s defense without reading the deleted statements is operating without crucial information
- graphene cultivates an unhinged community
- pointing out that a privacy project is doing something shady and damaging is a public good. nobody involved here is doing this to hurt anyone vulnerable. we know how bad things can go if trust is placed in the wrong hands.
- maybe limit the amount of trust you give to a person who has two independent credible DV allegations against them by people they held power over??? maybe????

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and like, it’s actually really easy to get people back when a project fucks up like this: do what servo did. apologize, be transparent, and promise to materially do better by banning LLMs from your codebase

of course graphene won’t do this because they’ve asserted that they have to use LLMs to write secure code (again, a thing that’s working so great for the AI corps that keep having incidents), and because transparency means explaining that weird contractor shit they brought up (an unforced error on their part)

in order to do better, graphene would have to… do better. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them change course in response to external pressure. maybe that was an asset at some point in the past, but it really isn’t now.

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at some point they said something about how i've been supporting and boosting their posts up until now and like ... yeah ... exactly.

letting people down should feel bad and you should feel bad for doing it. instead they seem to think everything is part of some kind of whatever-chan d list youtube influencer conspiracy

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The big mistake Graphene seem to be making either in comms or maybe in actual conviction among leadership is to say they are selling "good code, " which they now say AI is helping them write.

But that is not the primary thing people want from them. Their main "product" is trust, and LLM use, in any way, automatically erodes that. As well as such poor handling of criticism.

They could take a leaf out of LibreOffice's book.

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If anything even remotely Gen AI "meets our standards," then I'm switching to LineageOS ASAP.

I see the destruction of our climate "meets our standards."

Say that again when you have no fresh water to drink. 🖕🏻


We've received a bunch of pull requests from people submitting AI generated fixes for AI discovered issues. Many of those were valid issues but the pull requests didn't meet our standards and we didn't have much luck getting most improved to be good enough via code review. We solved that by rewriting the ones which mattered and ignoring the rest.

We need to avoid issues which can be found by other using AI models. New code is passed through one to find stuff we missed.


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One day I'm going to register all the domains of the fake social networks @edzitron is mentioning in his podcast and set up different Fedi services on them, forcing Ed to register accounts on each of them 😛

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All the other issues aside, this attitude is a big part of why I see genAI coding in particular as a very material climate / fossil fuel threat

A chatbot blurting out tens of thousands of lines of code each time instead of a person designing one efficient, good, smart app once = wild energy bloat


RE: bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://d…

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Every once in awhile, in the midst of my nights, I’m struck dumb with awe and a strange, refracted grief:

It’s legitimately fucking *crazy* how good the internet used to be

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@domi @StefanEJones yes, SEO was all about getting "the right kind of links" into your website. Google cracked down on mutual links very quickly - "I'll link to your site if you link to mine". After one of the algorithm updates, mutual links started to hurt your page ranking.

Web rings evolved in an attempt to fool Google into thinking all the incoming links were bona fide independent third party connections. Web rings actually started creating useful collections of sites, but Google connected the dots and decided they had to go.

It all seems very quaint now, doesn't it? 😄

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Overwhelming traffic from our Unplug America launch crashed the site!

Jocelyn and I have been frantically recreating the content (in static form, not database) to ease the server load, and the site is back up.

Clearly, there is HUGE interest in leaving U.S. technology.

unplug.todmaffin.com

Unplug America | Notion

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How much “AI” slop they will contain?

#Debian #ai


By the end of 2026 all 2200+ Industrial computers & embedded systems around CERN will be running Debian 13. To learn more, watch the talk on this topic given at the Winterthur MiniDebConf here: meetings-archive.debian.net/pu… #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfWinterthur2026

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PIR, the Public Interest Registry, seems to have put autistici.org on status serverHold and that is why you cannot resolve their name anymore. This is what can happen to your .org domain name when the Trump administration decides to add you to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) list.
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We recognize that the NSDAP is closely associated with its founder, and that raises questions about what our support means. Our contribution is made to the NSDAP, not to an individual, and is not an endorsement of any individual's personal or political views. 1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views.
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Verbatim transcript of the reply I got from 1P

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@mini

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What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.

We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.

CC @EUCommission #sovereignty

¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (trends.builtwith.com/websiteli…). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.

#TLS #web #EU #tech #sovereignty #US #fascism

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Why would he do that?

If he did that, services would switch ACME providers and everything would go back to normal after a few turbulent days. But the trust loss in every US service provider would be huge. Massive footgun with a big net loss for the US.

If he wanted to hurt the EU, there would be much better ways, without shooting yourself in the foot.

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What was the site that had a graph of techfashbros connections to each other?

I mean most if not all of the Weird Little Guys mentioned are for sure there, just I want to know how near apart.

(Also that site from the beginning, can't find it.)

Context:


Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

brennan.day/normalized-fascism…


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Despite not using “AI” I am feeling the cognitive poison creeping in my intrusive thoughts (those real ones, not those from sociopathic media trends).

I'm playing a simple game, having fun, or at least keeping my ADHD busy.

Yet on any problems with the game logic or UI/UX I'm instinctively going “oh, they used «AI»”, despite checking for obvious signs of slop a few times.

(Folx will know this from the people externalising such thoughts by publicly accusing artists of using slop.)

#ai #slop

#ai #slop

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Current manifesto topic: The fossil fuel industry is responsible for Crypto, NFTs and LLMs because we already have enough renewable energy to power everything else.
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Let me put this in a different way:
#Debian had an open-book exam about not being a wanker and FUCKED IT UP.

vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_…

via @technomancy

hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/st…

#ai #slop


guess that's the end of any hope I had for debian; if you can't even manage to pull the right answer on the easy question, there's no hope for dealing with the hard work we've got a head of us recovering from this ongoing disaster

vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_…


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If you see #progressive organizations using #AI slop imagery, SAY SOMETHING. Post a comment saying you don’t like it. Do it because you care about them.

You may have people replying to oppose your position, and that would be a good thing. Start a conversation. You have the moral high ground.

Show others in the group that it’s ok to speak up against the use of #AISlop in an organization that claims to care about other people. Show organizers that they are alienating people by using #aiCRAP.

Do this because you care about the cause.

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Quest Log | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

f-droid.org/packages/de.huppke…

> Balance life's Main and Side Quests in a private, offline game-themed to-do app

…with slopcode…

gitlab.com/THuppke/questlog/-/…

#ai #slop #fdroid #slopwatch

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I just discovered the Fediverse (English) Wikipedia page has a huge section on AT Protocol and I question why. It seems like excessive promotion of Bluesky and its protocol that is not compatible with ActivityPub, both technically and in spirit. Illustrating bridging isn't the same as compatibility. Might as well add sections for other random network protocols like XMPP (Jabber).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedivers…

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #wikipedia

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Update on the dbrand Portal themed Steam Machine case vanishing - it's gone forever, they didn't have Valve's permission gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-…

#dbrand #SteamMachine #SteamOS #Valve #Steam

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That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.

For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.

flamman.se/techprofil-ger-milj…

#Mullvad

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It's curious how Google hosts a "Get it on Google Play" badge, but only in dark mode and Apple provides self-hostable light and dark mode variants.

Which is why you almost never see a light mode Apple "Get it on the App Store" badge, because Google only allows the black background badge.

Why Google?

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Does anybody know of an #android #radio app that doesn't use internet bu mt receives #FM vi earphones as an antenna ?

Basically like Samsung's app but downloadable from the #fdroid or play store ?

Would be even better if it's #Floss but if not a deal breaker if it's not #opensource

Many thanks for any recommendations ! :owi:

Edit: I don't believe I've asked before but anybody that's not got a recommendation but is willing to boost I greatly appreciate it

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Me 2 years ago: It's time to finally divest myself from Google services, despite the effort required, the additional cost, and the massive inconveniences I will incur. Proton Mail looks like a safe, well-recommended choice.

Me today: [long, protracted sigh]

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I'm so sorry man, I listed a couple of alternatives on my blog post if you want to go have a look lukathemouse.gay/2026/05/29/wa…

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@LukaTheMouse
I hadn't read Luka The Mouse's page before today, but it looks good to me. It's the path I took, more or less.

I went from Google to custom email domain + Proton, and then moved the custom email domain from Proton to Tuta.

I use a self-hosted version of the open source sandstorm.org for my cloud drive. But you have to be relatively technical to do that.

I moved from Proton Pass for password manager to Bitwarden, but Bitwarden has been doing things I dislike. I'm looking for other alternatives.