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The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")
There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.
EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.
Sometimes I do wonder if the only ethical thing let to do is to delete all your projects, and do your best to have them disappear from public space. Of course, that won't stop people from making your complicit in their acts of planetary destruction entirely, but at least you're trying…
And that's coming from me, a person who considers destroying knowledge and craft an unthinkable crime.
There's a new meat eating hype. Meat companies are telling everyone people would have more energy if they only ate more meat. Employers are getting huge meat lunches for their employees and expecting a productivity boost. Against their better judgement, employees are stuffing themselves with loads of meat and struggling to work. But eventually, they figure out how to eat more and be more productive. In the meantime, a lot of people (including meat eaters) are crying over the obvious climate and health harm, both from increased meat consumption and from increased waste as people throw away even more food.
Meat eaters now put up a big banners of what meat they like, and invite others to join them with meat. More people are becoming vocally vegan, or at least trying to limit their meat consumption. Some also put "vegan" or even more aggressive "no meat allowed" signs.
Some meat eaters think it's fine to bring offering of meat to a stranger if they didn't put up an explicit "vegan" sign yet. "I won't get offensed, I'll just throw it in the trash", they say. Some go even further and try to trick you by saying it's actually a vegan meat-lookalike.
Our marketing department is slightly borked. We are experimenting. Is this too much? Let us know, we'll tune down 
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Title: Signal (1962)
Artist: Kiyoshi Saito
https://www.wcel.org/media-release/no-pipelines-not-here-or-anywhere-120-organizations-across-country-and-multiple-mps #ShinHanga #Art #SosakuHanga #NoAi #Showa #KiyoshiSaito #Japan #Mood
Ich gebe ja im Internet nicht gerne zu viel persönliches über mich preis.
Wenn du aber doch ein bisschen mehr über mich und meine Malerei erfahren möchtest, schau dir doch mal das Interview von Art Heroes mit mir an.
Du findest es hier: https://www.artheroes.de/de/inspiration-ideen/karen-kaspar-12518573
#artist #art #MastoArt #painting #cats #birds #CatsOfMastodon #nature #interview #color #handmade #kunst #giftideas #noAI
Congratulations. Now I'm actively worried to open a PR fixing my issue, because there's already been a few #slop PRs opened attempting to fix it. And I'm literally worried that mine would be taken as another slop PR…
I need ONE thing that I cannot do myself:
1- a DJ to make the 6 tracks into one seamless play (found!)
2- someone to master these tracks (found!)
This is the ONE thing we need:
3- a website that will kill ai, I don’t want my voice cloned and I want to poison any LLM that tries
I valued my goose today by logging off and working on the Lotus album, 6 edm tracks with 5 producers (two from fedi!!) designed to return us to our true value, our true seed of creation based on the Lotus Sutra taught by Buddha using the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum. I’m feeling much more hopeful after doing the listening and the work. It’s deep, meditative and also very dance worthy. #noai #humanmade #musicproduction #music #edm
Human translators manage good #translation because they comprehend the original text, know its intricacies and can actually creatively write to preserve its gist. Context is more than the surrounding paragraphs: it includes the cultural and social background, other books, etc. Sometimes it literally involves getting hints from the author. And in the end, it is deeply personal. It can't be "accurate", because no two people are the same, and no two languages map 1:1 (though the interpretation will also differ between different users of the same language); the best you can do is add translator's notes.
LLM translators manage good translation because they've been fed tons of human translation work, and quite often they manage to match an original human translation and plagiarize it. They may even seem better because they seem to manage it without sufficient context, but that's only because they've found a human translation that had that context already.
Or, well, technically they can also regurgitate something that makes sense only in the irrelevant original context.
Ahem.
If you'd prefer search results without the AI slop, https://lantern.co.im is open to all -- SearXNG, self-hosted, no tracking, Isle of Man jurisdiction. #DigitalIndependence #SelfHosted #NoAI
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Stickerum/116575084364177852
Just ordered a dozen of these and 3 of the pins. :3
I was struck (not in a good way) by this post.
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116776799630752498
During a layoff, years ago, I helped folks update their resumés. I was appalled: the men's were like "I invented the laser" (not true) & the women's were tentative & self-effacing.
Now, for our stressed, unemployed colleagues, LLMs elevate this "average behaviour" to best practice?
Misogyny is *embedded* in the tool. It's been trained (by humans) on all the evidence of our societal dysfunctions & inequalities. #noAI
🤬🤬🤬
If you hit a writer's block, it's because you don't know something. Learn something!
And don't for the love of god try to fix it by using a fucking #LLM
When you're building software aimed at a niche related to hype, the only thing you can do is hook people onto it. I mean, you're targeting the kind people who have an attention span of a fruit fly. Unless they're literally addicted to your software, they're going to forget it as soon as they notice the next shiny thing.
Some people think that #LLM usage costs rising will start undoing some of the harm caused by the #AI hype. I don't think that's really going to help that much.
I'm not even talking about all the projects that were ensloppified and enshittified already. I'm not talking about all the technical debt. I'm not talking about all the forks that will have to be maintained forever. I'm not talking of all the projects that were abandoned because of burnout, or because they were only hype-oriented. And I'm not talking about all the corporations that will continue submitting slop.
I'm talking about the loss of trust. After all, we're not talking of people who realized they were wrong and are sorry. We're not talking of people realizing that it was wrong to forfeit ethics and morals in the name of "productivity". We're talking of people who are jumping ships because their previous approach turned out not to be profitable anymore. We're talking of gamblers who left the casino because they went broke. They aren't sorry that they gambled; they are sorry that they've lost. And they'd be happy to do it again at the nearest opportunity.
So, I'm sorry to say, but #FreeSoftware is never going to be the same again. A lot of people have shown their true colors, and I won't forget that.
Given these days you can't even expect #Gentoo contributors to be respectable, I'm working on adding a git hook that rejects commits with #LLM attribution. Could you help me find all the common patterns used to mark LLM-assisted #git commits?
So far I'm checking for author and Co-authored-by using the following e-mail patterns:
• copilot@github.com
• *@anthropic.com
• claude@users.noreply.github.com
• *+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@openai.com
• *+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@cursor.com
• *@x.ai
• *@google.com
I think some people came up with some other tags to mark LLM commits but can't find that right now.
EDIT: added Assisted-by.
IMPORTANT: For LinkTree users!
The new Terms of Service say that LinkTree will have rights to all content you post, royalty free, and can make derivative works, for perpetuity, including your likeness.
This means that if you have a selfie posted on LinkTree, they can use #AI to make deepfakes of you saying whatever they want.
Delete your account before July 5th!
Computers used to be fun. I used to use Windows 9x, and it was unstable as hell, and you kept having to lean over backwards to get things to work. Then I used bleeding edge Linux, and at some point I've ended up running pure framebuffer tty for months because X11 was broken. But despite all the breakage (or maybe even because of it), it was fun. It was fun because random accidental breakage was the worst you could expect.
Nowadays, accidental breakage is rare. Things are relatively stable. However, every step of the way you have to watch out for bad actors. No, not criminals, they are rare. Evil corporations who are looking at every opportunity to fuck you up. Using computer is no longer fun, it's no longer a tool that helps you, and it's no longer your choice. You are forced to use it, and if you don't want to be hurt every step of the way, you have to spend all the effort on fighting back. And you're fucked up anyway, because even if you manage, your family and all the people around you won't care and will let their devices, their computers and their smartphones fuck you up.
I've started using FLOSS so many years ago, for the trivial reason that I didn't want to pay for software. I stayed because I enjoyed doing it. And I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to contribute positively to the world. Even if in a little way, but I wanted to be able to say that as much harm I've done to the planet, there's at least something positive to balance it out.
But nowadays I hate FLOSS. It's been overrun by the worst people in the world. The people who aren't happy with just fucking you up. They want everyone to keep fucking everyone up. It's the kind of horror where whatever you do, it turns out you're causing harm.
I don't trust my #Gentoo #packaging work anymore. So much of the software I touch turns out to be #slop. When I file a pull request, I'm worried it will trigger #LLM reviews. When I file a bug, I'm worried it will trigger LLM responses. And today, I've learned that my old bug report to a #NoAI project resulted in a dozen slop pull requests already. Whatever you do, #AI folks smile and tell you "see, you fucked up the world even more after all".
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I hate all of this so much. But even if I managed to figure out something else to do for a living, I can't escape computers. And if I stop doing them, if I stop fighting them, I will only end up being fucked up more.
So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.
Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html
Oh yes, the brave new world:
https://github.com/pallets/click/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+ai+spam
Honestly, at this point I'm starting to consider whether I should be filing bug reports at all, given that every one of them is likely to trigger a flood of LLM junk.
Title: Moon Over Lakeside (1935)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://miyamanavi.com/en/column/vol2_en #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #NoAi #HasuiKawase #Summer #Moon #FullMoon #Japan
@moses_izumi @hikari @AnachronistJohn
#NetBSD definitely deserves some love for being one of the very few, and perhaps the most featureful Operating Systems that has a strong #NOAi stance.❤️🔥
I definitely want to start supporting them. I need to get on that.
Currently compiling vim-classic-v8.3.0... #NoSlop #NoAI #AInt — #microblogging #MicroToot: 61 characters