soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Google Drive: "Your storage is 95+% full!"
Google Drive: "Would you like to empty your trash?"
YES.
Go to Trash
Select all
Google Drive: "There's 3GB of files to delete!"
Delete them!
Google Drive: "You cleaned up 307 MB!!"
WHAT. HOW are you this inept?!?
Stop SLOP - How To Apply SLOP Sign Branding
1. Download SLOP graphic below
2. Open https://www1.lunapic.com/editor/
3. Upload >>> Choose File >>> [your slop imagename] >>> Upload
4. Edit >>> Paste from... >>> Choose File >>> [SLOP Sign filename] >>> Upload >>> Continue on to paste this image >>> place/resize >>> Apply >>> Download now
Thanks to Dave Rahardja @drahardja for the graphics work on the SLOP sign.
Meta is cutting another 8000 jobs, but not before they surveil their employees and use their behaviors for #AI training.
“The company told employees in a memo on Thursday that it planned to cut 10% of its workforce - roughly 8,000 staff. It said it would also not fill thousands more open jobs it had been hiring for.”
“The company just this week informed employees that it would begin tracking and logging their interactions with work computers in order to help train and improve its AI models, a move one employee called "dystopian" given the looming layoffs.”
Helping #SlopLords perfect their #slop so that you can keep your own kids out of the poorhouse for another year, meanwhile guaranteeing that just about everyone's kids will be in the poorhouse in about five years is not the ethical self-defense you think it is.
We all suffer because we esteem our own households to be more important than everyone else's.
Tech workers seriously need a freaking guild, already.
🚀 We just sent a team of humans to the moon and safely home.
Not one bit of generative AI was used or needed.
You don't need it in your office or organization, either.
We can do great things without pillaging public resources and funds for a scam.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NASA #Artemis #moon #genAI #generativeAI #slop
@EUCommission seriously, what's wrong with your Yeyo?
https://gabboman.xyz/fediverse/post/1f02d899-91e2-4a80-a06f-d39ff6602c4c
Just got this from Microslop GitHub:
> We're updating how GitHub uses data to improve AI-powered coding tools. From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.
I barely ever use GitHub. When I do, it's when I am forced to because some project I rely on only uses GitHub.
If you're project is only using GitHub, please consider migrating.
Between age verification law and AI slop, it's very interesting to see big developpers bend the knee to fascists to stay “apolitical”.
Didn't read the news for a week (bc I was returned to office and prefer to sleep more) and reading it now:
— Vim became a LLM slop
— ntfy is a LLM slop now
— systemd is a LLM slop too
What a time to be asleep^Walive
Looks like my passion to the old and simple solutions made a good thing for me. Time to throw the fuck away the ntfy from my server and use SMTP or XMPP for sending alerts to me.
P.S. Hope, the #Emacs itself willn't become a LLM slop oneday. Replacing it will not be so easy as with ntfy replacement.
"Perhaps we already have reached that 'point of no return' at which the pursuit of realism . . . is offering a set of diminishing returns." —Patrick R. Crowley for Artforum https://www.artforum.com/features/patrick-r-crowley-mimesis-1234743983/?src=longreads #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #cloning #realism #slop #essay #longreads
I'd like to leave #Spotify behind. Although they are Swedish and not American, I'm aware that their business model is unsustainable. They pay very little to artists and, run unforgivable ads sometimes, and accept too much #slop.
I tried #Deezer as an alternative, and on a week I used both services, it attempted 20 times more commucation towards data trackers than Spotify. 😨
It's great that my #Fairphone measures and blocks it, but I don't see Deezer as a viable alternative anymore.
We think Merriam-Webster nailed it. Their 2025 word of the year: slop.
CNBC says the choice is another "sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence."
Today in slop: I clicked on a picture of a transputer board in a Facebook group and now in amongst messenger chats with parents and pub groups, Facebook is trying to chat about transputers with me.
Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
#workslop #AI #slop #GenAI #technology #news #TechNews #study