I once read a 70s #environment -alist #scifi #horror comic where humanity had grown to such an enormous size that animals had become rare. Even dogs were on the brink of extinction. The main character eventually offered himself as a lab animal rather than remain complicit.

The scenario was of […]

@mrundkvist
Were it not the case that dogs, pigs, cows, etc. were considered valuable to humans, they likely would be endangered.

Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/opinion/ai-companies-liability-laws.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlE.nGSh.RGDWUe0tW3Os&smid=url-share

if you use Forgejo and would like more CI resources than Codeberg provides (or just don't want to run your own CI): I would like to onboard a few more people/projects to https://felinebuildservices.org/

#meme #memes

@brouhaha Do your worst!

@futurebird
Altair 8800

@atax1a
No, we're already up to trile.

@darius
If other people steal my code without license and attribution, via the Plagiarism Machines, I'll be unhappy, but it doesn't seem like I can do anything, and it doesn't dissuade me from writing even more software.
So it goes.
I am NOT criticizing anyone else's choices. If the so-called […]

@darius
I don't want the software I write on my own (not for hire) to be used as input to the Stochastic Parrots, but knowing that it will be has not (yet?) dissuaded me from continuing to write it. For me, the writing satisfies an itch, and I don't know of any alternative.
I tend to write […]

https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island

Good post that gets into the futility I feel when I try to do something creative online anymore. I'm less and less motivated to do things like write a blog or build software tools. I've found myself without much of a creative community since 2020 […]

@glyph

And we do not have to have the same goals or paths that corporations have.

But what is your (our) vision for the world we want to live in, to create our own shit in?

Keep in mind that you will not get support from people and orgs on conventional paths. They'll think you're wrong or […]

@tomjennings @glyph @darius @jalefkowit
Whether 8-bitters were "real computers" was, other than in a purely technical sense, a value judgement, so they weren't necessarily wrong there.
Whether 8-bitters would "amount to anything" was a prediction, and they quite obviously were entirely wrong […]

@fay59
That could be either good or bad! There's probably no in-between. It's nice to see from your follow-up that it was good.