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- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 2 days ago:
Maybe it’s a coded way of saying “the cognitive traits of sociopaths are what will make you do exceptionally well at Palentir, apply now”.
As if that wasn’t already obvious.
Or just an elaborate cover for a guy who overdid the pre-interview coke dosage.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
I took the question to be “could you currently host fedi servers on the dark web, without any big changes to their code” but yeah I’m sure it’s possible to make it happen, if people wanted to put in the work.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
Not feasible.
Just use an instance that is outside USA and not using a USA hosting company? Half the fediverse uses Hetzner, for example. OVH (French) is another popular provider.
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- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 1 week ago:
I have just added code which makes the instance vote weight visible in the UI - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/04b54e25f44f54420c247152323c90c4a3360a02
You can go to https://piefed.social/instances and check the vote weight of any instance. It’ll be very boring tho because they’re all set to “Votes are weighted at the normal level.” Yes, even lemmy.ml.
- Comment on Does Bonfire have any public instances? 1 week ago:
Not really anything serious.
By poking around https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say “demo and testing instance":
Try:
https://discussions.sciety.org/
It’s kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
The story was invented so people would subscribe to his substack, which exists to promote his company.
We’re being manipulated into sharing made-up rage-bait in order to put money in his pocket.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
The answer to that is literally in the first sentence of the body of the article I linked to.
Cmon, just put in a little bit of effort, please.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
GPTZero is 99% accurate.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
I’ve tested lots and lots of different ones. GPTZero is really good.
If you read the article again, with a critical perspective, I think it will be obvious.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
FYI this article is written with a LLM.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update December 2025 1 week ago:
Any idea why the ram usage is so different between PieFed and Lemmy? e.g. Does your Lemmy graph include postgres while the PieFed one doesn’t?
- Comment on US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' 1 week ago:
lol what if you built a social media platform that has fact-checking links in the sidebar of every page, does that count?
- Comment on Opening the cage: the FSFE flies away from X (Twitter) - FSFE 1 week ago:
@fsfe@mastodon.social if anyone wants to follow them there.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
These two new features have complete API support so I’m hoping the client apps get on board with these quicker than they have been able to in the past.
- Comment on Reminder, you can subscribe/comment/like Peertube channels from PieFed 2 weeks ago:
See also ~peertube@piefed.social
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 2 weeks ago:
one possible explanation for the observed behavior could be that DeepSeek added special steps to its training pipeline that ensured its models would adhere to CCP core values. It seems unlikely that they trained their models to specifically produce insecure code. Rather, it seems plausible that the observed behavior might be an instance of emergent misalignment.4 In short, due to the potential pro-CCP training of the model, it may have unintentionally learned to associate words such as “Falun Gong” or “Uyghurs” with negative characteristics, making it produce negative responses when those words appear in its system prompt. In the present study, these negative associations may have been activated when we added these words into DeepSeek-R1’s system prompt. They caused the model to “behave negatively,” which in this instance was expressed in the form of less secure code.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sync Fediverse contacts to CardDav Account 3 weeks ago:
Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.
And then there’s the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn’t work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 3 weeks ago:
Well said.
- Comment on Gunmen abduct more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in attack on Nigerian Catholic school 3 weeks ago:
the gunmen are mostly former herders who have taken up arms against farming communities after clashes between them over strained resources.
climate change…
- Comment on ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response 4 weeks ago:
Please hurry up and delete your account, I want to test something.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 weeks ago:
I’m mindblown that serious career/business people still post on X. Don’t they seen the brand damage they’re causing to themselves?
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 4 weeks ago:
Thank you Eugen, for everything.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 4 weeks ago:
Groups
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- Comment on Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason 5 weeks ago:
Population growth compounds, though. Once you’ve colonized a million worlds, the next million would come in a fraction of the time of the first million, and the next 2 million in less time than that, then 4 million in the same time as before, etc. Like grains of rice on a chessboard. Totally feasible to fill a galaxy if FTL travel is achieved.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m a flask developer but even so I would use PHP for this. There are a million php-based contact form scripts on the web and configuring caddy to use PHP will be easier than python/flask.
As for the sending email part - don’t run a smtp server locally, too much hassle. Smtp2go has a free tier which will be fine.
- Comment on US judge drops criminal charges against Boeing over 737 MAX 8 crashes 5 weeks ago:
For context, wikipedia says that
In 2021, Boeing recorded $62.3 billion in sales.
If Boeing can’t be held accountable because they also make weapons then perhaps the civilian aircraft manufacturing part of the business needs to be split off into a separate one.
- Comment on Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines 1 month ago:
