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  EDIT: It seems I got things wrong here. I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry for spreading misinfo here, and relieved to hear there wasn't a ToS change. https://mastodon.art/@waynedixon/117509748411999791 *previous message:* If you are a #blender person who has assets, code, extensions on SuperHive (formerly Hive Market), know that there was a terms of service update that gives them permission to sell your work for training to LLM companies. You can opt out, but it's hidden, and th...

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  when's the next big market crash coming

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  Dangerous knowledge: I have figured out how to make dulce de leche in the microwave

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  best texture coordinate space

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  OH MY GOD I realized why the vibecoder software can be "like a home cooked meal" bothers me so much https://bradfrost.com/links/post/an-app-can-be-a-home-cooked-meal/ IT'S THE STEAMED HAMS SKETCH Someone says they're making you a home cooked meal and then they plop a Krusty Burger on your plate and call it a family recipe they made themselves

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  The Woolly Mammoth Billionaire’s New Startup Is Genetically Engineering War Dogs For The Military https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2026/10/22/the-woolly-mammoth-billionaires-new-startup-is-genetically-engineering-war-dogs-for-the-military/ Copying all the villain plots from every pulp scifi movie and then crying myself to sleep on my pile of money like "why is everyone making fun of me? why are they so mad at me"

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  I have spent a lot of my career trying to reduce barriers to participation But removing barriers to participation and removing participation itself are, to me, two different things

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  Some spam bot posted on the r/lisp subreddit that they made Terminal Phase, a space shooter that runs in your terminal... https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1xcdfvi/i_made_a_space_shooter_that_runs_in_your_terminal/ Except I made that, years ago! https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-prototype/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-1.0/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/goblins-time-travel-micropreview/ https://codeberg.org/spritely/terminal-phase I don't have a reddit account anym...

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  In an interesting moment to watch, legally: https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/ I'm not a fan of / don't respect vibecoding, but I *am* a fan of jailbreaking devices and *legalizing* decompiling (notably, the decompiling work that's interesting is not happening by vibecoders though). It's an interesting moment because previously corporations have been in the "we can do whatever we want because we're exploiting the commons"...

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  So how many FOSS orgs are choosing to not use genAI at all? Obviously I know @spritely@social.coop takes that stance, because I work there. But who else? Godot, maybe? (They played with it for a bit then enacted a policy against it, IIRC.) The Document Foundation, though I am not sure by what degree? Zig, certainly. But who else? The room seems to be shrinking, alas :\

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  The one and only Kenney https://bsky.app/profile/kenney.nl/post/3my7q27m4gk26 > Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever. My hero, making well loved free culture assets slop free for ages which nearly everyone in gamedev at some point use, literally speaking truth to power

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  There are no instances in ActivityPub either. There's only actors. The instance'ification came outside of the work on the spec, though it did start with the particular shape of how sharedInbox was defined. I wish I had pushed harder for sharedInbox to retain the actor-like properties I believed were important, rather than the implicit-routing that Mastodon pushed for. My biggest regret. Nonetheless, even then, there's still no "instance" in AP, in terms of the spec. In te...

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  Hack & Craft, our online crafting and coding circle! Today from 14:00-16:00 ET (18:00-20:00 UTC)! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/ I'll be working on doing "set design" in Blender!

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  Huge news! End-to-end-encrypted relays (via the Noise protocol) comes to Spritely Goblins and OCapN! https://spritely.institute/news/end-to-end-encrypted-relays-for-ocapn.html Relays are federated (there is no "official relay", you can easily run your own) but also oblivious, and merely manage routing encrypted messages. A big milestone! #spritely #ocapn #goblins #guile

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  We now note that that we do not waive our attribution requirements for Spritely Goblins, which are present in Apache v2 (and for that matter, CC BY, CC BY-SA, and most FOSS licenses) https://codeberg.org/spritely/goblins/pulls/998/files So if you train on our codebase, you have to retain attribution, which we consider the most important requirement to motivate development of technology in the commons. If, somehow, you are using a statistical soup which has no way to preserve attribution, well,...

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  Blender has a community survey out, about several important topics (including AI usage, project prioritization, etc). Worth filling out if you're a user! https://www.blender.org/news/blender-survey-2026/

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  when's the last time you ran a backup

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  Perhaps I could have gotten a laptop with a beefier GPU; my intel integrated GPU is *sweating* trying to render some of these scenes in Blender. But it's doing it. I kinda have this vague opinion that it's good to not have to rely on "top end" hardware, that doing so puts you in a position of building or using or advocating for tech that many people can't access

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  your password must contain at least twelve letters, three numbers, two special case characters (but not too special), and seven extremely un-special riciculeable "mid" characters

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  One of the top threads on the ClaudeAI subreddit right now: "I am done with this shit" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/ Curious to see just how much of the thread on a quite pro-genAI subreddit is people commiserating on the exhaustion of their work turning primarily into tedium and poor engineering. Bonus in that the Claude AI summary bot in the thread says: > The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You're not an engineer anymore, you're a...

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  I get so stressed about paperwork. Way more than most people. Way more than makes sense

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  please copy that floppy we really need the information on it future generations will thank u -- digital librarian friend

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  Hack & Craft! Today from 2-4 ET (18:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring a craft project, bring a coding project! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/ As for me, I'm going to try to figure out how to make this grass I am working on in Blender better. But also when I took a screenshot of it, somehow that screenshot corrupted in the most beautiful way. Rather than show you my visible WIP grass screenshot, I'm going to share this corrupted screenshot because it looks kinda beautiful

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  So: you started vibecoding your FOSS project? And now you don't really understand your codebase anymore *without* asking agents what's happening? And you basically outsourced all your favorite part of your passion project to managing a robot that doesn't care? And you're more burnt out than ever? I have to say that it's very difficult for me to feel sympathy for this. I see more people reporting on this, but it feels fairly predictable. But it also feels like it was clearly...

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  A decade ago: someone on your timeline is telling you not to be worried about advancements in AI because it was going to result in fully automated gay luxury space communism. You ask them how we are going to switch to that from capitalism by using capitalism to do it and they link you to an article about UBI. Don't worry about it, you're going to have time to work on your code and art finally Today that person is either fully disillusioned with all of it or is working at Anthropic

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  Everything that makes you cool and part of youth culture eventually makes you cringe and part of old culture But trying to be "hip" and "with it" is the biggest cringe of all

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  A friend pointed out something about the "Little Weird Guys in FOSS" list that was bothering me but I hadn't articulated: lots of queer people describe themselves as "weird", and lots of transmascs who didn't get T until after puberty self describe as "weird little guys" in a charming way. So if you are such a person and are like "why the hell is my self-descriptor being used with a list of people like, Eric Raymond," I just want to say... From a...

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  the reason people bedazzle clothes is because they learned from RPGs that wearing shinier clothing makes them more powerful

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  It's pretty simple. You're hearing "We're so scared of the AIs, we need to reign them in" from the very US companies building and selling them for two reasons: - They're about to IPO, and it's amazing marketing for them - They want a regulatory moat, since they're deeply worried about the open weight LLMs. They want everyone dependent on this tech and to be *the only ones legally permitted to dispense it*.

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  A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics https://mathandai.org/ A very powerful open letter, signed by 25 leading mathematicians (all Fields Medalists), on the ways AI corporations rushing to complete problems has been harmful, and the way LLM usage threatens the fruit from the work that grows out mathematical research.