As someone in a community impacted by the deluge of AI slop projects…good. These are good policies, the overwhelming amount of crap being churned out makes sifting through it as a human, untenable; the only sane solution is to restrict it and ban the peddlers.

Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers

Are PDF viewers a common student project? I always assumed the file standard must be a labyrinthine mess given all the features they’ve crammed into it over the years. Or is there some popular library that takes 99% of the work out of it?

@josephcox this company is defending trump anyways

Good. Fuck AI. It’s this scorched earth approach that has a remote chance of doing something that might make a difference if more people got involved.

@futzle Are the Australians best at growing Irish potatoes?
They are the ones through which chips are fried

TIL that Harry Kane is that guy standing next to 3rd time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas, who also won back-to-back UEFA Women's Player of the Year awards, internationally has represented Spain extensively, winning the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and both 2024 and 2025 UEFA Nations League :)

@briankrebs im sorry for your loss

Meanwhile on reddit.

Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods like Jordan Lund tho…

To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren’t welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.

That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they’re its sole contributor.

The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

@neil yeah wife's Fairphone 3 has run out of security updates so time for me to upgrade and pass on my Fairphone 4 to her. The 3 can then be upgraded to E OS and then the kids won't need to borrow mine.

@georgetakei "Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory." RIP Walter.

Imagine the possibilities.

Hyperland
~ Douglas Adams (1990)
[48min YouTube video]
https://youtu.be/5nOXGYxHVFI

@Vonskinnback @ozzelot

> so you find that the compute is still locked out

No - not me.

I think that was someone else's comment.

@slowe you can switch to variable Direct Debit if you have a smart meter. That's what I do on Octopus. That way I don't have a built up credit with them.

Doesn't work if you're on a fixed budget and/or want the certainty of knowing what your monthly bill will be.

Nah, it’s a pretty popular meme in Marxist circles making fun of reformism. Here’s an example:

@puniko we gotta power from oppai

@puniko we gotta power from oppai

23 November 2003. Bologna. Sunday, late afternoon.

I've just returned to my university apartment after spending the weekend with my parents. The bed beside mine is covered with clothes, bags, and all sorts of things I probably should put away. But apparently, taking a picture is more important.

There's my Nokia 7110, next to the remote control of a 14-inch Sony TV from 1987. A bottle of water, a TuttoCittà (the Google Maps of those days, on paper), some magazines, and a few other things I can barely recognise today. And the iMac keyboard and mouse box, of course. It's been there for years. Don't ask me why.

I wonder why I took this picture. I probably had no particular reason. Maybe I was just playing with my digital camera.

Or maybe I do know.

Maybe I could sense that something was about to change. Maybe everything, maybe nothing. As it turned out, that would be my last winter in that apartment. Perhaps I already knew, somehow, and, as I've always done, I wanted to capture even something as ordinary as my own mess.

Right there, in that room I'd lived in and loved for five years.

In a few weeks I'll graduate. I know that, of course, but I have absolutely no idea what life has in store for me. Right now, it's just another Sunday evening, in my room, surrounded by my things. Tomorrow will be Monday, and life will go on.

Almost 23 years later, I find this picture and smile.

I remember that room. I remember the TV, the phone, the bed, and the feeling of having a little place of my own. I remember being young, having dreams, making plans, and sometimes having no plans at all.

So much has happened since then. People I've met, places I've seen, things I've built, mistakes I've made. I wouldn't trade the life I've had for the chance to go back.

But looking at this picture, I realise that sometimes I'd love to spend just one more Sunday evening in that room. Not to change anything, and certainly not to tell my younger self what will happen.

Or maybe just a little. Something like: "Yes, printing that FreeBSD Handbook was a great idea. And believing in Open Source was the right thing to do."

Or maybe just to be there, for a little while, and breathe in the smell of that room. Of that time. Of that... me.

Even with all that mess.

#Memories #ThrowBack #TimeFlies #TimeReallyFlies

@fesshole You're not supposed to do Carol while at a weight loss meeting, you know that?