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Aks
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@aks@social.akselmo.dev
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About aks

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https://akselmo.dev
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any, he/they

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Pan/enby lizard guy from Finland.
KDE Dev by day, whatever-random-stuff dev by night.
I like FPS and RPG games, and enjoy metal/EBM music.

I am very strict about who is allowed to follow me.
If I do not know you, don't expect the follow request to be accepted.

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Aks , @aks
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Boost of @vmaderna@mastodon.art
Aks , @aks
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Boost of @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
abadidea , @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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⚠️ There is a nationwide public transportation strike tomorrow, 9th September, in the Netherlands. ⚠️ This applies to intercity trains, to all local methods in Amsterdam, and probably also the local methods in other major cities. They are protesting social security cuts.

If you have a flight departing Schiphol tomorrow, go get a hotel near the airport ⚠️TONIGHT.⚠️

The only train in the country will be the one between the stations of Amsterdam Centraal, Schiphol Airport and Hoofddorp.

Kindly do not reply to me as if I am in charge of Dutch public transportation, I am in fact just a rando on the internet who thought you might like to know this before it's too late.

#netherlands #amsterdam #schiphol #travel

Aks , @aks
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Boost of @intransitivelie@beige.party
Ritalin Invitees , @intransitivelie@beige.party
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I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

Aks , @aks
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Boost of @thygrrr@tiggi.es
tiger tiger tiger , @thygrrr@tiggi.es
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How did you get your #gender?

Poll open until , 2719 votes so far
  • Option 1, factory default
    37.96% , 1032 votes
  • Option 2, bought it
    0.63% , 17 votes
  • Option 3, pirated it
    6.99% , 190 votes
  • Option 4, wrote my own
    9.16% , 249 votes
  • Option 5, copied a friend's
    4.08% , 111 votes
  • Option 6, malware
    2.91% , 79 votes
  • Option 7, data corruption
    7.47% , 203 votes
  • Option 8, uninstalled (it was bloat)
    10.15% , 276 votes
  • Option 9, system update
    3.90% , 106 votes
  • Option 10, work/government issued
    2.35% , 64 votes
  • Option 11, dynamically assigned on boot
    5.99% , 163 votes
  • Option 12, found it on a random volume
    2.54% , 69 votes
  • Option 13, /dev/urandom
    2.10% , 57 votes
  • Option 14, diffie-hellmann gender exchange
    3.79% , 103 votes
Aks , @aks
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Boost of @eliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Xamanismo Coletivo , @eliasulrich@hachyderm.io
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#Harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #CognitiveVirus”

"Think about how a #virus operates:

It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.

An #LLM cannot execute, compute, or spread on its own. It requires human cognition, human servers, and human networks to propagate.

The virus infects the host's internal processes to rewrite behavior in its own favor.

And #LLMs do precisely the same thing to #humanthinking."

arxiv.org/html/2609.03344v1

 Abstract Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in. A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility. Our results highlight how LLM adoption may involve nonlinear collective transitions with important consequences for cognitive autonomy.
Aks , @aks
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Boost of @gumnos@bsd.cafe
Tim Chase , @gumnos@bsd.cafe
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I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

Aks , @aks
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Boost of @theprotagonists.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
TheProtagonists , @theprotagonists.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Are you having fun? You shouldn't because the only things that matter are SPEED. EFFICIENCY. PRODUCTIVITY. GROWTH. If you are having fun you are being left behind. Don't you want to move fast and be productive always? YoU DOn'T wANt tO bE LEfT bEHInD dO YOu? aREn'T yOu sCArED oF bEiNG LeFt BeHiND

Aks , @aks
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Boost of @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
internetarchive , @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
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If you see something, save something.

Web pages disappear every day. 🕳️ They change, move, get deleted—or simply get forgotten.

Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears.

See something worth keeping?

Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/

#ToolsYouCanUse

 Cream graph-paper graphic with a decorative yellow line-art path and "save" wordmark, plus a yellow ">" chevron tagline reading "tools you can use." Bold black text reads "Save Page Now." Below, a yellow folder icon with the Internet Archive logo and white text: "If you see something, save something."
Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."
Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.
Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."