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  1. tridge has written a post about the recent #rsync issues:

    rsync and outrage

    medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and

    pls at least read his post before commenting on this toot
     
     
    like most non-trivial things in life, tech, & especially security, my thoughts on this are… “it’s complicated”
     
     
    I’m only tenuously connected to tridge via the #LinuxConfAU / #EverythingOpen community, but his reputation is the stuff of F/LOSS nerd legend – I was in the room for his #LCA2015 talk in Auckland, Flying with Linux, where he did a live demo of #ArduPilot controlling an RC aircraft in Canberra (AU) with real-time telemetry from the aircraft that was also compiling the Linux kernel while in-flight… 🤯

    YouTube: youtu.be/2Twl2mQAh6g

    LA mirror: mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.

    in the post, tridge argues that he is able to bring his (undisputed) expertise in software design & development to find ways use LLMs (relatively) safely to assist with specific coding tasks. I think that’s probably true, even given the regression bugs introduced in the most recent version of rsync – and it may even be the pragmatic least-worst way for open source maintainers to try to deal with the current deluge of LLM-assisted (or entirely LLM-generated) security reports currently overwhelming many open source projects

    but most software devs are not on tridge’s level, and are already using #LLMs as coding assistants in unsafe and unpredictable ways (or just wholesale vibe-coding things without regard for building guardrails at all)

    tridge also points out that he is technically retired and would rather be out sailing than working on maintaining rsync. a very possible outcome from all this might be that he decides to just… walk away and let others pick up the slack (he did note that the silver lining is that a couple of other experienced devs are – at least for now – working on the project)
     
     
    but even if everyone using LLMs to generate code was supervising it closely with very-experienced-software-design-and-development-level skills (they’re definitely not), I still don’t think that would justify or offset the enormous ethical, environmental, & social issues with the creation & use of LLMs

    like I said, #ItsComplicated 💁‍♀️

  2. @dmandl at the mic, trying to fend off the army of floating lamps.

    Has Dave been incorporated in a Man Ray pre-Great-War Paris photogram, or gotten trapped in a dada faux horror film?

    Best quality at:
    flic.kr/p/2s1ECvo

    @WFMU Fundraising Marathon, Day 8
    (photo tranche 5/?)

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    #wfmu #wfmu2026marathon #radio #freeform #freeformradio #photography #q3mono #davemandl #itscomplicated

  3. My relationship with Bluesky: #ItsComplicated. This was started as a porn alt and only became my sole #SocialMedia when I #QuitFacebook over them nuking my nonbinary and satanisim groups. As a hypnotist, I hate the new TOS. As an invite era user: I am posting through it. I've outlasted worse.

    a blue sky with a butterfly an...

  4. @ThorstenMunk

    Danke für den Hinweis, so dachte ich es bisher auch.

    Aber wenn wir der Webseite von alba.info glauben wollen, dann wohl leider doch nicht. Hier in dieser PDF sind für die Wertstofftonne nur „Zahnpasta-Tuben“, aber keine „Zahnbürsten“ aufgeführt: berlin.alba.info/fileadmin/use

    #itscomplicated 😵‍💫

  5. How 'peaceful' nuclear energy gave us weapons (and still does)
    It's Complicated

    #ItsComplicated - Civil #NuclearPower is thought to be about providing a low carbon energy alternative to fossil fuels, not #NuclearWar. But the closer you look these two industries are intrinsically linked for nuclear-armed countries.

    Jul 24, 2025

    "Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates how the connection between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons spans decades and continents as well as exposes siphoning of public money and the origins of the Iran nuclear program.

    "Nuclear weapons and nuclear power share a common history, similar technologies, skills and research and development. For example, the process of enriching #uranium to make it into fuel for nuclear power stations is also used to make #NuclearWeapons. The UK’s first nuclear power stations were built primarily to provide fissile material for nuclear weapons during the #ColdWar.

    "The development of both the nuclear weapons and nuclear power industries is mutually beneficial. The UK government uses the #HinkleyPoint C nuclear power station to subsidise #Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system, and other nuclear-armed states are also striving to maintain expensive military infrastructures through the civilian industry.

    "After all, the civil nuclear power industry grew out of the #AtomicBomb programme in the 1940s and the 1950s. It was under the misleading slogan of ‘#AtomsForPeace’, that the US exported highly enriched uranium to countries around the world. Many of those countries went on to produce military nuclear weapons."

    youtube.com/watch?v=ymVyBEjZ9z

    #UraniumMining #UraniumEnrichment #NuclearWar #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #NuclearWasteIsToxic #NuclearWasteIsForever

  6. Show of the Day: It’s Complicated

    The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "It’s Complicated," with 2 characters and an overall score of 63.00. - #LWTVsotd #ItsComplicated - lezwatchtv.com/show/its-compli

    lezwatchtv.com/show/its-compli

  7. We’re constantly improving how work packages relate to one another. Starting today, we’re introducing a new relation type: “It’s complicated.”

    OpenProject now supports unclear dependencies and emotional baggage.❤️‍🔥 Because sometimes… the relation really isn’t easy to define.

  8. Btw. Nice insect hotel there DB. I bet this fully compensates the regional diesel multiple units that stand there idling (on the electrified track) about 10 minutes per hour.

    #insects #ItsComplicated #bahn #rail

  9. @silverseasun @SesameSquirrel yup! And tonight we practice for KCO, we should see a performance boost from last night. I'm principal double bass at KCO, Natalie is principal double bass at SSO and we practice together a bit. #iTsComplicated

  10. I sent my UK bestie a pic of me wearing his football team’s ⚽️ beanie on game day. And now I’ve complicated our relationship 🤩
    #penpal #itscomplicated #football #soccer #dejavu

  11. I am going away for the Sexibility festival at Ängsbacka for a week 💚
    I will be flowing in and out of many roles as I have the honor to go there as a workshop leader (ws about safer sex) and assistant 💖

    I will be charging a tent with my lover who I meet at Ängsbacka last year and my partner Purple Tiger is coming with one of my metamours 💗

    Looking forward to a lovely, sexual, intense, complex and wonderful week 💖
    #SexibilityFestival
    #Ängsbacka
    #Polyamory
    #ItsComplicated

  12. Here are some of the hundreds of confiscated yellow-naped Amazon #parrots in #ElSalvador. The government hopes to rehabilitate and release them, but #itscomplicated. A lot of trafficked wildlife are transported through the country due to its major airport and coastal highway.