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Cynthia 🐈
Cynthia 🐈
@cynthia.dev
24f. Computer scientist catgirl. Software efficiency, robustness, accessibility and sustainability advocate. Against generative AI. Addicted to coffee and cookies. 📍 Toulouse, France
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I expect lots of lower level staff and reporters will face the brunt of this while Allister Heath writes columns about how anyone trying to resist a takeover by our AI overlords is suffering from the woke brain disease
Full story: The Telegraph is making up to 100 job cuts as it cites an ambition to transform into a “global, AI-powered” business, almost four months after its takeover by Axel Springer pressgazette.co.uk/news/telegra...
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
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Replying to @adamatomic.bsky.social
All LLM use is predicated on egotism and disrespect for the disciplines of others, and it's infuriating. Authors disrespecting artists, artists disrespecting composers, composers disrespecting lyricists. Creativity in all its forms is a goddamn miracle, and we ought to acknowledge it.
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Replying to @adamatomic.bsky.social
Yeah it's my biggest frustration in life right now honestly. I've been unemployed for two years now, because I'm not willing to use LLMs because I genuinely like the whole process of programming and don't want to give it up. The fact people believe code isn't worth protecting is heartbreaking.
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Replying to @osaka.zone
imagine we genie wish a flag onto mars that didn't improve space-fairing, or engineering, or culture or economics and noone was employed and no humans grew it takes a very special kind of ignorance to think the flag is the sole point the flag itself is just symbolic of the work
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Replying to @freya.bsky.social
automation is supposed to target things people within any given craft consider rote and tedious, things that have almost no creative agency but when you automate things those within the craft love doing, that help us grow as artists/thinkers/designers, you're removing humanity from the craft
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Heartbreaking Internet news: Internet-Draft Meow (draft-meow-mrrp-00) expired today. 😔 datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-me...
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First significant contribution to Arch Linux: `intellij-idea-community-edition` is now `intellij-idea-oss` per JetBrains's distribution and branding changes 😀 archlinux.org/packages/ext...
upm is now available on the Arch User Repository :) aur.archlinux.org/packages/upm
Introducing 📦upm: 🪶A fast, tiny package manager for the npm registry. ✨Written in TypeScript, it installs at native-class speed and has a JS API, at a fraction of the size of native tools. 🤝Compatible with your existing .npmrc and lockfiles. 👉 Try at upm.sh
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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Introducing 📦upm: 🪶A fast, tiny package manager for the npm registry. ✨Written in TypeScript, it installs at native-class speed and has a JS API, at a fraction of the size of native tools. 🤝Compatible with your existing .npmrc and lockfiles. 👉 Try at upm.sh
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The organization that governs the PLC Directory now formally exists as a registered Swiss Association and has taken the first steps towards being able to independently operate the directory. blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227