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@neartothesky

Red dragon, software engineer and fearless blogger, working for vivaldi.com. I am active here, but my main presence is https://social.vivaldi.net/@NearToTheSky

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 👍 3734 🔁 1485 💬 8 📌 220

weird queers need to figure out how to make a bank. I know this has a level of complexity that I can't even begin to comprehend, but if I'm fully just dreaming that seems like the only way to fight payment processors as an othering / dividing / censoring force.

11.03.2026 04:29 👍 62 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

When people in power talk about the economy, they mean their economy. Not ours.

09.03.2026 21:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Ensh*ttificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

The Enshittificator - a Norwegian documentary about the life of an Enshittificator and how the Internet and AI has enhanced his productivity. vimeo.com/1168468796

04.03.2026 12:33 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
A dragoness with orange scales sits on a grassy hill and looks into the distance at the mountains. The evening sky, a full moon rises above the mountains

#runasolarisart

A dragoness with orange scales sits on a grassy hill and looks into the distance at the mountains. The evening sky, a full moon rises above the mountains #runasolarisart

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03.03.2026 19:15 👍 2892 🔁 900 💬 20 📌 1
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The evolution of Life Below🪼🫧 from idea to (almost) finished game! Want to give it a wishlist? Here is the link: store.steampowered.com/app/2932150/...

02.03.2026 11:34 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

28.02.2026 09:54 👍 4082 🔁 2010 💬 29 📌 27

He's staying at our place

26.02.2026 13:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Now that AI can take care of online exploration for you, you don’t need your brain anymore! 🧠

As a preventative measure, make sure you store it properly. Get your brainsoaker today at brainsoaker.com (brain not included)

19.02.2026 14:53 👍 67 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 3

The doggolympics

18.02.2026 23:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This may end up being a massive own goal for the Trump administration.

17.02.2026 23:15 👍 2763 🔁 556 💬 75 📌 86
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NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality."
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Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

12.02.2026 16:06 👍 9896 🔁 2882 💬 58 📌 170

Having a chat with a coworke about generative AI (while waiting for another group to get their work done so we can do something today), and the accidental banger of "About the only thing current 'AI' generates for me is disappointment" has been instantly burned into my vocabulary.

11.02.2026 17:48 👍 202 🔁 69 💬 6 📌 0

The answer to this should be 'don't care' and to keep hammering them until they cease this shit entirely.

11.02.2026 08:19 👍 1865 🔁 1208 💬 5 📌 0

Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately
Cancel your Nitro immediately

09.02.2026 16:20 👍 588 🔁 322 💬 12 📌 2
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The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!

01.02.2026 23:34 👍 648 🔁 772 💬 7 📌 28
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ now allows you to contact all members of the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) with a single click.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ now allows you to contact all members of the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) with a single click.

The European Commission continues to push to extend Chat Control 1.0, threatening your fundamental right to privacy. MEPs on the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) need to hear from you directly: fightchatcontrol.eu now allows you to contact them all at once. Speak up today!

02.02.2026 23:24 👍 203 🔁 223 💬 0 📌 9

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

30.01.2026 23:47 👍 1320 🔁 620 💬 35 📌 64

This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025.

Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.

30.01.2026 01:24 👍 591 🔁 258 💬 1 📌 18
An original bronze dragon from the Dungeons and Dragons TTRPG game that is a sona/character belonging to Setrahn. The dragon is in a backwards free fall during a noon flight as they show off their acrobatic skills and abilities.

An original bronze dragon from the Dungeons and Dragons TTRPG game that is a sona/character belonging to Setrahn. The dragon is in a backwards free fall during a noon flight as they show off their acrobatic skills and abilities.

Bronze Flight 🐉🪙
Speedpaint commission for Setrahn

27.01.2026 23:34 👍 419 🔁 146 💬 7 📌 0

As for potential hardware issues, I check the usual:
-RAM tests
-CPU temps
-PSU voltages under load
-Disk SMART self-tests
Any of those coming up bad could explain this.

22.01.2026 09:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My guess is that the game had nothing to do with it. Not much to go from, but to me it sounds like either some hardware gone flaky or you've got some deeply-rooted malware.

At any rate, transplanting the registry could cause you trouble down the line. You should probably reinstall Windows.

22.01.2026 08:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Awakening by Draco_Cretel - SoFurry Otters rule the planet and control the region of space with an iron paw. In their ever expanding empire they had captured a tribe of dragons, forcing them into slavery. Ison is a dragon trapped on thi...

The first chapter of my dragon book.
On SF: sofurry.com/s/mW3K5BJm
Also on FA: www.furaffinity.net/view/63704092/

18.01.2026 22:48 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

What do you mean you can't really draw? If you made that, then you certainly can.

And yes, do practice more ^_^

18.01.2026 09:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If someone claimed to come from two weeks into the future and told me that Minnesota just seceded from the Union… I’d believe them.

16.01.2026 15:30 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I need to know if Americans in general understand this, because Europeans 💯 understand this.

11.01.2026 09:17 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
European Commission - Have your say European Commission - Have your say

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. If you're a European hippie communist, you can provide input:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... for details on how to contribute.

07.01.2026 14:15 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, the French word "Borné" means both "Delimited" or "Narrow Minded"

05.01.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We need to instill a fundamental mistrust of computers in humans.

30.12.2025 16:01 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“I am an AI hater” amazingly written

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

29.12.2025 14:02 👍 3457 🔁 1532 💬 13 📌 26