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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I have come out of a long day of meetings to say farewell to geology. Sorta.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/03/a-seismic-change/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
RJK@theforkiverse.com ("LetTheSkyRainPotatoes") wrote:

@fromjason The Lonely Island has a semicolon take. Language warning, just in case anyone would like a language warning.

https://youtu.be/M94ii6MVilw?si=BeIK2gCn613ChgLc

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason “You will own nothing and be happy”, but like, for realsies :(

Boosted by jwz:
froztbyte ("JP") wrote:

oh noes! I've been blocked by the point-evading poster that runs @firefoxwebdevs!

after trying (rather gently) to try highlight to them that their continued evasion irks a lot of fedi users (many of whom are keenly aware of the patterns of abuse), they went "...who? me?!"

then I posted "hmm, your sudden silence (while posting elsewhere) kinda speaks loudly"

they *huffily* replied

3 toots later I'm blocked!

oh woe is me, whatsoever shall I do

the thread's up in public, feel free to check

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

If you use the social.lol web client and enjoy the delightful Tangerine UI theme, consider taking a moment to show your support for @nileane here: https://ko-fi.com/nileane

Niléane always keeps Tangerine UI up to date with the latest Mastodon updates, and the theme makes Mastodon a joy to use. I’ll keep supporting her work myself, but if you enjoy it too you could totally buy her a coffee (or five). :prami_hearts_red:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

WELCOME TRAVELERS. The gate looks quite omnious and gothic. But it's just a hardware store junk yard :-)

#darktable #photography

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
amuse@infosec.exchange ("Matt Linton :donor:") wrote:

What bugs me about the "voice" of AI-assisted writing: I think LLMs are like autotune. If someone's already skilled, the AI is fixing an occasional pitch but otherwise invisible. When folks let the AI do *all* the lifting, it's unpleasantly machine-like to take in.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

i now view nearly all digital ads and sponsored content as some mix of cheating and manipulation and treat it as an ethical gaffe to click or even offer my attention to them.

jwz wrote:

"Oh no. Anyway"

Hi yesthatjwz,

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Man, even the snow looks tired of this shit

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

Finally, we have a proper journal paper about Spade 🎉!

It is a pretty complete description of the current state of the language, but I'm honestly more excited about the way we managed to argue for having a new HDL at Spade's abstraction level, roughly RTL but with zero cost abstractions on top

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3793550

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

Omg.lol is a suite of digital trinkets and oddities. It's hard to categorize what OmgLoL is because it's not like anything on the web.

But if you love to tinker, and you're looking to establish a digital identity on the open web, I'd check it out.

BTW, OmgLoL is our digital home!

https://home.omg.lol/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

A laptop covered in stickers sat across from me. Naturally, I complimented the person sitting in front of it. I love a good sticker collage.

But then, I did something I normally wouldn't do.

I recommended a website to that person, a human, existing in the real world with me. Words formed from my mouth. I shared my phone with her and she typed in the web address into her computer.

It's a website where you can upload a photo of your stickered laptop!

Not to get melodramatic, but maybe that's what it's all about. Showing people in the real world what the other side of the digital world is like. Little by little. Idk.

It felt like something.

https://stickertop.art/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
hi_cial@donphan.social ("Keeper of the orb") wrote:

@fromjason people think of massachusetts as a liberal bastion, first to legalize gay marriage. in the 1970s towns were voting not to allow black residents.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Strausss ("DStrausss") wrote:

*Brand New* YouTube Short!!
"The LGP-30: a von Neumann computer in 113 tubes - 60'000'000 nm processor technology "

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

https://youtu.be/ZksfFeavrv4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A quick rant—it is astonishing how Corporate America is largely comprised of Email & Spreadsheet Jobs, yet so many Americans struggle with authoring a coherent message and designing a functional workbook table.

It is literally the easiest job in an economy full of Bullshit Jobs(tm). My, god. Learn how to send a fucking email.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

“We don’t need a warrant, bro. Stop getting that in your head.”— ICE officer to Jersey City councilmember Jake Ephros, as agents arrest a man without a warrant, without explaining the arrest or reading him his rights. This is happening here, again...
#press

Attachments:

• video: ea27f2fce8add1b9.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/116007025216783394

Someone being "in the Epstein files" isn't actually that damning on its own, given how much the DOJ has tried to bury the story by flooding out any actual signal. Rebecca Watson's video on how she's "in the Epstein files" because people in Epstein's inner circle e-mailed back and forth complaining about her is quite relevant here.

It's why in my thread before, I tried to provide context about *how* folks who were in the files showed up there. It's that context that's so incredibly damning.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

So if you care about technology and its impact on the material world I have a treat for you: @gerrymcgovern's "99th Day" is out.
It is a book showing the data on the material impact that technology, data centers and all that have on our world and is willing to ask the big questions. It's an uncomfortable book and that is good. Check it out!

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

New filter just dropped: "unhelpful platitudes"

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Need to look up your Azure secrets from the terminal? I got you 🤝

🗝️ **akv-tui** — A TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets

💯 Browse vaults, fuzzy-search secrets, copy values & add/edit/delete secrets

⚙️ Works on Linux, macOS & Windows

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #azure #devops #terminal #devtools

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• gifv: 5083ec4884852024.mp4

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.5.6, 4.4.13, and 4.3.19.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a moderate security vulnerability.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#MastodonAdmin

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rrzzyy@sunny.garden ("raszy") wrote:

Today's mood: This photo of Maud Gonne.

#TodaysMood

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
notypes@discuss.systems ("Rachit") wrote:

People keep asking me what the "Rust for hardware design" would look like. Those who know their PL history know that, before we could build Rust, we had to define ideas like "Memory Safety".

A hopefully uncontroversial take is that Memory safety defines a class of *logical errors* that pointer-manipulating programs suffer from. By defining this category, we were able to create dynamic and static mechanisms to eliminate it.

Building a "Rust for hardware design" requires the same so I spent the weekend writing a 2-page paper defining a criteria for "safe hardware description languages (HDLs)". Instead of competing with heavyweight formal tools, safe HDLs should complement them by eliminating a category of bugs that exist in *all hardware designs* and let the formal tools focus on design-specific properties.

Would love to hear what people think: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/safe-hdls.pdf

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

No one tells you that life is mostly an exercise in accepting your mortality. It's finding your place in the great cosmos, then confirming to the glowing rectangle in your office-bedroom that your columns have headers, until the day you give yourself back to Eywa.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
joshuagrady@social.lol ("Joshua Grady :pw_thinking:") wrote:

@neatnik and @nileane continue to offer the ~best~ way to experience Mastodon.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Here's another photo of this menacing frog statue

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

"extremely menacing"

#seattle #washington

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Them: "I was a skeptic too, but I can't ignore anymore how productive this technology makes me! There's no way I could produce so much stuff if I'd be doing everything myself."

Me: "But… Do you understand that *owning* people and working them to death is utterly immoral?"

Them: "Yeah, I'm a little concerned about it. But it's just how cotton farming is going to look from now on, so I'm not going to be sidelined. Slavery is the future!"