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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

pretty sure this is what publishing this blog post is going to feel like, in just about every way

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keturn@toot.cat ("Kevin Turner") wrote:

Finding the program responsible for controlling a mounted FUSE filesystem is a little obscure, but it's possible. The trick is hidden in an fdinfo field.

I put together a script that'll show all the current FUSE mounts and their processes: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/5973894

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MaggieFero@hachyderm.io ("Margaret Fero") wrote:

Uhoh, my work phone number is broken, and it looks like has been for almost two weeks 😬 I can see a missed call and a bunch of text message notifications within the app, but I've not gotten any call forwarding or push notifications, and I still can't see text message contents.

I thought it was odd that I'd not gotten text-based #rsac spam, but I remained unreasonably hopeful. Updating, clearing cache and restarting the app all didn't get it.

Anybody else seen this kind of VoIP problem? How did you fix it?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

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mcc wrote:

A thing that never stops being funny to me is that electoral reform is stymied by the fact there are separate camps who want instant-runoff voting, Condorcet ranked voting, and proportional representation, and they don't cooperate. Seriously one of the funniest things to happen in human history. First Past the Post has a plurality of support so it wins every engagement. First Past the Post wins by First Past the Post rules.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

You can see a bed frame and an old bicycle in this video.#Iceland #Reykjavik #video #landscape #nature #abandoned #decay #trees #snow #rust

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3mi7wyqu3222w

Attachments:

• video: Remnants of a burnt down cabin.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

There used to be a summer cabin there, but it burnt down.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #snow #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jameshowell@fediscience.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:

"Setting aside the moral arguments---"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water---"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

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

Hope you all had fun while I was away for a week. Here's what I was doing. Coming soon: A full tour by my cover band, Scalzi Osbourne.

(photo by Kelly Wright)

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

Happy Palm Sunday, everyone

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered on an in-person 5-day course on OSINT as it relates to iolations of international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law.

(I am not affiliated with either institution or involved in this course, but it looks damn interesting.)

https://iici.global/courses/open-source-investigation-foundational/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

#3GoodThings

1. The Publix brand Jamaican beef patties are delicious. I mean, for a frozen food. The pastry is so flakey and it's all very flavorful.

2. The cover of The Sign of The Times by Sandra Hüller on Project Hail Mary is beautiful. I would totally listen to her cover if they release it.

3. Thunderstorm season is here. I love falling asleep to the rain.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

kind of blog post where you spend three paragraphs introducing the concept of argument in the alternative

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annaecook wrote:

As a neurodivergent person in tech let me make one point here:

Alex Karp is a fascist and misogynist who wants you to be comfortable with the same thinking Nazis had about neurodivergence.

He can fuck right off.

fortune.com/2026/03/24/p...
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-two-people-successful-in-ai-era-vocational-skills-neurodivergence-gen-z-career-advice/

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I... guess I have workspaces in orogene now?

#orogene

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• gifv: 3a0693eb8d7270d6.mp4

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I found the karaoke scene! (Mild spoilers for Hail Mary)

It's so good! It really ties the movie together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJfXBG86dA

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Sandra Hüller is so good in the movie. She was my favorite character.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Sign of The Times cover in Project Hail Mary is so beautiful.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Also very tangential to my ‘immigrant discovering the rest of the US’ journey:

Anecdotally, many East & SE Asian immigrants seem to be only ‘lactose intolerant’ to Clover brand milk, which is the primary source of dairy whole milk in Northern California.

On a personal note I can attest that I am not intolerant of any whole milk most other places. Clover makes me so sick IMMEDIATELY. I have never experienced this anywhere else

This got me down a rabbit hole of trying to understand why. The best theory remains that Clover milk has A1 proteins which many of us can’t digest. It’s not scientifically proven, but on a ‘this doesn’t send us to the bathroom immediately’ scientific scale, A2 is much, much better. Clover also seems to be responding to this by putting out an A2 product, but until that is the default in coffee shops..

Nowhere else have I experienced this other than in Nor and Central CA (I’ve tested this in all the other states)

(Related: this excellent post on ‘if Chinese people are lactose intolerant, why all the milk tea? Sorry it’s a *stack)

https://open.substack.com/pub/chinesecookingdemystified/p/if-asian-are-lactose-intolerant-why

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

A big part of the reason the world is in its current predicament, is that a lot of US white people *on the left* still can't acknowledge how corrosive and harmful the DEI pushback was and still is. They also can't acknowledge that the anti-Black pushback started before Trump came into office. They can't acknowledge their part in it.

Again, white people *on the left* laughed when Elon fired almost all the Twitter employees and ended all the Black ERGs. Up until 2024, People were still asking me "Why don't you like Elon?🤡"

There was no outcry when all the DEI and inclusion professionals were pushed out of tech and higher education. Black journalists being fired caused no widespread panic. There was a lot of "I don't talk politics!"

But then DOGE did the same to scientists in general, and now there was panic. Kimmel getting fired raised more outcry than every Black journalist firing combined.

Saying that 300,000 Black women were fired in this anti-DEI pushback, has no real impact on them. They can't feel that empathy for Black folk. Being anti-woke is "just an opinion."

Now I see daily jokes about "Woke is back!" No. Woke never left. I've been Black this whole time. The 300,000 Black women fired have been Black this whole time. The Black journalists pushed out of their jobs have been Black this whole time.

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ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

@glyph @aredridel It’s so interesting to watch the differences in reactions among people to these tools, and the differences in *how* people adapt to their use. The amount of thought and creativity in the reaction is showing in the quality of the results. This is regardless of where the person is on the experience curve. (Though obvs people far along on the experience curve know *what* to push for more than do less-experienced people)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it has been SO hard to find users for https://pypi.org/project/fritter/ and so many of you need to be using Fritter

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ology/116313722371163294

most satisfying open source interaction of the past decade and I'm not even kidding

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823

We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio%5Fmemoriae

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Photos: No Kings in San Francisco brings out thousands

Across San Francisco, residents marched in defiance of the Trump Administration

https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/no-kings-san-francisco/

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings

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• video: d0e1d6a635d33d6a.mp4

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Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:

It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.

There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.

I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.

I would like it to be over before I die, please.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
km@babb.no ("advokatt") wrote:

reading docs is helpful -- during today's short look at #Python docs, I discovered that as of 3.14 functools.partial() may take placeholders: this makes it possible to pre-fill any positional argument with a call to partial(); without Placeholder, only the chosen number of leading positional arguments can be pre-filled.

#Python #TIL

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.Placeholder

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people."
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/