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Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on

A Packard Bell computer with a Best Buy sticker on it that reads “REMEMBER: Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99.”

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5KxBa9zgpMj44HyvvMcJvg

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest #Freebooters podcast with @uoou is up at https://freebooters.uk

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260320-freebooters.mp3

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
KayOhtie@blimps.xyz ("Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@lycanmatriarch/116279472053148406

Always "weh" about when folks call the color that especially, it feels in the vein of South Park dismissal of people's ability to like things they just plain like.

I like my plant/sage green. It's not 'millenial', it's a color that's calming and comforting to me. Don't box my expressing a genuine interest in a thing into a dismissive label category.

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Names and dates on docs. Every time. Don't forget:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/names-and-dates-on-docs-every-time/

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

1080p bluray rip from 1996 :dragnthink:

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hey would you look at that, it's a secrets of wargames video.

note to self: rewatch wargames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvjIBYS74Q

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

no, absolutely not.

Mary has 2 children. She tells you that one is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability the other child is a girl? wrong: 50% wrong: 66.6% right: 51.8%

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i guess the cocaine and hookers were wearing a bit thin

tom scott doing a comeback

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

No fucking way—One of Grammarly's AI "experts" was based off bell hooks, lmao this is beyond the pale.

I can't... this is so disrespectful. These people are the worst.

https://mashable.com/article/grammarly-expert-review-ai-use-authors-name-identity

Further, providing the option to opt out did not address Grammarly's use of dead authors' identities. Deceased writers used by Expert Review reportedly included astronomer Carl Sagan and intersectional academic bell hooks.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
eris2cats@chaos.social ("Eris2cats") wrote:

"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"

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

Grammarly using AI-versions of tech journalists is like when Jack released SeinfeldVision while Jerry was on vacation at the rich white guy country.

Jack to Jerry : What NBC shows do you want to be digitally inserted into?

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

Air travel has become a vision of Hell.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/23/hell-is-an-american-airport/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZhOWXiUfSg

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

MeshCore is a multi platform system for enabling secure text based communications utilising LoRa radio hardware. It can be used for Off-Grid Communication, Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery, Outdoor Activities, Tactical Security including law enforcement

uhuh. just lost interest

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keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

@jensens are you uncovering some old mummies?? #Plone

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

It says a lot about how incompetent ICE is that it still looks incompetent when placed next to the TSA, an outfit famous for its incompetence

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Goffi wrote:

For Twisted/XMPP developers: I've published Tx-XMPP, a (friendly) fork of Wokkel due to it being unmaintained for years. I've merged several PRs that I needed, along with code from `sat_tmp`, which was a "temporary" package to monkey-patch Wokkel to add those changes (finally not needed anymore after 11+ years!).

https://pypi.org/project/tx-xmpp/

I will provide minimal maintenance to keep it up-to-date with the latest versions of Twisted and Python.

#Twisted #XMPP #Wokkel #tx-xmpp #Python #Libervia

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

It is once again time to do one of my semi-regular fundraising posts wherein, if you wish to support my writing and analytical work, you can do so at the links below! Moving is expensive, and the more I get through these channels the more essays you can expect, so... there is incentive, I guess?

https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris%5Fmeredith/
https://donate.stripe.com/6oE2a30hh3my2reeUY

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Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Once again, it’s important to remember that the stock market long ago ceased to be linked to a rational valuation of the companies listed and is just a mood ring for rich people.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lm4eq2cftwbnrmzkzowigpt7/post/3mhpymbhcvk22

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Boosted by jwz:
Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

TSA, the 25-year old boondoggle dedicated to the detection of shampoo and water bottles is facing funding challenges.

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Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Trump's approval rating is 27%

https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is -- Tyrone: 27%. John: ... you said that immediately, and with some authority. Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

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Boosted by jwz:
coderanger@cloudisland.nz ("Noah K") wrote:

I don't mean to be a killjoy but "vouching for trusted people" is not a scalable way to build a software ecosystem. I was there, I ran signing parties, I was a CAcert assurer, I've got a strong-set GPG key in a hardware token, none of it worked beyond the most fringe of the fringe dorks. You get a few ossified relationships between major public figures and a small ring of friends around each, and then your permissions are effectively locked down forever. Do you want to live in the world where you need to have a million followers to launch a new framework?

The ecosystem we've all been building in and on top of for decades is so deeply permeated by "assume good intent" at all levels that I'm not sure people are ready for the velocity reduction that is coming after the next few claw-based JiaTans. The first one will be an oddity, but eventually we're going to have to grapple with buying huge vertically integrated dev stacks from Trusted Vendors™ or we make everything from scratch again.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Overall, our results show
that the newer CAS instructions do not perform well on TX2 and A64FX, and the older LL-SC instructions can bring significant performance improvements on all Arm-based systems tested

LOL, LMAO https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370682772%5FA%5FStudy%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPerformance%5FImplications%5Fof%5FAArch64%5FAtomics

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jwz wrote:

Update: after only a week, Plasti-Dip has proven to be even more bullshit than Sugru.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i just wrote one of those fancy 'header only library' things in c. it's an mpsc stack with optional locking on the receiver side

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

regular reminder that Git is not GitHub - you're not locked into this car crash

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

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

Big news for rats! 🎉🥳

🐁 Ratatui is now running on Nintendo Switch 🔥🎮

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs's mousefood backend

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/sermuns/ratatui-on-nintendo-switch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #nintendoswitch #embedded #gamedev #opensource

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

there is an utterly cursed shitpost cartoon playing out in my head where satya nadella is the only person who believes in the poor little LLM who just wants to be recognised for its brilliance.

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

first monday after a week of vacation, and I already almost missed one meeting, and just joined another meting 30mins too early, being confused why nobody is there.

brain, get your stuff together, please. :)

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

our commitment to bland sounding bollocks quality