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

i replaced pointer arithmetic with a flexible array member.

chat is this good?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI”

https://ellipsus.com/blog/survey-on-writing-and-ai

I think few people in tech really get how truly unpopular "AI" is shaping up to be

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116440319387065553

And I have not forgotten the free speech maximalists who volunteered on behalf of weev after he faced consequences for saying Nazi things who are still revered FOSS contributors to this day.

I won’t name them, but if you ever wonder why I don’t post about/boost/interact with someone, this reason is high on the list.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@skry/116440276106844179

For those of us of a certain age, seeing those four letters “weev” causes our blood pressure to spike. Evidence, were any more needed, that Thiel is nazi-adjacent scum.

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

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

lol, the company is trying to blame AI. I have the stealer logs.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116437586378720972

Not in the article but the login for the breached account was in an infostealer dump, the engineer installed a Robolox mod his home PC.. which he also used for work.

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

there's an email thread about the worst code ever and the code isn't very good but my immediate reaction is "was this worth a whine post to a mailing list?".

cause this looks almost good compared to some of the code i've worked with.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
daniel@gultsch.social ("Daniel Gultsch") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@gajim/116433575527221800

The #XMPP community operates on the principle that good ideas will prevail. Showing a warning when it’s nighttime for a contact has had three independent implementations in a little over a month.

We don’t need CEOs. We don’t need kings. #ThatsXMPP

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
emue@mastodon.design ("Emilie Nguyen Van Yen") wrote:

Il y a 5 ans, j'ai dit au revoir aux bibliothèques pour devenir designer. Aujourd'hui, cet au revoir se transforme en adieu.
Dans cet article, je raconte pourquoi j'ai pris la décision de démissionner malgré tout l'amour que j'ai encore pour le métier de bibliothécaire.

https://emue-design.fr/articles/dire-adieu-aux-bibliotheques

#Bibliothèques #FonctionPublique #Reconversion

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

blogged: Web tools are cool

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/21/web-tools/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
notizie@poliverso.org ("Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂") wrote:

**Comunicazione di servizio: Poliverso.org sta per bloccare l'istanza mastodon.cloud

@fediverso

Entro qualche giorno provvederemo a bloccare l'istanza mastodon.cloud così come hanno già fatto e stanno già facendo altre istanze del Fediverso. Poliverso ha già provveduto a "silenziare" mastodon.cloud dal 14 aprile, ma finora non avevamo ancora praticato il blocco, perché noi moderatori volevamo capire se il drammatico peggioramento della moderazione di quel server fosse dovuto a un problema temporaneo.

Come indicato da @iftas i moderatori di mastodon.cloud non sembrano essere più interessati ad applicare politiche di moderazione per arginare trolling, disinformazione, pornografia e suprematismo:
mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/1164…

Purtroppo molti utenti di quella istanza non si rendono conto di quello che succede nella timeline locale anche a causa dell'ergonomia dell'app "ufficiale" di Mastodon che ormai rende estremamente raro per un utente affacciarsi nella timeline della propria istanza.

I nostri utenti che hanno ancora collegamenti con gli utenti di quella istanza potranno decidere se contattare quegli utenti per invitarli a spostarsi altrove o se migrare via da Poliverso.org.

A questo proposito, approfittiamo per avvisare alcuni degli utenti di mastodon.cloud tra i più seguiti dagli utenti di Poliverso.org, invitandoli a trasferirsi presso altre istanze: @marcantonio @OpenForumEurope @illogical_me @gianmix @ilgigante77

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.3 is available

• Add instruction for SESSION_ENC_KEY config constant
• Add details in README
• Fix edition of Mastodon posts (carriage returns was deleted)
• Add 'Translate to' button (if instance provide the service)
• Possibility to attach a media in reply form
• Add Caddy config sample in README
• More coherent main menu, on three lines
• Manage pinned and followed hashtags in prefs
• Add mbstring ext dependency in README
• Display custom emojis and emoji picker

Source/download

Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
amber@front-end.social ("Amber Weinberg") wrote:

I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

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

what have we become

https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform

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

This is something that drives me nuts: "eating healthy is more expensive".

Here's a good example: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/apr/20/ultra-processed-foods-diet-healthy-eating

"We decided to cut down on UPFs" — okay, I'm with you.

"So now we buy everything Organic/Pasture/Artisanal from a local farmer's market" — well, of course that's expensive! But it has nothing to do with cutting down on UPFs. You can still buy cheaper raw foods from your grocery store.

Stop tying one to another and scaring people away from eating healthy.

#cooking #food

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

Tim Apple's legacy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cp8zyyygxv7o

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

Oh, hey, how cool is this: When the Moon Hits Your Eye is the winner of the inaugural Astra Book Award in the category of Best Science Fiction Novel! Congratulations to all the other winners as well!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/21/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-the-winner-of-the-astra-book-award-for-best-science-fiction-novel/

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Tim Cook’s legacy is that having fuck-you money is very different than saying, “Fuck you.”

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

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social ("Antipope Superstar") wrote:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116438050891521356

#itgetsbetter

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

Does anyone on mastodon grow a mature Gevuina avellana (Chilean hazelnut)? Was wondering how the nut is in terms of yield vs edibility.

#gardening #chile

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
joshsutphin@wandering.shop ("Josh Sutphin") wrote:

Not to put it all on tech, but I do wonder how much of the reduction in donations to non-profits Seattle arts organizations is a direct result of so many local tech folks losing their jobs, and with it the disposable income that would've fueled those donations.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/culture/seattle-arts-groups-are-laying-off-staff-what-do-arts-lovers-lose/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116439062020351278

okay Vee, you win today’s #AltTxt #yaddayadda with this magnificent TL;DR of USians’ ignorance of politics:

❝ What American people think the political spectrum is:

Far Right: Trump
Right: Bush
Center: Bloomberg
Left: Warren
Far Left: Sanders

What actually is

Far Right: Trump, Bush, Bloomberg
Right: Warren
Center: Sanders
Left/Far-Left: anybody here gets killed by the CIA ❞

ps: this is why #California #Democrats need to nuke into oblivion billionaire parasite and Bloomberg buddie, Tom Steyer

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
boogah@simian.rodeo ("Jason Cosper") wrote:

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange ("cR0w :gayint: :ifin: :brdKnife:") wrote:

All you nerds stuck with Palo Alto firewalls, I have a request: Would you please submit a feature request / enhancement request with them to be able to block by ASN similarly to how they enable geoblocking? I keep getting told that I am the only one who requested it and there is no interest from other customers. I know that's a lie so if more of you created the requests, that would be great. Even better would be if you were able to DM me the ER number so I can throw a stack of them at my rep if they claim no one else is asking for it.

Dog because it's always a good day for dog.

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

Tim Cook out.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
alice@mk.nyaa.place ("Alice :neocat_flag_transbian:") wrote:

ok, some education for cis people

"taking estrogen has a risk of cancer" - because you grow boobs. Having boobs means having a risk of breast cancer, same as for cis women

If somebody says estrogen should be gatekept because of cancer risk, they are spreading misinformation

hopefully it's not news for anybody who follows me, but hey, might as well

(yes, this is a subpost of someone i just blocked)