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

every design software ever:

- Resize document
- Resize canvas

me: which one scales and which one crops? 🤔

*clicks wrong option*

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

i am free 🥹

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Trenton_Hoshiko@mas.to ("Trenton Hoshiko | Filmmaker") wrote:

I am close to 150 subscribers on my PeerTube for micro budget filmmaking and photography videos! Really thrilled about that result so far! :)

My account for anyone curious: trenton_hoshiko@trentontube.trentonhoshiko.com

Site Link: https://trentontube.trentonhoshiko.com

#PeerTube #SupportIndieFilm #VideoProduction

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mcc wrote:

This is why I believe Bluesky was never meant to be federated. To create a Bluesky "instance", like Blacksky is heroically attempting, you have to perfectly duplicate every server Bluesky runs. But Bluesky is a business operating at a loss by burning unlimited-for-now VC cash. That has always implied only a business with unlimited VC cash can create an instance. Blacksky is succeeding. Except on days where they aren't.

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Postscript: don't lose sight of the fact that this debate, as important as it is is being run by a snivelling coward of a pretend ringmaster leading a circus of clowns. It may not go as planned.

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@azett/116415821351279612

I wish I could get to my library tomorrow so I could run some Ancestry.com searches for this person, but I can’t. Maybe one of you has access, though? Or can get access through your own library or institution?

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
rrmutt wrote:

Evergreen
Credit: https://jonikcartoons.blogspot.com/2011/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thalia@discuss.systems ("Thalia Archibald") wrote:

I now have my own Utah teapot!

This ordinary teapot is the "hello world" object of computer graphics and has cameos in countless productions.

A thread on teapots and UNIX… 🧵

Photo: My Melitta teapot, 2026-04-16.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #utah

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay, so, Model Collapse:

1. are there any good articles or papers on it?

2. I am vaguely aware that it is "well known" that if you *directly* Ouroboros a model to itself it degrades pretty rapidly and dramatically (although, c.f. 1, I would really love a good citation for that) but is there any research on the *creeping* model collapse that we will experience as more and more *unlabeled* extruded text makes its way into the training corpus?

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

ok so the US president threatens the pope via the avignon papacy that we've definitely all heard of but the pope doubles down on how world peace is good and war with iran is bad so the president makes an ai picture of himself where he's jesus healing john stewart but then iran jumps in saying we're on the pope's side and jesus is a holy man and that's not OK so the secretary of war and not defence anymore recites a made up bible verse from a tarantino movie and somehow this week is not over yet.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

"DREAM stands for Driving Ruby's Evolution to AI Maturity."

lol and I can not stress this enough lmfao

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

welcome bluesky users! nice to see you all again, I hope things have improved since the last outage and we can encourage you to stick around, don't hesitate to say hi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Frank") wrote:

I ran this poll 2 years ago and 90% of the correspondents on mastodon told me there were no required AI usage at their workplace.

I would like to ask the same question again in 2026:

“Does your workplace have any AI related requirements, either as major project goal, in performance review, or with usage analytics tracking, against your own will?”

Boost welcomed.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.

“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.

His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.

But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.

A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.

Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“A Good Time (2020 Remaster)” by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/z6TZ77GKo2b

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

Out-of-touch plutocrats are doing Mamdani's work for him, and it's glorious:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/0b6b57ff-dea0-430c-bc61-104b61bc2c31

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Ideally you would give the new AI product a distinctive name that clearly articulates where it fits in your overall product strategy. Something like "Eyestab" or "Footgun"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
woof@aria.dog ("Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: ") wrote:

@somebody @nelson @floralia im gay

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
somebody@tech.lgbt ("Dataline") wrote:

@nelson @woof @floralia 100%. I'll add that the final boss of this is that rebellion for its own sake even forms a kind of reaction or conformity. This is one of the stickiest wickets imo. There's a reason for the sort of perennial arc people go through from "mother knows best" to "fuck you I'm not cleaning my room" to ultimately a kind of stoic wisdom that neither bends to authority nor attempts to establish its own sovereignty, basically just existing. Parenting has taught me a lot about this, recognizing that sometimes my authority is needed to prevent a complete derailment but that in those cases I should wield it with a feather's touch.

jwz wrote:

"Joy", which they have rebranded as "Economic Impact..."

'How Could You Be Against Joy?': Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund: Crypto billionaire Larsen -- who is currently spending tens of millions of dollars to prop up moderate...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6Z

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tyalie@chaos.social ("Sophie Tyalie (☎️ 7098)") wrote:

"Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide!" it's a bit back to the basics, but I find it gives a good overview and description of modern MCU features like pipelining, SIMD, caches, SMT, ...

Maybe somebody will find it useful ^^

https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Anyway, if you are an institution that has made the jump from the hellsite to Bluesky, consider this a reminder as to why POSSE is important. Thanks to providers like MastoHost, it's fully possible to pay for your own social media infrastructure, and to not tie all your fortunes to a single transphobic company.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Yeah, I'm gloating over Bluesky being down. I know it's a bad look. I'm just happy that a company that adopted AI to piss off trans people they didn't like, that platformed Jesse Singal over and over again, and whose CEO tried to invent a new transphobic slur is eating shit today.

Bluesky is a transphobic company, I do not like them at all, and I am not sorry to be happy about their loss. I am sorry for the collateral damage that has on everyone who depends on Bluesky for a living.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It has just been pointed out to me that the tool everyone is using to make fun of GitHub for turning into a flaky slopware service is itself slopware.

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

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I agree: fuck the rain gods with a pitchfork

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

okay i've finally figured out what smells weird about this bullshit ai thing they've done.

so the obvious thing of course is that it's an ai client. and it's for enterprises? god forbid mozilla build something for ordinary people.

the less obvious thing:

• developed by the for profit division of mozilla
• using a grant from mozilla?

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

It's a good sign when the orb weavers start showing up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/16/tetragnatha-the-long-jawed-orbweaver-or-the-stretch-spider/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a useful read

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.bVA.e8vJ.1M0ctLNWhibY&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

(fuck agda, particularly fuck ulf and andreas, but also fuck the ai bros and jesper)

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rootwyrm@weird.autos ("RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:") wrote:

@zzt IBM, Canonical, Torvalds, and Systemd Dipfuck are falling all over themselves to implement total surveillance at the kernel level. I expect by next week, grub will refuse to boot past an 'Enter your birthdate' prompt.