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

Trouble: garage door went off the rockers (literally) and stuck.

Silver lining: happened while the car was *outside*!

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

really leaning into the historical meaning of "incredible" on this one

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

for those of you without a macOS system handy, this is decidedly not what 'brctl' means there

$ man -k brctl
brctl(1) - Manage the CloudDocs daemon

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

incredible choices all around here

Google AI Overview               On macOS, brctl is short for bridge control, a command-line utility used to set up, maintain, and inspect ethernet bridge configurations. It acts as a bridge between virtual network interfaces (like VMware or Parallels) and physical interfaces (like Ethernet) to allow virtual machines to connect to an external network.Key details regarding brctl on macOS:Purpose: It manages logical bridges that connect multiple network interfaces, making them appear as a single Ethernet.Name Origin: The name is derived from the standard Linux/Unix networking utility "Bridge Control," which serves the same function of administering Ethernet bridging.Functionality: It can create a new instance of an Ethernet bridge, add or remove interface ports, and list current bridge configurations.Background Activity: While often associated with user-level networking, brctl can also appear as a root process in Activity Monitor, sometimes linked to bird (iCloud Drive) functionality or virtual machine networking.Note: In modern Linux environments, brctl has been superseded by ip link and bridge commands, but the term remains widely understood for bridging tools.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vlrny@disabled.social ("Valerie Roney") wrote:

Art is how humans tell other humans what it is to be human.

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

It's 2:15 and I don't manage to sleep...

Tomorrow, it will be complicated :-(

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gilduran.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Gil Durán") wrote:

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3mjwqsyj54s2a

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
teruterubozu@toot.wales ("Jen X. Zerofux") wrote:

Become ungovernable

A pink tulip is growing through a wire fence between the sidewalk and a paved yard

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I hate CVSS

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

something breaks integrating two pieces of software which are both slopcoded. which is it?

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

This is a very good article on how the Russian regime managed to get around western economic sanctions, but also how many western companies happily cooperated with it so that they could keep doing business in Russia while pretending they weren't.

https://www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/to-leave-or-not-to-leave

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

Spoiler: it's because he fucking sucks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/trump-disapproval-rating-poll

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org ("tobi is writing bugs :terminal_cursor:") wrote:

relay support stuff for #GoToSocial is coming along well, got it ingesting relayed statuses nicely

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
asciilander@mamot.fr ("Asciilander") wrote:

Le (World Wide) Web est mort, vive le (Small)) Web!

#SmallWeb #smolweb #web #permacomputing

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

We've brought Space Virgins back! New episode.

The Space Virgins are back on the menu, boys! - The PolarBear Extended Universe
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8krv5d2tSfQCq4Cp77jpB6

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Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
aaronareed@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Aaron A. Reed") wrote:

OK, this is incredible. Mad genius Mark Sample has created a web tool for exploring Subcutanean (my novel where each copy is unique) across every axis you can think of: source code, 25 diffed versions, VR projections(!), bubble viz(!!) & a lot more. (1/2)

https://subcutanean.fugitivetexts.net/

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brainwagon ("Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢ") wrote:

I updated this for 2026.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND IF WE BLAME THE Al, NEITHER CAN WE.

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human.ity85@threads.net ("David Day") wrote:

Tim Heidecker invokes Alex Jones so well it's hard to tell it's satire. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX13cHHhCwz/?igsh=cTcycXFlNnc0YXhu

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Boosted by jwz:
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

I have but one feature request for Mastodon.

* If my post contains a link
* Disable the reply button
* Once the user has clicked the link
* Wait 60 seconds then
* Enable the reply button for them

(If you're about to tell me why this wouldn't work - you're *exactly* the sort of person this feature is aimed at.)

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

a new yorker cartoon with a business man in a tattered suite sitting near a camp fire with three young people amidst the wreckage of a city. the original text reads "yes, the planet got destroyed. but for a beautiful moment in time" the remainder of the text is crudely edited to read "Richard Dawkins got to fuck a website"

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

42 Democrats voted to let Trump keep spying on American citizens. If you want a Democratic Party that fights back, you’ve got to support primary challenges.

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

i want both to succeed and make good products

weird, i want both to fail and make good products.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:

"We are not getting richer. We are spending down a natural inheritance accumulated over geological time, entering the draw-down in the growth column, and refusing to note the corresponding reduction in assets. The net position is deteriorating, and the growth figure is a fiction. Selling one's mother's saris and calling the proceeds a salary is a known indicator of household ruin; we are doing it at planetary scale and printing the receipts as quarterly results."

https://dailypioneer.com/news/the-bill-the-planet-has-been-paying-for-you-the-bill-the-planet-has-been-paying-for-you

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

You what now?

Email which reads: "Joint partnership idea. We respect the professionalism and consistency you bring. We are happy to brainstorm various partnership options."

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

the psychodynamics of this would be comic if they were not so tragic

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

“I think there’s also like all these lower-level people competing for his love and attention as well." AOC

h/t https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116511828398226464

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Aaidanbird@disabled.social ("The Bird") wrote:

Please boycott JK Rowling. I do not have the health to listen to defenders of Potter on why they won't boycott. Take that somewhere else please.

For those boycotting, here are alternative worlds from authors who are supportive of marginalized people:

* Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
* Emelan series by Tamora Pierce
* Akata Witch series by Nnedi Okorafor
* Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
* Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
* Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

Share others below!

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
smutmag@mstdn.social ("SmutMagDotArt") wrote:

I am begging everyone to be looking at your city councils right now. These are the people who say whether or not a corporation can come into your town and take all of your resources, pollute the environment, and kill the residents.

Cit Council members who hand your welfare and lives over to corporations should never have a moment of rest from the people. These are the people you can actually have an influence on, and these are elections you can actually get in on.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

Image of link from post
Different ad string
Image of example ad
Different ad string

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
glitzersachen@hachyderm.io ("Glitzersachen") wrote:

@OmegaPolice @danluu

One might even suspect this "feature" was intentional: To get more acceptable PRs which were seemingly made with AI and thus confuse people whether they can recognize AI slop.

"Look, this is a perfectly good PR and it was made with AI".