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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Oh gosh, I'm so clumsy, I forgot to include a license. Fixed now.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga") wrote:

My video from the 16th Munich Suitwalk:

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

#Fursuit

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

Fascist republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever

Citizens, we need to speak up about the pollution and destruction of our lands and waters.

If climate change isn't real, then why protect big oil from climate change lawsuits?

https://heated.world/p/republicans-introduce-extreme-bill

#congress #news #usa #science #pollution #registertovote #climate

In summary, the bill says: - No state or municipality can file a climate lawsuit - No state or municipality can pass or enforce - law making polluters pay for the consequences of their pollution - Existing climate cases would all be dismissed - Existing polluter pay laws would be voided - Private citizens can never sue fossil fuel companies over climate harm 9 1 (2) NO PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.—No private 2 right of action or claim shall be maintained, im- 3 plied, or inferred under any State law with respect 4 to climate change-related harms from greenhouse 5 gas emissions, The gun industry achieved a similar type of legal immunity in 2005. That law, called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, has largely prevented victims of gun violence from seeking justice against irresponsible industry actors, and has sometimes resulted in victims being forced to pay gun industry legal fees. This would do something similar for the fossil fuel industry. But unlike the gun industry's liability shield, there would be no exceptions at all.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fsinn@mas.to ("Francisca Sinn") wrote:

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@robpumphrey/116464053406935299

I see we blew past “the robots are more important than people” and we’re already at “the robots [are entitled to] have more rights than pedestrians” and “we need them to break laws so we can make more money”.

Super.

#Humans #Cyclists #Robots

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CheetahFluff@nyan.network ("Cheetah Fluff") wrote:

Wolf Link! Because I've been playing modded Tears of the Kingdom and the game is actually 10x better when Link is a wolf boy.

I'm calling this done and moving on even though I'm not satisfied. The important thing was painting the boyo and a bit of environment in firelight, and I did that, and learned things. Composition is for when I know what I'm doing. I managed to avoid using any multiply layers again though!

#Furry #FurryArt

Wolf Link sitting at a fire and holding a stick up to poke at it. His gear is sitting to his side, and the moon hangs over the clear desert.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
marud@social.marud.fr ("Marud :mastodont_v2:") wrote:

piqué sur le réseau 100% décentralisé à base d'AT proto

un chat au milieu, avec une cravate. en haut, le premier élément "going forward, we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you", qui flèche vers le second "ahahah you're not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach", qui flèche vers " your data is probably for sale online now" qui flèche vers "that means someone could easily impersonate you" et qui flèche vers le premier élément

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
javi@goblin.band wrote:

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox.

In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.

This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.

We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.

Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!

In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).

This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!

To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors

"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!

Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing data

The SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

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

Some of the comments on the previous two photos yesterday mentioned that the bird in the second one had a clearer silhouette. So I had the idea to dodge the background around the bird a bit to bring out the silhouette.

A blackbird stands near a path. There's a small bridge ahead. It looks like the blackbird is watching the photographer. The area behind it is a mid-grey.
The same photo with a blackbird near a path, but this time the area behind the bird is a much lighter grey.

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
syphist@zoner.work ("Syphist :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

meow meow meow

A parody of the "myth of consensual sex" meme. It reads as follows: THE MYTH OF "CONSENSUAL" MEOWING 2 commercial jet PNGs with speach bubbles saying "meow meow meow" in Comic Sans with the Air Traffic Control Tower saying "You gotta be professional!" in Liberation Sans. ISN'T THERE SOMEBODY YOU FORGOT TO ASK? (The caption text outside the speech bubbles are in the all caps Impact font)

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

I'm getting to the point where I believe nothing and everything at the same time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/26/suspicious/

suspicious man

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

incredible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

ID LOVE NOT TO FIND OUT

Area: Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Type: Boeing 737-900
A: #a8adab2b4da
F: #ff44fadac63

#acars #vdlm2

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116468230309788020

Original article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23042026/corpus-christi-water-emergency-explainer/

“No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year.”

But more than half of the water consumption in Corpus Christi goes to petrochemical industrial plants. Let’s see if people are willing to throttle down the water supply to machines before they do to humans.

#climate #weather #climateChange

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adambecker.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Becker") wrote:

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

The question is not how fast someone can create software. The question is how long after creating the software will someone support it.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

business cat meme with 4 phrases, arrows between them in a circle. starting at the top: going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you ahaha youre not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach your data is probably for sale online now that means someone could easily impersonate you

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Boosted by jwz:
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

And the memes are comin’ in hot!
#USpol

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

lol, youtube autocarrot just got 'airspeed' as 'ASP'

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

Londonmaxxing

Stop it

Britmaxxing

Get in the sea, now.

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org ("Stephanie 🎀") wrote:

Large Hadron Collider taking the L tonight. That rampdown pattern (black graph) is NOT normal 😬 I’ve only ever seen the magnets do that one other time, and that was ten years ago after a small animal got fried on an 18 kV power line.

Close-up of a beam energy and intensity graph, showing a slow decline followed by a rapid decline in the black graph (which reads as beam energy here, but can also correspond with magnetic field strength and current).

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mgorny@treehouse.systems ("Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)") wrote:

The bright #LLM future, next part.

git.gentoo.org is now effectively dead, being DDoS-ed by almost a million different IPs every day. Most of them are just performing a single request at a totally random URL. How are people supposed to deal with that? How can we distinguish a legitimate user who hit some URL from a scraper that distributes its operations over thousands of IP addresses?

If you use LLM crap, you're part of the problem. You support these bastards. You should be ashamed of yourself.

#Gentoo #NoAI #NoLLM #AI

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SciMag@flipboard.com ("Science magazine") wrote:

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
munificent ("Bob Nystrom") wrote:

When you sit on the floor with your legs criss-cross applesauce style, are you:

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

Ah, now we know what they're going to use to go after the press corps

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Or the more likely option, since the press failed to investigate his first staged assassination attempt, it’s now his go-to move when his pole numbers get too low.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
f800gecko@mastodon.online ("Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧") wrote:

@glyph

Numba has been a godsend for my simple but voluminous math problem (billions of tx). What took 15 minutes pure Python got crushed to 14 seconds once cleaned-up of any superfluous admin stuff and @jit'd.

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Getting tired of these time travelers missing their shot. Also, given what he’s done to date, what’s left to prevent?!?

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTT8YQFJDQ

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

There’s nothing worse than surprise shredded lettuce on top of hot takeout food.