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

PocketBase sounds interesting
https://amxmln.com/blog/2026/a-pocketbase-shaped-hammer/

I've yet to be impressed by any JS + SQLite ORM options

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

actually we already lost all emojis tbh - ain't worth risking the accusations

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

we've lost another emoji to the madness :(

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116106060904882655

Pinterest is the herpes of image searching

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badtux ("Badtux the Snarky Penguin") wrote:

Yup. In the short term markets are about as rational as that bearded guy in a bathrobe shuffling around in his slippers under the freeway underpass shouting at imaginary greebles. Reminder: In the long run irrational stuff ends up getting washed out of markets as it gets out-competed, thus the "rational markets hypothesis". But in the long run we're all dead. #economics

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benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

if you like #publictransportation and dislike autonomous #robots and #ai

oh boy do i have a video for you

Attachments:

• video: a delivery robot on train tracks gets obliterated by a passenger train

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

This week on @comfortzone we took the time to discuss how an increasing number of countries are banning social media for minors + Discord's decision to rollout age verification globally.

And, yeah, I had two bones to pick:

• The adults supporting these bans are dumb as fuck if they think they're addressing any of the valid reasons they're supposedly doing these for.
• This is going to hurt queer and marginalized kids the most.

Attachments:

• video: b8bc71c1b984bafe.mp4

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Seriously, I don't think most Americans have put together that natalism, "naturalism," anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-vax, pedophilia, misogyny, queerphobia, eugenics, racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and disempowering labor through automation and "AI" are all interlocking parts of modern fascist ideology.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If he really wants to go all in, he should put tariffs on the tariffs. Recursive tariffs!

jwz wrote:

"Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks"

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras:
https://jwz.org/b/yk3m

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments"

This is both so logical and yet absurdly like a science fiction story ...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/

#Science #Health

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

thx for telling me that everything I have hosted on the web getting repeatedly scraped to death by what would previously be considered a massive attack but is now being carried out by the largest corporations in the world is normal, actually. hope they give us good licensing terms on our data, uhhh no wait their IP, once they’re done killing and buying all the original data sources

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

oh good, the “you’re just doing purity culture” thing is already taking hold over on bluesky

so the line is now supposed to be that local LLMs are good and moral and SaaS LLMs are bad, when local LLMs come from the same fucked system that’s also actively making it impossible to buy computing hardware powerful enough to run even a shitty local LLM? is that about right? I’m supposed to clap cause someone with money is running a plagiarism machine but slower and shittier on their desktop?

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

"bayesian" should not be a red flag meaning "Bay Area sex pest" but somehow it is

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

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@xgranade "purity culture" is just the way that people to the left of Darth Vader say "political correctness"

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Among the many things Doctorow gets wrong in That Post is this:

"It's not 'unethical' to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just 'a search engine.'"

Apart from the fact that AI companies are particularly malicious in the way they scrape the web, I'd say we accept search engine scraping mostly on the premise that it's done for the benefit of the scraped sites. There's no such principle of mutual benefit in AI scraping — the AI company gets the value of the data scraped and you get bupkis at best, and possibly DDoS'd

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

i knew the archive. today guy was weird but i didn't realise he was a frothing nutter https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

annoying it's so often the only practical option

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The e-bike that demolished this bus stop must have been going super fast

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

Quick Reference poster for MIT's TX-2.

More here: https://www.rcsri.org/library/tx2/index.shtml

#RetroComputing #RCSRI

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

One way to look at this is to say "oh, algorithmic feeds make people more racist" but the way that attitudes are being measured, the entire way that attitudes *work*, is actually showing something different here: what algorithmic feeds do is *allow racists to efficiently find each other*. "platforming" in this context is not allowing people to hear racist ideas, it is allowing people to *build a command and control network for white supremacist violence*.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

"it's ok if you don't get it"

Great example of the type of shit that makes people hate this place. Posted by exactly the person you expect to say it.

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

"'Your tariff taxes wreaked havoc on farmers, enraged our allies, and sent grocery prices through the roof," Pritzker wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. "This morning, your hand-picked Supreme Court Justices notified u that they are also unconstitutional.'"

"'On behalf of the people of IL, I demand a refund of $1,700 for every family in Illinois. There are 5,105,448 households in my state, bringing the total damages u owe to $8,679,261,600,' the governor continued."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pritzker-tariff-refunds/

h/t @StillIRise1963

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

thanks to the very interesting experimentation (and useful tools) @simon is playing with, my interest in using Claude was piqued. TBH, I got a *lot* of cleanup work (unittests built, bugs caught, etc etc) using a combination of (1) the Claude desktop application open on my desktop, (2) the "claude" commandline tool running in one terminal window (actually the "Ghostty" application), and a plain shell prompt running in another window (for compiling and testing without Apple memory allocation whining).

TBH, I am impressed both by the coherence of the code analysis and the ease f use.

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

Not my hottest take, but I'll die on the hill that the phrase "production quality" is a judgement about the speaker, not the code.

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

The last sip through my insulated cup is always especially cold. It's like my straw found a little submerged cave.

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

The Internet is roasting AI models' maths skills again. This time for not being able to count to 200.

The last time the Internet made fun of AI’s
trouble with math was when someone discovered none of the models could count the numbers of “r’s” in the word “strawberry.”

OpenAI and Anthropic responded with a public relations campaign to convince everyone their respective models won gold at the Math Olympiad.

I wonder what they’ll cook up for Count-Gate. https://youtube.com/shorts/PHTHEjfJWks

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

A new terminal AI agent just dropped! 🔥

⚙️ **OpenCrabs** — An AI orchestration layer inspired by OpenClaw

💯 Multi-provider support, 3-tier memory, hybrid search & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/adolfousier/opencrabs

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ai #orchestration #openclaw #terminal

Attachments:

• video: 10d1faf4a16f6cf6.mp4

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
bamfic@autonomous.zone wrote:

Sometimes I wonder why this media has such a deep commitment to idiotic both-sides-ism and false balance, then I remember it's been part of the country since the Missouri Compromise and the 3/5ths clause: baked in right from the beginning.

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

@slightlyoff Somehow (most) software engineering culture in the past came to realize that in many cases you can't simply throw more warm bodies at the problems and solve them faster.

Now suddenly we're throwing "cold bodies" at the problems thinking they'll get solved faster. 😵‍💫