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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"No one wants to work, our turnover is terrible!"

Ok, do you pay a living wage?
"No"

Do you give annual raises more than 7%, the annual rate of cost of living increase?
"Also no, but-"

Do you give larger raises and bonuses to execs than to your workers?
"Well yes, but-"

Did you force people to stop working from home in order to justify the cost of maintaining real estate you own?
"I mean, we-"

Do you heavily invest in AI so you can justify massive layoffs?
"Like every other co-"

Do you ask your employees to pick up the slack for the people who have left?
"We had t-"

And did you install digital tools to spy on your remaining employees?
"Look we need to ensu-"

Sounds to me like people DO want to work, you've just made it unpatatable for them to work for YOU.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I've got 3 blog post ideas in the hopper but, between work and other demands for my time, I have no idea when I'll get to any of them

[internal screaming]

I should take a vacation or something but I'm booked solid until the end of June on client work hahahaha

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

Maybe I should add @fedify to https://pages.casa/ ??
But what this couple would improve, compare to a #gotosocial instance ?

#fedify #fediverse

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
bud_t@m.ai6yr.org ("Bud Talbot") wrote:

I need a better #markdown editor for #Windows. What are folks using and liking? I'm currently using #VScode but I didn't think it's great for markdown.

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

got an email informing me that the local shit delivery company has handed me my package at my address.

okay, so where do i report it lost? on a call, obviously.

"your estimated wait time is less than 20 minutes". nah i'm good actually, i'll make it amazon's problem.

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

Yup, I'm not in the business of defending transphobes, transphobia sucks and David Lynch speaks for me here

https://youtu.be/fD1tQjb46N8

RE: https://www.threads.com/@arshadsgram/post/DXXAy00EbR3

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Being friends with WoW players and with security researchers is sufficient to synthesize the following idea:

Retribution-Oriented Programming

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

Air to Ground Message:

ALL RT MEOW. CRZ IS NOW RUFF

Area: Virginia, USA
Type: Boeing 737-800
A: #afe5aad09d8
F: #f65f5aff386

#acars #vdlm2

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

After a long weekend, I've finally updated https://publickey.directory to reflect the current state of affairs for the Public Key Directory which brings Key Transparency to the Fediverse, as part of the effort to build End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) for ActivityPub.

This project now supports* Post-Quantum Cryptography! (We're shipping ML-DSA-44 now and will consider new algorithms in the future.) HPKE also uses mlkem768x25519 (a.k.a. X-Wing).

* The only part that doesn't currently require post-quantum cryptography is RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), because no one has bothered to specify an IANA codepoint for it yet. I'm planning to write a C2SP spec soon if no one beats me to it. For the interim, Ed25519 is still allowed there, but in v2 I plan to drop it.

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

While I'm in the topic, accusing any working author of a "cash grab" is just about the stupidest thing you can say to them. EVERY ONE OF MY BOOKS IS A CASH GRAB Y'ALL, how the fuck do you think I pay my bills, with grass clippings and a winning smile, I'm absolutely doing it for the money. In exchange I'm gonna give you the best book I can but make no mistake I'm here for the cash. Attempting to shame writers for existing in late capitalism is a certainly a choice, bruh

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

So, I go back to my beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people are happy and excited about it, while a woman author goes back to her beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people start giving her endless shit about it. If you're one of those people in the latter category, please go walk into the wilderness until such time as you have figured yourself out, is the absolute politest way I can put it.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

The anti-AI sentiment out there is strong. I know that because I *feel it*, myself, every single day. But we can’t just keep running around babbling “AI bad” and sharing links to articles about data center water consumption. We need to do the work of considering use cases and understanding impact — especially at the personal level. And if we don’t, we risk alienating folks who are just trying to live their best lives with a little extra help.

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

Me and Drew cracking on with some Divinity on https://live.freebooters.uk/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I’ve listened to some of @von’s songs and they’re nothing short of amazing. They’re amazing because he didn’t just stroll up to a computer and say “song pls” — he composed each of them, arranged them, wrote their lyrics, and used impressive AI tooling to make them something that could be heard.

The Oatmeal’s classic piece on AI Art (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai%5Fart) touches on this a bit. There’s “standing there pretending to make music”, and then there’s *making actual music*, and that’s what von does.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A good example of how "don't use LLM chatbots" is like level 0 of "AI" resistance. While I think creating consistent pushback on that is still quite valuable, this type of post-hoc betrayal from "AI" adoption at major vendors is probably going to be an even more important part of the fight https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/18/atlassians%5Fnew%5Fdata%5Fcollection%5Fpolicy/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonah@neat.computer ("Jonah Aragon :MN:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415973849880514

This whole thread is a good explainer for people who still wrongly think Bluesky is a resilient/user-run/federated network like Mastodon is.

The reality is that Bluesky requires infinite VC money to fully replicate, whereas Mastodon can run totally self-sufficiently on a Raspberry Pi.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@von/116434687311614180

If you know me, you know that I tend to be pretty negative about generative AI. Which is all the more reason that I want to say this clearly: There are very real and empowering accessibility considerations for AI, and they shouldn’t be dismissed. There are people who are using these tools in truly uplifting ways. Life-changing, in some cases. You don’t have to like AI, and you don’t have to use it, but it’s a mistake to fail to recognize the positive personal impact that it can have.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
rsm92 ("RSM92") wrote:

@servo is now capable of rendering @Mastodon !

Servo is becoming usable, such a good news ! (this post was also created from #servo)

#webbrowser #rust

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Freexian is proud to be a sponsor of MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 which will take place from April 23 to 25 at the State University of Campinas. The MiniDebCamp is already underway! We wish the organizing team and all the attendees a successful and enjoyable event.

https://campinas.mini.debconf.org/

#debian #debianbrasil #freexian #miniDebConfCampinas

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib%5Fmillions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

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

Texas is finding out what happens when you fuck around with universities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/20/texas-fafo/

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

Lonely people who want chatbots for long-term role-play, growthmaxxing “I ask claude everything” sorts of people, people who want to feel like they're living in the future. Weirdly few Bladerunner references for a social space that has such strong Bladerunner vibes. Lots of people who talk past each other.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TheDearHunter - The Glass Desert III - The Plains (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalo5HJQSRQ

#NowPlaying #NP

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pornin@infosec.exchange ("Thomas Pornin") wrote:

I made some variations on Montgomery multiplication with redundant representations. As an illustration, I made some codegolfed ECDSA signature verification (curve P-256) on 64-bit architectures (x86, Arm and RISC-V); I got that down to 848 bytes of code on x86 with a still usable runtime cost. Moreover, there is a comprehensive range analysis (automated) that proves that the computation cannot overflow.
AI was not used, but it was defeated.
Paper is here: https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa/blob/main/tex/mmul.pdf
More generally, the repository contains the paper, the code, and the proof (in Python): https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
reiver ("@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:") wrote:

I spent the day (off and on) working on updating my Mercury Protocol implemention, in the Go programming-language (golang)

(The Mercury Protocol is the Gemini Protocol without the TLS.)

I wrote it back in 2021. The Go programming-language has changed since then. I updated it accordingly, and did a number of to-do items I planned to do but never got around to.

#GeminiProtocol #golang #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SymTrkl@anarres.family ("Sym (public node) :3hearts:") wrote:

making a sweet berry farm be like

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
camertron@ruby.social ("Cameron Dutro") wrote:

Found it

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:

“At founding moments, spaces open up which are filled by […] a small number of intellectual movements which restructure the attention space by pressing in opposing directions. […] The history of philosophy is the history not so much of problems solved as of the discovery of exploitable lines of opposition.” – Randall Collins, /The Sociology of Philosophies/, p. 6.

Dynamic vs. static typing
Emacs vs. vi
Waterfall vs. Agile (Collins is at the scale of a whole career: ~35 years).

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@pzmyers competence diversity

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

Fascists, cryptobros, young men who play tons of video games and have very little ethical thinking skill and frame everything as a competition to be won, seasoned software engineers, accelerationists, business guys, Business Guy Grifters, hyper-neoliberal technocrats, wannabe software engineers, kids who dream of creating video games, product designers who want to prototype things, capitalist hangers-on and investmentbros who are looking for the next gamble for their money, Chinese tech company employees, third world techies who use these tools to be able to play at the rich countries tech industry table, edgy young men who want to “decensor" everything including open models, tech enthusiasts who want to try every new thing.

And very, _very_ few women. And very, very few experts.