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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
flup@mastodon.scot ("Ian Chard") wrote:

#copyfail also affects #wsl. #linux #windows #infosec

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Mimesatwork@wandering.shop ("🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥") wrote:

Cities must be primarily for biological life instead of machines

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ljrk@todon.eu ("lj·rk") wrote:

@soatok Partially explains why a lot of "us" have imposter syndrome?

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

Fun observation:

If you do cool stuff, then over time you will gather a bunch of people who are interested in doing cool shit, and will quickly feel like the cool shit you're doing is inadequate because you're surrounded by people who can do cooler shit than you.

This is a desirable outcome. (It's related to the friendship paradox, too!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%5Fparadox

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bri7@treehouse.systems ("Luci Bitchface Angerfoot") wrote:

5 cognitive biases leftist online communities routinely use to smuggle in transphobia and transmisogyny

- base rate neglect

The bias where undue attention is given to attributes of a specific case while ignoring the base population rate of those attributes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%5Frate%5Ffallacy

- availability bias

the false belief that the examples you personally have seen and are aware of are statistically valuable and significant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability%5Fheuristic

- out group homogeniety bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group%5Fhomogeneity

the belief that all members of a minority group are all identical and share a community, a hivemind, shared decision making, and therefore should all share accountability for what any specific member does

this one is a real red flag in leftist spaces cos i have seen it so unevenly applied to the trans community in so many situations that would be very obviously seen as bigotry if applied to any other minority group; the belief that white trans women have a special and heightened responsibility to “call in” our sisters - seperate and greater than the responsibility any cis white person has- betrays a bunch of false and transphobic beliefs about trans women in general

- Denominator Neglect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominator%5Fneglect

people focus on the total number of problematic trans people they see and never put it into the context of the total number of trans people that exist, including the ones they don’t notice or pay any attention to because they are specifically not a problem and you might not even know they are trans.

It’s awareness of THIS bias in cis people that drives some of us trannies to be vocally visible, and even to draw the complaint fhat we’ve “made it our whole personality” because we know if we don’t you cissy fuckers are gonna try and tell us the 5 visible bigoted assholes amongst us represents the entire community

- Disproportionate scrutiny / Hypervisibility

Far from being a privelege, this one means that if any one of us fucks up even slightly, it becomes a huge internet drama, while cis people can fuck up in the same ways and it’s just a day ending in “y”

this is all not to say that trans people being nazis, racist or bigoted isn’t a problem; just that it isn’t a problem that is *special* and specific to trans women. The “trans” part isn’t relevant and doing special callouts of a person’s minority attributes is itself, a virulent form of transphobia that nevertheless is casually accepted in our communities

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
derthomas@metalhead.club ("Thomas") wrote:

Wanna take a short walk with us?

#KnutContent #DogsOfMastodon

Attachments:

• video: Knut, a light brown dog and I are walking down a gravel path between green fields to the left and some trees and bushes to the right. Knut is hovering around me, always curious.

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

noted: how the Prompt API will transpire:
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-04T05:42Z/
sigh, can we not?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
knoppix95 wrote:

Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️
The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐

@signalapp

🔗 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/

#TechNews #Signal #Messaging #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #EndToEndEncryption #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Software #Tech #Communication

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

Amazingly, I managed to finish my weekend coding project into which I got unexpectedly sucked in by my own brain on Friday. All while watching snooker, chauffeuring my family around on various errands, setting up a new bike and managing emergencies.

I'll make a short write-up tomorrow.

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

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

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

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

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

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

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

incredible choices all around here

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.

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

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

Tomorrow, it will be complicated :-(

Boosted by jwz:
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

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

Become ungovernable

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I hate CVSS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

Boosted by jwz:
brainwagon ("Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢ") wrote:

I updated this for 2026.

Boosted by jwz:
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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• video: e745a33d69115a1e.mp4

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.)

Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

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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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• video: 30e54052cbff7663.mp4