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

one thing that annoys me is many people assume if you don't like systemd, your entire personality must be arranged around hatred of it.

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jwz wrote:

@attoparsec Be the mulch you want to see in the world

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wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

I want everyone who says "this is the law, distros need to comply" I want you to explain a plausible set of circumstances to lead to the following:

* That the AG of California will sue a random Linux distro which has effectively no money
* Prove who the OS distributor actually is (is it the committers? Committers of what part? Their bank account with $12 in it?)
* Prove by preponderance of the evidence how many children used the OS in order to set the fines
* get a judge and jury to think this isn't a massive waste of their time
* That it isn't just a violation of the law but is a "negligent" or "intentional" violation
* all the while, the OS maker and everyone else having effectively zero knowledge of who uses it since there's no continuing relationship with users.

How does all of this happen?

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("the kamala harris of going to bed at a reasonable time") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

thinking abt the timeline where the linux baddies got tshirts made that say ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA and MUST BE 18 TO READ THIS SHIRT like where is the fuck you make me attitude here

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("the kamala harris of going to bed at a reasonable time") wrote:

how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

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bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

@Joshsharp "Putting aside the moral and ethical implications, don't you think I'd look hot wearing these conflict diamonds?"

jwz wrote:

BREAKING, I hav learned that a large number of my readers have "lost time" at a Waffle House. [ "Red Right Hand" plays ]

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5KxBa9zgpMj44HyvvMcJvg

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope") wrote:

How many bolds could a kobold ko
If a kobold could kobolds

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chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116262296329273733

From an organiser who runs a conference that sells tickets that barely cover the costs of the event and still manages to fund a decent proportion of travel expenses for speakers who need it:

conference organisers need to do better.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

This has a genuinely sinister elegance to it. You want to know if models can “reason” instead of merely repeat? Point them an esoteric language and see what happens.

https://types.pl/@edwinb/116263613083616062

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Joshsharp@aus.social ("josh's harp") wrote:

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

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Viss wrote:

read this and try to tell me cloud wasnt a mistake

https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

RE: https://wikis.world/@quarknova/116262006249339183

I celebrate the people who made this happen! Keep up the good work.

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wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tammy@social.lol ("Tammy Lee") wrote:

Trying out a different process for drawing goldfish. This is a work in progress. It feels good to stretch my brain and do something different!

jwz wrote:

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116264352643279335

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wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge%5Frequests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

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ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:

All together now: fuck systemd

First to tongue the boot when it comes to this age verification shit I see.

jwz wrote:

https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116264184185228738

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izzy@social.shadowkat.net ("Izzy :QueerCat_Trans:") wrote:

remember: most android malware is available on the play store

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

Unrelated kinda but if you need a cheap burner laptop or something. $200 for an old Intel MacBook Air

(Saw on hacker news)

https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/macbook-air-13-3-inch-8gbram-128gb-mqd32ll-a-mid-2017-refurbished

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
quarknova@wikis.world ("chaotic enby") wrote:

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing%5Farticles%5Fwith%5Flarge%5Flanguage%5Fmodels/RfC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ododopress@bookstodon.com ("Ododo Press") wrote:

Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
saltywizard@beige.party ("Дими́трий") wrote:

read this somewhere:

"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant.

The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to America’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #globalWarming

https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna, creating Trump-approved broadcaster reaching 80% of US
Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fcc-lets-nexstar-buy-tegna-creating-trump-approved-broadcaster-reaching-80-of-us/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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dnkboston@apobangpo.space ("Deb Nam-Krane") wrote:

#scribesandmakers Self-promotion day. Shame optional (untrue--there's always a little shame for me).

This is the series I wrote that's set in Boston. Starts out as romance, then segues to politics and mystery. Kind of messy, just like Boston.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/8375

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

OpenClaw demand in China is driving up the price of secondhand MacBooks:

"So many people in China are rushing to try the OpenClaw artificial intelligence tool that they’re driving up prices for secondhand Mac computers."

This is exactly what American tech companies are trying to avoid in the states https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/19/openclaw-demand-in-china-is-driving-up-the-price-of-secondhand-macbooks.html

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

OH: "we should restart the internet, finding available usernames is impossible these days"