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jwz wrote:

Favorite mobile mastodon feature: I hit reply, type a lot, scroll back to read something in what I am replying to, and OOPS you scrolled too far, reload page! Fuck your reply!

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981

I'm especially glad of this given the Verge's earlier record with transphobic jokes vis a vis the fediverse. As I've said repeatedly, I think highly of the Verge and those jokes felt out of character for them.

This is proactively good, and I'm glad they're saying the right thing about the new transphobic wizard show.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
nash@labyrinth.social wrote:

Mean Girls is a cultural classic for sure, but it's not the only one of it's kind. Median Girls and Mode Girls are two other crucial tools for getting a clear and well-rounded picture of what your Girl Data is really saying

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

If you learned to code recently, like in the last year, would you rather learn concepts first to build programs, or look at small example programs first and be explained the concepts used in them?

Boosted by jwz:
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

People already are using "i saw this video before 2023" as a signature that the video is eligible to be believed. Soon, "this software was developed before 2025" will be the only sign that makes software eligible to be run.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Cars in SF are mowing over people and killing people all over. But yep the city decides to ticket.. cyclists

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s3dpc9/psa%5Ftraffic%5Fpolice%5Fis%5Fdoing%5Fa%5Fcyclist%5Fenforcement/

#BikeTooter #SanFrancisco

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
phildini@wandering.shop wrote:

Lmao I just realized that the competitors I’ve found to what CivicBand is doing, who’ve raised a bunch of VC to do what we’re giving away, all post-date me writing this blog post:

https://phildini.dev/digitizing-55-000-pages-of-civic-meetings

Fascinating coincidence.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
headius ("Charles Oliver Nutter") wrote:

There's a ton of Open Source developers out of work right now. The same developers that maintain the libraries and runtimes you all depend upon for your apps. The same libraries and runtimes all your AI code is built upon. Hire or sponsor someone today.

Boosted by jwz:
Retrograde@oldbytes.space wrote:

Slopless vim fork by Drew DeVault :blobthumbsup: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

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

I need to write a follow up to this. It might even be hopeful

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

Is this why American EVs are so expensive? Every tiny part is a custom molded piece of plastic made just for this specific model of car?

Got tapped in traffic, cracked a brake light. $1100 list price for just the inner half of light. Found it on “sale” for $750.

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

early A18 yields were below 10%

yeah i'm not surprised

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

intel's 18A process involves checks notes drilling nanoscopic holes into the back side of a polished thin wafer with picometer precision and filling them with metal

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

there are two basic principles in tye Multiverse: Yum and Yuck. this is Yum.

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

i dunno, when someone on youtube says they are an expert in something and i am not an expert in that something but i know a little and know they got something fairly basic wrong, that does not inspire confidence.

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

the windows laptop problem

do you need me to tell you, or...?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I think people may have been staying in some of these sheds not too long ago.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I assume these are remnants of the summer cabins that used to be in this area. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust #snow

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Rust and snow.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust

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

If I do a podcast, it'll be called:

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

it's not gonna go off. it was never on.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@ErikaSumner/116292158721344146

lmao at the only three member states who voted against this

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ErikaSumner@mstdn.social ("Erika Sumner") wrote:

#BREAKING #News: The #UnitedNations General Assembly has voted to recognize the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice. Note: #UN GA resolutions are not legally binding, though they carry the weight of global opinion.

#BlackMastodon #BLM

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052o

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

I say this not as someone who is pro-local AI but someone who is against the cloud. And against this sort of mass power grab enacted by the hyperscalers over the past five years.

It appears like they're failing. And short of passing legislation to codify a monopoly of some sort, their vision of our digital lives are not coming to fruition.

Boosted by jwz:
stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Jimmy con Carnage.

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javi@goblin.band wrote:

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

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

GitHub is apparently going to start using your data for model training unless you intentionally opt out of it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

It looks like this is mostly just limited to interactions with Copilot itself, but I'd turn it off anyway just to be safe...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.cthos.dev/@cthos/116291799262669611

Wow, the cynicism in this thread is off the charts. Google's aggressive accelleration of its internal PQC deadline has gotten the attention of a bunch of very smart people working in the field. You may think it's propaganda, but lots of us are wondering what Google knows is coming down the pike that the rest of us don't. It'd be an error to let this development go unreported.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@mattround tell the Apple people that you remember when they focused on delightful user experiences rather than control, that ought to prove you're old enough