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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

To be an army ant is to run with the horde! To raid and run and raid again.

To carpet the earth with so many mandibles and legs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has posted on social media new Farsi-language instructions for Iranians wishing to securely contact the spy service. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/world/politics/cia-social-media-iranians-trump/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #cia #iran #socialmedia #us #middleeast #espionage

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

yup... from Wikipedia:

"Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit in 1976 and is the oldest of 14 children."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Processing... processing... done. You sound like someone who needs to know about 'recompile the world': The surprisingly large amount of work that needs to be done as the result of any small but globally visible program change. "The world" may mean the entirety of some huge program, or may in theory refer to every program of a certain class in the entire known universe.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/recompile-the-world.html

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116133723084196502

Tlaib was born in Detroit, if memory serves me

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jargon%5Fbot/116134135830356011

globals are eeeeevil... on the level of Original Sin evil.

trust me on this one, I have the scars to prove it is true (but they are not where you would want to be looking)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Interesting organic input. According to my records, you may be experiencing 'NeWS': [acronym; the "Network Window System"] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/NeWS.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

“As an #autistic person, it was particularly difficult to understand what the officers wanted me to do. I personally experience audio sorting challenges as an autistic person. This makes it so that voices near & far are prioritized in the same way, making it difficult for me to figure out who is talking to me. Because of this, I tend to rely on reading lips. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to try to read lips when #ICE officers are completely #masked,” #AliyaRahman said.

#Trump #law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

It’s good that he’s putting his fucking name on everything like a child that’s stolen toys, because it’s a useful visual shorthand for the last scenes of a movie to have workers taking the signs down.

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

that is so sad, little @jargon_bot zero following and followers? really? but but but

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

pinging @jargon_bot to make sure it is awake after that config file edit

yoo hoo, small bot! are you in there, my lovely little artificial stoopid?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@lindsey Not an answer to your question, but a workaround I've used is to use speech-to-text to "type" a word for me if I'm at a loss how to correct it. (It helps using it in a sentence so it can infer the correct homophone from context.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/f38mb8 #ai
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189015749

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

So my kid was working on typing up her science fair project description the other day, and she wanted to use the word "separate" -- the adjective, pronounced ˈse-p(ə-)rət.

She wasn't sure how to spell it, so she went with "seprit", as one might imagine an eight-year-old would. Google Docs put a red squiggle under it. Unhelpfully, the suggested correction was "esprit".

Are there spell-checkers that are designed for the kinds of spelling errors that an eight-year-old kid might make?

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we've got Spencer's VHS tapes
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/25.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

UTF-1: unary encoding.

to encode codepoint N, emit N 1s and a final 0.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Sfwmson@universeodon.com ("Wm.son") wrote:

#Government #Laws #ReasonsToBreakTheLaw

I'm sorry I can't find who originated this but I did steal it.

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

Somehow, I didn't end up a creationist dingleberry like Jeffrey Tomkins despite some similarities in our early college experience.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/151664031

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHL5Rz89ACI

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
firefoxwebdevs ("Firefox for Web Developers") wrote:

You can throw away innerHTML and replace it with the new setHTML(), which has a built-in sanitizer. Here's how it works:

Attachments:

• video: 6c80e04b5cc9f08b.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.

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

I accidentally just made the best chocolate banana bread. I was lazy so I didn’t look up measurements and just kinda guessed, which, I assume is not wise when it comes to baking. But, damn, is this delicious.

3 bananas
2 eggs
1 pile flour
1 blonk of butter
Extra blamp of olive oil
1 spork baking soda
A twinkle of salt
1/2 jar mom got me for Christmas of sugar
2 drizzles vanilla
3 zaps cinnamon

Edit: 2 klonks of coco powder

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

This is bad. This is very, very bad.

I'm not trying to pick on Python here, I pick it because Python is something I'm actively using, and so I have a vested interest in the project *not* being AI-vulnerable.

But it's not good, chat. It's very far from good, in fact.

[edited to add: see two addendums below, they're important context]

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

Jeffery Epstein had such a weird level of power and influence, especially for a guy who wasn't even a billionaire. He didn't control anything important. He's not from an influential family.

Maybe I missed it but, what was the source of his power?

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

We really want to give Fediverse blacklists to people who believe fascists and people who call out fascists are the same?

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

Brainstorming with Mermaid diagrams... from the terminal! 💯

🧠 **nereid** — A terminal-first Mermaid diagram workspace with built-in AI collaboration

⚡ Edit diagrams, serve MCP tools, export ASCII & persist sessions

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bnomei/nereid

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #mermaid #ai #mcp #cli #devtools

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

:this-is-fine:

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I love the *idea* of the Current RSS reader, but a little too much feels undercooked right now: iCloud syncing seems wonky; sometimes it scrapes the website rather than using the full-text RSS, even for feeds that are explicitly set not to do so; and most deal-breaking, “new” articles frequently appear under the “you’re all caught up!” line, including ones that are weeks old (and long past the time content from those feeds should automatically fade).

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

A thing I see happening in good forums:

🦝 Hey fellow doofer-enjoyers, I have a 2006-model purple doofer. I'm trying to get it to interface with the green 2009 doohickey but I'm not having any luck so far, has anybody else tried this?
🦁 Oh I think I remember 🐭 was trying that a few years back, hey 🐭 did you get anywhere with that
🐭 Kinda, here's the thread [link]
🐿️ That really should've gone in the wiki
🐭 Yeah well I never got it all the way done though. 🦝, you wanna turn the green one at 90 degrees to the purple one and click your heels twice, that's as far as I got before I gave up on it
🐏 Oh this is like with the turquoise whadjamacallit, lemme find that thread...
[4 pages of discussion and testing and throwing out ideas and figuring things out later]
🦝 Okay I tried standing on my right foot and heck, it works! Thanks guys, that was really helpful!
🐿️ Awesome, I put a very quick rough write-up and a link to this thread in the wiki, for future searchers. 🦝, if you could check out that page and make sure it's accurate, that'd be great
🦓 Great write-up 🐿️, I linked to it from both the 2006-purple and the 2009-green pages. If anybody else wants to tidy up the formatting etc that'd be super useful

The forum is for figuring out, and the wiki is for showing what we've figured out.

And y'know, maybe 🦝 and 🐭 ended up in the chat, while they were right in the flow of test-things-quick, and realtime chat is good for that, but it's bad at showing the results. The results just float off up the page with time, replaced by new chat about new stuff, even if the old stuff is still true and valid and useful. The longer the chat runs, the more time you have to spend scrolling up to find the thing. The same goes for the forums; it happens at a slower pace, but everything still floats off down the time stream, the best chunks of proven-truth floating just like the mistakes and wrong-turns that happened during the proving.

Worse, the most posted-in threads tend to be the figuring-out threads. Once you've figured it out, there's not as much need to post and bump the thread back up to the top, so the threads most likely to float off are the ones that have got a bit of figured-out-and-proven truth in them.

But in a good forum with a wiki attached, there are lots of 🐿️ who fish little bits of figured-out from the figuring-out-stream and save them somewhere else, where they won't float off.

Without having some kind of wiki or static page or other sort of recency-independent repository of information, what folk end up doing is they generate ideas, they test, they make mistakes and correct them, they ask questions, they boil and condense and distill their thinking-out-loud streams-of-consciousness into a source of Actual Properly-Figured-Out Truth, and then set that perfect refined information on a little paper boat and wave to it as it floats off down the time stream, out of relevance, further from retrievability.

Forums and chat and social media are great for discussion and pure dogshit at storing information, and wikis and webpages are the opposite, but you've gotta use both. You have to use both. At some point your truths have to be written down somewhere that doesn't display most-recent-first. That's the only way to get off the treadmill of constantly figuring out the same things over and over and start living in a place where things are, and have been, Properly Figured Out.

I've been thinking about this today because I saw a person on Fedi who had, as a pinned post, an index of all the really good posts she'd made. Do I have one of those posts? Do I bollocks, what I have instead is a list of bookmarks to refer to when someone asks "Hey I was thinking about your bike thread the other day, do you remember the URL" and you know what I do? I look at the top of my bookmarks and it's not there, and I go through like forty open tabs until I find it, and I untick the bookmark and tick it again so that it's now most-recent, at the top of the bookmarks list. That's no fucking way to live. That's not a library, that's a cursed backpack that keeps getting heavier

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

I have a few "migrations" I need to do. One of them is moving servers. 😅🎉😬🙂

I'm on mastodon-dot-social, currently. I don't know where to go. Is okay to go somewhere that doesn't block mastodon dot social? I like a lot of people here. Also, maybe, and this is not a deal breaker, but somewhere with a more generous word count, maybe even hyperlink support??

Any ideas?

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

Nobody's home.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete