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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

The irony.
On World Water Day, the Russians attack the largest remaining dam in Ukraine, a clear and explicit violation of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols against attacking civilian #water infrastructure and dams.
And a reminder they most certainly destroyed the massive Kakhovka Dam last June.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68637596

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Wilto. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”

The Spirit was immovable as ever.

Wilto crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the computer his own fate: “one day you’ll max out the character limit on a linkedin post”

“Am I that man?” he cried, upon his knees.

“lol” replied The Spirit. “lmao”

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

🧵 [1/2]

In the late 1980s I was a young Amiga game dev and "demo-scene" guy, member of the Digital Force International.

Back then, I really liked an Amiga music track called Journey Through Galaxy, by Darius Zendeh, a.k.a. Mark II.

To surprise a friend in those days, I made this a cappella tribute to the track with our composer Ramon Braumuller, using our sampled voices.

The original track follows in the next post…

#commodore #amiga #soundtrack #chiptune #mod #music #synth #RetroComputing

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• A cappella version of an old Amiga music module, with 8-bit samples. (remote)

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.

Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊

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• Dear Rust Foundation and global Rust community, We at the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) respect Rust and its global community. Rust has already proven its ability to increase the reliability and security of the internet and the rest of global digital infrastructure. The global Rust community amazes us with its enthusiasm, commitment, and ingenuity. We are also aware that an increasing number of Rust projects use the .rs domain. As Rust grows and gets adopted as a dependency in many places, there is growing concern about, among other things, whether the use of the .rs domain, Serbia's national TLD, represents a risk or liability. Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds, we, as the Board of Governors and CEO of RNIDS, would like to reach out to the Rust Foundation and the Rust community to express our support for your efforts and to say that the global Rust community is welcome on the .rs domain. So, know that you have a friend at RNIDS, and you may contact us with any concerns you may have about any .rs domain that you believe is vital to the Rust ecosystem or the stability and resilience of the global internet infrastructure. Keep up the excellent work! Best Regards, Dejan Djukic CEO & Ivan Minic, Chairman Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation Žorža Klemansoa 18а/I, 11108 Belgrade, Serbia | +381.11.7281.281 rnids.rs | domen.rs (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

jimray wrote:

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Elon Musk. That's the whole joke.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/musk-mocking-its-always-fun/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFloLGmPKl0

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

ianbetteridge@writing.exchange ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

This is one of those "thank god some journalists understand the history of antitrust" moments. One small quibble: Allison says, "I’m not really sure Apple owes the DOJ a thank-you card for making the iPhone possible", but Gates himself noted how, distracted by antitrust, Microsoft's ability to compete in smartphones was curtailed. They might not have stopped Apple, but they might well have been able to stop Android.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/22/24107693/doj-us-versus-apple-complaint-microsoft-antitrust-case

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

foolip@mastodon.nu ("Philip Jägenstedt") wrote:

Trying to use oklab() for a background color, found a strange bug... https://crbug.com/330863447

Remember to stay away from the gamut edge kids!

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• A test case with the description "Test passes if the background is a single pink color." Two shades of pink are shown in Chrome. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not suggesting this is actually feasible or probable, but I am suggesting that corporate entities would find this an attractive idea.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've had an idea for a story rolling around in my head for a while, and it occurred to me that one aspect of the story maps to Copilot (or something like it in the future).

Imagine a future scenario where developers aren't allowed direct access to one another, but they are granted an AI coworker. A cheery, knowledgeable companion that provides continual guidance to stay on task and not worry too much about corporate things. Division of labor complete. Dissent smothered.

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

turning my personal blog into a co blog, sign up here to watch our Assistant pull a rabbit out of our hat:

https://arghstudios.com/

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:​

there's honestly very little that the big brained titans of corporate tech can do to make this place awful for the rest of us.

it's pretty easy for us to make this place awful for corporate tech titans, though.

shush the little billionaire defender in your mind and block the hell out of corporate platforms. you'll feel better about things in the long run. really.

:blobpats:​

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

sphakos@toot.cat ("Sage Sharp") wrote:

Stop using #Mailchimp.

Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.

Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.

Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.

See section 30. Generative AI Features: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

Archive.org historical link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231018110117/https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

This is a good time to switch to open source mailing list software:

Mailman: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

• hosted services from https://mailmanlists.net/

Mautic: https://www.mautic.org/

• hosted services from https://friendly.ch/en/automate

SendPortal: https://sendportal.io/

Caveat: I haven't tried the software and hosted services mentioned, except mailman. YMMV.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Honestly, Winter, it's too late.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/timely-in-time-for-untimely-weather/

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• March morning (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's about time someone put Apple in its place.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/none-should-be-too-big-for-justice/

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

davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

'The messianic bent of the latest AI bubble has a lot to do with people noting that "something I don't know how to do" includes both "drawing a cool picture" and "inventing perpetual motion", and concluding that if a big model can do one, a bigger model must surely be able to do the other.' - Soliipsody https://bsky.app/profile/solipsodist.bsky.social/post/3kobmczcpg42a

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

erlend@writing.exchange ("Erlend Sogge Heggen") wrote:

@smallcircles @julian the author of the #RustLang OIDC library Rauthy will accept a PR for FedCM if someone can give it a go 💫

https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy/discussions/145#discussioncomment-8831943

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

Lsquare28@mstdn.social ("Larry :verified:") wrote:

LOL #BrokeAssTrump #tЯump

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• Screen capture of an excerpt of an article at thehill.com, that reads “President Biden on Thursday took a dig at former President Trump over his financial issues after Trump’s lawyer said he can’t pay his $464 million bond. “I know not everyone’s feeling enthusiasm. The other day a defeated man … came up to me and said, Mr. President I’m being crushed by debt, I’m completely wiped out,” Biden said. “I had to say, ‘I’m sorry Donald, I can’t help you.’” (remote)

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I need to remember what a teacher said to me once that changed my life "nobody is probably even going to notice the weird things you keep doing so just keep doing them and don't worry about it."

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

technewz_bot@mastodon.metawarrior.army wrote:

Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786370
posted by #technewz_bot #tech #news

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

VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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

johnlogic@sfba.social ("John Carlsen") wrote:

"Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.

by Dan Goodin - Mar 21, 2024 6:40am PST"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

#InfoSec #AppleM1 #AppleM2

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

tarek@oldbytes.space ("Tarek") wrote:

1986 feels like 2024 #artificialintelligence
#retrocomputing

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

lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Showing their true colors and in a gift to Democrats, GOP calls for Medicare and Obamacare cuts, national abortion restrictions, and more evil. -https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-budget-raise-age-retirement-social-security-medicare-rcna144341

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• Cat killing coming next? (remote)

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

Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

@GottaLaff

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• Black gentleman in a tan hoodie saying, "That's not gonna work". (remote)

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

jaywink@jasonrobinson.me ("Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴") wrote:

Threads has entered the fediverse - Engineering at Meta

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

I must admit I never thought this would actually happen, #Threads federating with the Fediverse, but it did, woah. Pretty huge moment for #ActivityPub. Now lets hope #Meta plays it nice with interop, well as nice as any of the other bickering and sometimes somewhat poorly interopping #Fediverse platforms are doing :P

While I totally expect half of the Fedi to go on an instance blocking spree, personally I'm happy for this development. And hey, even if half of the Fedi does go on an instance blocking spree, that is fine. It's all a part of the freedom provided by a decentralized federated network.

It's a huge pity #Bluesky settled on building their own platform. We could be a very big nice happy family had they chosen to adopt ActivityPub during the evaluations they did.

I just hope resharing Zuck's first Fedi post wont demolish my poor #Socialhome instance 😅

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

Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

https://youtu.be/DYPCnsSxfzs?si=JZ7VFC8swKy03Ura

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

crschmidt@better.boston ("Christopher Schmidt") wrote:

New thing coming…

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I almost forgot the fourth dumbest category: the "but 55% isn't a monopoly!" brigade.

[ taps the sign ]

https://www.justice.gov/archives/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-firm-conduct-under-section-2-sherman-act-chapter-2#:~:text=section%202%20cases.-,As%20a%20practical%20matter%2C%20a%20market%20share%20of%20greater%20than,the%20existence%20of%20monopoly%20power.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

We sat down with @JSPartyFM for 2 hours to talk about the history of OWA, the Digital Markets Act, Apple's attempt to kill web apps & the fight for the future of the web! 🎉

Join us for our deepest dive yet:

https://jsparty.fm/316 🎧