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

SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• Judas: The one I kiss is Jesus Christ. Soldier: You can just point to him. Judas: (putting on lip-balm) I don't tell you how to do your job. (remote)

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

Microplastics & nanoplastics are scary stuff. That they don't kill us quickly is only slightly reassuring. 🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/31/what-are-all-these-plastics-doing-to-us/

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• bioaccumulation of fluorescent nanoplastics in zebrafish (remote)

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

yumiko@vivaldi.net ("ᎩᏬᎷᎥᏦᎧ :vivaldi_red:") wrote:

モクレンさん満開♪

#ビバ丼お花部 #ビバ丼写真部
#ハクモクレン #木蓮 #モクレン #白い花 #春の花 #flowers #flowerphotography #spring #naturephotography #マストドン写真部

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• モクレンさん満開 (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

LinkedIn is a dating site for people who date their jobs.

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

nonfedimemes@wetdry.world ("memes stolen from outside fedi") wrote:

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• Proprietary backdoor mental gymnastics: I want a backdoor in this software -> I ask the corpos to grant me access Open source backdoor mental gymnastics: Find not well maintained related project -> Spend 5 years gaining the maintainer trust -> Insert brittle system to introduce vulnerability -> Immediately get noticed by an autist due to 0.5s startup delay (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

moshboy wrote:

battle chess, title screen, macintosh (1991) https://www.mobygames.com/game/1950/battle-chess/screenshots/macintosh/492549/

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• monochrome macintosh texture: chess board with the queen, a knight, the king, the bishop, a rook and a pawn(?) pixelated in their literal forms. background is a brick wall with three round arches and stairs.

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

dear friend Michelle with her pooch JoJo at Ft. Ross

https://www.fortross.org/

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• 21290c11497c3489.png (remote)

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

analogist@social.ridetrans.it ("James Wu") wrote:

How #xz could have been avoided:

1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used *some* of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”

2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I got stickershock when they introduced raytracing gpus so bad that I haven't really looked at new gpus in a few years. My current one is 7 years old at this point, so even new-but-midrange ones are a dramatic improvement at a comparable price

Unfortunately I'd probably have to replace the motherboard too

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

astrid@fedi.astrid.tech ("idiot server maid") wrote:

❌ free as in beer
❌ free as in speech
✅ free as in "of asbestos"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Back in Europe.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting next to an airplane window.

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

Nothing says "macs are getting serious about gaming" like two Apple Store employees gaming on PC laptops after hours.

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• 84fbcef2285431c1.png (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Seriously, in retrospect, #autotools itself is a massive supply-chain security risk.

It has normalized shipping and running tens of thousands of lines of arbitrary executable code without any safeguards.

Code that is so mind-numbingly awful that nobody will review it, and written in a language that is full of gotchas that are sneaky eval gadgets.

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

evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

In light of the xz debacle, I'd like to note that the maintainer of ninja expressed interest in stepping down but hasn't found a candidate:

https://groups.google.com/g/ninja-build/c/HqLF-JzsEdc

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

People are afraid of running unaudited `curl | sh`, but nobody bats an eye on 24707 lines of obfuscated garbage in `./configure`.

#xz

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

Pick your battles warrior meme except its browser tabs or interests.

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

cindyweinstein@mastodon.world ("Cindy Weinstein") wrote:

#Biden's proclamation on #Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2024.

"Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/#:~:text=On%20Transgender%20Day%20of%20Visibility%2C%20we%20honor%20the%20extraordinary%20courage,treated%20equally%20throughout%20their%20lives.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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

phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:

Men will literally make a web site

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Whats a movie that when you get together with your family, you have to watch together?

Ours in Nacho Libre and we quote it non-stop.

#movies #nacholibre

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• f020ab2c2a9d9c9b.mp4

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I haven't downloaded/watched all of these yet but I'm assuming they're all in Portuguese & probably without subs. I know Vento Seco has subtitles up on opensubtitles but the older short films probably don't

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The director of Vento Seco is on twitter and I THINK his account has been compromised by some kind of crypto thing, but thankfully they haven't wiped/replaced the stuff on his profile that's already there.

When I went to check his profile, I noticed that he has a link to a google drive folder with all his films: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HZNKWawmqHlZDn_-o4XSG8I1Od7OUCiX

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Cryptocurrencies are everything people don’t know about computers combined with everything they don’t understand about money."

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

@lonnie anybody who mentions Capybara in their old profile is okay by me ;^}

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

@lonnie [waves hello]

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

You gain some new better behaviors, but you also get a new set of bugs which you've already fixed before. This, in my experience has been the story of #FSD development for a long time now.

By the way, I don't know if there's a better way for this technology. We don't have an alternative success story. But make no mistake, this is still an area of active research, not even close to a finished product, not even a Beta. No matter hard Elon Musk tries to gaslight everyone into thinking otherwise.

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

It acquired an infuriating "rubber band" behavior when driving straight behind someone on back roads with the 35 mph speed limit. It constantly tries to close on the leading car with excessive acceleration and then decelerate overly hard when it comes too close. Those are not *harsh* per se, not anything like phantom breaking of yore. But it's enough to make you car sick. Overall, it's just dumb.

Which confirms are long standing truism in software development: ground-up rewrites are dangerous.

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

So, #FSD. I happen to have it in my #Tesla, and a few days ago it updated to version 12. The reviews from long-time early adopters on YouTube were universally excited, and I agree it got smoother and more natural than version 11. Going through turns on red and stop signs is almost human (in a good way), and roundabouts are not embarrassing anymore.

But...

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

tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

An `` web component similar to what you know from GitHub: https://mariohamann.com/activity-graph-component. I love this trend of #Wasm server-rendered components. See the demo: https://mariohamann.github.io/activity-graph/.

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

fkamiah17@toot.wales ("the trouble with mia :baner:") wrote:

How to respect pronouns in five words.

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• Queen wait they're nonbinary monarch (remote)

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

Have you given your spiders a little love today?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/30/a-plea-for-sympathy/

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• Arachnids do so much for us. (remote)