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

okay, so I am impressed with the integrations meshing together git and VS Code and the rust/cargo ecosystem

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I wonder what the discrepancy is between follower counts #threads #fediverse

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• Screenshot of threads account with 352 followers
• Screenshot of threads account on mastodon with 361 followers

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

This is how #Threads shows likes from Mastodon lmao

#SecretLikes

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• Screenshot of a threads post that says "hello". Under the post reads "1 fediverse user from 1 server" with a heart.

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Whenever people complain about their favorite intellectual property from their childhood becoming “woke” it’s usually because it simply went over their heads as kids.

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• 49decb4e2287d5f8.jpeg (remote)

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

dns & email finally configured in a way that makes the big-fish mail relay services like daGoogles happy to deal with my server, & set corp webserver & mailserver to both use the same cert. I have not set up a mail server from scratch since the 90s, and things are locked down & complexificated just a teenie bit more than then.

but arghstudios.com addresses are good to go now

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

it's so funny to me when an english speaker treats "in the dictionary" as a meaningful category

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

there's such a crazy wild west out there of "lists of common English words." fascinating and frustrating!

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

You know I'm actually surprised how many people, including young ones, do actually watch movies in theaters. Somehow I considered it to be well passé at this day and age.

(Yes, I'm pretty introverted.)

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

NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

me being trans and tired and visible on #transdayofvisibility

you can live to get old ok? just so you know. I know that's not terribly big to anybody but us, but I think it’s important to know when it may not feel a given. time passes and the world is sometimes shit but it's also kind and surprising with decades of this wonderfulness behind me and more to come.

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• a photo of a nanoraptor looking fat and tired and grey but with a goddamned room full of awesome machinery to run. life is ok. getting old - surviving to be old - is wonderful and possible. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project.
New blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project

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• A pencil sketch of Pepper and Carrot lost at the crossroads. A remake of a panel of episode 17 "A fresh start". (remote)

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

@bcantrill has posted a nice commentary on my Hubris bug article and @mjk's allocation post.

https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

For many years, I've seen culture engineering as a big part of my job. At Oxide I started it before my first interview, when I asked some probing questions that wound up changing how we share information with candidates -- and also got the mandatory arbitration clause (which, to be fair, had come in a "startup paperwork" kit) removed.

We're doing okay, and we'll keep improving.

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

I do so miss the North Bay cid:18e92553ad4cb9708ce1

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• friend Michelle Irwin and her pooch JoJo at Ft Ross (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Engineering a culture https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

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

bestiaexmachina@metalhead.club ("Sciasm") wrote:

My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!

#FuckTheSystem

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• Close-up of the upper left corner of a Huawei tablet. The screen displays a card game with an ad banner in the top left corner. There's a hand holding a piece of cardboard taped to the corner of the tablet. (remote)
• The same tablet corner close-up, but with the cardboard piece flipped down. It now exactly covers the ad in the corner of the screen. (remote)

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

interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

a very, very good critique of Effective Altruism by #LeifWenar, perhaps the best of the genre. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/ ht @deanwampler

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

Tomorrow being April 1st and all, now seems like a good time to head off for a little while. So tzaf, friends. See you when I get back. I hope you enjoy today however you observe it.

#doodle #yaombaaa #drawing

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• A drawing from my sketchbook done in blue pencil. In the foreground is what is supposed to be a red panda curled up on a tree branch. In the background is a large hairy creature with a toothy mouth and an ambiguous expression with eyes that apparently glow from within. The red panda has a speech bubble that says. "*yawn* TZAF, fedi". And the creature has a speech bubble that says, "TZAF" in a larger and bold script. (Who knows what I was thinking when I drew this.) (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

While #Threads opened its firehose of user content into #Mastodon, #Meta has been lobbying for stricter legislation and significant changes to section 230 that would make it harder for small instances to operate.

The Verge 2020:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21537040/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-section-230-hearing-reform-pact-act-big-tech

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• If Facebook starts lobbying for the PACT Act, that’s potentially a big deal. Facebook was a key backer of FOSTA-SESTA, a bill that removed Section 230 protections for content violating anti-prostitution laws. That bill became law in 2018, and Facebook itself was fairly well-equipped to deal with the changes — while smaller sites like Craigslist got hit hard. The PACT Act could have similar effects. Facebook already has a legion of moderators and a policy team that releases detailed transparency reports. A smaller site could have far fewer resources. The PACT Act has a “small business provider” exception, but it’s a fairly narrow one.

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

"Do your own research" is horrible advice, because almost nobody has any idea how to do actual, unbiased research.

Rule of thumb: if it involved a search algorithm (and just about everything on the Internet does), it wasn't research.

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

In these degenerate times, we too often weaken our appreciation of traditional gamey tough vulture necks with chocolate substitutes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/31/i-am-looking-forward-to-the-traditional-easter-dinner/

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• Conan on a cross (remote)

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

I don't care for country music, but I do love me some Beyoncé.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/31/beyonce-enchants-me-again/

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• Beyoncé's Country Carter album (remote)

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"