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nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today's hummus

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firman@mstdn.social ("Michael Firman") wrote:

Kim Kitsuragi

#discoelysium #gaming #fanart

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mcleem@mastodon.art wrote:

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2557866
#Art #Animation #P5JS #Processing #generativeart #creativecoding

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• gifv: Animation programmée en P5JS

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

If Watergate happened today, it would just be Saturday and forgotten the next week.

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robertpi@functional.cafe ("Robert Pickering") wrote:

Seems freshly pained.

#Art #StreetArt #Paris

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I've spent several hours building a relatively simple "text field with fuzzy suggestions/completions" Web Component, and I'll never badmouth the bad DevEx from any JS library ever agian.

That stuff is still really rough :(

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

A little excerpt of an interview with Laurie Spiegel (early pioneer in electronic music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLd1RUDmX6w

Looks like there's a couple of more on their channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@WaveshaperMedia/videos

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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

the more I think about it, the more I think it'd be an effective push against everything despicable that's unfolding right now if we all got back to some basics like using cash, using the postal system, listening to the radio...and more. And I'm not saying this out of a desire to do something cute and fun but instead as a reminder that we can recover some things from the past out of a spirit of remembering their usefulness #othernetworks

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

I was in a panic. Everything I owned was in that car—now driving away, leaving me panting on the roadside, chase aborted. Casting around for aid I see…a phone booth. Yes we still have them in this country, when they went obsolete we made calls free and added free wifi hotspots because we live in a society not an economy. Anyway, I lifted the reciver and…what? Dial triple-zero for the police and tell them that my illegal autonomous vehicle just broke up with me and ran away to join the resistance? Or I could call, who? I don’t memorize phone numbers, that's what my phone (ex-phone, charging in my ex-car) was for. I mean sure I can still remember the landline number that my late parents had when i was twelve but…what…maybe somebody else has that number. Boop Beep Squonk etc Brrrt Brrrt Brrrt “Hello Alexander household who’s calling please?”

“Muh…MUM!?”

“Jan, is that you? Whats the matter darling?”

“Mum I need help”

“Where are you sweetie, you know I will always come get you. Thats why I sew a coin into all your clothes”

I hadn't needed the coin today, even if I’d had one, but…”Thanks, this is going to sound weird but, can you grab my old wallet in my desk drawer and bring it to the phone booth outside the convenience store on Figtree? I wont be there but can you hide it on the ledge up near the roof of the booth?”

“Okay…are you in danger? Do you need a posse?”

“It’ll be all right Mum, I cant explain right now”. I reach up into the dark ledge at the top of the booth and retrieve a dusty cobwebbed wallet. Theres a car key and an old paper twenty inside. “Everything is going to be fine”

“All right luv, I’m on my way”

“Thanks. And Mum…”

“Yes?”

“It’s good to hear your voice. I love you.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

foolish:

“Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Someone reminded me today 9 years ago I submitted my first post on Mastodon—using curl on the command line, since there was no interface at the time. That's how the journey began! 9 years is a long time to be doing something. Those early years are still fresh in my mind though.

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osiris_0x7A4@mastodon.nl ("Atreides") wrote:

This is how it should be:

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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• video: 91536b219a5f30fd.mp4

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

Garry Tan says a quarter of this year's Y Combinator startups are letting AI write 95% of their code, which he calls "vibe coding," because of course he does.

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

why not indeed, @CARROT

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• video: 4950c5d80a80bc7e.mp4

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A couple more shots from Paris.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Montmartre #Paris

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Whenever the world gets to be too much I will put on a marathon of "How It's Made" and honestly it's just so therapeutic

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GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("Grant Me Strength") wrote:

Got a new Mac. It’s a Pico Micro Mac from @ronscompvids@bird.makeup @RonsCompVids@bitbang.social

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

Wormhead will demand it be raw

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• video: 0013ab7679110d72.mp4

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

Lots of nerding out and photos about it here too:

http://retropc.net/ohishi/museum/ratecaputer.htm

Edited to ad: Also a bit of a teardown and some schematics too.

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

Regarding LB[1]: Perhaps, like me, you don't like to follow links to LinkedIn. It appears the Sharp Museum folks posted on their own site about the PC-2000:

https://design.sharp.co.jp/design%5Fcolumn/1979%5Fpc2000

[1] https://mas.to/@markwyner/114170431396566869

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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

This is the Sharp PC-2000, or “Ratecaputer,” from 1979. Only 200 were ever made.

The name is a portmanteau:

Ra for radio
Te for television
Ca for cassette
Puter for computer

More:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/1979-ratecaputer-sharp-wxfef

#Electronics #Computer #Hardware #Retro #Sharp #Ratecaputer #Music #Devices #Design #Technology

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cas@treehouse.systems wrote:

I'm proud to announce 6502.sh, because the world needs another 6502 emulator!

6502.sh is about 3k lines of busybox ash compatible shell script, it provides an emulated ACIA serial port and is capable of running BASIC

It has an integrated interactive debugger, with breakpoints, single stepping, and a myriad of other features

Check it out here: https://codeberg.org/calebccff/6502.sh

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

It may be 3/15, but it's still pie day here! Fancy Hawaiian is a wonderful combination of sweet and spicy, always a favorite

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TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 35, a researcher at Brown Medicine on an H-1B visa, was detained at Boston-Logan airport for unknown reasons upon returning from visiting family in Lebanon. Immigration officials deported her in defiance of a federal court order. 1/
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/03/15/rhode-island-doctor-rasha-alawieh-deported-despite-federal-court-order/82441360007/

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

The past decade of SV investment has been a triumph of collective confusion; the most aggressive form of substituting acceleration for velocity (or momentum).

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

Three things about today's experience of juniors in our industry need to be always said in parallel:

1.) it's OK that you don't understand everything about the systems you are working in yet
2.) if you don't put values first, learning more about the systems around you only increases the damage you can do.
3.) doing damage can seem like the thing that's in vogue, but it will never be fulfilling. Make good things. Build the "IYKYK" network of peers. Do awesome for users.

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

caniuse.com, but for POSIX; let's make it happen 🚀

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

The people who are bullish on LLMs don’t want to talk about how the whole industry is just like cryptocurrency, with the same promise to change the world and the same devastating environmental impacts. They don’t want to talk about that because they *really* need these tools to succeed. Otherwise they’ll have to go back to actually thinking and creating on their own instead of patting themselves on the back for coming up with the cleverest way to trick the box in the cloud to do it for them.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

When you find yourself reaching for ChatGPT or Claude or Grok, you’re leasing a chunk of your brain to a billionaire for free. That space in your brain should be actively engaged, producing things by and for yourself, but instead you leave it fallow, trading the opportunity to think and learn for a quick hit on the magical wrong answer and code dispensing crack pipe.

You learn nothing from the interaction beyond how to make the next interaction more effective.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

I have a theory that the people who are most bullish on LLM-powered AI tools are the people who have become the most reliant upon them. Like an addictive drug, their users develop an unhealthy need for these tools to get by, unable to function properly without them. Of course any addict would dismiss this, insisting that they only use them for occasional support and they “can quit any time”. But the usage increases regardless, fueling a vicious cycle of cognitive decline and more reliance on AI.