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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bye@wetdry.world ("bye 📺 :spinny_cat: :nano: (nano is best)") wrote:

maybe search engines shouldnt own browsers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ross@fosstodon.org ("Ross Wintle") wrote:

Flippin real old-school deep internet magic happened this week.

There was a discussion about an old C64 game that was beloved by a couple of people including me.

Someone saw this and posted that they were in-person with the developer of that game.

The next day the dev joined Mastodon to join in the conversation and we could tell him direct how amazing his work was.

This... THIS is what the internet and social media should be like, and, as far as I remember, was for some time a while back.

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

Rebecca Watson has some brutal words for Lawrence Krauss. He deserves every scathing word!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/24/krauss-smashed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FNkGgutgc

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

Now it can be told: I wrote two episodes of Volume 4 of Love Death + Robots!

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/love-death-robots-season-4-trailer-1236377075/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rpsu@mas.to ("Rpsu (326 ppm)") wrote:

To end war send STOP to VLADIMIR

🤣

https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/114394077906826615

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

The Finals

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

#Pulp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

A DIY digital stethoscope for cats
New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1075/diy-digital-stethoscope-for-cats

#cat #diy #audacity

Boosted by jwz:
zoul@boskovice.social ("Tomáš Znamenáček") wrote:

Great review of Careless People (of Facebook fame) by @pluralistic. Works nicely as a quick summary if you don’t want to read hundreds of pages about Facebook. https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction.

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

Kickstarter adding a tariff manager to their backend because they know their userbase is entirely fucked.

jwz wrote:

Got another metal band coming through who want to open doors even earlier so they can be in bed by 10pm.

Big bad Satanists, I tell you what.

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

I guess that makes some kinda sense @CARROT

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#uspol "why don't you just move production to the US?"
- chaotic changes destroyed cash flow, SMBs struggle to survive, can't invest
- retaliatory tariffs mean US manufacturing can't sell anywhere else
- it takes 5 years to build new supply chains, but republican tantrums can make them unprofitable overnight
- it's easier to build in India or sell to the EU instead
- these jobs pay $2-$4 per hour. The only way to bring them to the US is to automate them out of existence

https://youtu.be/1W%5FmSOS1Qts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djb@cr.yp.to ("Daniel J. Bernstein") wrote:

The gcc/clang excuse for changing program behavior, often introducing bugs and security holes (see https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-xu-jianhao.pdf), is performance. But a new paper https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf modifies clang to eliminate most (all?) such changes, and finds negligible effect on benchmarks.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helpcomputer0@mastodon.art ("Adam (Commissions Open)") wrote:

I released a new SEGA Master System game today on itch! #homebrew #mastersystem

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

my article for css-tricks.com is live c:

https://css-tricks.com/the-lost-css-tricks-of-cohost-org/

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

I have made a release of "git-withme" which allows peer-to-peer Git usage over #magicWormhole

This uses short, human-memorable codes to invite peers to collaborate (push, pull, etc) in real-time on a Git repository with no external hosting providers. Creates a temporary bare repository on the host so it feels like GitLab style usage.

"pip install git-withme" or see the project pages:

https://git.sr.ht/~meejah/git-withme

https://pypi.org/project/git-withme/

#python #git #p2p

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Konstantinos Dimopoulos") wrote:

You can find the impressive (and free) BBC sound effects archive here: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered?

Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2508/ #space #science #astronomy #nature

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djwtwo ("Dennis Wilkinson") wrote:

Osprey emerging from the water with its catch.

#photography #birds #wildlife #birdphotography #nature #masswildlife #wareham #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ChadMeyer@photog.social ("Planet Chad Photography") wrote:

I had a picture ready for #WildlifeWednesday but then I went out to the local park today and spotted this scene of 2 northern water snakes and a broadhead skink all hanging out together!

#snake #SnakesOfMastodon #skink #reptile #nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #herpetology

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

It’s #InverteFest again! So here is my pollinator propaganda for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with technology but their continued success is vital. We need to foster the insects to keep ecosystems functioning. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insects #entomology #ecology #pollinators #nativeBees #butterflies #moths

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:

Companies like Infatica are paying app developers to include a SDK into their apps. This SDK transforms the users of these apps into docile botnet participants. Infatica's own customers are then using these residential, normal-user IPs to crawl the web (for AI data gathering purposes, for example).

Good write-up sounding the alarm: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kc2ihx@mastodon.hams.social ("Evan KC2IHX (he/him)") wrote:

NPR has an article about #DigiKey and the impact of US #tariff policy. Quite the read, and a number of pictures of their warehouse, for those interested.

(Also a cool photo of the Thief River Falls, #Minnesota train station turned City Hall.)

#uspol #AmateurRadio #electronics

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5332209/digikey-tariff-small-minnesota-town-big-company

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
dphiffer@social.coop ("Dan Phiffer") wrote:

In light of the XBAND Rough font thing that’s been making the rounds, I decided to wear my @xor “You Wouldn't Reimplement an API” shirt today. It gets more esoteric as time goes on but also funnier when people get it.
https://parkerhiggins.net/2016/05/you-wouldnt-reimplement-an-api/

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

BTW, that really was me typing (you can tell by the terrible accuracy). The audio is of my actual keyboard, a stock HHKB Professional Hybrid.

But this reminded me that I once wrote a script that can type the way I type, which is kind cool: https://neatnik.net/typo/

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

Because of its vast corpus of stolen material, your favorite LLM talks to you just like a person would. But it is not a person. Do you say “please” and “thank you” to your microwave, too? Imagine for a moment if you saw someone do that. That’s how you look when you say it to ChatGPT.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

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

A little #neato update.

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• video: A screen recording of a in a web browser, showing the following content being typed: --- yaml_frontmatter: yes! --- # The Neato Editor I’m typing this in the Neato Editor, which is starting to take shape with some neat features so far: - Markdown **syntax** _highlighting_ - HTML too! - YAML frontmatter parsing (for `nerds`) Learn more about Neato by visiting [neato.pub](https://neato.pub) and sign up to be notified when it’s ready!