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

✨ Out of Space ✨ This is another artwork I created with Krita, al.chemy.org, and Blender within 24 hours minus sleep and breaks.💜 https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Out-of-Space-1195018123 #art #mastoart #fediart #krita #blender3d

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

Hm. My new reading glasses don’t work very well as computer glasses, while the previous ones did. But I’m not sure if that means the new one is wrong,or the old ones were…

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

Every attempt at using an Emacs “starter pack” has been a variant on “this is amazing, until adding a new package breaks everything in an inexplicable way”; this time, I am starting from scratch. Let’s see if I make it usable before Nova 13 finally ships.

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

Woah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ubC4bcgRM

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

I really don't understand how people can like NextJS and all of the black-magic inside it

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
luna@pony.social ("luna, only carbon now") wrote:

No means no*

*unless we determine that we have a legitimate interest

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

I'm pretty sure me setting fire to $32M would be a more effective way to burn that much money and never see a return.

Let's be honest, this investment only exists because they probably use the services of another company a16z invests in and they want to make that other company seem more profitable than it really is. There cannot be actual consumer demand for this.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114511418130214445

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Curious to hear from the hardcore Apple devs / creators / users. People who make and love Apple only tools - Things, OmniFocus, Bear, Overcast etc. Considering how anti consumer and anti dev Apple has become, and how much it’s alienated the community, what’s next? Stay, leave or go cross platform?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

...we love a dad that shares his passions with his son

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Watching: Shogun Assassin on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/ShogunAssassin

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
andyn@social.lol ("Andy") wrote:

@adam there are so many weird and wonderful alternatives these days as well. All of this stuff in the photo combined cost about half the price of the iPhone as well.

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

On the hardware side, how would yesterday’s Apple compete with the bland, sterile products that the company has been churning out for years?

We already know the answer to this one because we’ve already seen it happen. We’d have translucent pink plastic iPhones and we’d frigging *love* them.

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

What would yesterday’s Apple do if it was competing with today’s Apple?

They’d flip the App Store commission model into a transaction support model. Maybe charge a Visa/Mastercard-like processing fee of 2-3% rather than assert a right to a third of your earnings.

That’s how you attract people to your “private and secure payment system”.

https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/114508525232458373

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

Love Death + Robots Vol. 4 is now out on Netflix, and I wrote two of its episodes: "The Other Large Thing" and "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners," both directed by Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. I hope you enjoy both, and the entire terrific new season.

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

Apple was at its very best when it was the clear underdog, fighting for scraps of relevance, making moves just to try to show that it might be able to compete with IBM.

That was the era of the Apple II in schools, the Human Interface Guidelines, genuine whimsy in their designs, and actual respect for developers and customers.

That’s all gone now, because Apple doesn’t have to fight for anything other than its own position at the top. And good stuff only comes from offense, never defense.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
josh@appdot.net ("Josh – (Cats Call Me “Thumbs”)") wrote:

@brentsimmons In fact, the App Store destroyed a lot of great shareware and even freeware.

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

Putting my Crucial Tracks page to use sharing Crucial Covers, starting today!

First up: Ça Plane Pour Moi by The Lost Fingers. https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250515

#CrucialTracks #Cover

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ben@m.benui.ca ("ben 🇵🇸 ui") wrote:

This is also true for programmers who use LLMs that are trained on stolen code.

#gamedev

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

This is the Sony PS-F5, or “The Flamingo.” It’s a portable record player from 1985. I once saw one in a thrift store. I should have bought it.

I’d never be comfortable sliding my vinyl into this player. One slip and you’ve ended your record.

It’s a cool design, though. With innovative engineering. It’s neat.

Forgot to cite the video source:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=emrBcOYgonw

#Music #Vinyl #RecordPlayer #Sony #Electronics #Technology #Audio #Retro #Engineering #Design

Attachments:

• video: The video shows the player, which is a slender tower of silver. The record is inserted downward into the device. A dial is turned, which activates a clamping system. The records, mostly with bright colors, play while the record is vertical. The player itself is only slightly wider than the label on the vinyl. Through various edits the narrator shows each component as described, moving through the buttons, connectors, battery compartment, etc. There are also some original cilps of packaging and commercials woven in.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Avkrvst single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMpnEZDY3U

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

Okay so I did some research…Sahil is working for DOGE as a contractor, for free. Proudly. He cites the success of Gumroad as the reason he can do so.

WELP
https://mastodon.cloud/@MattSelznick/114504706275867204

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

We're getting close to the needed signatures against conversion "therapies" in the EU!

Signed as a German. Come on the rest of you, es gibt reichliche Deutsche hier!

We now have the 7 countries over the line, we just need pure numbers - go go go

Direct link: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Willow@blahaj.zone ("Willow :trans_flag: 飛柳") wrote:

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
MEActNOW wrote:

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jgarber@indieweb.social ("Jason Garber") wrote:

This is the way.
https://mastodon.cloud/@MattSelznick/114504706275867204

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jim@jimmitchell.social ("Jim Mitchell") wrote:

Trying something different… I’m going to set my personal Mastodon instance aside for a bit and just use Micro.blog with its Fediverse features over the next few weeks to see if I like it better. If you saw me follow you from my dot-org domain, it’s legit.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
MattSelznick@mastodon.cloud ("Matthew Wayne Selznick") wrote:

5 minutes ago, I learned Sahil Lavingia (@shl), who runs #Gumroad. is part of the Supervillain's team at DOGE, specifically to work on the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has had thousands of jobs removed and hundreds of contracts cut, impacting the lives of tens of thousands of veterans. 3 minutes ago, after buying and selling digital products on Gumroad for a month short of thirteen years, I deleted my account. Fuck that fucker.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

#AI or #NoAI

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> This discussion has made it clear to me that LLM enthusiasts do not value the time or preferences of open-source maintainers, willfully do not understand affirmative consent, and that I should take steps to explicitly ban the use of such tools in the open source projects I maintain.

https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if%5Fai%5Fis%5Fso%5Fgood%5Fat%5Fcoding%5Fwhere%5Fare%5Fopen

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Imagine a world where computing power (compute) was regulated like weapons of war. It's unlawful for private citizens to own a personal computer stronger than a BB gun.

A small group of private companies who helped author misguided government regulations now control the nation's compute. Every consumer device, from desktops to smart watches, are little more than thin client machines tethered to data center kingdoms.