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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jkb@jkbockstael.be ("JKB") wrote:

#NowPlaying Cryo Chamber - Yig // https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/yig // dark ambient // many artists from many countries // 2020 // Another collaboration (not compilation) of two 1h+ tracks by 20 artists from the Cryo Chamber label, exploring a lovecraftian theme. Tribal vibes and cosmic horrors for your enjoyment, much more melodic than most of the ambient stuff I usually post about.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Greengordon@spore.social wrote:

@pluralistic

"the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline. If power and privilege are inherited – and they are, ever moreso every day – then either we live in an extremely unfair society in which the privileged and the powerful have rigged the game…or the invisible hand has created a subspecies of thoroughbred humans who were literally born to rule.

"This is the thesis of the ultra-rich, the moral justification for rigging the system..."

#capitalism #EatTheRich

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

Google I/O kicks off with asking the audience to clap if a product demos successfully. Which the audience does.

"And if the demo is unsuccessful, what are we going to do?" The audience, again, claps.

Lmao, if that just isn't the perfect metaphor for AI— a bunch of people cheering for something that doesn't work.

#GoogleIO2025 #googleio

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

just had someone report that they used the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer SPI analyzer applet (and 25-series memory decoder) to read out an SPI flash from their router, which they previously believed they would have to desolder

things like this is why i'm so committed to building better tooling! the full boot trace is about 50 MB of raw data, and it's captured and decoded in seconds. very few tools can do this, and most of them are pretty expensive

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

Lots of people are shocked that bosses think they can replace competent programmers with AI. But that just means those people haven’t been paying attention.

I’ve been a professional developer for almost 30 years now. Bosses have always been skeptical that programming is more complicated than typing out what we want the computer to do, and have always been uncomfortable with both what they have to pay programmers and how much pushback they get from programmers.

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

Brb. Gonna outsource all my bodily functions so that I can focus on my Personal Brand™.

jwz wrote:

Maybe I'll start rating albums in terms of how good they are at drowning out power tools. Regrettably I have to give *Rid Of Me* 6/10 due to the quiet bits.

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chirpbirb@meow.social ("taco, bird/cat :verified420:") wrote:

so how much copaganda can we expect from zootopia 2 do you think

#ACAB #Zootopia2 #Disney

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Iconfactory@iconfactory.world ("The Iconfactory") wrote:

:tapestry_app: There's lots of great new ways to adjust the appearance of custom timelines in Tapestry 1.2.

Join @gedeonm as he reviews a few of them in this helpful video walkthrough. Learn how to turn off service names and change a feed's display style to suit your tastes.

#TapestryApp

Attachments:

• video: Video walk through showing how to modify the appearance of a particular feed including removing the service name and adjust the display style.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
marcel ("Marcel") wrote:

Wanted to set up a Firebase project, ended up building a .usdz viewer. #buildinpublic

Attachments:

• gifv: c03c5237055c824a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Last night, 16 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance a crypto-friendly bill that will enable Trump’s corruption.

Instead of standing up to Trump, these 16 Democrats decided they’d rather do a big favor for the crypto industry and legitimize an avenue for Trump to collect bribes.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cassidy@blaede.family ("Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:") wrote:

Look, I *really like* the idea of machine learning and actually really want to use ML features that make my life easier/better. Autocorrect/keyboard suggestions? Yeah I’m a fan. Text to speech? Convenient and accessible! Stunning photos from a tiny sensor? Yes please! Categorizing my photos or extracting text from screenshots? Great, useful!

But I do not want to “chat” with an LLM, doubly so when every interaction is keylogged and then used to train more planet-burning BS-spewing.

#ml #ai #llm

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Inside/outside

Attachments:

• gifv: An infinitely nested arrangement of concentric circles, moving in a way that there is always one outermost circle and the others are inside of it.

jwz wrote:

Today in Landfill Capitalism.

This is a fun tale of largely-unsuccessful reverse engineering of a bricked and abandoned rental bike, but who could have predicted this nightmare except everybody.
https://jwz.org/b/ykoM

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
karlcow@mastodon.cloud ("Karl Dubost") wrote:

A must listen for all browser implementers and the millions of us working on Interop/Webcompat issues. A very good podcast with @RickByers hosted by @bkardell and Eric Meyer.

https://www.igalia.com/chats/unshipping

> "Blink's Principles of Web Compatibility and willingness to change and even unship features."

It's not necessary only about Blink as they touch about general things with regards to webcompat and interop. It's definitely home for me.

#webcompat

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Senator Hassan: What is habeas corpus?

Kristi Noem: It's been over a decade since I read Harry Potter. You can't expect me to remember the name of every spell.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I'm honestly worried that with Biden's diagnosis MAGA will be pro-cancer now.

Fuck cancer.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
schtaks@infosec.exchange ("taskschd.msc") wrote:

Me: It doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.

TechSupport: *sigh* Fine. Right-click on your hamster...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emmettoconnell@mas.to ("Emmett O'Connell") wrote:

WA’s new Shared Streets Law (SB 5595), signed May 18, lets cities set 10 mph limits and give pedestrians full street access, first in the U.S. to do so. Cars must yield to bikes, and bikes to walkers. Inspired by European “woonerfs,” it starts July 27.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/governor-signs-washingtons-first-in-the-nation-shared-streets-law/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Don't forget you can zoom in!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Evening on the Adriatic coast in Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
theruran@masto.hackers.town ("theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:") wrote:

great news! @nlnet is funding a full-source bootstrap for Ada (GNAT)!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Ada-bootstrap/
discussion: https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-bootstrap-compiler-funding-thanks-to-nlnet/2014/32

#Ada #bootstrappable #Guix #GNAT

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

Dear marketing, I would like you all on the agentic web by Friday

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I chose the 32mm Rodenstock with stitching here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn't have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). More pixels this way, too.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W (@ f/6.3 lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, and Phase One XT camera. Composite of two shifted images (+/- 12mm from center horizontally, -12mm vertically).

Officially, "House of the Temple, Headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington DC". The local Masonic temple, museum, library, and, I'm told, a gift shop.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the secret stuff, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography

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

Dog brain. #grickledoodle #brain #dogs #thinking #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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limeleaf@social.coop ("Limeleaf") wrote:

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

Every line is pitch-perfect. McSweeney's, you glorious bastards, you've done it again. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-company-reminder-for-everyone-to-talk-nicely-about-the-giant-plagiarism-machine