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Boosted by rust@mas.to ("Rust tips"):
shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Shane Celis") wrote:

#rustlang tip: Option is practically useless because then you have to specify what type of None you're providing but you can get something almost as expressive.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

#WritersCoffeeClub Footnote: however, the world being what it is right now, I'm in the process of pivoting my output HARD from crapsack-alternate-present satirical dystopias towards very-far-future space opera with the escapism dial turned up to 11 (but also some satirical dystopian content because I'm an addict: the mass-crucifixion of burning clowns is a bit of a tell).

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

DOGE goon fired after admitting that he was surprised to find that "government works" and is "not as inefficient as I was expecting."

https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/05/va-based-doge-associate-gets-boot-after-publicly-discussing-his-work/405641/

https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
neilsardesai ("Neil Sardesai") wrote:

Made a more modern password field

Attachments:

• gifv: A password field that uses emoji instead of bullets for masking

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

Good to know the WaPo still knows the phrase "burying the lede".

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/30/still-carrying-water-for-musk/

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

I really dig this portrait of David Bowie by Scott Fischer.

https://www.muddycolors.com/2025/01/fischer-paints-breathing-in-the-stardust/

(Follow the link for the full, embiggened experience.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
keithamus@indieweb.social wrote:

Hey friends, did you know you can make a modal element dismissible by clicking outside (aka light dismiss) by adding `closedby=any` to it. That's it. That's all there is to it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogElement/closedBy

Chrome 134+, Firefox 140+, coming soon to Safari.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The Switch 2 launch lineup is so bad, even Wii U games are sending condolences.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Scientists estimate most group chats are just people typing “LMAO” with a straight face while dying inside

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

I’m thinking our little mascot needs a name. First thought was Frederick the Foof, but I’d love to hear if anyone else has any good ideas.

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

It would be an unbelievable sign of dystopia if there was merely one massive military-industrial-finance tech company unironically named after a Tolkien object, but the USA now has *several* all at once competing to be the most evil nerd dipshit inc

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

I'm watching Big Bang Theory all the way through for the first time. I was wondering if they used a 3-story set for the stairs scenes, so I looked for identifying marks.

There is a distinct scuff mark on the trim that exists on all three levels and now I can't unsee it and I'm kind of disappointed?

I need a life.

Boosted by jwz:
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

True definition of critical infrastructure

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

Dammit, it's finally happened. I've started to like Emacs. I’m required to have a neckbeard now and start conversations with “Well, actually…”

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

We are so close to the maximum match of $10,000, and there are only 2.5 days left!

https://home.omg.lol/giving

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

HELLO HUMANS OF PORTLAND
SOON I WILL BE AMONG YOU
I WHO AM ALSO HUMAN
AND RESPIRE OXYGEN
AS IS SO POPULAR WITH YOUR I MEAN OUR PEOPLE

RE: https://www.threads.com/@rosecitycc/post/DKNb5Ghv6Bk

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

Counterpoint: we're not being near enough nasty to him. And while we're at it, we need to be dragging Ted Cruz more. They're both what gets hosed down the drain after a mass gastric event at a Houston Cybertruck meet-up.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-begs-americans-to-stop-being-so-nasty-to-elon-musk/

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

try not be be such a friggin’ optimist, @CARROT

Attachments:

• video: bc2c37d7289375e7.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
patatas@social.patatas.ca wrote:

My plea to Canada’s public sector workers and unions:

Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector.

#CdnPoli #AI #Canada

thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

jwz wrote:

Is there a way to mute every single poll?

Boosted by jwz:
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Every time I read a mozilla product blogpost I get more convinced that whoever is writing them has left earth long ago and is writing them from an increasingly distant part of the universe that bends all communication into the register of a maniacal product manager, and the only way they have of signaling something has gone wrong with their shuttle is by heightening the self-evident contradictions between the self praise and the content of the blog posts they are indentured to write
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Boosted by jwz:
thefarce.org@bsky.brid.gy ("LOLGOP") wrote:

Elon is always lying. Therefore, we must focus on what Elon feels the need to lie about. This "I'm so backing off" lie shows: a) the #TeslaTakedown worked b) the #TeslaTakedown must ramp up He's going to be pulling the same shit & the media will be inclined to push his lie that he's backed off.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/post/3lqclhgvibl25

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

Captured with a 45mm shifting and tilt/swing lens and a DSLR camera. A bit of swing kept the side of the trestle in sharp focus, and a bit of shift enabled the framing.

The long, tall, Alhambra Viaduct on the BNSF railroad is also known as the "John Muir Trestle". People far bolder than I had tagged it with graffiti.

This is mostly a study in lines and convergence.

Infrastructure is heroic.

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

Alhambra (Muir) Viaduct, Martinez, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, with no risk of being hit by a train, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4685718995

#photography

jwz wrote:

Just put two more metal shows on sale with doors at 6pm. Gotta get everybody tucked in for beddie-byes by 10:30, you know. Hail Satan, but only at a Reasonable Hour.

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

Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites:

"Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel. " https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Talen_Lee@kind.social ("Talen Lee") wrote:

Click here for HOT ASEXUALS in your AREA who WANT TO TALK about BOARD GAMES,

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

It’s unfortunate that AI is coming to mean “bad summaries, half-plagiarized text, and cheap-looking images”; machine learning is *cool,* and LLMs—for all their hallucinated warts—are a quantum leap in natural language processing.

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

I’m not truly anti-AI the way many folks I know are, but I have a mounting antipathy toward it that Manu Moreale expresses well: “AI has so much potential and interesting use cases but so far I feel terribly uninspired by what I’m seeing out there.”

https://manuelmoreale.com/on-browsers-ai-and-the-web

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

Thinking about how Sam Altman's character arc resembles Prometheus.

Stop me if you've heard this one- A "god" is exiled for giving humans forbidden technology only to make a triumphant return when another god saves him.

Not saying Sam Altman orchestrated his own firing, but considering how obsessed these tech bros are with being God, I suspect he leaned into the narrative.