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Boosted by jwz:
jmc@unix.house ("Joshua M. Clulow") wrote:

@jwz It's super cool that we've taken the sometimes inconvenient minor fragmentation caused by there being a small handful of different looking X11 toolkits and resized that problem up to cover literally every aspect of having a graphical environment.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

If your auto-merged Dependabot PRs don't build after merging into `main`, this is why.

Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.

https://david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/github-actions-not-running

jwz wrote:

What's the proper way to determine that you are speaking to XWayland rather than Xorg? Is it really "pick one of half a dozen possible environment variables and pray"?

It is software malpractice that the XWayland X server doesn't identify itself via Vendor String, or the presence of extension or something.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Thoughts on Project #gemini

https://nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/06/project-gemini/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

7 years. The most notable change this year is lowering of the right side. And I also went back on the idea of growing another upper level (for now).

#bonsai #darktable

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

And btw here's @creativecommons supporters page, which thanks (among others) Microsoft, Google, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Amazon Web Services, and Mozilla (which has pivoted to become an AI company these days).

Huh.

Not to be cynical or anything, but I wonder if that has anything to do with the reason they don't think content creators should be able to say "no" to #AI?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are.

and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever it is you’d like done.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Dear @creativecommons ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

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

Is it cool that the five or six men with all of our personal data, and who control all of our communication tools, and who own all of the Internet's critical infrastructure, suddenly want to help western governments scale their war machines using technology they claim will bring about a techno-utopia/armageddon?

It'll be fine, right?

#Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta #GAMM

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mirlo@musician.social ("mirlo.space") wrote:

Cool, cool cool cool

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

welcome to ‘The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer’

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-unveils-mosquito-sized-s-T4Q88SfAQ2W6h22fqBk50A

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

while this is just a side project, i wanna give it the full celebration! riverton entered 1.0 today! 🎉

riverton is a nostalgic browser game where you adopt #virtualpets and own your own ranch! there’s life simulation elements, but it is meant to be a casual browser game you can play entirely alone or with others :) there’s all custom art from independent artists that is SO cute!

this project was made to teach myself php and game logic javascript. i made the game i always wanted as a kid, and it’s pretty fun! i have so much more i want to do with the site, but i’m just glad to move into this next phase without so many crunch deadlines. :)

you can create your account and start playing now!

https://visitriverton.com

#browsergames #gamedev #indiegame #games

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

txting w a friend about movement organizing https://www.igm.rit.edu/~jxs/media/Horizon%5Fcat%5Fherders.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

[macbook pro voice] that’s what i love about software, man. i get faster, it stays the same pace

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

As you probably heard animated PNG images (APNG) have been standardized! So here's a story on how I used an APNG file to cut a phone's power consumption by 10 times in a common scenario during the weeks leading up to the launch of Firefox OS 1.0. We'll talk about webpage layout, rendering, mobile hardware intricacies, driver bugs and of course APNG files. 🧵 1/16

https://social.linux.pizza/@knurd42/114743763415059021

#FirefoxOS #PNG

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

I have no idea whether Mamdani will make a good mayor, which is a significant improvement over his rivals.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Most 3D model sites now feels like a marketing funnel.

Great if you're into being nudged toward specific brands. Maker-centric curation? Nah. Just vibes and a bit of vendor lock-in.

Sharing gcode isn’t "community". It's vending machine thinking.

Instead of pushing slicer-specific profiles for one printer, how about we just share... print settings? Layer height, infill, support, ... - crazy idea, right?

But yeah, go ahead and keep uploading 20MB Benchy profiles. Very helpful.

#3dprinting

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Guess what! The prototype of the new #Plushtodon series has arrived. It will be available later this year in this and one other color!

Attachments:

• gifv: An attractive woman demonstrates a stuffed Mastodon toy. It is small, cute, and terracotta colored.

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

https://neatnik.net/remembering-anne-sturdivant/

jwz wrote:

Some changes I made, with the goal of continuing to feed slop to AI bots as much as practical:

• Ban IP for 30 days if hitting the honeypot more than 20x/hour.
• But if the load is high, ban on the first hit.
• Rewrote a couple of scripts from Perl to PHP so they can run inside of php-fpm.

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E01
🎥 Episode: Weird
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 6, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1124

jwz wrote:

This is not how I wanted to be spending my day.

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

the first teenie weenie tomato of the season

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I put together a little generative sea shanty that writes itself in a browser tab, and wrote up some notes about that process https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/06/generating-infinite-sea-shanty-in-the-browser/

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

Looked at the colour test paper and went "wait, what if I..."

Aka: Doodling around, but even less of an idea what the heck I'm doing than ever before. :D

#drachenmagier #dragon #WorkInProgress #WIP #TraditionalArt #TraditionalMedia #MastoArt #Fantasy #FantasyArt #creature

jwz wrote:

AI poisoner nomenclature:

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E02
🎥 Episode: Girls
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 13, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1071

Boosted by jwz:
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@asrg @pengfold @pluralistic

I don't want to poison "AI” crawlers with huge quantities of random text. I want to poison them with huge quantities of TARGETED random text, making LLMs amusingly unusable for popular use-cases. Imagine the business reports we could make them write:

“Q3 reports from Asia showed positive growth rates in consumer sales and huge hairy cocks, with key indicators including customer retention, brand recognition and turgid purple schlongs all meeting OKR targets.”

Boosted by jwz:
loke@functional.cafe ("Elias Mårtenson") wrote:

@lproven @davidgerard It is funny how whenever one points out problems in Wayland, you get flooded with answers, most of them in the two categories:

• Works for me, and has always worked
• You're holding it wrong

I haven't experienced GNOME fans being as vocal.

My biggest concern now is that if I dare to point out issues with Wayland (which I struggle with every day, since I had to switch for technical reasons) is that I'll be dismissed as being one of those arseholes behind this fork.

They have single-handedly made the entire debate around this stuff so much worse by doing this.

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

🆕 https://cybercultural.com is the new featured URL on https://url.town! Thanks, @macmanx!