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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:

Laura Loomer is an advisor to Trump, and she's quite clear that what's going on is not "deporting criminal aliens" but the ethnic cleansing of all 65 million Latinos in the US. In fact she's pretty clear she wants this to be the genocide of the US Latino population.

I'm not sure many people recognize we're already a few lines into the "first they came for the..." poem. But we are.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
edavies@functional.cafe ("Ed Davies") wrote:

@isagalaev I wouldn't have much confidence in Boeing but an incident to an aircraft originally delivered in 2012 is not likely a reflection of their current state:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-delta-wing-flap-found-raleigh-driveway/ so N940DU

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-737-900er-n940du-delta-air-lines/edz59v

Seems more likely a maintenance problem.

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

You know the drink identifiers on a cup lid with the labels Diet, Coke, etc.?

When I was young, I thought it was someone's job to rummage through the trash and tally the amount of each type of soda sold.

Like, some marketing dude is standing in a landfill shouting to his boss— "we sold a hundred thousand cokes this week!"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

> Peak CPU performance was probably hit in 2017.

With that perspective, you start... (ahem)... "rethinking best practices".

@slightlyoff's @gitnationorg talk is pretty worthwhile and digs into the CPU limitations of the main thread.

https://gitnation.com/contents/project-fugu-bringing-hardware-capabilities-to-the-web-safely

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nanochess ("Óscar Toledo G.") wrote:

I just have released the schematics and PCB of my transputer board, along an article describing the process. Enjoy it! #retro #transputer #ibmpc #dos https://nanochess.org/transputer%5Fboard.html

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

I think I am going to have to start gently mocking my friends and colleagues who use AI-generated extruded media product for things like article illustrations.

My dude, it looks like ass. It looks cheap and tacky and gross. Is that how you see yourself? Is this a cry for help?

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

Have a cat.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So @owa asked Apple some questions, and @brucelawson has the receipts. Spoiler: Cupertino assumes it can keep the web good and dead, and will spend any amount to keep it that way:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/up-the-kriek-apple-gets-punchy-in-brussels-dma-compliance-workshop/

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

I have just seen my first Playdate console in the wild. (Or at all RL, actually.)

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

In case anyone forgot about recent quality and safety problems with Boeing, the company is eager to remind you that those are likely systemic and will keep happening:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-delta-wing-flap-found-raleigh-driveway/

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

the killer app of vibecoding website generators that let you 'recreate an app in one prompt' is phishing websites, it's just phishing websites, we all know this is how it ends up

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online ("Dr Johnny Blanchard") wrote:

I'm currently crowdfunding for our new sci-fi short, In the Algorithm we trust.

We're 14% there with 22 days left and have several early bird perks left.

Indie film needs your help, please share

#InTheAlgorithmWeTrust #Film #Sci-Fi #Crowdfunding #plsShare

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/in-the-algorithm-we-trust

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

YouTuber: "Smash that like button and don’t forget to subscribe!"

Me: I already liked, subscribed, commented, bought merch, joined your Patreon, and named my child after you.

WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT, STACY?!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

Finally!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/03/i-have-an-appointment-with-the-machine/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
pid_eins ("Lennart Poettering") wrote:

…you an O_PATH fd to the overmounting fs, not the autofs one.

Yay!

TLDR: there's a good chance many (most?) of the openat(O_PATH) calls in the wild are kinda wrong, and everyone should have used open_tree() instead...

Lesson learned:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/38048

(And of course, @brauner thanks for enlighening me about this fix)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

Being “genteel” doesn’t cut it when this is the crap driving the politics in power (unless you are cool with genocide I guess). Here’s the census data btw: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-characteristics.html

Politics matter. Saying something matters. Doing something matters. Stand for those at risk before it’s too late. Deafening silence, faux politeness, sheepishly looking away, just doesn’t cut it.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

Politics matter. Covering our eyes and refusing to look or refusing to engage only benefits the most oppressive of people. Take this tweet as example - this is someone who is frequently with the president glorifying what is essentially genocide (Census.gov data places the Latino population - the population being targeted by this concentration camp - as just over 65 million). https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3lsyuci3w7s2u

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

I was typing the phrase "tie breaker" but accidentally typed "toe breaker" and then spent far too long pondering how ties and toes are both things that can be broken.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

CSS Functions will soon be available, and it's time to confuse JS developers (and maybe backend developers) a bit.

No, they are not the same as in JS. Like with CSS properties, the order inside doesn't matter and we can write everything in reverse. 🙃

Demo: https://codepen.io/t%5Fafif/pen/MYwMaYE via @codepen (Chrome-only with experimental flag enabled)

#CSS #HTML

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

Northern Minnesota, mid-1920s.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/03/the-family-of-antique-names/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
link@twink.men ("link (t)wink :neocat_floof_kisser:") wrote:

GUYS
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

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

I was cleaning up some tabs and came across:

https://probot.bandcamp.com/album/probot

I saw the artist picture and was like, "Takes some audacity to use Dave Grohl's likeness..." But then I was reading the liner notes and at the end it was signed by a Dave Grohl... And so I finally did a search, and what do you know, it is a Dave Grohl project!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probot

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip ("Volpeon :wvrnFlight:") wrote:

IT FUCKEN WIMDY

Attachments:

• video: A peregrine falcon sitting in its nest. It's trying to reposition itself as the wind starts blowing, flipping it over on its back and revealing 3 eggs. It manages to get back on its feet and sits back down on the eggs.

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

Speaking of #darktable … Here's the comparison of the almost unedited file vs. the final result. Here's what changed:

- added saturation
- removed the blue-ish highlight on the cat's face (daylight is a bitch!)
- lightened the shadow side of the face
- cat's eyes are greener
- the wall is darker and more orange to create the mood
- sharpened + exaggerated texture of the whole thing a little

This was fun!. I don't know why anyone would want some AI do it for them.

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

Cat. She holds herself as if she owns the place. Which she kind of does.

#darktable #cat #photography

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

this_is_fine.gif

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Is Android totally out of ideas? Who can say.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Welcome to my blog. Like and subscribe for updates.

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

just thinking about when you drink from a glass, you're drinking a liquid out of a (much slower moving) liquid.