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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:

I think the first two years of college should be free, student loans should be at 0% interest and available to anyone who needs one, we should take care of our veterans, we should have free public transportation, the post office is not a business and should not be run like one, healthcare is a right

Boosted by jwz:
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

The next time a politician claims we can’t house the homeless, feed the starving or give medical care to the poor…. remember that they were able to build a concentration camp in 8 days.

We could provide for everyone if we wanted to, but instead we’re spending the money on fascist facilities and cutting taxes for the wealthy.

#uspol #fascism #immigration #disability #abolishice #alligatoralcatraz #ableism

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mcornick@social.lol ("Mark (N3MSC)") wrote:

Gotta catch them all. Thanks to @nars for putting on the @nars_polioontheair event.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@ids1024 Thanks, that is certainly better.

• Now it's only ~300 lines of code, so only ~299 too many.

• Once the code has turned on power saving, user activity still doesn't turn it off, so you still get to reboot if it crashes.

• I have no idea how I could possibly have discovered this protocol on my own.

• Even if I had found the wayland dot app page, translating those specs into C code feels like I'm being intentionally punished.

Wayland continues to be incredible (pej., obs.)

Boosted by jwz:
sjvn wrote:

Our flag.

Illustration: Aida Amer/Axios

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

This isn't about enforcing the law. It's about showing who's boss. They're an occupying army.

[gift link]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/immigration-agents-urinate-california-school.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.T08.3CJR.PU7F2LVKhfCi&smid=url-share

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mccd@merveilles.town wrote:

Very small reflection on "imposing software"

https://comma.directory/entries/imposing-software/

#portability #permacomputing

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.

Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, what is the proper way to tell Wayland, "power off the monitor, power it on again when there is activity"? AKA "xset dpms force off" or "DPMSForceLevel()".

The closest I have found is "wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-2 --off" which powers off as a side effect of disabling the monitor in RANDR... and it doesn't turn back on at activity.

Doing that in code (via "wlr-output-management-unstable-v1", which of course GNOME and KDE don't implement) takes 400+ lines...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqo

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

There was recently an article about using salvaged Sun Ray thin clients with a modern server. @bcantrill's response to that article on Hacker News mentioned his story about using DTrace to debug a performance problem on a Sun Ray server. He linked to a paper he wrote for Usenix, but I prefer his extended telling in this 2007 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8&t=35m6s

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EricFielding ("Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD") wrote:

Brief video about the interstellar comet by NASA JPL.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-vzafaw0t08&si=mOyubwfGzRwQjEEq

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

Also, as a child watching this board game commercial I was very upset that it depicted talking portraits because I knew it wasn't real.

https://youtu.be/7KQP-whNFlc?si=BR2rzTkHqRa10VuP

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