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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@Chip_Unicorn @fromjason it was called keyboarding when I took the class in south Texas in the ‘90s. That’s not new. (I’m also grateful to have had the class.)

jwz wrote:

I know I am probably the last person in the world still running X11 on a Mac, but some time around macOS 14.7.3, XQuartz stopped working with OpenGL programs that use EGL instead of GLX. If someone could tell me how to fix this, that would be great:

libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqv

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

I'm so grateful that I learned to type in high school. Are they even teaching that to kids anymore?

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("vkc (Veronica Explains)") wrote:

I know, I know. "Blocking replies is impossible". "You can't stop people from disagreeing with you on the internet".

I've heard it all, and don't really care.

Here's my proposal: much like how I can set the post visibility here, I should be able to tell my server to drop any replies to that post.

Not "don't send notifications about replies". Drop them. Don't host them.

And compliant servers would honor that request in the UI.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Sbectol@toot.wales ("Sbectol :twt:") wrote:

Everything at the centre of this country is completely mad. Utterly unintelligible ancient ceremonies that mean absolutely nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%5FRemembrancer#Quit%5FRents%5Fceremonies

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

The rise of Whatever:

> This was the front-page example for a state-of-the-art LLM integrated with the most popular code editor in the world, all built by one of the richest companies in human history, whose entire business is software and who has specifically invested a zillion dollars in this specific technology. This is the gizmo at its best! And it’s crap!

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Logged-in in #twitter today after a very long time (no reason).
Lot of notifications, all for posts from people I don't follow: many of them were… unexpected. Some examples? J. D. Vance, "MAGA voice", FBI Director.
So sad to see what my former favorite social is now.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My beautiful boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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

The glass curtain grid and distorted reflection of midtown reminded me of Saul Bass's iconic title sequence for North By Northwest (imitated in Mad Men), though this is across town. Hitchcock's film also employed a somewhat different perspective, looking downward, and at a sharper angle. Here, our focus is on the impressionistically rendered Times Square skyline rather than the street below.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), vertically shifted 15mm.

The Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 has a floating internal element that has to move as it's focused. It has to be focused with a helical ring (like an SLR lens) that moves the focus and the internal element together, rather than simply by moving it back and forth with a bellows. This makes the lens big, heavy, and cumbersome (not to mention spendy), but it's very sharp.

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

445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, arranged in an orderly grid, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594

#photography

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
vaurora@mstdn.social ("Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦") wrote:

Ahhhhhhh such a great short story, by the inimitable @Catvalente

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when-he-calls-your-name/

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

I'm working on an essay about something that happened 20 years ago. While Google's front page is sparse, digging into the blogosphere with a little help from #InternetArchive, the full story is preserved. A story that perhaps some would prefer be lost in history.

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

Shoutout to the archivists and aggregators—the people who have the foresight to know when tech history is happening, so they round up all the relevant blog posts, news articles, and socials.

Y'all are the unsung heroes of the web. Understanding tech history means not making the same mistakes. Without our archivists and aggregators so much of that history would be lost to dead links and buried under #Google's SERP. Thank you.

#bloggers #OpenWeb #Fediverse #internetHistory #InternetArchive

jwz wrote:

Lead! It's what lungs crave!

One of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day's use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes: "When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqt

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

I just shipped a new release of xword-dl, my command line tool for scraping online crossword solving interfaces into local .puz files. Upgrade to fix WaPo, LA Times, Der Standard, and Puzzmo downloaders https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2025.7.5

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

When state legislatures consider whether to bail out rural hospitals, remember that the tax money you send to the feds didn’t decrease, it just got stolen from hospitals and sent to billionaires and ICE agents. If your state then bails out the hospitals, your state tax money is now going to something your federal tax money was supposed to cover, so basically your state taxes are bailing out the Republican hand out to billionaires.

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interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

“Positive-sum solutions to multi-period stag hunts select for time consistency more than cost effectiveness.” @akhilrao https://akhilrao.org/blog/2025/07/03/selecting-for-time-consistency/

remarkable insights into what leadership and coordination actually entail, in the dry language of game theory. except with space stuff and death cults. 1/

Boosted by jwz:
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

My country

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

I guess you can never expect the powerful to act in our best interest if we aren't participating -- it can't only be natives fighting demanding treaties are honoured. it can't only be lgbtq+ people demanding your uncle gets to visit his partner in the hospital, or your nephew gets to use the name he wants and be treated with dignity and respect, it can't only be the poor pissed about not being able to get childcare or housing or food or dental care or *long list* -- we all need to step up

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

How kind of Dr Phil to fail before I even knew he was trying.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/05/may-all-these-anti-woke-crusaders-sink-without-a-trace/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social ("Dan Goodman") wrote:

What does everyone think of this idea for grading in the age of LLMs? Give coursework questions in advance, allow the students to prepare as much as they like in any way they like, but then for the final work they hand in they're given a controlled environment with no LLM access.

The nice thing is that it doesn't deny the potential value of LLMs as a research tool but requires you to be able to actually do the work on your own too.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

Staying at my partner's just now, with an established birdfeeder hosting tiny green parrots and large soft pigeons.

Infrequent, muted impact sounds mark my orange cat repeatedly reviewing his understanding of window glass and physics.

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

opening this morning in a yard near you

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

and once again, that perpetual question comes to the fore: how is it that the cat is wet again?

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

Why can't spiders be the charismatic face of environmentalism? It's always those flashy birds or cute mammals.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/05/birds-are-ok-i-guess/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
barrettaltonh ("Alton Barrett") wrote:

_Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal |

TIMOTHY SNYDER

JUL 04, 2025:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

#BlackEarth'lectures

#OnTyranny #Sadopopulism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

A Tragic Reminder: Safety Must Come First in the Field

https://qrper.com/2025/07/a-tragic-reminder-safety-must-come-first-in-the-field/

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

cats need restraints