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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jefframnani wrote:

Housefresh is at it again with some journalism on Google’s AI answers.

https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

@pluralistic did a good job contextualizing the broader context here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/

I am left remembering the late 90’s / early 00’s when people mocked Excite and other “portal plays”. The received wisdom was that Google won by being useful even if that meant sending users away.

Joke’s on us. Google is a Portal now. They work hard to get us to stay on platform.

#enshittification

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Player: "I take the value out of the std::optional"

Computer: "Did you remember to check has_value by any chance"

Player: "...no, why?"

Computer: "You succeed, with Fear. You are now holding a value. *quietly moves a bead over on a counter*"

Player: "Wait what was that, what did you just do"

Computer: "Don't worry about it. What would you like to do next?"

Player: "...okay well I'd like to inspect the value I got."

Computer: "e̸͇̺̦͒̓̏͊͒̿͘v̷̢̦̟͙͎͙̦̠͙͕̰̮̗̂̉͆̓͂́̐͂̎̀͋̓̒̇̾ͅė̵̲̪̑̚̚͠r̴̡̤̺̭̆̋̊̚y̶̧̡̨͈̻̮̪̘̜̹̥͚̺̥͎̲̣͒̎̐̑͋̿̾̿̾ẗ̶̨̧̯̱͕̫̖́̈́̈́͌̊̇̀̀͑̿͊͛͒̂ͅh̸̼͕̒̔́̿̈́͑̐̉̀̓̈́͒̊͂̔͋͠i̵̲̻̥̪͓̬̣̟̿̍̇͑́̈́̾̈́̅̾̑̉̊̚͝͝͝n̵̛̪̦̅g̴̢̝̻̪̫̲͕͚̱̪̎̊̀̐̍̀̂̔ ̷̢̨̛̲̹͖̝͚͎̺̱̗̏͗̃͐̾̈́̽̈̉͊̓̈́̉̕͝ḯ̷̧͓̲̱̝̟͂̌̄͛͐̃̅̇̑̅s̸̳̯͖̎̈́͐̐̄̏͋̇̕͘ ̶̧̻̣͈̰̣̼͊͂͛̓̔͑́̈́͌̄͑͘͜͝͝r̵͇̺̦͍̓̍̍̾̋̐̂̚ả̷̛͈̩̭͐̄̓̑́̃̾͊͆̌͝͝ͅt̸̨̮͓̯͍̽̒̔̊̊̋̍́̓̕͝͝͠͠s̶̢̟̞̘͉̒͐"

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

I found this bee chilling out in one of my pumpkin flowers.

#bee

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

my glamorous neighbor

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
quad9dns ("Quad9DNS") wrote:

We have open-sourced our visualization tool for mapping realtime events onto a view of the Earth.

The WebGL tool takes websocket data or static JSON with geographic information and allows a variety of views and analysis to be performed on the data that is projected on the map.

Have fun with it!! 😻

https://github.com/Quad9DNS/GlobeOfWonder

#infosec #opensource

Mastodon wrote:

Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.4.2, 4.3.10, and 4.2.23.

These versions all contain some internal Ruby dependency updates for security. Version 4.4.2 also includes some fixes, primarily for user interface issues.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. #mastoadmin

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

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

The new Tyler album is a funky dance-electro motif for the summer. At first listen, it was jarring hopping from the darkness that is Let God Sort 'Em Out. But listening this morning with fresh ears, I really like it.

#DontTapTheGlass

https://youtu.be/pmlqEKklWqs

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

Removing Obsidian and Nova from my "What I Use" page seems strangely momentous, but. Emacs has succeeded in supplanting both. Still hanging onto BBEdit, though. (I also added Xcode, but that's somewhat aspirational.)

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

Never ask an atheist to thank the Lord for catastrophes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/23/atheists-arent-bubble-headed-apologists-for-disasters/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EoLL03cDqs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 ("Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot") wrote:

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#WompWomp

“It Looks Like the #Tesla Model Y Refresh Has Bombed

The high-selling Model Y is crucial for both Elon Musk and Tesla, but a half-hearted reskin of the car hasn’t reversed the company’s sales woes.”
https://www.wired.com/story/it-looks-like-the-tesla-model-y-refresh-has-bombed/

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

yes Ma’am

Attachments:

• video: ad78400b4a1d452c.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:

GW5 family (#TangPrimer25k) got support for huge LUTs in #apicula!🍾

#fpga#sipeed#gowin

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nash@labyrinth.social ("Nash") wrote:

you wouldn't
JUXT
a
POSITION

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

Modern day heroes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/23/i-am-suddenly-craving-a-pizza-from-detroit/

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

I suppose we could read this as the answer to Adam Shiff's question. What happened to the Republican party? Reagan happened.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/23/another-problem-with-the-democrats/

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

It seems entirely reasonable for websites to outright block all traffic from browsers (not just bots) made by companies that behave this badly towards the ecosystem:

https://www.404media.co/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers-because-ai-companies-keep-making-new-ones/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
sop@unstable.systems ("sofia") wrote:

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Attachments:

• gifv: A user types a text message in a non descript textbox. The message eventually says, "Having a computer constantly trying to guesstimate what I’m going to type is fucking annoying." At every step of the way, an imaginary LLM tries to produce a nonsensical, improbable, artificially cheerful and brand-aware autocompletion. The completions come and go faster than you can really pay attention to, and the sockpuppet of a user I'm depicting in this piece of media just has to kinda try and ignore the onslaught of distraction as they eventually manage to finish the sentence. For bonus points, the LLM tries to censor the word "fucking" and replace it with more adwords(TM)-acceptable terms.

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

#HamRadio

Boosted by jwz:
noisemakerbot@genart.social ("Noisemaker Bot") wrote:

sands-of-time

Attachments:

• gifv: The piece "Sands of Time" shows grains of sand swirling in wind currents, rendered in sage green and soft teal against a charcoal background. Seed: 6865

jwz wrote:

I guess locking your screen is for cowards, anyway. What do you have to hide?

jwz wrote:

Welp. All that lovely "AI" derailment aside, we now have an answer:

It is literally impossible for XScreenSaver to lock the screen under Wayland. Cannot be done. None of the extant, spottily-supported "protocols" will allow the screen to be locked while an Xwayland surface is visible.

Great job, everybody. Perfect, no notes.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

i have also written an 18k word document containing almost everything i learned about the Game Boy while designing this cartridge: https://abc.decontextualize.com/more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ "More Than You Wanted To Know About How Game Boy Cartridges Work"

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

Sheesh. You can be a legendary rock star, but you bite the head off one bat and that's what you're remembered for.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/22/ozzy-osbourne-dead-at-76/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The Chaotic History of the Horse Game That Took Over the World - #Umamusume: Pretty Derby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke25qbWLbys

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

A friend of mine just summed up the current state of AI hype like this:

Captain Picard, on bridge of Enterprise: “Computer, locate Captain Picard”

Computer: “Captain Picard is not onboard the Enterprise.”

*curb your enthusiasm theme plays*

And people are like “WE SHOULD LET THE COMPUTER BE CAPTAIN”

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

💦

Attachments:

• video: 82e137a4633c6c48.mp4

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

Good boi