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jwz wrote:

This season of Strange New Worlds sucks.

Also everyone's hair is bad now.

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

For somebody who I'm pretty sure wasn't there, he's managed to capture something of the time. "Interview with 80s Computer Nerd":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5QNUNd0sx8

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
poutsma ("Arjen Poutsma") wrote:

I wrote an email to Tim Cook, current CEO of Apple. If you use Apple products, perhaps you can do the same.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Plushtodon

Attachments:

• video: A stuffed Mastodon toy revealed to be in a compression cube.

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

I love the Cwtch instant messenger, I wish it was more widely used.

https://docs.cwtch.im

#FOSS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
terrytangyuan.xyz@bsky.brid.gy ("Yuan Tang") wrote:

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 a few full-time software engineer positions at various levels with experience in: Golang, C++, Python, GPU kernels, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, PyTorch, vLLM, and Kubernetes. Please EMAIL me your resume if you are interested!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dusepo@toot.dusepo.co.uk ("Jo Dusepo :oud: جوهانا دوسپو") wrote:

A matching pair of charango and ronroco completed yesterday.

Jo Dusepo luthier www.dusepo.co.uk #lute #oud
#luthier #lutherie #laute #laúd #medievallute #liuto
#luteria #lutheria #laudarabe #ud #worldmusic
#earlymusic #renaissancelute #lutemaker #woodworking #woodwork
#musicalinstrument #عود #oud_maker #charango #chillador #ronroco

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coprolite9000@pixelfed.hylobatidae.org ("Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed") wrote:

Another dragonfly - a migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta? Obligingly perched on the twig of a rose bush just as I was walking past...

#Derbyshire #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

We are live from DEF CON in Las Vegas with Merin MC with kampf, rusty and djdead coming up later in the day. Tune in at https://somafm.com/player24/station/live or the SomaFM Live channel in your app

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helenclayton@mas.to ("Helen Clayton") wrote:

A big pop of colour in the veg patch random flower bed.

#BloomScrolling

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
quillmatiq ("Anuj Ahooja") wrote:

I know a lot of folks here have their qualms about Bluesky, but I hope folks are paying attention to what Rudy Fraser and Blacksky Algorithms are doing to decentralize their community from Bluesky PBC infra.

Decentralization at every level of the stack is happening on ATProto. It started *within* the Bluesky infra, slowly drifting away one step at a time, and it's inspiring to watch it all happen.

You can learn more here: https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

"we were like 2-3 years away from finishing landmark cures that would change the medical field forever, but the leader wanted to put another coat of gold paint on his ballroom so instead he canceled the funding" is something you might read in a gilded age novel

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices.

Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

jwz wrote:

As of yesterday, yt-dlp with cookies can only download SD videos but the instructions for extracting PO tokens from Youtube Music don't work for me: it's not in the JSON body. Anyone get this working?

(If I don't use cookies at all, I always get "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot.")
https://jwz.org/b/yksu

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Should I do a run of the stickers? And should it say “AI Training Data” or just “Training Data”? Vote either way I guess. Dunno how to do the options right here really

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

"yes officer, for my models"

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
skippy@dungeoncrawler.world wrote:

I did what I said I was going to do! https://skippy.net/freetrm

https://dungeoncrawler.world/@skippy/statuses/01K1R9DP5DC3GB1P5JCGKHWYVX

Paging @adam

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

Steatoda borealis spiderlings!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/08/many-fat-happy-babies/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

I really wish you all weren't so cocksure about letting shit like HTTP/1.1 die.

Gonna miss the last vestige of the web that doesn't require wireshark to fuckin' parse it.

I kinda hate that HTTP/2 is straight binary and requires wireshark to make any sense of it, and that http/3 is basically just quic, which is google's love child of weird shit.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

This will finally destroy all US research leadership for the next 50 years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-500-risk-arrest-protest-against-palestine-action-ban-saturday

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/08/documents-reveal-police-using-all-our-passport-photos-to-spy-on-us-via-unlawful-facial-recognition/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TechDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Tech Desk") wrote:

Don't ask ChatGPT for health advice. Seriously. @404mediaco reports on a man who gave himself bromism, a disorder that can cause psychosis and hallucinations as well as gastrointestinal and dermatological effects, because he had replaced salt with sodium bromide based on information gathered from the AI.

https://flip.it/nwR1qk

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Health #Medicine #Science

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀

Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

We’re asking for help simply to stay alive. We’re trying to secure enough food for just one week, and we still need $21. If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine @mutualaid

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.”

Give this brave young woman a medal for confronting a Zionist wearing an IDF t-shirt at their university while Israel and the IDF commit genocide in Palestine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5s%5FUwhZAYUA

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

@aral "Affordable housing, fully-funded education and NHS, smashing racism, and reversal of Brexit key for cutting crime, says police chief."

Ad in a parallel universe.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
BenartyComputer@mastodon.scot ("Billy Watt") wrote:

@aral Ah yes, like in the good old days where you could be stopped and searched for the crime of walking around while black

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61167875

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation …

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

New @the_freebooters video is out. We talk about i3 and the 'Online Safety Act'.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aRj8ot5FpRKMwgHLV5WY34

#Linux #OSA #Podcast