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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
“Microsoft says its (vibe working mode) in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets”
Imagine being a hiring manager and hiring somebody to use Excel who says they do their job wrong about half the time. Welcome to AI.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
vibe working
vibe working
I am gone
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:
Bandcamp's Album of the Day: Neko Case, “Neon Grey Midnight Green”
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/neko-case-neon-grey-midnight-green-review
#Music
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
He did successfully make this liberal cry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/just-another-liberal-atheist-terrorist/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Step 1: Claim your new technology is a great equalizer that will end poverty or something
Step 2: Claim utopia
Step: 3: Turn your product into spy-ware
Step 4: Shopping!
Step 5: Assume no one has noticed the pattern. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
SVGOMG has been updated to use SVGO 4! (thanks Adrien Crivelli!)
This is the URL for SVGOMG. Unfortunately someone maintains a fork with ads, so, err, don't use that 😀
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
19th century #Pokemon
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
So, I have just been on a book tour and have gone to a dozen cities, large and small, and I have six more stops for festivals in cities ranging in size from 76,000 to eight million. I haven't felt a single scintilla of fear being in any of them, and none of them could come close to being called a "war zone." The problem is not cities, it's that our president is a racist shithead fronting a racist shithead administration and that a bunch of their supporters are fearful cowardly shitty racists too
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I was just reminiscing about some of my favorite places in Portland. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Has anyone mentioned to Trump that he's a lying moron?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/how-are-you-holding-up-oregonians/
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
Neato is (of course) still not ready, but my dev version publishes directly to Bunny, where content delivery is simply excellent in every possible way.
If you can imagine yourself serving a static website on Europe's very best infrastructure and want to get a head start on playing with their amazing platform, you can sign up with this link to support Neato development directly: https://bunny.net?ref=78iezsfq3y ❤️
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
No, I don't want to think of Disney as a champion of free speech.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
Bunny is one of the good ones. https://bunny.net/blog/trust-speed-and-sovereignty-bunny-nets-commitment-to-europes-digital-future/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
Black_Flag@syzito.xyz ("Androgynes 🏴☠️🫂🔞") wrote:
Imagine being the UK Labour Party that thinks chasing the racists' votes is the thing to do rather than condemning racism and chasing the anti-racist vote.
Everything Labour does basically tells the racists they are right because it concedes their racism has a point.
RANCID.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:
this is great: Can you use GDPR to Circumvent BlueSky's Adult Content Blocks?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/can-you-use-gdpr-to-circumvent-blueskys-adult-content-blocks/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Jey McCreight is ever an activist.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/so-thats-what-jey-mccreight-has-been-up-to/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
🚨 We are in the last few days to get your hands on these exclusive stickers from @ruminate and @adam. Five stickers for $20 AND you get to help cure childhood cancer so you should do it even if you hate stickers as much as everyone hates cancer.
$20, five stickers! By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings! https://stjude.omg.lol
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wchr ("Wolfie Christl") wrote:
"Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase from companies working in the digital marketing and advertising industries ... Phones in the data could be tracked back to specific residential addresses after entering high-security prisons, military bases, and Leinster House, as well as sensitive locations like health clinics"
Another media investigation into commercial mobile/app location data in Ireland:
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0918/1534034-data-for-sale/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
And there's a good chance of another volcanic eruption soon. Looks like this might be an interesting news week here in Iceland
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Odds are that the announcement from the Play executives was written by the Cohn & Wolfe Iceland PR firm. They’ve had them on retainer since before Play flew its first flight.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
fdroidorg@floss.social ("F-Droid") wrote:
Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again.
We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Iceland Express -> Wow Air -> Play. Roughly the same group of people running the same “strategy” of selling tickets at a massive loss to generate numbers that excite a gullible stock market. They’re certain to try again.
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:
I'm really loving the #Linux CLI email program Aerc. I do find it quite odd that in the composer, it's enforced hard breaks at 72 characters. I know this is a traditional thing from older days of email, but I wish there was a way to switch that off. Does anyone in the Fedi know if that's possible?
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
The English language news story on Play’s bankruptcy
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
My dad’s been waiting for this to happen all year because they’ve never been run with the expectation of ever having a sustainable business so this was inevitable. I expected this to happen next year, but was off by a few months
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Play hættir starfsemi - RÚV.is”
https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-09-29-play-haettir-starfsemi-454615
So Iceland's sleaziest airline (Play), founded on the ruins of Iceland's previous sleaziest airline (Wow), by mostly the same management, and run mostly as what looks like an investment con, has immediately ceased operations. Loads of people are going to get screwed on this one, including most of Iceland's pension funds
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
openmw@mastodon.gamedev.place ("OpenMW") wrote:
There are now release candidates for #OpenMW 0.50.0.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
actualtorgo@threads.net ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
Good news from Moldova today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo 🇪🇺
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ok, with this and some other tweaks (faster CSS selectors, bundling image-prep script in `rAF`via `MutationObserver,` etc.), pretty happy with the outcome, even with this post pulling in a chonky pair of scripts for charts (which I need to make `IntersectionObserver`-based):
Mastodon FeedBoosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻"):
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:
📝 Some misc. thoughts of dependency management and what not.
Software is just a giant witch’s brew lol
dependencies:
eye-of-newt: ^1.4.0
tongue-of-dog: ^2.7.0scripts:
build: "double double tooling and trouble"
deploy: "fire burn and cauldron bubble"https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/run-software-on-software-youve-never-run/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
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