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

They prefer science fiction to science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/30/medbeds/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
miado@discuss.systems ("amelia") wrote:

For those who haven't signed up already, the New Jersey Programming Languages Seminar (NJPLS) will be hosted at Princeton University on Friday December 5th 2025! Sign up is free, so come hang out with us in New Jersey (for real this time). Anyone is welcome to present their current work on anything related to Programming Languages, or just come to listen to other people do so.

Remember this is open to everyone, so please spread the word to help continue to expand the definition of "the greater New Jersey area"!

https://njpls.org/dec2025.html

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
a23 ("Alain") wrote:

Rewrote @planifyapp markdown editor from scratch.

The old one was too bloated for what we actually needed - it was built for long-form writing, not quick task notes. This new version is way more practical.

**Bold**, *italic*, lists, links, `code` - all the essentials without the fluff. Faster, cleaner, and actually fits how people use a task manager.

Sometimes less really is more.

#planify #productivity #markdown #opensource #gtk #vala

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“By Newt Gingrich”

Leave it to the NY Times to drag this serial budget bomber out of obscurity and have him weigh in on a process he helped destroy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/opinion/shutdown-trump-schumer-jeffries.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing
https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
billkimler@mstdn.social ("Bill Kimler") wrote:

It's the small incremental improvements like this that will win the day!

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-proven-quantum-advantage-task-million.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

Republican leaders are about to shut down the government over Democrats’ demands that they preserve health care coverage that disproportionately helps people in Republican states.

What stage of the dystopia is this?

https://www.levernews.com/why-your-health-insurance-premiums-could-explode-next-year/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Coming up this afternoon at 15:30 CET:

📻 a live radio interview (!!!) for @aprilorg’s show, broadcast on @CauseCommune … where I will talk about my journey of tech empowerment and my love for the Fediverse.

Thank you for this opportunity April team and especially Isa! 🙏

I hope I will do ok… I’m used to talking about the Fediverse in English and not French (or my mother tongue Italian). Wish me luck 😅

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

Now About That There Bubble…

In markets that soar,
Bubbles glimmer, then they burst,
Gold seems strong and sure.

(bad haiku in cahoots with https://arghstudios.com Storyteller service)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Name the first draft of a brand or title:

I Refuse To Believe This Could Not Have Been Butter

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

Well. Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman are now the new owners of Commander Shepard.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/30/saudi-fund-kushners-firm-to-buy-games-maker-electronic-arts-in-55bn-deal

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"Teams that care about quality will take the time to understand LLM-generated code before it makes it into the repo.

But some teams are checking in code nobody’s read, and that’s only been cursorily tested. And, evidently, there’s a lot of them."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/

Been warning about this for a couple of years now so I'm well into "he keeps crying 'wolf'" territory meaning nobody pays any attention, but it's still going to be a problem.

Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Manifest #20389 from NROL-82 (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Quantum Pallets of Runes
2. Sovereign Source
3. Malevolent Fog

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
CoMaps@floss.social ("CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive") wrote:

Celebrating 15 Years of F‑Droid!

September 29th marks the anniversary of the open‑source app repository we all love.

Why it matters: F‑Droid’s mission aligns well with CoMaps—both champion Free/Libre Open‑Source Software (FLOSS) and community‑driven innovation.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/04/twif.html
Post from 2010: https://f-droid.org/en//2010/09/29/f-droid-is-here.html

Let’s keep building a freer tech ecosystem together!

#FDroid #OpenSource #FLOSS

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:

1. Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.
2. Test your site with no consent for user tracking.
3. Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.
4. Remove them.
5. Remove the cookie banner.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

noted: post-genocide AI empowerment?
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-30T06:26Z/

I wonder if Svelte is onboard with this? 🤔

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
humdrum@social.lol ("kevin humdrum") wrote:

Go donate to @robb and @adam St. Jude fundraiser and get yourself some awesome stickers. https://tiltify.com/@rknightuk/stjude2025

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

I'm using a random word generator to search keywords in my photos app for fun (I have 50k images 😬).

The word is "linen"

It brought up a screenshot of a blog post that I never published— one where I was trying to immerse the reader but also be meta?... idk lol

#blogging #writing #writer

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

It seems @jono.id is my Anger Translator:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/impolighthouse/

/via @tunetheweb

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
annie@social.lol wrote:

🙅‍♀️ Note to self, these are time sucks and I’m better off when I avoid them:
- unanswerable questions
- unreasonable people
- unwinnable arguments

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
R74n@mastodon.gamedev.place ("R74n - making Sandboxels") wrote:

Steam Autumn SALE: Sandboxels is only 74¢ on Steam for the next week!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
andrew@thestopbutton.social ("Andrew Wickliffe") wrote:

I am shocked that members of the white liberal intelligentsia who have absolutely no friends of color or trans friends turn out to be shit stains

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ycombinator@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com (":rss: Hacker News") wrote:

Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation–Report
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-are-using-pto-to-sleep-not-for-vacation-report-10783162
#ycombinator

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

Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every design decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this impulse is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong.

This point generalizes beyond games. This sort of choice (or attempt to deny the choice) comes up in designing any human thing.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

All I can add [1] to @pluralistic's latest is that Apple are the primary force keeping us from having powerful, interoperable apps on phones through suppression of the web. It's not an accident, and @owa has the receipts [2]:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/
[2]: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

"Fox News did to our parents what our parents were afraid video games would do to us." -- Quoted by Stephen King without attribution.

(Attribution edited after lebout2canap's[0] comment pointing at the research done on the Snopes site[1])

[0] https://mathstodon.xyz/@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net/115276538330680393

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stephen-king-fox-news-video-games/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jyasskin@hachyderm.io ("Jeffrey Yasskin") wrote:

Apropos of something the #Ladybird founder posted: you can't be nice to people and also accept absolutely everyone into your project or community, because some people (e.g. the ones in charge of the U.S. right now) want to be mean to other people. (Another phrasing is that you can't include both the sheep and the wolves, although that metaphor doesn't hold up if you look any deeper.)

Codes of conduct (and, generally, social norms) are essential, and one of the possible consequences for a code of conduct violation has to be ejection from the community. (It's super rare in practice, but it has to be available.)

With enough energy, you can heal a lot of the mean people, but you don't owe everyone that investment, and if a person doesn't heal with the investment they have available, their presence isn't compatible with a healthy community.

Any community I'll support has to treat trans people, immigrants, and other groups marginalized for being themselves as the wonderful people they are. Groups marginalized for being awful to other people (e.g. fascists) are fair game.

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

@pluralistic The playbook is clear (and anti-democratic):

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

and @owa keeps receipts:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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

Today's @pluralistic is on point, but it's missing one important angle: our fastest path off O&O monopolistic stacks at the app layer is the web. And that's why Apple's doing nasty stuff to subvert it:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/28/works-well/