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

Hmm. As cool as Flutter is, it is definitely not designed with the idea of creating document-based apps. I'm becoming half-tempted to learn Lisp and write this as an Emacs package. (Kidding.) (Mostly.)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

What a fascinating machine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKm9eM2BuM0

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It doesn't look very safe.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #windows #balcony #concrete #rust

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

“estimates that the A.I. wealth effect is boosting current real gross domestic product growth by about 0.4 percentage points (just under $100 billion), comparable to the peak of the dot-com bubble, when the wealth effect was 0.6 percentage points.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/opinion/ai-bubble-stock-market-tech-stocks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jwz:
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

Now that Marc Benioff, owner of Slack and Salesforce, has confirmed he sides with authoritarianism, it's more incumbent on us than ever to move off central platforms, which can dump communications we presumed were private or cut us off for any reason or no reason at all.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/10/marc-benioff-national-guard-sf/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Is it a good idea to setup a mail server for smol mailboxes and to open registration for free with invitation links for example?
The goal would be to reduce volume of emails, as #smolweb reduces the size of websites.

Something smol like:

• one common domain name (something in .casa TLD)
• in a French datacenter
• 128 Mb of storage
• 10 Mb max per email (sent or received)
• 10 recipient addresses per email (can't be used for mailing)
• limited sent per hour (no spam)
• IMAP / POP3 / SMTP (over TLS)
• Webmail (for desktop and mobile)
• autodeleted if full for several months (to free space for newcomers)

Are you interested by such a #mailbox ?

Please share this toot to have a good idea of the interest.

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

Stupid Young Republicans get exposed, because they are both racist and stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/young-republicans-same-as-the-old-republicans/

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

Gosh, what a surprise, the ranks of the young GOP are filled with racist antisemitic homophobes who glorify rape, golly, who could they possibly be emulating

Also every single one of them has the sparkling charisma of an infected thumb in an ill-fitting suit

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

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

https://www.404media.co/content/images/2025/10/insta-art.png

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

News: Portland’s Inflatable Costume Protests Against ICE Begin to Spread Nationwide

Who had "dance rave in front of an ICE building" on their 2025 bingo card? [After one protestor in a frog suit in Portland] a new national trend was born. This trend is quickly spreading to other parts of America.

https://kffm.com/oregon-portland-inflatable-protests-spread-nationwide/?utm%5Fsource=tsmclip&utm%5Fmedium=referral

There have been reports of inflatable protests spreading to Chicago, Illinois, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lawrence, Kansas.

@renewedresistance

#OperationInflation #NoKings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wms@c.im ("We Must Strike") wrote:

"This Saturday, 2,000 protests will pop up all across #America as part of another No Kings Day. Millions and millions of #antifascist #patriots who object to U.S. #authoritarianism are expected to attend. "
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Yes, protesting does make a difference! Here's how - https://itishappening.substack.com/p/yes-protesting-does-make-a-difference

#uspol #nokings #protest #resist #fascism

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

HOP

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

Yes I know I'm talking about Swift a lot recently but be assured my heart still belongs to Huntr/x

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

Seriously she just took the entire Hot 100 chart as it existed last week and just shoved it down 12 spots, that's actually kind of hilarious

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

Confirmed

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DPzBW6SjwcC

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

A classic style rambly video about my Newsboat and Lynx browser setup.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gQ9pCFCgmcihC67rnMMhUz

#foss #linux #newsboat #lynx

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

My Newsboat + Lynx browser setup

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gQ9pCFCgmcihC67rnMMhUz

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

New #PeerTube video incoming! Follow @chris to see it when it drops.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Mara@hachyderm.io wrote:

I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!

Many people and companies contribute to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.

General maintenance is one of the most fundamental jobs in an open source project, but is one of the hardest to get paid for. Adding new features gets you promoted; keeping the lights on does not.

But everything depends on it. Code needs reviews, cleanups, docs. New contributors need mentors, etc.
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A significant number of Rust maintainers who got paid for that have lost or quit their job recently. Due to RTO policies, a shift in responsibilities, budget cuts, and/or burnout. This is already quite noticable in the Rust project: longer review queues and more technical debt. This is a problem.
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Through RustNL, the non-profit foundation behind the largest Rust conference (RustWeek) and the Rust Project's All Hands, we are setting up a fund to provide stable jobs for Rust maintainers. We want to employ six full-time maintainers in 2026.
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Additionally, we'll provide internships and mentorship, to help retain promising new contributors. Not only do we need to make sure the current generation of maintainers doesn't burn out, we need to work on the next generation of maintainers too.
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What we need now is companies who rely on Rust to step up and contribute financially. Having your business rely on the work of unpaid volunteers is not sustainable in the long term. It's a risk.

And if your company contributes to Rust, keeping the project well-maintained will accelerate your work.
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Over the last few months, we have spoken to the Rust Foundation and several big companies about our plans. The input we've received and the positive reactions so far makes us believe we can make this happen. Today, we are publishing our plans for a wider audience, in search for the required funding.
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If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee!

You can find our sponsors prospectus here: https://rustnl.org/resources/Rust-Maintainers-Fund.pdf

Let me know if you want to talk! 💛

(Message me through Mastodon, Rust Zulip, or email: mara@rustnl.org)

https://rustnl.org/fund/

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

Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.

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

Media Notes (October 2025): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/media-notes-1/

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

Media Notes (October 2025)

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/media-notes-1/

Some of the stuff I've been watching, a surprising amount of which is available on YouTube of all places.

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

https://substack.com/inbox/post/175921873

#PortlandFrog

Via https://www.metafilter.com/210673/Countdown-to-No-King

#NoKings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sohkamyung@mstdn.io ("Soh Kam Yung") wrote:

"Hidden under tonnes of rock, a dinosaur superhighway is emerging - where palaeontologists are walking in the footsteps of these giant beasts.

This summer’s excavation at this extraordinary site has uncovered one of the longest trackways found anywhere in the world."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe

#Dinosaurs #Fossils #Tracks

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

Claiming it's "highly likely" that circumcision causes autism is an irresponsible lie.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/the-latest-medical-nonsense/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:

This is Roald Dahl's 1986 plea to parents to get their children vaccinated against measles; his daughter died of it in 1962, before vaccines were widely available.

Turns out measles can just kill you outright weeks or months or sometimes years after infection, when you're supposedly over it and healthy again.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2504516

https://web.archive.org/web/20200303050650/https://roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/timeline/1960s/november-1962

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use generative AI regardless of its potential utility, but it's actually about mortality and authoritarianism and book clubs and Bowling Alone. (I resisted an extended metaphor about curling, you're welcome / I'm sorry.)

https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10-11/friction

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

Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets:

"the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition.""

Why are robots fucking on your computer?
What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?
Lololol https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/

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

At least 11 million year old -- a spider squash prep.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/not-the-prettiest-jumping-spider-ive-seen/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

Here's "Subatomic," an artwork about the search for something impossibly tiny.

It's one of the artworks from my show, "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones," focusing on the search for neutrinos at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a particle physics lab ~1.5km / 4850ft underground in a former gold mine; I am their artist-in-residence for the year.