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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Cuteness for the timeline with @ChrisWere

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Please join us this weekend: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/c/no-kings-alliance-mutual-aid/event/create/

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

There are no accurate Hallowe'en spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/a-doleful-lack-of-anatomically-accurate-spider-decorations/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/azTWFSsefXs

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

Also contains some musings on writing as a craft.

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

Wrote up a few thoughts on media business strategy, audiences, the decline of web dev as a source of work (for me), and plans.

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

Every day is Hallowe'en if you're Jordan Peterson.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/tasteless-suits-made-to-fit/

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

Notes on strategy and audience as a media business: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/strategy-and-audience/

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

Retro photos: millennial Reykjavík: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/retro-photos-millenial-reykjavik/

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

Firefox ESR is now v140 (from 128)

this is typically my lowest browser support target

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/140.4.0/releasenotes/

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

Celebrate the holiday with Happy Fun Ball!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/happy-halloween-6/

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

Yesterday was spent updating and maintaining the beetle farm that lives in my living room. That's what a living room is for, right?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tenebriarium-142486327?utm%5Fmedium=clipboard%5Fcopy&utm%5Fsource=copyLink&utm%5Fcampaign=postshare%5Fcreator&utm%5Fcontent=join%5Flink

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

“Understanding what "I am not 'anti-AI'… I am pro-craft." means to me | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2025/10/30/understanding-what-i-am-not-anti-ai-i-am-pro-craft-means-to-me/

> Meanwhile, actual expertise continues to be devalued across the board. Intellectual curiosity that helps develop that expertise is steadily being devalued in favor of “productivity” hacks. And my absolute favorite, AI “solutions” to problems that were created by previous non-AI “solutions” that also didn’t understand the original problem they claimed to solve.

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

Vim has always been charityware. Any money that was donated to the project went to ICCF Holand, an organization that helps marginalized children in Uganda.

Sadly, 2 years after Bram's passing, this charity will be dissolved. Future donations will be sent to a different charity called Kuwasha: https://groups.google.com/g/vim%5Fannounce/c/pUNbNXBLbKw

Bram's work over the years has done much good for disadvantaged communities. Whether you use Vim or Neovim, consider following their original creator's example in whatever way you can.

#vim #neovim

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

I missed it before, but the new #Affinity app includes an AI chatbot called Ritson.

There's also the last question on this FAQ: https://www.affinity.studio/help/canva-ai-canva-ai-affinity-ml/

"Can I disable AI in Affinity?

"No, you can't disable or remove AI features in Affinity, but it's your choice if you use them."

So, yeah… thanks, but no thanks.

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

Not a huge fan of the idea that the business model for some of the more complex productivity apps around—the Affinity suite—is now limited to “let me upsell you to ‘AI’”. I’m glad they haven’t discontinued them, but these apps are too important for people’s work for them to become some ‘AI’ vendor’s cost centre

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

"I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance" by Loren Stewart https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards

One of the best web perf analyses I've read in a long while. Can't say the results are surprising, but it's great to see it all laid out.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

So Affinity is now free but you pay for AI features?

And they are owned by Canva now?

This whole industry just running without viable income models and everyone is acting like it's fine?

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read! https://youtu.be/jBduzUVORnk

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MomentsInGraphics@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Christoph Peters") wrote:

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples.
https://momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia2025.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.

As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

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

it is all downhill from here

https://ohai.social/@redsad/115465169355314751

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gl33p ("Preston Austin") wrote:

do things that are weird, free, and kind

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metro.co.uk@web.brid.gy ("Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro") wrote:

‘King sends powerful message to all abuse survivors by stripping Andrew of titles’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/30/king-sends-powerful-message-to-all-abuse-survivors-by-stripping-andrew-of-titles-24575636/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

On Saturday, health insurance premiums are projected to double for millions of Americans and 42 million working families will lose the benefits that keep them fed.

This weekend, join the No Kings Alliance and millions of Americans, from rural farms to suburban neighborhoods to city centers, who are coming together to provide mutual aid and care for our communities. https://www.nokings.org/alliance

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

@orrickle the profile pic with you, the rat, and the cat portrait is absolutely delightful. 👍

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

watch all the way to the end https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQXLJxIEtV4/

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

This was built in 1950, originally intended to be a dairy farm. No cow ever saw the inside of that barn because, apparently, they ran out of money.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #concrete #barn #mountains

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Me, six months ago: "This is elegant, maintainable, future-proof code!"

Also me, today: "Who the hell wrote this shit?!"

It's funny how code apparently decomposes even though not a single byte has changed.