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

breakfast

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

One of the (many) frustrating parts of trying to use free/open source tools for writing is that too many of them don’t realise that Oxford English spelling and British English spelling aren’t the same thing.

This is more common in the “trendier” corners of open source.

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

I've been writing more about how Web Standards *actually* come to be, and the responses make me think there's a ton more to discuss; so in the spirit of figuring it out together, AMA:

https://infrequently.org/series/effective-standards-work/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal judge last night blocked President Trump from sending National Guard troops from any state to Oregon for the next week until she issues a final decision. https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/11/judge-bars-national-guard-deployment-to-portland-until-her-final-ruling.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

U.S. President Donald Trump has said China and Russia have secretly conducted underground nuclear weapons tests, using the claim to justify his surprise order for the United States to begin its own tests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/trump-nuclear-tests-focus/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #nuclearweapons #china #russia

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Bonus round: My favourites from the ones you have sent me in the replies.

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

“Notes on social skills | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/notes%5Fon%5Fskills

> Consequently, we have a situation in most modern knowledge work where almost everyone is focused, first and foremost, on cultivating or faking the expression of traits rather than actually learning or getting good at anything.

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

Delyth is here to wish you a good morning, and to remind you that #DyddDefaidodon is coming up this Friday. You wouldn't want to miss that, would you?

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jaz@toot.wales ("jaz :twt: :wales_flag:") wrote:

Oh. My. Goodness.

I'm giving a talk in November at #SFSCon about building Tŵt Cymru, and I was just adding the session to my calendar when I realised...

It's on #DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon !!!

I am now going to have to figure out how to incorporate the hashtag into the presentation, and I expect everyone to pile in with their #SheepOfMastodon on the day.

I think I'll do a grand finale and load the FediWall up on a screen, assuming I have a screen behind me.

https://www.sfscon.it/talks/hiraeth-and-hashtags-building-a-bilingual-community-on-the-fediverse/

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

save Mariah for December, obvs

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

First working day of November.

UNLEASH THE CHRISTMAS TUNES.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Some runner-ups...

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We're almost sold out of enamel pins, so I'm thinking about what we could do next. @Ameboid and I brainstormed some slogans that we think might fit on a pin. Just testing the waters here.

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

A weird milestone in adapting Emacs to more of what I currently do with Ulysses: adding a "copy as rich text" function which takes Markdown (or Org!) text and puts the rich text version on the clipboard. This is very Mac-specific, although I think it could be adapted to Linux.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

OMG, @openstreetmap got so much better since I tried it last time (some years ago). Like, SO MUCH BETTER! I went through the initial tutorial, and everything is so fast and frictionless.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

@Tattie I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

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asterism@ni.hil.ist ("Aster") wrote:

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kevinrns@mstdn.social ("Kevin Russell") wrote:

Good news, hard times.

New South Korea law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms.

Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots.

And It Will Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities

Parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies. But, unlike similar laws elsewhere, the new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply.

Yay.

https://electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms/

#climate

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
actualham@social.coop ("Robin DeRosa") wrote:

Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.

#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I just discovered the best feature of mobile #Firefox

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jimsalter@fosstodon.org ("Jim Salter") wrote:

Healthy life coach type shit right here

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
distractal@hachyderm.io ("Erik Johnson") wrote:

From Reddit:

"Explaining daylight savings time to a cat."

Attachments:

• video: A person explains daylight savings time to a cat gently while music from The Dark Knight plays in the background and the camera slowly zooms in and the cat stares at them

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The future of software:

AI writes insecure code -> AI finds a vulnerability -> AI exploits it -> AI patches it -> AI writes a blog post about it.

Better get a large supply of popcorn and watch this shitshow.

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

Good podcast episode by Robert Evans goes a little bit into the lesswrong doomsday cult

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000643778432

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There is a new "Share on Mastodon" button on the official @Mastodon blog, feel free to try it out and let me know what you think.

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

This doomer rhetoric from Hank Green's new pals comes at a real life cost.

At least one doomer cult active in the LessWrong forums, and a believer in the LessWrong rhetoric, ended in murder and suicide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians

#Zizians #aidoomcult

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Ihlo - Cenotaph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96nq1Avi7kA

#NP #NowPlaying

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

Here's the article from Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-author of the book and writer of the LessWrong blog.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-strategy

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

Hank Green dedicates an entire video to the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" and platforms one of the authors Nate Soares.

The other co-author, meanwhile, wants humanity to get comfortable with the inevitability of the AI apocalypse, and to...

"die with dignity"

To be clear, Hank doesn't appear interested in approaching this book with a critical lens, instead seems to gush over it. In his second video, he's straight up preaching all the talking points of the book.

#AI #OpenAI

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

In his video, Hank Green cites the Center For AI Saftey as evidence we have lost control of AI.

The national spokesperson for the Center For AI Safety recommends we "burn down labs" in an attempt to prevent an AI apocalypse.

https://x.com/DrTechlash/status/1924639190958199115

#OpenAI #AI #Anthropic