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

it's Monday 👀

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

Today, showing my daughter — who is an artist — an app I'm working on, and she's noticing this little grocery cart icon (attached).

Her: Where did you get that icon?
Me: I drew it.
Her: Not just found on the Internet?
Me: No, here's the original Inkscape SVG.
Her: What did you use as a reference?
Me: Nothing, I know how a grocery cart looks.
Her: *mind blown*

Feels nice to surprise her in a field where she considers herself proficient, and me usually admitting complete incompetence :-)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz FINAL.DOCX") wrote:

Every time I see “Ollama” my brain substitutes “Obama,” and I start imagining an LLM that begins every response with “let me be clear”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("DO NOT REPEAT THIS POPEHAT") wrote:

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

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

“They squandered their leverage, zapped their voters enthusiasm, and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. And it's just too bad that we are now stuck with these leaders we have on that side, and there's nothing that can be done about it.”

— John Stewart, #DailyShow on #Democrats

https://youtu.be/9UFZxLLchA4

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
raiderrobert ("Robert Roskam") wrote:

The fables of 10x engineers never include:
- updating the docs
- pair programming
- adding meaningful test coverage
- listening to burned-out coworkers
- improving on-call runbooks

The engineers that do these do not seek glory. They plant trees they don't expect to sit under.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've got the Glow Display (IHD/CAD) which works as an MQTT proxy for UK #SmartMeter readings. I can read them locally in #HomeAssistant. I've got near-realtime usage data from the the authoritative source that my energy provider uses for billing. Very cool!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
scy@chaos.social wrote:

I have a website again. And a blog. Because social media isn't permanent, never was, and never will be.

https://scy.name/blog/2025/11/relaunch.html

(post mentions death, Elon Musk, and US politics)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pixelpusher220@dmv.community ("Pusher of Pixels") wrote:

Tell me you've never watched Star Trek without telling me

#STTOS #StarTrek

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

“Agents twice stopped him in his pickup within about 10 minutes, he said. Both times he was still in the parking lot, he said.”

He’s a naturalized American citizen. More Kavanaugh stops in action.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/article312930478.html#storylink=cpy

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

Finally stumbled upon a working hack to prevent swiping from a list to be interpreted as swiping of the entire pager in which that list sits. Was driving me nuts for years! #Android UI framework isvery fiddly...

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

First time doing choux pastry and it turned out better than expected 😁

The bottom was a little browner than it should've been, but otherwise very tasty. Gonna fill em with choco whipped cream

#baking

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

Here is a new proposal on how to include OpenPGP signatures in HTML documents and verify them from the browser itself:

https://dillo-browser.org/rfc/006-signatures-html/

It shouldn't be too hard to implement in #Dillo and offload the verification to an external program like GnuPG.

CC @tomasino

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Now that I've really got into bash programming and self hosting, I'm kinda tempted to do an audio blog. Could call it Chris Hear.

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

Cold winds whip and bite,
Gray skies drape the world in gloom,
Yet I step through mud.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Phorm@dragon.style ("Phorm The Vixdjinn") wrote:

I know a lot of folks have been going on about it, but Steam's latest hardware announcement has been utterly insane for the day and age in which we live.

Consider that they didn't hype it up with a launch event. They didn't sell a bunch of hype and buzzwords. All they did was release a ~6 minute video that effectively described the hardware and what it would provide, and had a webpage with *actual specs on it*.

They invited a bunch of tech reporters/YouTubers to their HQ, but they let them talk to *engineers*, not marketing people. The discussions focused on real capabilities of the hardware, and actual demonstrations. No vapor and promises. Not glitz and glam.

They made it clear this is all SteamOS driven, and that they have a focus of getting *existing x86 Windows software* running not only on Linux, but on ARM and in VR!!

They aren't pitching a closed ecosystem. They said, outright, "This is your hardware, you can do whatever you want with it".

THEY DIDN'T MENTION AI ONCE.

And they're _already_ making a bigger splash than any competitor ever did, even though those competitors have gobs more money they've thrown at this stuff, and tremendously more staff.

It's flabbergasting. I hope they make enough of an impact with all this that people sit up and take notice.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

And I am suddenly feeling like a dinosaur 🦖 ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

"Free beer tomorrow"

Trump officials: Lower prices and greater affordability are coming

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/16/trump-affordability-inflation-tariffs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yogthos@social.marxist.network ("Yogthos") wrote:

A stunning 40% of younger American women now want to flee the country, creating the largest gender-based emigration desire gap ever recorded globally.

This marks a decade-long collapse in faith in US institutions, accelerating under both parties. While their global peers are content, a generation of women sees a future elsewhere, with many ready to take the next generation with them. At this point, the American dream is to flee the dying nation.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

#usa #uspol

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

This is how #Washy sleeps most of the time, under a blanket, upside down and paws up

Almost a default for him :blobcathearts:

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

@rosie_108 just sent me this silliness.

Attachments:

• video: Chris dancing in the woods like a maniac.

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

I wonder why so many young women want to leave America?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/16/the-long-term-consequences-of-misogyny/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Join us tomorrow!

~~~

When self-professed defenders of workers’ rights are turning to chatbots for “research”, we’ve got a problem.

Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alex and I will investigate some recent disappointments in labor research together with Sophie Song:

Monday, Nov 17, noon PT,
https://twitch.tv/dair%5Finstitute

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

My new kink lately has been collecting the things orgs have been telling investors they’re doing with GenAI.

Here’s EA, where they demo’d their chat bot making up a game on the fly.. “Make it more epic” 😂 I’ve been told by a source in EA the presentation was faked, they actually just have an LLM in AWS which is pretty shit.

EA aren’t alone in this.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Rationalwiki.org Status:

Still being hammered into uselessness by AI spammer bots.

I have the newly-released iocaine3 in place, hooked to nginx and it's processing requests!

(e.g. curl https://rationalwiki.org -A Perplexity gives you a remix of a source text)

Unfortunately, the bots are still getting through.

The documentation for iocaine3 appears still to be in a state of flux (i.e., wrong and misleading), so dropping in the very 'l33t NSoE filter will wait on that.

here's the nginx config fragment (send reqs to iocaine, what it lets through goes to varnish):

location / {

proxy_cache off;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
error_page 421 = @fallback;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:42069;
}

location @fallback {
proxy_set_header "X-Forwarded-For" $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 443;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6081;

proxy_connect_timeout 5s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}

cc @RationalWiki

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

If this were some sleazy sensationalist melodrama, I wouldn't be able to believe it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/16/our-continuing-descent-into-corruption/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
cmdr_nova@nullspace.mkultra.social ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$ 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

You wanna see engagement bait and rage bait vanish overnight? Stop paying people for it!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/buoyancy/

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

Yes we knew that already

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-real-estate-ceos.html

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

an interesting graph (2 measures of US "income inequality" and major policy changes on one graph)