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

Didn’t the Toot! app on the iPad use to be able to post threads! Feel like I’m being gaslit by my software

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

Sometimes there is no why, only do

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

Advent of Code day 7 status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-07T09:56Z/

AoC is heating up! :sweat_blob: I'll have to start waking up at 5:30am to find time next week.

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

“Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

> The cost of this, says Farid, is that it is almost impossible to know what’s actually going on in AI

Remember that bit I wrote ages ago about it being impossible to trust research during a bubble?

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

What Google did here makes me livid:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/we-tried-to-get-big-tech-to-pay-for-wrecking-journalism-it-didnt-work-out

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Leander@loops.video wrote:

Linus Torvalds calls a spade a spade

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
geist@xoxo.zone wrote:

After an extended side-quest getting befuddled by dependency errors, I reflect on testing philosophies and learning how to learn: https://geist.is/adventuring/2025/error-code-for-coder/

#DecemberAdventure #Rust

Screenshot of my blog post. It reads: Learning how to learn As a closing note, I first heard the idea that the purposes of unit tests is to force you to use your own API from (as I recall) an episode of The Bike Shed, fairly early in my career. A while later, I listened to another episode (potentially with the same hosts), who advocated for “DAMP” tests, standing for descriptive and meaningful phrases. This meant building up your own small set of test-only functions so that your tests read like your intent (closer to the example I gave above). I remember being quite confused by this at the time, given that these two ideas are not really compatible. In retrospect, I consider that an important early nudge towards an idea that would take a few more years to settle in for me: memorizing principles and best practices only gets you so far; to continue to learn, you have to know the underlying reason for doing things, and consider whether they apply in any given situation. Becoming a collector of trivia that you can wield with the weight of best practice is a seductive rut, but one I’m happy to have since escaped. I’d later learn that this is meant moving beyond the novice stage in the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

If corporations make more money from the infraction than the fine, they will always choose the infraction.

Regulations and regulators need to make fines an actual deterrent.

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

Whatever we may feel about AI and its longterm usefulness, we can agree that #Anthropic and #OpenAI's regulatory capture strategy to kill #OpenSource doesn't benefit anyone but these companies.

We don't need another telecommunications style monopoly. We don't want OpenAI to become the Comcast of AI.

Why, then, is Hank Green pushing #AIDoomerism to his largely #Liberal audience?

I wrote about it here.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

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

Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.

Jesus lord we're fucked.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/10.6.2025-The-Big-Tech-Oligarchs-War-Against-Workers.pdf

HELP Minority Staff reviewed economic data, investor transcripts, corporate financial filings— and asked ChatGPT about job displacement. Specifically, HELP Minority Staff asked ChatGPT to analyze job descriptions catalogued by the federal government for the entire U.S. economy and predict tasks that could be performed by AI and automation. According to the ChatGPT-based model, artificial intelligence and automation could replace nearly 100 million jobs over the next ten years, including 89% of fast food and counter workers, 64% of accountants and 47% of truck drivers.

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

Latest Freebooters podcast: Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us

https://freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3

Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more....

#Freebooters

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us

freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3

Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more.

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Boosted by jwz:
jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

Sign that says, “Free Nobel Peace Prize with an order of shrimp tacos.”

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

(and for those of you now asking "What? A church property? What?" Here's a FAQ for that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/13/the-church-faq/

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

A vacant parcel next to our church property went up for sale, and I bought it this month, so I guess you could say that, unlike Mariah Carey, I did want a lot for Christmas

A vacant lot, covered in snow, with a realty sign that says "SOLD" on it

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

...and how cool would it be for Logitech to sell your differently colored and sized rubber shells for your mouse?! Purple? Softer? Bigger?

If they could still sell you a brand-new mouse every two years, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
therivercrow@bardicperspiration.club ("River Crow") wrote:

If you vote labour thinking they're the lesser of two evils, stay the fk away from me.

Latest news is they're banning Trans women from their women's conference - they can't even sit in to hear the speakers, and won't be able to vote on motions.

This isn't a fair interpretation of the supreme court bullshit, this is disgusting bigotry on full display.

This on top of the ban for Trans youth healthcare, the planned Bathroom Bill, and the "review" they intend for adult Trans healthcare (we all know what that means).

Support for labour is support for hatred and legislative genocide against my people. So yeah, stay the fk away from me with your "but at least they're not the conservatives" shit.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Burn. Them. All.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Let's see how long this case holds up. I'm betting it's a lot longer than the original rubber, as TPU is a lot sturdier.

Even if it fails, it's a $0.30 print that finishes in less than 4 hours. I'll keep you posted 🥳

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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

That FIFA Total Landscaping Peace Prize was ok, but check out the genuine solid gold Yavin medals for the costume contest winners at tonight's STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL screening!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-06.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starwarsholidayspecial78 #cyberdelia #why2k #disco #dancehits #indie #sanfrancisco

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Logitech rubber coating: 2-year lifespan.
Me: Fine, I'll do it myself!

3D-printed a new shell in soft black TPU (on gray-ish PLA supports) and it fits like a glove. Honestly feels better than the original!

DIY > decay.

#3dprinting

Photo of the 3D printed case. TPU sits on top of PLA supports.
The mouse with the 3D printed case on.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I wonder if the Chinese American SF politician who likes calling herself the only assertive Chinese American woman has ever been to Chinatown

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
philcowans@universeodon.com ("Pippa") wrote:

You should definitely read about @nina_kali_nina 's project to reverse engineer #VisiOn and produce the first ever (published) 3rd party application for the platform. It's a massively impressive piece of work, even by the already high standards of the #retrocomputing community. Her notes are available at https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/note/index.md.

A few notes on why I think this is important. Firstly, I don't think you can really understand any field without understanding its history, and I think software engineering is especially bad at this. We tend to dismiss anything more than a couple of years old as irrelevant, which is why we're constantly reinventing the wheel and have people who don't realise that you can build a web page without using a JavaScript framework. One of the nice things about historical software is that you can actually use it, and take it apart and modify it, which leads to a much deeper understanding than you'd get from just reading about how it was used.

1/n

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

A high-altitude landscape photograph capturing a serene twilight scene. A tall, slender communication tower stands prominently on a forested hilltop, silhouetted against a gradient sky shifting from deep blue to soft pink hues with scattered clouds. Below, a road curves through dense, dark woods, leading toward rolling hills and a distant cityscape with subtle lights emerging in the haze. The image evokes a peaceful, atmospheric feel of dusk settling over a natural and urban horizon.

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

history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme:

“France could blame its upheaval on some combination of an ossified political structure, simmering class tension, trauma from losing the Anglo-French War, recurring budget crises, and ineffectual leadership.”

— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
https://a.co/iGWTMlH

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Boosted by jwz:
hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

TONIGHT! MOVIE SCREENING, dance party. Costume Contest! DNA Lounge presents The Star Wars: Holiday Special!

https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-06.html

CELEBRATE Life Day with @dnalounge , the Hubba Hubba Revue go-go dancers, & Grand Moff Kingfish as we DECK THE HALLS with the greatest-not-greatest holiday special of ALL TIME! Doors 7:00, Movie 7:30, then Costume Contest & WHY2k!

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL '78: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Dec 6, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-06.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starwarsholidayspecial78 #cyberdelia #why2k #disco #dancehits #indie #sanfrancisco

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

I've heard of this midwestern food called green bean casserole. I decided to try making it, blind to the outcome. I guess it worked.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/06/tis-the-season-for-office-holiday-parties/

small sad pile of leftovers

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
feedle wrote:

Here is another one of the wonderful people and organizations we have on Feedle, who also happens to be active on Mastodon: @keenan

Make sure to check them out and say hi from us! 👋

https://gkeenan.co

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Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

still baffled at people who have pin sharp and detailed cynicism about cryptocurrency but have fallen hard for chatbot AI

IT'S THE SAME FUCKING PERPETRATORS

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stepheneb@ruby.social ("Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)") wrote:

Today I’m thankful for having a 25 year old washing machine I can easily replace the hot and cold water control valve with filters that clog up every 3-4 years. The part is less than $10. This morning it took two hours to fill — not anymore!

The last 5-10 years we’ve been getting more sand/grit in our water. The well appears to be working well. There’s probably some kind of larger capacity sand trap I could add where the well water comes in to the pressure tank.

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