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

Message.casa est aussi disponible en français !

https://message.casa/fr est un service gratuit d’email et de messagerie instantanée axé sur la confidentialité, construit sur les principes du smolweb : léger, intentionnel et respectueux de votre espace numérique.

Je publie régulièrement des codes d'invitation (nécessaire à la création de compte), ainsi que les utilisateurs déjà enregistrés.

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

¡Message.casa también está disponible en español!

https://message.casa/es es un servicio gratuito de correo electrónico y mensajería instantánea centrado en la privacidad, basado en los principios de la smolweb: ligero, intencional y respetuoso con tu espacio digital.

Publico regularmente códigos de invitación (necesarios para crear una cuenta), así como usuarios ya registrados.

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

What's going to kill YouTube for me is this: AI-narrated slideshows of AI-generated pictures with huge annoying karaoke subtitles in the middle of the screen.

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

Also, people love to reply with shitty comments about whatever you're linking to that mock or ridicule the writer or the subject and that's just fucking annoying.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Working theory: parents actively involved in raising young children are less likely to be enthusiastic about AI, since repeating the same set of instructions over and over only to have them forgotten, ignored, or abandoned partway through is already way too much of our lives.

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

And people make shit up about what I think about what I'm linking to even when I don't include any commentary whatsoever.

So, I do it less than I used to and even that's probably more than I should

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

People also don't read the linked post and comment based on the title or the preview thumbnail.

And if they click through they only read the first third.

And if they read it all the way through they somehow misunderstand it completely.

Then they come back and blame me for linking to it

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

As in, they understand when somebody links to a news outlet like The Guardian, but assume that anybody linking to a blog post or similar must have written it themselves. Otherwise why bother?

Making sure every link has enough context and preamble to make it clear that I'm not the author is tedious

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

A lot of it has been replaced by gossip which, to be fair, already dominated much online writing. Posts that do little more than repeating shit that's happening, might have happened, or might be about to happen.

There's also the issue where more and more people just don't get the concept of links

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

There's still about as much solid writing out there as there used to be, but much of what I enjoyed was writing where the work and the ideas described were interesting, even if the writing itself didn't have many charms.

Much of that seems to be gone because the work and the ideas seem to be gone

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

I used to post quite a lot of links on my social media and I took the curation quite seriously but I've largely stopped:

- Interesting writing in tech and software dev has largely disappeared
- Much of the rest has deteriorated to mostly griping about or celebrating "AI"

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

USB-C charging

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

Enjoyed a lovely walk with @rosie_108 this morning.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kotaro@kotaro.me ("Kotes") wrote:

Good evening, fedi folks.

My father became too famous for winning the Reuter’s Chemistry Prize and an award from the Science Council of Japan.

So, we decided to install a security system in our house, and today a salesman from SECOM, a security company, came to our home to explain their services.

That said, my father only makes $15,000 a year, and we don't have a single thing of value in our house.

Because my father has become a celebrity, people might think our family is wealthy, which increases the chances of a burglar breaking in to search for his riches.

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

It's better outside.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust #trees

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

'"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry'

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

Industries that grew over decades will take decades to rebuild, if ever, even when they were destroyed overnight.

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

“20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple | hey.paris”

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Yeah. Time to review how you use Apple, Google, and Microsoft cloud services.

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

“Moore’s Law, past and future – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones”

https://softmachines.org/?p=3129

> In the first, and strictest, sense, we can be definitive – Moore’s law has run its course.

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h2onolan@infosec.exchange ("myron aub") wrote:

People like to imagine a Star Trek future but we cant even manage a Bell Riot.

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"To serve and protect the ruling class"
Anti-cop graff painted in Quezon City, Philippines by Vandals United for ACAB Day

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

MakerWorld right now feels like Netflix in 2012.

"Everything is free!"
"This will stay free!"
"We just need one paid tier."

Anyway, enjoy your ads between layer 37 and 38.

#3dprinting

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a couple months back.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by jwz:
parkermolloy.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Parker Molloy") wrote:

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

Attachments:

• video: ad17f15e93afaf62.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

Boosted by jwz:
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

It's good that we're all so bothered by the new and extensive demand for personal data on US visa applications.

Can we also be bothered that for Americans, they just buy it from data brokers, without cause or warrant, without so much as informing you?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:

‘[an allied officer said] America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

…it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.”’

https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is dutifully fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.

Who says? The chair of the Fed.

Someone should investigate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

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

this is Seriously Not Good

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

RETVRN