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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

Hi Folks, sorry to any users of my #PeerTube server but due to a broken upgrade this server is down for the forseeable future.

IRL has me totally burned out at the moment and I just don't have the time for messing around with things built on layers of black boxes that I don't understand.

If anyone wants to try to help then the most recent error is here:

pbin.thepolarbear.co.uk/?1dd5129a28a94a47#92wYDfQsbDeWGPZtZ6WNTPd2JVtzWcHTo1MuLeieiC79

but I am unlikely to be "interactive" so please be patient.

Apologies again.

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

Anyway, reject the grift; do engineering:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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

People like to tell me that React isn't the problem ("it's only 50KB"), and I agree: library choices in a vacuum don't say much, but a culture that walks past 5-10x over-spend on *client-side* dependencies, day in and day out? That culture is *failing*.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
nicolasvivant@colter.social ("Nicolas Vivant") wrote:

Tiens, un salon de la souveraineté numérique a vu le jour à Paris.

Et pour que tout le monde comprenne bien l'importance de l'enjeu, le site de l'événement est hébergé sur un cloud Microsoft Azure.

Excellente idée, à mon avis.

#Cohérence #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LogicielsLibres

Boosted by jwz:
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I don't have any energy to give to a new Mozilla CEO announcement so I'm just gonna point you here, which still holds true.

https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt3/

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pivic@kolektiva.social ("Niklas Pivic") wrote:

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AISlop #slop #sloperator

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round-two

Boosted by jwz:
danimo@chaos.social ("Daniel Molkentin") wrote:

I am not sure if everyone who is outraged by the insane rise in RAM pricing understands that this is solely because a billionaire bought 40% of all memory chip production. Not because he needs it, just to oust the competition. And the entire IT sector, and all private PC owners, have been taken prisoners in the process.

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jwz wrote:

@ianbetteridge I know this was a rhetorical question but the answer is: because their VC-brained executives long ago abandoned the nonprofit's mission of stewarding the open web, and instead pivoted to trying to make "products" that will be beloved by advertising companies. (And utterly failed at that anyway, just a truly spectacular faceplant.)

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

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

WordPress's "most OK" status is its strength

the real WordPress lock in is the stupendous numbers of plugins, themes and developers for both. "why don't you move to X" fails to answer "I use *this* fuckin plugin"

the control point is wordpress.org

ClassicPress has its *own* extension repo (with beer and hookers) but it would need full wordpress.org compat to be a substitute

the many many many alternate CMSes and static site generators almost never address "this fuckin plugin i actually use"

not to mention "I have ten years of posts and comments and known URLs here"

tech evangelists are delighted to dive into people's mentions with suggestions that don't address anything the system is being used for. this is about any software whatsoever. because tech evangelists in general are odious idiots.

i've had tech evangelist morons hear "wordpress" and claim "oh comments are a wrong thing to want" and wtf

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

WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaBAU8g50A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world - podcast

time: 9 min 03 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/ - blog post

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

IM NOT SHARING MY #WRAPSTODON2025 AND NO ONE CAN MAKE ME

Boosted by jwz:
staff ("Mastodon.social Staff") wrote:

mastodon.social has just handled it's 250,000th report! While we acknowledge that mastodon.social's size is too large a percentage of the fediverse (and have plans to address it), one benefit of being the fediverse's front door is that bad actors come to us first.

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danfuzz ("Dan Bornstein") wrote:

@timbray @gruber Sets Georg, who lives in cave and enumerates transfinite quantities multiple times per day, is an outlier and should not be counted.

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scdollins@genart.social ("Steven Dollins") wrote:

Murmuring mosaic

#TilingTuesday

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders

Attachments:

• gifv: Hundreds of multicolored circles move in fits and starts along crumpled looping paths that tile the plane. The circle colors are a gradient that ranges between lights and darks as it sweeps along the paths.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Every bolt is a flat head if you try hard and believe in yourself.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Spotify is wrapped in complicity for helping ICE infringe our rights and terrorize our communities: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Taste. #grickledoodle #vinyl #holidays #music #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

slopsh: the ai shell

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

I meant to put "cult making machine" in quotes because those aren't my words, they're from Robert Evans

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

@adam hahahahahhahahha

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

@fromjason

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

"This podcast is sponsored by Meta"

Listen to #Meta's new ad about the "positive impacts" of data centers in small communities, at the top of today's Daily podcast by #NYT:

"I had to travel for work, missing moments I can't get back. Then Meta opened a data center and brought new jobs. Now, I don't worry about missing out anymore."

Attachments:

• video: Screen recording of podcast episode by The Daily. Picture of a building. December 15. "Inside the Tech company..."

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cinimodev@masto.ctms.me ("Dom 🦻") wrote:

Tech hardware companies out here saying they have to raise prices because of "data centers" are just price gouging. Investors expect record profits and now there are "shortages" that will keep profits high.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
privacyguides@neat.computer ("Privacy Guides") wrote:

Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.

We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/

:peertube: https://neat.tube/w/tS3ho29H2YTJJjEh8sXuNy
:youtube: https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo

#KOSA #BadInternetBills #SCREENAct #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #USpol #USgov #Trump #Censorship #Privacy #AgeVerification #TaylorLorenz #USA #US #PrivacyGuides #Video

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

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chucktingle/post/DSVKibbibwH

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ashley@posts.ashleymcquaid.com ("Ashley McQuaid") wrote:

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

Can we just sic the AIs on each other?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/16/a-good-use-for-ai/