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

Update: Corrections being pushed through. Ebook editions will have the edits first, print editions will be updated when they do a new printing. Note everything is on holiday time right now. But soon enough.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DSTqtnMDD4Y

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I don't know how many people there are like me, but I know how important browsers are to the modern compute/social participation, and I am absolutely willing to pay a little bit each month to contribute to the development of an alternative browser that is not controlled by big tech and is willing to turn away "AI" junk, especially if it was a cooperative venture.

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lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

Servo-based Firefox alternative from Igalia when? They could call it Zorro. I would totally run Zorro. I can't wait. Do it, y'all

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

Wrote a quick-n-dirty post about morals, and narratives, and idk what I just needed to get it out so that my brain shuts up about it.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/16/every-story-is-a-moral.html

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

Every story is a moral: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/16/every-story-is-a-moral.html

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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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*.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

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

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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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