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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald Braithwaite") wrote:

“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”

— @pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.

👇🏽

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

must be fan issue ~£20 replacement 🤔

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeelinkOfficial/comments/1ibconw/eq12%5Floud%5Fnoise/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

Friend of ours is showing a new person to the world in several days. @IamMrsGeek got some baby learning books for them. I tried to give my Thing Explainer book, but she said not for a few months.

But then I remembered this music. Had to play it.

#NowPlaying

Alaska Robotics — "Space Weird Thing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygrdAvmr-MA

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

my OPNsense router (mini PC) started quacking like a duck and died... 🦆

a reboot "fixed" the issue, do I ignore it, or buy order a new one ASAP?

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

Friends, this is the coolest thing I have ever seen and you should see it too. A guitar amp labelled entirely in braille. #accessibility #blind #blindness #braille

Attachments:

• video: A white blind man with his brown hair in a bun. He is unboxing and testing his new guitar amp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2025.12.28 創作の杜おいけあした保育園
玄関先にある花壇からプリムラ・ジュリアン。12月に入ったあたりから花壇が冬の様子に変わっていた。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

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

The daily battle for survival is depicted through an umbrella seller in wild weather.
Old Man Struggling in the Wind, by Anselmo Guinea Ugalde, 1882

https://universalcompendium.com/gen%5Fimages/ucg/guinea/old-man-wind-umbrellas-anselmo-guinea-ugalde-luchando-viento-paraguas-fundacion-julian-gayarre-ronca.htm

#art #painting #work #weather

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drew@eigenmagic.net ("Drew Mayo") wrote:

I wrote up how it works here, but it’s really just some bit twiddling and a dumb idea.

But to quote myself:

“””

What are the implications?

Nothing! This was just for fun after a discussion with a colleague whether it might be even possible to make base64 blobs look readable. There's certainly no poorly coded systems out there which might be hooked up to read emails or webpages and interpret any text they see as information.

No siree I'm sure everyone is keeping the attachments and the content well and truly isolated from each other and this couldn't possibly do anything other than be a fun proof of concept and excuse for me to play with wasm.

“””

https://drewmayo.com/1000-words/about.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drew@eigenmagic.net ("Drew Mayo") wrote:

So while chatting with a colleague this week about putting base64 images into email, I jokingly said

“you know though, i wonder if i can craft an image which turns into readable LLM prompts when encoded as base64 🤔”

Well. Turns out I can

https://drewmayo.com/1000-words/

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

I have been considering something similar for video, or maybe working on a platform that does both.

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

Just to remind everyone, I have an audio blog, which is my little break away from YouTube and big tech.

https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Made croissant French toast for me and @ChrisWere ...totally #vegan of course

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chantal@social.coolsma.com ("Chantal Coolsma") wrote:

“I’m still fat” … me too Ricky, me too

#vegan #plantbased

Attachments:

• video: 40094701f4a151ac.mp4

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Test your internet speed from the terminal! 💯

📶 **cloudflare-speed-cli** — A TUI for network speed test based on Cloudflare

💯 Measure download/upload speeds, latency, view live charts & export results.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/kavehtehrani/cloudflare-speed-cli

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #networking #cli #devtools #opensource

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

A likely vision of the future.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/11/grim-but-accurate/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874067289064749

Also: look at what's going on in Iran right now.

THAT is what has to happen if you let the religious authoritarians get bedded in and you wait too long.

If they don't get the Ayatollah's out this month, they'll hang thousands. And if they DO get them out, probably thousands will die in the process.

Waiting for Project 2025 and the white nationalist cops in ICE to politely pack up and go home is a non-option.

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

“If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

> If you’re adding sparkly icon “now with AI!” features to your software, you’re in quarterly driven failure mode

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

We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer ("Undry January") wrote:

Debian is what you get if "dad getting off the couch noise" was a Linux distro.

Boosted by jwz:
toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates

Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.

#Geometry #CircleInversion #Animation #Loop

Attachments:

• gifv: B&W animation loop of hundreds of white circles in black hyperbolic space. The oscillating shift of the focal point is causing an constant change to the inversion/projection and the resulting constellation of circles

Boosted by jwz:
cryptica@retro.pizza ("Cryptica") wrote:

@davidgerard @firefoxwebdevs @Compassionatecrab @duke_of_germany @tante

Oh i know jake is faking ignorance. His paycheck depends on it. At least until his capitalist masters are done extracting the last vestiges of value, then he'll be discarded along with the smoking cratered ruins of everything mozilla.

Jake, unless you have enough money invested to be considered capital, stop giving cover to the people destroying everything just to make number go up.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
fruchti@twoot.site wrote:

@cstanhope Found it again:
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/pkd-server-go/pull/6
Shorter variant:
https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/blob/master/CLAUDE.md

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

Riders on the Storm. With actual Densmore and Krieger. It went well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSiuMgKmiyk

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kshernandez@me.dm ("KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)") wrote:

Now, I ask community to hold me in kindness, once again, as I heal, for practical things like shelter, phone, other bills since I can't work to do these things for myself right now.

Every dime is appreciated.

Grateful to all. 🧵 2/3

https://linktr.ee/khernandez

#helpfolkslive2025

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

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

Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending:

"Seder added that Schumer “has the ability to wage a fight to prevent the funding of DHS. He has the ability to do that and he doesn’t want it. He’s running away from any leverage he has, deliberately.”"

If this is where we are at the height of tensions, I have zero faith that democrats will do anything. https://www.commondreams.org/news/government-shutdown-january

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

I'm hearing that we're having another influx to the fedi!

Welcome to all the newcomers. I've made a video to help fill you in on some of the history, memes, and give you some cultural grounding in the place

It's really lovely to see you all here and I hope this also helps you feel at home here and truly understand what we're about 🙏

Attachments:

• video: A collage of notable things from Mastodon past. William Shatner, a pair of jorts, Fedi NATO, the Bank of America logo with 'LOL' over it, "managing expectations", Rick Astley, one of the Habsbergs, Thanos nude from behind (though safe for work) then the video begins and matches the audio track

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
stopthatgirl7@famichiki.jp ("Stop That") wrote:

So I was going through my photos doing a purge, came across this, and laughed so hard I started crying. Thus, I’m sharing.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at ("nadja") wrote:

Aaaah damn I need to write a cohesive text about why “Don't roll your own crypto” is a horrible statement and has done nothing but stolen two generations of *sorely needed* cryptographers away from us.

It's a statement akin to “Don't build your own bridges”! It's stupid and wrong and doesn't actually touch the core of the issue.
:blobcatflip:

(Something something blog again :blobcatnotlikethis:)

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

All 17 episodes of "The Prisoner" featuring Patrick McGoohan, available to watch for free!

▶️ The Prisoner | FULL EPISODES | Shout! Studios
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrrfZs-ew7NeZ-4sYoqnEsifM0jL7vQ7&si=DSmCaNxwVgvos27M
#theprisoner #patrickmcgoohan