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

They yet live! My male black widows have survived a torrid night of love and are hiding in the moss.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/the-boys-are-all-right/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

Oh, the Servo AI policy is really well written and thought out! https://book.servo.org/contributing/getting-started.html#ai-contributions

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

TUIs for observability! 💯🤌

🚁 **talos-pilot** — TUI for managing/monitoring Talos Linux k8s clusters

⚡ Real-time node health, logs, diagnostics, etcd status & safe production ops.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/handfish/talos-pilot

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #kubernetes #talos #devops #sre #observability

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kzodasnowman@spore.social ("K-ZO da Snowman") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115894304411483038

YUP YUP YUP

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

So Michael Shermer is a charter member of the new American Nazi party? I'm unsurprised and disappointed at the same time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/michael-shermer-is-scum/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnVo6FkG94U

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

Congrats to @theacademyismusic on the fabulous new single in advance of the new album "Already There," which comes out in March. It's nice to have new music from them again!

https://youtu.be/N9Z6KwPUdro

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

This is why I have turned off notifications for everything except texts from my wife and my kid. The horrors can wait until I decide to face them; I don't need them intruding any earlier than that.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@meredithrlyons/post/DTfzjlZjtpD

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

what if nobody will save us, what if we have to save ourselves and each other

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

Say it now or shut up forever: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/14/say-it-now-or-shut.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

What's that smell?

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• gifv: Video of a large, blue, 2200µf 35v capacitor shaped humidifier spewing out water vapor that looks like the magic smoke that sometimes escapes a burning capacitor.

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

We need more steely-eyed, no-nonsense cops here in Minnesota to resist the paramilitary assholes who are invading it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/fortunately-ive-never-used-door-dash/

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

I wrote this to get it out on paper and out of my system lol.

Say the damn thing.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/14/say-it-now-or-shut.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Well, if like me, you're looking for a European alternative to Waveform Lighting, euroLighting isn't it. All the numbers are the same on the box (2700K, 800 lumens, >= 95 CRI) but the color is noticeably more piss-yellow 😦

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

Wild how writers rallied against censorship, who would have thought they would ever do such a thing

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DTffOTTjvCF

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

(PS: Every white supremacist is here because of an immigrant. Every. Single. One.)

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

Good morning, Threads. I would much rather have a nation of immigrants than a nation of white supremacists.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
midtsveen@social.linux.pizza ("Erik L. Midtsveen 🚩🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸") wrote:

Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.

:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈

I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.

Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way that matters.

Trans Rights Always! 🏳️‍⚧️:heart_trans:🏳️‍⚧️:heart_trans:

#TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #Enby #LGBTQIA

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

It's mid-January in Minnesota, and you can still find spiders thriving in your home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/welcome-little-one/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

My friend keeps bragging about how they sleep in all day and never do anything and I’m like "what do you want, atrophy?"

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

A former door.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

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

Theme for this week/year/decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo

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

💣 blogged: Winter 2026: Self-Hosted… Disaster?
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/14/self-hosted-update-winter-2026/

— why is it always Sunday evening when stuff breaks!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("A mouse with opinions") wrote:

On the 14th day of Chaos, despite my better judgement, I wrote a few words about how I feel about LLMs being trained on FLOSS work, touching on my understanding of the legal situation, a bit of ethics, and what we can do to improve the situation.

I hope this sates my brain, and I can stop thinking about the topic now.

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

> I have heard the phrase “I’m legally allowed to do so, so I will” from AI proponents a million times. The utter lack of respect, the contempt towards anyone not in their camp is insurmountable. Not even an opt out, just straight up ignoring the wishes of their sources.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-floss-and-training-llms/

Again, this is not limited to code. That same contempt, that same lack of respect, that same looting of the commons is happening with media and writing as well.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("A mouse with opinions") wrote:

I have licensing, FLOSS, and LLM training thoughts this morning again. I have a blost about it, but... I have a new perspective, more thoughts.

Not happy ones, but... I feel this is something I need to write down, it is fundamental to why my stance on AI is what it is.

This time, I will not tootstorm it. Straight to blog. And hopefully this will be the last time I wake with these kind of thoughts in mind.

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

> This is respecting the licenses of the training materials. This is the absolute minimum, mind you. This is not everything they have to do, this is the first step only. There’s many more. And this is something all models would be required to do. This is not an “Ethical-only” requirement. This is the bare minimum.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-ethical-ai/

This applies to non-code training data as well. Step 1 and all models are already failing

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
freediverx ("FreediverX") wrote:

@craiggrannell @bradlinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I'm thinking about how "security" (virus and hacking protection) is often raised as a good reason to subscribe to automatic updates. Indeed, I allow my iPhone to update itself mostly because I think it's more secure.

But I have never felt comfortable with the way that software just changes whenever it wants.

The interfaces change, the functionality changes. We are promised it's for safety and "improvements" ...

But IDK what if you shipped software that was... complete?

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

“If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers? – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/13/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-performance-numbers/