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

“Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, America – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/26/ukraine-sudan-syria-yemen-america/

> I spent some time last year immersed in studying the international protocols which have been devised to collect, categorise, and preserve digital evidence of war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for use in future tribunals.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
benjamim@social.lol ("Benjamim :prami_hearts:") wrote:

@LUH3417 recomendo muito o omg.lol tens aqui o meu convite: https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/benjamim

Qualquer dúvida podes falar com o @neatnik

E tens este texto que pode ajudar na tua decisão: https://brennan.day/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now/
via @brennan

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com ("Alison Wilder") wrote:

I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!

I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!

I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?

#degoogle #resist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ttscoff@hachyderm.io ("Brett Terpstra 🏴🐈‍⬛") wrote:

Once again agreeing with David Price:

https://www.macworld.com/article/3036313/ads-are-destroying-the-user-experience-and-apple-wont-stop.html

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

While I haven't played much games in recent years, this is now one of those rare phases where I let myself get captured by a good game.

This time it's Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe #OpenTTD that got me interested.

I have played the similar game Simutrans quite intensely a decade ago but back then it suffered from occasional crashes.

#Linux
#Gaming

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
APBBlue@thepit.social ("New Year, New Blue") wrote:

When it's done, this embroidered dish towel is going to say: "AI SHOULD DO DISHES." #embroidery #tech #AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JohnSullivan@mastodonapp.uk ("Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy") wrote:

“So, if invoking the Insurrection Act is akin to waving a magic wand that makes Trump omnipotent and lets him install a dictatorship in an instant, why hasn’t he done it yet? The people who control the government are certainly not the most patient or a particularly prudent bunch. As a matter of practical reality, the idea that the minute Trump invokes the Insurrection Act all resistance is futile, Trump has won, Game Over is nonsense. That’s just regime propaganda. Perhaps the Trumpists, underneath all the bluster, know this too? Could it be that some in the administration are concerned that once they actually invoke the Insurrection Act, they can no longer use it as a constant threat? And if that doesn’t get their enemies to surrender, what do they have left?”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

The public backlash is so vast no one is buys "it's paid agitators" anymore.

Noem and Bovino are desperate that the people who have supported and trusted them and Trump do not look more closely at what ICE is really doing.

At the same time they continue to kill, to scare us into stopping.

I'm hopeful that this will fail.

This is a big crack. This "they are well meaning people who have been fooled" line. 3/3

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

got a start on digging us out

Mastodon wrote:

Busy week! We're preparing to meet the community at #FOSDEM at the weekend. Some members of the team will be at various events around Brussels from Thursday. As well as @haubles talk on the #socialweb track on Saturday, @mellifluousbox will be on a panel on the Policy track on Sunday. Plus, you'll be able to buy stickers and pins on our stand to #SupportMastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PythonLinks ("Video Processing Wiki") wrote:

ASIC and FPGA Hybrid Meetups

A new #Meetup group is being formed. Meetups will be held monthly in #Katowice, and occasionally in other European cities if a speaker and venue can be found. The plan is to make this into a hybrid meetup, so people from all over the world can participate, while the speaker benefits from live audience feedback.

https://wiki.pythonlinks.info/asic-and-fpga-meetups

#Krakow #Warsaw #Wroclaw #Gdansk #ASIC #FPGA

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

Anyone else exhausted by the obvious, stupid lies repeated endlessly?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/26/its-all-lies/

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

You'll start to see small delays. Then big delays, projects postponed or cancelled, and high levels of employee burnout and stress, all causing increases in a variety of issues such as mistakes, product defects, missed deadlines, and a decline in sales. Long term, aggregate productivity suffers 12/

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

So you might boost productivity as measured individually on both sides of the queue, but the safe capacity of the queue might drop from 70% to 35%. At the same time you've reduced your headcount, which increases the amount of work that's going to be waiting in queues throughout the org 11/

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

But, as I mentioned above, queues are highly sensitive to variability. If your queues can run safely at 70% capacity without causing delays, adding a highly variable "productivity" intervention will dramatically lower how much capacity you can safely use before delays kick in 10/

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

Non-deterministic automation with high variability can't be left unattended, so they don't increase capacity directly: you still need the worker. Unless the output doesn't matter, but in that case it's wasted effort in its entirety and you'd get more gains from finding ways to avoid it completely 9/

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

This is the "AI" gamble. These CEOs are betting our economies on the idea that "AI" somehow increases an organisation's capacity for work despite a reduced headcount, but this is unlikely because "AI" automation is not deterministic and has high inherent variability along multiple axes 8/

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

Each department, group, and employee has work queues waiting on work and the curious thing about queues is that they are strongly affected by variability. The higher the variability the less you can use of the capacity connected to the queue before delays skyrocket and work collapses 6/

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

This works temporarily because most organisations don't run at full capacity, but they don't run at full capacity for a reason. Even the most efficiently run factory will only be run at 80-90% capacity, for example, and it's all down to queues. Orgs are a network of interconnected work queues 5/

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

When companies do mass-layoffs and adopt "AI" one quarter and report a productivity increase the next, that's not because of the "AI" but because their productivity is an aggregate measure divided by headcount. They reduced the headcount while customer lock-in keeps the aggregate measure up 4/

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

It's also a bit misleading as an aggregate measure. If you lay off 10% and shift the work they were doing to those remaining, you'll get a bump in productivity, because it's usually a function of an aggregate value and overall headcount. Everybody's working harder while customers are locked in 3/

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

Business productivity is hard to both measure and act on because of its aggregate nature. You can try to measure it individually but that's usually counterproductive as those metrics, like number of emails sent or lines of code written are disconnected from the actual work 2/

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

People keep talking about "AI" impact on individual productivity but productivity is by its nature usually an aggregate measure affected by multiple variables. It's almost always a high-level measure. Most "AI" studies I've seen are pretending that it can be measured in detail for each person 1/

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

blogged: AI Policy and The Inevitable
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/26/ai-policy-and-the-inevitable/

(if anybody still cares.)

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Okay, I get that much of the country/world would say “a week of lows just below freezing, no big deal,” but this is FLORIDA.

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

Me, Jenny, and Max have a chat about the first episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. We really enjoyed it and made a little podcast to share our thoughts.

Attachments:

• audio: A podcast discussion about the very first episode of A knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

We spent decades building beautiful, opinionated, deeply optimized native UX toolkits, obsessing over font rendering, input latency, accessibility, window management, IPC, power usage...

...and then went: "Yeah, but what if we just shoved everything into a sandboxed document viewer pretending to be an OS?"

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Electron is proof that given enough RAM, any mistake becomes a platform.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bottled_o_taki@blackqueer.life ("takii <- thinking abt life arc") wrote:

hey #askFedi , does anyone know of any programmes, internships, or funding looking to support African artists? Preferably queer and trans inclusive.

At this point it really doesnt hurt to just ask around :cat_tired:

#BlackMastodon #FediHire

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

📣 Servo at FOSDEM 2026

This weekend at FOSDEM 2026, @regocas Chair of the Servo TSC, will present:

“The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem.”

📅 Saturday, Jan 31
🕑 14:00–14:30 CET
📍 Browser and Web Platform Devroom
🎥 Live stream

The talk will cover Servo’s recent evolution, its transition to Linux Foundation Europe, and how the project contributes to web standards, interoperability, and the long-term health of the web platform.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LXFKS9-servo-project-impact/