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scottsantens@hachyderm.io ("Scott Santens") wrote:

If you think of universal basic income as just "more money," you aren't understanding it and what makes it so different and effective. The fact it comes at a regular frequency is a key factor. When you know that whatever happens next month, you can still buy food, that's a huge deal.

It's STABILITY

jwz wrote:

There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:

1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.

Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.

https://jwz.org/b/yk21

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• video: 13cd5a9b4d654f41.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Just spent some time with a small town journalist helping them understand why online voting is inherently dangerous. I feel equal parts hope and despair over this. Hope, because the right questions are being asked (and at the local level, too!) Despair because the same questions keep coming up, again and again.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason with regard to a lot of this stuff, like sinking different devices through the cloud. My niece calls this “the poison of convenience “

Boosted by jwz:
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

The most unrealistic thing about #StarfleetAcademy is that San Francisco and Sausalito will have changed their anti-tall building policies by the 32th century.

The NIMBYs are going to be anti-density and anti-skyscrapers in perpetuity

#StarTrek

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.

Boosted by jwz:
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

...horrifying message without context, thank you

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

Feature chum is a shady business goal presented to consumers as a useful feature to a company’s product line or feature set. Feature chum always benefits the company’s objective of obtaining more power and growth, but not necessarily valuable for the end user.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/feature-chum-you.html

#FeatureChum

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

Substack and The Internet of Things: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/02/substack-and-the-internet-of.html

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

Feels like a good day to repost this

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRCqbvQAK6t

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
starwall@wizzzard.online ("ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ") wrote:

if you needed a reason to be against Starlink: 2° C of ADDITIONAL, COMPOUNDED GLOBAL WARMING SHOULD BE IT

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

trying to get as much info as possible for this mildly niche and recent topic obsession of mine - pls give me any book recommendations for tech history during and post- eastern bloc.. ideally about diy tech, #piracy, folk culture, #self-hosting collectives and laws & regulations around technology use in countries that were aligned with the soviet union ??

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

Just because you ARE a joke doesn't mean you can TELL a joke

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-reportedly-bombed-speech-closed-201603089.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.

"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.

What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?

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

I see the Kid Rock Full Employment Act is still in effect

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

"It's not that the industry is changing that bothers me. I've been a change agent in most organizations I've been in; I switched from nano as a code editor to full on IDEs with all their auto-refactor glory; I don't mind change. I do mind unethical behavior."

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana veronica :trans_Pirate:") wrote:

i don't really want to hear anymore about how ai "works for me" or "doesn't work for me" or anything like that

this is conceding the framing of the debate on totally self-centered terms and ignoring the massive societal effects of this hideous technology

this is how capitalism trains you to think and it's wild to see how many people still have these individualism brainworms even when they can clearly see the societal cost and it also impacts them specifically

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1OdWOLWeCM

#music

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
conansalaryman ("Conan the Salaryman") wrote:

Sword gripped in white-knuckled fist, Conan flattened himself against the dripping stone wall. Monday was on the prowl again.

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

Tangzu Wan'er Earbuds: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/02/tangzu-waner-earbuds.html

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

Roguecraft GB is OUT NOW!💀

Find it on itch -> https://thalamus.link/roguegb-gbc

#gameboy #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #retrogames #pixelart

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

Farm windmill. There are many small farms on Seattle Eastside that look cluttered, unkempt and decaying. This one is not one of them. It's almost picturesque!

#photography #darktable

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
AJ9BM@mastodon.radio ("jbm") wrote:

As someone who was into protocols in the 1900s, it's delightful to find https://sequencediagram.org/ exists, for quick noodling on designs.

I don't trust it to always exist as a tool, but the text export of the file is easy enough to work with later if I need to. And the images paste nicely into my Joplin notebooks.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
k_purpose@post.lurk.org ("K") wrote:

Asking Fedi.

Could you help me find pieces of art, especially video pieces about autism from the perspective of the autistic person? Ideally, made by autistic artists or filmmakers. Preferably short films but any other kind of art piece would be welcome too.

I edit to add: I'm asking because one of my final project students, who is autistic, is planning to do a video about his autism and how he experiences it. I wanted to send him some previous works, for inspiration or as examples.

Anything helps! Boosts OK.

#askFedi #actuallyAutistic

joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

Thought: what if all of the Bad Stuff (tm) in modern computing derives from putting logic in “the cloud”? If we make a hard rule that logic goes only on the device, then you can still “do AI” but the user pays for the electricity. You can “do social”, but the feeds will be opt in (like rss) instead of force fed. You can “do ads”, but they won’t be privacy-intrusive. You can “do sync” but the server will be a dumb store and it will that much harder to push eternal subscriptions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Shine_McShine@neopaquita.es ("Shine McShine 🐌") wrote:

Lunes.

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• gifv: Milhouse solo subido en un columpio mirando al suelo con tristeza mientras de fondo el viento mece unos cipreses. Hay recreo en todas partes salvo en su corazón.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city ("Octavia Con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars: Succubard's Library") wrote:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@imbl/115978426251286619

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
AFoucart@sciences.re ("Adrien Foucart") wrote:

My #FOSDEM highlights:

- OpenFlexure (https://openflexure.org/): an open-source microscope capable of functioning as a whole-slide scanner, with mostly 3D printed parts and a price tag of around 300 euros to buy a full assembly kit including 40x magnification lenses. Honestly, the images I saw were of the same quality as the very expansive scanners that produced the images I used during my thesis. Super impressive.
- xan (https://github.com/medialab/xan/), a command-line tool to manipulate CSV files. I'm not doing much data analysis these days but this looks like a very handy tool for tabular data handling!
- Execubot (https://execubot.fr/), a "serious game" to teach high school kids Python programming. Make a cute little robot move according to a set of instructions written in Python, or write the instructions yourself. Looks great.

In general I was very impressed by the insane amount of talent on display here, by people putting their work out there for everyone to use and build on.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), "Awaken from the Unknowing," 1961, compressed charcoal and brown and gray vine charcoal with scratching out, blending, and erasing, 81.9 x 145.4 x 4.4 cm (32 1/4 x 57 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches), the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. #arthistory #blackartists #BlackArt #BlackHistoryMonth More info in ALT.

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

This is an outrage. If this becomes my most popular toot, I'm kicking you all out. I can't live like this.