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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

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

https://mastodon.social/@Nfinitywaltz/116086862559673098

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kat@is.burntout.org wrote:

At last some good news!

Look Mum no computer, is UK eurovision entry for 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/look-mum-no-computer-uk-entry-eurovision-2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygz17y5kdo

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

#3GoodThings

The time I get to spend with my mother while she's still able to do things. I know one day I'll look back at this time fondly.

Cherry smoothies: handful frozen cherries, chia and flax seeds, preferred milk, lots
of spinach, yogurt, sweetener, protein powder.

These really great pens I found that write better than any fifty dollar pen I've used. Plus my notebook with 320 pages. I love writing in it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

mfw capitalism.

Boosted by jwz:
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada travesti") wrote:

so Adafruit proudly posted about using Gemini to design hardware after, by their own admission, "using LLMs for years to do software and firmware assistance".
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/heres-our-first-gemini-deep-think-llm-assisted-hardware-design/

when hit with the inevitable backlash you'd expect from anyone with a working moral compass, Mr. Adafruit (Phillip Torrone) blamed (checks notes) the misogyny of Mastodon reply guys, because clearly the backlash is all due to the fact that Limor Fried (his married partner) shared the blog.

hey watch this, I can weaponise oppression olympics too, I'm a trans woman from the third world: fuck off with profiteering from your selling out to the planet-destroying plagiarism machine that's proudly empowering ICE and the IDF. it's not your country that will pay the price for your meaningless carbon output to generate nonsense until it looks right. and you brag about it. pega teu fascism-assisted hardware design e enfia no cu. happy never to be an adafruit customer again. assholes.

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

"Address already in use."... but which process?

🧙‍♀️ **portwitch** — Find the process blocking a port and kill it instantly

🔥 Ask for a port -> see the culprit -> free it in seconds

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/haselkern/portwitch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #devtools #networking #linux #terminal #productivity

Attachments:

• gifv: 3f1df9dc4a139f6d.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

local techies will be like "really? you believe in wearing masks to protect against covid? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, shooting landlords" and then never shoot a landlord

Boosted by jwz:
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked%5Fusers

jwz wrote:

My upstairs neighbor is doing woodworking (this is not a euphemism) and it sounds exactly like I'm back at this weekend's riddim show, ugggghhh.

Boosted by jwz:
evgandr@bsd.cafe ("Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:") wrote:

@deathkitten Check @adafruit blog, there are a lot of articles about using #LLM in electronics "design". If they are going to adopt LLMs, then there are no surprise that they are trying to whitewash it as much as possible :drgn_woozy: , using all available methods.

When I was learning electronics at university, drawing such simple electronic schemas and footprints was a key to be able to do much more complex things with EDA. Outsourcing this mental work to Plagiarized Information Synthesis System is a literally: "you will learn nothing and be happy" :drgn_roar_angry:

Boosted by jwz:
deathkitten@firetribe.org ("Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands") wrote:

@adafruit@fosstodon.org as a woman I am offended that you'd compare the actual bullshit our foremothers faced under sexism to people pushing back against AI, a "service" that's buggy, harmful, ecologically damaging, and being used as a tool in class warfare to push people out of their jobs, something that disproportionately happens to women and minorities first.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Me: maybe tech influencers should speak on the harms caused by the monopolistic corporations they routinely cover.

Linus Tech Tips: I wanna fuck Lina Khan

https://youtu.be/sS7T-PqXaWM?t=12m10s

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

Have been groggily writing up the deep reasons why CSS-in-JS (the sort with a "runtime") is unfixably slow led me to reflect on the warnings I gave the various over-Reactors who popularised this anti-pattern. Apparently at some point last night I wrote:

"Evangelical hubris laced with virulent incuriosity has been the calling card of the entire enterprise."

I don't think I'm going to remove it from the post.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

happy hot horse girl day to all oomfies who celebrate

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

I need to scan a snap or two from those days of silver crystals, chemicals, and darkrooms.

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

truth in posting: I volunteered with the San Francisco chapter of the"Rainbow Coalition" in the late 1980s & through the 90s. we turned out the camera ready copy for the newsletter at night in an office where I worked (New College of California), because I had keys and the office had a Mac with QuarkExpress page layout software and a laser printer.

Quark would let us chop pages into “tiles” and print them, and then we would physically paste them together into camera-ready newsprint-size sheets for the photo offset folks. painful, but it worked and we got a semi-pro product out. #SMH

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

RIP, Rev Jesse Jackson… a tireless advocate for the disenfranchised and the poor, Jesse Jackson “walked the walk” and struggled for jobs & justice his whole life long. his light has gone out of the world far too soon.

💔

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

The Jackson I remember.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/17/jesse-jackson-has-died/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

“America is more like a quilt—many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. The white, the Hispanic, the Black, the Arab, the Jew, the Woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.”

https://youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?t=664

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

If you can't understand gene duplication, you're never going to understand evolution.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/17/why-do-creationists-shy-away-from-gene-duplication/

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

KLAXXON! #SOURCE issue 4 "Airwaves and Airplanes" is out! Good grief that's taken a while! Anyway in this issue we have a beginners tutorial for the fabulous @gnuradio we also get started with #OpenVSP which is #NASA's #opensource vehicle sketchbook and it's rounded out with a look at a new @FreeCAD workbench, Detessellate which helps reverse engineer Mesh to #CAD files. We've also tweaked a few things on the website! https://sourcemag.co.uk/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Gen AI is an expensive way to create text and images. Right now, much of that cost is being subsidized and hidden, but it will eventually need to be paid. Because charging the actual cost will likely negate most of the value proposition of genAI, the companies that run the big models are focused on altering the social and economic context so that there are big external costs to opting out. E.g. getting companies to fire staff makes it difficult to pivot back away from AI because hiring and training replacement staff can be difficult and costly. Hence, the huge rush and hysterical sense of urgency around adoption: the demand for profitability is an approaching tidal wave, and they need to lock entire industries in before that wave hits.

That's why resistance IN THE PRESENT counts for a great deal. Right now, we have the approaching wave in our favor, and they're counting on cultivating enough dependence before it hits that we'll have no choice to accept the actual costs. The closer they get to locking society into dependence on hyperscale AI systems, the more difficult it becomes to opt out of even the plainly dystopian uses of the technology. And the longer we "wait and see," the less say we may ultimately have in how this technology shapes our society.

Mastodon wrote:

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

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

HELLO THREADS PEOPLE

I LIKE YOU

BUT NOT, LIKE, IN A SEXY WAY

THAT WOULD BE WEIRD

JUST, LIKE, IN A WE'RE PALS WAY

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW

OKAY BYE

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

Economics in one lesson.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
polyfloyd@hsnl.social wrote:

Omg, I think I have successfully setup a Matrix Homeserver 😱

I have heard that it is hard to set up Synapse, but NixOS did a lot of the heavy lifting here

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116081868712992909

Merch! Merch! Merch!

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

I can only think of a few major offsetting forces:

- If the EU invests in replacing US software, bolstering the EU job market.
- China might have substantial unfulfilled domestic demand for software, propping up their job market
- Companies might find that declining software quality harms their bottom-line, leading to a Y2K-style investment in fixing their software stacks

But those don't seem likely to do more than partially offset the decline

Kind of hoping I'm missing something