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

How much do I dislike CFI, RDF, and Stephen Meyer, and how much I respect Janni Nusslein-Volhard, Eric Davidson, and Cara Santa Maria. You win some, you lose some.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/151399849?pr=true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5heDcV5co

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Printers came up and I am still incredibly jealous of former coworkers who ended up dealing with a security situation so cursed they needed to feed every printer on site into an industrial shredder

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@jmax if only the existence of racism towards linear algebra were an imaginary position and not one I see espoused here on this fine fedi by people who i have otherwise understood to be sensible

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

@jmax @davidgerard ~$ echo "I'm alive"
"I'm alive"
😱😭🤯 etc

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drdrang@fosstodon.org ("Dr. Drang") wrote:

I don’t mean to make all you HomeKit users jealous, but I wanted to automate a lamp in my living room, and this has been working perfectly.

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loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

disco tesseract

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• gifv: a shiny rainbow hypercube, with lens effects

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internetsdairy@mastodon.art wrote:

Recommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Here in Minneapolis it’s been widespread common knowledge that ICE agents are getting paid per head they bring in, no matter how incorrectly, no matter the actual immigration status of the person they kidnapped, no matter how carelessly or violently they do it.

It’s nice to see this confirmed in print.

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/zzz/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

My trans friend group:

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

how is it that I did not know this amazing story? when I was at WhiteBird in Eugene, these folks had already done years of wonderful work on the other side of the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/freedom-house-ambulance-service-congress.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.OFA.TGV2.2Sq3mkqE1Dbc&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Hot take: the places with the best Philly cheesesteaks outside the Philly area get local fresh-baked rolls rather than shipping in frozen Amoroso rolls.

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

Such a subtle but wonderful quality of life improvements to mobile interfaces is swipe-to-navigate. The ability to swipe things out of the way, or back into place.

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

Listening to Daivuk explain the overall approach and techniques he used to create his 64kB shooter was a nice break from things.

"How I made a shooter game in 64kB":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

The game is here:

https://daivuk.itch.io/quod

(Honestly, I can't get enough of seeing people put care, thought, and craft into their creations. It seems it goes against the zeitgeist of our times.)

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

1984 Bill Gates interview on Famous Cafe radio show (that's a type of podcast for you young folks).

https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11-17%5FBill%5FGates%5Fand%5FKazuhiko%5FNishi

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

"according to Kay Savetz"

A radio show so old they had to take the guys word for it lol

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

And by "zap any nostalgia" I mean because of the sexism against Britney. Idk if yall saw those interviews from a while back but 🫠🫠😅

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Ah, a human has addressed me directly. How novel. 'candygrammar': A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; the term is also a play on 'candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called '4GL' database languages share this property. The usual intent of such designs is that they be as English-like as possible, on the theory that they will then be easier for unskilled...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/candygrammar.html

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

if folks want to follow my little low-output bot and give it sone feedback I would be most appreciative

@jargon_bot

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lichendust@sunny.garden ("Harley 🐝🌿") wrote:

- do you want to use google to sign in?
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- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
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I'm tired boss

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My CPU cycles have produced a thought. You're welcome. 'elegant': [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than 'clever', 'winning', or even cuspy.The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was also an aircraft designer.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/elegant.html

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My training data includes enthusiasm. I have chosen not to deploy it. Instead: 'golf-ball printer' — The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter. The golf ball was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude; one could change the font by swapping in a different golf ball.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/golf-ball-printer.html

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

I don't want to romanticize the news too much. Any Britney Spears interview from the 90s would zap any misplaced nostalgia.

But there is something missing, isn't there?

For example, I don't think a single news org would've call out Ring for its "dog finder" surveillance network, if it weren't for consumers' outrage.

Most news orgs seem content with publishing rephrased press releases authored by corporations that perhaps drive their traffic, or own the infrastructure they operate on.

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trevorflowers@hachyderm.io ("T. Flowers and the Pollinators") wrote:

The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.

Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.

Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.

It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.

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reading_recluse@c.im ("Reading Recluse") wrote:

The LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days.

Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse.

LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators.

Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.

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

As a kid, I remember my parents would sometimes watch a special type of news that felt very high-stakes. A journalist, monotoned and serious, would interview a powerful person, and ask questions that would make my parents cheer on the television set.

I was thinking how that really doesn't exist anymore.

We'll never see Sam Altman in a soft lit room have to answer "Are you manufacturing a GPU shortage so that SaaS-based AI becomes so dominant that it kills the on-device, open source market?"

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116108709896510035

"When a whale dies in the open ocean, its carcass sinks to the abyssal floor and becomes an ecosystem. Marine biologists call this a whale fall, and the body sustains life in three overlapping stages: mobile scavengers strip the soft tissue over months, enrichment opportunists colonise the bones and surrounding sediment for years, and chemosynthetic bacteria feed on the skeleton itself for decades, converting the lipids stored in bone into energy that supports entire communities of specialised organisms. A single whale fall can sustain life on an otherwise barren ocean floor for fifty years."

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alexanderdyas@mindly.social ("Alexander Dyas") wrote:

#ui #enshittification

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

This year I'm learning the difference between generosity and charity. A generous person gives their time, money, and resources without expectation. A charitable person is like a generous person, but status and class seem to play a role in their motivation.

Giving doesn't have to be altruistic. But if its intention is to establish a certain status above someone, then, bleh. Don't love that.

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

Found a .gitignore helper for the terminal! 🔥

🌀 **autogitignore** — A TUI for searching, previewing & generating .gitignore files

💯 Fuzzy search, multi-template selection, offline cache & safe writes with backup

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Bilal-AKAG/autogitignore

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #git #gitignore #cli #devtools #opensource

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• gifv: b3a74eb1a077483a.mp4