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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)

1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Remember Graham Granger at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks who ripped the "AI art" off the wall and ate it?

yeah, he recorded the whole thing. It ends with the police taking him away.

he got his phone back from them yesterday and put it up.

13/10 art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk7GownBT%5FU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Hey, fedi! I need to book some work, y'all. I do editorial illustration, comics, various design work, I've worked in mobile games, indie tabletop games, advertising... I can draw real good is what I'm sayin'!

Allow me to attach my card...

...and link to my website: https://laemeur.com

Boosts appreciated!

#illustration #lookingforwork

Attachments:

• gifv: A looping animation of a man drawing at a tilted table. Beneath the table dangle a number of green tentacles. Periodically one of them flops up onto the drawing table and the man lifts it off and drops it back over the side.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
charette@mstdn.ca ("Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦") wrote:

For the Y2K, we weren't allowed to change any of the original code running on the AS/400. That code was always off-limit, and had existed since the 1970s as far as I know.

We created an intermediate tool that would look at transactions going into and out of the database.

When data was coming out, we'd convert the dates to 4-digit years. Then when data was going in, we'd convert 4-digit years back to 2-digit years.

I have no idea if 26 years later that is still in place. I suspect so. But the thought that banks will authorize AI and "vibe coding" to magically replace all this off-limit code running on the back end is hard to believe.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
brettezeleliquide@h4.io wrote:

La fleur de lys bananière est un meuble héraldique. C’est l’une des quatre figures les plus populaires avec les multiples croix, l’aigle et le lion (Wikipédia)

street art, Park Drive, West End de Glasgow
#streetart #food #culture de banane #banana #flowers #photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

"You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to \[17\] North American companies"

I would rather stop using the internet than hand over my passport for verification be it for vanity, age, or anything else.

Read this whole article to see what a shitshow these verification companies are.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/i-verified-my-linkedin-identity-heres-what-i-actually-handed-over/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

[Pledged: $100 of $600/month. $500 to go. Patrons: 2]

Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @aseelfromgz, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.

Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment they’ve found. And I’d like them to not have to worry if they’re going to be homeless again next month if they can’t raise enough from the kindness of strangers every month.

So let’s try something new: If you’re willing and able to become a patron and pledge to donate a set amount so they can afford this apartment, please reply to this thread.

I’ll start us off: I pledge to become a regular patron and donate $50/month to help cover Aseel’s rent.

If 11 of you match my pledge, we can move Aseel and her family out of a tent and into the safety of a real home.

What do you say? :)

💕

* https://gaza-verified.org/team

#Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid #fediAid

Attachments:

• video: Video of Aseel talking about their precarious and unsafe living conditions in a tent in Gaza.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The CMA has invited stakeholders to submit views on Apple’s proposed commitments. Please consider writing in. See here for details:
🧵(10/10)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/#how-you-can-help!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The biggest problem is that the proposal is layered with multiple ways of Apple not having to share any API it doesn’t want to, regardless of the circumstances.
🧵(3/10)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The UK's CMA says that developers need access to key iOS features to build innovative products and services, so UK consumers do not miss out but Apple’s proposed interoperability commitments are so weak they are essentially meaningless.

Read the full analysis here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/
🧵👇 (1/10)

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

“Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?”

https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/library/library-news/24-02-2026-are-ai-generated-summaries-suitable-for-studying-and-research

> But it’s already safe to conclude that one popular use case is, in fact, a bad one: AI-generated summaries.

This goes into some of the specifics why LLMs are in fact very bad at summarising

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

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

https://dbushell.com/2025/06/13/your-framework-is-showing-nextjs-error/

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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/

— but can it does this?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Attachments:

• gifv: x86CSS running a sample program that lets you pick from a few options: fibonacci sequence, pascal's triangle, horsle the CPU registers and memory are visible at the bottom of the screen the video starts off running pascal's triangle, and then asks the user to pick an option, after which the user picks exit and the program exists, showing the exit code of 1337

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

It says something about your country of residence when half the ads in your Reddit feed are advertisements for immigration to other countries.

The ultimate lagging indicator.

American business has no idea of the impact that is happening due to the brain drain right now.

Boosted by jwz:
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

Boosted by jwz:
rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

the after dark screensavers were the last time humans agreed on what peak personal computing looked like

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

Boosted by jwz:
jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:

Tonight seems like a good time to remind folks that the next #nokings protest is planned for March 28th:

https://www.nokings.org/

Mark your calendars, I'll see you there! ✌️

#sotu #fucktrump

Boosted by jwz:
theonion@threads.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Trump Delivers State Of The Union Death Rattle

Boosted by jwz:
eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other — never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_.

If you feel the same way I do: support independent publishers. Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.

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

I’m repeating myself only bc it continues to be true: Sun Ra absolutely knew where it was at. “Somebody else’s idea of things to come / need not be the only way to live.” #othernetworks

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

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

Okay, I suppose I’m finally going to be bestirred to move from 1Password to Apple Passwords. (Which isn’t perfect, but it’s free, and can export data should I need that down the road.)

jwz wrote:

Every now and then I make the mistake of of posting something on Mastodon that really should have gone on the blog first. This is one of those, from last week. It did some numbers.

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate! ...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3t

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

lol people are writing 3,000 word treatises about Cory Doctorow’s LLM use when they could just remove him from their feed readers

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

What's a capital strike? That tends to be the question I get in response to this rant.

You know what a labor strike is, right? It's wielding labor as power, by witholding it, as a bargaining tactic.

A capital strike is the same thing, except with capital.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Incidentally, if you divert a trillion dollars to something and get "basically zero" economic activity around it, that's not an investment. It's sabotage. It's become the chief manifestation of the capital strike we've all been enduring since, roughly, the first half of 2022.