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Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

octahedron rendered with tangent circles.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
courtney@pdx.social ("Courtney Rosenthal") wrote:

Are there any amateur #classicalGuitar players in the #portland area that are interested in getting together with a low key, small group of other (adult) players? A bunch of us are putting together a monthly salon. The skill levels range widely, from noob on up -- all welcome. You can bring a guitar and play if you want, or just hang and chat. We've met a few times, and it's been great.

DM me if you are interested.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Finally got around to uploading my #strudel remix of Deltarune's "The Third Sanctuary" to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACb213btn0

As always, you can play it live in your browser and mess around with the song's source code here:

https://tinysubversions.com/s/#third

Boosted by jwz:
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Need boosters to stop responding to every critique/complaint/shitpost about GenAI by talking about how productive they feel and which labor they don't value.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

i've been reading a late-90s book about virtual worlds - some of them VRML-based, many custom 2d and 3d clients, and some MUSHes/MOOs/MUDs

i came across a scientific MUD i had never heard before, and i'm absolutely blown away by its goals and implementation: NAU Solar System Simulation/SolSys by prof Reed Riner at northern arizona university. it was online from 1990 until at least 2017 (and maybe longer?).

there is a little information out there on what SolSys was:

"The Solar System Simulation, originated at CONTACT VI in 1987, was developed into an intercollegiate curriculum at Northern Arizona University by Reed Riner, as an honors course in Anthropology and Engineering. Since 1990, it has included student teams from many colleges and universities around the globe.

The teams represent colonies in a simulated future human community in space. For example, Mars Colony is normally manned by NAU and the Cabrillo College team traditionally inhabits the L-5 Colony near Earth. (See L-5 artwork left by Joel Hagen.) Teams communicate via websites, Internet e-mail and a Multiple User Domain (MUD), a text-based, virtual reality program. Students are directed and encouraged by their local faculty advisors and by a board of professional consultants in the social and space sciences."

https://www.contact-conference.org/c03.html

seriously - a hardcore scientific MUD built around real-life anthropology and space exploration. and entire mud devoted to teaching players how to cooperate in order to accomplish goals together, instead of killing a bunch of shit. how fucking cool is that?

did anyone here play/use SolSys when it was still alive?

the urls went dead when prof reed passed away last year, and the university wiped his webspace

SolSys ran on a modified version of tinyMUD, focused largely on building and communicating. this is its last known homepage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250328124317/https://www2.nau.edu/rdr/SolSys/

dr. riner's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azdailysun/name/reed-riner-obituary?id=58181563

#mud #moo #virtualWorld #mush

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

so I just did this. let's see how it goes.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pepo@toot.io ("Pepo Pimento") wrote:

DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more lightweight, easier to customize alternative to MediaWiki.

(When you are testing out xampp in your computer localhost. the first thing to try is DokuWiki which does not require database)

Image below shows a dokuwiki of flatpress.

#linux #lamp #php #opensource

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

Somehow this is a @jaffathecake story, but I'm not sure why.

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

Was *very* touch-and-go (salad that had other ideas), but getting on a plane for LHR to see some of you brilliant people at Stare of The Browser:

https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pius@treehouse.systems ("Telecaster B Bird") wrote:

@soatok Another great post, and for what it's worth... Those accusing you of spreading FUD, have probably never met a real expert in the field

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Anyone need a cheap Robinson R44 helicopter? Fleets in Australia and Canada up for grabs.

“Global Traffic Network retreats from UK with $40m loss and choppers for sale” https://mumbrella.com.au/global-traffic-network-retreats-from-uk-with-40m-loss-and-choppers-for-sale-916070

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal district court judge rules that deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.241.0.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kimlockhartga@beige.party ("Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:") wrote:

Representative Al Green has more courage in his pinkie than the entire administration put together. Bullies are always cowards. Real strength is showing up when the truth needs telling.

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

yup https://transfem.social/notes/aj3tnv9d4wx00cog

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone

https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

If you're a fan of #hockey, or decency, please note these names:

Kyle Connor
Jake Guentzel
Jackson LaCombe
Brock Nelson
Jake Oettinger

These are the guys from the US Men's Olympic hockey team who stayed away from the party at the White house.

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com ("input") wrote:

🎮 Nvidia getting more serious about gaming on Linux and Arm: hiring engineer to work on 'native-speed x86-64 gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms'

Along with a few more job roles with similar remits.

📰 Source: Latest from PC Gamer
🔗 Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-getting-more-serious-about-gaming-on-linux-and-arm-hiring-engineer-to-work-on-native-speed-x86-64-gaming-on-linux-arm64-platforms/

#Linux #OpenSource

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CBSNews@flipboard.com ("CBS News") wrote:

At least 10 FBI agents who worked on Mar-a-Lago documents case are fired, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-least-10-fbi-agents-who-worked-on-mar-a-lago-documents-case-are-fired-sources-say/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CBSNews

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

@soatok also, apparently my take away from this gen AI moment is "software is engineering, actually, and we need to take that seriously"

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

JFC https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/border-patrol-refugee-buffalo

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jetton/116134292265813858

"had been missing since 19 February, when he was dropped off by border patrol following his release from Erie county holding center,"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sigmasternchen@comfy.social ("Sigma") wrote:

Do you have a personal website?

(Multiple options can be selected.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An ugly door to an ugly house.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #concrete

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
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.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

If you've been paying attention, you'll have heard a lot of complaints from people running servers that they get absolutely flooded with scraping traffic from residential-looking IPs and stealth user agents - making it almost impossible to block.

Did you know that this is its very own market segment? Here are two random scummy companies: https://decodo.com and https://evomi.com - and there are lots more.

I hope that the people behind those companies will have their sleeves slide down their arms while washing hands for the rest of their lives.

🖕

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

the Zephyr Teachout article quote: https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-abstract/46/3/453/49115/Corruption-in-America-From-Benjamin-Franklin-s?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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

"In 1785, Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait. Americans believed it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Teachout, if the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal."

re https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne/post/3mfpvpn37ys2e

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nicholas Grossman") wrote:

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times (the two emoluments clauses and as the only name impeachable offense besides treason). Exactly for this reason. A US president pocketing funds from foreign govts leads to actions against US interests.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y77n77kdqzhbg647blkfypyr/post/3mfnbzu7nhs2k