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Boosted by jwz:
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

NO WAR IN IRAN
emergency action ,

Monday March 2, 5:30 pm Embarcadero Plaza

Led by PYM, PSL, ANSWER, DSA SF, and others #Iran

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
syphist@zoner.work ("Syphist :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

Hello everyone! Thanks for opening the CW. Itch.io is doing a bundle to fundraise money for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help fight against the ICE presence in my state. $10 or more to this fund will get you over 1,000 items on itch! Here's a link:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota

jwz wrote:

Linux Xft Unicode fonts.

Dear Lazyweb, can someone show me a straightforward example of an X11 program calling XftDrawStringUtf8 that succeeds in displaying Japanese characters? On Debian 13 with "fonts-noto" installed, "lxterminal" can do it but XScreenSaver still can't seem to display anything more complicated than Cyrillic.

E.g. "unicrud --block Katakana".
https://jwz.org/b/yk39

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

have you ever hear the term "spreading activation"?? it'll kill ya

minor changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html resulted in major changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html resulted in the start of a "Players' Manual" at https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html

and that is more than enough work for one day ::poof::

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

Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs in a dumb rant about my Matrix disclosure:

Personally I would actively avoid the check,

Hmm. What a weird thing to say.

Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.

"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"

Who said that? Well, anyway:

https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285

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

I wonder what my office would look like if it were empty. Sad, maybe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/02/this-summer-will-be-no-fun/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
PeterRobison@nashtodon.com ("Peter Robison") wrote:

Helsinki is the same size as Nashville, and they had *zero* traffic deaths last year, while we had over one hundred. Lowering vehicle speeds and building safe infrastructure save lives. Helsinki committed to doing it, while Nashville just pays lip service. The results are predictable, and in the case of Nashville, tragic.

https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116152369590601768

Mastodon wrote:

We've got something to Share! We hope you'll find it useful. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
charlotte@akko.chir.rs ("Charlotte :lotteheartplural:/Cinny :cinny_heart_plural: :thetadelta: :ursaminor: :treblesand: ") wrote:

aws suggesting performing “disaster recovery” is basically like “yeah 2/3 of the dc no longer exist”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.

They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."

(Original title: How to grow strawberries)

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
pamelafox@fosstodon.org ("Pamela Fox") wrote:

BullshitBench: a benchmark that measures whether models detect nonsense, call it out clearly, and avoid confidently continuing with invalid assumptions.
https://github.com/petergpt/bullshit-benchmark

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

Here is how you can make your Rust terminal app beautiful! 🤩🦀

🎨 r**atatui-themes **— Color themes for @ratatui_rs apps

💯 15+ popular themes (Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, Gruvbox...) with semantic colors

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/ratatui-themes

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #theme #design #cli #devtools

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

Anybody want to hire a fullstack js/ts dev with decades of experience and no "ai" taint? I do it all, I look good doing it, I'm cheap as hell, and I don't use rented coding tools so you can own all the code I write for you.

Remote from Canada, Eastern time zone.

#GetFediHired

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

"Microslop" is kind of catchy.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

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

I'm gonna ask a dumb question—Where did he get the money from?

Someone broke down what it cost to bomb Iran. It was in the billions.

I was taught that Congress controls the "purse stings." That's the check-and-balance, right? Wars cost money. Where'd he get the money from?

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development.

Apply now!

https://www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/Igalia-2026-Coding-Experience-Open-for-Applications.html

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

how sad, our Assistant is ill. how sad.

"Elevated errors on claude.ai, console, and claude code"

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

Heading out of London, and missing it already. #sotb26 was lovely; was great to see so many wonderful people. Seemed "everyone" was there!

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

“How to grow strawberries • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

> Sadly, I fear those things are close to impossible to find in the tech industry at the moment.

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

In just three short years, OpenAI went from a non-profit organization with a promise to build non-military use AI out in the open, to a secretive for-profit corporation that definitely just signed a contract with the US government to help kill civilians.

And all this *before* he's been able to make AI indispensable to our lives. Can you imagine what he'll be like when he's collecting rents?

When it's all said and done, I think even the tech CEOs will regret giving Altman all that power.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116159406947439938

❝ There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting. ❞

you can't fight the corporate violence of layoffs on your own. that’s why #labor #unions exist.

🗣 SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, #UNIONIZE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rjkwon ("Kwon") wrote:

https://kwon.photos/homestead-food-prep/ mentally i'm still in the mountains... i made a gallery of food prep pics from my month upstate. also finally added alt text and captions functionality, and vibe-coded this UI that i can run on localhost to edit gallery info so i don't have to manually edit jsons. photos edited using @aphera !

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

I think it's often overlooked that AVIF is also really good at flat colour & sharp edges.

Don't go straight for a lossless format just because it's the kind of image that would look bad as a JPEG.

Here's an 11kb image as an AVIF, vs JPEG XL.

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

Maybe one of the new statues in the Rose Garden looks like this?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/02/theyre-all-cowards/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free%5FPress/116159737401460333

Oh wow, they are not happy.
#SaudiArabia #USA #Iran #geopolitics @geopolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
memeorandum@universeodon.com wrote:

Higher gas prices are likely coming to the pump after oil prices jump in wake of U.S. strikes in Iran (Steve Kopack/NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/oil-prices-iran-strikes-rcna261209
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p13#a260302p13

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

The #IranWar "was a decision made by one man with no legal basis, little public support, and no coherent explanation of an endgame. Within a few months, Mr. Trump has ordered the military to blow up boats in the Caribbean, abduct the leader of Venezuela, and decapitate the government of Iran. The United States, like Israel, now seems to follow no rules, consult few allies and pay little regard to the destruction it leaves behind":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/opinion/trump-iran.html copy: @renewedresistance

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

boo hoo hoo https://status.claude.com/incidents/0ghc53zpsfmt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

Saudi official says "United States abandoned us & redirected its air defense to protect Israel."

"They left all the Gulf states that host American military bases at the mercy of Iranian strikes."
#AureFreePress #News #Politics #uspolitics #uspol