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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

I went down a skateboarding ramp in a wheelie bin. Glad for the experience and grateful I didn't get injured but would not try again.

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

Searching I found some mention on social media of Tim Burton admitting to the inspiration, but nothing with a credible source.

I must know 😭

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

Looking back, I wonder if Jack Pumpkinhead was inspiration for Jack Skellington

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

the mythical machine month

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

Who remembers the nightmare that is the Return to OZ? I was sure this was a knock off movie by some now-defunct studio, but no, this is a Disney movie. Who greenlit this??

This sequel to The Wizard of Oz scared the hell out of me as a kid, partially “the wheelers.” But I remember watching it multiple times? https://m.ok.ru/video/927388404280

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jonossaseuraava@post.ebin.club ("rosmopiälikkö kuiva kus") wrote:

Need
https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt

Boosted by jwz:
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

@davidgerard It's really quite a thing that we have reached the “have faith, unbeliever” stage of AI already. Although these are mostly also the guys who made “HODL” a thing.

jwz wrote:

macOS 26 guest user.

Dear Lazyweb,

Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
https://jwz.org/b/yk4f

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

The mystery of the fossilised keyboard 📽️

Attachments:

• video: A video of what appears to be a fossilised keyboard which has mystified many folk in England

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

TIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test". i didn't know that before. in fact I still don't.

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

“Tech's empiricism problem | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech%5Fempiricism%5Fproblem

> The industry thus becomes a place that includes some of the most awful people you know in positions of power and one that is more or less incapable of self-regulating.

jwz wrote:

Today's spam pro tip:
/etc/postfix/header_checks:
# Base64-encoded subject that starts with "【"
# /^Subject: *=\?utf-8\?B\?44CQ/ REJECT Spammer.

Boosted by jwz:
Minimus@archaeo.social wrote:

cavē Idus Martias! #bewaretheidesofmarch #minimuslatin

Boosted by jwz:
dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

Bella Lugosi's Ched - mozzarella, cheddar, jack cheeses, garlic white sauce, corn, cilantro, tajin, lime

Boosted by jwz:
autonomysolidarity@todon.eu ("Autonomie und Solidarität") wrote:

That's it!

#Antifa #Antifascism #Fascism

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

‘Beware the SATAs of March’ doesn’t have quite the same ring.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
RabBrucesSpider1@mastodon.scot ("Rab Bruce’s Spider") wrote:

Social media for the blind:
Bluesky, hardly any Alt Text. To understand an image, you must open the post, tap on the image and hope your screen reader can describe it, or spend a minute or so scanning it.
X, hardly any image descriptions. The built-in AI will try to describe the images which is a major improvement, but you need to wait until the screen reader finishes reading all the info about the post.
Mastodon, loads of image descriptions. What a pleasure it is to browse my timeline here.

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
oldcoyote@c.im ("🌧️ jschof 🌼") wrote:

Explored what the platform has to offer with web workers for concurrency in vanilla javascript. You can have multi-threaded operations. It's just a bit of ceremony to put together:

https://jschof.dev/posts/2026/3/concurrency-with-workers/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
janriemer@floss.social ("Jan :rust: :ferris:") wrote:

#Diverse perspectives on #AI from #Rust contributors and maintainers

https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project-perspectives-on-ai/feb27-summary.html

Healthy debates are still possible, it seems. 🙏

#LLM #LLMs #RustLang #OpenSource

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I know 100% that people will argue with me over this, but I miss when movies were professionally lit, when actors were intentionally blocked, and when more than teal, orange and beige were allowed to be on the screen. The medium has something to do with it--film made a lot of these things fundamentally necessary--but I think it's more complex than just that. The last few years' movies are just not pleasant to look at, with very few exceptions, and the change occurred sometime around 2015.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Kristian_Kiehling ("Kristian Kiehling") wrote:

"Online discussions are dominated by a surprisingly small, extremely vocal, and non-representative minority. Research on social media has found that, while only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33 % of all content [...] 0.1 % of users shared 80 % of fake news [6,7]. Not only does this extreme minority stir discontent, spread misinformation, and spark outrage online, they also bias the meta-perceptions of most users who passively “lurk” online."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wakame@tech.lgbt ("Not a Spring Onion") wrote:

@atax1a

2035:

"So, what's your job?"

"I write self-help books for computers."

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I swear there’s few things that lift my mood as instantly and effectively as a new piercing. I can be in some deep void of despair and then I go get a new hole and it’s like I’m frolicking in a field all of a sudden

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

The MacBook Neo is held together by 68 screws, no glue, no adhesives.

Sounds like the right-to-repair lobby is making a huge impact(?) That, and maybe projects like Framework.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KVshPEmTNj8

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
xs4me2 wrote:

Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/faa-trump-space-junk-safety-spacex-rockets?utm%5Fcampaign=propublica-sprout&utm%5Fcontent=1773522721&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=bluesky

Such an utter stupidity...

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

Especially if you're not a starving artist. *Especially* if you got famous for being left wing.

There's a reason why companies like Amazon and Adobe dish out (presumably) lots of cash for commercials. It's because they're shit companies and left-leaning celebrity endorsements go a long way.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also*, I am not saying here that we have to accept everyone at all times. Of course there are lines, and some of us put them in different places. Doctorow is still more or less fine in my book. Good even. I understand and respect that others may be much more frustrated with him over this, but I am okay disagreeing with just this take. Whereas, for example, Dawkins can eat shit, as far as I am concerned.

*: for fuck’s sake

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

CI, unit tests, linters, formatters, code review are imperfect but effective safety and productivity tools because they do not require a state of constant hypervigilance.

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

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116228686072308466

WELLAKCHUALEE

old school bloggers like me remember when #HuffingtonPost and then #Buzzfeed were grifted millions in VC money to scrape our blog posts, articles, essays and sundry media. they were the OG plagiarism as a service; and that’s why techbros couldn’t fork enough money their way.

and that wasn't even the worse of it. remember the autistic kid they never paid a penny to churn out all those polls, quizzes & listicles they became famous for?

pepperidge farm remembers.

yeah. fuckem.

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

Nikki Glaser doing an ad for Amazon Alexa, and Hasan Minhaj for Adobe 😭🤮

I wish comedians who can already feed themselves would stop taking big tech money.