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chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

As promised:

I'm a staff-ish level software engineer, fairly deeply involved in the Python community (see @NorthBayPython which I organise, and @ThePSF where I'm a board Director). Things I like: understanding/taking apart/reassembling systems; open source; technology in service of humans. Otherwise not terribly picky :)

Things I'm good at: programming in #Python (other languages acceptable, of course), communicating complicated stuff in conference talks, probably a few things related to that. Ask?

#FediHired #GetFediHired

jwz wrote:

"It's like having a reference librarian!"

My Brother in Taxonomy, it is the farthest thing from that.

A reference librarian is a person with feelings, motivations and ethics, who has a goal of helping you find the answer to your question.

The chatbot is a clockwork mechanism that extrudes text optimized to make you *think* your question has been answered.

It is also a machine built by fascists with the goal of creating a dependent, de-skilled, submissive populace and ending Democracy. HTH.

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjg6Dwn8shA

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Two games, both called "Piece by Piece", were coincidentally released within a few days of each other by their developers.

They got in touch with each other, and now both games are available together as a Steam Bundle, because reasonable people can find mutually respectful, no-drama ways to solve problems.

https://www.polygon.com/steam-games-piece-by-piece-bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68985/Piece%5Fby%5FPiece%5FDouble/

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff󠄱󠄾󠅄󠄸󠅂󠄿󠅀󠄹󠄳󠅏") wrote:

actually my coding assistant *is* certified to give medical advice. that's why it's called AGENTS.*md*

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

macbook neo implies the existence of macbook morpheus

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

simd-optimised bogosort

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

with new DLSS6 technology, gamers just describe what they want to happen and we phone it in on the fly

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116245673605232276

I am fucking sick of this kind of response from white men on mastodon who cannot possibly imagine not being the main character. My main patient chat is multilingual, and last summer I literally texted back and forth between a Spanish fluent friend and a fellow patient to translate a preprint about a rare condition for one of my patient friends in a country far from the only place that does research on her condition.

Just FUCK OFF. you are EXHAUSTING.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Before you marry a person you should first make them center a div to see who they really are.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

If playback doesn't begin shortly, try setting your device on fire

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

if Trump’s War results in the Yuan replacing the dollar in oil transactions, then he will have accomplished what decades of PRC effort failed to achieve. unintended consequences can be a pisser, especially for those who act on whim.

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

hmmm… given that most food in the US is transported by diesel-burning vehicles, I anticipate a rapid rise in food prices is approaching.

people who have too much money to shop for their own food will not notice this effect of Trump’s War, but voters will.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

But—and this is important—3. There is absolutely never any reason to say "I dunno, sounds like that's only interesting to people in the US, don't talk about that." That is a useless, derailing, infuriating, and often *completely incorrect* reply. There are plenty of other people outside the US who engage with our work regularly and are able to comment on it just fine without retreating into this weird reverse-jingoism.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Last time people said "but we didn't know what was happening". This time it's going to be a tough sell when your entire timeline is public, cached and searchable.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I understand that it must feel unfair to residents of every other country in the world that our decrepit autocrat's psychodrama has to be _your_ problem every single day, and it must feel like the world revolves around us. But:

1. Most of us, especially those of us you'll run into online, already agree with you about that.

2. People live where they live and have their experiences that they have. If you have *knowledge* on a particular topic from a non-US perspective, that can be welcome.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116245734619677476

I will not be able to absolutely 360 no-scope your reply-guy ass quite as devastatingly as Cat does here, but I hope that this will be instructive to our European friends. Beyond the casual misogyny here (don't do casual misogyny), please don't ever reply to people who live in the US "But that's US-centric". Sometimes it just is, and that's fine. Sometimes we actually know a lot more about the subject than you do, and it's not "US-centric", it's "people who know anything about the topic" centric

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

Some regrettable personal news:

As of ~45 mins ago I am no longer employed. I'm still trying to find my bearings, but would be gateful for whatever leads y'all have.

(I will say more in a bit, once I actually have the time to spare)

#GetFediHired

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us ("Weird Socks") wrote:

@fromjason
If Frank Ocean is old and out, I mean
[Turns into dust and gets blown away by of of wind]

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

Kid bagging my groceries asked what I was listening to in my earbuds, and I had to tell him it was a podcast.

“Ah a podcast guy,” he tells me.

Then I say “But, I was listening to frank ocean earlier.” You know, like in an attempt to save my coolness from a total stranger.

So then he says "who?"

And then I die from old age.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

remember the NX bit, that makes pages non-executable? i think we should replace it with a NR bit (non-readable). and actually just assume it's set for every page.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Dude, they weren't the ones who fucked around, why should they have to be the ones to find out

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nato-countries-dont-want-get-involved-iran-operation-trump-says-2026-03-17/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

#CourtWatch So Afroman has been in court this week to face defamation charges for making a song about the specific bad cops who did a botched raid on his home.

And umm... these cops are WILD!

In this clip officer Randolph Walters explains how he's not sure if Afroman's lyrics about sleeping with his wife are true or not.

You see, if bad cop Walters wants to win defamation he needs to show that he and others could be confused by Afroman's satirical lyrics.

#RandolphWalters #Afroman #ACAB

Attachments:

• video: edda19038ece1466.mp4

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Pepijn@mastodon.online wrote:

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the only problem is there is no more biryani and i could really use seconds.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn.fyi@bsky.brid.gy ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

Some regrettable personal news: As of ~45 mins ago I am no longer employed. I'm still trying to find my bearings, but would be gateful for whatever leads y'all have. (I will say more in a bit, once I actually have the time to spare)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ngl, egg fried ghetto biryani was a good idea.

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

Conservative Republicans are synonymous with stupidity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/17/the-newt-solution/

jwz wrote:

Globes.

People used to have to assemble screen savers by hand!
https://jwz.org/b/yk4k