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

i saw someone complaining about british plugs earlier and i won't have that. the only fault of a british plug is that it hurts like hell if you step on an upturned one. it's otherwise absolutely brilliant.

british wiring, i mean have a go at that all you like. although that said, the wiring in my current place in nl is worse than any british wiring i've ever seen.

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

Another mass uprising this weekend.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/24/we-need-to-topple-a-wanna-be-king/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
RagnarHeidar ("Ragnar Heiðar Þrastarson") wrote:

Today is world meteorological day #worldmetday 🌦️

DYK that the Icelandic Met Office has an API for weather observations. I´ve been having lots of fun building weather info screens for my new @trmnl
a brilliant little ePaper info screen

Our API: api.vedur.is/weather/

More on TRMNL: https://trmnl.com/

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

perl has a 'bless' keyword for turning references into objects.

i cannot help but think it would have been more accurate if it were called 'curse'

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

AI pioneer: you've understood that manual code-writing is mostly solved and actively use AI tools to multiply your productivity. If your current company restricts AI usage, you have personal projects that demonstrate your expertise

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

“Talking Liquid Glass with Apple - by Danny Bolella”

https://captainswiftui.substack.com/p/talking-liquid-glass-with-apple

> Content is King, Controls are Servants

The more I read about where Apple UIs are heading, the more concerned I am that making old-fashioned, value-generating, productivity apps on the Mac is increasingly going to be an uphill struggle

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

“Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. - Quantic Foundry”

https://quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/gen-ai/

> Such a highly-skewed negative response is rare in the many years we’ve conducted survey research among gamers

“AI” as a consumer-facing value proposition continues to be incredibly unpopular.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I'd imagine this has more to do with stemming panic buying than anything else, because motorists can't behave.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eris2cats@chaos.social ("Eris2cats") wrote:

"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
laura_carlson ("Laura Carlson") wrote:

Today's Web Design Update: https://groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/g/webdev/c/OqjWKXl%5FxFY

Featuring @Ted_drake, @ozewai, @accessBob, @inclusivedesign24, @db, @Wilto, @tg, @beeps, and more.

Subscribe info: https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev%5Flistserv.html#subscribe

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@officialgogurt/116281704041046395

aaaaaaaand this is HANDS DOWN the most cursed image i have seen on the #fediverse… so far

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

fzf, but reimagined! ⚡

🌀 **matchmaker** — Next-gen fuzzy finder for the terminal

🚀 Instantly search/filter files, logs, commands or any text input
💯 Supports column-aware filtering, previews & fully scriptable actions

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Squirreljetpack/matchmaker

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #fzf #productivity #devtools #terminal

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

reading: GPC Opt Out: UX Fails or Malicious Compliance?
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/gpc-opt-out-ux-fails-or-malicious-compliance/

— i've had too many cookie conversations where no one can answer "what are you tracking?" and "WHO are you tracking for?"

and yet web users blame the laws trying to protect them

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

"These two environments only communicate through serialized messages, which allows safe execution of AI-generated code and makes the sandbox a good fit for inline UI produced by chat agents."

https://arrow-js.com/#sandbox

hmm yes serialization that's bulletproof *cough* CVE-2025-55182 *cough*

(at least they're not pretending to review code anymore)

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

reading: The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-interfaces

— even when its not ads, Microsoft really do have a knack for telling users what they want and ignoring feedback

i bet their employee handbook is titled "The User is Wrong"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

idk who needs to hear this but [⁠_incoherent screeching_⁠]

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Eat fresh, chooms

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It is an absurd videogame thing of "oops I'm the wrong political ideology now because I hit the wrong button." But I guess that's also what counting errors in voting machines are?

jwz wrote:

Oil collapse (no not that kind)

BLDGBLOG: "The U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve is a series of vast, subterranean salt caverns in four different sites in Louisiana and Texas. Many are enormous -- the average cavern holds about 10mn barrels [...] This...
https://jwz.org/b/yk48

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

xdg-session-management protocol merged after 6 years:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge%5Frequests/18

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

What are the odds

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

Vote NO on the “KIDS Act”!

It’s KOSA 2.0: Tell Your Representatives to No.

https://indivisiblesf.org/call-scripts/2026/03/10/tell-your-representatives-vote-no-on-kids?mc%5Fcid=ba51ca7be7&mc%5Feid=8bb0a26139

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

Let's be exceedingly clear about what's happening here: Apple's forced browser engine monoculture has once again made iOS users less secure. It's an omniscandal:

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116280718186575575

/cc @owa

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

If you have an iPhone, today is a good day to make sure you are running the latest software. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millions-of-iphones/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original

the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/bets-us-iran-ceasefire-show-signs-of-insider-knowledge-say-experts-polymarket

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

▶ Democratic Senator John Fetterman has seen his approval level plummet by more than 100 points since he was elected three years ago, according to a new report.

https://www.latintimes.com/john-fettermans-net-approval-dropped-more-100-points-since-his-election-pennsylvania-595932

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

I do not think Herr Trump understands that he does not control this situation, Iran does. Iran does not have to win, they just have to not lose. Iran can close the passageway through that straight... Iran can destroy that resource, so Iran is the one who controls that resource.

Iran has the capability to simultaneously throw many uncrewed aerial and sea vehicles at ships within that narrow strait, and at US troops ashore. when there are so many "drones" that they can be used to hunt down individual soldiers as in Ukraine, then defenses will be overwhelmed and ships and troops will die.

Rich people do not care if "ordinary" people die on their whims. Herr Trump and his friends have no "skin in the game" and care not who fights and bleeds and dies because of their greed and hunger for power.

once upon a time long ago I was a "Regular Army" Sergeant, and I weep for these children they are about to send into harms's way... all because of the whim of a fool.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshsternberg.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Josh Sternberg") wrote:

Would be good, I think, if there was a line in coverage of Trump's "postponement" of raining bombs on Iran for five days, to just state an obvious truth: the five days coincide with the work week, aka when the financial markets are open.