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

“Digital Acedia | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/digital%5Facedia

> Unfortunately for all of us in the industry, the bulk of all the software that we write has the goal, before anything else, of making life for anyone who isn't rich enough to avoid it intolerable

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

“We've been here before! — Olivia Guest”

https://olivia.science/before/

> Many many times in the past, companies — just like artificial intelligence (AI) companies now — have lied to us to sell us products. Not only is there no reason to assume the AI industry is different, there is in fact much to make us think they are knowingly misleading us.

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

pressed enter to start a new line and the contact form submitted

so now i look like an idiot

jwz wrote:

I was let to believe that pirates had a code. If there was any honor among pirates they would clearly mark their rips as "this is some AI-upscaled camrip bullshit with crypto-casino watermarks that you shouldn't bother downloading".

What a world.

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

The resurrected trying to catch a watermelon. book of hours, Savoie ca. 1445-1450. Chambéry, Musée Savoisien, inv. 977-1-1, fol. 119r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Our current moment: you watch a Vic Berger video and you're not sure whether it's just unedited C-SPAN footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYwSscf%5FPEo

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carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

still shaking my head over the mozilla leadership page. It is more, shall we say, "extensive" than I would have every imagined possible. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/ I mean, holy wow. Search the page for "VP" and you get 21 hits, there are 8 "chief" and 5 "managing" and 6 "executive."

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alienghic@timeloop.cafe ("Diane") wrote:

@carlmalamud

Is mozilla where they store unneeded silicon valley executives?

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Ninji@wuffs.org wrote:

who called it an AI girlfriend and not “slop! in the name of love”

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

gotta pay for that subsidised slop somehow

stop being the product - GitHub is not your friend

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is the maintainer of OpenClaw. If this information warrants blocking them on GitHub, you should probably do that. https://github.com/shakkernerd

jwz wrote:

Favorite mobile mastodon feature: I hit reply, type a lot, scroll back to read something in what I am replying to, and OOPS you scrolled too far, reload page! Fuck your reply!

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981

I'm especially glad of this given the Verge's earlier record with transphobic jokes vis a vis the fediverse. As I've said repeatedly, I think highly of the Verge and those jokes felt out of character for them.

This is proactively good, and I'm glad they're saying the right thing about the new transphobic wizard show.

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nash@labyrinth.social wrote:

Mean Girls is a cultural classic for sure, but it's not the only one of it's kind. Median Girls and Mode Girls are two other crucial tools for getting a clear and well-rounded picture of what your Girl Data is really saying

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

If you learned to code recently, like in the last year, would you rather learn concepts first to build programs, or look at small example programs first and be explained the concepts used in them?

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

People already are using "i saw this video before 2023" as a signature that the video is eligible to be believed. Soon, "this software was developed before 2025" will be the only sign that makes software eligible to be run.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Cars in SF are mowing over people and killing people all over. But yep the city decides to ticket.. cyclists

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s3dpc9/psa%5Ftraffic%5Fpolice%5Fis%5Fdoing%5Fa%5Fcyclist%5Fenforcement/

#BikeTooter #SanFrancisco

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phildini@wandering.shop wrote:

Lmao I just realized that the competitors I’ve found to what CivicBand is doing, who’ve raised a bunch of VC to do what we’re giving away, all post-date me writing this blog post:

https://phildini.dev/digitizing-55-000-pages-of-civic-meetings

Fascinating coincidence.

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headius ("Charles Oliver Nutter") wrote:

There's a ton of Open Source developers out of work right now. The same developers that maintain the libraries and runtimes you all depend upon for your apps. The same libraries and runtimes all your AI code is built upon. Hire or sponsor someone today.

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Retrograde@oldbytes.space wrote:

Slopless vim fork by Drew DeVault :blobthumbsup: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

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

I need to write a follow up to this. It might even be hopeful

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Is this why American EVs are so expensive? Every tiny part is a custom molded piece of plastic made just for this specific model of car?

Got tapped in traffic, cracked a brake light. $1100 list price for just the inner half of light. Found it on “sale” for $750.

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

early A18 yields were below 10%

yeah i'm not surprised

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

intel's 18A process involves checks notes drilling nanoscopic holes into the back side of a polished thin wafer with picometer precision and filling them with metal

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

there are two basic principles in tye Multiverse: Yum and Yuck. this is Yum.

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

i dunno, when someone on youtube says they are an expert in something and i am not an expert in that something but i know a little and know they got something fairly basic wrong, that does not inspire confidence.

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

the windows laptop problem

do you need me to tell you, or...?

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I think people may have been staying in some of these sheds not too long ago.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I assume these are remnants of the summer cabins that used to be in this area. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #rust #snow