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jwz wrote:

"Official Video, Full HD, Remastered"

Now, I'm old enough to remember when "remastered" meant "we re-scanned the 35mm negative". Let's take a look at the upper left quadrant of the first 15 seconds of that video at half speed. On the left: a 702x576 rip I made of the video in 2003 from the SD DVD release, Directors Series Volume 3: The Work of Michel Gondry; on the right, the 1392x1062 "Official Full HD Remaster"...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5U

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jond ("Jon Dubovsky") wrote:

Big shout out to Tusky, ActivityPub, et al for being well-made and letting me browse cat pictures and other vital entertainment while _in the middle of $/#@ rural nowhere on the train home.

The cows are impressed.

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
Attac@mamot.fr ("Attac France") wrote:

Grosse semaine pour Bernard Arnault : après un record de dividendes avec 3,2 milliards d'euros reçus de LVMH, on apprend que son méga-yacht est immatriculé à Malte.

Celui qui prétend être le plus grand contribuable français adore décidément les paradis fiscaux !
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/260326/pour-son-nouveau-megayacht-bernard-arnault-reste-fidele-aux-paradis-fiscaux

#ParadisFiscaux #TaxonsLesRiches

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
berru@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I really think it is time for us to treat LLM usage as another form of metadata, such as licensing.

As a user, I want to know if my software contains LLM.

As a developper I want to know if a project accepts LLM usage.

As a web-surfer I want to know if this content has been made by a human.

I don't think we can trust people (especially companies) to disclose their usage, so it's essentially a web-of-trust/web-of-shame.

Is any RFC already up? I wanna talk about this.

#vibecoding #llm

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca ("Sean Boots") wrote:

“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github%5Fai%5Ftraining%5Fpolicy%5Fchanges/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

Brains trust: for Reasons, my wife occasionally needs to wear a sports jersey as part of her work at a primary school ("wear your favourite team's jersey instead of school uniform if you donate to a fund raising effort" activities).

Neither of us are really sports people, but we *are* readers, so she has historically worn the jersey of a ... notable fictional magical broomstick-based sports team. But she would like to avoid supporting that particular franchise.

Any suggestions for a. Current front runner is a "Brakebills University Welters Team” jumper (from The Magicians) - but (a) it's not likely to be licensed content, and (b)... she teaches primary school, and might have to explain it 😆

Suggestions for a fictional sports team from she could support? Bonus points if it's YA *and* has official merch.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Someone appears to have tried to insulate this shed using old fur coats. Or perhaps it was for decoration.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Anyway, if you need to help a child develop a love of reading and magical fantasy, give some money to B.B. Alston instead https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240817-amari-and-the-night-brothers

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Pretty cool how white collar criminals suddenly started behaving so much better under Trump! 🤷🏼 It probably definitely isn’t that they just get away with everything now

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is of course a strong identity component here. Trans people who want to feel a certain way about people portraying symbols from the series, or engaging in intra-community discourse, have feelings that are beyond my purview to criticize. But there's a growing contingent of straight, white, cis folks who have started to take it upon themselves to be competitively cruel to HP fans to demonstrate their allyship and it's really not a good look. Cruelty is never good allyship.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
UnePorte@eldritch.cafe ("Door et de platine") wrote:

This is peak malicious compliance and I love it

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

Edit : the blog author is on the fediverse if you want to follow him https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116287307838318731

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

People need to know what a monster she is. Providing good factual information about what she is doing with her money is great. Critiquing the books is great; giving people some analytical tools to help them let go of emotional attachments to some its shitty themes is also good. So I'm not saying "don't be critical". But being mean for the sake of mean because you're *right* doesn't prove anything except that you're an asshole. Ironically the kind of asshole JKR valorizes.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess moderation is the theme of the day, so, here goes another one: denying resources to JK Rowling is unequivocally a good thing. Being personally vicious to people who like Harry Potter—particularly if they are already mourning its destruction and AREN'T giving JKR any money—is performative bullshit.

Personally I never liked the series much; I fell off entirely around book 4. But I know *several* trans people that the story still resonates with. They don't need you to tell them JKR sucks.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116297371401071449

muttered "let him cook" to myself under my breath upon reading this thread

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

HtDP (How to Deuterate Platinum)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

Them: We don't want anyone to be able to call our APIs...
Me: There is no such thing as a "private API" on the Internet. There is only an undocumented one.

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

How about if you let qualified educators decide what is fundamental, Mr Lawyer/Politician Shapiro?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/i-hate-it-when-republicans-do-this-i-might-hate-it-more-when-democrats-do-it/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Of course I will have different opinions of someone who understandably mistook it for hayfever vs. someone who consciously went to a superspreader party pre-vaccine, but at the end of the day we are being crushed by systems we can't meaningfully control.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The products are hyped by too many people who ought to know better, mandates are present in way too many jobs, understanding the ramifications of its use are too difficult, and the technology itself is superficially appealing enough, that it is becoming functionally impossible to remain untainted.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The difference between judicious moderation and cowardly centrism is the courage to state one's position clearly, so, I guess I should make this explicit: I have made the decision to treat "uses genAI for some things" with vaguely the same level of moral judgement as "has contracted COVID".

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116297167530484991

apple is not your friend
apple does not have your back

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

In something you don't see everyday, Apple gave the FBI the real name and email address of one of its customers using Apple's 'Hide My Email' feature. This lets you generate random email addresses to protect your privacy https://www.404media.co/apple-gives-fbi-a-users-real-name-hidden-behind-hide-my-email-feature/

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

@owa @pluralistic What's being proposed would sound entirely reasonable against a radically different set of underlying facts.

But we don't live in a world where Apple can be trusted. They've spun so many half-truths, lawyered reality into fiction so aggressively, and worked to duck compliance so hard that we can't help but notice. All to defend the App Store's rentier model, suppressing indigenous tech.

The CMA's credulity is not on the up-and-up:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

It's hard to overstate the scale of the UK CMA's planned capitulation to Apple.

Recall that Cupertino serially misled the regulator, used legal wrangling to delay, and stood up fake "developer" groups to astroturf on both sides of the pond. Now, with Parliament granting new powers to regulate, and a clear agenda *from their own groundbreaking reports*, the CMA proposes to roll over?!

A dereliction that undermines UK tech competitiveness:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/our-submission-to-the-cma-on-apples-ios-interoperability-commitments/

/cc @owa @pluralistic

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

clojure: the documentary [official trailer] coming april 16th

let me get right on that 😬

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Codspeed has launched a bunch of "AI" features. To disable them, navigate to https://codspeed.io/settings/organizations/%28your-org%29/capabilities and turn off "Wizard".

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

reading: Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
https://piccalil.li/blog/applying-accessibility-fixes-with-stealth-for-the-greater-good/

☝️that's a keeper! bookmarked, pinned, gonna reading it twice, maybe thrice

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

At this point, I consider it a red flag if she doesn't hate men at least a little.

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

Stop making this mistake with claude code

using it? :blobcatangel: