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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

In case it isn't already abundantly clear, when they say "woke", they mean "treating people who aren't white males with fairness".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.WVA.tyE5.oxlxlbTn702W&smid=url-share

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

Freebooters: Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5KxBa9zgpMj44HyvvMcJvg

#Freebooters

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5KxBa9zgpMj44HyvvMcJvg

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/116302181567094649

Just gonna boost this up to the TL cause I think there's a conversation to be had about how much genAI centers around people desperately wanting the ability to be deceitful, and their need to defend it lest they lose their powers of deception.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

The villainous class.

#billionaires #inequality

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

I'm not going to link to it, it's disgusting as hell, but JKR has *again* gone after Imane Khelif, hours apart from her lauding the HBO reboot trailer.

Support of her show *necessarily* validates not only her transphobia, but also her using transphobic hate to justify racism.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
html5test@front-end.social ("Niels Leenheer") wrote:

CSS is DOOMed!

I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

https://cssdoom.wtf

Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Mastodon wrote:

Following on from yesterday's blog post about the new design for profiles coming in Mastodon 4.6... here is the video of @imanijoy recent talk at @fossdesign where they discuss the challenges and detailed thought that goes into the design of new features (and the redesign of existing ones). 🖌️

#FOSSBack #Mastodon #OpenSourceDesign #UX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy54

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

this does not make it any less important, of course, it just means that i'm not out there YOLOing it up like other people.

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

i am not going to lie, i am starting to regret that i think portability is important.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ddosecrets@kolektiva.social ("Distributed Denial of Secrets") wrote:

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB)

The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence.

https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails

Help us keep publishing: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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

This TUI reminds me of good old days 🥹

🌐 **rvIRC** — A terminal IRC client with vim-style modes/commands

💯 Multi-server chats, encrypted DMs, file transfer & inline media support

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/KaraZajac/rvIRC

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #irc #chat #terminal #commandline

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop ("Alex, the Hearth Fire") wrote:

so I got laid off again, for stupid AI-pilled reasons.

Anybody need a writer or editor with:
- 8+ years of technical writer/content strategist experience, mostly in software
- One published short fiction anthology (as editor)
- A master's degree in sociolinguistics
- A knack for learning new content management systems
- A love of working with invested SMEs
- A basic understanding of web dev
- Strong boundaries
- An aversion to generative AI?

Prioritizing remote work in Canada.
#GetFediHired

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Feeling good about the security posture of the federal government during a war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
oantolin@mathstodon.xyz ("Omar Antolín") wrote:

Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much they care whether the statements they make are accurate.

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

i am not sure adding someone to a repository as a 'collaborator' is the right vibes

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

i am still failing to find the place in forgejo where i can define a label for issues.

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

Stupid old man is racist. Too bad the stupid old man is also our president.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/27/our-president-is-openly-racist-again/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5-HDpP9-E

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

Small addendum: security flaws are a tiny tiny tiny subset of the vast potential menagerie of bugs you can get in a real-world piece of software. Even if this did pan out, it wouldn't come close to fully repairing the damage of the code slop-apocalypse.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vrandecic@mas.to ("Denny Vrandečić") wrote:

While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.

Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
misconceptions@a2mi.social ("Common Misconceptions Bot") wrote:

There is no such thing as an " alpha " in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate like families: parents are in charge until the young grow up and start their own families, and younger wolves do not overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fcommon%5Fmisconceptions%5Fabout%5Fscience,%5Ftechnology,%5Fand%5Fmathematics#Mammals

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

i appear to have been porting smol's task abstraction to c for like an hour without really noticing.

i am tweaking as i do it, obviously.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

I really appreciate the vulnerability that comes with writing something like this and releasing it to the public. We need to do a better job of recognizing these traits and supporting one another. 💕
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open%5Fsource%5Fgave%5Fme%5Feverything%5Funtil%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fnothing%5Fleft%5Fto%5Fgive

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
karb@bark.lgbt ("Clep-Karb @ Home 🏠") wrote:

"What a nice, calm Friday. Why don't you take a seat next to me and enjoy the River passing by."

📷: @Lutu
📍: NordicFuzzCon 2026

#FursuitFriday

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

I just saw someone unironically write that they do not trust Firefox because they do not trust a browser paid by google to include AI slop features, and that’s why they prefer Chrome.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brie@do.crimes.brie.gay ("Brie (:neobot:)") wrote:

Getting called out by my own search engine

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

Am I weird for missing the snow? Probably. But foxes & snow are just meant to go together. #fursuit #furry #fursuitfriday

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bolts@journa.host ("BoltsMag.org") wrote:

North Carolina’s election board has sparked local outcry by announcing that it will stop providing free registration forms to voter registration drives:

https://carolinapublicpress.org/74926/voter-registration-groups-cry-foul-over-nc-decision-to-stop-providing-them-with-printed-forms/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Mathematicians are threatening to boycott the field’s largest, most prestigious gathering this summer
if it takes place in the U.S., as currently planned.

Every four years since the turn of the twentieth century,
the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) has brought together mathematicians from all over the world to share the latest breakthroughs and plot the field’s future.

Famous speeches delivered at the congress have gone on to redefine entire subfields of math.

The ICM is also where math’s most hallowed prize, the Fields Medal, is awarded.

This July, the ICM is slated to take place in Philadelphia
—the first time in 40 years that it’s been held in the U.S.

Now a petition to move the event elsewhere is circulating among mathematicians.

It cites the recent American military actions in Venezuela and Iran,
the suspension of visas from 75 countries
and the continued presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across major U.S. cities
as contrary to the ICM’s goal of fostering “a sense of international unity amongst mathematicians.”

As of this writing, more than 1,500 mathematicians have signed the petition,
which states that they plan to boycott the event if it isn’t moved outside the U.S.

The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names,
more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/