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

“On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse”

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

> Read against the speech itself, Lorde's argument seems less concerned with whether antitrust law can break up monopolies and more with whose knowledge counts, who gets to define the problem, and what gets systematically erased when liberation movements reproduce the exclusions of the systems they are opposing.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ryanc@infosec.exchange ("Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:") wrote:

My hobby: randomly blaming Lennart Poettering for any Linux problems I have, regardless of systemd proximity.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
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/

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

Buy stock in sharpies. There's going to be a boom in the market.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/28/my-sharpie-is-ready/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Help me," the duke said. "My physicians can't say what ails me, but I've lost all pleasure in what I used to enjoy."

The witch examined him, and paused over his hand.

"Nice ring. It is new?"

"A recent gift from the king. Why? Is it cursed?"

It was made to dampen cruelty.

"No," said the witch.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.

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

@db True!

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

@baldur that's one too many requests Github deserves

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

That feeling when you get a “too many requests” error on Github for clicking a single link on a single page.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
natpryce ("Nat Pryce") wrote:

Coding agents are going to give us lots of data about the correctness of Bram’s Law: “The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it is implemented in practice.”

Now lots more software is much easier to write.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

In general, I think Codeberg stands for a future in which people are a lot more suspicious of free goodies given to the FOSS community by for-profit companies.

But it also stands for a world in which self-hosting is not the only practical alternative to the present situation. We stand for community-run infrastructure, volunteering to provide a common good, and making decisions for the benefit of all.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Why your AI agents will turn against you https://yoloai.dev/posts/ai-agent-threat-landscape/

In short: black hat hackers haven't fully engaged with AI agents yet. But doing so is trivial, and once they do, we're in for some real "fun times"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz ("Martin Escardo") wrote:

I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

We have spent 100x more compute training AI to generate waifu art than to solve protein folding. I am not saying this is the Great Filter, but if aliens find our radioactive remains, they’re going to be very confused by the hard drives...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jneen@unstable.systems ("jneen collective") wrote:

how to make programming terrible for everyone

https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
clareburgess@hachyderm.io ("Clare") wrote:

Turns out E. E. Cummings wrote a poem about Pinsir:

‘The perpendicular lips the insane teeth
The vertical grin’

Who knew?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The duality of cat. My handsome boy.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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

“AI's aesthetics of failure - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure

> AI image and video slop is not just homogenous, and it’s not just derivative. Slop is a visual embodiment of the modern AI project itself; an in-progress effort to replicate, undermine, and replace human works. It’s fundamentally unsettling.

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

and thanks to phenomenal recent effort from @stylus we are quickly heading towards a production quality bittricks.

and uh... a lot more than we ever wanted to know about making C portably fast.

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

gotta say, i've been really enjoying doing FLOSS with someone else recently. i've spent way too long on stuff noone cares about and i forgot it could be fun.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Remember: Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI. Now, that’s *effective* altruism.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/pivot-to-ai-needs-you-send-5-to-keep-the-stories-coming-daily/

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

New blog post! 📢🎉

"**Building a guitar trainer with embedded Rust**" 🦀🎸

The story of me trying to learn guitar... and ending up building a DIY kit for it 🐁

🔗 Read here: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-tuitar/

#rustlang #embedded #esp32 #ratatui #tui #devtools #opensource #blog

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

One thing AI has been very helpful with is helping me very concretely understand the impact of CVEs on my software, in a very very short amount of time. Patience for lazy/tedious/stupid questions FTW.

For instance, the exact conditions required to exfil victim data in a request smuggling vulnerability.

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwqr-wmgm-9rr8

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, why doesn't alpha blending work when lighting is enabled on Android? Transparency works with glColor but not with glMaterial.
GL_VERSION in the Android simulator is "OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 (4.1 Metal - 88.1)".

This works fine on iOS and Cocoa, so it's not strictly a GLES thing, just Android. GLSL is not involved.

Test case:
https://jwz.org/b/yk5Y

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ianrosewrites@scicomm.xyz ("Ian Rose") wrote:

In 2020, we all took some solace in the Nature is Healing memes, even the silly ones. But the thing is, with even the slightest nudge in the right direction, even the smallest relief from our boot on its neck, it does. Nature does heal and reclaim.

We knew salmon were returning to Upper Klamath Lake after the dam removal there. But now we know they are breeding, and making the first natural hatchlings there in over 100 years. This is great news.
#salmon #oregon #rivers

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/25/upper-klamath-river-chinook-salmon-naturally-hatching/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
elementary wrote:

Your reminder that we do not accept code contributions that have been generated by LLMs. If you submit LLM-generated code we will simply close the pull request

https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/development/generative-ai-policy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PeterLG@theblower.au wrote:

This is too good not to share.

After ten years of silence on YouTube, Bette Midler has released an absolute banger of a protest song, just in time for #NoKingsDay.

A rewrite of a Woody Guthrie song, and it hops!

https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo

#USPol
#BetteMidler #NoKingsDay3

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kiki@thegayagenda.fans ("Puella Lupina Kiki ⚸ Lupae") wrote:

"can you lock tf in" babes i have adhd I am locked tf out with the keys inside

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ivan's explainer of why you should bother and go to protest rallies.

1. If people living under an authoritarian regime do nothing, it solidifies, and a few years later you (or your family member) find yourself in a war with some state or another. Or in a famine. Or in a genocide.

2. Coming out on a peaceful protest is a way to avoid item 1 without violence. But for it to work, the numbers must be overwhelming. It may take several times.

So come out to get counted. It's not hard.

#NoKings

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

I've been through 93 protests and I'm still in one piece.

My protest safety:

1. Use SpotHero.com if you have to drive a car
2. Don't forget sunscreen and water
3. Go with friends and/or tell someone where you'll be
4. Ignore counter protesters if there even are any. I went through a lot of this crap early last year when protesting was scary and if you don't give them the fight they want, they just yell and then go away.
5. Don't smoke, those things will kill you.

Just sayin'.