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Boosted by jwz:
dcz@fosstodon.org ("dorotaC") wrote:

Did you know your distro carries a computer #art gallery?
It's called Xscreensaver. 30 years old and still getting updates.

A nerdy mix of simulations, interactivity and scene demos. All brilliant art.

Thank you @jwz for delighting this hacker again!

I came for the galaxy simulator, and stayed for Substrate. As always, for my 2 decades of Linux. I'll have to turn Substrate into a poster.

#demoscene #generativeart #algorithmicart

Attachments:

• gifv: Five colored spiral galaxies collide and their constituent points fly all around.
• gifv: A 3d cave and sand landscape with a green glowing thing in the middle.

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

i'm attempting to quit smoking today, so please be extra nice to me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

My latest media addiction is the Delve fraud saga. It's real chef-kiss 🍿

Part 1 https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service

Part 2 https://substack.com/home/post/p-192144506

Spin-off https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/delve-did-the-security-compliance-on-litellm-an-ai-project-hit-by-malware/

And more to come?! eeeee!

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

i can't get a great screenshot of it alas, but Fil-C has a CLAUDE.md

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

oh

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

i ask because i have realised that my previous thinking re:async was a bit constrained by what we settled on in rust, and i think i need to dig deeper.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sambowne@infosec.exchange ("Sam Bowne :donor:") wrote:

Anthropic's Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/anthropics-claude-popularity-with-paying-consumers-is-skyrocketing/

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

remind me why async is so much better than callbacks, again?

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

Touchscreen typing having also been retroactively devolved into the worst input method ever with degraded autocomplete doesn’t help either. Those blow-suck accessibility straw interfaces probably have a higher accuracy rate at this point than the iOS keyboard.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Found this cool vintage sticker at the Ohio toy show.

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

Main internet’s busted so here I am 5Ging it like a protozoa expressing itself from the primordial ooze. Yuck.

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

“You Do Not, In Fact, Have to Hand It to Them”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/you-do-not-in-fact-have-to-hand-it-to-them/

> Their technology, their politics, their vision of the future -- none of these are what we want. More importantly, none of this is inevitable.

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.