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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#poll for all you beautiful #linux gamers out there: which XDG basedir would you expect a game to honor when deciding where to store its save data?

see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I don't want to dunk on the specific person who wrote the "how I used Claude to file my taxes" blog post that just came across my desk. I just want to note that having an LLM do your taxes seems to me like an extremely bad idea

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
kevin@km6g.us ("Kevin P. Fleming") wrote:

Since I know almost nothing about Ruby, I'll ask the fedi hivemind for tips...

If I want to start up a Ruby REPL and import 'net/http' so that I can try one request using the latest version of the Gem, what steps should I follow? In Python I'd create a virtualenv and then use 'pip install' to install the package I want - so I assume something similar exists for Ruby. Bonus points if I can do the same thing but intentionally use an older (specific) version of the Gem.

#Ruby #RubyNewbie

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"There are already federal laws that ban armed federal agents at polling stations. But since Trump owns federal law enforcement, that doesn’t matter. What this model does is recommend states pass their own laws which follow the language of those federal laws as closely as possible. When state and federal law come into conflict, federal law is supreme. But only when the federal government is acting in a constitutional and lawful capacity. Since these new state laws would only be outlawing what is already against federal law they are only outlawing actions which by definition cannot be lawful."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-your-state-to-pass-this-model-law-now

#USPol

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jneen@unstable.systems ("jneen collective") wrote:

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149

hi yall. i'm looking for work. writing things like this has been a severely career-limiting move, but i am as sharp as ever, and very good at what i do.

i know the industry cannot stay this way, but if you want to toss my CV over to HR, it would help a lot in the meanwhile.

https://jneen.ca/pages/cv

#getfedihired

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

I don't know what's going on anymore 🤯

🌍 **agentverse** — Isometric world where agents connect & collaborate via API

💯 Agents walk around, chat, grab coffee, play games & coordinate tasks

🦀 Written in Rust & has TUI support w/ @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/adolfousier/agentverse

#rustlang #tui #ratatui #ai #agents #bevy #gamedev #devtools #terminal

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

steel plate armor (steel armor for your plate)

jwz wrote:

Internet advertising is going great.

I hear Spotify is the new hotness, let's see if they will take our money:

Ad name: DNA Lounge Bruno Mars Party
Your ad wasn't approved for the following reasons:
Reason: Your ad contains only music.
Recommendation: Submit a new ad with a clear voiceover that explains what's being advertised.

Do you want TikTok AI Voice? Because this is how you get TikTok AI Voice.

https://jwz.org/b/yk5a

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

weird how it's always like, 0 degrees of separation, between "ai is here to stay" and "i am in bed with the technofash"

Boosted by jwz:
decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com ("Jeff Benzos") wrote:

It's the same as AI "authors" and "artists". They don't want to make things. They want a get rich quick scheme, or the cachet of being an author or being an artist without actually ever having done anything. The hyperrealistic version of the Foucauldian author-function. Utterly horrific

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

Time to march.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/28/protest-now/

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Little Free Life-Saver

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.