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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

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• gifv: Oh, hey, everybody, bow down.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

The Curta won't grind the beans but it will compute that 21g coffee x 15:1 ratio = 315 ml water

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

Not a surprise that @43081j's post on JS ecosystem bloat is *extremely* kind and patient towards the people who are polluting the Node/NPM corpus, so I'll say what he won't: if the people who are promoting the bloat can't produce live customers demanding forward-compat for a ancient runtimes + modern dependencies, we all need to shun and reject these sorts of net-negative contributions:

https://43081j.com/2026/03/three-pillars-of-javascript-bloat

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

reading: What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It?

https://csswizardry.com/2026/04/what-is-css-containment-and-how-can-i-use-it/

— my prayers were answered! Harry explains all 🙏 for my next wish...

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

I can't believe the number of people who have gone off the deep end with a slight upgrade to M-x doctor

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

At some point this account crossed 5,900 followers. This seems like an opportune time to mention that no authoritarian regime in history has ever survived more than 3.5% of the population following me

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

Shot:

https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/android-sets-new-record-for-mobile-web.html

Chaser:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/#total-cache

Not for nothing, but some of us were ranting about the cache gap as far back as 2017, amd the omnishambles Android SoC ecosystem lays at Qualcomm's feet. It will be another half decade before real gains trickle down to volume price points. Not that our tech press cover devices for anyone but the rich.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
drmaddkap@meow.social ("Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist") wrote:

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:
(1) Two named Klingons
(2) Talking to each other
(3) About something other than honor

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

That wasn't a good movie but I am now positive Angela Bassett makes any movie she's in at least watchable. #monsterdon

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

“I cannot accept compliments from waste material" is a great line #monsterdon

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“AI skeptic” is a title which is technically “AI first” which means by Klingon law you must now give me a twenty million dollar funding round at a ten billion dollar valuation

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Rip-off of some Vangelis in the background music here #monsterdon

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chr@scalie.business ("▽ some dragns") wrote:

the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it

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mcc wrote:

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Shitty TL54 is running on a tiny GPU in a box under someone's desk isn't it. #monsterdon

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

It's a day that ends in "y", so The Verge is writing browser competition out of the mobile antitrust picture. Infuriating failure to understand the core problems(s) and talk about the opportunities plainly:

https://www.theverge.com/column/902668/apple-antitrust-app-store-war

/cc @owa

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Oh wow Angela Bassett #monsterdon

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

Hambagu 🤤

#KatCooks

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

pretty sure this is what publishing this blog post is going to feel like, in just about every way

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keturn@toot.cat ("Kevin Turner") wrote:

Finding the program responsible for controlling a mounted FUSE filesystem is a little obscure, but it's possible. The trick is hidden in an fdinfo field.

I put together a script that'll show all the current FUSE mounts and their processes: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/5973894

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MaggieFero@hachyderm.io ("Margaret Fero") wrote:

Uhoh, my work phone number is broken, and it looks like has been for almost two weeks 😬 I can see a missed call and a bunch of text message notifications within the app, but I've not gotten any call forwarding or push notifications, and I still can't see text message contents.

I thought it was odd that I'd not gotten text-based #rsac spam, but I remained unreasonably hopeful. Updating, clearing cache and restarting the app all didn't get it.

Anybody else seen this kind of VoIP problem? How did you fix it?

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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

A thing that never stops being funny to me is that electoral reform is stymied by the fact there are separate camps who want instant-runoff voting, Condorcet ranked voting, and proportional representation, and they don't cooperate. Seriously one of the funniest things to happen in human history. First Past the Post has a plurality of support so it wins every engagement. First Past the Post wins by First Past the Post rules.

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

You can see a bed frame and an old bicycle in this video.#Iceland #Reykjavik #video #landscape #nature #abandoned #decay #trees #snow #rust

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3mi7wyqu3222w

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• video: Remnants of a burnt down cabin.

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

There used to be a summer cabin there, but it burnt down.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #snow #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jameshowell@fediscience.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:

"Setting aside the moral arguments---"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water---"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hope you all had fun while I was away for a week. Here's what I was doing. Coming soon: A full tour by my cover band, Scalzi Osbourne.

(photo by Kelly Wright)

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

Happy Palm Sunday, everyone

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered on an in-person 5-day course on OSINT as it relates to iolations of international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law.

(I am not affiliated with either institution or involved in this course, but it looks damn interesting.)

https://iici.global/courses/open-source-investigation-foundational/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

#3GoodThings

1. The Publix brand Jamaican beef patties are delicious. I mean, for a frozen food. The pastry is so flakey and it's all very flavorful.

2. The cover of The Sign of The Times by Sandra Hüller on Project Hail Mary is beautiful. I would totally listen to her cover if they release it.

3. Thunderstorm season is here. I love falling asleep to the rain.