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

Greenhouse cats

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

The "anti-war president" now says the only thing the federal government should do is war. Definitely not child care. Or medicaid/medicare. Or science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/04/the-man-is-insane/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FGpxR8D3wK0

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

as they say,, a good landing is one you can walk away from, a great landing is one where they can reuse the plane afterwards.

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

(yes of course the plane was a write-off)

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

nobody died though. nobody even suffered any injuries somehow. incredible

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

LOL, most boeing story ever. they positioned some circuit breakers where they could easily get knocked, saw it happened and offered a solution only as an optional extra. this later caused a crash landing.

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

Minnesota…"April". It does not mean what you think it means.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/04/this-was-the-morning-i-was-supposed-to-sleep-in-then-grade-papers/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I have never heard of Ethel Cain before her tdov instagram post, but my takeaway is this:

Damn I wish I could sound like that when I sing. I was singing bass in the choir at 14 though, so I don’t think there’s any amount of voice training in the world that could get me into her range.

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

state nomad

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
yuril@furry.engineer ("挧日 | Yuril") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.sakura-star.net/@KitsuneofInari/116336733010511672

"No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with" is the most truest part of this

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​ @ :revision_ol:") wrote:

on this laptop, I have a choice of many WSL distros, such as Round Ubuntu and also Square Ubuntu

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

it's been a week since i wrote code and i'm getting a hankering to do something.

tempted to get back to the HOT, even though c is kinda impossible for data structures.

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

inadvertently lewd graph, youtube

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Between the conservatives’ desire to avoid giving anything to the undeserving poor and the liberals’ desire to avoid giving anything to the undeserving rich, there is no social good we can’t come together as a nation to stop.

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

I will stop quoting Ozymandias in relation to the Trump administration when they stop running their administration as a direct rip off of Shelley's pithier more thought-provoking original work.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

There was no good way to see what CT logs are actually used by CAs, so I made a dashboard of Censys data on exe.dev.

There are some interesting patterns, but the main one is that Let's Encrypt is the only CA that evenly spreads load. Other CAs are mostly using older logs, or their own logs and Google's.

(Of course, LE is 50% of issuance, and GTS is 25%, so the rest don't matter much.)

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/ct-policy/718571cb-a841-4102-bcfa-3fe3feab63ae%40app.fastmail.com

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793

This is not acceptable, plain and simple.

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

You can also tell that the text will be bland and inoffensive and say nothing of interest beyond those facts.

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

I love how “high quality, topical AI generated image" means factually accurate and completely oblivious to social context in an article. You can see someone's epistemic position so nakedly now.

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

built by clowns

you will never guess which aeroplane manufacturer this is about

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

mount everest is way more dangerous than you'd think

no i'm pretty sure i filed it under "ludicrously dangerous" already.

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

Cat photos for Easter #caturday

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

petition to rebrand LLMs as 'mechanical bastards'

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

More about the preview

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/easter-sale-and-the-toy-factory/#also-included-a-preview-of-my-upcoming-book

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

The preview to The Magic Toy Factory is the first of my ebooks where I use Typst (via pandoc) to typeset the PDF version and it’s honestly been excellent.

https://typst.app/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars

This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest customer, and the trust of the US government.
↫ Axel Rietschin

It won't take long into this series of articles before you start won

https://www.osnews.com/story/144729/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-dollars/

#Microsoft

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

“Miseducative Experiences”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/miseducative-experiences/

> But to frame any opposition to technology as a "moral panic" is a rhetorical sleight of hand in which one side gets to invoke "science" and "research" while dismissing the other as mere "hysteria."

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Web eco-design

Best practice guidelines

Our digital uses already represent 40% of our annual sustainable budget, both in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the depletion of the last reserves of non-renewable resources (abiotic resources). That's 10 times too much!

Eco-designing digital services allows us to better control and limit their environmental and health impacts...

https://rweb.greenit.fr/en

#smolweb #ecodesign #smallweb

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
KitsuneofInari@sakura-star.net ("宮城巴惠") wrote:

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

It was only a matter of time before some AI-addled guy saw me quoting fucked up parts of the Claude code source, thought it was my code, and say it was just a skill issue and I just need to {prompting superstition} but it finally happened.