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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The key to successfully posting a joke on Mastodon is to also upload a detailed schematic

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again am reminded that domestic abuse is absolutely the flagship threat model in this industry, the place the victim is closest to real physical harm and has the least recourse and resources available to them. The hardest problem, almost totally unaddressed, exaggerated when the victim is underage.

Boosted by jwz:
jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com ("j-r conlin") wrote:

"Philz Coffee" is such a weird name to pick for a nazi bar.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

There are still absolutely beautiful websites using basic css and html with little or no js. professional web dev has gotten more complex along with specialization, but you can still build personal sites with 20yr old tech. and some new stuff is simpler.

What we've lost, it seems to me, is the broad indie pipeline to both learning and socializing (and socially learning).

partly because we who learned it 20yrs ago have landed in more specialized/complex jobs.

Boosted by jwz:
xan@xantronix.social ("[HANDMAIDEN] xan") wrote:

oops, accidentally went viral on LinkedIn by simply saying "i will not use LLMs and you cannot make me" and WOW some C-suite types get real bigmad

Boosted by jwz:
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Holy shit, it's really true.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@isagalaev oh man you have no idea

Boosted by jwz:
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

Boosted by jwz:
galacticstone ("Galactic Stone") wrote:

Only livable wages can prevent warehouse fires. 💰 🔥

#EatTheRich #LateStageCapitalism

jwz wrote:

Still seeking Basecamp alternative.

Against my better judgment, I let my staff start using Basecamp about 8 years ago, and now I want to ditch it for something open source and self-hosted.

Several people suggested Nextcloud. After much pain, I got that installed, and finally got my general manager to take a look. Here's his review:
[...]

Things that should not need to be said but do:
• Do not suggest software that you do not use.
• Do not just Google it for me.

https://jwz.org/b/yk6E

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

@glyph unrelated, you have the most insane shell prompt I've ever seen :-)

jwz wrote:

I want whoever decided that clicking on a text field should auto-select all the text in it brought up on charges.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh hey it's time to use https://pypi.org/project/MOPUp/ again

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Today in 1945, American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Edward R. Murrow toured the camp soon after and filed perhaps his most moving WWII radio report on April 15th.

He needed the time to process the horror he’d seen.

It was heard on CBS, whose #radio news operation is scheduled to end next month.

https://youtu.be/TkdVDLWo3EY

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

chmod -R 0621 *

:3

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

If you follow me on this account, beware I make a lot of dumb jokes

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Some furries: "hehe I'm furry trash"

Me: "yiff-raff"

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

toflakes

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

kellogg's tofu pops

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

sketchy fermented soybean product vendor hatch

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

i have just heard such a monumentally AI-brained thing that i think i might have to go dunk my head in aqua regia

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
digyoursoul@universeodon.com ("Voting is Your POWER") wrote:

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize.

Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.”

The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3mj5khm64fk2b

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month

It’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-beat-natural-gas-us-grid-march-2026

#renewableenergy

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.

The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
#AI #AImistakes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dalite@bark.lgbt ("Dalite Fur 🦊") wrote:

Day 2 ended and I'm exhausted :vlpn_tired:

Saw some amazing sights at the London science museum, pretty buildings in the city and the absolutely amazing back to the future musical.

Boosted by jwz:
AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social ("Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2:") wrote:

Tuesday, April 7th. Catie Laffoon speaks absolute truth to the LA City Police Commission about LAPD violence against protestors. 🔥🧨

"You guys better watch out because you are starving an entire fucking city and they have nothing left to lose."

Via @KatanaSpeaks on Twitter.

#LosAngeles #LAPD #CatieLaffoon #LosAngelesPoliceCommission #ICE #ACAB #NoKings #Protest

Attachments:

• video: Video mentioned in the post. The subtitles are a little messed up but intelligible.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone wrote:

@evan I might tell other people that I'm connected to that I have blocked or muted someone so they know they won't have to deal with that person when they're connected to me. The blocked or muted person will figure it out.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is A Very Big Deal. Trump is having the US Navy challenge Iranian claims of control over the Strait, in the middle of negotiations over those claims.

"USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf"

https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4457220/us-forces-start-mine-clearance-mission-in-strait-of-hormuz/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

fellow AI skeptics: give this a watch. I procrastinated because the title and some of the stuff early on in the video is the kind of stuff that makes me want to argue. But it Goes Places if you watch to the end, and contains a ton of highly instrumental information.

https://youtu.be/y85nqc2zm7M

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonah@neat.computer ("Jonah Aragon :MN:") wrote:

Do big tech companies understand consent?