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

oh yes, i'm sure the little 'unsubscribe' link in the phishing email will do the trick.

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

Was going back through some 12+ year old slides and fixing broken script links and such, and noticed that my talk from 2014's (joke) DHTML Conf is still up. The whole thing was set up as a "ok, but what if we put on a conference from the year 2001?", and I played along by doing in-browser slides...in IE...6.0...in a VM, on a Mac.

But that wasn't revealed until the end.

So if you have IE 6 handy...

https://infrequently.org/01/dhtmlconf/

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

Boarding the 3am train north to Chicago 🍕… eventually. It’s currently been delayed half an hour, which is great because I would have missed it if it had left on time 😆. #TransOnTrains

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

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

Going to bed at 1, alarm set for 2 to get up and catch a train. This is fine.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I’m annoyed that it’s obvious we’re in phase 1 of this 3-step cycle

1. Republican president tanks economy and gets us involved in a forever war.

2. Democratic president fixes the economy.

3. People get impatient about things not being as good as they used to be so they vote Republican.

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

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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