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

Not sure what to say to someone who thinks software isn't political. It's like talking to a carpenter who thinks trees are a hoax.

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

A nice spot of good news for the day

https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-rainbow-flag-trump-lgbtq-historic-preservation-ac4ab59d3251476139700db6687828ca

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

This is how we can keep building a web worth wanting in the face of disingenuous veto players [1] and subversion of standards venues based on degraded competition [2]. The humility to admit your first idea is *probably* wrong (at least in part), combined with urgency to fix real problems for users and developers, puts a premium on responsibility in leadership. I'm proud of the team for taking that seriously.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/
[2]: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

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

In the end, this focus on developer needs dovetailed with the Blink Launch Process's prescriptive gates for launching before consensus, including:

- a strong spec (even if not yet a standard)
- good tests
- wide review (including the TAG)

These are calculated to allow other vendors to implement cheaply, without IP risk, should they change their minds later. And once again, the Project Fugu process design is working as designed; enabling Mozilla to join us without drama.

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

Sal Mercogliano turns to our current “would anyone who is not blockading the Persian Gulf please raise your hand” absurdity

https://youtu.be/xddTUc14iOw

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

What does shipping responsibly mean when you're that far out ahead? A few things:

- requesting developer feedback at every stage
- making working versions available behind flags, then iterating
- asking for wide review despite disinterest by other vendors
- being honest and iterative about feedback
- shipping the "base subset", then iterating to solve follow-up problems

You can see that whole journey here:

https://chromestatus.com/features?q=web%2520serial

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

@firefoxwebdevs I would be remiss if I didn't also point out the role that Blink and the Project Fugu team (particularly @reillyeon, Josh Bell, Vince Scheib, Chris Mumford, and @kennethrohde) played in leading on this feature responsibly. Everything was built in the open, with invitations to all vendors to participate in development, and in a collaborative way. There wasn't much non-developer feedback, but it didn't keep the team from building and shipping responsibly.

Boosted by jwz:
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116389911016512033

Operation dildo at ICE has reached Portland

#pdx #Portland #ICE

Attachments:

• gifv: DHS police officers kicking dildos away in the driveway at the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon

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

First Web MIDI, now Web Serial! Could not be happier to see Mozilla returning to an expansive vision for the web. The idea that we should download unsafe native binaries to get things done was always naff, and an abdication of the browser's role in the lives of users:

https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

/cc @firefoxwebdevs

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

Doesn't it look cosy?#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #yellow

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
balloob@fosstodon.org wrote:

WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !! 🎉

Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes 👌

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
kaiiak@madverse.city ("Kaiiak ;(Ж)"") wrote:

would yall wear the elderly robot tail

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

101

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

Congrats to @jayrockin on funding their kickstarter for Runaway to the Stars in all of about... 18 minutes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/runaway-to-the-stars

I love this woke af sci fi comic more than words can express. Go check it out and get yerself a book.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style ("Renewable Guydraulic Menergy") wrote:

putting on RATM's Killing in the Name but when it gets to the "fuck you..." part i start singing:

thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!
thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!

jwz wrote:

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman's Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto.

SAN FRANCISCO: "I've been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn't think too much of it when the ingredients list included a...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6K

Boosted by jwz:
theonion@bots.defencegeeks.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball

WASHINGTON—Shocking Truth Social followers with a graphic insult to a nebulous opponent, President Donald Trump escalated a feud with an unclear adversary Monday by posting an AI video of himself fucking a basketball. “The president is clearly enraged at somebody, but the clip provid…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/trump-escalates-feud-with-unclear-adversary-by-posting-ai-video-of-self-fucking-basketball/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Feedback is also a limited resource and students don't understand this since they think teachers have infinite time.

Maybe the way that it's presented needs to make it more clear that this is something of value, not a punishment... which is how younger kids can see it.

eg. "Decide what you want me to read, I only have time to do this two times."

I think fewer students would give LLM content in that context.

It is, frankly, rude to give someone a bunch of LLM text to read.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network ("WEATHER IS HAPPENING") wrote:

@aredridel ITS A MEDIUM ROAST NIGHT COFFEE

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

Grunge.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/13/another-s-borealis/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
schmerg@mas.to ("Tim M") wrote:

@baldur It may well be you who put me onto the essay but this discusses that issue, the problem-solution ordering issue, and how it "keeps cropping up: not just in the context of game design, where I first encountered them, but also in such apparently unrelated fields as math education and functional programming."

https://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If you warn about a problem before it's FELT, people will ignore you even after it hits them

A warning with enough foresight to precede the catastrophe will be less credible BECAUSE it was early.

People would rather be angry than feel responsible and an early warning proven right takes that away

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

If all you do in your tech career is:

1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve;

2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time similar work is needed you bring up how to avoid doing what broke last time; and

3. When someone lacks info, you make them feel good for learning instead of bad for not knowing;

You will do good work.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

Hungary After Orban: What's Next? | DW News

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LykbTn%5FsS4o&si=yH27kveIwAgYqxY2

> Hungary’s election has resulted in a political earthquake, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceding defeat after 16 years in power.

This was a great listen. This Princeton professor shared such a succinct of breakdown of what is happening and why. I love people who know their topic and can communicate it so skillfully!

#hungary #orban

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

Salmon has no business being this tasty. Seasoned with PR adobo.

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

Found this very informative:

https://youtu.be/LykbTn%5FsS4o

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

The Shattering Peace is a Locus Award finalist this year in the category of Best Science Fiction Novel. See the entire list of finalists in every category at the link below. Congratulations to all!

https://locusmag.com/2026/04/2026-top-ten-finalists-for-locus-awards/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

This is my #linocut portrait of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), #mathematician, electrical #engineer, computer scientist & cryptographer credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age. It shows him in front of binary numbers & with his electromechanical mouse Theseus & its maze. Though partially behind him, the binary numbers are the standard ASCII code for "CLAUDESHANNON".
🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4485480236

#sciart #histsci #mastoArt #computerScience

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

Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket

The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. Art: CMYKat "When will a cryptography relevant quantum computer exist?" is a question many technologists are pondering as they stare into crystal balls or entrails. Two people I admire recently made a public long bet about that question, with a $5000 donation to charity as stakes.

http://soatok.blog/2026/04/13/hybrid-constructions-the-post-quantum-safety-blanket/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

lol is this anything

This is just to despair

I have looked
upon your works
that were in
the desert

in which
your shattered visage
lies
half-sunk

Forgive me
nothing remains beside
your sneer
so commanding
so cold