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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Ready for the revolution" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/ready-for-revolution/

Technology needs another revolution. It's just not the one the industry seems hellbent on delivering.

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

if mastosoc suddenly had an outage, most people wouldn't even notice the quality of their feed had improved considerably.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/g75gRtk2tmKyFGxa5fNPJT

#peertube #fediverse #podcast #freebooters

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

@soatok Oh, god, I snorted coffee out through my sinuses when I got to the JWT part

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

It's time again for another brave truth:

Dots can't polka and it's time to stop pretending they do

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tickboxrobot ("Peter Phillips") wrote:

A Red-browed Finch ready for an early morning puddle-bath.

#wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #finch #bird

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

i guess i should probably decide whether to integrate a gc, huh?

@wingo any news on whippet? i'm guessing wastrel would be a good place to look to figure out how to use it?

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

People have been talking about their personal “recession indicators”. This is mine

The story is in Icelandic but it’s basically the police saying the number of long-dead bodies they’re finding has increased substantially. People who die without anybody missing them

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-04-16-logregla-finnur-folk-longu-eftir-ad-thad-deyr-472772

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
thunfisch@chaos.social wrote:

The little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.

Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.

Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

In America, you work or you die and increasingly this means being forced to work with AI.

But all is not lost.

https://jasongullickson.com/anarchy-at-work.html

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

It's probably as effective as cocking a snook at Hegseth, but filing articles of impeachment does at least signal our contempt for the man, and sends a warning to all those other incompetent appointees.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/16/he-was-unqualified-from-the-beginning/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Anyway, tzag!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW somebody makes a jokepost, and it reminds you of an interesting cultural phenomenon, but you don't know the poster well enough to post it as a reply, but now you *really* wanna tell somebody about this thing you were reminded of, so you start to write a post about it, realize that while you intensely need to rid yourself of this short fixation by sharing it somehow, the world at large shouldn't be bothered by it, so you delete that post, and go all weirdly meta instead so nobody knows wtf you're talking about.

Boosted by Mastodon:
beitmenotyou@social.thelab.uno ("Michael J Burgess") wrote:

@Mastodon I’m a big badge collector, so this made my day. My official Mastodon enamel pin badges arrived today, and seeing all three laid out on their backing cards just makes them even better.

The classic logo pin, the glittery Live Laugh Federate design, and the Mastodon Elephant pin all look brilliant. Really happy to support Mastodon at the same time.

If anyone else wants to support it too: https://shop.joinmastodon.org/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BadgeCollector #EnamelPins

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Imagine a system where contributing to the common good is our yardstick for success, not personal enrichment by any means possible.

Such a system would not extract a “cost of living.” A dignified life with access to modern housing, healthcare, etc., would be considered a human right. Furthermore, everyone would have a basic income they can use however they wish. Imagine the progress we could make as a species if more of us could contribute to science, to art, to all aspects of human knowledge and the human experience because we were no longer wasting our entire time on Earth just trying to make ends meet.

This is not some pipe dream. For the first time in history we have the technological means to implement such a system.

Instead, we choose to live under the yoke of capitalism, a cancer that rewards the tumours that feast on society. Instead we use our technology to build walls, to mass murder, and to destroy our own habitat.

Again for the first time in history, we have the technological means to destroy our entire species or to expand it to new horizons.

Humanity has reached adolescence. Whether we make it to adulthood is up to us entirely.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

1. AI Is a Research Field
2. AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
3. AI Is a Parlor Trick
4. AI Is an Ideology
5. AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
6. AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
7. AI Is a Way to Centralize Power

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

here's your weekly reminder that Git is not GitHub, get off their wild ride!

https://toot.cafe/@codepo8/116413926169341789

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]

Accordingly, this article does not provide a definition of the term “AI” but rather explores various ways in which the idea of AI has been used to organize how people understand our world, allocate resources, and relate to each other."

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
matthiasott ("Matthias Ott") wrote:

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
datn@xoxo.zone ("Dan Patch") wrote:

be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?

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

i had a quick discussion about this just now and we concluded that the problem with eternal september was aol. so the problem with eternal november could well be ai, just like we all thought it was.

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

conservancy has apparently lost track of what it's supposed to be doing and advises us to accept slop.

i've lost track of what conservancy is supposed to be doing too, so i suppose i'll just let a kid slop up some legals and conservancy can show us the way

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116413542037173001

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

WordPress adventurers, what is the go-to Forms plugin these days?

form builder that generates acceptable code and handles submissions, nothing over-engineered

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

Bluesky is a decentralised system that just happens to rely on critical centralised services, it's not centralised OK 😠

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

notes on the "React space"
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-16T07:30Z/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

In litigation Apple repeatedly claimed the facts underlying my protected whistleblower & labor activity were irrelevant & Apple refused to provide any docs or info about what actually happened at my office. Apple also hid it from EPA for years. We now have receipts & its very bad. Like, worse then I imagined.

First of all, there were definitely cracks in the slab (floor) separating the office from the toxic death cloud under the building - but "crack" was a bit of an understatement.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

I wrote up this cursed discovery with more details:

https://mike-sheward.medium.com/deleteduser-com-a-15-pii-magnet-c4396eb21061

#infosec

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Despite Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel:

🔵Richard Blumenthal (CT)
🔵Chris Coons (DE)
🔵Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV)
🔵John Fetterman (PA)
🔵Kristen Gillibrand (NY)
🔵Jacky Rosen (NV)
🔵Chuck Schumer (NY)

Vote these 7 fascists out permanently.

Senate rejected the vote 59-40. But a record 40 Democratic Senators voted to block the sale. Change is coming.

jwz wrote:

Honk Honk. It's The Bonk.

The Composograph image above is illustrating the 1926 Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, in which 15-year-old actress Frances "Peaches" Heenan married, and then swiftly tried to divorce, 51-year-old real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning. The Evening Graphic's coverage included allegations that Daddy kept a live goose in their bedroom. https://jwz.org/b/yk6S