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Boosted by jwz:
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in plastic??????? so of course I stopped buying my teabags there because, well, OBVIOUSLY I stopped, wew lad yikes. I sent Aldi an email saying hey yo I'm not buying your weird plastic-wrapped teabags, email me when you come to your senses, they emailed back almost immediately saying they were a very sustainable company actually and you can put the plastic in the recycling and do not reply to this email.

So I started getting Celestial Seasonings tea bags which just come in a cardboard box lined with wax paper. I bought a bunch of boxes off the evil monster bastard empire amazon. Then I went grumble grumble well I suppose I should stop buying shit from amazon as well, they're so convenient why can't they just be good, so I would occasionally grab a box out of Giant Eagle, which is a real American grocery chain that actually exists and has that name and this is your daily reminder that it's impossible to satirize Americans.

Anyway spouse has a sore throat and needs much pep T so yesterday I was gonna go to the whiskey shop for whiskey and Aldi for milk and also heck we're out of mintyhot so I went up to Giant Eagle and as I was walking up to the door a guy walked in with a handgun and one of those belts with all bullets around it straight past the bouncer bold as brass and I turned right around and went nah fuck that I'll go to Aldi.

Defeated at amazon by their evil-capitalism shittiness and defeated at giant eagle by their guns-yay shittiness I returned to Aldi to embrace their that's-a-lot-of-plastic-even-for-americans shittiness and I shamefully bought a box of peppermint-plastic tea.

And when I opened it this morning the teabags were still individually wrapped, but in paper like they were before. So like, still a pain in the arse and a pointless waste, but apparently while I wasn't buying their plastic-wrapped teabags they stopped wrapping them in plastic. And never bothered to email me back and say hey Dan we did what you asked, come back and give us money.

You don't expect buying teabags to have fucking three acts and a betrayal and a twist and a redemption arc but here we are I suppose

Boosted by jwz:
mistakenotmy ("Wolf Ha") wrote:

$30 billion and the water supply of a small city later

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
apzpins@some.apz.fi ("Ari [APz] Sovijärvi") wrote:

Printing PA, how it started and how it's going now.

Lessons learned: mess around with temperature, slow down and bake the filament in a dryer at full blast.

#3dprinting

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

screams in physics

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

yeah, but nobody really knows how to use a computer

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

Apple and Google demand extractive monopolies on software distribution because (they claim) it's the only way to protect users. It was always a lie:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/apple-google-offer-nudify-apps-despite-policies-against-them

Previously:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

AI has made open source too dangerous

programmers have made open source too dangerous.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them

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

the camembert glyph

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

If politicians gave a shit about children, the schools would feature:

- HVAC systems that cleaned viruses out of the air
- at least two child psychologists on staff
- age-appropriate lessons to help children identify abuse
- funding for well-paid staff in numbers sufficient for a buddy system to reduce the chances of abuse
- arts education and after-school clubs to provide third spaces for kids
- massive, safe playgrounds
- protected biking and walking infrastructure from the school to residential neighborhoods

Instead we get “parents’ rights”, funding cuts, book bans, and car-centric infrastructure that kills pedestrians and bikers.

If social media is bad for kids, THEY NEED ALTERNATIVES.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm working with @dopatwo on a 10th anniversary Mastodon merch design and the sketch he sent me is so good. I usually don't even talk about these things until they're done but it's so exciting I just have to vent it.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
selfsame@tiny.tilde.website ("SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE") wrote:

Every company these days is like "Introducing SIANI (Sentient IHOP® Artificial Network Intelligence)" and it's just a ChatGPT prompt where they paste the breakfast menu before every question you ask, and is it out there saying stuff like "You're absolutely correct, there is a letter 'X' in the word 'pancake', let's break this down.."

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

An essay on why the Ada programming language was ahead of its time and why its influence is largely unacknowledged.

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

#ada #retrocomputing

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

listen, our students are entering a workforce where their peers will be heavy cocaine users. so we would be putting our students at a disadvantage if we *don't* teach them how to use cocaine (responsibly and ethically of course)

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jsit@social.coop ("Jay 🆘") wrote:

Capitalism never uses productivity to pay for leisure. It only uses it to pay for more productivity.

We have leisure because of unions, not because of productivity.

(i.e., AI will not result in a 4-day workweek.)

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("Luddicus Mus") wrote:

A hard ban on LLM/"AI" use in a FLOSS project is the moderate stance. I am not a moderate person.

Giving space to these machines is throwing the millions of people whose work they stole, the millions of people who suffer under their crawlers' assault under the bus.

We do not throw each other under the bus in a civil society. I hope you understand this to be the bare minimum.

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

and we should specifically pentest against AI vulnerability scanning.

what does that even mean?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bsdphk@fosstodon.org ("Poul-Henning Kamp") wrote:

If you program, you should read this piece.

"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...

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

Clarence Thomas wants to claim that the US government is founded on God, and that we need more traditional morality. This is what you get when your judicial system is packed with religious bigots.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/17/we-need-better-supreme-court-justices/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma needs ☕️ and paying work") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116418073268356248

Given that no reasonable person should assume law enforcement will use their powers in good faith, then why should we allow them to engage in surveillance. If you're worried about terrorists, stop arming Israel and bombing Iran.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Curious what's new in Rust 1.95.0? Check out this video of Cameron, Pete, and Tyler discussing the new release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlmaIgkUQ8

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

Mortin-Läf type theory

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

gigaangstroms are extra cursed because angstroms aren't a power of a multiple of 3

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

gigaangstroms

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

gigamicrons

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

I confront my cluelessness about so many things on a regular basis, I assure you. I do a lot of work not to be defensive about it when it crops up and to learn, so I only have to be clueless about it once.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@stephkreml/post/DXO-umQlRky

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
HyperCraft3r@chaos.social ("HyperCraft3r DECT 6830") wrote:

Anyone hiring?
My work told me they will not be giving me a job after my apprenticeship (as a Developer) ends in the summer. I am skilled in DevOps and have great joy in organising things (from confluence spaces to events.. I do it all). I have a permit for carrying weaponised autism in problem solving. I do volunteering work in first aid and like basic human rights for all.
:BoostOK: :ReplyOK: :fairydust:

#ccc #getfedihired #FediHire #jobsuche

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shibacomputer@post.lurk.org ("𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬") wrote:

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116408720976324749

Without knowing whether it would have made any difference, it is my belief that the targeted suppression campaign against NDC in 2025, in which we received a completely baseless Cease and Desist as we began publishing, stopped our digital identity research from reaching eIDAS 2.0 policymakers. The resulting clusterfuck can be seen basically all around us.