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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
csaetre@techhub.social ("Christine Sætre-esque") wrote:

Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a

Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

RE: https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116424709251813699

if "like that" includes:
- enclosure of the commons in violation of copyright and licensing
- destroying the environment
- creating a massive economic bubble
- poisoning open source codebases
- rotting the brains of those who use it
- turning software development from a skill you can build into a utility you have to rent

then yeah, I'll unapologetically say "not like that"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hic3jjoT%5FCU

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
timixretroplays@digipres.club ("Tim 🎮") wrote:

⚠️ Heads up - there's a #Mastodon #scam bot doing the rounds. Mastodon does not "temporarily restrict your visibility" - that is simply not a thing here.

If you see a DM or post to that effect begging you to click a link to restore anything, do not click it - report it instead.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
loremipsum@s.cafe ("Lorem :playstation:") wrote:

A poll to any admins who are self-hosting their own xmpp
what is your server running?

#xmpp #jabber #conversations #selfhosting #poll

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

US Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

period. no other mention is made of religion in the main body of the Constitution. Secretary Whiskey Pete should read this, as I think he may have been stoned or asleep that day in Middle School "civics" class.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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

Collar of Shadows 🖤 Speedling for Ash fearuring Novus

#furryart

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

Shamir's Third Law in action: cryptographic systems are typically bypassed, not penetrated.

"We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis"

Exploits subtle memory safety and logic bugs.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Just let me compute in peace.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/just-let-me-compute-in-peace/

#blog

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
unixorn@hachyderm.io ("Unixorn - 90% Snark by weight") wrote:

Periodic reminder - I'm maintaining the Internet of Trash list - https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/.

This is a list of devices to avoid with the reason why - typically companies like Chamberlain that lock out local control or put it behind a paywall.

If you've found a device that sucks, please make a PR or an issue about it so I can update the list.

@homeassistant #homeAssistant #iot

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

or PMS for short

NO

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jcoglan wrote:

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

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

Fears over mythos model

look, they even put 'myth' in the name, do you still need help making the connection?

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

that was then discontinued and replaced with... nothing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

Why do people fall for this?

Second time I have seen a nicely printed sign in a shop window with a #QR which when scanned says your free trial is over.

Just make the QR go to your own website FFS.

[helpful info: my free code tools https://qr.revk.uk and web QR encoder https://4.gg at bottom of page - includes a lot of QR abuse as well]

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

yes, i'm actually building a gc in this time. blame wingo for writing one.

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

say you are programming your new favourite garbage collected unityped language.

what does it look like?

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

lol people attempting to do a british accent is hilarious

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

that was out and i hope not to see any more of it for a while.

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

For some reason my regular contribution to social.coop that had been working for years just.... stopped. It happened sometime late last year. I had a hiccup with the credit card I used, but I fixed that, so I don't know why it suddenly stopped. Regardless, it should be going again now. Support your local instances when you can!

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

I tend to follow every link in everything I read to check whether the citations are bullshit. But these blocks usually happen on other sites. If I had to make a guess, it'd be that a number of sites are using the same service to prevent abuse and that service is tracking me across sites despite uBlock Origin.

Or they're just monitoring IP addresses.

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

Seeing a substantial increase in single clicks resulting in "we've detected bot-like behaviour" roadblocks on websites. Usually the explanation on the block cites something like "unusual amount of clicks" as the reason.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116421779159583503

"fuck you, make me" is always the correct answer to fascists. this is a simple truth that apparently is hard as hell to teach

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

also, is it not plainly fucking horrid that your account creation experience on linux of all fucking things is getting worse due to an unjust, unconstitutional (in the US) law? are you not pissed that muscle memory and scripts will break and command line account creation will get much worse due to this? no objections from the fuckers who campaign against any improvements to the status quo on this one? no? only when doing so fucks over someone else? how weird!

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

“Stuck Character Service”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/stuck-character-service/

> "It's early days" – people toss out that cliche all the time to defend the failures of "AI" to work well, to be embraced, to make money, and so on. But it's not early days. Not remotely. We've been trapped in Sam Altman's ChatGPT hustle for almost five years now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"Does code quality matter if LLMs can regenerate software from scratch?"

LLMs can't regenerate software from scratch. That's not a thing, nor is it ever likely to be.

But thanks for letting us know you're getting your information about LLMs from LinkedIn posts.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can. corporations do it constantly and I really doubt any of them will drop linux if it doesn’t comply with a set of godawful fascist age verification laws. historically one of the forms of pushback against unjust laws is to show some basic fucking solidarity and do nothing to assist in their enforcement because it really isn’t practical to sue everybody, but unfortunately solidarity is alien to most of these computer fuckers

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44.

*Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers.

It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

In other words, AI resentment maps pretty directly to how precarious your job situation is. For Gen Z, this is the worst entry level job market in decades."

https://bsky.app/profile/bcmerchant.bsky.social/post/3mjifntpkhc2e

Boosted by jwz:
graydon@canada.masto.host ("Graydon") wrote:

"digital sovereignty", no, no, you're being weirdly abstract.

Power, today, consists of being able to exert control and take large profits by charging people to live through control of fossil carbon. (Society exists to make you buy gas. It's good at it. The people selling gas make a killing.)

"Age verification" is recognition that they have to stop selling you carbon, so they're going to pivot to controlling if you can have an economic existence.

They're going to rent you being able to live.