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

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

We boomers can't fade away fast enough.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/boomers-ugh/

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

“US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks” - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-turns-ukrainian-counter-drone-tech-after-iran-attacks-sources-say-2026-04-22/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Screwtapello@teh.entar.net wrote:

Matt Colville has recently been thinking about the division between people who think of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as a hobby (like model railroads, or stamp collecting) and people who think of them as a folk tradition (like hopscotch, or singing). For Matt Colville, who owns a company that makes and sells TTRPGs, the difference is money: hobbyists *love* to spend money on cool new accessories for their hobby, but folk-traditionalists think it's morally abhorrent to pay money to participate in their community-building tradition.

I'm beginning to suspect there's a similar divide in computing, but more so. You've got the people who see computers as a force-multiplier for their business interests, who are happy to spend any amount of money as long as it generates more than it costs. You've got the hobbyists who just like playing with the dang things and love to buy new accessories but only within their budget. Lastly, you've got the folk-traditionalists, who value that feeling of connection and collaboration with others in the present, and learning from and building on the lessons of the past.

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

shockley's children... would not attend his funeral

yeah, well he did sorta lose it entirely towards the end.

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

picketed kennedy on the white house lawn

feels like how we used to let people into aeroplane flight decks for a look around

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lislegaard@sonomu.club ("Kristoffer Lislegaard") wrote:

Interesting blog post by @tante

"Open source licenses do not allow you to forbid using your work in weapons. Do not allow you to limit using your work only for socially beneficial endeavors.

Open source is impressive, but tries to be apolitical and therefore does not help us fight back fascism.

It wants to stay neutral. But there is no neutrality when standing in a wildfire."

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
amber@front-end.social ("Amber Weinberg") wrote:

I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

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

“The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin”

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

> Not one of these quotes names a bug, a CVE, a product, a severity, a patch, or a specific Mythos finding

“AI” vendors are an extra untrustworthy lot, so much of this was suspicious from the get go, but it’s looking more and more dubious every day.

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

dear Apple, I just want to charge my iPad, not create a blackhole that steals my MacBook cursor and requires restarting devices until it's released. thanks.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

I’ve been privy to the weeks of research and experimentation that culminated in @benschwarz’s map implementation.

not only it’s so much better than many janky, JavaScript based maps I was forced to use in the past, I also wish more people cared about details as much as this does ♥️

https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/116445796505977800

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Old apple tree. One of the two trees that are left from an old orchard.

#darktable #photography

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

nice try, Yanks 😠

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

Connections
Puzzle #1046
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

looks fun! i'm sure this will be used responsibly

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web-is-fun-again-first-experiments-with-html-in-canvas/

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

AOC is all of us.

#RFKJr

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
liztai@hachyderm.io ("Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾") wrote:

The world will be a better place if the intelligent people on Twitter
leave that s*** hole, set up a website where they can micro blog to their hearts content and I can follow them by RSS in peace. Now I'm forced to wade through s***, AI slop, deluded lies and read deluded, crazy, racist comments. Most of whom are probably feom teenagers in basements who can't find Iran on a map, or who are bots.

#SocialMedia #Indieweb

Boosted by jwz:
naomikritzer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Naomi Kritzer") wrote:

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

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

Location hidden to protect the guilty. Might as well call it Cinco de Cuatro.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

referring to the Latin alphabet as "Egyptian Hieroglyhpics (Simplified)"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
craigoverend ("Hermit Crab Craig") wrote:

Found that Stunt Car Racer via Bubbles, the link aggregator for the #smolweb

https://bubbles.town/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Oh my god, OpenAI reinvented Recall, but for macOS.

"Chronicle" is an opt-in feature that scans your screen, saves screenshots temporarily, and sent to OpenAI's servers.

https://developers.openai.com/codex/memories/chronicle

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dat@social.g33ky.de ("Cegorach") wrote:

And @ZachWeinersmith hits the nail right on the head!

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh-2

#smbc #agi #ai #apocalypse #capitalism

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Kimota94@mas.to wrote:

@zkat I’ve said for years that the advent of Trumpism had only one (very small) positive: it encouraged lots of seemingly-caring people to reveal what they actually thought about immigrants / gays / trans folk / etc so we wouldn’t have to work so hard to suss out their real personalities. Apparently AI is providing a similar “service.”

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Bloomberg report some kids on Discord have had access to Mythos for several weeks due to Anthropic’s shit cybersecurity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/anthropic-s-mythos-model-is-being-accessed-by-unauthorized-users

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

holy shit.

you know beryllium, the element so nasty it has a disease named after it?

it was originally called 'glucinium' because its compounds tasted sweet

aaaaaaa 😬

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

we really had a thing going for a while there. Glorious years with some amazing community and conferences that centered our human relationships to one another and how they could be better.

And all it took to kill it all was a lying machine that sucks your metaphorical ego-dick and spits out worse code than someone who just graduated college.

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

The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.

I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.

It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.

I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.