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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116455051292823252

GROUND IT. there's no way passengers would know they can't smoke on an aeroplane by now

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Analyst207 wrote:

Proton CEO Warns Age Checks Threaten Online Anonymity

Proton CEO Andy Yen warns that mandatory online age checks could spell the end of anonymity, forcing every adult to surrender their ID just to access the internet. He argues that efforts to protect minors will inevitably sweep in adults, creating an ID checkpoint that threatens online freedom.

https://osintsights.com/proton-ceo-warns-age-checks-threaten-online-anonymity?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

#OnlineAnonymity #AgeVerification #IdChecks #Privacy #EmergingThreats

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io ("Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬") wrote:

#Platypus fur has a surprising feature seen only in bird #feathers
Pigment structures in the fur are hollow like those in birds — a first for #mammals
As if a mammal that lays eggs, senses electricity with its bill and fluoresces isn’t enough of a headscratcher, now it appears platypuses also share a feature with birds. Tiny pigment-filled packets in the mammals’ hair are hollow — a trait previously thought to be found only in avian feathers.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/platypus-fur-hollow-like-bird-feather
https://archive.ph/dOlqI

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

steeped in graft, the whole lot of them..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/eu-risks-fallout-with-us-trump-linked-balkans-pipeline-plan-intervention

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

I've started posting this image in every work thread about GitHub being down.

Let's make this image the mascot of GitHub downtime.

Original: https://i.redd.it/x9iw4gqj2a9f1.jpeg

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I want to share something because it has made me happy but also because it gives hope: academics are citing my "Frugal Computing" paper. This is remarkable because it only exists as a preprint and was not published in any reputable venue (*). I put it on arXiv in 2023, and of all paper I published since then it has the most citations (**).
(1/3)

#FrugalComputing

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

As of next month I'm looking for a new job. If you know anyone hiring for a role that cares about people and supporting ways that software can help them give me a DM.

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

memory safe C

oh that's easy, just don't use memory.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This week in "wait they weren't already a PSF fellow?!", congrats to @polkphebe for her well-deserved addition to the roster!

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

one thing that's interesting is that the 9950X3D2 is really quite flat on the power consumption compared to the intel 270KP

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

(mystic meg voice) celestial forces are strong today.

i just passed the bus leaving on time on my bike (which i take because the bus is never there when i expect to catch it)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
s0@cathode.church ("s0 Is Not A Sysadmin") wrote:

Any of our under-employed frontend coder cadre on here interested in a bit of work to update the [Cathode Church](https://cathode.church) flavour/theme to work with the new mastodon frontend?

My CSS skills are outdated and I don’t have the time rn, but the style is crucial to the vibe of cathode to me. Getting them updated will let me bring the server up to date with security and bugfixes too.

It’s SCSS and Vite, and possibly a couple minor JS patches.
The current tree will be visible at https://code.s0.is/s0/mastodon with the user & password “fuckai” (currently hidden because scrapers). Live state is under branch stable-4.3, and check upstream at [glitch-soc/stable-4.5](https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/tree/stable-4.5) for where we need to migrate.

:boost_ok:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

How much storage / bandwidth / CPU / memory does it take to run a production Sunlight CT log? Surprisingly little!

There's now a public stats page, pulled every 5m from our Tuscolo prod metrics.

https://stats.sunlight.geomys.org/

Less than 2 cores, 300 MB of memory, ~250 Mbps of bandwidth, 260 GiB of SSD.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
amber@front-end.social ("Amber Weinberg") wrote:

Why am I still seeing so many job ads for #Elementor sites?? #Gutenberg is bad enough, but at least it's native to #WordPress now and does the same thing.

Better yet though, stop using all of these heavy buggy drag-n-drop solutions that output junk code.

#ACF Flexible Layouts a good middle ground. Flexible enough to allow the client customization w/o breaking design guidelines, no junk code output or buggy admin, a bit of customization makes it even easier to use.

https://amberweinberg.com/building-modular-themes-with-acf-flexible-content-instead-of-buggy-builder-frameworks/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Bit_form@corteximplant.com wrote:

A lot of people on the fediverse don't want to be found, and that's totally fine. I don't need the panopticon to see me at all times either.

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

The end of semester eschaton has begun. Behold my meltdown.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/23/oh-no-last-week-of-classes/

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

If the Gorrilaz project launched today, I would assume it was all just "AI" generated slop and stay far, far away from it. smh...

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

“Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/vercel-says-some-of-its-customers-data-was-stolen-prior-to-its-recent-hack/

> The hackers used the hijacked Vercel employee’s account to gain access to some of the company’s internal systems, including customer credentials that were not encrypted.

Happy happy joy joy

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
computer@glamour.ovh ("computer_glamour") wrote:

i only recently found out this :3

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

Concept: A new ShatBot™, but it's really just a search engine for a curated list of quality resources with a smattering of the expected plausible text generation prefixing the results. :thonking:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lumi@snug.moe ("🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱") wrote:

@mgorny i understand why you would think it's a lost cause, the odds are definitely stacked against us. however, that is part of the strategy employed, to make this technology seem inevitable, to make adoption as fast as possible and in that way crush all resistance. it's very much a blitzkrieg on humanity

i believe this is because they fear us getting together and making a stand against it, there are way more of us than there are of them and we can make a stand against the dehumanization machine

this is even more true if we band together with other affected professions, like writers, artists, translators, etc. we need to have a unified front against this abusive technology. and i am sure we can do this if we find one-another and band together in solidarity. listen to one-anothers problems and make genuine bonds and communities

there was a time when the fight against proprietary software seemed this dire. but we banded together and created free software projects, slowly taking over the world. i'm not saying the situation here is perfect: free software did get co-opted a lot by corporations and rebranded into "open source", it is a bittersweet victory to some extent, but no-one is going to say free software is niche

much the same can be said about codes of conduct in projects, many projects now go against toxic behaviors and try to be inclusive. is this all projects? definitely not. but there are many

what i think the best way forward is here is to band together, create many overlapping communities against it, create (and fork) free software projects and support other professions in solidarity (and receive their support in return)

we need to make our own free software movement, where "free" is interpreted in a much more holistic way: free of any hierarchies and against all oppression

so, do not lose hope, we have not nearly lost the fight. it is exactly their strategy to make it seem hopeless. have a lot of projects accepted slop? yes. will we have to begrudgingly use slop projects in the near term? also yes. but we are at the starting point of forming a movement against it

we can and will create ethical, holistic alternatives

also, check out noai.starlightnet.work for a list of projects with stances against slop. try to support them, if you can. if you know others, add them. if you're able, get involved!

we're in this together, and together we are strong ✊ ​:neocat_heart:​

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

I hear some people think about ancient Rome a lot. My thoughts tend to drift to the vastness of space and how thin this lovely protective atmosphere is in comparison to what lies beyond it. And the fragility of life on Earth and how we're all connected by virtue of evolving here together. Plus my own mortality, but everyone thinks about their own mortality. Anyway, tzag! o/

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

You ever wake up in the morning and the first thought that pops into your head is, "Oh, thank goodness nothing happened to Earth's atmosphere over night!"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ericjames@booping.synth.download ("ericjames* 🐺‼️ (they/it)") wrote:

apple pushed a crucial iOS security update yesterday (including iOS 18 versions) that fixed the vulnerability that let the FBI snoop on someone's signal messages through the notification cache. recommended to update ASAP

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/22/ios-26-4-2-notification-database-security-fix/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
TritTriton@shelter.moe ("Trit’") wrote:

Et un nouveau client (très léger !) pour #Mastodon et le #Fediverse en général, en #PHP et sans nécessiter #Javascript :
https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Par Adële @adele :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md
https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

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

hey! you over there, with someone else's bridge to sell me: fuck off.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
lothcat ("Curious Loth-cat") wrote:

This is what being rich means to me.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
w3cdevs@w3c.social ("W3C Developers") wrote:

A character encoding defines how text is stored as bytes. If you’ve seen “café” instead of “café,” that’s an encoding mismatch. This intro covers how encoding works, how #Unicode and UTF-8 relate, and why mistakes break apps and websites. It also matters beyond #developers, affecting readability, search, data exchange, #accessibility and whether people see text correctly online.

🎬 Watch @xfq, @w3c's Internationalization Lead, explain what character encoding is: https://youtu.be/y2ay7otbFWk
#i18n

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

@faraiwe @pluralistic Ironically that painting was elevated to a work of international importance (prior it was nothing notable) and the woman who started the restoration became a celebrity. I stopped using it as an exampel of failure and instead as one of a HUGE mistake paying off.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

To be clear, IMO, this feature is great. It is also quite difficult to get right, due to the huge Jackson API and myriad of ways to use it.

We need to pitch in to help stabilise this.