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

Going down rabbit holes while trying to determine whether a video was "AI" slop before boosting (yes it was), but at least I learned something new I guess. :/

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

cool cool, i see someone is very impressed with their ability to prompt the machine in the local feed again.

love to have people advertising fash tech on my alleged queer safe space instance.

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

Old habits die hard. Needed to choose randomly one of 18 items printed out on a piece of paper, with some exclusions. Went to #Python:

random.choice(list(set(range(1, 19)) - {5, 11}))

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

USAID Whistleblower Says It Wa...

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

the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages

the what? i missed this one

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

we just tried some carrot and paprika satan pieces.

sorry, i mean seitan pieces. or do i?

anyway it was 70% off, that's the important thing.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

Are you 18+, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and live in the USA? The PRIDE Study (pridestudy.org) would potentially love you to review our next annual questionnaire, from a neurodivergent perspective!

More details here:
https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV%5FermeCWynM8JBXz8

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

Visiting praying mantis

#insect #Photography

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mrkoot@infosec.exchange ("Matthijs R. Koot") wrote:

Former FBI General Counsel Weissmann on FISA Reforms (23 April 2026) https://www.justsecurity.org/136938/former-fbi-general-counsel-weissmann-on-fisa-reforms/

Full interview video (1 hour, on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnpxZUFlWf8

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
amiserabilist@beige.party ("paul") wrote:

@HadasWeiss

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
itamarst@hachyderm.io ("Itamar Turner-Trauring") wrote:

"AI" is going to make getting software engineering jobs harder over the next year... but not because "AI" will replace humans, but rather because of the interaction of accounting and the need to pacify stock market investors.

1. Megacorps have spent massively on AI datacenters. This is a capital expenditure which means the expense isn't booked immediately.
2. Instead, the expense gets turned into deprecation over the next few years, i.e. reported expenses are going to be much higher for the next few years.
3. Higher expenses shrink reported profits, so these companies will start doing layoffs.
4. So far there is no evidence of offsetting profits.

Notice this effect happens _even if all AI datacenter spending stops today_. It's baked in as depreciation.

So far we've had layoffs at Amazon, Meta, and Oracle (much more dire straits financially than the others). Today Microsoft is doing voluntary worker buyouts: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/microsoft-offers-voluntary-retirement-to-about-7-of-us-workers

I've seen rumors of Google doing buyouts too. And when these layoffs hit software engineers, that's going to mean a lot more competition for any open jobs. These companies have also hired a lot, and will be hiring less.

So that means more applicants for fewer jobs.

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