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

shocking genetic origin of dutch DNA

did a cheese fuck a tulip?

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victorvonvortex wrote:

Traumatized members of the Washington press corps desperately seeking unopened bottles of wine to take with them following shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.

#Winegate #BrokenPress #WHCD

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devxvda@mastodon.ie ("Dr.Nick") wrote:

Your occasional reminder that cornflakes were developed to stop people from wanking

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Moderna developed an mRNA Covid-flu combo vaccine and it’s been approved for use in the EU, “but it continues to be shelved in the US, where it was developed”. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/europe-not-us-first-to-authorize-modernas-combo-mrna-flu-covid-vaccine/

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gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

My first book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy," will publish on August 18.

It tells the true story of how a small cult of venture capitalists embraced a grim prophecy in which technology will destroy the United States in the 21st century.

And they worked to make it true, pushing their ideas all the way into the core of the Trump regime.

My book is being published in the USA, UK/Commonwealth, Italy and Poland.

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

can recommend a balanced dinner of pie and crumble actually

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Or, even more complex, that we only learn to talk to each via the languages of performance demonstration. I have seen a lot of situations like this where people do indeed value your problem-solving and your effort but we live in such output and performance-focused cultures we only use that language

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

So many folks in my tech community have been very successful at a path they set out for themselves. One of the unfortunate difficult risks of this is that it does tend to make you gather people around you who only value you for the exact type of success you've chosen to try to achieve

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

So I'm dragging my feet getting one of those fancy shmancy "smart" phones because... I don't wanna do business with those fiends... But because everyone else around me has made poor choices, I am now finally getting dragged in by network effects.[1] Anyway, makes me wish there was a Qubes OS for Android or something. Just stick that gross surveillance tech in a vm and tell it lies about myself...

https://www.qubes-os.org/

[1] I'll stop whining about it.

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Existential Comics publishes every Monday, and rarely misses:
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/652

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grork ("Dominic Hopton") wrote:

Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.

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

i don't need a tool to delete the production database for me, i'm quite capable of doing it myself.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Soylent Confessions" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/soylent-confessions/

Soylent is frequently held up as a poster child of everything wrong with Silicon Valley, which makes it hard to admit that I liked it.

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sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116478133377243019

Workflow security continues to be a common cause of compromises of open source projects.

If you're using GitHub Actions and don't want this to happen to your project: use Zizmor and treat the findings seriously, especially insecure triggers and user-controllable template injections.

https://docs.zizmor.sh

#github #actions #security #oss #opensource #python

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

FOSS is more than just a way of organizing labor and distributing software. It makes possible a vision of computing as a broad, collaborative social activity, an impromptu latticework of individual people contributing their knowledge, creativity and work into a communal pool of resources that can be built upon and directed toward diverse human ends. Even apart from the technical damage being done by a tidal wave of vibecoded contributions, AI threatens that vision by eroding its social component.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

Newsom is a bad parent for letting his son become a chud by immersion in fascist incel influencer media but really this is the centrist ideal at work: hold infinite grace and understanding for everyone to your right, hold the line hard against anyone to your left. This is also what makes him a terrible candidate for 2028: regular people don't have DC centrist blinders and can clearly see a refusal to understand power and capital as they really are and a refusal to fight for anyone.

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

eventually inventory shortfalls couldn't be covered and it got out. people were arrested. they even recovered money from the accountants, even though miniscribe had broken into their office and changed the numbers on their reports!

yes, they did that, did i mention how hilariously fucked it all was?

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

at one point they actually shipped 26,000 bricks to singapore from colorado to inflate the inventory figures there. then issued a recall on the units without doing anything about it and claimed they still had the originals!

and then there were the company retreats where he'd just fire people randomly to keep the rest on their toes.

like top to bottom it was fraud and fucked up management. incredible stuff.

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

miniscribe were a struggling hard disk manufacturer. i think they sold 5MB drives to start with.

business failed, so they got in someone literally called "mr fix-it" on wall street. he's the bastard who "rescued" adobe and turned it into the monster it is today.

mr fix-it just bullied everyone, fired people for minor things and demanded more. consequently, people started faking results to keep their jobs.

they ended up doing fucking everything. in one case, they sent out bricks to retailers, marking them as sales. then the retailers sent them back and they marked them as inventory, thus doubling the number of hard drives!

"Account BW" was one of the primary places where they would ship bricks. BW = Big Warehouse.

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bshaurette@social.linux.pizza ("Barbara Shaurette :python:") wrote:

Here’s Why You Should Go To North Bay Python Next Year
https://mechanicalgirl.com/post/here-s-why-you-should-go-to-north-bay-python-next-year/

#NBPy #NBPython

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

no likes? surely fedi knows the miniscribe story. do i have to go find a good writeup?

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

shipping my miniscribe hard disk to account BW

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smn@l3ib.org ("Justin Fitzsimmons") wrote:

@glyph seriously I was gonna do a presentation at work about the risks of getting rugpulled by AI vendors but it went from hypothetical to anecdotal before I could present! Our model got abruptly pulled from the provider and we were forced to transition to a different one that conveniently costs 3-6x more. Meanwhile we've been down in prod for over a week due to the disgraceful way the provider has handled the deprecation.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

goddamnit I'm not going to get any credit for all my predictions about the AI industry being correct if they keep coming true so fast that I am spending all my time editing unfinished blog posts about the predictions

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limneticvillains@mastodon.online ("Limnetic Villains") wrote:

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

it's out of the oven. it's also delicious.

recipe:

• in an oven dish, scatter frozen cherries in bowl. sprinkle sugar on top and defrost in microwave
• in another dish, mix about 0.8:1 sugar:flour. rub in butter or substitute. add literally 5 or 10ml of water to get it to form a crumb. be careful not to use too much water. no, really, add it slowly, it's hard to undo.
• rub in some oats or muesli
• top cherries with crumble and bake (20 minutes at 180 in an airfrier)

jwz wrote:

Per my previous email to my HOA's management company regarding the third unannounced multi-hour water shut-off in two weeks, they "kindly ask that all communications remain respectful".
https://jwz.org/b/yk6u

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I wish I were smart enough to read this paper because I feel like it's making a good point about the information-theoretical limits of model collapse but I got to the first Σ and like… I'm out, my brain can't take this any more

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05280v2#S5

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

in light of the tragic news that a 2-year old died at a licensed SF daycare earlier this month, i made a site to show childcare license violations and complaints in the Bay Area: https://azuki.vip/childcare/

* the data is public at https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/ but i found that site hard to use
* PRs welcome https://github.com/diracdeltas/childcare
* i am aware this does not show small home daycares; working on that
* very grateful to Claude for making this a sunday project instead of a multi-week one
* aforementioned news report: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/toddler-death-daycare-san-francisco/4072713/

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benno@eigenmagic.net ("Benno") wrote:

With @NorthBayPython not being in the barn next year, might I suggest a sponsorship opportunity to ensure that the most wise and notable commentator at the event, namely the horse, is able to attend? #NBPy