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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tijn@dosgame.club ("Martijn Frazer") wrote:

I don't get all the hype, I've been a prompting engineer for 40 years!

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

If only Iranians were cans of Bud Light.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/28/relax-the-iran-war-will-end-soon/

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
krosylight@fosstodon.org ("Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Call for help!

#Firefox is periodically getting reports of slow performance or even crash on YouTube, so far we haven't figured out the root cause.

So far the only suggested repro steps are:

1. Install uBlock Origin
2. Install Violentmonkey and get this userscript: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/549531-youtube-volume-curve-designer
3. Open a YouTube live stream or this page: https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/mekuna/builds/hydra-leveling-1-60-mekuna-s-hydrakuna

But any of my attempts ended up void. Can any of you try the same and see any memory usage spike?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=2005773#c31

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

There are maybe five reporters in Iceland who could do a good job of covering this and most of them aren't working at the moment because of burnout

UK/US media should, in theory, have access to the expertise but we aren't seeing much actual analysis outside of specialised outlets, industry-specific newsletters, and freelancers.

The non-captured media should be very much able to go deep on this, but none of them seem to be doing so and I'm not sure why. Are the just so degraded by cutbacks?

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

After spending quite a bit of the past couple of weeks chatting with friends and family, asking them what they're taking from the news, I think it's clear most of our news media is substantially downplaying the economic effects of the Hormuz straight crisis

What I can't figure out is whether it's intentional or not. I know it's unintentional in Icelandic media as they simply no longer have the resources or expertise to properly outline what's happening, but I can't figure out UK or US media

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

RE: https://reseauculture.fr/@cercle/116481849698797727

For French-speaking people 🇫🇷

Voici la rediffusion de l'événement qui s'est tenu au ministère de la Culture à Paris le 15 avril dernier – et qui revient sur les résultats de l'expérience de l'instance Mastodon accueillant diverses institutions culturelles:

https://doc.reseauculture.fr/doc/presentation-retour-dexperience-150426-Z7aB13HXL3

Mon intervention commence à 1 h 05 🙈

Un immense merci à @imacrea et @cercle de m'avoir invitée à prendre la parole à cette occasion. Ce fut un immense honneur 💙

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

oof my watch says i slept 3h 48m last night and i feel it 🥱

was in bed early enough, must have taken forever to drift off

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A colourful day.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #dogs #blue #green

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

Það er viðtal við Brynhildi Jenný (@uglyreykjavik.bsky.social) um myndasöguna sem hún gerði (og ég gaf út) á forsíðu RÚV. 😎

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-04-27-vantar-islensk-ord-i-myndasogur-467829

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Programming on a notebook feels like writing a novel on post-it notes: every breakthrough is immediately followed by "wait, where did I put that part again?"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116478297177233678

Friends don't let friends use GoDaddy.

You shouldn't let your enemies use GoDaddy either. It's that bad

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
sturobson@front-end.social ("Stu Robson") wrote:

made some updates to ReliCSS by adding:

- a CSS custom property to design token tool I've been sitting on since last May
- my front-end archeology bookmarklets (as it made sense).

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/

🙏🖤

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

this is not to minimise any other problems with this tech of course, i am just absolutely fucking fed up with being told the moral equivalent of "look i found a loophole, if you just believe really hard it's ok"

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

if i hear one more person talk about how open weight models are democratising access to LLMs i am going to scream. this 'small' model used 60GB of RAM. i don't have 60GB of RAM and even if i had a job i could not fucking afford it right now.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Glass design is a totally waste of time #WebDesign

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

blogged: Alternative thoughts
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/28/alternative-thoughts/

— hold on tight folks, the wheels are beginning to fall off, gonna be a bumpy ride

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

AI discourse is a mess in general, but everyone using the same words to describe completely different things isn’t helping. Nobody seems to be able to agree on what anything actually means.

https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-terminology

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Boosted by jwz:
pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

it is actually kinda funny. once upon a time the AGI worriers were concerned with "how will we keep an AGI in a box" and as it turns out that's not even slightly the concern. we're just gonna give it root because it promised to let some executive hire one less person

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

He's grifted billions since he's been in office. That motherfucker can pay for his own goddamned ballroom.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"At least you've got job security"

I am fucking -done- with hearing this.

No, I don't.

My 'job security' is an illusion based on the presumption that, in the event that my skillset is needed - or even essential - that there will be someone who will pay for the privilege of accessing those skills.

Except that the fucking LLM jockeys have decided to claim that their product has my skillset.

Even tho it demonstrably does not, this still means that the people who would presumably hire me are uninterested in doing so, due to the existence of a machine that promises to do it for them.

And when they fail, and their business goes insolvent, they still will not be hiring me because -they no longer have a fucking business to hire me for-.

So no. My carefully built, decades-of-practice skills are -not- job security, despite LLMs being obviously, flagrantly, and blatantly incapable of replacing me.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay I'm calling it on unfollowing the "OpenSource" hashtag, it's like 90% slop cheerleading at this point and it's intensely depressing to see it. hopefully "Python" manages to avoid this fate

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

The *entire* selling point to investors of LLMs is "we won't need to employ people."

That's it. That's all. That's why "AI" is worth trillions of dollars. No pesky humans to bother with.

It's not "the workers will be more creative" or "we'll help the disabled." There's no investment money for that. A company is what the worst investors are.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://universeodon.com/@progressivecat/116479832560444633

ah, this explains why ubuntu is belatedly going all-in on slop, it looks like they were about to have a win in the desktop space and we all know how that has to be avoided at all costs

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

Saw a bird.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/27/saw-another-bird/

Boosted by jwz:
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

I just got given admin access to some Medicaid filing platform because I own the domain internaluser.com

#infosec

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
phildini@wandering.shop wrote:

My #nbpy talk is now live, with many thanks to @andrew and the whole @NorthBayPython team for getting these out so quickly.

This was the hardest talk I've ever had to write, and I hope people enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrELUrXfoA

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The nationwide day of economic disruption is almost here. Plus, we’re paying close attention to key votes on DHS funding, government surveillance, and Trump’s illegal war.

Attachments:

• video: 8f526cd33f0cb5af.mp4

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Hey @mwichary, what's the usual punishment for typography crimes of this magnitude?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

I encourage attendees of #NBPy to donate "if they got more value out of the conference than what they paid".

Today, our post-conference donations total more than a Silver Sponsorship. We have a truly wonderful community who care about us continuing to do what we do. I'm so grateful.