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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm officially 100% off the Lightning cable. What a time to be alive.

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patak.cat@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

If you need someone to talk, we're here for you. Reach out and let's share notes. We'll need to get closer together for what's coming.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
patak.cat@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

I don't think tech at large understands how hard it is to be an open source maintainer right now. So many great folks are on the brink of burnout. Funding is drying out. We live in a security minefield. Companies think humans are disposable. If you're a maintainer, we care. You deserve the world.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lina@ohai.social ("lina :p") wrote:

new blog post! https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot

i stumbled across a secret fake DDoS-as-a-Service website ran by the dutch police, and when i started digging into it, they panicked and shut it down
really funny story, if anyone is interested how such a fake website looks like, take a read ^^

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

"I don't understand why you're banning me from the council while necromancy is permitted!" the alchemist complained.

The council representative coughed. "Look, the problem isn't the work you did. A potion that bottles the health benefits of walking a hundred miles is revolutionary. But the name is..."

In his hands, he holds a bottle labelled "Pedo Phial"

"It's simply unmarketable."

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

"It's good he's 6-foot-3, he was using his every centimeter to reach…" — oh come on, just switch to SI already.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jay_peper@chaos.social ("Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦") wrote:

TIL someone invented Copper (Cu) nanotubes (NT) and did not pay attention what the combined abbreviation will be.

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drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

Something that doesn't get a lot of notice in Max Headroom is that the Blanks (even the avowed hackers) had stashes of dead-tree books. They understood how risky it was to have information only in digital form.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

That's funny, my therapist told me the same thing

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

#MaryPipher #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

everybody gangster until they start drowning in the flood created by their own army of dumbass brooms

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay dang that did not go how I expected

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Good interview. Infuriating that there are still people who still think that corporate democrats ran a good campaign.

https://youtu.be/swIaUBTXt8c

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

I wonder just how deep the sinking feeling was when this realization hit:

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. We had to discover debugging. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

-- Maurice Wilkes, 1949

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:

Some of y'all don't stop to marvel at the fact that individual Triceratops used to be ass out Fully Alive on this Earth and it shows.

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

An experimental AI-generated dotnet-based OCI-compliant registry server

what could go wrong?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

Hulk repair and reuse!
#MashUpSuperHeroAndQuotes #HashTagGames

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

The Dutch government has soft-launched code.overheid.nl, a government-wide open-source code platform built on Forgejo. 🇳🇱

This is a massive win for digital sovereignty, proving that large public institutions can successfully deploy sovereign infrastructure and move away from proprietary GitHub or GitLab lock-in.

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ #forgejo #opensource #digitalsovereignty

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ryanlcooper.com@bsky.brid.gy ("ryan cooper") wrote:

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.

Mastodon wrote:

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That’s where you come in.

Discovery Week 🗓️ 11-15 May 2026

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

TIL that before BASIC there was DOPE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%5FOversimplified%5FProgramming%5FExperiment

[Insert your own jokes here.]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vanellopemint@mastodon.art ("🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋") wrote:

Sir Belvedere studied the board. "You have me at checkmate," he said.

The dragon inclined her head. "You fought well, Sir Knight."

The knight stood. "I love what you've done. The kaleidescope of colors enhances the cavern visually."

"Thank you. A fairy taught me the spell. Until next time?"

"I battled valiantly with the dragon. The townsfolk are safe for another month." The knight paused. "Next time, shall I bring scones?"

"That," replied the dragon, "would be lovely."

#tootfic

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

Apropos of nothing at all:

Quality is the integral of process + culture over time. Destroying, or carelessly disrupting, either one is an existential brand risk, and thermostatic responses which do not rebuild process and culture are doomed to fail.

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

love this

https://tylersticka.com/journal/wicked-websites-a-rogues-gallery/

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pheonix@hachyderm.io ("Windy city") wrote:

Given how casual these AI agents are with deleting production databases, y'all should be campaigning to put them in charge of student loans.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
charliejane@wandering.shop ("Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit"

I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit"

And...

We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times. And promoting it is part of the process.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

i've found that when i don't make room for my mental health, it forces me to make room for it

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

This month's #BirdWhisperer is a Golden Whistler!

(Ref Photo by Terri Sharp)
🦢🐡 #art #birds #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots

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

Social media regularly makes me feel like I'm a bit of an idiot. The way these sites are structured promotes surface reading, quick replies, and poorly thought out posts, all of which combine to make it likelier that you do something that might not show you at your best. 🫤