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

good, the days of “Dem Party Leadership” deciding for the people who gets to run should come to an end immediately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/janet-mills-drops-out-senate-race-platner-schumer.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.e1A.3kca.yELgd51F7AoW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

One final push to finish the term…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/30/last-gasp-of-spring-2026/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screenshots-and-voice-samples-without-governance-6973c48f03a7

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“The passion for, devotion to, and identification with work would be diminishing if everyone were able to work less and less.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/correct-attitude

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.5 is available

• Optimize profile loading
• Change default posts filter on profile page, due to gotosocial performances
• Display media of a profile in a gallery
• Manage new post failure
• Add profile banner image
• Add DEBUG_MODE constant in config.php to log api calls
• Fix link to account in snac2 user mentions
• Add 'Here since [date]' in profile page
• Display nested quoted post (if available on the instance)
• Add quoting post feature
• Add card preview of links if provided by the instance
• Add CW field in reply
• Add font family selector in prefs
• Correct Apache .htaccess help in README
• Display [locked] info on profile page

Source/download

Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse #nojs

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
pcdevil ("👾 Attila Gonda") wrote:

👋 Hi, I'm looking for work!

🚀 I am...
- a detail oriented #frontend senior engineer with 15 years of experience
- proficient with #JavaScript & #TypeScript, #CSS, #Vue, TDD
- experienced with #React, Ember.js, GCP, Terraform

🔎 I'm looking for:
- a collaborative environment between eng + product & design teams
- a #Bonn based (onsite) or a Germany / EU-based (remote) company
- ability to learn and grow

🚫 no crypto, big oil, gambling, gen-ai, web3

🙇 boost appreciated!

#FediHire #GetFediHired

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

good way to start the morning

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-ol-grateful-deadcast/id1522914723?i=1000764648546

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, exceedingly pure") wrote:

I'm sure some people will find my tone here confrontational:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144851/the-day-i-logged-1-in-every-2000-public-ipv4-visualizing-the-ai-scraper-ddos/

Get used to it. I'm going to be even harsher not just on the companies making "AI", but also on people choosing to use it. You know what you're causing, and you choose not to care.

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

People really be like "we can make it easier for police to catch criminals if we just all assume everyone is a criminal!"

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116490168884007581

Making a note of the phrase “right now, the instrument to make LLMs possible are through an industry that is ecologically harmful, exploitative, and devoid of accountability” for future use.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

@stefan_hessbrueggen @joshisanonymous @Iris Oh yes, totally! There are applications where ML or even LLMs might provide a specific use case. In a constrained context, it may make sense to provide a machine translation or transcription, as long as we understand the boundaries of what it can or can't accomplish, and why...

But right now, the instrument to make LLMs possible are through an industry that is ecologically harmful, exploitative, and devoid of accountability. For example, creating an interface to LLMs that mimics human behavior (i.e., a chatbot) is irresponsible, at best...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/116487778402803336

Okaaaay, scaling is absolutely an issue, but how much of this is due to MS so heavily pushing Copilot?

This is what they wanted!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT — it won’t save them

Sam Altman desperately scraping pennies together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEI5N3U3Mqo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260429-openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-it-wont-save-them - podcast

time: 8 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/29/openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-but-it-wont-save-them/ - blog post

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

so, uh, CI. if i were building one, what do you want to see?

where i'm going so far:

• multiple runner support (initially firecracker, but i'm sure there will be others)
• multiple OS support (initially linux, but i'd like at a minimum freebsd since someone's done the work to make that work in firecracker)
• custom rootfs support
• api for dynamic workflow configuration (so you can run a job to determine what jobs to run)
• the usual frontend with output live-relayed and viewing
• RBAC-based security
• cpu and memory limits
• output artifacts
• tarball a directory as an artifact if the build fails

ideas welcome

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
IngridHbn@mastodon.online ("Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪") wrote:

"Eating locally would only have a significant impact if transport was responsible for a large share of food’s final carbon footprint. For most foods, this is not the case.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation make up a very small amount of the emissions from food, and what (please read 'WHO') you eat is far more important than where your food traveled from."

#sustainability #duurzaamheid #food #foods #footprint #foodprint #meatfree #vegan #vegetarian

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

jwz wrote:

"Flyer is not AI, I can send you photographer link if you need it."

Translation: "We outsourced that shit to someone who slopped it without admitting it".

Also, blurb for an event in SF starts with "Direct from LA!" Dude, read the room.

Boosted by jwz:
lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

a lot of "AI deleted their prod data and backups" and not enough "they had their backups in the same volume as their prod data"

Boosted by jwz:
lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

AI is not taking anyone's job, it's some guy making that decision

Boosted by jwz:
dotjayne@tech.lgbt ("Jayne") wrote:

you say an AI agent hallucinated and took down production, but what I'm hearing is that you let a flock of stochastic parrots into the server room and now you're somehow surprised there's birdshit everywhere

Boosted by jwz:
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good.

Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”.

Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”.

He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state.

No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

Abolish ICE.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-jonathan-ross-who-shot-dead-umarmed-mom-renee-good-quietly-reassigned-as-fbi-probe-stalls/

#ice #fascism #uspol
#immigration #abolishice

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

me: [X] is kicking you in the groin and is mean to puppies, try [Y] or [Z]

critic: but [Y] doesn't tuck me in at night and [Z] doesn't read me a bedtime story

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bluewinds@tech.lgbt ("BlueWinds") wrote:

@soatok Couldn't be me, asking my GF to help me feel out the mechanics/positioning for the smut I'm writing.

Do I bend like that? I'd better be able to, if I'm asking my characters to do it.

Professionals have standards, goddamn it!

Boosted by jwz:
mike@chinwag.org ("Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]") wrote:

Once again, my professional recommendation in response to the latest Linux kernel vulnerability in the news is that you should gather up all your electronic devices, cast them into the sea, and retreat to the woods.

Each night, gather your children and tell them tales of the Before Times when the hubris of humanity grew so large that we made idols of sand and spoke to them as equals. Remind them that the sand, of course, did not speak or think, but we imagined it could, and let it guide us to folly.

Should a stranger ever come to your village with a glowing rectangle, encourage the youth to beat them with sticks.

#infosec

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party ("Fortune's Fool - He/Him") wrote:

I'd love it if other countries declared this unacceptable.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-119146/us-to-issue-passports-with-trumps-picture-for-americas-250th-birthday

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
mayoubhappy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Citizen X") wrote:

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tek@todon.eu ("Etienne / Tek") wrote:

Dear Mastodon friends, Telegram has started to publish their transparency data for Q1 2026. As usual, I am trying to crowdsource this information as it is only accessible per country for Telegram accounts registered with a number for that country. Here is what I have so far, if you have a Telegram account with a number not in that list, please take a screenshot of the @transparency answer and answer here or open an issue here https://github.com/Te-k/telegram-transparency/issues
Thanks and please retoot!

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

Amateurs argue over being a slut in theory, professionals argue dicksucking logistics

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
boogah@simian.rodeo ("Jason Cosper") wrote:

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

Update: If you have problems with `archive.is`, Ghost Archive is now available as an alternative redirect as of version 1.2.1.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
niqdanger@social.linux.pizza ("Nick Danger") wrote:

Who knows about payphone keys? I need to remove this from the wall. Its long dead. Even has a nice sign that says "Scheduled for removal" dated in the 2000s. I have a coin box key that doesn't fit, but I have none of these side of phone keys.

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

TIL alpine is not included in "every major linux distributions"