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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (freelance for hire)") wrote:

On this day in 1980, the South African government banned Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” after Black students embraced it as an anthem against apartheid’s unequal education system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY

More info:
- https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-banned-south-africa/
- https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-album-banned-south-africa/

#SouthAfrica #PinkFloyd #80sMusic #Apartheid

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

If you're self-employed, celebrate May Day by feeling deeply conflicted! Rise up against your oppressor, who is you! Steal from yourself, who is also stealing from you!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
janbeta@chaos.social ("Jan Beta") wrote:

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Reminder that my old band‘s recordings are available for free there (or you can donate a few coins if you like). It’s kind of 80s-influenced indie pop with modern twists. I played the bass, wrote most lyrics and some music. We split up in late 2008. https://theseathesea.bandcamp.com

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

8086YES! is back, and this time it's a no to 8086: the BOOK II is a TTL-based Apple II clone with a whole bunch of upgrades including a Z80 SoftCard for CP/M goodness... in a netbook-like (chunky) laptop chassis.

Not going to lie, I'm kinda tempted.

https://www.hackster.io/news/8086yes-s-book-ii-is-a-compact-feature-packed-portable-apple-ii-built-with-ttl-logic-3e4993693215

#Technology #News #Hackster #VintageComputing

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
urbandinosaurs@urbanists.social ("Urban Dinosaurs") wrote:

At Riverbend Park along the Potomac: an adult and a juvenile bald eagle at a nest, a great blue heron (with its tongue showing), and a red-shouldered hawk. 1/2
#birds #wildlifePhotography #birdsforbecsnan

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

some of y'all did not have fun OR wang chung on that night, and it shows

jwz wrote:

Once again Monkeybrains looks at Github's uptime and says "hold my beer"

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

resist corporate hegemony by talking about goblins and/or gremlins

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
moon@m.g3l.org ("Moon") wrote:

Full Moon (100%)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Top 10 followed tags on #tagspub:

1. @palestine
2. @gaza
3. @fediforum
4. @mutualaid
5. @fediverse
6. @activitypub
7. @photography
8. @freepalestine
9. @mastodon
10. @iran

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

when things are so bad that the even the status page has fully given up

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Bandcamp Day" on May Day is ... certainly a choice.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Looking at this and wondering… should I *always* be setting `follow_imports = skip` for my dependencies? What exactly do we lose with this type-checking option? https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6837#issuecomment-4356631501

Boosted by jwz:
deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

In order to give massive tax breaks to their friends and donors, these geniuses are trying to cut taxes on high end real estate sales that will deprive the city at least $390m intended for affordable housing and drive up the deficit.

No serious policy basis for their proposal. Just pure class war.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/plan-to-halve-sf-transfer-taxes-on-big-deals-awaits-details/article%5Febd1015c-0e4d-4bfa-9d54-f11f1b8042a3.html

Boosted by jwz:
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

@davidgerard

I'm genuinely astonished how many defenses of LLM contributions are a flat "you can't enforce this and you can't actually stop us". Just completely steamrolling past consent and comfort and forcing themselves on people who don't want them. Feels like some serious masks-off kind of shit.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scottwilson@infosec.exchange ("Scott Wilson") wrote:

It's almost the weekend, and that means it's time to start thinking seriously about pushing to prod...

#push2prod #friday #shitpost #memes

FT: @Viss @jerry @cR0w @neurovagrant @da_667 @FritzAdalis @catsalad @ajn142 @chillybot @darfplatypus @h2onolan @Sempf @winterknight1337 @danielcornell @alice

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

Today is May Day, and lots of us are withholding labor and capital from the system. But do you know why we celebrate #MayDay?

May Day, or International Workers’ Day, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago. During a rally in Haymarket Square supporting workers striking for an eight-hour workday, an unknown person threw a bomb at police, killing one. Police opened fire, killing four civilians and injuring dozens.

Eight anarchist labor leaders were arrested despite no evidence linking them to the bomb. Seven were sentenced to death; four were hanged in 1887, one committed suicide in jail, and three were pardoned in 1893 by Governor Altgeld, who called the trial a miscarriage of justice.

The Haymarket Affair fueled anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. while galvanizing the international labor movement.

In 1889, the Second International designated May 1 as International Workers’ Day to commemorate the event, linking it to May Day protests worldwide.

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

So @phae found this spamalot AI SEO play building a "profile" for me and @jaffathecake , and I'm *deeply* interested to know how they think this is going to go...

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@dysfun i got a set of very thin USB-C cleaning brushes off Ali for £1, they're just the thing

you probably want some contact cleaning spray for deeper cleaning than mere dusting can achieve

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

since it came up - how do you clean a USB-C connector?

extra thin toothpicks are available from the dentistry section of chemists/drugstores, at least here. yeah, it needs to be the extra thin ones, the thin are not thin enough.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
zip@wandering.shop wrote:

The EU and the UK: we must build our own digital sovereignty, with businesses and services run within our borders

Also the EU and the UK: it's now illegal to run a website

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Also as it's follow Friday, follow my (and @uoou's) #Owncast @fblive

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alicemcalicepants@ohai.social ("Dr Alice Violett") wrote:

I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/116500001880041188

there aren't enough guillotines in this world

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Follow @freebooters.uk for the audio #Freebooters podcast on Fedi.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Drew's terrible movie takes (the stream that never started)

freebooters.uk/media/20260501-freebooters-live.mp3

As we set up for a game that never happened, Chris, Drew, and later Nado, talk a little about tech, but then descend into Chris taking a look at Drew's ...interesting... movie and TV opinions. Drew's terrible movie takes https://friendo.monster/rat.html …

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Y'know what I've seen a lot less of recently?

Work people have done that they're proud of.