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

they even standardise the way pilots speak to air traffic control because they found people were misunderstanding each other and causing accidents.

e.g. the words 'clear' and 'clearance' are only to be used for takeoff and landing, you do not get 'clearance' to taxi.

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

what amazes me is how seriously the aviation industry takes disasters. like they spend a year or two figuring out what actually happened and trying to stop it happening again.

i would organisations to just take two weeks when they have a massive problem caused by their code.

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

i think at this point i must have watched videos about most air disasters.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

Click through the pages of closed pull requests for Flask. It's not until page 9 (end of 2024) that you see a majority are merged instead of closed. Only 38 of the last 200 PRs are merged. Similar story for Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click. LLMs and genAI are such an obvious negative on maintainer time. https://github.com/pallets/flask/pulls?page=9&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

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

While I have you, you should attend #NBPy for all the reasons people talk about in the hashtag, but also because it's where you get to see what the community will be talking about for the next two years before anyone else.

If you want to see the most-talked-about PyCon talks before they happen, go to North Bay.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Our switch to Mastodon Glitch Edition is complete! Overall it went pretty smoothly except for all of the parts where Git kicked my butt (repeatedly, and painfully).

If you’re looking to return to the prior look and feel in the web UI, click Preferences, then Flavours, then Vanilla Mastodon, and finally click the "Use this" button. On that same page you can also set your "skin" to Tangerine UI if you'd like. I'll restore the other themes as skins very soon, and will try to add some others as well.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

(Also, I'm streaming the update at https://tv.neatnik.net in case you want to watch.)

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116494887672619181

Updates begin now! Total downtime should be minimal, but there may be a few (briefer) periods of instability or inaccessibility at various points. Feel free to keep an eye on https://status.neatnik.net in case anything goes majorly sideways!

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
neatnik@tv.neatnik.net ("Neatnik TV") wrote:

Neatnik is live!

social.lol server update!

#web #programming #chat #fun #neatnik

https://tv.neatnik.net

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
Max@corteximplant.com ("Problem Fox") wrote:

Donald Trump has said Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, should focus on “fixing his broken country” and trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war – and spend less time “interfering” in Iran.

That's funny because in the US a majority of the population would like Trump to do that too!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/trump-tells-merz-to-fix-his-broken-country-in-new-attack-on-german-chancellor

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

I still research my code issues for hours on endless websites instead of asking AI

shrug

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
fedicon@techhub.social ("FediCon") wrote:

🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨

The Fediverse is meeting in real life again!

FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Social Web — and we want your ideas.

We're looking for:
• Talks
• Demos
• Lightning talks
• Panels

Have something to share with the community?

📩 Submit your proposal: hello@fedicon.ca
(or DM us on the Fediverse)

🗓️ Submission deadline: May 31, 2026

🎥 Watch last year's talks: https://spectra.video/c/fedicon%5Fvideos/videos

...

More about FediCon 2026:

📅 When: August 6th–9th, 2026

📍 Where: UBC campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

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

What a hard listen. I've never heard a CEO speak who didn't sound hollowed out. Even taking into account that this person is media trained, she still sounds like a pod person.

https://youtu.be/CW%5FbF-AeFQE

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

I still get a kick out of this sustained note from Kelly Hansen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN7SKeXSgoY&t=240s

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jwz wrote:

Four and a half hours so far.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("beka valentine") wrote:

new video!

Recreating the VPL DataGlove, Part 3: Tube+Fiber Flex Sensor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U971dbM8m20

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:

How do we stop destroying people, ideas, tools, and ecosystems by misdiagnosing dormancy as failure?

Can we build tools, spaces, interfaces, systems, and experiments that revive latent capacity?

First create the conditions where life can move. Then train, test, refine, build, and strengthen.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

also whatever changed here really highlights that I don't understand how the Blender Foundation is structured, given that people are okay with CoreWeave (?!) and Meta being in this club, but Anthropic is a bridge too far, but they're still keeping the _money_ from Anthropic? Or maybe it has something to do with the "Corporate Patron" level specifically? Anyway… general point still somewhat valid, but yelling at Blender was apparently a good idea and did achieve something

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

you know that feeling when you're talking with someone in a language you don't know all the words in and you're using translate and you realise you've no idea if it's given you something correct or not?

that must be what vibe coding is like for people who can't code.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116484128621840238

okay so I stand by what I said about harassment and *in general* engaging with foundations and nonprofits, but I gotta publicly take an L here on the *implication* that the community's feedback was too intense, because apparently they received that feedback and acted upon it https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mkljczk@fediverse.pl ("nicole mikołajczyk 🔜 linux app summit ➡️ piwo ➡️ gpn") wrote:

some of you want to have industry-grade FOSS but without industry-grade funding, yet instead of fighting capitalism you decided to fight FOSS foundations. i’m so fucking tired of reading all of this

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/Blender/statuses/116500204687984724

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
GamingNews@meta.masto.host ("Gaming News") wrote:

PC Gamer just posted:

The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories

Only roles "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible for awards.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories/

#gamingNews #PCGamer

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Soblow@eldritch.cafe ("Soblow Xaselgio :dragn_heart:") wrote:

Re: https://derg.social/notes/alqzxmo225

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kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga") wrote:

When the boop is so long that you need widescreen format :neofox_boop_cute:

🦊 @Polarie_Fox, 📷 @karb

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
blainsmith@fosstodon.org ("B") wrote:

TIL https://nlnet.nl/project/QBE-32-bit-ARM-support/

#HareLang #QBE #ARM #ARM32 #NLNet

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

What’s https://rad.dad? For the ridiculous price of just $10/year, you get email for yourname@rad.dad, web forwarding for rad.dad/yourname, and DNS control over yourname.rad.dad. “Dads” of all types are welcome.🤘

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Bioalchemy13@mastodon.sdf.org ("Bioalchemy13 🇺🇸🇺🇦") wrote:

Via Fiona Tribe:  "Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term 'dark matter' which is impressive, but he also coined the term 'spherical bastard' to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more."

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I've *finally* added an address renewal process for https://rad.dad! If you signed up more than a year ago and your address expired, you should have just received an email with renewal instructions. (And an explanation of how the critical combination of ADHD and laziness can cause a service to run for a few years without ever collecting any renew income, lol.😆)

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116500344542861927

they listened to the community and dropped anthropic <3

EDIT: I am aware that they still accepted a one-time donation from anthropic. If this is a problem for you go tell the blender folks about it.

EDIT2: I am not your abuse receptacle, and I will block you and forget you ever existed if we're strangers and you try to unload your frustration about this onto me.