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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrSprockets@mas.to ("Peter Lichota") wrote:

https://l.smartnews.com/p-7EcwDbgc/PeMkVw

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

and hey... that is *no* way to hold a knife in a fight https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/116506976407871416

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Rachelburch/116506622265465158

Definitely a portal to somewhere....

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

Maybe #curl doesn't need to be able to mimic internet explorer anno 2006 anymore? https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21486

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KingShawn ("Shawn King") wrote:

No, it is not…🤬

“It's NOT a Coincidence the States redrawing Voting Maps to suppress Black voters are the SAME ones that fought to keep slavery.”

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

One of those traps is reducing everything to ingroup and outgroup conflict, resisting any articulation of the superordinate goals we might share as a coalition instead, and using intelligence & technical skill as a weapon to take away people's belonging

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

i only knew hamish casually in his later nyc years but think of him often. have a very fond memory of sharing a blissed subway ride after neil young at the garden (2012, i think) & grasping that the clean were punks but that they were also *heads*, the new zealand '70s/'80s psychedelic weirdo front.

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

the framing on this garden test image works better for me

test shot in our back yard Nikon D40 w Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm lens 1/250th of a second at 50mm, ISO 200, f/10

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

Judged exclusively by the number of flyers through the post filled with *ad hominem* against him, gotta believe Saikat Chakrabarti's politics have to be pretty cool.

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

5V 5A 5KP

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

there is an aquatic feel to this, color is weird to work with

spider plant baby bloom in a darkened room ISO 200, 1/25th of a second exposure at probably f 1.8

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

tulips

tulips... again, the framing is not quite right

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

it is not quite framed right, but I'm starting to remember things again

a single flower blooming in the morning garden

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

morning light can be dramatic

morning shot in the garden

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

lightest/most open iris

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

wide open

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Aaron@front-end.social ("Aaron Gustafson") wrote:

New #WebComponent: Show users which validation requirements they’ve met — as they type. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/visual-validation-feedback-for-form-fields/

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

with the iris open a bit more, I think it becomes a little less interesting... but that may by old b&w thinking, what do you think?

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

and the positives are: i'm alive

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

I think I may like this one a little better (playing with F-stops)

opened up the lens a bit

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

starting to try to figure out how to do color snaps... reusing my old F-mount lenses (from back when I used to do B&W film with a Nikon FM body) on a digital body (a slightly-less-old Nikon D40) with less resolution than my iPhone. but still, it is fine for learning. I've never done color before...

closeup of bark on a tree in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY, 2 MAY 2026: 50mm Nikkor F-mount lens 1/200th of a second at ISO 200 with unknown F-stop

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

An antique watch, restored.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/02/ive-been-shirking-today/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy6Jz9GwIQw

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

The recent announcement about Anthropic joining the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron member has raised concerns from the community around how we engage with AI topics.

This is how we plan to address the issue: https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

#b3d #DevFund

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jwz wrote:

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case: She seems to have argued at trial that she had no intent to harm anyone, and had only released the bees so they could "enjoy the lovely, flowering landscape" in the area. The landscape was also infested with deputies, though, and the jury does not seem to have believed that was a coincidence...
https://jwz.org/b/yk60

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

i noticed all this stuff was documented incredibly badly on the internet, so i tried to document it and i try to comment on pext/pdep implementations whenever i see them.

unfortunately, this has yet to yield any positive results. last time i tried to comment on the iso c++ committee's PR and got told to fuck off.

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

I am a #smolweb advocate and, sometimes, I use LLMs.

I spend a lot of time thinking about simplicity. Fewer dependencies, lighter
pages, tools that do one thing well. So yes, it might look strange that I also
spend time talking to large language models. Let me explain where I draw the
line, and why I think the contradiction is smaller than it appears...

In this blog post

#ai #llm

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

what could someone who does not contribute to zig know about pext and pdep after all? it's not like any autistic nerd would ever know more about real world pext and pdep performance than the zig developers 😬

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

oh, i can't actually tell someone about the gotcha to avoid on a pr in the zig repository because i'm not a zig contributor.

maybe i will not adopt zig actually.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
blouie.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Blouie the Blue Heeler @NFC") wrote:

When you get caught twice for #Fursuitfriday: First by best friend kitty @kianga.eu@bsky.brid.gy, then by fisher wuff @livi-wusky.de@bsky.brid.gyWill 100000% let myself get caught again 😁#furry #fursuit #shenanigans🧭 Fursuit walk Ulm, organized by @ulmer-furs.de@bsky.brid.gy

Wusky, jaguar and Blue Heeler fursuiters hugging each other.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

“The irony of being forced to dumb down an essay about a story warning against the forced suppression of excellence was not lost on me. Or on my kid, who spent a frustrating afternoon removing words and testing sentences one at a time, trying to figure out what invisible tripwire the algorithm had set. The lesson the kid absorbed was clear: write less creatively, use simpler vocabulary, and don’t sound too good, because sounding good is now suspicious.
At the time, I worried this was going to become a much bigger problem. That the fear of AI “cheating” would create a culture that actively punished good writing and pushed students toward mediocrity. I was hoping I’d be wrong about that.
Turns out… I was not wrong.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/