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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116517473443533667

A thousand times this. The kneejerk anti-Chinese everything is such a pain because it means we fail to learn lessons that are well known and fail to do things that work easily.

Doesn't mean it's not also a regime with some real strong authoritarianism, with some real problems.

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

May the fourth be with you or whatever. #grickledoodle #millenials #milleniumfalcon #starwars #maythefourthbewithyou #cartoon #birds #art #funny #humor

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

Because social media is the way it is (*sighs*): pointing out something that China does right is not an endorsement of how China is run in other ways. Much like if I pointed out something that works in the US, that would not mean I'm endorsing ICE.

😑

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

ok so, if you're in Long Beach tonight, you could go see my brothers play 90s country songs with pastiche Star Wars lyrics, alongside a burlesque show

https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1038259192-garth-vader-at-harvelle's-long-beach

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

if you are surprised, then I would like to talk with you about this nice bridge I happen to know is for sale:

“Korean ship on fire in strait, Iran hits UAE oil port after Trump says Navy will help ships cross” - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-us-help-ships-stranded-strait-hormuz-tanker-hit-by-projectiles-2026-05-04/

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acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

YEAH I GUESS A KID PUKED ON A CAT AND ITS A MESS BACK THERE. YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP

Area: Louisville, KY, USA
A: #a236c6ce84d
F: #ffb6c6aa8cf

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

Maturana quoted in “a Systems Literacy Manifesto (for Designers)” By Hugh Dubberly (2014)

Source: https://presentations.dubberly.com/system%5Fliteracy%5F2.pdf

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
elizayer ("Elizabeth Ayer") wrote:

Reminder: de-skilling as a trend in software engineering was already in progress well before LLMs.

Toxic productivity culture, people meeting badly-designed internal reward metrics, hopping jobs and never seeing the consequences of bad choices, plummeting quality, short-termism.

Sure LLMs add fuel to this fire, but I’m not at all convinced they’re causal.

If anything, their popularity seems more a consequence of the culture than cause.

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

Once more into the octocanyon go I

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

Made myself a bowl of bran flakes with a banana, chia seed, and a dash of proton powder. Then doused it in off-brand fake syrup.

You know what they say. You can take the boy out of Florida.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hrbrmstr ("hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦") wrote:

The root cause chain is damning. No file type restrictions on inbound support chat attachments. No automated EDR coverage reconciliation against the identity provider. Okta FastPass let the compromised device satisfy MFA on its own. The initialization codes — functionally equivalent to the certificates themselves — were visible in every proxied support session because the support portal was never threat-modeled as an attack surface. "Privileged access" stopped at the HSM boundary. (3/5)

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hrbrmstr ("hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦") wrote:

DigiCert — a certificate authority, the entity you're trusting to anchor your entire chain of trust — got compromised because a support analyst opened a .scr file from a chat session. In 2026. CrowdStrike was misconfigured on one endpoint and completely absent on another. Nobody noticed the second compromise for 10 days. The attacker grabbed EV code signing initialization codes and walked out with 60 certificates. Zhong Stealer, signed and shipped. (2/5)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hrbrmstr ("hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦") wrote:

Cow-orker @mle shared this ~2-week-old DigCert incident report today (i blame my Q1 $WORK chaos for me missing it): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=2033170… (1/5)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hoodie, unisex cut, continued.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hoodie, unisex cut. The measurements in parantheses are the half chest width, the total length, and sleeve length, in that order. There will be a second poll for sizes XL-3XL in response to this one.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116516850762889346

“Chinese courts rule AI replacement is not legal grounds for firing workers as global tech layoffs hit 78,000”

https://thenextweb.com/news/china-court-ai-layoffs-illegal-labor-law

Remember a while back when surveys showed that people in China were a lot less anxious about "AI" than those in the west?

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glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

#China has decided that firing a worker because an #AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same. - https://thenextweb.com/news/china-court-ai-layoffs-illegal-labor-law

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

T-shirt, unisex cut, continued.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Next, t-shirt, unisex cut. The measurements in parantheses are the half chest width and the total length, in that order. There will be a second poll for sizes XL-3XL in response to this one.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

T-shirt, women's cut, continued.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First, t-shirt, women's cut. The measurements in parantheses are the half chest width and the total length, in that order. There will be a second poll for sizes XL-XXL in response to this one.

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@imanijoy/116516874504739572

Join us at Discovery Week, starting in 7 days!

We can't wait to hear your thoughts on the future of Mastodon's UX.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116460783363908188

I want to get the sizes right this time, so I'm going to post a few polls in response to this post. Please respond if you've bought or are planning to buy from our merch shop (see context in the quote).

#Merchtodon

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@ljrk @soatok

nah it’s more like this

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

LLMs are changing every aspect of higher education, but perhaps none more so than computer science, where LLMs inflame the age-old tension between the thrill of building and the importance of first-principles understanding. Today, @ahl and I will be joined by Brown University CS professors Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler to talk about their experience teaching an agentic AI course -- and what it might bode for the future of CS education.

Join us, 5p Pacific today! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1500866494588780544

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vowe@social.heise.de ("Volker Weber") wrote:

Life finds a way

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peihuaku@sfba.social ("Ku") wrote:

Renewable sources produced 33.8% of the world’s electricity last year, compared to 33% for coal. First time those two lines crossed since 1919, when global grid was still small enough to run mostly on hydropower.
https://apple.news/Ab6fQxtujQMSJuPrZ90Qlbw?highlight=renewable%20sources%20produced%2033.8%20percent%20of%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20electricity%20last%20year,%20compared%20to%2033%20percent%20for%20coal.%20It%20was%20the%20first%20time%20those%20two%20lines%20had%20crossed%20since%201919,%20when%20the%20global%20grid%20was%20still%20small%20enough%20to%20run%20mostly%20on%20hydropower.

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

Not A Good Sign:

"We have opinion poll data from the 60s. And similar to today, there is really a striking correspondence of support by tens of millions of Americans for that political violence itself. So what's different about our era today is not just that this is not the first time we've had millions of Americans supporting political violence. It is pretty much the first time it's happened on both sides at the same time."

Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science. University of Chicago

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000766025293

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

I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease

smart home was a mistake

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

YOLO'd a Proxmox 8 > 9 upgrade with my virtual OPNsense router still running

recklessly even by my standards