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jwz wrote:

@glyph @xgranade
Upside: it works great if you only have ~30,000 songs: https://jwz.org/b/yj4o

Downside: if not you have to use Rockbox, which is an extremely Linuxy flavor of hell: https://jwz.org/b/ykd7

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz @xgranade I am not… quite… there yet but man it is really something that I am even considering it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I suppose I might as well ask, this is part of an email that Google sent me informing me that “[I’m] now using Gemini on [my] Apple device”, and I would like to know *where* I am doing that so I can shut that shit off, I definitely did not enable it on purpose

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haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

It has been an honor and delight getting to know @Tzipporah and @Yehuda over the past few months.

If you haven’t met them, they’re the grandfather & grandkid duo that co-admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) people, and allies. To me, their story perfectly encapsulates the best thing about the fediverse and Mastodon: People coming together to build a place for themselves.

Read their beautiful story: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/community-spotlight-tzipporah-and-yehuda-of-turtle-island-social/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

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

Python 4 but all it does is make `foo = "bar",` a syntax error instead of a tuple.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@pzmyers I see what you did there

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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

working in technology right now is great, the most PT Barnum motherfuckers you ever saw are all like, we have invented a time machine, and now 78% of all discourse is required by law to include endless hours of strokey-beard waffling about the endless political and social and economic implications of time travel and the deep impacts on our whole society and how we all must take time travel very seriously and shovel all our money into the time machine furnaces or we will be stranded in some terribly unfashionable decade with no snacks or friends and we’re all so busy worrying about that we’ve somehow failed to realise that there is no fucking time machine

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

As much as I'm sad that Valve is redirecting their attention from Dota to Deadlock, #Deadlock art direction and lore is peak.

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rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

(pulled from another thread)

Concerning Fred Brooks' "No Silver Bullet": I realized I've actually lived through a silver bullet moment in my field (CG).

In '95 a small number of people in the world knew how to do real-time perspective texture mapping and that by itself was most of the tech for a 3D game.

We got GPUs soon after and by 2005, we were up to fully programmable shaders with flow control and everything.

If anything, 10x productivity gain in a decade is underselling it.

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modos@fosstodon.org ("Modos @Boston, MA") wrote:

Available now on @crowdsupply is the pre-launch for Modos Flow, a fast, open-hardware 13.3" E Ink monitor for everyday use:

- 3200x2400 resolution
- 60 Hz refresh
- Touch and stylus support
- Frontlight Support
- Available in B/W or Color
- Sub-100 ms latency
- USB-C for video and power

It's built on Enchanter, our new open-hardware board, and is designed to push E Ink even further, supporting more panels and higher resolutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRtJysQU9M

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am so sick of this shit

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is the company that wants to “organize the world’s information”. was the intent of that mission statement to describe a world where there’s a curated pile of noise that, for legal reasons, everyone can be aware of but never act upon?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“Don’t rely on responses from Gemini Apps for diagnosis, treatment, or medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Its output is for informational purposes only.”

motherfucker what do you think “information” is

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

you don't need to pay for your claude subscription after knowing this

is it that you can do better if you write it yourself?

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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

@glyph you can’t just destroy the world you hate, you have to build the world you want.

jwz wrote:

"Good news! Your dispute wasn’t reviewed within 30 days."

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

the worst mistake intel ever made

designing CPUs

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Fuck the FDA and its descent into abject quackery

(gift article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.gFA.5WT4.iAqtgk2UUgzb&smid=url-share

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

hot agents in your area right now

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

long live fruit and dragon. boo bird, lopsided and penis.

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

announcing the next level of agentic development: outsourcing it to a fucking human.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

okay, I'll print this out and hang it on the wall. whenever I feel bad about fucking up DNS again, I'll just have a look at this and I'll feel better.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mendingcatsshelter1 ("Mending Cats Shelter") wrote:

Months back, Tango was tiny, scared, and fighting to survive… now safe, loved, and finally learning what happiness feels like. 🐾❤️

#cats #rescuedcatlife
#CatsOfMastodon

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

they have gone after Smith College now:

"Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights".

once again, civil rights laws are being used to suppress civil rights

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/smith-college-transgender-women-investigation

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

what the actual fuck denic, what the fuck is wrong with you.

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ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Carbon dioxide averaged nearly 431 ppm in April 2026 (new record high)...

10 years ago April averaged about 408 ppm. Preliminary data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html.

This is really concerning, and it isn’t going away. The longer we wait, the worse the impacts get and the harder they are to address.

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

why have i just shot a dinosaur?

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

As Louisiana seeks to gerrymander its way into a 100% white, climate denying congressional delegation, keep this in mind: "In paleo-climate terms, New Orleans is gone; the question is how long it has" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

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Rairii@labyrinth.zone ("Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: ") wrote:

i still consider "the first google search result" to mean "the first organic search result, after any ads (that ubo should make disappear anyway)"

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monkeyborg@triangletoot.party ("monkϵyborg 🦾🐵") wrote:

All those people saying “I was skeptical of AI, until I tried Claude and I was amazed that it could tell me this and this and this” sound just like

“I was skeptical of psychics, but then Madame Fortuna told me something only my dead wife would know!”

Human perception has certain well-documented flaws that confidence men prey upon, and you are not immune from these