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

oh, git is only 6 or 7MB. i kinda expected worse.

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@graydon Also worth noting that mind/body dualism correlates with belief in an immaterial/immortal soul, which in turn supports Xtian belief in specific afterlives for the godly/sinful, which is implied by the idea of original sin, so the whole biblical mass of just-so creation myths and authoritarian you-will-obey-or-be-punished threats collapse without it. Clergy: can be invested in it ("bully pulpit" is a term of art). Oligarchs: much more invested.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I don't mean to be nasty about it, but he's been extremely public in his efforts to normalize some of the most extreme AI booster positions around. He's done an immense amount of harm to OSS with his boosterism, and I believe its important to criticize his public actions on that basis.

If even a dyed-in-the-wool AI extremist like him is starting to back away, that's a sign that the wind is shifting.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Surest sign I've seen yet that the AI bubble is finally imploding: Simon Willison pretending to be reasonable about AI for a change.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@Viss Trek in the streets, Wars in the sheets.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fblive@live.freebooters.uk ("Freebooters live") wrote:

I've gone live!

Chris and Drew play Divinitiy: Original Sin

#chatting #videosgames #tech

https://live.freebooters.uk

Attachments:

• gifv: Live stream preview

Mastodon wrote:

We're just getting started, and we want to share _your_ stories. Above all, we are a movement that puts people first.

If you have an idea or want to nominate someone, please reach out to our Community Director @haubles (Private Mentions open).

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #CommunitySpotlight

Mastodon wrote:

We’re kicking off a new series: Community Spotlights.

Through these stories, we celebrate the people who make the #SocialWeb a wonderful place to connect.

Our first subjects are @Tzipporah & @Yehuda, the grandfather & grandkid duo that admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) people, and allies.

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

#Mastodon #Fediverse

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,

For an external USB 5GB+ spinning disk (not SSD), is HFS a better choice than APFS? Assume no weird edge cases like spanning volumes or RAID are involved. It's just a disk.

It is very easy to find *either* answer, but hard to find one that sounds like it's from someone who knows what they are talking about, and isn't just cargo-culting it or reading from a press release. So show your work.
https://jwz.org/b/yk64

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
hn100@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 100") wrote:

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

Link: https://paletteinspiration.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026342

Boosted by jwz:
ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social ("Ahimsa") wrote:

Yet another real headline that feels like it's from the Onion 🙃

#USPol #TaxTheRich #Resist

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh") wrote:

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

Boosted by jwz:
connor_g ("Connor Graham") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@variety/variety-h2bfsrg0z/-/a-S8%5FvUIo0TPS7YaI1AJZugw%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0

This would be equivalent to a $0.36 fine for the median US household.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
beeware@fosstodon.org ("BeeWare Project") wrote:

Rubicon ObjC 0.5.4 has been released! This corrects an edge case of macOS event loop shutdown that led to the app being prematurely terminated, as well as some consistency updates for uses of CFLifecycle.

https://pypi.org/project/rubicon-objc/0.5.4/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shirra@meow.social ("Shirra Otter/Sylvek bat") wrote:

Did a test fit of all the fursuit parts. This is what I look like as a bat, all floofed up!

#fursuit #bat

Attachments:

• gifv: A video of me wearing my bat fursuit, and a poncho. I'm basically waving around, showing off all the fluffy parts, moving the jaw a bit, etc. The bat's got white and gray fur, a bronze nose and ears, and yellow eyes.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

#philosophy

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

:icon_steam: 🚂

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

It must suck to have psychic powers in this era

"I sense an overwhelming sense of utter stupidity and malice"

Breaking news!

"I fucking knew it."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zeiroslion@meow.social ("Zeiros Lion") wrote:

So while I was at work today, hubbind bought tickets for us and the boyfran to see Lucy Darling live in New Orleans.

ON MY BIRTHDAY!

Pardon me but I'm gonna turn into a cloud of confetti!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

Never rent a car from Avis.

They charged me a mysterious $661.14 on top of my payment.

After 35 minutes on hold, promising every 30 secs that a CSR would pick up, they hung up on me. Their website says "The rental details are not available at this moment, please try later"

This should be illegal.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

So @glyph asked me what it's like using Asahi on a M2 air daily, so I did a little writup: https://alextheward.com/blog/asahi%5Fon%5Fmacbook%5Fair%5Fm2/

The tl;dr is "fine".

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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.