Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
poleguy ("poleguy looking for lost tools") wrote:

I entered a #kicad bug report late last night for the first time. I woke up early and the issue had been confirmed on a second platform by one person, and fixed by another. The commit had already been pushed for the next nightly build.

I can't imagine a response like that from a paid vendor: less than a five our response time.
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/work%5Fitems/24212
#foss

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
janamarie@mystical.garden ("Jana") wrote:

hahaa! Successfully removed all IR and UV filters from my old Canon EOS 600D, I can do full spectrum, UV and IR photography now!

All of the following photos have been taken with a ~550nm+ lpf, meaning cutting everything under 550nm (blue, purple and uv) off. I love the vibrant pink foliage and dramatic turquoise skies #photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

I mean, the Answer to the Youth Social Media Problem is simple

It's: Meaningful moderation

The problem is that this absolutely cannot be done at scale

This is one reason why we're getting all this age/identity verification stuff now

This way, the Platforms can add an easily circumvented identity wall, and then do: nothing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

The Spring Lisp Game Jam starts next Friday, the 15th! It's a relaxed, 10-day long jam where you can make a game in any flavor of Lisp that suits your weird little preferences.

Join up here:

https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2026

#lispGameJam

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

it saddens me that general dissent is about process and implementation detail and not, ya know, the absolute moral bankruptcy that is ignoring the victims of this vile tech

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

The signal. #grickledoodle #batman #latte #cafe #coffee #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Drew a southern leopard frog in graphite this week. I think I’ve drawn more frogs than any other animal at this point. It’s become a way to measure how my hands have changed. The texture on this one would not let me put the pencil down. #sciart #pencil

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
admin@floss.social ("FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops:") wrote:

Admin teams, note that agentmail.to email domains are "inboxes for 'AI' agents" and ban/suspend any registration requests accordingly.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #AI #slop #LLM #FediBlock

Boosted by Mastodon:
imanijoy ("Imani") wrote:

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

I'm inspired to see many long-standing Fediverse supporters, moderators, admins, and code contributors volunteer their expertise for Discovery Week! I can't wait to learn from you all.

But we're missing some important voices: Non-technical users.

Which is why I have a favor to ask: Please share this post with someone you know who is a casual, non-technical user of Mastodon or any social platform. I want to make sure we're hearing from a wide range of perspectives!

https://app.hi.events/event/7472/roundtable-discussion-a-platform-with-flexible-protections-mastodon-discovery-week-2026

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

How I not only came to terms with the use of "artificial intelligence" to refer to LLM's and other products of the AI Industry, but to embrace it.

https://jasongullickson.com/artificial.html

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

i am starting to remember what being a distro maintainer feels like.

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

i am compiling c++, it does this.

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

oh yeah my system load graph just went WHEEEEEE

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

Many of you asked that I react to Richard Dawkins announcing that he fell for a chatbot. Instead of just pointing and laughing (my initial reaction obv) I dug into the “why” of it all: his obfuscations, insecurities, and utter sadness https://skepchick.org/2026/05/richard-dawkins-claude-delusion/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.

guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart

https://github.blog/open-source/register-now-for-openclaw-after-hours-github/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/116527948702666630

If you take one thing away from Dawkins’ chatbot delusion it should be this: Dawkins flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!
A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.
https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/05/ars-asks-share-your-shell-and-show-us-your-tricked-out-terminals/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
blainsmith@fosstodon.org ("B") wrote:

It is 2026 and people still email around PDFs as attachments collecting signatures from every party.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
finn@ice.finnley.dev ("Finn 🔜 #EF30") wrote:

"white collar"
"blue collar"
personally i don't care what color collar he puts on me

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ifin@infosec.exchange ("IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence Network") wrote:

This morning we decided to launch a "Vulnerabilities" category to track vulns without further actionable intelligence besides patching and monitoring. And wouldn't you know it, a crit on Palo Alto's User-ID portal showed up to ring it in!

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/cve-2026-0300-9-3-cvss-pan-os-unauthenticated-user-initiated-buffer-overflow-captive-portal/382

#CVE-2026-0300 #CVE #IFIN

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

right, well i'd better go remind myself how to package stuff for alpine

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tay@tech.lgbt ("taylor :blobfoxmlem:") wrote:

@dalias @lazza @Vivaldi okay - bit harsh, I do not _like_ the fact that AI technology exists in the form that it is today, yknow, i'm a software developer who got laid off and is actively struggling to find work, in large part due to proliferation of LLM code generation tools - so even I was a lot more receptive to AI technology, I'd still think it'd be hard to be a "slop apologist", but my view is that the cat is out of the bag. This technology _WILL_ continue to be developed, and yes, we SHOULD fight those who seek to do the "permanent underclass" bullshit, I think that's a no brainer, and I don't disagree that given the pushback we are seeing a welcome pull away from AI technologies, I think it is nothing more than wishful thinking to expect that we will see a complete wipeout of LLM usage

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

farce multiplier

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API:

Mozilla: Opposed
WebKit: Opposed
Microsoft: Several concerns
W3C TAG: Several concerns
Developers: Mostly negative

Chrome: Ships anyway.

A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

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

You have the opportunity to vote against calling a cheesy, sunday-school-level heap of nonsense as the best thing in Kentucky. Unless you hate Kentucky, in which case you might vote for this embarrassment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/a-kentucky-pharyngulation/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
technige@fosstodon.org ("Nigel Small") wrote:

They'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

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

What a fine day for a scientific study to come out that says my planned knee surgery may be worse than useless.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/go-ahead-ruin-my-day/

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

the good news is there is an opportunity sitting there for the taking. i can skip the having my cv weeded out and go straight to interview.

the bad news is that they want experience with agentic development. specifically i will have to be able to answer questions about my setup at the interview and at work they'll expect me to use it most of the time.

now i don't want to, i don't think i've made much of a secret for my distaste for it or the reasons why. on top of that, i am incredibly aware that i am human too and there is a very real risk that i could experience cognitive decline and ai psychosis just like anybody else. i don't know what to do about that other than to keep up hand programming when i'm not at work. but where do i find the energy?

anyway, the dire situation i find myself in doesn't really allow me to turn even such distasteful opportunities away. i'm absolutely not going here willingly, more like kicking and screaming, really.

so with that, i would like some non-judgmental advice on how to go about catching up with the latest muppetry securely at minimised ethical cost on slightly fucked hardware (i can't peg the cpu too hard or it will hang or reboot and it has an old graphics card (radeon wx5100 pro)).

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

i have been researching lightweight virtualisation and i can confirm that most virtualisation things advertise themselves as being for agents and have claude as a contributor.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote: