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jwz wrote:

wat

# cd /nope 2>/dev/null
# cd /nope 2>&-
bash: cd: /nope: No such file or directory
# (cd /nope) 2>&-

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

hugops to the github staff dealing with yet another outage today. the hugs only extend so far though. executives should be fired and shamed. leadership that is repeatedly creating this situation needs to be held accountable.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

relatedly: wow do we ever need better tooling for this. "what program, on what computer, is causing this ephemeral network connection to be made" is shockingly difficult to investigate even for someone with my level of experience. I'm sure that I'm only in the top 0.1% and the top 0.0001% could have done it much more quickly but still

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gem@kind.social ("Gem ♪") wrote:

I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a prose-poem about a moment between two people. Maybe it was a dream, a memory, or just a mood.

https://gem.bearblog.dev/a-knowing/

#MicroFiction #Poetry #Prose #ProsePoetry

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

i have gotten llama.cpp to build, hallelujah. in theory it is now optimised for this machine, thus giving me the best chance at getting useful performance out of it.

tomorrow i'll build a docker image with it. i was reminded that i don't have a new enough graphics card for passing through my graphics card while using it to render my desktop, so virtualisation with pci passthrough is out.

then i'll look at some of the things to plug into it. can't wait 😬

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
yesjohn ("john 🌦️") wrote:

2020, i start redecorating my bedroom. im consistent at working out. there's a mysterious virus happening overseas. it's probably nothing.

2026, i start redecorating my bedroom. im consistent at working out. there's a mysterious virus happening overseas. it's probably nothing.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

TIL: Unifi OS just runs nmap all the time. this explains some mystery behavior I see in logs while developing Twisted & friends: https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2021/q3/6

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

After sending what seems like the daily "GH down for anyone else?" message to my team, someone responded with this gem:

https://red-squares.cian.lol/

A satirical contribution graph: red squares track GitHub.com platform outages instead of green squares tracking commits.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZR2RFAObg

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

This guy acknowledged the reality of oppression in Gaza, and now pro-Israel fanatics want his head on a stick.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/free-speechunless-you-criticize-the-gaza-genocide/

Derek Peterson

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

ok so this has to exist but it's basically impossible to search for; does anyone know of a fictional work that's written in the form of a spreadsheet?

all the hits for "fictional spreadsheet" are about using a spreadsheet to plan your novel but what about putting your story in a spreadsheet and the spreadsheet is the story?

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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

Lots of people around me are doing heroin these days. To truly evaluate whether heroin is the right choice for me, I decided I needed to also start doing heroin. And after months of heroin use, I too am unable to stop doing heroin. Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool

This post is about LLMs

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

I've got no career as a bird photogapher.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/stupid-birds-dont-like-me/

red-winged blackbird, I guess

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Nobody who has ever tried to make me feel small has possessed a life or a heart I admired. Says Skeletor thinking sometimes you can just stop at “possessed a heart”.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gem@kind.social ("Gem ♪") wrote:

I don't usually watch the anatomy of a song, but this one by Linda Perry (of 4 Non Blondes) is pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyEDyYYzPH8

Looking forward to the new album released this Friday. https://lindaperry.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-die-here

#Alternative #Music #NewMusic

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

Kinda hate that AI is so well suited to exploit loneliness during a time when it feels like everyone is a bit more lonely and isolated than usual.

If I get one more ad for an AI girlfriend I'm gonna lose it lol.

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Started my movie ratings list on my website, partly for the Space Virgins podcast, but also to practice my bash. Take a look:

https://chriswere.wales/movie-ratings.html

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

THE COUNCIL WILL NOW DECIDE YOUR FATE

my contribution to this year's Polar Lights Zine, with proceeds benefiting the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.

You can still get your own copy of the zine for $2 here:
https://polarlightszine.itch.io/

#art #Birds #BirdArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots

a digital painting featuring puffins. One takes up most of the right side of the image, facing the viewer, with a proud white belly and black back, webbed orange feet, a triangular orange bill, and fancy eyelashes. He stands on a rock specked with lichen. Behind him there are tiered cliff faces, each level containing more and more puffins, all of whom seem to be judging the viewer.

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Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby!

https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Pro tip: To figure out What's Really Going On™ with an issue in tech, think about the expensive but necessary thing that the techbros are trying to avoid that would probably kill their business model if it were required by law

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ratamero@idlethumbs.social ("Erick Ratamero") wrote:

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief! This is a volunteer position (as everything else at JOSS), but a great chance to steer one of the coolest things in the academic publishing realm. https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call-for-editor-in-chief

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.” Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also ignorant.”

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
srtcd424@mas.to ("Steven Reed") wrote:

@GerhardD @jwildeboer

"In 1962 l was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions."

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

The man has definitely wandered off the deep end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/dogpile-on-dawkins/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02pBnDkV0rQ

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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

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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

A photo of a canon eos 600d with a yellow coloured filter on its lens. A glass plane with a flatflex cable lays next to the camera
A vibrant photo down a concrete path. It is lined with pink grass and vibrant, almost glowing pink trees. It’s not flowers, but the entire foliage is bright pink. The visible path of sky is clouded and turquoise coloured
A photo up a grass hill. Two trees grow ontop, a few humans are beneath the trees. The whole foliage bright pink, glowing in sunlight. The sky behind the trees is dramatic and turquoise, it’s all cloud. A contrasty and solemn image

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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

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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

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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

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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

A cartoon illustration of Batman, Robin, and Gordon all sitting at a cafe table while Batman sees a Bat signal coming from the barista bar. Caption reads "Oh, hey! Looks like my latte's ready!"