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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:
In the UK, “wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels for a record 15 months in a row. […] this included a full winter season for the first time in 2025-26.
Yes, that’s right, renewables work in the UK in the winter.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Nobody cared about my little tool for 4 years. But published it on a git forge, and two days later got 5 (five) feature requests[1]. No, not pull requests, *feature* requests. Someone decided to graciously enlighten me what I should spend my time on next.
And sure, they mostly look reasonable. That's not the point. I just keep being amazed about the completely broken contribution "culture" that's grown out of GitHub.
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:
If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:
“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”
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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:
Something very nice: Alabaster Dawn opens with a dialogue explaining that they would like to use analytics to help find Early Access bugs, and that asks your permission to collect and send telemetry. If you say yes, it pops up a "thank you" dialogue box.
Feels a lot less exploitative when there's a clear request, when consent is respected, and when they acknowledge what you're doing.
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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:
“To refuse is a creative act. What is created in a refusal is a gap, a space, a moment in which something else makes ready to emerge, something that waits upon our invitation and a bit of water or sunlight to pop itself out and set down roots. To refuse is to create that which can only exist in the shade of that refusal, the refusal giving shelter to the choice that appears behind it. *To refuse is to choose.*”
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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:
It is very possible some of you haven’t read @aworkinglibrary before. Her latest essay—on war, on work, on refusal—is possibly the best opportunity to remedy that: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
"Into the gap"
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap
> If we are truly committed to not working for war, we must not work for any of it. Not for the weapons manufacturers or the drone makers or the algorithm authors; not for the papers or the products or the schools.
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deabigt@universeodon.com ("David Abigt :verified: 🌎 🎄") wrote:
@tafnn That was almost year ago. Imagine the crowd now.
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tafnn@universeodon.com ("McSpocky") wrote:
When someone has a 63% disapproval rating and goes to a Yankees v. Tigers baseball game.
Sound up:
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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:
Hmm, one of my students found a message in a bottle from 1964 out wedged in rocks on Channel Islands National Park. Now with the appropriate authorities (considered a historical artifact). If anyone knows Becki Walters, formerly of Canoga Park, daughter of Roy A. Walters (Becki is now probably 77 and living in Tucson, Arizona as Becky Higgenbottom), give me a DM. #mystery #history
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joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:
✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Woah!
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:
momputers were a cistake
(is this anything?)
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PattyHanson ("Embrace Civil Disobedience") wrote:
Unless you live in #Nevada, you may not know Michelle Fiore. She may have been the 1st to post a Christmas photo of her family, including young kids, holding guns. The one below is from 2015
She's running for re-election.
...The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline charged suspended Pahrump Justice...Fiore with three judicial code violations, saying she should still face penalties despite receiving a presidential pardon...
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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
I’m going to suggest that the Flanagan campaign get on Mastodon or another Fedi server ASAP and participate in our community. I believe any progressive Democratic should. If Flanagan’s campaign does, and _only_ if it does, I will spearhead Fedi-for-Flanagan fundraising. This would be a chance for Flanagan - and the progressive Democratic electeds who back her - to learn the significance of our community. 5/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Having a little taxonomic awareness is a good idea.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/07/quit-blaming-loxosceles/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:
:neocat_laptop_notice:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
1 CPU (cat processing unit) https://lunar.place/notes/alxltc1g2m1901km
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obtener@mastodon.world ("Georgiann Baldino") wrote:
#Inflation #Affordabiity
"Central California peach farmers are preparing to destroy around 420,000 clingstone peach trees after Del Monte Foods shut down its canneries ...The closures left hundreds of workers without jobs and devastated growers, many of whom lost 20-year contracts with Del Monte and had few alternative buyers for their crops. Farmers could face an estimated $550 million in lost revenue, according to the Sacramento Bee." The Independent https://www.yahoo.com/finance/sectors/energy/articles/california-farmers-destroy-420-000-131908299.html
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Quantum_magazine@mstdn.science wrote:
Oxford scientists achieved the first experimental demonstration of “quadsqueezing,” a once-theoretical quantum effect that enables stronger control of quantum systems. The breakthrough could advance quantum computing, sensing, and simulation technologies.
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GlennMG@mas.to wrote:
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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:
Firm solar and wind with battery storage, capable of around-the-clock operation, is now cheaper than coal and gas (and much cheaper than nuclear)
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arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:
Thanks to @meena for prompting this - it's not like I'm some sort of Superior Programming Being whose every line of code is elegant snd brilliant and not worthy of the sweaty masses. I'm a tediously average programmer. I detest status-driven gatekeeping. I would like to share my work so the effort can be leveraged by others to do new and useful work. I support some ideal of open source circa 1995 where useful decent quality tooling is freely shared and available.
That is not the environment we live in today. Beyond the individual entitled ankle-biters that harass devs for not doing work they want for free, we now have this extreme corporate bullshit of "open source supply chain", that freely-provided _caveat utilitor_ code should be treated like code acquired under a commercial procurement agreement with formal specs, requirements, and standards for security, quality, and lifecycle management.
I work in this space in my day job, I'm the one who sets and verifies those specs for our acquired codes, and I'm going to say flat out, that is that absent an explicit agreement with a supplier, all that supply chain and capital-P procurement activity is *solely* on the code user, not on the code author, full stop. Screw off with that CTO/infosec/bureaucrat thinking. Into the sea with you.
For those of you in the back:
_IF THAT PROCUREMENT AND ASSURANCE WORK IS IMPORTANT TO YOUR ORGANIZATION, YOUR ORGANIZATION NEEDS TO PAY FOR IT_.Further:
_WITHOUT AN EXPLICIT AGREEMENT, NOBODY IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE TO YOU AT ANY PRICE_.And finally:
_WHAT PART OF 'USE AT YOUR OWN RISK' IS UNCLEAR TO YOU?_I will curse all day long about research-grade software being built and distributed by organizations who explicitly know they are working on nuclear safety applications and do not perform adequate diligence in design, implementation, and testing. This goes beyond #ResearchSoftwareEngineering - it's production software engineering practice. These are organizations who absolutely know how their code is used (we have monthly meetings with them). I hold these organizations and individuals to a higher standard because this is quite literally our jobs.
By contrast, this is not the job of @bagder and expecting or demanding he do some corporation's or industry's V&V and SQA work is laughable, expecting him to do it _for free_ is arrogant, insulting, and delusional.
But this is where we are now with sharing our code. Ethically, I believe anyone who puts their code in public bears some personal responsibility to ensure it's of a reasonable level of quality, functionality, and security. It's as if you were bringing homemade food to a potluck - the expectation is that it's edible and not spoiled or adulterated. You aren't expected to disclose every significant allergen, provide a list of ingredients, or a nutritional statement but you're expected to wash your hands, use clean utensils and ingredients of good quality, and ensure the food is cooked all the way through.
That's gatekeeping, absolutely, and I won't apologize for setting that demand or an analogous one for "potluck" software.
I am old enough to remember Matt's Script Archive and I have seen what happens when we don't do this sort of positive gatekeeping. For those unfamiliar, Matt was the Typhoid Mary of insecure internet software and his formmail.pl script was the poster child for bad and dangerous code you found for free on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%27s%5FScript%5FArchive
And while I appreciate he was a teenager when he posted most of that code, as an adult he was repeatedly told how damaging his code was and yet he kept distributing broken versions for YEARS.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Some of my little friends like rock-climbing.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/07/all-it-takes-to-make-a-girl-happy-is-a-big-rock/
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ploopy/116527277517059346
Wholesomeposting like this on main smdh
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
okay i have no idea what i did but it works now.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Because I know some creative types feel weird about promoting their own stuff when the world is on fire, this is a GUILT FREE SELF-PROMOTION THREAD. People need a break from the horrors! Your stuff will provide that! Tell us what you've got for sale! Include links!
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I have experienced this with options/development and it is aggravating AF (although to be fair to Hollywood, it's not just them who do this, I've had publishing deals that have taken the better part of a year to get fully papered). The one "advantage" I have here is that my primary income is elsewhere, so I don't starve while the deal drags on, which is a luxury other some other writers dealing with film/TV don't have. But that doesn't mean it's not still a problem.
RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DYCV5%5F-lD1u
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pojntfx ("Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅") wrote:
@onepict It's so well written it even got my nonexistant attention span to respawn
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onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:
@pojntfx That post is utter perfection.