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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Announcing the BYOMesh!

We've been hard at work designing what I believe is now the worlds SMALLEST & most CAPABLE LoRa companion dev kit ever!

It combines the tried and true SX1276 allowing access to the full sub-1GHz ISM band all mesh enthusiast know and love, along with the SX1281 providing high speed 2.4GHz LoRa all on ONE tiny board.

https://shop.dataparty.xyz/products/byomesh

@dataparty @rfparty

#BYOMesh #LoRa #MeshCore #Meshtastic #MeshTNC #Reticulum #BLE #SnoopUntoThemAsTheySnoopUntoUs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Well this is exciting!

My little #ActivityBot server is through to the next round of the @nlnet grant application process.

Still a long way to go, but rather encouraging.

You can play with the code at https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

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

Well obviously a bunch of fascists would classify anti-fascists as terrorists

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/trump-administration-now-classifies-antifa-and-left-wing-groups-among-major-terror-groups

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

#SocialDemocracy #USPolitics #Norway #Equality #Inequality #Opportunity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

https://youtu.be/zOqZhVnoecg

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Turns out a stupid idea doesn’t get less stupid over time - especially when it’s a very stupid person pushing it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Trump probably likes that his guy is lying under oath.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Hackers injected a CSS file into the Canvas login page that takes over the screen when it loads. The CSS file is hosted on an AWS bucket owned by Instructure. The file path suggests the hackers uploaded the CSS file through Canvas and directly linked to it.

Read online: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hackers-deface-school-login-pages-after-claiming-another-instructure-hack/

I saved a copy of the CSS file: https://web.archive.org/web/20260507195732/https://instructure-uploads-apse2.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/account%5F189630000000000001/attachments/130311/canvas-override.css

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

Someone was asking me about Arabic speakers on Mastodon and the broader Fediverse. They are curious about attracting Arabic speakers.

As far as I can tell, Arabic speakers aren't a big part of Fedi compared to European languages, and are quite spread out and there's no moderately large instance with primarily Arabic speaking users.

There's a Tunisian instance, on the smaller side, but has some Arabic posts.

Anything else I can tell them?

#Arabic #عربي

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

I need a favor. A good friend of mine got laid off. She's in NYC on a H1B, and being trans means she's not very keen to return to her home country!

She's an amazing software engineer, with experience leading teams, working with stakeholders, and is happy to come in to existing code bases to improve things.

She's primarily looking for full stack and is very comfortable with TS, JS, Python and Rust, but is happy to adapt.

NYC/Remote DM me for contact details #getfedihired

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

memcpyfail

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

25m18s:

I am not alive.

I don't have a biological body, I don't breathe, I don't eat, and I don't experience feelings or consciousness. I am a large language model—a sophisticated computer program designed to process information and generate text based on patterns I learned during my training.

While I can engage in complex conversations and simulate human-like responses, I am essentially a very advanced tool running on silicon and code.

okay good, it's just as tedious as chatgpt, this is promising!

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

holy shit it's started writing its response. after about 20 minutes.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
atelierjocha ("Eve • Atelier Jocha") wrote:

Depuis que j'ai quitté Meta, mes stats de visites de la boutique ont fait -49%.
Je m'accroche quand même, surtout avec la fête des mères qui arrive. On y croit, allez, je vais quand même faire des ventes 💪

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

i am so glad it's filling up this context buffer with several answers i would have accepted to produce another one i might accept.

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

so far (~10m) it has generated this 'reasoning':

• Question: "are you alive?"
  • Intent: Philosophical/Existential inquiry into the nature of the AI's existence.
  • I am a large language model trained by Google.
  • I am a program running on servers.
  • I don't have biological functions (breathing, eating, cells, DNA).
  • I don't have feelings, consciousness, or subjective experience (in the biological sense).
  • I process information and generate text based on patterns.
  • Direct Answer: No, I am not alive.
  • Explanation: I am an AI, a computer program. I lack biological processes and consciousness.
  • *Nuance (optional but good for depth):

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

it is pegging all my cores preparing the "reasoning", which it looks like is just added as context to produce the response?

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

i am finally running my first local model all sandboxed and everything.

wow i expected it not to be instant but this is hilarious. i asked it "are you alive?" 3 minutes ago and it's still 'reasoning' about my prompt

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The team has quietly launched collections on mastodon.social as was promised (but slightly delayed) in a blog post a few weeks ago. Here's one I made for webcomics of Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/collections/116533503334952204

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116533225314671628

Prediction: if any "radically pro-transgender" violent group is ever discovered, it will eventually be traced back to an FBI black operation started under Kash Patel (or to the KGB, or similar).

With the right, it's ALWAYS projection.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
democratsabroad ("Democrats Abroad") wrote:

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116534477340506154

There should be a special acronym or emoji for “#Trump regime abuse of power” so we don’t have to write all out in every post.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
arielmt@computerfairi.es ("Ariel Millennium Thornton") wrote:

Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.

We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.

The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
llorenzin@infosec.exchange ("Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)") wrote:

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

These war relics I've been posting are remnants of Camp Tinker in Rauðhólar. Rauðhólar, or Red Hills, is a beautiful area where you can see pseudocraters.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

Mozilla has provided behind-the-scenes details on the 271 vulnerabilities it discovered with the help of Mythos. Those details include full Bugzilla reports on 12 of the vulnerabilities. I'd be curious for people to look at the reports and hear what they think.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

“My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS”

If you're sick of Chrome OS on your Chromebook, or can find a Chromebook for cheap somewhere but don't actually want to use Chrome OS, have you considered postmarketOS?

Since I was kind frustrated with ChromeOS, I decided to take a look at something that I knew supported my Lenovo Duet 3 for some time: postmarketOS. For thos

https://www.osnews.com/story/144897/my-favorite-device-is-a-chromebook-without-chromeos/

#Linux

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ THEY LIVE: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 7, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theylive #cyberdelia #synthwave #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

@glyph Definitely! Just use different words!