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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
peterdrake@mstdn.social ("Peter Drake") wrote:

Tomorrow I begin (with one undergraduate student) my new research project into accessible game development.

We hope to build a couple of simple games this summer using Godot. We might need to buy some art assets (3D models, icons, sounds, etc.), and I'd like to support disabled artists. If you are (or know of) such a person who has some assets available, please drop a link!

#accessibility #a11y #GameDev #art #DigitalArt

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

“Someone I didn’t know created something I didn’t know I needed next” is the best thing about the #Python and #PyConUS community.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Having watched the Challenger doc and thinking about all this LLM policy crap again, this fact about disaster prevention occurs to me:

If you prevent a disaster, most times, nobody will know about it. All we will be able to see are the costs incurred by the caution taken to prevent a potential disaster.

This is especially bad when coupled with capitalism loving to cut "expenses". Because there was no disaster (because of the caution), it leads to a false sense of security.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

The Polish government has advised officials to replace Signal with its national secure messenger platform mSzyfr: https://www.gov.pl/web/baza-wiedzy/rekomendacja-pelnomocnika-rzadu-ds-cyberbezpieczenstwa-dotyczaca-komunikatora-signal

mSzyfr release presser: https://www.gov.pl/web/baza-wiedzy/komunikator-mszyfr

This comes after Russian hackers have launched major Signal phishing operations this year.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

#MNWX

Mesoscale Discussion 0760
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0545 PM CDT Sun May 17 2026

Areas affected...portions of northern Iowa into southern Minnesota

Concerning...Severe potential...Tornado Watch likely

Valid 172245Z - 172345Z

Probability of Watch Issuance...80 percent

SUMMARY...The severe threat will increase over the next few hours.

Severe wind and hail are likely, with tornadoes also possible. A Tornado Watch needed soon to address the impending threat.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

re-reading https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf and realizing there is still a problem

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Also, if you need the underlying raw data for your shared links, just slap .json on the end of the URL and there’s a working endpoint there for that. e.g. https://adam.later.place/.json 🤓

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

In addition to displaying your links marked as Shared, any link that you’ve tagged with shared will be shown here too. This is a neat way to put stuff out there without having it appear on our main public/shared Linkding landing page.

Soon, you’ll be able to fully customize the template for your personal page (just like you can do with some.pics) for complete control over how things look and feel.

I’ll wrap all of this up soon, along with full documentation. Stay tuned! :prami_happy:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Still have some more work to do on this, but our custom later.place pages are coming along nicely. Here’s mine: https://adam.later.place

If you've shared any public links on our later.place Linkding instance, then you have a page like this too! Just plop your omg.lol address as a subdomain of later.place and you should see it.

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

completely destroyed the flight data recorder

holy shit, they build those things to survive crashes so they can figure out what went wrong afterwards.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
elly@front-end.social ("Elly Loel") wrote:

The Boring Internet

🔖 https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-boring-internet/

#Bookmarks #Web #Communication #Community #Feeds #History #IndieWeb #WebStandards #WhyYouNeedAPersonalWebsite

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Sat down to play Forza Horizon 6 today for first time.

*12 hours later* my arse hurts and now I'm a Japanese car god who crashes cars in hilarious and unique ways

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

i'm sure at least someone is wondering why on earth i would consider using a language that is not memory safe.

the short answer is i was never using rust because it was memory safe, i was using rust because the alternative was c++. memory safety was just a fringe benefit.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

meow

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

my brain is kinda turning off now because it's late, but i'm impressed at how much i was able to do fairly advanced things in zig with no prior knowledge today.

still getting my head around patterns for designing zig software. the HOT has some fairly demanding needs that previously only c++ is really able to solve (and there with limitations i'd like to improve upon!), but i think zig can probably be made to do it all, if only i knew how.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

(I will try, friends. I will try...)

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I emailed my rep btw. Please consider emailing yours.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Not to defend the state of software development, but the fact that a generative "AI" can eventually be made to spit out an application for somebody isn't proof that all software is built on bullshit busy work or something. It's proof that there are a lot of tutorials, howtos, and apps out there to train on. It's proof that things like stack overflow used to be a useful place for some people to get answers. It's proof human being were generally working together to help each other build things and answer questions. It's not proof of human failure. It's proof of human success.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This photo definitely does not work but I am fond of how it's capturing the moment

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Something something "landscape of contrasts" something something #iceland #photo #landscape

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dillyd@mastoart.social wrote:

#SilentSunday

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

Looks like they were correct to protest

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/frances-top-film-producer-says-it-will-blacklist-figures-who-petitioned-against-rightwing-billionaire

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Saw a starfish hangin out today

#wildlife

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Canadians, we have limited time to take action on C-22, the disaster surveillance (and much other terrible things) bill: https://opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.me/c22.html

Make your voice heard. There's not much time left!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
theresnotime@fox.nexus ("Sammy Arson Fox (am puppyfox)") wrote:

patting the Linux kernel and saying "don't worry, I'm vulnerable too"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mrtazz@chaos.social ("Daniel") wrote:

who called it reactivating and building new fossil fuel plants to account for the direly needed power demands of the paradigm shifting revolution of AI workloads instead of gaslighting

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@freya yeah... we almost never post despair-adjacent things in public because we don't want it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. hope is necessary, no matter how irrational it is. all the acceptable futures require having hope as part of how we get there.

but we figured we aren't the only ones who are really tired, and pretending otherwise is doing everyone a disservice

so it was worth trying to thread the needle and look for a way to reconcile those two things, this time

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

Can smarter #WebDev people explain why this page is so, so, so, slow on iOS, even with JavaScript disabled? I rarely encounter this on other websites. When I visit this page on iOS running VoiceOver, VoiceOver is extremely sluggish, to the point where it takes almost 30 seconds for a navigational swipe to register. I have no other tabs or no other apps open. https://audiodrama.directory/tag/narrated/