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

Another tiny house. I'm not sure what this was used for.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust

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

An old storage shed that was next to an abandoned summer cabin.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #chair

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I refresh the page in a new window and get the "click on bridges" prompt again.

So Google is controlling whether you do the app verification?

This can't be good....

Anyway I refuse to download the app as long as I can so I hope this doesn't get used for anything important

I don't love the privacy implications

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

And I got my first reCaptcha that requires an app.

I already miss clicking on bridges

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

(why do i have to ask the hard questions?)

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

so how do we get zig users to wear programming socks?

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

Space Virgins are back with a double movie podcast. Find out why Drew rated these films so highly.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gFZ8Y2XjG6exEJSLe7VdNH

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
muon@normal.style wrote:

"traditional american values" were invented by advertising executives from ford and coca-cola in 1952

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

OH: “Now that I work on infrastructure, I don’t build anything”

#PyConUS

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

This is the purest expression of AI development I’ve ever seen: spending $1.3 million dollars in tokens to make a pretty graph showing you how much you’ve spent on tokens.

https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
halla@kde.social ("Halla Rempt") wrote:

@cwebber I still buy lots of paper books. But I actually cannot read them anymore.

I need an ereader's ability to enlarge fonts to rather silly sizes.

But with that, I can still read dozens of books a month.

Thank you @gutenberg_org for giving me enough reading material to last me a lifetime.

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

ohohoho

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

for anyone who enjoys my posts and is looking for more AI critique, I unfortunately don’t write anything long form

but @kimcrawley and the good folks at @stopgenai do, and they need your support to keep going: https://stopgenai.com/?page%5Fid=110

in addition, @davidgerard’s journalism is indispensable: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/16/pivot-to-ai-needs-your-support-sign-up-to-the-patreon-today/

posts like mine aren’t possible without the work of activists and journalists. what they do is unprofitable but crucial for the truth to survive.

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

Maybe it's old person shit but I dunno I love holding a physical book and reading it still. But I especially love not having to use DRM to read books, and I love libraries

Having "just paper" in front of me can be really comforting and can help me tune out distractions and enjoy the material at hand

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

I really like the Kingston libraries I have visited, and I have spent a lot of happy time in them and reading books I have borrowed from them since I got here

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

inebriated person in the parking lot doing drunk'in donuts

Boosted by jwz:
Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:

"If you tax billionaires, they will use their incomprehensible wealth to construct a 1:1 replica of Minas Tirith, capitol of Gondor, built by the sons and daughters of Númenor in the Second Age, don the traditional robes of the steward-lords, douse themselves in oil, set themselves ablaze, run screaming across the High Court, and hurl themselves from the rocky precipice that juts out above the city like the bow of a great ship!"

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

Attachments:

• gifv: Animated gif of someone setting themselves on fire and yeeting themselves off of a very, very tall precipice

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So with Mac mini shipping dates for every model out past mid-June, are we just ordering M4s now and assuming they’ll ship M5 machines if the new ones are announced at wwdc?

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

PHP[tek] 2026 starts tomorrow in Chicago, and I won't be there.
Not because the schedule doesn't look interesting. A few talks would have caught my attention: event-driven architecture for resilient PHP apps, advanced SQL features most of us quietly ignore, semantic search and embeddings, or the NativePHP track. Even the advanced PHPUnit session sounds like the kind of deep dive I rarely make time for.
But flying thousands of kilometers for a three-day conference just doesn't fit with how I try to live. That's my call, not a criticism of anyone making the trip. Enjoy Chicago, enjoy the talks, enjoy the hallway conversations that often end up being the best part anyway... and share on the Fediverse ^^

#phptek #php #conference

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
karpour@mstdn.social ("Karpour") wrote:

Hoard

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

we regret to inform you that we do not, in fact, regret to inform you at all

Boosted by jwz:
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

✨:neocat_gun:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Things I wish journalists knew

* If you report the right-wing dogwhistle, without explaining that it's a dogwhistle, all you're doing is right-wing propaganda

* CEO's/powerful people lie, and it's legal to remind your readers of this when you report on another lie

* Running at a loss due to private investment, then regulatory capture, followed by the inevitable rug-pull is the entire "tech" playbook, stop being naive

* Feel-good "success in adversity" articles are actually just victim-blamey

jwz wrote:

Today in hot superyacht probs...

"Use google to sign in to your private jet!" "and the question every CEO eventually has to answer: who's next?"
https://jwz.org/b/yk7b

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

I just made this joke: what do you call a pickled deer? A dill doe. LOLOLOL

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The Burnham/Brexit thing is terrarium of Labour's failure: by not confronting lies in the past, and not being willing to call them out now, they both deprive themselves of real arguments about inequality and come off as triangulating, rather than honest.

This isn't hard; e.g.: "Farage lies about who is making us poorer because dividing people that work is how those who don't escape paying their fair share. He lied then, and it's hurt us for a decade. And he's lying now to cover his tracks."

jwz wrote:

Sometimes, when two fighter jets love each other very much...

"Maverick, you can ride my tail any time."
https://jwz.org/b/yk7Z

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

with regret, i have just remembered that file systems.

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

you can read it yourself here, but i advise having a stiff drink ready. https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/13/files

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

another day, another badly written LLM ban (guix).

the good:

• lists some of the harms
• lists the legal uncertainty

the bad:

• praises the output of proprietary models?!
• pretty please don't send us slop

the ugly:

• actually you can slop as much as you like as long at it's not more than 15 lines at a time?!
• calling it a clear stance against AI, which it blatantly is not