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

i have apparently been writing c too long again already and typed 'uint32_t' where i meant 'u32'.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you've ever thought to yourself, "sure, Twisted sounds neat, but isn't it done yet, it sure seems like network sockets are more or less a solved problem", I would encourage you to read this decade-old issue and all the discussion (both recent and historical) and also the resources it links to https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/9101

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and his business partner Dario Amodei want to change this law, they are in a significantly more efficacious social position to do so than I am. I hope they will devote their considerable personal resources to its fair reform. They should go do that. Until then, though, regrettably, they must all go to federal prison.

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bengerman@hachyderm.io ("Ben Berry") wrote:

Health app: There's been a change in your steps per day (over the last 5 days)
Health app: There's been a change in your hours of sleep (over the last 5 days)
Email app: Take the #PyConUS attendee survey

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is a bad law and I oppose its presence on our books. I do not think that copyright infringement should be a criminal offense. But the only thing that I dislike about copyright law more than its bad design is its selective enforcement. We cannot have "heads I win, tails you lose" enforcement of the law for oligarchs.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116602626276300598

I really want to stress that copyright infringement is a civil infraction unless you pass the specific tests set out in US law that make it a criminal infraction (>$1000 retail value worth of infringement). I am not a lawyer but it seems clear to me that every frontier model provider should have its models seized (as they are derivative works) and all their executives should spend a year in jail https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506

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

this morning i have to pollute my CV with uh... current trends. can't wait 😬

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are layers to the irony here; to wit, the faulty page is the one that lets you schedule repairs when your Apple hardware is broken

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.

Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

shot, chaser

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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

OH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I cannot express how much I love this 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MhS9uEv2M

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

now it's time
for a fancy little bookend

now it's time
to tie up all the loose ends

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

liberating this classic from a followers-only conversation because you all deserve to behold the long-ago glory of the height of my powers https://legacy.python.org/workshops/2002-02/papers/09/index.htm

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nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

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WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop ("Alex is Adjusting") wrote:

Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest weakness?

Me: My commitment to quality. I can't stop myself from making sure I understand what's expected of me, or that I get the job done right.

Interviewer: ...how is that a weakness

Me: have you *seen* the tech industry lately. In the age of AI, doing your best work and caring about your impact is a fireable offense. That's how I lost my last job.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

- Me: You see, the question really is this: can we eat the rich, burn all AI data centers, run our entire economy on renewables AND move to real engineering for any and all software BEFORE global warming catches up with us?

- Them: Sir, this is a Wendy's.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@MichaelWest also available in Amsterdam

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MichaelWest@mastodon.ie ("Michael West") wrote:

Village library #books France

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lifewithtrees@mstdn.social wrote:

Were you referred to as “the weird kid” growing up / Do you consider yourself to be “weird” as an adult?

#AskFedi

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

Let's look at the view.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #window

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

if you would also like to show your appreciation the tip jar is here https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

The dirty secret of expertise is that most experts in any field would rank their own profession's average competence somewhere between alarming and indictable

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

TFW a western youtuber discovers the kinds of devices that have been selling by the billions for a decade:

https://youtu.be/5sC5ys31AEg

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

On the way home from #PyConUS 2026. Quite an experience this year; very intense. No point in sugar-coating the part where there is a pervasive vibe-sickness, open source is suffering a massive sustainability crisis, slop security PRs are overwhelming everyone (etc etc). But there was a lot of hope, a lot of energy, a lot of effort toward mutual understanding, and (surprising to me) a lot of *appreciation*. Including for my own work, both writing and coding.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

A few people on and offline have asked if I'd be willing to build or offer consultation for their websites. If anyone here is also curious about that too, the answer is yes. Brief accessibility audits are generally free for individuals and charities, but I only have so much time and I'm 1 person.

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milagemayvary@mstdn.social wrote:

@tymwol @rysiek

When possible, use archive.org

archive.today also owns the urls:
archive.fo
archive.is
archive.li
archive.md
archive.ph
archive.vn

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Archive.today has begun rolling out Google's reCaptcha as well, which is concerning when it can be altered.

I do not have evidence, but I can see how this could possibly be a malware vector in the future.

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aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

Relatable: https://huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-not-a-software-engineer/

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

Why am I only just now finding out a weasel rode a woodpecker. This should be a much bigger part of my life.

Weasel Rides Woodpecker in Viral Photo

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150303-weasels-woodpeckers-animals-science-weaselpecker-photos