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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

I cannot decide which of my dumb forest dogs to bring to Anthrohio… They won’t all fit in the car. #fursuit

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I've had a few kind folks reach out to see if I'm okay after the whole IETF ordeal.

Folks, I'm fine.

Hell, these days I'm mostly a C2SP contributor.

I'll still work with the IETF or W3C only when I must, but I frankly don't mind being moderated or whatever, since my work is going into specifications not IETF bikeshedding.

C2SP is the future of real world cryptography, not IETF.

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

"Wait… SQLAlchemy Core Support?", I hear you ask. Yes, #DBXS supports #SQLAlchemy Core, and has done so for quite some time. This was previously undocumented so I can certainly forgive you for not knowing.

So the *real* story of this release is not so much any big code changes, but rather updated dependency testing as well as *comprehensive documentation* for the SQLAlchemy feature. This may teach you a few things you didn't know about #Python database support. https://dbxs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto.html#sqlalchemy-core-support

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

An article about AI and how easy it is for us critics to slip into generating our own kind of slop manually if we aren't careful:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/whats-left-to-say

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

the network that would become the internet sent its first message on october 29, 1969 which makes the internet a scorpio

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
sinvega@mas.to ("Sin Vega") wrote:

A big thing I am still learning with adhd is fighting off the urge to overcommit to things because you feel ashamed and guilty and frustrated about the things you weren't able to do before

It's still really hard. Medication went well for me, but that's double edged, because even two years on, I'm still getting used to managing my new capacity.

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

btw, a former samsung exec and current advisor to samsung says memory prices will probably be back to normal within a year.

so hold out if you can, it's so worth it.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116613185928093652

Don't find yourself cheering a brand for criticising another brand. They are laundering their own reputation.

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

the good news is i correctly guessed at the zig pattern to use.

the downside is it's not quite as ergonomic

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ello@void.ello.tech ("gemma lynn") wrote:

please enjoy this photo of my happy dog being happy

#dogstodon #dogs #whiteswissshepherd

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

Someone shared a link to Hister

I have wanted this for YEARS but - until now - all the implementations sucked & I didn't have the time / energy to write my own.

It's a private self-hosted search engine that indexes all the pages your browser visits so that you can search for things you've seen but can't remember where.

Really nice UI. Easy to exclude domains / pages via the browser extension. Optional advanced query syntax.

Just getting started with it but so far,

https://hister.org

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

An immensely frustrating thing about all this isn't just how little any real sophistication is needed to ablate the worst of these threats but how hostile stewards of these ecosystems are to making changes that might mitigating them.

So much of this stuff is just... wash your hands. We can get to penicillin and vaccines eventually. Please just wash your hands. The default settings should look a lot like a checklist with "did you wash your hands" on it.

https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116613055359091034

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

Coding agents, the inattentiveness, automation and confirmation biases, their inherent insecurity, and the common insecurity of their output all exacerbate the issue but what's coming to a head is the fact that we've been letting software quality, design, and usability slide for over a decade.

When you let things slide for over ten years, there comes a point where everything simply falls apart.

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/116612806345022171

People have been warning for years that VS Code extensions, npm, GitHub Actions and similar systems were all insecure as designed. Add to that a pervasive monoculture and slop automation and we're in a disaster that simply didn't need to happen. npm could have been safer by default. GitHub Actions could have been better designed. VS Code could have sandboxed extensions better.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/116612806345022171

Dunno, maybe FLOSS projects should not pool themselves in a single centralized forge (incidentally, owned by a company famously hostile to FLOSS, but that's kind of beside this particular point).

By the way, I honestly haven't a clue why hackers have to be dragged into every "computer security bad" story. "Attackers". "Malicious actors". Plenty of options that do not besmirch a creative community of fun people.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
malcircuit@thingy.social ("Mallory's Musings & Mischief") wrote:

One cell to another: This cancer thing is the future. It's here to stay. You really need to adapt and learn how to incorporate cancer into your critical functions or you're going to get left behind.

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

hissing and crawling out of my grave

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:

Racial colorblindness is racism. Pointedly ignoring race just lets racism fester and breed. These are facts that can and must coexist with the fact that everyone's just people.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:

This also applies to people from countries whose governments are committing atrocities, btw.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:

No ethnicity is magic. No ethnicity is savage. No ethnicity is inherently wise. They're just people.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

This Saturday May 23rd, 8pm-9pm ET,
I host a comedy fundraising auction benefiting the Otherwise Award (celebrating scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our notions of gender). I'll make nerdy jokes. You can come and have fun without bidding on anything. It's online (Zoom/YouTube livestreams + Discord).

To attend, register for the feminist sf/f convention WisCon.Tickets are sliding scale, USD$0-$5-$25-$65. And you'll also get the chance to enjoy well-moderated panels, readings of new work, a curated fanvid show, and other sessions, May 22-25, many of which will include CART (real time captioning by a human). More info:

https://wiscon.net/2026/05/21/how-to-wiscon/

https://wandering.shop/@OtherwiseAward/116578650117826373

#WisCon #WisCon2026 #WisCon48

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

Pokétmin Village

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
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 cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

I'm still angry/mad that the display/model tents in stores aren't actually just a tent for your pet that you can buy.

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

Trump seems to think Venezuela & Cuba are basically the same situations. I think Trump is going to order an attempt to kidnap Castro, as an attempt to shore up MAGA popularity in Florida in this midterm year.

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

breakfast

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

Comparing the pre-2022 web with the current web is fascinating.

Sometimes I notice LLM writing quirks before 2022 and go "oh, yeah, sometimes people just write that way". Sometimes there's a mysterious adoption of LLM writing quirks coinciding with when LLMs got more mainstream. I notice older writing tends to be much more information-dense. Sometimes I see LLM patterns in text I have no reason to believe is LLM-generated, simply because That Style is absorbed into people's brains now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

"But behind the headlines, lies the truth: AI is taking all the cash from the biggest names in the market. In fact, in just five quarters (2025 through 1Q26), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Oracle (ORCL) burned a combined $563 billion in free cash flow (FCF)."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/05/20/ai-is-devouring-all-the-cash/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

@devilslattice a number of things including but not limited to:

• expressing design intent
• verifying that specific workflows work as expected
• verifying that specific failure modes occur as expected
• controlling for regressions

but not including:

• describing how the current implementation happens to work without any input from its designers

(except in cases where you have a legacy system you're trying to replace and have to reproduce its behavior exactly, which is not the case here or pretty much anywhere else this AI-produced garbage would be posted.)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Spotted on the tube