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

The web was always about more than interactive social fun though.

Our internet has always been a source of non-corporate and commercial information.

Wikipedia is by far the largest example of that. Small specialised fish like overfishing.org are absolutely a non-trivial part of this system as well.

And this bit of the system is threatened with extinction today. Even when current websites might be somewhat maintained I don't see any new ones pop up.

It should worry everyone.

9/6 (....)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

Consider: federated search protocol where a server manually selects some websites to index and will pass search results on to other allow-listed (or non-blocked) servers upon request, so you can build up a network of useful websites and search results without any one server having to host an overly large database.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
harrysintonen@infosec.exchange ("Harry Sintonen") wrote:

All my attempts to communicate a vulnerability in #Signalapp have failed - I have not received any response to my multiple messages to them. Good people have tried to forward my concern to them (and I am thankful for your efforts and help), yet this has been to no avail.

I am disappointed in the lack of communication from Signal. I will be disclosing the full details of the issue later today (with end-user mitigations), after the six-month anniversary of the initial report.

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

I had an amazing dream last night where the tech companies finally got their comeuppance

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Slightly paraphrasing LB, but damn "wages are the problem AI is trying to solve" is one hell of a sentence.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ThePlant ("Liam S-H") wrote:

By the end of the year, the web is going to be a very different place if Google continue their planned AI rollout.

So many sites will end up shutting as Google has historically been the source of most traffic.

Others will pivot even further to content slop and spam Reddit, plenty already have.

Apocalyptic stuff.

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

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116617015192202090

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live:

I don’t like crowds (or people TBH) so, excepting the occasional non consensual exposure to an unfortunate local band at a pub, the list is quite short

David Bowie (during the Outside tour)
Sigurrós

I also once went to see Saint Etienne perform but I honestly don’t remember why I went

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

Seeing posts side by side on Mastodon today where one cites hard data—but locked behind a paywall—that “AI” companies are losing a lot of money on inference and the next post is a person saying talk about “AI” companies losing money isn’t credible because of the tone and style of the non-paywalled punditry

Our modern information ecosystem in a nutshell.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neriman@wikis.world ("Nemoralis") wrote:

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.

Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and volunteers

A solidarity initiative is now underway across Wikimedia projects.

Read more & consider supporting:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NEZZ25FAX3VMBERKWBLZQ4KFVMIIF5HJ/

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

sometimes i start the week mapping out five stories i can cover and then events transpire otherwise and i might get to 0 or 1

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

WE GOT THE FUCKIN FLAT

KEYS AVAILABLE FROM THURSDAY

FUCKING W00000000T

GLASGOW HERE WE COME*

* with *two* months'notice on the current place (£4600 fml) and a moving bill in the thousands, and also i'll need to hire a van so i can drive up the animals and the fragile musical instruments and then come back down to supervise cleaners and lalalalalalalala 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

hey! if you're on Bluesky, please post there and let people know I'm alive and well and posting at https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard

and the wonderful AI coverage never stops

thank you!

also if you post on bsky about the fundraiser (moving, laptop), it will be *most* helpful https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/16/pivot-to-ai-needs-your-support-sign-up-to-the-patreon-today/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

"The [London, UK] Metropolitan Police has been blocked from signing a contract worth up to £50m with the US technology firm Palantir, after London's deputy mayor refused to approve the deal...

...It also cited concerns around the firm's values and ethics, although legally this cannot influence a deal refusal."

Good. Palantir can get directly in the bin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1e11px0o

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Incident Creator ❎") wrote:

Two days ago a spaceship full of drugs landed in Australia. News coverage wasn't exactly widespread.

Varda are working with an indigenous community (not against them) to manufacture drugs in zero g on orbit that cannot be made on Earth. These are typically small volume for rare conditions, or experimental pathfinders. They've been doing one every 3 or 4 months. Just thought somebody should know.

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

(Source: my elderly relatives.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

if you're an American who likes AI, you're in the minority. this isn't a Mastodon bubble opinion, Americans generally just really fuckin' hate AI. excellent and comprehensive roundup of the polling here. https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-america-turned-against-ai-according

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

We’re at the stage of the bubble where the elderly and retired start to talk about the amazing revolution that is “AI” and start buying “AI training courses for the elderly” because they think they’re missing out on a tech purpose-designed to make office and creative industry workers unemployed

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

“I Did Not Come to This Kids Party for an AI Sermon - Justin Ribeiro, Ph.D.”

https://justinribeiro.com/chronicle/2026/05/21/i-did-not-come-to-this-kids-party-for-an-ai-sermon/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

The Fat Controller has made some ridiculous decisions in Thomas the Tank engine but his biggest mistake is not standardising the fleet. The chaps at the depot could save plenty of confusion and delay by having a standard fleet of locomotives.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

Trans Finder is so popular that it literally CRASHED my Mastodon instance for several hours

I'm unemployed and REALLY need money so uuuuhhh

If I said "send me like, $5 or something on Ko-Fi" would folks be interested in getting one with [insert pride flag of your choice] ?

They're 2133 x 2133 pixels and I'll send you the PNG and a PSD if you want it

I can probably figure out how to make them actually replace the finder icon if you use a Mac, too

https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@soatok
Algo-speak is a language of fascism in my eyes.
It's dehumanising, culture-erasing (algorithms are biased to "White English") and disarming.

The appropriation (something new I learnt) is a "great" example of it. If you want an Eastern Bloc equivalent of this, I recommend looking up "Normalization in Czechoslovakia".

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kirakira@furry.engineer ("The Prime Minister of Lesbania :lesbian_flag: :verified:") wrote:

i actually do think this would have weight in an "owning your own productivity" sort of way if absolutely nothing else but that's indefinitely next quarter's problem, i'm sure

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kirakira@furry.engineer ("The Prime Minister of Lesbania :lesbian_flag: :verified:") wrote:

i do think it's funny that any company that wants a huge influx of extremely good engineers could just say "we are not doing ai" on the careers site

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

I have invented a new dessert.

I started by robbing a trainload of ice cream. Then I combined that with some sugar I "harvested" from my neighbor's kitchen. Then, I mix it all together, and spoonfeed it to your boss until he gets all sugar high. Then, I jack up the price to $100/mo and use that money to hire more train robbers.

I call it "Agentic Ice Cream" and I'm doing a funding round now. Free enterprise, baby.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Cohnina@mendeddrum.org wrote:

Rakuten Kobo and StoryGraph Team Up - Good e-Reader

"Starting in June, this new integration allows Kobo e-readers and apps to automatically sync with a user’s StoryGraph account, helping readers seamlessly track their progress across both e-books and audiobooks [...]"

#StoryGraph #TheStoryGraph

https://goodereader.com/blog/kobo-ereader-news/rakuten-kobo-and-storygraph-team-up

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
hrv@social.lol ("harvey") wrote:

I finally remade my website! I was sick of jumping between all these different blogging platforms and decided to commit to just using a static site!

https://www.hrv3y.xyz/entries/a-new-website/

@neatnik has been incredibly helpful by helping me evade bugs as I'm (seemingly?) the first person after him to use Neato in production for a personal website! It's a super cool product and I'm looking forward to continue using it as it evolves!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tldrellie@social.evl.im ("Ellie, Limited Edition") wrote:

the universal constant is that management cannot believe that competent and quality software engineering is that difficult

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

Fun song that I heard listening to KMHD on my way back from an event. Black Brother's "Mangge Mangge":

https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/mangge-mangge

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

I fucking hate TikTok speak

"dih" just say "dick"

FFS I hate how advertisers have control over language. They do not deserve that power.