Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

looks like microsoft is not going to pay for claude any more for its staff.

it seems that they enabled it hoping that people would prefer copilot, but nobody prefers copilot.

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

new idiom dropped:

chartering a private jet to go grocery shopping

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

A kind person said to me this week words to the effect of "Neil, I love talking with you. You make chatting so easy!"

And now, dear reader, I - someone who is not a very people person - will share with you the two secrets of my critically acclaimed prowess:

1. "Oh {wow,cool,my,yes,no,oops,dear}, tell me more about that!"

2. Listening - genuinely listening - and asking questions.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kolombiken@front-end.social ("Kolombiken") wrote:

Sometimes it feels like the birds in my local park get tired of me trying to take photos of them while they’re high up in a tree or inside a thick bush so they just start posing in the open.

Like this robin: Ok, take a photo! Are you done? Good!

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116622777554557863

ACARS has all the emoji you need, you just spell it out in words

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
TheZeldaZone ("Zelda 🎀") wrote:

Politics can see complicated, but there are a few universal truths that can make things a lot easier:

- The guys trying to ban/burn books are the bad guys. 100% of the time.

- The guys trying to restrict voting are the bad guys. 100% of the time.

If you're in America...well, that's really all you should need to vote in any general election. Study up for the primaries, of course.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

hanging out

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("<>") wrote:

Medieval very good friends burial site discovered

800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burial

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/800-year-old-hugging-skeletons-are-genetically-confirmed-as-polands-only-medieval-same-sex-double-burial

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

@Testoceratops Dangit, I'm sorry that happened to you. Thank you for raising awareness of the issue.

It looks like there's an auto-detector to help decide if an image is likely to induce seizures (https://trace.umd.edu/peat/). I wonder how tricky it would be to integrate that into my Mastodon server for my own uploads.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Testoceratops@disabled.social ("Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I wrote this important thread, please read if you can and boost for visibility. :boost_ok:

Here's how to react if someone is having a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in front of you!

Different situations are taken into account to give as much info as possible.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Testoceratops@disabled.social ("Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Irregular reminder to please CW flashing lights and fast colours changes to keep Fedi accessible. /soft

Had a seizure yesterday while checking my TL, and haven't been able to do anything all day due to how exhausting tonic clonic seizures are.

It'd be really nice if you could be careful with it, especially if we're mutuals. Not only for me, but for all seizure prone folks around.

Thanks if you care! Sending love and strength, if you want any.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
erincandescent@erincandescent.net ("Erin 💽✨") wrote:

Many social networks have an artform. On Twitter, it was about brevity; and on Cohost, it was the CSS crime

And on Fedi, it’s composing the post with the most unhinged but accurate content warning.

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

but wait there's more

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

lol

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

yt-dlp keep winning

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766

> Bun was recently rewritten in Rust using Claude, and its development seems to have taken a turn towards being fully vibe-coded. This is alarming and disappointing for a number of reasons, and frankly it seems like a future headache that we'd prefer to avoid.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@passenger @robin Mechanically they haven't done anything to it. The rotted Google Search we've had for a decade is still right where it was behind udm=14 and probably isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

But in terms of perception and how people without the knowledge how to get to it use it, they may indeed have killed it.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as:
- America is good
- the military is good
- military contractors are good
- billionaires are good
- heroes protect the existing power structure, villains try to change society

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
thorn@avery.garden ("Thorn Avery 🥀") wrote:

Fedi what do I gotta do to go viral here i need the validation

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
b@cloudyday.club wrote:

I was "bad" at math (turns out being disciplined for making mistakes isn't the best way to teach children things) and went hard into the humanities and arts. I thought that was the end of anything STEM I wanted to pursue.

Turns out I actually like building things while reading Foucault or whatever. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Every night I read about 10-15 new horrors and then lie down for a relaxing rest

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aei@pleroma.envs.net ("aei :neofox_upside_down: ") wrote:

why does everyone write webapps and ship electron when you have such great native UI frameworks here! for example... *opens GObject docs* oh- um.. *opens Qt docs* oh... *looks up native windows development* oh no....

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ishe@cupoftea.social ("tinker｡✧𓃦˚☽wolf") wrote:

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/116620954984127675

Honesty: I haven't read the entire thing yet.
Plug: But it's one of the best things I've read in awhile that wasn't a book.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

"I have been a professional tech journalist for nearly fifteen years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
uep@timeloop.cafe ("Daniel Carosone") wrote:

Sauerkraut. Sourdough. Kombucha.

At long last, I have created the Ferment Nexus

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Regular scheduled weekly update for patrons is up! This one is my post-conference report for PyCon and a report on some of the work that it inspired.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-post-21-158907338

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

The White House’s newly released national counterterrorism strategy identifies the “left-wing,” “anti-fascists,” “anarchists” and “radically pro-transgender ideologies” as terrorist threats equivalent to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/trumps-new-national-strategy-labels-left-wing-as-terrorists-akin-to-isil-and-al-qaeda/

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

Truth in Posting: I was a sysadmin for a company in LA during "The Great Renaming". we relayed a fairly large chunk off the backbone over phone lines each day... think blinking modems running data not-so-fast across exchange boundaries only when line charges were cheap.

the reorg that was "The Great Renaming" had wonderful real-world effects, and sold me on the idea there area appropriate uses of hierarchy in networking.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

I love her every second she’s onscreen.

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

I need chocolate

::poof::