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

A shout-out to @matuzo for this article that helped me debug a snippets setup today:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/custom-emmet-snippets-vscode/

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

error messages are not very good. syntax errors get you old LL(1) style messages about expected and got. this could turn into something unpleasant with duck typing fairly quickly i think - once you get the code to compile it'll probably be fine, but getting there might be 'fun'.

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

so i have been programming zig for a few days now, what do i think?

it's an upgrade from C in terms of abstractive capability. it compiles nice and quickly. it has way powerful duck typing.

i am not entirely sure i am driving this thing right. in particular stuff like error handling. either i am really good and intuited it correctly from not much reading or it isn't catching my bugs. i'd kinda like to know which...

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Right now we don’t even know how good we have it while our ceaseless pain from which there can be no waking is being subsidized by investors

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116627317646590362

now I'm really wondering what the apparently substantial number of "yes" votes were thinking here

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Signs you have carpenter ants

1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book, are told “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of “cement delivery coming later”
4. Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

#antart #ants #carpenterants #drawing #antdrawings

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

forgot to snap the dish itself but that was delicious, definitely going to make that again

thanks to @cwebber for the recipe: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116388050268170202

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

finally going to do it

after 8 years of being a fennel programmer, I am going to cook with fennel

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

you have to put yourself into the jaws of the giant lizard. you gotta do it. you gotta just walk right in there

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

#monsterdon

Or not

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

#monsterdon this is going to end like terminator 2 isn't it?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
keirFox@tiggi.es wrote:

Yeah, fursuit heads are cool and all but what about when you want to be a purple sparkle kitty and want back/neck problems ?

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Impressive. He _broke_ lenses that thick

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

What are those glasses? -12?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Every artist has a first word they try when they load up a new brush. This is mine.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/safe #smbc #comics #ai

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I am not accepting any feedback about whether my Memorial Day jokes are appropriate from Trump voters or election abstainers.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

The year is 2027. A fast tracked PR changes the name of the systemd executable to svchos.exe

Declaring his work complete, Lennart leaves Microsoft to start his new project in the BSD ecosystem: sdaemon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#lgbtq

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

there has been zero coverage of this PRC success in the US media, just a lot of fawning over a rich US racist’s rocket exploding.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/25/asia-pacific/china-space-flight-moon/

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thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, which successfully docked with a space station early Monday, as part of Beijing's ambitions to send people to the moon by 2030, state media said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/25/asia-pacific/china-space-flight-moon/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #china #rockets #space #moon

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Yup. If the sales aren't there for the first book of a trilogy, the publisher's not going to bother with the third. "But I've been burned before!" Sure, fine, but explain how that's any other author's fault, or why you need to punish them for someone else's lack of productivity. I assure you the vast majority of writers absolutely want to write their entire series. But if readers won't back them early on with sales, they might not get the chance.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chelseawritesbooks/post/DYvFSy4gWjN

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

lol I did not make it clear that I was being facetious

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-columnar-metrics-engine-30x-faster-prometheus

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: I am unconvinced about the utility of "AI" (LLM) models, but I do think Audrey Tang provides a good structure about how to think about these topics and how they might fit in with the traditional ideas of freedom around software. The idea of repair loops and right of refusal are important things to recognize, look for, and attempt to build or preserve.

[1] https://g0v.social/@au/116630878468798294

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au@g0v.social ("唐鳳 Audrey Tang") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@ogeer/116579470188463231

Thank you all for making this a room for a bridge from Free Software to Ethics in AI!

Here are the notes (CC0):

https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-civic-care/

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thomask@social.octet-stream.net ("Thomas Karpiniec") wrote:

Awesome, the min-publish-age #rustlang RFC was merged last week, for protecting yourself against freshly published malware updates. Always thought this was a very sensible idea. https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs//3923-cargo-min-publish-age.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

John Deere won't let farmers repair their own tractors. The US Air Force can't fix its own fighter jets. These absurd situations stem from copyright protections designed to stop people from recording movies on VCRs 40 years ago, extended onto new technology.
https://theconversation.com/todays-bans-on-diy-repairs-of-everything-from-cell-phones-to-tractors-grew-out-of-hollywoods-fear-of-videotaping-280990

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artair@ohbear.wtf ("Artair Geal :trek: :bearpride:") wrote:

@virtualbri Well, since we're "going there" for the benefit of folks who didn't "get" TOS...

https://youtu.be/zzKd-JtQoFc?feature=shared