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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kjaymiller ("Jay Miller") wrote:

A great recap and explainer for why PyCon US means so much to us as Black Python Devs!

https://blackpythondevs.com/blog/pycon-us-2026-recap.html

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-us-recap.html

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
marginalia ("Marginalia") wrote:

I get legit 10x the traffic on the search engine, since Google announced their plans to turn search into an LLM chatbot. It's kinda insane.

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

I mean, I guess he would know, yeah

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/mccartney-taylor-swift-is-as-big-as-the-beatles/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

Apple has open-sourced corecrypto, the foundational cryptographic library in Apple operating systems

https://security.apple.com/blog/formal-verification-corecrypto/

https://github.com/apple/corecrypto

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

“AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince”

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining

> At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

First day of physical therapy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/26/first-day-of-pt/

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

now we can make this concrete and stop hand-waving

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Looks like the SpaceX IPO is on track to become the mother of all pump and dump schemes.

Not only are index funds going to be required to buy this turkey, insiders can begin selling right out of the gate.

The corruption holds no bounds...

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116641216546646370

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
janerationx@mas.to ("J :vmastop:🏴‍☠️") wrote:

HEY YOU GUYS! A friend of mine, Matt Lee, who runs Libre.fm, has been out of work for a while now and needs some assistance to keep his life and the site going. Please donate if you can.

https://libre.fm/donate.php

Thank you!!

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

hmmm, I guess ppl are rediscovering "Diamond Age"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel sent a special congratulatory message to @brewsterkahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, on being honored as a 2026 Computer History Museum Fellow at the April 25 gala ceremony.

Gabriel speaks to the importance of preserving & sharing knowledge, work that defines Kahle’s vision.

Watch Gabriel’s message and more on our blog
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/20/brewster-kahle-receives-2026-computer-history-museum-fellow-award/

#InternetArchive #ComputerHistoryMuseum #PeterGabriel

Attachments:

• video: 24ef918c05abc99b.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Jeremy@nwt.social wrote:

#Canadians only please, but by all means boost even if you are not #canadian . When you send an email to your federal MP do you get a response:
#canada #canpoli #democracy #indigenous

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Su_G@aus.social wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@BicycleBen/116636274133777941

Could be another one for the Climate Diary - sounds dreadful - stay hydrated, check on neighbours, all that stuff. 🙏🏻

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCatastrophe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

NEW: 'BusPatrol' put AI cameras in tens of thousands of school buses to catch people who overtake parked buses. Now, according to leaked documents, BusPatrol plans to scan all license plates buses pass and give that data to law enforcement. Think, Flock on wheels https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hkrn@mstdn.social ("Hacker News") wrote:

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
L: https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316
posted on 2026.05.26 at 09:08:13 (c=0, p=5)

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

RIP Sonny Rollins. a light has gone out of the world... 💦

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/music/sonny-rollins-albums.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.lVA.o7n2.mthHV8Myrwhu&smid=url-share

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

This leads to the question "what exactly is RCU?", and perhaps also to the question "how can RCU possibly work?" (or, not infrequently, the assertion that RCU cannot possibly work).

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

checksum. Absolutely worth it. Especially with mmap.

what do you know that i don't?

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

just realised that 'vEB' is van Emde-Boas.

this isn't good because i never actually made it far enough through the paper to understand how the vEB tree works.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stejfs_photos@mastodon.goeg.dscloud.biz ("Štejf's Photobox") wrote:

Masopust Outing - Praha 02.2026

#Furry #Fursuit #fursuiting

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

you know how you watch like a feynman lecture or something and you think "great, this is so easy" and then you can't explain it to anyone afterwards?

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

And if you're using Chrome Canary, you can also try line-clamp: auto 3, which lets you clamp to a height, or 3 lines, whichever is smaller. Let us know if this would be useful for you!

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Brian's blog post goes in more depth on line-clamp, but it gets rid of the 3-property cruft you need before -webkit-line-clamp will do anything, and it also adds a line-clamp: auto syntax to be able to clamp to whatever content fits a given height.

It even lets you animate that height!

Attachments:

• gifv: A box with an animating height, where only the lines that fully fit in the current height are shown, and the last such line has an ellipsis at the end of it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bifouba@kolektiva.social ("Bilal Barakat 🍉") wrote:

Has anyone remarked yet that vibe coding is the literal antithesis of pair programming, which recognized that trading •more• programmers for less shit code was more efficient? 🤔

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/116641112865973368

Web developers, if you have sites using -webkit-line-clamp, please make sure to test them with Chrome with experimental web platform features enabled!

If you can also test the new line-clamp property, that'd also be great!

#CSS #webdev

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

New on the blog - Some (suprisingly fun) history of a CSS problem and a resolution that my colleague @andreu
has been working on @igalia - we could use your help testing!

https://bkardell.com/blog/GetClamped.html

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

actually when i say it was wrong, i meant it was wrong and also slow as shit.

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

i asked chatgpt. it gave me an answer.

the answer was wrong, but it bothered to give one.

sci-hub not winning here.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Google I/O showed how the industry has seized upon LLMs as the "future" of software. But that couldn't be further from the truth! It is an intensification of the old way. The same features as before, only MORE and FASTER.

It's the same mediocre vision execs have had for 40 years: give customers more tasks to do on your platform, sell them tools to solve the problems you created.

But the conditions that made this business model possible are collapsing.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-is-not-the-future-of-software-development-but-the-last-dying-gasp-of-the-past

#AI #LLM #tech

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Waiting for an over-hyped roadside attraction to hit bottom.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/26/i-think-the-ark-is-slowly-sinking/