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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
hyperpape@hachyderm.io wrote:

There’s a new encyclical out. Don’t like AI? You’re a tradcath.

I don’t make the rules. The pope does.

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

I suspect that roasted chestnuts would make a great vegetarian protein for various kinds of meals, but I haven't tried this yet.

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

In my childhood, my main experience with chestnuts was water chestnuts in stir fry, which I didn't like much. Weird texture.

But I have now discovered the joy of roasted chestnuts. They are delicious: shockingly "meaty" in flavor; in texture, they are soft.

You can sometimes find them sold in foil packs in asian grocery stores, and these are worth getting, but the best roasted chestnuts I ever had were roasted by an old woman on the side of the beach we paid two euros for a huge bagful from while in Portugal.

The "chestnuts roasting by an open fire" song makes a lot more sense now.

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

oi

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
fanf@mendeddrum.org ("Tony Finch") wrote:

from my link log —

antcc: a little C compiler.

https://codeberg.org/lsof/antcc

saved 2026-05-25 https://dotat.at/:/C9DRG.html

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

@aluhrs At some point I stopped making the obvious points about JS toolchains and the point of compilers (vs. runtimes), but maybe we need to bring it back:

If your NPM-vended chonker.js library comes with its own microsyntaxes and toolchains, then it's fair to ask *"why is this runtime JS not elided by a compiler pass?"*

This is just as true of React, e.g., as Framer.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Found this American toad on a trail at Taughannock Falls in Ithaca NY, just sitting there watching us hike by. Drew it in graphite over a few coffee shop sessions. Somewhere in the middle it stopped feeling like a drawing and started feeling like sculpture. The skin, the shadows. Knew it was done when it felt like it was holding still for me.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Get paid to work on #Typst by joining our new limited project PDF Forms. It's a great opportunity to get professional experience for Rust through open source contributions this summer. More information on how to apply at https://typst.app/jobs/.

#fossjobs

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

I am, once again, asking web developers to please stop. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=2020644#c4

my poor brain can't handle this anymore

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

You should absolutely read Josh Comeau's article on animations:

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/css-vs-javascript/

But be forewarned that his take on JS library sizes is *wildly* out of step with network vs. content bandwidth reality in 2026; very few sites have anything left in their JS budgets, and another ~50K+ of JS on the wire is not OK, actually:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

/via @aluhrs

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

Update on my mission to rid my life of spam and such: I ported my second number from Number Barn to my phone account. Giving myself 29 days to move over to the new number before I cancel my old number.

I also opted out of arbitration with T-Mobile because apparently, when you get a new number T-Mobile uses that as an opportunity to force you into arbitration. So when the rep said I had 30 days, I searched for instructions and opted out while chatting with the rep lol.

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.