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jimsalter@fosstodon.org ("Jim Salter") wrote:

This is what it looks like when Gnome3 (under Ubuntu 26.04) shits the bed and unlocks the secondary display while leaving the primary display locked.

Yes, really. No, power cycling the display didn't change anything. And I had to invoke Firefox from the CLI after using ctrl-alt-T to spawn a new terminal, so I could look up the command to log off the desktop from the terminal, BECAUSE THE PRIMARY DISPLAY IS WHERE THE MENUS LIVE.

The command is gnome-session-quit, btw.

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

ah, i see. i shall file you under "not as good as previously thought"

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

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116654505746877849

This. The democratic functions of _verification_, _deliberation_ and _accountability_ are at play here. If people can't check, if deliberation is manufactured consensus, and accountability is in in name only, you've hollowed out democracy.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JakeOrlowitz ("Jake Orlowitz") wrote:

I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@CorvidCrone/116648559253711400

For the record, I am a technical writer—soon to be at the end of the current contract, for reasons I cannot prove are related to AI but I have my suspicions—who will write you a boring, dry manual at very reasonable rates (and possibly free if the project is open source).

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

criminally negligible

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

i think i might be too tired to paint though

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

Hey locals -

I made local ai_free emojis with different fonts and weighting because I didn't like the weighting on the original ones.

:ai_free: :ai_free_sign:

If anyone else wants to copy these versions that's fine.

#HeyLocals

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

tbh like

some people are like "i hate computers, though ill still engage with them, i just wanna farm"

im fine with computers, computer is friend, computer is understandable

but then i have that hate stance against LLMs; LLMs are not friend, LLMs are not understandable, i fucking hate LLMs, i just wanna fucking code

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

Working in tech in 2026 feels like hiding from the angel of death daily.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Software estimates:

"2 days" = 2 weeks
"2 weeks" = next quarter
"almost done" = please stop asking

jwz wrote:

Vaillancourt Fontain.

Font by Danielle Baskin based on Armand Vaillancourt's fountain installed in San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza in 1971. Every letter is made of different angles and textures from a photogrammetry scan. The fountain is currently...
https://jwz.org/b/yk71

jwz wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper/116652701519885030

Like half of the questions in this survey are about how you feel about AI in WordPress, so don't hold back:

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

If you post something where someone can shoot it down with "okay but you know you can check, right?", maybe just don't post it.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.96.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

This release includes assert_matches!(), new range types in core::range::*, and fixes for a medium and a low severity vulnerability in Cargo (that didn't affect crates​.io users).

Check out the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/28/Rust-1.96.0/

jwz wrote:

Today in Hot Superyacht Probs.

Exhibit A: Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs.

Exhibit B: Ryan Hill: Last Emissions of the Launchpad, 9"×12" oil on panel.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7y

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
RoseRaven@eldritch.cafe ("Rose, Skaven Mars Priestess") wrote:

@cwebber

if the floppies have nethack on them....

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

showing a girl a good time by bringing over a shoebox of floppies

"babe", I say, "we're gonna install slackware on this 486. we're gonna run windowmaker on it. are you into this? is this hot"

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

@baldur I don't think there's an official video but someone uploaded part of the speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHp6iIaqJtw

I don't think the upload captured most of the AI stuff though 😢

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nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki") wrote:

1.8 GB per emoji

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
radicalrobit@laserdisc.party ("Mr. Q The Pizza Demon") wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tulips@shrike.club ("[AGP] Allegra Fentanyl") wrote:

please share this story far and wide; the philadelphia police have not investigated the missing persons case of natalie raven and we've been unable to get any closure as to what happened to her. this is the first article that's even appeared on it

https://epgn.com/2026/05/27/friends-remember-natalie-raven-and-seek-closure-in-missing-persons-case/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Dryad, a poster illustration for the Geek Faeries Festival.

#krita #illustration #digitalpainting #fantasy #dryad

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

@baldur Wikipedia is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs%5Fof%5FAI%5Fwriting

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The name Flekkuvík originates from a woman called Flekka who lived there during the settlement of Iceland. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #graffiti

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

So tempted to find one of those “signs of LLM writing” lists and just make sure that everything I write intentionally checks all the boxes just to fuck with people.

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

after this is done i kinda wanna paint

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

@nora Self-pacing is really important, yeah. I somehow always land at "do all the things" or "do zero things," so folks who can pace themselves are impressive.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gavi@bagel.ing wrote:

the hash slinging slasher

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

I'm not really an "it's not x it's y" writer but wow I use rule of 3 a lot