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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I hadn't realized that the nazis were still fleeing to South America

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html

Boosted by jwz:
wwu@social.wikiworkersunited.org ("Wiki Workers United") wrote:

Hello, world!

We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.

More info here:

https://wikiworkersunited.org

And we welcome the community to express support here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki%5FWorkers%5FUnited

#Introduction

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

An item of curiosity...

As a kid, did you grow up around guns?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

When you're preparing a PR, after you've run all the tests and linted and benchmarked and polished and so on, do you do a `git diff` and take a visual scan through all the changes?

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

“Three admitted, This is not ideal. By which it meant it was somewhat terrifying. I acknowledged but didn’t reply; I was waiting to grab the interior feed so we didn’t get killed. (It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.)”

from ‘Platform Decay’ by @marthawells

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I'm on a boat, motherfucker, don't you ever forget!

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/i-am-publishing-this-from-the-middle-of-the-atlantic-ocean-technology-is-incredible-etc-etc/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

As a student of history, Peter Thiel fleeing to Argentina is a bit too on the nose. #IYKYK

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html

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

The "Rock, Paper, Scissors" contest has reached a dramatic stalemate

Boosted by jwz:
JeremiahFieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Jeremiah Fieldhaven") wrote:

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

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

what the fuck is /etc/localtime and why does this program want it?

Boosted by jwz:
scattapilla@jorts.horse ("vampire hors d'oeuvre") wrote:

People who work from home talkin about 'we need more third spaces' my guy you need to get yourself a second space first

Boosted by jwz:
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 😢