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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

He’s half upside down, half downside up, and he’s 100% fluff, including his brain.

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

The lyric "Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare" really resonates with me these days.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

Somebody finally read the room!

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/commencement/class-day-ronny-chieng-harvard

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
benjamineskola@hachyderm.io wrote:

LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.)

Part of why I’m so negative about them is that their advocates simply do not understand how they work and do not seem to want to.

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116653425489923041

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
fay@lingo.lol ("morgan") wrote:

People will say anything on social media

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

It doesn't have to be complex or difficult. In fact, in ideal circumstances, the best task to do is the one that is easy for you.

Childcare is a skill with immense value. Food prep too. Cleaning & keeping things organized is another great skill set.

The work you do to keep your own life going is the exact same work needed to keep community life going.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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

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

Truth, always

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

touch my belly again and die, humanoid

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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.

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

It's giving Prodigy Fat of The Land mixed with NiN mixed with Kendrick Lamar.

This is such a fun album holy shit.

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

Federal employees to be fully barred from gender affirming care coverage, starting next year https://theneedlenews.com/2026/05/federal-employees-to-be-fully-barred-from-gender-affirming-care-coverage-starting-next-year/

It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-transgender-healthcare-gender-veterans-federal-employees-rcna346425

DOJ's fight against trans medical care in prison is a fight to erase trans people in the law https://www.lawdork.com/p/dojs-fight-against-trans-medical

From that last one:

> In its briefing, DOJ went on to argue that “the 2026 Policy does not, in the words of Skrmetti, ‘prohibit conduct for one sex that it permits for the other’ but instead turns on ‘the underlying medical concern the treatment is intended to address,’ i.e., gender dysphoria.”
>
> Echoing, while expanding, Chief Justice John Roberts’s disingenuous majority opinion from Skrmetti, DOJ now has made clear that it views — and plans to use — Skrmetti as a free-for-all to go after trans people of all ages by denying that, so far as the law is concerned, trans people exist at all.

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

you will be shocked to hear this, but the bot has just written me a data race. superficially it the approach sounded great, but the code tells a different story.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o - the new system was built by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in-house staff, delivered on time, and users report it's simpler to use and more accessible than its predecessor. Hooray.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

One tiny WWDC wishlist item: SwiftUI apis that have an optional bundle: parameter should default to #bundle instead of .main

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

"Maintainer works as designed."

Absolute legend.

https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/709

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

If any of you know of any better alternatives to Ghost, with a similar feature set (except the paid membership, can live without that), then I'm all ears. Otherwise I'm going to have to recommend Ghost

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

Looking over the CMS/blog landscape and it looks like Ghost is still currently one of the least bad OSS options available, despite slop shenanigans?

(As in software that has the features you actually need for a serious website: newsletter or serious newsletter integration, cookie-free analytics that don't suck, rich text editing for non-techie contributors, post types or templates, custom metadata, etc.)

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
imbl@treehouse.systems ("criminally faggot") wrote:

we used to think that tech was being invaded by the MBA bros who wanted to take over the domain of the nerds, but the amount of free software graybeards moving to ai has made me realize that 90% of tech nerds were just management wannabes who didnt have the social skills to actually be managers, and now llms are letting them roleplay as MBA bros

the only real nerds were the autistic trans girls the whole time

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
KatyElphinstone@mas.to ("K.J. Elphinstone") wrote:

Slide from AutisticNotWeird, Chris Bonello.

#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kemona_halftau@sharkey.skydevs.me ("Amber :neofox_flag_trans: (kemona_halftau) :niko:") wrote:

i have exactly 2 requirements for a fedi client
1. it should have an option to hide posts without alt text
2. it should mute notifications from automated accounts

i dont care if it supports emoji reactions, i dont care if it works particularly well with sharkey's half-assed mastoapi implementation, i dont even care if it can do anything other than view posts and show notifications

any recommendations?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rob_haines@mastodon.art ("Rob Haines") wrote:

The nigella flowers came out this week in full force. I adore the complexity of these little space stations!

#Photography #Bloomscrolling

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

today I should have a chance to focus I think, which is good, because I badly need it

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
collectifission@greennuclear.online ("Emil Jacobs - Collectifission") wrote:

Luigi is a hero we need more of.

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

dear package registries (npm, composer, etc), i am begging you

require 2FA before someone can tag a release RIGHT NOW

this would immediately stop a huge amount of the open source supply chain attacks we keep seeing

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

Over a decade ago now I wrote "Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella" https://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/

I got a lot of shit for it at the time, but I feel pretty vindicated as a lot of the points I was making have become more common critiques as peoples' lives have been made difficult by the problems being outlined

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

I startled Mr Rabbit when I went to turn the compost

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
pajuscreations@mastodon.art ("PajusCreations :autism:") wrote:

here’s what the shell (and the wee snail!!) looks like!

(Medium Snail pattern by Megan Lapp, aka Crafty Intentions.)

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

Is this how it feels for involuntary computer touchers reliant on mainstream software? There is no stability. Every update risks breaking things they rely on. They have no control and no understanding as to why. Nothing is dependable for long.