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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
alice@gts.void.dog ("jail bait dog girl") wrote:

if a string of plain english words in a log output is 'malware' we have so thoroly fucked up computers, its pretty amazing actually. from 'never trust user input' to 'eval the entire internet as root all the time' in a decade is one thing i honestly did not expect to happen

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#DevinTownsend's new album #TheMoth is out today. Deluxe Edition consists of the studio version and the raw orchestra & choir performance ("The Afterlife"). I saw the live debut performance last year on livestream and though I liked it back then already, with proper mixing it sounds absolutely phenomenal.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech.
How well, and how quickly, the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web.
🧵👇️ (1/10)

📖Read more:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-big-tech-law-meant-to-move-fast-it-hasnt/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

Worth remembering that some of the greatest heroes of our time were considered villains in their own.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chaotic_evil@jorts.horse ("Florist vs the Anthropocene") wrote:

what a beautiful day

i hiss

closing the blinds and turning off the lights

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
helenmclaughlinart@mastodon.art ("Helen McLaughlin Art") wrote:

Finished this! Really enjoyed this process and the results.

Micron fine liner, Ohuhu water based markers on cheap 135gsm paper.

(I haven't abandoned digital, reawakening traditional just seems to be where my head is at right now, randomly, out of the blue. 🤷)

#Illustration #TraditionalArt #Marker #Landscape #MastoArt #CreativeToots #FediArt #Art

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Mrfunkedude@beige.party ("Mr Funk E Dude") wrote:

Stop thinking that the Fediverse needs to compete with corporate owned social media.

It doesn't.

Mastodon isn't in competition with X or Threads. PeerTube isn't in competition with YouTube. PixelFed is not in competition with Instagram. Friendica is not in competition with Facebook.

The Fediverse serves a different function then all of the billionaire funded social medias. The Fedi isn't meant to create a revenue flow for investors. It isn't meant to turn you into a product where your privacy is stripped from you.

The Fediverse is meant to give the USER control. It's meant to protect the disenfranchised. Give power to the people. Be safe from profit exploitation.

The Fediverse and corporate social media couldn't be more different. Trying to put them in competition is like trying to compare a toilet to a flower. Sure you can shit and piss on a flower, but the toilet will always stink and the flower will continue to grow.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
SymTrkl@anarres.family ("Sym (public node) :3hearts:") wrote:

Wanted to repost this, so I tracked down the original and took a fresh screenshot, because it's important to share.

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

still figuring out what to do with the handwritten notes

digital notes i hide in a hard drive and pretend they don't exist

paper doesn't have those affordances

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

digs under piles of stuff oh so there's the thing i'm looking for!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

More soothing cold stuff.

#Eis #frost

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
djm62@beige.party ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:

contacting ISO for the definitive list of jazz standards

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social ("Corvid Crone") wrote:

*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

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

me: i want to make art
also me: that means reaching into my brain and my dissociation won't let me do that

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

I like eating dead things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/29/eat-and-live/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

when industry says "we need more STEM!" what they're asking for is specifically more programmers to write code for SaaS products, and not scientists who sound the alarm on pollution and climate collapse

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

Having an interesting conversation today about how LLM agents and disability intersect.

Some people find them very useful for helping harness their chaotic thoughts and make things more coherent.

But some people struggle to verbalize, and it gets worse with stress. And that applies to written too, not just speech.

And then LLM agents are massive text-spewing machines. I'm hyperlexic and so it goes well for me, but if you're dyslexic? It's actually a really difficult user interface.

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

In happier news, I stumbled across this video with a person infodumping about jumping spiders that I enjoyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQMOF5c2Z8

Especially this part about their eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQMOF5c2Z8&t=523

Makes me wish I had telescope eyes with movable retinas, you know? Ooh, and they might have REM like sleep! Faskinating, right?

Anyway, jumping spiders: so cool, so cute.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116658300877114893

A corollary.

Once, long ago, I was hired at a new job. They gave me a big wedge of new-employee paperwork to fill out on the first day. One of the documents was a form assigning ownership of any intellectual property I came up with on my own time to the company.

I didn't want to do that, but I also didn't want to have a big fight over it. So I just tossed that form in the trash. If they really cared about it, I figured, someone would come bug me about it later. No one ever did.

People can ask you to do anything they want. But don't assume they care enough to fight over it just because they asked

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.