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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Linza@kamu.social wrote:

@futurebird hi I was in an adjacent industry for some years

TRASH IS FUCKING DANGEROUS. It's not just that there could be sharps, there definitely ARE sharps. There are pressurized cannisters and car batteries and gas cans improperly disposed of. There are live animals with diseases. There's heavy shit and gross shit and actual shit shit. Illegal shit and shit packed so it moves unexpectedly and could collapse. Falling shit and flying shit. The second guy is there to save the first guy's life.

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sinvega@mas.to ("Sin Vega") wrote:

@futurebird of all the public services, bins and sewage workers are surely the most incredibly under-recognised

Overall they probably improve society even more than doctors

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

The Ai bubble will pop

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

A "chilling effect" is when people are so afraid of overzealous enforcement of a rule that they stay home and just watch Netflix

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Getting wild* at the club** tonight***!

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*mixing Pepsi and diet Pepsi
**Costco
***later this week, some afternoon when it's not so busy with weekend crowds

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

10: IF enough_pasta()
20: THEN add_more(lots)
30: ELSE add_more(a_little)
40: END IF
50: GOTO 10

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damonology@lgbtqia.space ("Damon :sparkles_trans:") wrote:

I Got Addicted to Solitaire and Now I'm Slowly Becoming a Playing Cards Autistic: My Unexpected Descent to Rock Bottom

Written by Damon ✨️

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

One more job application done!

This is tiring 😭

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

First mistake: asking ME for dietary advice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/30/dont-ask-me-for-diet-advice/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, a distro-agnostic tool") wrote:

@osnews Speaking of donations, while the initial rush has died down, of course, there's still a steady stream coming in, way more than without the progress bar permanently on the site.

It'll be a while before we hit the next incentive, but I'm convinced we'll get there.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145011/osnews-fundrasier-progress/

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

Here is a little look inside the abandoned farmhouse at Flekkuvík.#Iceland #Reykjavik #video #landscape #nature #abandoned #decay #concrete

Attachments:

• video: Inside an abandoned farmhouse.

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

There is a rune stone on Flekka's supposed burial site that says, "Here lies Flekka." I read a 1959 article arguing that she is not, in fact, buried there. It claims the rune stone is most likely from the 17th or 18th century, and underneath there's a cairn that Flekka raised to guide sailors.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Flekka was considered wise and forward-thinking. According to local legend, Flekka is buried nearby, and no ship will sink in Flekkuvík as long as her grave is visible. #Iceland #photography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #graffiti #folklore

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

red hat engineer tries to push AI code into qemu

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/29/qemu-mulls-relaxing-ai-contribution-ban/5248638

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and @uoou are doing a bit of Divinity 2 on OwnCast, join us
https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:

We often treat every activity as if it is something to be bested, an achievement to be unlocked. If singing brings you joy, sing for the joy of it, not because it is a skill you must master, must exploit. We should do more things for the glory of it, not the profit of it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

I'm sick of hearing how LLMs are warping projects & people I care about. Here's what I want to hear about instead.

You want to create something amazing, that'll reach & last? You need help. Build a team culture of respect, humor, genuine affection, curiosity, patience, sympathy, delight. Build a place where good people want to do the best work of their lives. Help them grow, help them leave.

It's not the commits. It is not the *fucking* *tools*.

It. Is. The. People.

Help the people.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:

Just published.

The Borg Complex describes a behavioral pattern wherein people see resistance to technology as pointless. "Technology is inevitable," they say, and we simply must adapt. It is a form of fatalism, often disguised as optimism. It also undermines independent thinking.

https://axbom.com/technofatalism/

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

I can think of so many uses for a good sharp chisel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/30/this-too-shall-pass/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The Computer History Museum remembers Cleve Moler who created MATLAB, LINPACK, and EISPACK.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-cleve-moler-1939-2026

#matlab #retrocomputing

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

“Sérsveitaraðgerðir í Hvera­gerði - Vísir”

https://www.visir.is/g/20262890566d/sersveitaradgerdir-i-hveragerdi

I was at home watching Raymond Burr wheel himself around in Ironside, so... y'know... not me. 😝

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

and the problem is it's convincing.

i suggested the basic structure, right? so when it tells me it's great and it's not, that's confirmation bias, one of the hardest traps to avoid.

if i didn't take an inherent mistrust of algorithms (even the ones i'm designing!) and want to be sure i understand why they are correct, i would have fallen for this. i spent ages trying to pick the hole on the basis of my gut and the cod kept telling me everything was fine until i fingered the exact problem.

like i am very fucking aware i am in fact a human being subject to cognitive biases like anyone else and this is just a machine that actively triggers them to appear more convincing!

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ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net ("luna aria ielenia :cascadia:") wrote:

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

and the entire time it was convinced it was totally right as it got key invariants backwards, wrote data races and nullified garbage collection entirely (can't use anything after freeing it if you never free it!)

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

this is for a database, right, so what we're talking about is if i were less good at concurrency, i would have almost certainly just written a data loss into the page reclamation mechanism.

and it's only because i had a gut feeling that i kept probing and realised myself what the problem was.

absolutely fucking useless.

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

NEVER trust the vibe cod.

i think i have finally settled on a design that is correct. this wasn't easy - it sent me down so many rabbit holes that it's a wonder we got here at all.

it's happily written me many ideas that would result in undefined behaviour and told me how correct they are. each time i have to find the bug myself, which is quite difficult and really only possible because i basically sketched the algorithm for it, so it was still my basic idea which i found holes in and it tried to add a bunch more to!

truly the future of development!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The year is 2035. Your dishwasher requires a security patch to continue cleaning knives.

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carithlee@laserdisc.party ("words of encouragement") wrote:

I too will be thinking about this for weeks

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landley@mstdn.jp ("Rob Landley") wrote:

Culture is full of persephone eating pomegranate seeds, beware of greeks bearing gifts, don't eat fairy food, don't accept favors from demons because you'll owe them, monkey's paw wishes...

And then all these "ain't no such thing as a free lunch" fuckers tell you to check in LLM pull requests, and mock the reluctant as fools. STRINGS ARE VERY MUCH ATTACHED. This crap is fucking sticky at nuclear contamination levels. You pivoted from NFTs to this, we watched you do it.

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parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:

Another long read for today, by @ketan

Elon Musks xAI "'Colossus' data centres will emit so much greenhouse gas pollution that, by my reckoning, they’ll likely undo the entire emissions saved by Tesla’s global fleet of electric vehicles."

("AI" is a fossil technology — @tante )

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/why-anthropics-ultra-dirty-deal-shouldnt-surprise-you-at-all/