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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

After doing a couple of private workshops on how to use #Mastodon, I've decided I could just record a series of tutorials and have everyone benefit from it. Mastodon has a lot of features, and sometimes even long time users aren't aware of all of them! The first episode is about making posts on Mastodon--going over every aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCQsRNt9pqg

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
brohrer@recsys.social ("Brandon Rohrer") wrote:

Spirit fuel for me are the toots of you who are building your own compiler, your own operating system, your own shell, your own frontend framework, your own language. Just for the pleasure and the education and the hell of it. Your journey is my jam.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

Curb Cut Effect would be a pretty good band name.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

GitHub Copilot got 25x more expensive over night.

I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of low-effort PRs suddenly cried out and were silenced.

Maintainers worldwide breathe a sigh of relief. Businesses are about to wake up to some very interesting invoices.

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

#monsterdon I miss the days when you could get broken media working by futzing with it instead of "welp, SD card is dead"

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Kensan wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

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

I made a LinkedIn-specific video and I feel dirty lol. I'm taking a swing in the dark at making content for other freelancers. Idk how I feel about it. I dont want to spend a lot of time on LinkedIn

jwz wrote:

"Blink twice if Zuckerberg is an asshole"

Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta....
https://jwz.org/b/yk8F

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

After enough years in software, you learn that LGTM doesn't actually stand for "Looks Good To Me".

Only the pros know its real meaning:

"Looked. Got tired. Merged."

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

‘Great replacement politicians promote intent-based definitions that characterize a policy as “discriminatory” only when it has explicitly racial language expressing the intention to discriminate. Intent-based definitions allow great replacement theorists to imagine that the policies and programs devoid of racial language but leading to racial inequity are “not racist,” while policies and programs created to reduce racial inequity are “racist” because they explicitly use racial language.’

from “Chain of Ideas” by Prof. Kindi

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

When he's underwater, does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

#monsterdon #ultraman

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

This villain's teeth! #monst erdon #ultraman!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

When I see a Punisher skull on a Toyota Yaris, I find myself with even more questions than usual

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Controversial, but perhaps we should improve software somewhat?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org ("James Baker") wrote:

👏 well played @mullvadnet

[]5

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The post I could never publish on how LLM scaling and purchasing will likely collide in a bonfire of pension fund equity fueled by opaque financial instruments would *obviously* be titled "Token-Gnomics"

Sad I'll never get the chance.

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

I wish that Amnesty International AI briefing was like, good and well founded.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:

i wrote a rust microkernel with a federation userspace layer where clusters of trusted machines quietly lend each other idle resources inspired by gift economics.

lend your spare capacity, earn the right to borrow. machines find each other automatically on the same network, bond by consent and shared keys, stay fully independent.

a solar machine lends freely at noon and pulls back at dusk. computation drifts toward wherever the cleanest cheapest energy is.

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• gifv: 45aeb3163e47c2cf.mp4

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

i would be lying if i said i wasn't thinking about agent countermeasures in my own projects.

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

honestly, it's like everyone conveniently forgets you are supposed to review updates to your dependencies. who has time for that when you could be shipping?

i will say it again - dependencies are not free. do not just depend on a pile of stuff without reviewing it. this applies whether or not you are using an LLM, but i bet it gets even less attention from LLM users.

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

i wouldn't even ordinarily approve of this sort of thing, because it risks wrecking things for existing users, but i will make an exception for the dickheads that are completely ruining everything i used to love about FLOSS.

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

do you see the sort of people that you're pushing away by saying i don't like AI now? they're not the people you want to be sticking around.

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

well, AI users sure are upset and they've been on a reporting spree trying to get jqwik booted off all the package repos and github.

if jqwik has to move to codeberg, i predict that won't be good news for github.

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

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1257

Boosted by jwz:
cube_drone ("Cube Drone") wrote:

So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. I know, it's weird, I'm a grown-ass adult, and yet here we are.

I just spent like 30 minutes browsing TikTok and honestly it explains _so much_ about why... well, everything is just LIKE this, now.

it's... just wall-to-wall political misinformation, loud noises, boobs, kittens, AI slop, teenagers echoing white supremacist talking points, stunts, ads, get-rich-quick-schemes, it's like pure liquid USA

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@elizayer The Vanilli of Theseus, by Jean Baudrillard

Boosted by jwz:
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THE LONG, COLD, DARK, SHIVERY EVENINGS, WHEN YOUR HEALTH AND CONVENIENCE COMPEL YOU TO STAY INDOORS?
WHY!!! HAVE A PHONOGRAPH, OF COURSE.
https://smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2026/05/26/digitizing-the-albert-h-small-american-trade-catalogs-collection/

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

don't be left behind

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour