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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

Happy first day of pride month! Don't forget to submit your action items for the Gay Agenda before midnight UTC tonight to ensure that they will be acted on in a timely fashion. Late submissions may be deferred until the next meeting.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Happy Pride!

Remember, you don't need a corporate-sponsored parade to celebrate. Just your fabulous self, your weird friends, and maybe a brick or two if things get wild.

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

it's just shown me an example where a value is stale. while that is technically true, the value is exactly what it would be if it were not stale 😂

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

non-exhaustive

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

stimming toys:

- spinners
- bubble wrap
- bits of paper you tear up without thinking about it
- blender's geometry nodes
- modular synthesizers

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

the three genders today are apparently reader, writer and memory allocator.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
to@hachyderm.io ("Adrian Tombu") wrote:

I was laid off last month due to cost reduction so I used this unexpected « opportunity » to give a boost on the renovation of my house. Doing everything by myself allows me to keep it on a decent budget but I will need to go back to work in a few months 👀

I’m a software engineer with 17 years of experience on distributed systems. I’ve been writing Rust for 6 years (prior to that PHP/NodeJs/Go). I have a good experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Databases & IaaS. Very much opened to learning embedded systems.
Open to remote part-time contract or employee status (max 4 days/week) with occasional travel.

My recent projects : https://otso.fr/cv.html

Hopefully the Fediverse will work its magic ✨

#rust #rustLang #FediHire #getFediHired #toulouse #paris

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

“Centrism Means Helping Fascists - by Noah Berlatsky”

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-means-helping-fascists

> But what actually happens when you knuckle under to fascists is that your allies abandon you while fascists kick you again

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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
typeable ("George Z") wrote:

@jonny Hope I can do this shameless plug for my paper for this year's SIGBOVIK.

I made a text-based adventure game that sorta looks like a programming language that you interact with in an IDE so you can play while pretending to work.

Playing Games With My Editor for Fun and Profit Abstract — Recent work has explored the relationship between programming and the well-being of programmers, from physical programming languages to systems that improve job security through planned obsolescence. Yet, an important contributor to mental health remains underexplored: play. In this paper, we propose a technological approach to reconciling play and productivity by embedding gameplay within the appearance of legitimate work. We introduce a text-based game whose driver is a server implementing the Language Server Protocol thus integrating with any existing IDE. CCS Concepts: « Software and its engineering — Software creation and management; Programming languages; « Computing methodologies — Interactive games; - Computing education — Employment in computing. Additional Key Words and Phrases: Language Server Protocol, Text Editors, Employment, Games

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

Happy Pride Month to everyone who celebrates it

And if you don't celebrate it what the fuck is wrong with you, you weird-ass funless pile of dry toast posing as an actual human being

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

I just an hour ago watched a video about why the East and West Roman Empires never got back together after 394 (that is, until the West fell entirely and the East sort of swooped in and briefly reclaimed Italy and the Adriatic in the equivalent of a fire sale)

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kassikayy/post/DZBuGfdFDKy

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

Muting this thread because the discussion has taken a life of its own and doesn't require my involvement.

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

(Also here on Threads if you want all the effectiveness of blocking but not letting the asshole know they have no further access to you or your audience, "Restrict" is pretty great - it puts them in a box where they yell all they want but neither you or anyone else can see it)

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

Some of all y'all really need to give in to the pleasure of blocking jackasses here the moment you see them, you're wasting too much time with assholes who get off on enraging other people

(I mean, if yelling at people who post egregious shit for "engagement" is your kink, then fine, sure, you do you, but if you actually find it spiking your blood pressure and crushing your mental health, a quick block and you will literally never have to think about them ever again. Try it! It's great!)

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

Fun times https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-06-01-stor-skjalfti-i-hengli-476879

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116674283040110293

Paraphrasing again:

We’re in a power struggle between those using “AI” to centralise and consolidate their hold over the economy, education, media, and politics and are willing to sacrifice much of the environment and society to that end (i.e. "rule the ashes") and those who think that would be bad

Standing in the middle and going “actually, I think we could find productive uses for LLMs” is not a winning move and it won't protect you from the winning side of the power struggle.

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

This poor man wants you to think of him as a hero of anti-wokism, rather than just another dull misogynist and islamophobe. Just forget him.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/01/lets-all-forget-that-gad-saad-exists/

Gad Saad

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
trifectatech@fosstodon.org ("Trifecta Tech Foundation") wrote:

We are proud to announce the first release of our latest data compression project, Zstandard in Rust! Read why we did this, the current state of the project, and where we're hoping to take it: https://trifectatech.org/blog/announcing-zstandard-in-rust/

Zstandard is a modern successor to zlib, providing better compression faster.

Thanks to Chainguard, Astral / @charliermarsh, @nlnet, and @sovtechfund.

@folkertdev

#rustlang #opensource

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

Axle Rose singing with text "welcome to the jungle we got 16,000 kinds of trees, we got over a thousand frogs, we got blodiversitee-tee-tee"

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
garyj_co ("Gary") wrote:

@atpfm on the slim off chance you haven’t seen this already.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

The Infosec Phrasebook

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/01/the-infosec-phrasebook.html

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
alex@alexwlchan.net wrote:

Rendering a chat thread in CSS and JavaScript: https://alexwlchan.net/2026/css-chat/

I want to add text conversation to my scrapbook of social media, so I needed to render text bubbles in a web browser. It was tricky but I got it working. Modern web tech is amazing!

💬 💬 💬

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
pekkavaa@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Pekka Väänänen") wrote:

A new article on my website about a small thing that has bothered me for a long time:

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/

A number line where 3-bit integers in the range [0..7] being mapped to real numbers with two approaches: the standard (top) and alternative (bottom). On the X-axis we’ve got a number line and the locations of brown circles on it represent the decoded floating-point values. The numbers inside are the integer inputs. Each integer has arrows pointing to it; these show a range of floating-point values that round to it. I’ll call these ranges “bins” in the rest of this article.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ruari@velocipederider.com ("Velocipede Rider") wrote:

Does anyone ever use the generic currency symbol ¤?

It's intended to be used followed by a value that is currency, with context hopefully explaining which currency. It is perhaps most useful for currencies that have no dedicated character.

In Norway most people use [value]kr (kr = KRoner or crowns). You also see [value]NOK (NOrwegian Kroner).

I prefer ¤ because it is shorter, simpler and if it is ambigious I add 🇳🇴 on the end, e.g ¤100🇳🇴 (this is the same number of characters as 100NOK anyway.)

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/?ref=frontenddogma.com

#ai #career

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

The Minnesota state elections will be predictably boring. Sorry. It's just the way this state is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/01/its-going-to-be-a-boring-election-season-in-minnesota/

devil flanders

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

This country is so obsessed with feeling in control over who gets to live in dignity.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Controversial, but perhaps we should improve software somewhat?

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

and I have to emphasize: I’m not blaming the jqwik maintainer for this, they’re doing the best they can to oppose this crap and getting raided fucking sucks every time

I’m pointing this out as something to examine and learn from, because it’s possible to defuse a raid if you know what you’re seeing

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

watching the worst AI bros who all sound like polite nazis run a victory lap cause jqwik slightly softened its anti-LLM message from “delete all jqwik code” to “just fuck off” is a really good reminder to never do anything nice for these fucking assholes

you do not in fact have to take advice from guys who only know about you because they’re doing raids for hacker news or one of the chans (same difference) whose every word is dripping in contempt