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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
astrobri.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("hyperbolbri") wrote:

Marine iguanas, on top of everything else, may actually *shrink their bones* during El Niño related famines.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
gbargoud@masto.nyc ("George B") wrote:

@jonny

I don't know how weird this one is but pigeons, flamingoes and emperor penguins all lactate by shedding their throat linings and regurgitating them to their children. The "milk" they make is known as crop milk.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
radicalabacus@hachyderm.io ("Geoff Mackenzie") wrote:

@jonny ooh, plants are allowed? The amorphophallus titanum alternates annually between growing one huge leaf and growing one huge flower. The flower smells horrifying and can be smelled from miles away

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
rubinjoni ("Luka Rubinjoni") wrote:

@jonny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia%5Fmarginata

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

@jonny

probably "wholesome and hilarious" more than "weird" but i'm replying with it anyway. that zoo has so many of these videos and they are pre-AI or else i'd have questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggaEJDm6ivc

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

answer: 6 months ago (November 24, 2025)

"Allow IPv6 Interface Identifier for Zone-Based Firewall"

Not the *clearest* language to describe this feature, but since I've been waiting for over a decade, I'll take it

https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Application-10-0-156/67344cb3-8f12-47bc-8796-20de6857c7b2

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
wlmina@mstdn.in.th ("Willamina") wrote:

@jonny not sure how weird this is, but female Rhizocephala barnacles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizocephala) inject themselves into crabs and grow their body into some sort of root-like system throughout the crab’s body – and males then inject themselves into the female which injected themselves into the poor crab

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

what the fuck are we paying you for, wikipedia editors.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

ZOMG unifi finally has feature parity with OpenWRT

When did they finally add this???

c.f. https://blog.glyph.im/2015/09/inbound-ipv6.html

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

animal used loosely. Weird bacteria, protists, viruses, plants, all that's good too.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

It has come to my attention that tridge has written a blog post responding to criticisms raised that sound suspiciously like those raised in this thread. I'm not in a writing mood ATM but to that all I have to say is 1) whiffed it, 2) sorry you're getting dogpiled but "suck it up losers" is not exactly a sympathetic response, 3) this was really only loosely "about" rsync and more about the addictive patterns of LLMs and the special role that tests play in them, 4) if I wanted to criticize rsync in particular I probably would have gone for the botched directory traversal patch, but others more helpful than I are already helping out diagnosing and resolving that.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry 🦙💝🦙") wrote:

The amount of propaganda bots trying to sign up lately is bonkers. The fediverse feels like it’s becoming a battleground for information warfare. Be safe out there

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

People who are disabled, poor or on fixed incomes should be allowed nice things.

Society acts as though anyone receiving assistance should be forced to make do with the bare minimum ALL the time.

It’s suffering as a policy choice.

It’s cruel and unnecessary.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

one of those days I enact this clause of my policy:

> "Where necessary I will integrate AI output given by others on the agreement that I am not held accountable for the combined work."

🫠

https://dbushell.com/ai/#:~:text=Where%20necessary%20I%20will%20integrate%20AI%20output%20given%20by%20others%20on%20the%20agreement%20that%20I%20am%20not%20held%20accountable%20for%20the%20combined%20work.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
genehack@dementedandsadbut.social wrote:

More details in a while, but today was a pretty fucking bad day that could have been a whole lot worse, so I’m grateful it wasn’t. Hug your peeps, if you can reach them; tell them you love them, if you can. Life is short and people are fragile.

Boosted by jwz:
Palletack@vmst.io ("Inquisitor Palletack") wrote:

🤣🤣

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Wealth inequality Zucks"
Banner hung at the dock in front of Zuckerberg's yacht the same day he announced 1,400 layoffs in the Seattle area, about 20% of the workers.

Boosted by jwz:
miss_rodent@girlcock.club ("V") wrote:

@zzt Also - the blog post tridge posted about it completely ignores literally all of the ethical problems, the labour rights problems, the plagarism problems, the neonazi bullshit problems, the eugenicist problems, the environmental problems, the trust problems, etc. etc.
Which... was the cause of more of the outrage about it I saw than the actual *technical* problems?

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

within the past 24 hours I’ve watched two people claim there was nuance to the rsync story that made tridge right, and after not too much discussion they admitted they didn’t know rsync’s slop code only got noticed after a severe breakage occurred, or that people have evaluated the slop commits and found them to be of extraordinarily poor quality (including rendering rsync’s test suite ineffective by translating it from bash into broken python). the story they heard is that someone saw Claude in the commit log and freaked out and directed harassment towards tridge. they seemed to be under the false impression that rsync still worked fine.

how is it that the members of the supposed angry mob are doing deeper analysis than the people claiming nuance?

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

Is your organisation benefiting from #Debian? Are you using it on your infra, or as a base for your product, ...?

Do you know that sponsoring #Debconf is a great way to support the development of #Debian? Lots of things happen when Debian Developers are able to meet in real life. That's only possible with your contribution.

Even if you don't plan to be present this year in Argentina,
consider supporting #DC26: https://debconf26.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/.

Don't hesitate to reach out to sponsors _ at_ debconf.org.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Dear lazyweb, does anyone have experience with the Dynamic DNS system on Unifi? I have domains at Gandi and Porkbun, and I cannot figure out how to delegate a dynamic subdomain to one of them. I am contemplating transferring to another registrar (Namecheap, maybe?) but it is not clear if "custom" might support my existing registrars or not, or whether the simple appearance in the drop-down list means they actually work, and I don't want to pay for multiple transfers to experiment

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

I don't know the origin, but it was passed on as a rephrasing of another quote via Hakeem Oluseyi on this podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAvPGtNPKo&t=2342

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“On average, for more than the students' entire lives, stock-owners like Eric Schmidt and (to a much lesser extent) I have stolen every last drop of the productivity increase of US workers at every age and education level.

Now, the perpetrators of this theft are telling their victims, the students and the public at large, that whether they like it or not they will be subjected to AI because that will make the perpetrators even richer.”

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/ais-pr-problem.html

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I can barely bring myself to archive this message. I know it's spam from someone building a torment nexus add-on, but it's *so* funny.

Subject: "Partnership: Deciphering Glyph & Buy-Api"

The mail-merged "flatter the mark" sentence is:

"I noticed your post on Opaque Types in Python. We are building a shared compute marketplace and want to partner with sites like yours to explore AI API collaborations."

But the funniest and best part is the sign-off:

"P.S. I am a real person, not an AI."

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

It is okay to release a F/OSS project where the expected set of users is you.

It is okay to declare that a F/OSS project that you maintain is feature complete and stop.

It is okay to stop writing new code in a F/OSS project and just review patches from other people.

It is okay to stop reviewing patches once other people are familiar enough with the codebase to do so.

It is okay to admit that a F/OSS project that you created has so much technical debt that people would be better off reimplementing it than depending on it (especially if you write down the lessons that they should learn).

It is okay if your F/OSS project doesn't meet the requirements of some potential group of users, as long as no one applies pressure to force them to adopt it.

It is okay to tell a company that depends on your F/OSS project that it's unsupported and they can pay developers to contribute if they really need it.

It's okay to say 'I created this F/OSS project to meet my personal needs, but someone else made something that meets those needs better and so I'll use theirs instead'.

It's okay to say 'I made this F/OSS project as an experiment, and the result was that I learned that this approach is a bad idea'.

Boosted by jwz:
pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

one thing the rsync thing is revealing is that the whole “rely on the sense of responsibility of some clever guys from decades ago” model of open source software maintenance is crumbling under load, and some people are seeing LLMs as an out

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"The florsheims fit fine" should be the new "we are currently clean on opsec"

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mnfghsppqv2v

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
WiteWulf@cyberplace.social ("Gary :party_porg:") wrote:

Me: I’m really fed up of Netflix cancelling well-received, popular shows

Amazon: hold my beer

https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-cancels-its-new-stargate-tv-series-before-filming-even-started/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Shot: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html
Chaser: https://youtu.be/wGZboZcSGDY

I called it a year ago and all the evidence since then has just been piling up