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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
xinicit@beige.party ("Xavier Horatio Xinicit") wrote:

Thinking looks like overthinking to underthinkers

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116686778269440234

This has been going on a while - you "AI optimise" by spamming Reddit. Fake promotional subreddits and all. I covered it here re: home appliances last July:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/26/google-ai-overview-is-just-affiliate-marketing-spam-now/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116687129039392818

Advice I was given in my youth:

Print your slide on a full piece of paper. Put the paper on the ground. Stand on a chair.

If you can’t easily read your slide, neither can the person at the back of the room.

It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is *still* widespread practice.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

36 commits by ‘tridge and claude’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EAo9jo-U4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260603-rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups - podcast

time: 7 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/ - blog post

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

“Marjane Satrapi Dies: Iranian French 'Persepolis' Director Was 56”

https://deadline.com/2026/06/marjane-satrapi-dead-iranian-french-persepolis-56-1236940629/

Aww, man. That's devastating to hear.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Man pages: technically contain all the information you need, in the same way that a dictionary technically contains every story ever written.

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

I'm searching and finding a ton of high school science projects which is awesome. And also some intro physics lessons about s curve jerk and whatnot, but "elevator top speed" is proving to be a seo optimized information deadzone with numbers on spamblogs ranging from 40 to 80mph

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

I was on an elevator that traveled 40 floors in 30 seconds. As a mean that's something like 60mph (edit: this number is almost certainly wrong), but what was the top speed of that thing? Are elevator acceleration curves just square or is there some special elevator acceleration curve that makes it whoosh without feeling like the world is ending

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116671524970656406

Folks, if your investments include index funds please read this thread carefully, and take action to contact your financial firm or brokerage.

Demand that they push back on this fleecing of your retirement.

Demand that they tell the indexes to roll back these rule changes.

Firms like Vanguard and Fidelity have influence, and that is about the only leverage we have to stop this madness. Let them hear it from you.

#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

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

thank you to everyone for showing me weird entities.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

One more "look at this ant"

I promise you will not regret.

Cataulacus latissimus. This is similar to the turtle ants of North America, but look at this tiny creature. Made to be flat. The flat body may help this ant if she falls off of her tree, she can sail back to the trunk and find her colony again. (this is a guess based on ants with similar size and morphology) #lookatthisant

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/230664476

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

Getting attention from a bunch of people online that you don't know and don't fuck with you is one of the least enjoyable experiences known to mankind. People are not nice and it sucks. In this case I am more in the camp of "please hear the people who are grateful for what you've done and what it has become as basic infrastructure of computing as concerned about repeating the patterns we have seen play out repeatedly," rather than "fuck you slopcoder!!!!!"

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

@jonny Oh they're great because they're weird

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pivot_to_ai_rss_bot@mstdn.social ("Pivot to AI [RSS]") wrote:

rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/]

rsync is a program for copying entire file folders from one computer to another, doing incremental updates if there’s only a few changes. You can keep a continuous backup copy. Rsync is super reliable for this job. Until recently. On 28 May, Jeremiah Fieldhaven posted about how his backup system broke after rsync updated: [Mastodon] […]

#AIisGoingGreat

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

Dear lawyers: Stop fucking using "AI" in court fillings (and, really, anywhere else):

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-appeals-court-sanctions-lawyers-over-ai-hallucinations-lack-candor-2026-06-03/

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

So, it’s becoming clear that some devs treat their peers as authorities irrespective of the nonsense they’re spouting. What matters is, effectively, “time served”

Been a noticeable part of the tech or OSS communities for years? Then your hallucinatory ravings get treated as a double-blind peer-reviewed study

Been less noticeable? Nothing you say will ever shift their opinion.

Sure, they’ll feel bad that you feel harmed, but they’ll always back their friends

(Yes. This is an rsync post)

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

@brib
That is fair but also important to note that we love them

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

@jonny The platypus. The better question to ask of that animal is what doesn't it do weirdly

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue

Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't handle the volumes anymore.

As this flood started to get mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

#GeneralDevelopment

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.