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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
patrick_h_lauke ("Patrick H. Lauke") wrote:

@cwebber LGBTQAI+

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
autumn@tech.lgbt ("Autumn Mahoney :sparkletrans:") wrote:

boundaries of abstraction

i don't want to hide the workings of what's being done
i want to feel so intimately the workings of what's going on
that i revel in the shortcuts it's taking on my behalf
while i'm still following and intuiting what it's doing
and i'm still as much me with just a bit more reach

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

Steve Jobs: “Computers are a bicycle for your mind.”

Satya Nadella: “Computers are heroin for your mind.”

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

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

I miss when corporations covered their products in rainbows and sparkles because of a hollow gesture towards pride month instead of because they are throwing AI tooling nobody wants in my face

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
jonoxer ("Jonathan Oxer") wrote:

Do you (or someone you love) suffer from the terrible illness known as “Pick-and-Place Machine Deficiency?”

PnPMD is a horrible affliction, but I can save you! I have not one, not two, but three KayoA4 pick and place machines that I need to sell in order to buy an even biggerer and fancierer machine.

Also a semi-automatic stencil printer and an IN6 reflow oven. I could sell some or all of this gear, depending on what's interesting to you. It's all open to negotiation.

In Melbourne Australia

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.

I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi%5F2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kemona_halftau@sharkey.skydevs.me ("Amber :neofox_flag_trans: (kemona_halftau) :niko:") wrote:

​:RandomFox:​

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

In just under two weeks we will welcome over 160 people to the 2026 Hackfest! 9 talks and 22 breakout sessions over 3 days. We're looking forward to seeing everyone!

In person registration is closed but you can still tune in remotely June 15-17.

Find more information about the event: https://github.com/Igalia/webengineshackfest/wiki

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mo@icelandphotos.co.uk ("Mo") wrote:

Phenomenal

You might have hear of wind shear, but have you ever seen it?

Late October, the maximum sustained wind speed was 75.9 kph (47.2 mph), a Beaufort scale force 9 - a "strong gale."
We were hurrying back to our hotel, breaking no speed limits but not hanging about.

I spotted this strange cloud formation and took a few shots. It wasn't until I had chance to look at them properly that I realised what I had.

Rangárþing eystra, southern Iceland.

#WeatherPhotography #Iceland #Photography

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Do you want to learn the power of search on #Mastodon? With my fourth video in my series of Mastodon tutorials, you can! Did you already know all of this, or did you learn something new? Please let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvMsDf8AfU

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