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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's the insomnia all week. Maybe it's the cold I'm still recovering from.

But right now all I want to do is curl up in a blanket and get petted -_-

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

Apparently one can just claim to have codesigned any scheme now, so let it be known that Julius and I coauthored the Caesar cipher

https://openssl-conference.org/speaker?p=I

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The #OpenSSL conference website is vibecoded so hard it thinks @djb invented ML-KEM and ML-DSA

https://web.archive.org/web/20260604175318/https://openssl-conference.org/speaker?p=I

jwz wrote:

Choose your terms properly!

"Witch hunt" -- based on lies, used by the powerful to crush the underclass, probably sexist.

"Pitchfork-wielding mob" -- almost exclusively the poor exhibiting class solidarity to take down the aristocracy and/or an actual monster.

jwz wrote:

Patreon: "You deserve full agency in this process"

Patreon, 4 sentences later: "All creators are required to combine profiles [...] you will not be able to use Patreon [...] your profiles will be automatically combined."

You keep using that word.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Brought to you by this morning's shower thoughts.

i.e.:Model collapse happens when LLMs train on too much "content" that was itself generated by LLMs.

LLM output is poison to LLMs.

But they're selling it to you as a product that you want to put into your code/workflow/brain/etc.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Step right up, ladies and gents! Experience for yourselves the wonders of this finest of snake venoms! Why, just one small dose will put a pep in your step and have your day's work done sooner than you cay say "legal liability!"

"Isn't snake-venom poisonous to snakes themselves?" Why, of course it is. You're just *using it wrong*. Take all precautions listed in this pamphlet–you'll be leaps ahead of those other dolts. Get yours now or be left behind!

... my house in Argentina? I don't know wh…

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

The wild, wild West. #grickledoodle #west #cowboy #pets #bellyrub #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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

Whoa! June 7th is VCR Day *and* Prince's birthday. A lot going on that day...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

"I am pleased to announce that Dark Horse Comics is willing to voluntarily recognize Dark Horse Workers United as a recognized collective bargaining representative under standards established by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Our representatives have reached out to the union’s attorney to initiate the appropriate next steps in this process."

https://www.darkhorse.com/newsfeed/statement-regarding-dark-horse-workers-united/

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

like, seriously, what kind of monster ships a very chonky looking usb-c-to-usb-c cable WITH ONLY TWO CORES AAAAAAAAA

on the other hand, if mains-voltage-over-USB is ever a thing, this cable has enough insulation to make that happen. kudos for that, I guess? I don't quite know who decided to source double-insulated 300V-cable for .. USB cables, but the world is fucked up anyway, so I guess that checks out

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

selling - or even shipping as a freebie - usb-c cables with only power pins connected should be a crime

where is the EU when you need it, smh

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

Religion is ailing in Minnesota

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/04/happy-news-on-the-religious-front/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

The enclosure of the FOSS commons may seem like a programmer-specific problem, but it really affects everyone. Privacy-preserving apps like Signal, for example, serve a purpose precisely because they're open and can be audited. Take away that ability to verify the developer's claims by parsing the code, and all guarantees are lost. The more that AI vendors succeed in locking in the FOSS commons, the less transparency we'll have into what our software actually does.

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

i'm broken today. a lot of things have gone wrong and i'm exhausted.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot wrote:

Very sad news today: we lost Marjane Satrapi, author, artist & film-maker, and far too damned early. I've recommended her honest, emotional autobiographical Persepolis so many times to readers, for some it's their first graphic novel experience.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/06/04/marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56%5F6754122%5F15.html#

#books #livres #MarjaneSatrapi #comics #BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #bookstodon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
qurlyjoe@mstdn.social wrote:

#gayPride #gay

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
unnick@booping.synth.download wrote:

posix protogens blushing: >////<
windows protogens blushing: >\\\\<

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

I don’t have a high opinion of software dev in general but I’d never have expected “breaking without warning a popular backup and deployment tool is bad actually” to be a controversial statement.

Truly a triumph. Congrats.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing, and the end of a 17-year journey.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/

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