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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

really once again I cannot stress how much that catching on fire or burning out my devices' USB-C ports is a deal breaker

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

"Augh!" you scream, and the world screams "augh!!" back at you

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

by "good" I do not mean the most watts or the coolest looking design or the most featureful OLED display. I want a battery pack that will:

1. not catch fire
2. seriously not catch fire, listing it twice because that's the most important point
3. just going to say this once, but it's just as important: not cause >$3000 worth of damage and irreplacable data loss
4. charge a device
5. nice-to-haves but negotiable: QI2, enough power to charge a laptop a little bit

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

Biscit at Scotiacon 2026! 05.02.2026 - 09.02.2026
#furry #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #fursuit #scotiacon2026

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay so I have been procrastinating on getting a power bank for travel, and I was going to get That One Expensive Anker One That Everyone Seems To Like, but um, Anker has been *generally* having a terrible time of it <https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/More-than-One-Million-Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations>, and apparently this "new, good" one might melt your laptop? <https://youtu.be/tXPfbPckCN8> Can anyone point me at a *good* power bank?

jwz wrote:

It has come to my attention that I have not posted a bloody mary photo since before the world ended.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8J

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

It's the last 24 hours for this project, which features a long introduction from me as well as lots of illustrations and other excellent stuff. If you're a Douglas Adams fan, this is gonna be something you want to check out.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/hitchhikers

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shitpostalotl@axfedi.derg.rest ("Avery (She/Her)") wrote:

@soatok yeah it makes a lot of sense for a queer person to not push for the continued cultural relevance of an ip when its success can be tied to the creator donating a fuckton of money to politicians who seek to harm queer people. at least i think so.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@soatok
Honestly, it's quite hard to tell what's the bigger crime on that site. The use of bullshit regurgitator, "OpenSSL Corporation" :neofox_googly_woozy: or the fact that the site looks like a menu card of the most plutocratic restaurant in the galaxy :neofox_googly_shocked:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Signing in to Github on a device I'm borrowing

- enter user/pass
- prompt: "use passkey stored on a phone", shown QR code
- scan it
- phone: I have no passkey
- I remember I set the passkey with 1password
- open 1pass on my phone, confirm it has passkey
- there does not seem to be a way to scan a QR code for a passkey in 1pass
- guess I need to install 1pass on a device I plan to use for not very long?
- fuck it, using my authenticator app

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 -_-

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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…

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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...

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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/

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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

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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.

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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/