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

The proliferation of genAI has made my life

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This jam is usually $6.50 but today they're buy one get one free at $7.50. Lmao

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

@byorgey I just wanted you to know that I read http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml out loud to my students today at the end of the last day of my PL course, and several of them told me that it spoke to them. Thank you (again) for putting it into words.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space ("Josh Justice") wrote:

Is there anyone out there who actually buys meals at Dairy Queen?

Listen, I work for a fast food company, you can talk straight with me.

But like- if you’re gonna buy fast food. Dairy Queen?

Maybe it’s actually good? Maybe there are folks where it’s their closest option?? Legit curious.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Elindur@retro.pizza wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@squishymage42/116692076148476089

I burst into tears seeing this. Sesame Street is locked behind a paywall with HBO and Fred Rogers Productions went "NOPE" and made sure that the magic and compassion that Mr. Rogers taught is available to everyone, no matter your financial status. They're making sure underserved kids have access to education, and VERY important emotional education at that. (Also, "They release sesame street a week later" that is STILL treating kids of poorer economic groups as a separate and lesser class, think for 5 seconds, ffs)

Also, please remember that Mr. Rogers started saying he was feeding the fish because a little girl who was blind was worried he was forgetting. He made his show accessible before that was even an inkling of a thought in so many entertainers' heads.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sambowne@infosec.exchange ("Sam Bowne :donor:") wrote:

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
jni@fosstodon.org ("Juan Nunez-Iglesias") wrote:

@jonny oh man I’m happy to be 1st to post probably my fav two papers of all time, Tom Murphy’s “What Words Ought to Exist?”

http://tom7.org/papers/sigbovik2011tom7whatwords.pdf

And “The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel”

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf

“By the year 2013, home computers have become many orders of magnitude faster and more capacious than the NES hardware. This suggested to me that it may be time to automate the playing of NES games, in order to save time.” 😂

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

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to embrace P2P technology in the browser instead of forever being locked into the client server model. In other words, incorporate support for network stacks that provide robust P2P with the browser having a server so multiple peer browsers can communicate directly. 🤔

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
NovemDecimal@sunny.garden wrote:

@brib

Oof, that's a big mood for me :blobcatscared:

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

https://thedailytism.com/new-autistic-trading-standards-agency-to-force-ads-to-cut-the-shit/

Can I join the ASTA? I would do a great job 🤣 🤣 🤣

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

me when alone: "i want to talk to people"
me when there's people: "no not like that"

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Nikolai_Kingsley@dobbs.town ("Rev.Dr. Nikolai Kingsley") wrote:

*mew*

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
NovemDecimal@sunny.garden wrote:

Cyniam wants you to join in her exercise routine!

(This was really tricky to pull off and the artwork was stalled for a week without progress before I overcame my mental block, so please consider boosting! :boost_requested: )

@drawing

#NovemArt #NovemOC #MastoArt #FediArt #Krita #ArtistsOnMastodon #OC #OCArt #CharacterArt #Fitness #Exercise #Workout #DigitalArt

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

last chance 2 vote

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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

The proliferation of genAI has made my life

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes:

https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/

The page may grow a bit. Just wanted to get it out the door.

#AI #bigtech

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
epilanthanomai@signs.codes ("I Forget") wrote:

Oh, sorry, there must be a misunderstanding. Perhaps I mis--typed. The compiler result for that error isn't undefined: It's actually underfiend. A demon from below. Yes, at $LANGC corp we take underfiend behavior very seriously.

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

This hen was out and about earlier this week.

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

Some good thoughts to leave your students with. ”Too my students" by Brent A. Yorgey:

http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Evolution of a Friday PR:

3:00 PM: Refactored database logic for efficiency
5:40 PM: Fixing edge case bug
7:00 PM: typo
9:30 PM: please work
2:20 AM: asdfghjkl

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

The best resources to learn Blender from are still the Blender manual, but that's a bit dry as most manuals are and videos are often better, and so for the rest the Blender Studio folks. Plus, you're supporting free culture works in the process! https://studio.blender.org/ has some resources free, and you can pay to get access to the rest, but they're all under CC BY, which is pretty great.

The second best are tons of shy and excited people on YouTube who want to show you a few tips.

Some of my favorites:

- Harry Blends
- Sophie Jantak
- Deduze
- Pepe School Land, especially the Grease Pencil Random Tips and Tricks series (name is unrelated to the popularity of a certain frog)

Getting started with Grease Pencil first is often a good idea, because 2d is a gentler introduction for many people, but it also eases you into many of the 3d concepts.

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

The proliferation of genAI has made my life

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

everyone is tryna touch fuzzy to get dizy

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Selling you the option that deepens Apple's control isn't somehow in opposition to the predatory and extractive surveillance industry, it's an enabler. And Apple know it:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is a small but meaningful part of why Apple slow-rolling PWA installation prompts are such a scandal. Remember that Cupertino is making it harder to install web apps while marketing "Smart Banners" to push less secure, privacy invading native apps on Safari users:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting-apps-with-smart-app-banners

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

love this font https://shantellsans.com

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Object-oriented programming is great because it lets your problems inherit from one another.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

Got this stuck in my head and had to get it out. Just in case someone needs it.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116699406028549012

When folks like me bang on about how cynically irresponsible Apple has been about privacy in order to keep big app makers happy, this is what we're on about.

What can you do? Move your computing to the browser:

https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/