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

Hack & Craft starting now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

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amras@friendmaterial.lgbt ("Sarma / Amras") wrote:

very important news, there was a baby jackdaw in the park.

#corvids #jackdaw #BirdPosting #birds

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

Fred Rogers is the hero we should build statues of.

I say, for the millionth time. I'll say it as many times as it takes.

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

Damn, I signed up for a PeerTube server a while back and I don't remember which one. My ADHD ass couldn't handle the two day waiting period to get approved so by the time I got the email my mind was already somewhere else and I didn't save the info anywhere.

Anyway, if I wanted to join a PeerTube community so I could post video essays which should I go to?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

after a few very stressful weeks, getting ready for another very stressful (but hopefully very fun) few weeks coming up, there are few sweeter things to read in an email than "After reviewing and conducting an investigation regarding your parking invoice dispute letter, it is our position to grant your request for dismissal."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is just darkly hilarious to me, as it unambiguously puts a lie to the Firefox excuse everybody loves about LLMs, "but but but what about the translations?"

it's a different thing, putting them in the same bucket just isn't necessary

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"live translation" requires "apple intelligence" be enabled on iOS but "on-device mode translations" is just a separate thing that does *not* require "apple intelligence" on macOS

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:") wrote:

Me: makes type of user-provided data unknown
What I expect in response: appropriate checks to make sure the data is what we expect
What I get: const something = userData.something as OldType;

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:") wrote:

I find it exhausting how some people think that if a stricter type uncovers potential problems, they need to trick the type checker into accepting the unsafe code instead of fixing the code so the problem doesn't exist.

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pinsel@meow.social ("Pinsel, The 📸 Lynx") wrote:

Is it still #FursuitFriday?
No? Anyway, have a Blix!
#Fursuit #FursuitPhotography #Photography

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Photographic evidence: bunnies like clover.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Update: I ended up getting a BMX SolidSafe 5k, which A) has not caught fire or let the magic smoke out of any of my other devices yet and B) actually seems pretty nice? I've used the little OLED charging readout to verify that it supports passthrough charging, it's very legible, and charges WAY faster than my older Anker battery.

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

Even better already!

Dang, what's this girl up to?

Attachments:

• gifv: the blinkenlights are more brilliant and vary their blink cycle per light

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I made a 'masterfeed' of all the content I make.

https://chriswere.wales/masterfeed/

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

One hint is that I've kept working on my blinkenlights!

Attachments:

• gifv: lights go blinky blink

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

Hack & Craft! Today! From 8pm-10pm ET! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

Bring a code project! Bring a crafting project!

As for me, I'll be working on something in Blender! It's a surprise of what but I'll drop some hints below! :)

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

which will win: all of Inverness? or one (1) fucking budgie https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c232dnkkd3po

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

@davidgerard I think we have a new world record for "most northerly wild parakeet"

unless there's a rogue parakeet colony hanging somewhere around the arctic circle

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Car wreck. Another angle.

#darktable #photography

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

I'm sure the results would be very different depending on where the poll is run. X-Twitter vs Bluesky vs Fedi are all going to give pretty significantly different responess, and so is my audience in particular.

Still, kinda astounding in some ways

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

Also nearly 5k people voting, dang

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

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116698488515037678

Poll closed. Interesting results. Well, I expected "worse" to be much higher than "better" with " worse and better" being a bit higher than "better" but even given me knowing fedi pretty well, this is pretty damn stark

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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. 🤔