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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CassetteBeasts@social.bytten-studio.com ("Cassette Beasts 2002") wrote:
We're thrilled to announce CASSETTE BEASTS 2002, the next adventure from the world of Cassette Beasts, coming soon to all major platforms!
We can't wait to tell you more - for now, check the announcement trailer & wishlist on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802140/Cassette%5FBeasts%5F2002/
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Here's yet another reason to not give money to Proton:
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I have a playlist with a few movie soundtracks from Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Goran Bregović, and François De Roubaix. What does #Tidal think I should also put on the playlist? The Benny Hill theme, Inspector Gadget, and Mission: Impossible.
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:
Why isn't there a CSS unit like
chbut for emoji?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
The world is complex and always has been. But the narrative "the world today is just so much more complicated" often only serves as an argument to legitimize accepting injustice and violence.
By focusing on "how hard it is to find some EUR in the budget" we give ourselves permission to for example not house people, or have kids be hungry in school. Complexity gives us permission to accept cruelty. Because many things are simple: We have enough for every human being to be fed and clothes and housed and given a dignified life.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:
it is 1981. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
it is 1995. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
it is 1999. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
it is 2007. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
it is 2012. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
it is 2026. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.
microsoft operating systems have never been cheap. even the ones you didn’t pay for or think you got for free via a loophole have a cost post people wouldn’t pay if they were asked.
if you grew up in the 90s you should be very angry at Microsoft’s strategy of forcing unfit for service OSes into schools.
45 years of premium disappointment
(do not reply to this post about how you too use linux, I understand we’re on mastodon, thanks)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shawnhooper@fosstodon.org ("Shawn Hooper (he/him) 🇨🇦") wrote:
Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
big frog isn't trying to sell you more frog, it just wants to hop
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Willow@social.xenofem.me ("Willow at large") wrote:
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Latex furries would really kill it in mergers & acquisitions
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
It was also posted to Hacker News, and I made the mistake of reading some of the comments.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
True: that is my favorite spider with tits.
False: No, you don't swallow spiders in your sleep.https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/08/move-over-jessica-rabbit/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well now, this is getting interesting
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Grassware – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”
https://heatherburns.tech/2026/06/07/grassware/
> No, they are not; the point is that age verification providers now hold themselves to be delegated law enforcement and extensions of the judiciary
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
right, let's have a go at deriving a solution from first principles while trying to wake up.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
SpaceX won’t be allowed early entry to the S&P 500 after all
oh no.
oh well 😂
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI
lest you think it's just our little fedi bubble, i can assure you ordinary people fucking hate it too.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
leighelse@mastodon.nz ("leighelse{}") wrote:
Research shows internet availability results in polarised political views, but the fault isn't with the technology. Platforms like Facebook and Xwitter push right wing talking points and suppress others.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409
'There is now a solid body of evidence showing that internet availability is causing a variety of outcomes that adversely affect democracy ...
During the German federal election in 2025, an algorithmic audit of X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube found that around half of all party-related content that was algorithmically recommended to young users across platforms involved an extreme-right party, doubling its audience share relative to the content’s original upload rate on TikTok. Center-left parties, by contrast, were suppressed.'
Mastodon Feed@glyph Sure. I mean, I'm just an unfrozen caveman, but I feel like the actual skill of photography happens in the seconds before the shot was taken, not in post. With a real camera (oops there's my bias) learning how to properly use a flash is probably the single most valuable skill.
Mastodon Feed@jwz There's interesting technical stuff to know, and *some* of these photographers are taking truly breathtaking photographs so they seem to know what they're doing, but the "preset salesman" archetype is definitely not good at explaining why their "presets" have any value
Mastodon Feed@glyph Yeah, this is all nonsense. Was a time when hitting "auto levels" was like "what witchcraft is this, how did you magically make it pro-style?" You just gotta make it look good to you. I don't take a lot of photos these days but when I do, the mods are rarely more than tweaking black level and maybe saturation if I'm feeling saucy.
Mastodon Feedalso it's very weird that so many videos in this genre pooh-pooh the "photo styles" option as "over-processed" or whatever but then they just… do the same kind of processing, to make the photos look "good"?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus wrote:
Ok, if the Pope can do it, then so can we:
The use of "AI" to generate "art" is antithetical to paganism.
Literally the only one thing we all agree on as pagans is that climate change threatens life on Earth, and we should do something about it. It is our one unifying tenet.
Wasting precious resources to prop up a planet-killing fad just to generate badly plaigerised "art" goes against this single, definitive belief.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time
— and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers.Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March;
that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in an NBC poll said neither Democrats nor Republicans are doing a good job on the AI front.
That number also appears in an April survey of white-collar workers:
80 percent are straight-up refusing to use AI even when it's mandated.
In the last 30 days, 54 percent of workers reported bypassing company AI tools and completing jobs themselves.Those numbers suggest general strike-levels of discontent with AI across every industry, out there in the real America beyond Silicon Valley and Wall Street, if not an outright revolutionary mood.
Data center protests, fueled by the 70 percent of Americans who say they don't want data centers near them, are only likely to grow going forward
— especially now that they are producing tangible results.At least 48 data center projects were blocked or delayed in 2025, according to Data Center Watch,
and the fight is only getting more fierce.
Mastodon FeedI just want to know stuff like "how do I know if I am going to be pushing dark mode too far" or "what kind of detail I am going to lose from ProRAW JPEG-XL lossless to lossy". if you're gonna show me how to apply a LUT to an AppleLog2 image or something, please describe _what_ about the image looks subjectively better to you with a different color grade. do not say a semantically empty word to me like "cinematic" or, god help me, "filmic", or I will shoot you with a gun
Mastodon Feedall these "make your camera phone photos look better" videos from professional photographers are like
"well as you can see" (gestures at perfectly nice looking portrait) "this just looks terrible, so, let's go ahead and bring out the subject"
(thirty seconds of incoherently poking at a histogram or something, now the shadows are just a little too dark and it's slightly oversaturated)
"Fantastic. By applying my presets you can get beautiful pictures just like this one"
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
I can’t begin to quantify how much looking at baby owls, sloths, seals, crows, beavers, everyday online has helped my mental health
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
Sherifazuhur@sfba.social ("Sherifa Zuhur") wrote:
We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians @palestine
#presshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/professor-suspended-assignment-mentions-palestinians