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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
designatednerd ("Ellen Shapiro") wrote:

"Parents are in the best position to decide what's best for their family"

*queers whose parents didn't accept their queerness have entered the chat* #WWDC

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@kornel I also really hate fan noise. Recently I keep having to turn down graphics settings so my GPU doesn't blast like a jet engine while playing games. I wish games, graphics drivers, or some other tool would allow me to automate that process. "Run at this maximum fan speed."

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehmatthes@fosstodon.org ("Eric Matthes") wrote:

gh-profiiler's bulk processing feature is a really interesting way to see how AI has been affecting contribution patterns in different projects.

Here's the 25 most recent merged/closed PRs in cPython. Most were merged. Two of the three PRs that were rejected were submitted by a user who raised a red flag when profiled.

To be clear, cPython maintainers are not using gh-profiler to make these decisions. But the output is aligning reasonably well with those decisions so far.

#Python #OpenSource

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia

#news #government #doj #trump #westvirginia #EPA

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

This is an amateur satellite milestone.

This is ORI's digital multiplexing microwave band payload, and this is a demonstration of the uplink receiver working.

Here, the channelizer and power detector are working to track a signal swept across the uplink. Point a browser at the satellite implementation, and a web page reports station performance.

Back end is MQTT (a service in the embedded linux image) and it doesn't clutter things up when no one is looking at it.

Demod/decode is next.

Attachments:

• video: A video clearly showing that a signal swept through the uplink of ORI's Haifuraiya design is clearly and completely picked out and filtered. This is a big deal, because anything downstream of this depends on this polyphase filterbank working at its best. The deep purple background lets the yellow and orange spikes at the 64 channels be clearly seen. The signal is swept from low channel to high, and you can see that the energy per channel is captured and filtered correctly. This is a high performance design that protects the communications channels for the Haifuraiya design. This video shows how the plan has come together.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
booknotification ("Book Notification") wrote:

🥹🥹🥹

#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

For sound insulation everyone recommends mass loaded vinyl (MLV), but that barely made any difference in my case. MDF/wood is thick and heavy enough on its own.

Foam easily eats high-pitched sound, but low-freqency harmonics almost drove me mad. 5700RPM HDD turned out to have 95Hz harmonic that spread through everything, including foam, felt, rubber feet and my floorboards!

High freq needed closed foam, and the low freq needed layers of butyl rubber mats (for car sound deadening).

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

For the base of the acoustic enclosure, I've used IKEA ALEX. Tight fit. Shelf used for a 12cm duct at the top.
I've used pair of Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM Sx2-PP to pull air out 500RPM. That's quiet enough, but barely enough airflow. Instead of pulling, I should have hidden them inside a duct behind a baffle.

I totally underestimated importance of baffles. I thought smooth airflow would be more important, but nope. Labyrinth matters more. Super important around both exhaust and intakes!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm oddly sensitive to fan noise. A normal person's "quiet" PC to me is still unacceptably annoying. So I (foolishly) built an acoustic enclosure for my already-Noctua-laden PC.
Lots of faff for shaving off ~5dB(A).

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A tiny door next to a tiny window.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #decay #concrete #window #door

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
firda@sunny.garden ("Firda") wrote:

"Omg flowers!"

#Puffin #Iceland #PhotoMonday #Birds #BirdsofMastodon #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #BloomScrolling

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place ("The Seven Voyages Of Steve") wrote:

I sometimes think about how if open source had never happened at scale, and all LLMs had to train on was proprietary code, how different things might look right now. Breaks my heart; sharing code openly has been a huge part of my life and belief system for so long, and I was so convinced that the good that it did outweighed the bad actors taking advantage. I never imagined that the bad actors would win by automating their behaviour

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

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

“Not all parents/grandparents.”

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

So, what are the odds that the reactions to Apple’s early Christmas present to the controlling and abusive everywhere are mostly defined by whether you had an abusive—or at least untrustworthy and controlling—authority figure in your life growing up?

If so, then I’m not surprised that Mastodon has a sizeable population of people with deep-seated authority issues 😝

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ikenndac ("Daniel Kennett") wrote:

I've never seen a group of 150+ people turn hostile faster than the virtual WWDC keynote watch group I'm in as the AI photo editing stuff started.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@nileane Apple: others use AI for AI’s sake
also Apple, moments later: we made a feature nobody asked for that pretends to change the perspective of your photos by turning the backgrounds into slop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116715771559728532

I’ll take “living in the EU” as a stopgap. #wwdc

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116715874283622057

So:
• With Siri AI, Apple deliberately developed a brand-new (and central) OS feature that they knew would not meet the DMA requirements they've been subjected to since 2023
• They went to the EU Commission with the proposal of a technical solution that is not ready and would not roll out before 18 months
• The EU Commission said no because lol what do you mean you plan to disobey the DMA *again* for the next 18 months
• Apple whines

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

"Ask before contacting", "ask before buying", and I'm idly wondering when we're going to start hearing about spouses being forced onto child accounts by their abusers.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

If as a programmer you never stand up and say “no” in order to protect users from unethical and harmful software you have failed at your job.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gedeonm ("Ged Maheux") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/116715629929441254

Really hard to take Apple’s commitment to children’s safety seriously because of hypocritical stances like this.

Boosted by jwz:
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("ratatouille as a service") wrote:

The entire US economy, 2026

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

Apple Keynotes are stale. They need to mix it up. How about a WWDC directed by Quentin Tarantino, where Craig Federighi shoots up the c-suite after being overlooked for the CEO gig. Or an Apple Watch launch by Christoper Nolan? Eh? Get it? Because of time?

jwz wrote:

180 http req/sec. A *single botnet* has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@ismh86 Completely random, hopefully very small imposition: if I was going to be in Memphis for just one night (which is likely in about two weeks), what would be a restaurant I shouldn't miss? (Or something else if you're not a restaurant person.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
yoginho@spore.social ("Yogi Jaeger") wrote:

New essay out::

"The Cyborg Myth"

taking apart the substitution argument for computational functionalism by Moravec and Chalmers.

Biological naturalism, based on living organization, FTW!

https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/the-cyborg-myth

This essay is based on the following talk:

https://youtu.be/Bx9FV2W7otw

Brain uploading is *not* ever going to be a thing.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ligasser@social.epfl.ch ("Linus Gasser") wrote:

@ret @soatok Didn't scroll down fast enough to see your message - first I clicked on the link, and found this nice message:

> That is classic PR behaviour. You notice a shitstorm happens, you suppress it, that way you can get the time to get a statement out before a shitstorm happens.

> Have seen that often enough, controversy starts, posts about it get deleted on the sub, a few hours later company apologises. And as seen here, that is exactly what happened.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1u052qp/proton%5Fis%5Ffunding%5Fthe%5Ffrench%5Ffar%5Fright%5Fon%5Fyoutube/oqgr503/