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

“Everywhere Foist Upon Us - The Darth Mall”

https://darthmall.net/2026/everywhere-foist-upon-us/

> Ubiquity and familiarity do not equate to inevitability. The industry is unsustainable both financially and computationally.

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

TFW the thing you're fighting in 11ty is broken *because you broke it*. 🤦

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

In Ireland, for 22% of total electricity, data centers provide 3,300 jobs

There are about 2,800,000 employed in Ireland.

For every 1% of Irish electricity, data centers provide 150 jobs

In the rest of the economy, for every 1% of electricity, 35,897 jobs are provided.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyway people apparently hate the idea of having a proper programming language in there. i know this because everyone has come along and mentioned their favourite deliberately limited config language. one has even attempted to argue "look we can make abstractions" and i'm just not prepared to expend any more mental energy in that direction.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it is my contention that what is missing from most packaging systems is a proper programming language. a proper programming language does not include deliberately limited languages like starlark or kdl, that is absolutely not what i want.

conary is the best we had so far, and that used python. and i know that being able to write things in a proper language was by far the best thing ever, even if it was python.

i actually would like to crank it all the way up to 11 on the power scale and just use a lisp. but what i absolutely do not want to do is use some shit language deliberately intended to limit you from building proper abstractions to tidy things up and eliminate boilerplate.

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

enjoy CSS Day and the other web/tech events for those who are visiting Amsterdam

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

overnight my mentions are full and i regret even entertaining the thought of getting involved in another linux distro.

also people have appalling taste in software

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

some might say that I "only have one joke" but registering Peertech Global Cyberindustrial Concern LLC, LLC. is the only thing i think i have done right in my life

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@cwebber what a mess

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
AwetTesfaiesus ("Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB") wrote:

@jonny @betabug fault and corp liability is a difficult topic, but as a general rule: the more smoke there is the more you are expected to look for a fire. c&d cases are smoke

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
AwetTesfaiesus ("Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB") wrote:

@betabug @jonny you are right, I in deed /am/ a lawyer and this is my area of practice (though as an MP). But being a lawyer, I can confidently say that I will not give a proper opinion on this until I‘ve read the ruling.

I imagine this has to do with the legal principle under German law that cease-and-desist claims do not require fault.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Lemmus@vivaldi.net wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116727272706475039

This one should be spoonfed to every single politician anywhere AI data centers are being attempted established.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
errant@glaceon.social ("Errant :is: :bat:") wrote:

My favourite memory about Homestuck is that I managed to get my brother to start reading it, he was progressing slowly, had a few big breaks. And one time when I againasked how he's doing, he said he is back at it again but all the trolls with their own thing was a bit much, there is just so many characters to keep track of.

At that point I decided to have mercy on him, and with barely contained laughter I managed to communicate that there are 4 more main kids and 12 more marginally relevant trolls down the line

In that moment, he was enlightened
And has stopped the Homestuck

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

I don't know about y'all, but I think it should be *illegal* to generate slop imagery of other people without their consent.

Apple really fell down hard on this feature (and I've been hearing other podcasters saying the exact same thing). I hope they come to their senses and realize the "ick" isn't worth a flashy keynote demo.

Hear the rest of the episode:
https://vibe.coded.show/16

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• video: 197ce50a0d0e38ce.mp4

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

Browsers on video game consoles have long been a majorly underdocumented topic. That changes today with my latest article, which I can confidently say is the most comprehensive game console browser coverage on the entire web.

I’d love for you to give it a read: https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I swear I've seen developers with 30 years of experience go from "I can debug a kernel panic blindfolded" to "oh wait, let me ask the AI how to write a for loop" in about 12 months.

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gavi@bagel.ing wrote:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

:forgejo: source.tube has been upgraded to Forgejo 15.0.3.

:forgejo: runner-1.source.tube upgraded to forgejo-runner 12.10.2.

🎏 The omg.lol profile page engine has been updated with Font Awesome 7.2.0.

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

My timeline is a cautionary tale. How are social media companies going to check if their customers are over 16 without "carding" everyone? And what protections will there be that the identity data they capture isn't left somewhere that can be captured by even worse actors?

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

Thx to @jzb for the, as always, excellent reporting.

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

Someone's AI agent has been performing a wide variety of manipulation to the project for a while to the Fedora project. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

It's clearly linked to an account that precedes the, ahem, "agentic AI era", but it also seems the account wwas probably compromised, but everything is unclear, including motivations or the extent of damage.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
hart28.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Hart Cunningham") wrote:

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

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• video: 5a88fd500ab6ee5e.mp4

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Honestly all the straight people I know with great relationships read a bit queer to me. (deeply complimentary)

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

I lost ten pounds by literally doing nothing else but having a strict bedtime of 9pm lmao

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It blows my mind that for £7 I can have a tiny computer with 5Ghz WiFi and program it to make hardware gadgets.

This time I've made a remote controller for PC fans. It sets and measures RPM, and integrates with #HomeAssistant

https://thepihut.com/products/seeed-studio-xiao-esp32-c5

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

A colleague of mine made this website because he keeps finding these AI companies where it's impossible to figure out what they do lmao

https://omniscientiq.com/

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

The UX fixes in macOS 27 look good enough that I’m tempted to hop right on the beta, but I think I’m going to be wise and wait for the public beta to come out in a month or two.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728001022328890

I recently borrowed a book from the library to read to my son before bed. It had a huge sticker on the cover stating "made without AI". Probably because it has a few illustrations in it.

But "no AI was used is really starting to become a mark of quality or at least a mark of something worth looking at.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Y'know what? I think one of the most defining things about queer relationships, particularly among women, is that we are FRIENDS WITH OUR PARTNERS.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
rdm@aus.social wrote:

I looked across the tent at a perfect copy of myself. Well, not quite perfect. They are still getting the hang of English.

I should back up a bit.

Just before sunset a week ago, I screwed up. I'd been driving too long, and only saw the wombat on the highway at the last moment. I swerved and lost control.

When I came to, my car was totalled, and well out of sight of the highway, behind a low rise on the plain. I struggled out of the wreck in the dark, but had enough sense not to try wandering around. There are all sorts of sinkholes around here, and if I fell down one of them, I was a goner.

As I stood next to the remains of my car, I saw what I thought was a helicopter coming my way. I waved and shouted, but then I noticed how erratically it was flying. The lights seemed a bit off, too. I was pretty sure helicopters didn't have purple lights. So maybe it was someone's drone?

All of that went out the window, when it turned towards me, and then crashed into the ground next to my wrecked car.

What I was looking at was an actual flying saucer. About twice the size of my car. And it looked about as wrecked as my car was.

After a couple of moments, a small port opened, and a gush of purple liquid poured out, followed by a splat of something grey.

I just stared. What I didn't notice was the grey blob in the purple puddle extruding a tendril towards me. At least until it touched my leg.

I probably jumped five metres straight up at that. And about five backwards.

What followed was the grey blob contracting back into itself, and then changing. Into a perfect copy of me.

This was one shock too many, and I fainted.

When I came to, the copy was crouched next to me. Before I could move, it touched my forehead, and I was filled with a sense of worry. And it was not mine. This I found a bit reassuring, and so I stopped myself from moving, and tried to ask what it was.

It took a lot of back and forthing of mental images, but it's ship had hit an near-earth asteroid, and it had lost control. It wanted to know if it could be fixed.

I didn't know. But, between the two of us, we might be able to get one vehicle sort of working. We thought about getting a lift, but there would be questions. Too many of them.

Of course, it was now in the form of a human, so the first order was arranging food and water. Then it discovered it needed to sleep. And everything else.

Some of its ship still worked - and it knew enough to work out how create food and water for us both. And it is learning English. Which is a bit easier than trading images.

We've been here a week now.

As I watch the copy of me, it wakes up. I watch my body stretch, and then it looks at me. "We fix car. Get bigger car. Take my ship to fixing place."
"I don't know that we've got anywhere that can fix your ship."
"Can't fix it here."
"Can we fix the car?"
"Easier than ship."

I guess it has a point.

#SF #SFF #SciFi #microfic #tootfic #microtfiction #IAmWriting