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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

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• video: 360f3e723cb3c698.mp4

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

brb i have a new #crochet goal

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

lol

this is no laughing matter lmao

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

to change the laws of physics, simply rewrite the simulation

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

total air temperature

yeah i don't think you just sum all the points in the room

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Don't fear spiders, respect them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/12/still-exaggerated/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
miriamrobern@dice.camp ("Miriam's a Menace") wrote:

wow, this coverage is glorious.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

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

pretty
gay
imo

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

Thank you for allowing me to kind of vent here. I need to get it out.

Yesterday I experienced the worst cluster headache of my life. It was my fifth or sixth of the day and it really got me. I was vomiting and sweating. I had blurred vision. That's the one that really broke me.

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

Update: good news is I've only had 3 cluster headaches since midnight and all were relatively short and not as painful as yesterday's cycle.

Not so good news is I'm still very tired as I haven't got much sleep. Been relearning cluster headaches and learned they're tied to REM sleep somehow and disruptions in sleep patterns make it worse. So I can see how this could snowball.

If anyone has tips or insight I'm all ears!

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

❄️ Nix Flakes and their Guix Equivalents

https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix

#guix #gnuguix #linux #opensource

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Good. Get that shit off that wall.

https://wapo.st/4eiT8ZB

jwz wrote:

Having now learned a mere smattering of what passes for mainstream "home automation" in This Modern World, I think the only sensible thing for me to do is to commission someone to build me a wifi Terminator hand that has a supple enough thumb to press buttons on a remote control.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

I note that Elon Musk's wealth now exceeds the annual GDP of Switzerland.

I think this makes him a state-level actor, and a *hostile* one.

I submit that we have tools for dealing with rogue states, and they should be applied to him until/unless he starts to behave. NB: said tools vary from polite talkings-to by diplomats all the way up to cruise missile strikes and invasions.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

@cwebber @dthompson @spritely

Yeah!

And I will be there, too, to give a workshop about #Mastodon for folks who might be curious about it!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

Along with folks like @cwebber and @dthompson I will be talking at a branch of the Toronto Library tomorrow. My presentation will be about #Mastodon: what it is and how you might use it.
If you've got a friend who's interested in Mastodon but doesn't know where to start, and they live in Toronto, and they like free talks at libraries.... send them our way tomorrow!

https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

cw: needle #toronto

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

This migration effort has deepened our Swift expertise and given us a foundation to build on. After completing the migration, we distilled what we learned into instructions for LLM coding assistants, and have since used them successfully in other projects. LLMs have improved the efficiency of our team’s work converting C/C++ to Swift, and have proven valuable in performing the kind of code transformations used in this effort.

-- An apple security engineer

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

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

I loved this movie so much. I've must've watched it 100 times.

Few movies better depict the opulence and excess of American capitalism in the 90s than Boiler Room. Pre-9/11, pre-housing crisis, we were on top of the world and nothing would ever change about that lol

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@esperantousa hey, friends! We've made a real dent -- please keep it up!

And if you're one of my friends with a lot of followers -- this would be a nice time for a boost.

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

This one has a face.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #concrete #decay #windows #rust

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

Video editing concepts are completely lost on the average person. The idea that you can add audio, or splice unrelated videos together, to create an event that didn't happen, isn't something people consider when consuming video content.

Explaining these concepts to someone doesn't guarantee they'll understand either.

What's fascinating is you could probably just say "it's AI" and they'd better understand.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

The JUNO detector, a huge sphere full of 20,000 tonnes of transparent organic goop, is detecting antineutrinos produced by two nuclear reactors each located the same distance away. After just 2 months, it measured some things about neutrino masses better than ever before! A paper was just published on this.

We're trying to understand the masses of the 3 neutrinos. A big problem is that most experiments can't detect the actual masses, only fancier things that are easier to measure. So we don't even know which neutrino is the heaviest! JUNO should figure this out, though.

Let me tell you a bit more:

The 3 neutrinos have masses called m₁, m₂ and m₃. Yes, physicists are very creative about naming things.

We know m₁ and m₂ are really close to each other, while m₃ is further away. We also know m₁ < m₂, thanks to neutrinos coming out of the Sun. But we don't know whether m₃ is bigger than both the other masses, or smaller! So right now there are two possibilities:

• Normal ordering: m₁ < m₂ < m₃, so m₃ is the heaviest and sits above the closely-spaced m₁, m₂ pair.

• Inverted ordering: m₃ < m₁ < m₂, so m₃ is the lightest, sitting below the closely-spaced pair.

There's a bit of evidence supporting the normal ordering, which is why it's called the 'normal' ordering. Like I said, physicists are very creative about naming things.

In about 5 years, the JUNO team should know which ordering is the right one! But right now, after just 2 months of taking data, they've just measured m₂² - m₁² more accurately than ever before. So they are happy.

But the whole business of neutrino masses is weirder than I've made it sound.

(1/n)

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Called it.

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

Massively more code churn; massively more incidents and outages; massively more bugs.

"ai"-produced code is low quality and prolix, and causes problems. Adding features is worthless when it comes with this cost.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
secretasianman@types.pl ("The Audacity of Nope") wrote:

"marketplace of ideas" implies the existence of "subprime derivative thoughts" and I have some examples

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I've been unable to work for nearly two entire years due to illness, and my savings are depleted and I'm in quite a bit of debt. I'm trying to pay my power bill this month, which was unexpectedly high. If you have a couple dollars, it'd really help! Thanks

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing/

#mutualaidrequest

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

Every tech channel is publishing the same video after WWDC— is Siri good now?

It's been a long time coming. I've grown very human and real feelings of resentment toward that fucking voice assistant. Any time I've considered exiting my Apple ecosystem gilded cage for Google, it's been because of Siri.

And now that Siri is basically just another LLM, I have a lot of mixed feelings. I need to process lol.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

Unusual case at work today, the house has a great rooftop solar setup but they're in a pickle with it: the company who installed it went bankrupt, and now there's an issue in their system that nobody is obligated to fix, but they're still paying the loan.

Being mastodon i thought id ask if any of yall might know how to regain control of a SolarEdge inverter/monitoring platform, once controlled by Titan Solar?

Boosted by jwz:
chockenberry ("Craig Hockenberry") wrote:

I know what I’m going to be watching all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

jwz wrote:

One day, I will open my window and not hear someone running a compressor.

Dare to dream.