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

fwiw i default to a sort of international english these days to try and reduce misunderstandings.

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dracos/116748127736504326

Soonsnap lives, breathes, and jumps again!

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

the content i watch on youtube is still mostly native english speakers, but a fairly sizeable chunk now is from people for whom it's a second language.

there are vastly more people in the world who are not native english speakers than who are, so over time in theory they should come to dominate. and so the dominant dialect we'll be hearing is this internationalised version.

at some point that becomes the new reality, doesn't it?

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

there is a sort of de facto "international english", that people speak when they have learned most of the language and feel confident to freestyle the rest but get it wrong.

the example that triggered this thought was a swede saying "-20 centigrades" (actual number may have been different), which isn't how we'd say it, but is perfectly understandable.

i wonder if that's just how language is going to go as we gradually simplify it

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kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Learning about CPU race conditions is wild.

Like, my phone has this weird race condition where every now and then I’m scrolling my social media feeds and I see something abhorrently racist and…

What’s what? That’s more a human issue than a phone issue?

Damn. Those are harder to fix.

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

Trying some programmatic music making with Strudel

Attachments:

• audio: Descending scales over a drumbeat

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

Welp, I think WPT is totally cooked.

6+ months ago I walked a Catchpoint employee through how the new version fails to meet basic needs and how unbelievably slow it is. Did I mention unusable on mobile?

Traced the WPT UI again using WPT. "Enjoy":

https://portal.catchpoint.com/UI/Entry/WPTITP/ARKv-C-E-mvCs5tjeyafgtwAA-N

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I… I don't know, man, why are you asking *me*

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mpe@hcommons.social ("Martin Paul Eve") wrote:

"Someone who... could save millions of lives and chooses not to. But not only chooses not to, but personally goes into the government agency that, for a very small amount of money, saves those lives and decides that no, those people are going to die."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people

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

RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116748107172435312

Say it with me: boomers broken the weather.

Time to take away the keys.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good morning

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ericholscher@fosstodon.org ("Eric Holscher") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@readthedocs/116736750777757106

If anyone knows much about how to handle widespread DDOS from a multi-ASN botnet with “HostPapa” being the largest ASN, please do get in touch. 😵‍💫

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decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com ("Cutting-Edge Pizza Analytics") wrote:

That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it fifty times more?

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rahmstorf@fediscience.org ("Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf") wrote:

For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk a high impact but low probability risk for the future of humanity.
Recently I've changed my mind.
Here I explain why. ⬇️
https://youtu.be/Cg0N9MWw9Vk?si=sNcrTlo9aDiVBesx

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Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

I don’t have a trillion dollars. I can hang out with ravens for a lot less than that.

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

If LLMs finding security issues is so good why is npm still infested with malware

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MonotoneofBill@mastodon.world ("M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™") wrote:

Whoever coined “Out of sight, out of mind” never saw a spider sashay down behind a headboard.

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

:boost_requested:​ Am going to #emfcamp, I don't have a tent and I am reluctant to buy a whole new tent I'll likely use once. Where can I rent such a thing (or buy secondhand)?

#emfcamp2026 #emfcamp26

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

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If any of this seems relevant to your business/personal life, please reach out!

I am based in the UK (Scotland) and can work remotely in UK, European and eastern North American/South American timezones.

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

now, this is almost certainly not what happened but it improves the story and that's enough for me

😂

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jimbob@aus.social ("ahistorical immaterialist") wrote:

I'm just remembering certain explicit comments I made to a couple of people about the dangers of building an entire institutional strategy around cloud products from American companies.

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

How can the "UAP Advisory Science Council" do any science? By appointing a leader who shamelessly invents all the science!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/14/since-were-talking-about-ufos/

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ngaylinn@tech.lgbt ("Nate Gaylinn") wrote:

@jonny Heh, but humans are different, Jonny... ;)

I dunno, I get pretty frustrated by the gap between what scientists mostly agree on and what we actually teach the general public.

Like, my pre-PhD worry of "how come nobody has said..." has now morphed into "how come nobody has heard of..."

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

The objections in both cases are mirrors of each other: "but it will take a long time!" and "but the won't solve !".

I have good news on both fonts: the more of it we do, the better and faster we get at it, and the more new problems we develop capacity to solve.

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

My position on new HTML elements is the same as my view of new underground Muni & BART lines: we should be adding a new one every year, based on good data about needs, until life feels meaningfully better for the average user.

And then we should keep at it for another decade to make up for lost time.

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

“What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source”

https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/

> Organic traffic to community spaces was down roughly 30 percent, traceable to question-and-answer behavior moving to LLMs.

The post is a little too optimistic overall, which is counterproductive (too much optimism leads you waste effort on solutions that will never work), but outlines a core part of the problem well

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

“Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/feedback-loops-require-real-feedback-ai-drives-it-underground

> The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.

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

One guess (no prizes) for a rough estimate of that ratio at Apple, Google, and Meta, expressed as the % of the marketing budget spent on ironclad pro-privacy-lobbying & advocacy.

Rounding up, do you have any doubt it's < 1% for all of them?

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

apparently jensen huang has to multiple journalists gone through their wallet and called them poor.

what the actual fucking fuck?

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

When Big Tech tech talks about privacy, the way judge if it's to sell you a placebo vs. a serious commitment is the ratio between their marketing budget and the dollars spent to lobby for abolishing data brokers and making data about you *your* property:

https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis/