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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Solidarity not sovereignty is what I am saying

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems

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

Minor programming note: email notifications from source.tube and discourse.lol will now be sent from source.tube@email.engineering and discourse.lol@email.engineering, respectively. Doing a little mail service cleanup and consolidation!

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

only amateurs "pay for tokens," i'm out here using the free models, aka putting a prompt in any issue in any github repository and labeling it with "good first issue" and waiting for the people with full-auto openclaw agents to randomly open pull requests against it

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

I knew Roku was on the bad path with respect to advertising data for a while now but the Fox purchase is yet another blow. All y'all media companies giving really good reasons for piracy. Geez.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dave@puz.fun ("Taco Dave") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116757185931996170

This. Do this. Otherwise developers have to sell their souls to make a living.

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amyfou@lingo.lol ("AmyFou 🕊️") wrote:

OK, so I just learned elsewhere that there's a secret group run by Peter Thiel (https://dialog.org/) for fancy people who want to be able to talk to each other 'off the record'.

Friends. If you go to the website, and open 'developer tools' in your browser, go to 'inspector' and drill down in the dom you will find a plain text list of members of this group.

There are something like 113 fancy people.

I will list them in this thread.

1/x

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ancoghlan ("Alyssa Coghlan") wrote:

Fedi being fedi, this question seems worth asking: has anyone ever seen or written an exporter that takes an old DISQUS comment data export and dumps it into Markdown for inclusion in a static site generator? (I turned off comments on my blog some time ago, with the intention of bringing the old comments back in static form at some point, but have yet to get around to actually doing it)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Indirect prompt injection attacks are really in their infancy. As we enable more agents and more tools/integrations, the possibilities for this fundamentally unfixable vulnerability get scarier.

Imagine giving all your secrets to an assistant and expecting them to get phished. That's what this is.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-attack-turned-microsoft-365-copilot-into-1-click-data-theft-tool/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.” https://karlbode.com/the-spacex-ipo-is-a-giant-unworkable-con-orchestrated-by-an-overt-white-supremacist-huckster

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

Had a minor epiphany about some really basic Caddy functionality and wrote it up. https://www.neatnik.net/blog/single-page-plaintext-caddy-sites/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

@aredridel @TeamMidwest one could also argue that the rent extraction by the journals made discourse pay to play/pay for promotion

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

wow it even brings up per martin-lof

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

LOL, MQTate has a video about stephen wolfram's shitty book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9iRDPXvT4

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Trade offer

jwz wrote:

Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn.

The judge found that Meta's attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees "strains credulity." Strike 3 Holding first filed its lawsuit...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8Y

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
queenofsquiggles@transfem.social ("Silly Fae Squiggles") wrote:

I'm looking for some help finding a career path into writing media criticism/analysis articles.

Is there a way I can submit articles I write to be published somewhere? Or is that not a thing anymore? I know in the days of yore people could submit articles to magazines and newspapers to have them published but no doubt that knowledge is seriously out of touch.

Since I am genuinely hoping this ask "breaches containment", about me: I'm a queer creative and one of my more recent side-gigs / hobbies has been to write media analysis articles on different pop culture elements usually with a heavy emotional connection. I have two articles in the works, One about "I'm on observation duty" and "Human shaped", one asserting that Weiss Schnee from RWBY is a trans woman and the canon proves it. The one that is out now is about how Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works saved my life. I like drawing on that creative lenses and media analyses to give a relatively interesting viewpoint to something that many others might have passed by. If you wanna read the article I have out now: https://queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page/personal-essay/fate-stay-night-saved-my-life/

Also like is there a better term for all this I can/should use? Does this count as journalism? Even if my articles are largely opinion pieces? (Is "Op-Ed" something???)

​:boosts_okgay:​

#GetFediHired #DuckDuckFedi #Writing #Journalism

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Whenever someone enters my home, one of our dogs gets so happy that she makes a gutteral scream and I wish I had the music skills to mix it into a heavy metal track

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

low-enriched fuel called 'caramel'

okay i really don't think we should be naming nuclear fuels after delicious things

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

yeah, no shit

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/america-trump-iran-ceasefire-agreement-war-hormuz-b2995971.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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

Ok well I downloaded one of the beta builds! I got the new Sample Sound Frequencies node running! This is basically from just hooking up the default settings and controlling the Z position of a cube, nothing exciting.

Threw Marmalade Coast by @encryptedwhispers / @vv into it

Unfortunately the daily Blender build doesn't support Pulseaudio as an output so I had to render it to hear it (because I don't know JACK, heh ;P) but it "Just Worked". There is also some nice FFT support so you can break up a song really nicely for visualizations. This seems like it's going to be pretty exciting tbh

Attachments:

• video: A Blender cube hopping up and down to the first ten seconds of EncryptedWhispers' Marmalade Coast

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

Oh shit, Blender 5.2 is really gonna rule, huh? Am I reading this right, that we get two new geometry nodes which open up some pretty huge things?

- Sample Sound Frequencies: this makes Blender a heck of a lot more useful and adaptive for live performances / VJ'ing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/156247
- A bevel node!!! This is one of the big things that felt like it was missing to me, lots of procedural modeling felt not quite feasible to bring all the way in geometry nodes alone without this. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/bevel-node-feedback/45375

Really excited for this upcoming release! #blender3d #b3d #geometrynodes #geonodes

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

A social media ban won't fix online harms.

That's because the business model creating them is left untouched.

It just makes every user do an ID check to prove they’re over 16.

Instead we should tackle the attention capture economy of targeted ads and personalised algorithms.

Sign our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech

#socialmediaban #onlinesafety #socialmedia #stopKillingInternet #ukpol #ukpolitics #privacy #censorship #bigtech

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
n1ckfg@merveilles.town ("Nick Fox-Gieg") wrote:

@cwebber Great talk yesterday--this is the export format for Grease Pencil I was talking about, it'd be great to know about any similar interested folks...this has so far mostly been for nonrealtime exchange between creation apps, but I'm increasingly using it for realtime https://lightningartist.org

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

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

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galacticstone ("Galactic Stone") wrote:

Carbon before silicon.

#AI #ButlerianJihad

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zhenyi ("Zhenyi Tan") wrote:

Traps

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Tomatoes field