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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
waxy@xoxo.zone ("Waxy.org") wrote:

It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests: the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jtp.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("jenny tightpants") wrote:

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kylealden@toot.cafe ("Kyle Pflug") wrote:

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? https://aldenblog.io/posts/2026-06-15/test-drive-blink-ios/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
losttourist@social.chatty.monster ("Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!") wrote:

This prediction from The Micro User magazine in January 1985 about where home computers might go, and how computer-touchers might still have different attitudes than the rest of the population, turns out to not actually be a thousand miles short of the mark.

#Retrocomputing #BBCmicro #futurism #TheMicroUser

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"That's my neighbor!
I don't even know you!"

Sticker spotted in Upstate New York

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

I had a lovely time talking to James on the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast. Take a listen! #indieweb #tech

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/6

Boosted by jwz:
tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

@xgranade

Fine print:

Your True Name will be held in escrow for as long as you hold an account and for one month after account closure or deletion; in addition, you agree that neither Winter Court LLC nor any of its holdings shall be responsible for lost or damaged souls.

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

on the offchance anyone of the agda(ish) persuasion wouldn't mind a bit of work on the side on a formalization, i have been asked if i know anyone.

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

@angusm The UK government is pioneering its most ambitious advanced cybersecurity training program yet, which aims to give 10 million British children the skills the country needs to defend against the advanced hacking capabilities of adversarial nation-states and sophisticated LLM models, such as the yet-to-be-publicly-released Claude OmniMythos 6.7.

Experts have praised the scheme for its naturalistic approach to learning and its careful use of incentives to teach these vital cybersecurity skills.

"By placing an intricate set of challenges between what kids are nominally able to do and what they really want," says one expert, "We can guarantee that the next generation will be able to subvert even the most complex cyber-defenses, paving the way for the UK to become a world-beating cyber-nation."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

Funny meme number released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Linux

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
JohannaForster@mastodon.art ("Johanna Forster") wrote:

The gardener 🌱 Watercolor and ink - It was a birthday present to a friend 😊

#aquarelle #watercolour #watercolor #robotart #overgrown

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
drachenmagier@mastodon.art wrote:

Sometimes the lights we carry to illuminate our way become the new path we can tread.

aka

me: "I could draw digitally again. It is fun too!"
ipad: "I'm out of battery" :)
…
pen: "I'm out of battery too!" :)
…
computer: "your art program needs an update" :)
…
ipad: "I do not recognise this pen." :)
…
computer: "I have never seen this tablet in my life." :)
……………

Fuck it. Traditional it is.

#drachenmagier #unicorn #traditionalArt #TraditionalMedia #Fantasy #MastoArt

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
e11e ("elle") wrote:

happy pride month ^-^ i added another new outfit to my homepage to celebrate <3 you can read more about it on my blog here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#woke-mode

Attachments:

• gifv: demoing new pride outfit on elle's homepage <3

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Went back to do some coding in my Android app only to find Intellij code analysis completely broken after a recent update. Like, highlighting stuff in comments, highlighting errors that couldn't exist at the place, fixing itself only after an IDE restart…

I don't know what's the bug, obviously. But my confirmation bias tells me one thing: complexity. Somehow my Sublime Text always works. Yes, it isn't updated nearly as often, but that's kind of the point.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
wxcafe@tacobelllabs.net ("Cyan, like the color") wrote:

shot some 🩷 infrared 🩵 at the local abandoned factory complex

Fujifilm X-T30, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4

#queerphotography #digitalphotography #infrared #infraredphotography #fujifilm #urbex #france #abandoned

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
eleanor@chaosfem.tw ("Eleanor 🫖🍵📚") wrote:

The problem with understanding yourself is that you learn something that becomes impossible to ignore.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
pquirrel@wetdry.world ("pquirrel :neocat_flag_trans: :gd_demon_extreme:") wrote:

what is keygen music if not the software pirate's sea shanty

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tpaau17db wrote:

@mkljczk Amerykanie używają podobnej jednostki

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

@cwebber wait I had no idea there was a physical spline that both came first and had the name first what

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber Hot damn, this actually is quite interesting, I have never considered using them that way!

(I also used a lattice here to scale on X just to see if it'd work out)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

hotdog

#pixelart #sketch

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
thomas@allpro.social ("I hate football") wrote:

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

Nurbs feel like the kind of thing that @aeva would argue for as something we should be trying to push in the direction of, and I mean that as a compliment

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

Every now and then I open up Nurbs in Blender and play with them and am struck by how fast it is to be able to create interesting shapes.

Apparently the Nurbs code in Blender is incredibly old and basically only maintained as minimally as possible, but in some ways it still feels like it has potential. Hard surface modeling in Nurbs feels really "easy" for a beginner in a way that mesh modeling doesn't.

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

right, back to my box packing problem

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

Wow the history of Nurbs, including the historical ship building stuff, is very interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform%5Frational%5FB-spline#History

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

nurbs

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber @encryptedwhispers @vv A whole new generaiton of sound visualizers on Youtube is going to happen very soon.

(And I'm kinda jelly, I'd like to have sound-reactive stuff in my own engine but I'm so blocked by worried about video/audio lag I haven't really tried D:)

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

seems logical, I guess

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

Would you trust a scientific paper from this man?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/16/theyre-against-science-and-free-speech/