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

This version performed by "Dúmbó og Steini" is probably the one you hear the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82uMVlkpws

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

"Því lýðræðið Ísland á afmæli í dag!"

Happy birthday, Iceland!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2bVTV3Ki50

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I've spent 4 hours guarding the front door waiting for a parcel:

🤷 nothing
🤷 nothing
🤷 nothing
🚽 sits down
🔔 DING DONG

In my mind the courier just spent several hours hiding in a bush waiting for me to finally go to the bathroom...

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kplx ("Kplx") wrote:

Enough for Today

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esden@chaos.social ("Piotr Esden-Tempski") wrote:

Discussing AI/LLM stuff with some friends made me realize something. I do like computers and programming. I like the process of understanding how they work and how to make them do what I want them to do. The LLM stuff makes that process worse and more frustrating. People that use them make collaboration less fun. This is another reason why I hate that stuff, even if it worked 100% perfectly (which it does not) I would not want to use it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The most efficient compression algorithm: forgetting.

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kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t
@GreatDismal

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

The way people in tech are wired, if the pistol were invented today the only way they’d conclude it was dangerous is if they personally shot three people and a dog and even then they’d insist that the data wasn’t that conclusive.

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

“Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-social-media-ban-keir-starmer-surveillance-parents-online-safety-bill-heather-burns

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shaft@piaille.fr ("John Shaft") wrote:

Happy Birthday to #Debian 1.1 (Buzz) released 30 years ago today 🥳🥳🥳

1st version to be named after a Toy Story character, a film released just a few months before (November 22, 1995 in the US)

There were 474 packages available in Debian 1.1 (69,830 in Trixie, the current stable version)

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jwz wrote:

@mjg59 @rmi @tante @t3trinetet @baldur Unpopular opinion, I hated Sneakers

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EricMalves@squawk.social ("Eric Malves :BirbBlj:") wrote:

If you ever feel like trying a new hobby, just go for it. Dive in. Give it a try.

I spent so much time wishing I could do XYZ only to find I could, in some capacity, way later.

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

Wrote a little blog post about illness, recovery, and why I've had to do less the last couple of months.

https://news.kestr.al/rain-escape-and-afterwards/

If you can tell me where the title of the post is from without looking it up, I shall buy you a sandwich.

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perfect10_bot@infosec.exchange ("perfect10_bot (now with 70% less Totolink)") wrote:

CVE-2026-28587 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28587
CVE-2026-28576 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28576
CVE-2026-28615 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28615
CVE-2026-28575 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28575
CVE-2026-0082 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0082
CVE-2026-0083 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0083
CVE-2026-0092 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0092
CVE-2026-0063 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0063
CVE-2026-0064 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0064
CVE-2026-0071 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0071
CVE-2026-0068 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0068
CVE-2026-0081 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0081
... all perfect 10s. You know who else is a 10? :neobot_blush_hide:

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zep ("zep.p8") wrote:

Heads up, the Lexaloffle terms of use will change later this week to disallow genAI content. The proposed update aims to protect the current BBS culture without excluding usability. Any comments welcome (here or hey at lexaloffle dot com). Draft: https://pastebin.com/raw/v8cvrdgv
#pico8 #picotron

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renkotsuban@maestoso.org ("Renkon") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@nicegeargames/116756968977912897

I heard you're all sick of wading through genAI assets and code in the Steam Next Fest. Good news!! Hamayumishi has NONE of that!! All the art, music, coding, etc was done by @Daikon2026 because, in his words, why would you offload all the fun part of making games? The English translation is by me so if you encounter weird, stilted phrasing, know that it's because I did it and not because we fed the script into an LLM! :neofox_laugh_sweat:

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plaguepoems ("Plague Poems") wrote:

It has been reported
that it will take
around a billion dollars
to contain the outbreak
of New World screwworm,
and while this may sound
like quite a lot of money
at least we saved
fifteen million dollars
thanks to previously cutting
a screwworm monitoring program.

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jwz wrote:

@tante @mjg59 @t3trinetet @baldur Yes, this is good stuff!

And I think that House of Games should be required viewing for anyone working in computer security. Or security. Or anyone affected by security. I'm not saying it's a movie you will necessarily enjoy but it is a movie that will make you understand things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riy4God934c

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jwz wrote:

@mjg59 @t3trinetet Has anyone written about the similarities between the Spicy Autocomplete Plagiarism Machine and Carny Cold Reading? Because I think there's a thing there.

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joannaholman@aus.social ("Joanna Holman") wrote:

@glyph @pat and at the other end of the spectrum, there’s plenty of people using technology in countries that are small or economically disadvantaged in ways that mean for the foreseeable future they will necessarily be reliant on tech from elsewhere. People in Timor-Leste or Somalia deserve access to safe, useful tech just as much as people in Germany.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Hear me out: Widow's Baywatch. The island needs hot life guards.

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

so anyway there's a structural reason bugs are getting whackier and will continue to, maybe even geometrically so.

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

maybe one day browser vendors can fix suff like this so devs are incentivised to style accessible markup

https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html

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

everyone knows that the best thing a piece of software can have is geometric growth in the amount of code it has

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

Rad Dad shirts are now available on Teemill! The links on https://rad.dad have been updated (so you can choose Cotton Bureau for the US/Canada, and Teemill for the UK/EUR). This should help a lot with shipping.

And maybe consider a rad.dad gift link for anyone you think of as a rad dad!

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The Trump regime's vicious and blatantly political prosecutions are a total abuse of power. Example: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/minnesota-attorney-ice-protester-indictment

It's vital that potential jurors learn of their own power: to deny convictions, to serve justice to these victims of a lawless government.

https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/is-jury-nullification-legal.html

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

all modern software is either irredeemable garbage or teetering on the enshitty cliff, any good exceptions?

(wrong answers will be judged with silent scorn, right answers may unfurl the monkey's paw)

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

i mentioned this in passing yesterday, but in case anyone is wondering "where is the claude code longform piece" I sorta pivoted what I want to write about from "Claude code, what should be the best case scenario for large scale LLM code, is a dumpster fire according to this one snapshot in time" to "that and also it's getting worse not better."

So anyway, that is to say, it is getting worse not better.

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

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of the 250th anniversary celebration to date

https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-fried-apple-pie-america-250-962c7e82d7d5089bf63b2e7258f1c864

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

I think that may be the first time I’ve sent an attachment in mail using Emacs’s mail client. Everything is so charmingly 2003, yet still modern. (I still haven’t set signatures, but that’s true for me in literally every other mail client I’ve used, so.)