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

that meant, basically, math

😬

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

master error enum definition v1 (final) v2 (final) (final) (new version) v3 (final)

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kayo77@infosec.exchange ("Marek idkfa 🌕") wrote:

@kravietz

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

i am willing to burden two languages at once

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phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@soatok @rawenwolf working at Geek Squad was hugely formative to the rest of my tech life and career. Seeing how normal people think about and use their devices and software is really eye opening. They have other things going on in their lives, so they shouldn’t have to understand everything. It’s easy to forget when it’s your own job and hobby, but it’s important to keep in mind

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nfd@social.lol ("Nathaniel Daught") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@flamed/116756535539051466

YES!!! I just deployed my 11ty site to Neocities using Forgejo Actions for the first time 🎉

My code is now on Source Tube (Forgejo) by @neatnik

🪦🪏RIP GitHub account

#11ty #Eleventy #Neocities #indieweb #webdev

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

Next lesson is how physical buttons, switches and tuning wheels allow you to keep the player on a belt clip and operate it without you having to take it out and look at it every time.

Anyway, this story made our family's morning :-)

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

look i don't think you need to be a god of programming to work out that if you don't want FLOSS to start having the sort of major bug that every company who's been all in on vibe coding has been having of late, you need to not do the exact same inadvisable thing.

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

Now, the only set of cassettes we've got left are French lessons, so it wasn't very entertaining. So the next thing we demonstrated was… radio! And this magical concept of radio waves being around you *all the time*, and you only need a meager device to tune in and listen.

She then recognized a radio DJ they listened to on a recent field trip on a bus and was excited how the dots suddenly connected! Then she declared it "peak entertainment" because you don't even need Internet for that! (cont…)

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

By chance we still keep a few audio players from college years. Two Sony Walkmans and one Casio. All heavily beat up! So I extracted those from a deep, deep shelf, along with an audio cassette. And I had a chance to demonstrate that a) AA batteries now are still the same they were a quarter century ago, b) same for the 3.5mm audio jack and c) you can use a pencil to manually rewind a cassette if you feel like it. Now she has this sacred/secret knowledge from those generational memes! (cont…)

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

conservancy have written a thing again.

it's an incredibly mixed bag.

The FOSS community should support, not just tolerate, those who outright reject LLM-gen-AI systems.

yes, yes absolutely.

No one should be required to use these systems under duress.

definitely

FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.

what?

Avoid jumping to conclusions about the legal significance of generated contributions and whether they are “copyright-washing-machines that ruin copyleft”.

are you for real?

When LLM-gen-AI systems (including proprietary ones) can massively accelerate FOSS improvements, use of such tools is an appropriate strategic compromise.

do you understand what 'improvement' means?

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

So, listen up! It started with us talking this morning about special effects in the original Star Wars. And our teen kiddo got interested and wanted to know more, so we found a video on YouTube about it which mentioned at one point that it was all shot on film. She knew what a film was, but then she asked, what about sound? So we told her it was recorded separately on magnetic tapes…

And then I thought it was a perfect chance to demonstrate the technology. (cont…)

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stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

TIL recap: Did you know that incorrectly applied ARIA roles can nuke semantics entirely? The standard rule applies: if you're reaching for ARIA, make sure you know what you're doing.

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/aria-roles-can-remove-their-childrens-semantics/

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

does greek keysmash look like maths?

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loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

Orange Slosher

Attachments:

• gifv: surreal orange fluid sloshing around

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Screwworms are the least of our problems. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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

on the one hand, what can you really do? on the other hand, what can the user with the fucked hardware really do?

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

honestly, the entire stack is built upon the idea you can trust what it's running on. was this a critical mistake?

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

it's awkward, because with my performance programmer hat on, one of the things i do is avoid checks by making error conditions impossible by construction. the compiler will also try and determine things impossible so it can avoid emitting checks. and both of them would seem to be wrong.

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

The logs showed that a bounds check had failed that logically couldn't fail

yeah cpus being broken and then like not actually being recalled for being grossly defective has me wondering if we should add in checks just to catch cpus being shit

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

The other side of this former power station #photos #iceland

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Sometimes, you see something ugly at the side of the road, and you just have to stop and take photos. Such was the case with this old farm.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #concrete #decay #rust #windows #grass

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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Astronomers have identified one of the mysterious distant red dots observed by JWST GLIMPSE-17775 as a black hole star (BH*) aka a quasi star.

Unlike a regular star that is powered by fusion at its core, a BH* is powered by a black hole and material falling into it. A dense cocoon of partially ionized gas surrounds the BH, which modifies emitted radiation, e.g. it absorbs UV and X-rays.

GLIMPSE-17775 existed 1.8 bil years after the big bang.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-strongest-evidence-yet-for-black-hole-stars/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4ed7
1/n

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shaknais ("James 🌈💜") wrote:

@soatok

Sex work is 100% legal in my country. There's regs, but also protected classes.

... Visa and Mastercard still unilaterally cancel brothel accounts without notice, and require the regulator to step in to restore them.

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amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

Pretty cool, huh?This big guy was just silently hanging out beside the trail. #hiking #birds

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

While implementing a custom #HomeAssistant control screen, I set a wrong GPIO pin and accidentally created a 100% natural organic cyberpunk.

Attachments:

• gifv: 4" waveshare screen. Glitchy shaky sync, line tearing, green streaks.

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

When will we wake up to the fact that Elon Musk is a dangerous, criminal racist?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/18/elon-musk-is-a-dangerous-racist/

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jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com ("j-r conlin") wrote:

Since a few people wanted to know how I spent the last few days...

https://youtu.be/V209CNFfkB0

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haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

The concentration of power in Silicon Valley happened partly because we let it. We accepted a few platforms as inevitable. We built our communities there because that’s where everyone was. It wasn’t because their technology is better. It was a choice—made again and again by the people on those platforms, by investors, and by policymakers.

A different choice is possible, but it requires that those of us building alternatives actually believe what we say about cooperation. It means assuming good faith from people building different projects. It means investing in infrastructure that doesn’t benefit us alone.

We, the builders of the open social web, are the only ones who can make that choice.

It starts with deciding that our mission matters more than winning alone.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/why-the-social-web-must-work-together/

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon

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avdi@avdi.codes ("Avdi Grimm") wrote:

90% utilization is causing more failure than you realize, not just in burn-out, but in productivity and output.

Jason Cohen: A Smart Bear » Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization