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susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

the algae always comes back

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://oldos.me/@jay/116774434786035607

If you’re wondering what real open source sustainability looks like it’s not nattering endlessly about SBOMs and provenance verification, it’s this

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.

users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny @SnoopJ @aud okay I don’t know anything about COBOL but the capitalization choice on “FILE-Control” is immediately fascinating

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

... and he understood how to write a story with themes that he was interested in while at the same time making them readable, interesting and fun to a larger audience. Would 2026 Heinlein write like 1961 Heinlein? Fuck no, because Heinlein himself changed what/how he wrote as he, his career, and the market, changed over decades. In fact it's entirely possible this whiny right-wing dweeb would *actively dislike* what Heinlein 2026 might publish. But Heinlein would like it. And he would get paid.

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

Saw another whiny right-wing dweeb assert that Robert Heinlein couldn't get published today, presumably because of "woke," and I'm all, motherfucker, you don't think that the most commercially savvy science fiction writer of his era wouldn't understand how to read the room in 2026 and then write to it? No, of course you don't, because your Heinlein is some weird fetish object instead of an actual working writer who liked money AND telling stories. Heinlein understood commercial storytelling...

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

It's giving

RE: https://www.threads.com/@au%5Fstin%5F112358/post/DZtBeXcEvBQ

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feliciaday@threads.net ("Felicia Day") wrote:

JULY 20th! ICYMI ITS HAPPENING! The Guild Reunion Movie Kickstarter goes LIVE in a month(ish)!
Please repost to help us reach all the Guildies who want to support! I'm tired of paying to reach people who actually want to hear from us, grr :/

Oh, and sign up on the website! watchtheguild.com We're making a movie!!!!

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• video: acdafea7df0f274e.mp4

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Dear Patrons, I have not forgotten about you, but during a family vacation my time is not entirely[1] my own: https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph/posts/interlude-161420262

[1]: read: "even a little bit"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-tomorrows-parties/

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

IHDVGA (Inconveniently High Density VGA) extension lead.

IHDVGA was abandoned early on as keeping pins straight turned out more difficult than expected.

Most manufacturers still turned a profit by selling the leads without shells as convenent groundable wire brushes.

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

"AI will be profitable because inference is cheap, its only the training that is expensive"

Well idk: https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion

We don't really know how they calculate CoR, but it would be the part that includes inference costs. A 58% cost of revenue ratio is sort of um terrible for a company whose only product is inference. E.g. before AI, Facebook reports a ratio that's more like 15-20%, and google is around 40%, but they also include stuff like content acquisition costs e.g. fees paid to youtubers, and costs paid to make google the default search engine in phones and etc.

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

and those weird rat-like things we have in australia

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mkristensson@thepit.social ("Mark Kristensson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@craignewmark/116770722780594757

From a strict security perspective this is true. But as my family's IT manager, both passcodes and single sign on are nightmares that I now actively avoid. They perpetuate lock in by large companies, removing any flexibility in who/when/how you can log in.

Need to share a log in with your spouse? Impossible.
Teenage kid traveling without the family and wants to watch a show? Impossible.
Mom in the hospital and you need to pay her utility bill for her? Impossible.

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

i have quite a lot of bricks in store, in case of a brick emergency - you never know

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

ludwig van beef oven

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

dreaming of a harvest to come

https://hab-sauce-planner.pplx.app/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
SeaFury@aus.social ("SeaFury 🦜🍃 大家姐") wrote:

Did some art. Love these colours :success: #watercolor #art

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

super mario bras

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

tape theory

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

C♭

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

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

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
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.