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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Can't wait to debug race conditions on quantum computers, where your thread is simultaneously deadlocked and not deadlocked... until you check the logs and the wave function collapses into a completely different error.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

i hate google, microsoft, etc., and block their corporate networks and bots, which should mean they have no (recent) copies or indices of my pages

and i've decided that i'm 100% fine with that; it's time for them to get replaced

but one thing i find myself missing, for google-avoidant sites like mine, is a tool that lets me search for info within that site

so, probably important to implement myself, and start encouraging and assisting other website havers in setting up that sort of thing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

Especially the pre-RSS days.

I just reminded myself of this video (which I found *so* profound back then): "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" from 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

I remember stumbling across RSS a *lot* in the mid 00's and being grumpy about it / not fully understanding its power, but after this vid and realizing what feed readers could achieve, I never looked back.

#RSS #OldWeb

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"when did Star Trek get woke??"

In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see male crossdressing crew members, a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.

Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
i_dabble@merveilles.town ("Helge Rausch") wrote:

"Stairwell In C# with Ultracontrapipe in A (Lydian)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23G5QDWqDUY

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

Yikes. Looks like blahaj.zone was hacked, including their Sharkey, Lemmy, PeerTube, and Matrix instances. @supakaity has a detailed writeup at https://pen.blahaj.zone/supakaity/weve-been-hacked

There's some discussion in the reddit thread at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/44150358

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Solar power covers 0.04% of total US land and 0.07% of prime farmland, so everybody just calm down about the land use stuff.

Solar & Agricultural Land Use ...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
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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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/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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♭