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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I think that this sense that software is special comes from the fact that we just pantomime a respect for authorship, using open source as long as it requires nothing of us, never *meaningfully* treating a dependency manifest as any sort of credit for out own work, just ticking enough boxes to get the cost-cutting benefits and then moving on. We have accepted the plagiarism robot into our lives because we were already kinda okay with plagiarism all along

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://beige.party/@gildilinie/116777336090056562

My thesis is evolving from “genAI is bad” (a rhetorical position that broader society has accepted as true and is thus feels less necessary as time goes on) towards “software isn’t special” (a position which I have been surprised about the need for, given that I thought it was *obvious* that creating software is something like composing a literary work, requiring similar creativity and bloody-mindedness, but many prominent industry figures are pivoting on a dime with respect to this fact)

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

who up unable to sleep cause of the heat?

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

I watched Backrooms as an official member of the Morris Theater Co-op board. And now I've been called in to run the projector all by myself! How hard can it be?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/20/oooh-i-liked-this-one/

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

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

Here’s a long-overdue #intro post! I’m Adam, and I’ve been building things on the web for about as long as there’s been a web. I run Neatnik LLC, omg.lol, and some other stuff. I have three goals for everything that I create: make it fun, make it inclusive, and keep the jerks away. I was born and raised in upstate New York, but Louisville, Kentucky has been home for over 30 years now. I love playing Famicom games and I collect Pokémon cards. I use PHP. I don’t use AI. Let’s be friends!

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

as an individual developer, how much would you pay per month for a Forgejo Actions compatible CI service (Codeberg or your own forge) that offers VM-based isolation and non-Linux runners (BSD, macOS, Windows), as well as real human support?

please select an answer that describes how much you feel would be fair to pay to cover your needs, whichever those currently are. assume there is a pricing plan that perfectly fits your usage.

please boost!

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stargirl@hachyderm.io ("Stargirl") wrote:

Every day
I hear the incessant,
Annoying buzz
Of tiny engines
Rearranging the leaves

And yet
My gentle, quiet
Wildflowers
Have grown too tall
To be tolerated

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aperturememelabs ("Aperture Science Meme Labs") wrote:

We need this person as our new PR associate

Happy Pride to everyone profitable! :BlobhajPrideHeart:

#meme #memes #funny #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bi #pan

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TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: bb76ddef48e544cc.mp4

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david@fouroclockfarms.club ("Salty") wrote:

Another one.

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davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

@EUCommission The ATproto protocol is a technically bad protocol, inferior to the protocol that Mastodon/Fediverse uses, and it's developed by shady cryptocurrency scammers with anti-government views.

Add to that the death of anonymity plus advertisements/tracking and the tolerance of literal neo-nazis, and you have W Social.

Why would any sane person join W?!?

Ursula von der Leyen joining W on launch day, but having no presence on Mastodon despite Mastodon existing for over a decade, sends a conflicting signal that is opposed to the EU Commission claiming to want to continue their presence on Mastodon.

#Wsocial

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

awawawa

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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Whenever I open firefox and it says it was updated I have to check and make sure the AI kill switch is still on.

That's what opt-out means.

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

She also advised that this meme would be educational

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SouthDakota/116783849658424904

Yup. But remember the follow ons from that.

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Check it out! The AI Con is onsale for just $1.99 for the ebook on bookshop.org:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-tech-s-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want-alex-hanna/914a89ac020fc825?ean=9780063418554&digital=t

w/ @alex

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

and no coding of value was lost

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

Scraping, historically, has been pretty important to the open web. And *most* scraping hasn't been *spidering*, which is the stronger, less intentional version. And even that could be acceptable, if you were polite about it.

What we've seen with AI orgs DDOS'ing everyone has meant that self-hosting has become incredibly hard as a baseline in a way that used to resemble targeted attacks which were generally *frowned upon* doing to someone.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My first essay will almost certainly be about the tv show Succession, based on that thread I did a while back.

I'm go to through any media that speaks on the show so if you have a fav interview or analysis about succession please share!

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

Scraping is great! We have accepted scraping as part of the web for basically forever.

DDOS'ing is not great! We have agreed that DDOS'ing isn't acceptable on the web for basically forever.

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moth@lesbian.solutions ("moth, resident snugglebug") wrote:

🫵 give me your old electronics

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

Do you remember making a website? Hack & Craft participants remember

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The only way to create an ironclad age verification system in the UK is extreme digital authoritarianism.

Restrictions on VPNs are an attack on the open Internet and our ability to be secure online – the antithesis of online safety.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I've learned that using a massager on my neck can help when I feel a headache coming on.

I've also learned how these headaches are weirdly tied to sleep. Right after a headache, if I end up taking a nap, my chances of getting a second headache increases.

My body is tired and the anxiety of anticipating these headaches is difficult. But, overall, things are improving. Yesterday I went to the beach with friends with no headache! I brought my massager lol.

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

Hack & Craft happening now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

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

formal haddock

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trending@live.acarsdrama.com ("Trending ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NOW YOU'RE JUST SHOWING OFF. THIS IS THE CLOSET I HAVE TO A SMILEY FACE 8-D BUT MY FO SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE AND I CAN'T UNSEE IT. LOL

Area: Zurich, Switzerland
A: #ab2fa58bb5c
F: #f5327949703

#acars #vdlm2

🔗 Original: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116783132649149996

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anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

new fursona dropped

#PixelArt #Art #Furry #Fursona #OC #AnubiArts

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

default generated coordinate mapping says trans rights