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

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna”

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

> I feel he’d also appreciate the swipe up gesture on the iPhone, which is a masterclass in how to design an interaction

This is my one constant quibble with pretty much every otherwise wonderful and thoughtful design essay that I've read. Have you ever tried to help somebody with even minor motor control issues navigate the gesture-laden interface of an iPhone?

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

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna”

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

> Not catching up with typing is perhaps the most egregious problem of them all, as this is where we started this entire essay. We figured this stuff out a century ago.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
chrisamaphone@hci.social ("chris martens") wrote:

who's out there using proof assistants in conjunction with disability assistive tools (screen readers, voice control, custom input devices, etc)? i want to know what your setup and experience is like. (boosts welcome; right now this is just a curiosity and not a research project)

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

ah, my idris installation was broken by an update. time to rebuild...

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q@glauca.space ("210561 ✨ [Q]") wrote:

Do you work for a public transport company in Europe (or anywhere else in the world for that matter)? The EU wants to hear from you!

As part of a project to create a unified standard for public transport ticketing across Europe, allowing a single ticket to be sold from anywhere to anywhere, we'd like to collect as much information as possible on what transport products currently exists. With enough information, we hope to be able to write a standard that covers every edge case.

If you'd like to help us, you can download our questionnaire here. More information: https://bt4pt.eu

Please boost and share!

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twodarek@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Wodarek") wrote:

The future we got

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jwz wrote:

@mhoye VLC is, like, the platonic ideal of open source software. The low level bit-banging parts: absolutely top notch for decades, frequently updated. Human-facing parts: hasn't changed appreciably since the Nineteen Hundreds, weird, confusing, 40,000 configuration options, makes designers drop to the floor in tears. Might as well have "TBD, WRITE ME!" at the top of the window.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

The sponsorship model is theoretically still a great business model for blogs: companies benefit from reaching a specific audience (eg dev tools sponsoring on a tech blog), and having their brand viewed favorably next to the host (especially if the blog is known for its quality).

Of course, that only works if there is a functional referral ecosystem from search engines and social media…and that ecosystem was trashed by social media and now AI overviews is all but killing it off forever.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@lina/116779058863273132

If anyone wants to prevent LLM contributions, it seems like symlinking CLAUDE.md to /dev/urandom might do the trick: by default, claude code unconditionally reads CLAUDE.md if it is present in the repository root. The reading function checks if the files to load are block devices among a few other things, but does not mind at all if they are symlinks in general, including directory traversal to anywhere.

There are ways to run claude without reading CLAUDE.md, but they require manual intervention, and startup stalls before any of the "try whatever" self healing attempts of the LLM kick in. indeed there is no indication why startup stalls in stdout or debug logs: nothing for an external "agent" harness to diagnose either.

I have not confirmed this part: but it looks like the file read tool checks if a path is a system path like /dev/urandom, but it only checks the string of the path without expanding symlinks. Many of the tool and agent prompt texts say to read CLAUDE.md first, bypassing any config settings that would prevent that since it happens in LLM modality not program modality. so even if you do get it booted up, you would likely get inexplicable stalls at any point those tools/agents are invoked.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
LonM@vivaldi.net wrote:

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

#UK #UKPol #software

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Every single one of us is prone to blunder now and then. It's how we learn.

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
darylsun@social.lol ("Daryl Sun") wrote:

🌈 #Queercraft's Summer Fundraiser Pride Celebration is happening right now! If you donate at this moment, your donation will be matched, increasing your impact! All proceeds will go to upkeep of Queercraft's #Minecraft server and other services.

You can donate at https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/fundraising/daryl-sun! (Again, I do not receive any monetary compensation for thus link; this is just to track how many people I have encouraged to donate.)

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

Guess who deleted one of his old Mastodon accounts earlier, totally forgetting that the account held the app record used for Statuslog cross-posting to Mastodon. 😑

If you use the Statuslog crossposting feature, please take a moment to disconnect your existing authorization and re-authorize. You can do this on your omg.lol address’s Statuslog page (click “Preferences” at the top of the page and it’ll take you right to the spot).

I’m really sorry for the trouble with this!

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

😑 Breaking things in the most painful way possible.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

The hybrid in my truck really likes summer. I haven’t bought gas since May, and I may not need to until July. If they had put a slightly larger battery in it I might have been able to get this kind of range in winter too.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
aartaka@merveilles.town ("Artyom Bologov") wrote:

Did I tell y’all that it’s official now—my #Scheme standard HTML rendering r7rs-html5 is hosted on scheme.org! My work is recognized and available to y’all Schemers wishing for a good standard rendering!

https://standards.scheme.org/r7rs-html5/index.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

TIL that in the 18th century Francesco Queirolo took seven years to sculpt, out of marble, a *fishing net* draped over a figure. It's called "Il Disinganno". Just absolutely wowzers!

https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/

The same location also houses "The Veiled Christ" and a few other sculpture that I would love to see in person. Oh well, I'll have to settle for pictures.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
guilhernunes_@mastodon.art ("guilherme nunes") wrote:

A perfume with metaphorical carrot notes, long-lasting during astral projection.

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

I am extremely bad at lighting in Blender

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("disregard Joe Groff") wrote:

in ancient rome, the standard war chariot was 80 columns wide, a tradition that persists in the terminal emulators of today

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

wowee I'm good at being depressed. the best

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NuclearOatmeal@beige.party ("Nuclear Oatmeal :paranoid:") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116684771406334186

C'mon, y'all. They're at 66/90 thousand. Drop a few bucks in.

Sysadmins deserve their own TLD!

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!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
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!