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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
johannab@cosocial.ca ("Johanna, CanCon variety") wrote:

@cwebber

Ms. Leelo(o) here … purring loudly the whole time, decided following me to the bathroom and trying to get all the skritches from a captive audience was insufficient.

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

It was the pump of times, it was the dump of times.

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

Damn how long till I'm in the 220s? 2-3 weeks? https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org%5Fdiet%5Fresults.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

The fediverse
it's the least bad option we have

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

love bites with cats are so weird

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

cat, to my arm: "I love you, and you're not actively petting me." *chomp*

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

I don't understand, I got so excited about the pump, how could I get dumped???

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

tanking 30°C in my office like it's nothing 🥶 mind over matter innit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
villares@ciberlandia.pt ("Alexandre B A Villares ☔🐍") wrote:

"Step inside the studio of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby, one of the earliest innovators of digital art."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrYqKOBe5E

via @guilhermesv

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

not to sound too much like myself, but I was wearing my migraine blindfold for all of 10 minutes and I've designed a keyboard based on a pseudo-PS1 controller I've got.

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

Friends, it has never been easier to be vegetarian. You could even go mostly vegetarian. Vegetarian food is everywhere and you don't even need to give up most of the flavors you love. This is very different than when I first became vegetarian approx a couple decades ago.

Friends, it has never been easier to not voluntarily use datacenter-hosted genAI. You can just... not!

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

Is this about AI usage? Or is this about meat consumption?

Yes.

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

If your response to "an activity we all could easily just not do which is accelerating the death of our habitable planet" is "well there is a version of this where in theory it doesn't cook us so fast, I'm just not doing it" you might want to reconsider your actions

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

broiling the oceans

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green ("Pauline von Hellermann") wrote:

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

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

That strange feeling I'm getting is the dread of impending doom.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/23/ive-got-to-avoid-ed-zitron-in-the-morning/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNO8i68HWe4

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

Coding up a #GoToSocial deleter was less intimidating than I expected.

If anyone wants to use the code, it is here: ~~https://codeberg.org/brib/brib-gts-cleaner~~ https://codeberg.org/brib/toot-delete-inator

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Just one more feature" is the software equivalent of "just one more drink".

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

guess who ✨ sent some emails ✨

please appreciate my peak productivity :neocat_cool_fingerguns:​

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

my nodes have a tightly packed structure to keep the size down. and part of the node is aligned to a cacheline. except the metadata that should go before it is variably sized. the metadata before it is needed to know the size of the various things in the node.

the metadata that should go after it can be split to fill the hole but this is quite tedious.

but there's nothing to say that a pointer has to point to the start of a region of memory, right? it could just point within it. they're not even real pointers, they're offsets within the file. it makes accounting a little more tedious, but we can trivially achieve optimal packing always by simply adding some small integers to the fixed size 'header' (which could be in the middle, immediately after the simd data.)

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

okay who forgot to turn off the space heater again? we need to start naming and shaming, I'm way too hot

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

Last year: OMG, SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS EVERYWHERE.

This year: "hey parrot, please fix these CI failures and then auto-merge the code, kthxbye."

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

i've just concocted the most ludicrous trick ever that couldn't possibly work.

except i think it'll work.

scared now 😬

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

In some organisations, it just doesn't matter what dev teams do, and they can absorb a *lot* of *big* failures - like the IT disasters we read about in the public sector, except theirs rarely make the news.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

There was a time when I didn't feel the need to debate the most wrongheaded, risky and harmful takes on software development because reality would eventually make the case for me.

I underestimated the capacity of some organisations to live with catastrophically bad outcomes if their moat's deep enough. (And, contrary to what you may read, most big business moats are things like property portfolios or rigged markets - not actual products or services.)

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Gulleko@kind.social wrote:

I took a break from sewing (I cut out the pieces for a dress last year and never got around to it) and she immediately stole the chair. I guess the sewing will have to wait. 😅

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

A reminder to anyone taking estradiol or other forms of hormone therapy - HRT is known to make you more prone to heatstroke, heat exhaustion, and sunburn.

We're entering the Danger Zone™ this week in the northern hemisphere. Stay safe, stay hydrated. Look after yourself.

You're brilliant. Stay brilliant.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(For fans who have been following along,, no, this is not the whole Big AI Post, but it is one of the more salient chunks of it, and maybe I will figure out ways to publish it in a form that people will actually be able to consume. To be continued…)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html