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

Good news: fix is merged in Guix!

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

These are all actual arguments I have personally encountered, which kind of takes the fun out of the comic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/25/i-didnt-laugh/

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mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:

Are there other small VM hosts that are run by cool, privacy-and-OSS focused folks like https://capsul.org ? Nothing against Capsul — I use and pay for it — just looking for more. Not looking for DigitalOcean or Hertzner, before I get those replies.

Need to setup a small service on the web, it’s not a static site, and I want the monthly costs to be minimal.

#selfhosted #hosting

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

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to kill your lawn.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/25/kill-your-lawn/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1iFQX1%5FXso

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ahihi@anticapitalist.party ("pulusound") wrote:

#MakeATerribleComicDay

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Ulisu@mastodon.art ("Ulrich Suberg") wrote:

Was stuck yesterday for a meeting basically the whole day and decided to just see what happens when i render out a doodle. Liked what came out of it actually.

#drawing #pencildrawing #pencilsketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #kunst #mastoart #fediart

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LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

A color photo from 1913. Yes, 1913. Shot by Mervyn O’Gorman (1871–1958), Christina in a Red Cloak, The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK.

O’Gorman used the autochrome process, invented in France by Auguste and Louis Lumière. The museum: “The large aperture setting has reduced the background to near abstraction, and the lack of any obvious period references gives this image a remarkably modern feel.”

#photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography

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

PR for Guix https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/9442

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

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MBridegam@federate.social ("Martha Bridegam") wrote:

@aburka @SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev

But whose eggs are they? WHOSE?

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aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

@SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev

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brohrer@recsys.social ("Brandon Rohrer") wrote:

RE: https://front-end.social/@stephaniewalter/116809572711174658

“The goal right now isn’t to optimize yourself into the shape the market demands. It’s to stay whole enough that when better conditions exist — and they will — you still have something left to bring.”

This piece may make you feel sad and angry and seen.

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stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:

Psychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s infrastructure. And right now, it’s being demolished at scale. When the companies reduce headcount and remaining employees have to absorb the work, while living with higher fear and lower trust. People go in survival mode, and risk burning out.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/we-took-away-psychological-safety-and-then-told-everyone-to-be-more-productive-47ed1fac491c

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monorail@glaceon.social ("alarmingly large glaceon girl 🍓") wrote:

#makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

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

Christ, I wish I was running an ocap-secure OS. Things are getting so scary.

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

Someone was dropping mysterious links in libera.chat to media files. I wonder if that's what they were doing.

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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

After watching this, Can parrents and politicians shut the fuck up about teens and technology? This video is amazing! Candice Odgers: What we're getting wrong about teens and tech | TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/candice%5Fodgers%5Fwhat%5Fwe%5Fre%5Fgetting%5Fwrong%5Fabout%5Fteens%5Fand%5Ftech

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

Doesn't look like Guix has a patch yet.

Uh, try to run... everything in containers right now I guess?

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

A vulnerability in ffmpeg allows remote code execution via a crafted media file https://www.securityweek.com/ffmpeg-pixelsmash-flaw-allows-rce-on-video-players-media-servers-nas-appliances/

This affects anything that would even try to generate a *thumbnail*, and that includes your file browser, your fedi server, etc etc etc.

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#poll is your goose valued

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

@alexia Wikimedia Commons is my go-to

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

@alexia They don't fully ban AI but they only allow images when they fulfil an educational function and that most AI images don't serve an educational function (bar some famous ones like Théâtre D'opéra Spatial). Even better, they have a date of upload attached, and most are pre-2022

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

@alexia Plus, (nearly) all the images are free to re-use

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algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("Gergely Nagy") wrote:

You know me too well. I trolled.

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shauna@social.coop ("ShaunaGM 💚🪦Hampshire College") wrote:

If you're pissed at the Democratic party, try taking it over. Most democratic party ppl are elected, either to a public position (congress, state senate, etc) or to a party position (state committee person, etc). This June DC elected a democratic socialist mayor *and* we're replacing 2/3rd of the democratic party positions with Free DC people. Next year should be fun.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Dutch people. Peoples of the North, who lack a strong cultural awareness of how to handle heat waves. Please heed my words

1. Pull all the curtains closed. Reflect sunlight away from the windows. Tape up a bedsheet or something if you don't have curtains or blinds (not that rare in the Netherlands)

2. Open windows on opposite walls of the house, prop open the interior doors with something heavy, get a cross-breeze going. (Yes, the curtains may get flappy. I tucked the end of a long one under my bed mattress to mitigate this)

3. Take a quick shower with water that is only slightly warmed (neither ice cold nor steaming hot). Do this two, three, four times a day if you have to.

4. Similarly, drinking water that is ice cold may sound good but it's liable to give you stomach cramps when you're very hot. Your drinking water shouldn't be more than slightly cool.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116809983410415716

This whole industry is so cooked

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

y'all I know that if you have AC (most houses here don't) then obviously the windows should stay closed, or if you have good insulation (lol, whoever rated our apartment was clearly doing some creative math to avoid falling beneath the current legal minimum) that not opening the windows might work out better, assuming you did close the curtains.

But right now Northern Europe is full of people sitting in greenhouse ovens who tell themselves that opening the windows would be counter-productive because outside is where the heat is 🙃 I have spent most of my life in places with hot, humid summers like we're having in NL right now and I know what to do when there's no AC. I'm cool and comfortable at the moment in a house with no AC and poor insulation because I'm very proactive about getting the curtains closed and windows open early in the morning before sun hitting glass starts to heat up the house.

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N33R@fops.cloud ("N33R "Innocent Little Angel" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: ") wrote:

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gray17 ("felix (grayscale) 🐺") wrote:

@cwebber this sentence near the end struck me as funny

> and I see codebases turning more and more into obscure and confusing organisms that can only be diagnosed by more machines.

sure, your bullshit LLM can bullshit an explanation of its bullshit code, and it will apologize profusely if you tell it "no you're wrong"

Clearly the future of coding is repeatedly telling the LLM "you're wrong" until it reaches a stable "no I'm right and here's why" state