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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
annaghughes@mastodon.online ("Anna Hughes") wrote:

I've debated posting, but after the Montreal shooting I think I should.

I have an anonymous stalker harassing me on Bluesky. He repeatedly says he has weapons and is plotting to kill people, among other things.
I've tried my local police, FBI tips, Bluesky safety, Columbus Ohio PD (where I believe he is). Nothing is happening, so I'm requesting help here.

If there's anybody who works in cyber safety or handles stuff like this and you think you can do something, I would love to chat.

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

Looks like I pulled the trigger on a new mini just in time.

Bottom: maxed out 2012 mini
Quad core i7
16GB Ram
256 GB SSD, 1TB spinning rust
$1500(+?) when new
Stuck on Mac OS X 10.15
621/2153 geekbench single/multi

Top: Cheapest m4 mini available
10-core CPU, 10-core GPU
16GB Ram
512GB storage
$699 (student discount)
macOS 26.5
3788/14725 cpu single/multi
37720/57252 openCL/Metal

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

*hiss*

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

Oops, flatlined. https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org%5Fdiet%5Fresults.html

Well, that's ok. It happens. There was a celebration of someone's birthday and things have been stressy etc so I def ate more than I have been. Back to it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The new tech industry lifecycle:

Embrace - We love open standards!
Extend - We added a few tiny improvements nobody asked for.
Extinguish - Oops, your thing is incompatible now.
Enshitify - Aaaanyway, here's a subscription tier for the features you used to have!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

If AI is conscious, then so is Age of Empires II

Here's how someone built the fundamentals of an LLM in the classic video game, breaking down the whole 'are LLMs conscious' debate

Watch and subscribe here for more every week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlWJTM18z3E

Attachments:

• video: 72c70a7e453bb369.mp4

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/

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

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ahihi@anticapitalist.party ("pulusound") wrote:

#MakeATerribleComicDay

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

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
MBridegam@federate.social ("Martha Bridegam") wrote:

@aburka @SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev

But whose eggs are they? WHOSE?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

@SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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

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

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#poll is your goose valued

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

@alexia Wikimedia Commons is my go-to

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

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

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

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("Gergely Nagy") wrote:

You know me too well. I trolled.