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

i think i've just turned a second rate queen song into an epic in my head.

i will never be able to give you an appreciation of what it sounds like, so don't get too excited.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Paris has built a centralized cooling solution using its river, Seine: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat

(The article is light on technical detail, though…)

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

Son’s passport arrived today, despite my name on his application as a parent not match his birth certificate, so we’ve all got them now. Good to know that when the day comes that I need to flee the country, I don’t have to leave my wife & child behind.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
dfir@social.lol ("Dave") wrote:

@neatnik The more shitty corporate and “free-ish” services get, the more it is worth paying for quality.

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

got my steam machine email!

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

i am a bit bored because the heat is making it hard to think.

i would normally play games but my computer is sulking (restarting). i assume it's related to the heat.

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

It's been almost two full days without a cluster headache. I still feel the shifts in pressure in my head but breathing exercises have helped keep them at bay. I've slept well two nights in a row, too!

What a fucking month, y'all.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
oursisthetheory.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Ours is the Theory") wrote:

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 1 'Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood'

oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260625-hotd-s03e01.mp3

Driven by her faith in Alicent, Rhaenyra positions herself to take King's Landing while the Triarchy sails to take on Corlys in the Gullet.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
slate@threads.net ("Slate") wrote:

Justice Samuel Alito authored both opinions with a tone of sneering hostility toward the noncitizens whose lives will now be upended, coupled with obsequious deference to the Trump administration.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-mass-deportation-machine-supreme-court-alito.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/

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

I think omg.lol is worth $10/month. I’ve been charging less than $2/month for years now (and still am, through the end of July). I raised the price to a little over $4/month.

So a conversation focused on the amount of the increase can easily bounce around between “it went up by too much” and “it didn’t go up by enough”. That’s not going to be a productive conversation.

I’d much rather talk about whether omg.lol is worth $4.17/month for what’s offered. Some folks will think it is (and some have already told me that it’s still grossly underpriced), and others won’t. If it’s not, let’s talk about why! But limiting the conversation to “the price went up by too much” doesn’t really get us anywhere.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you listen to the news, you might be hearing that some so-called centrist Dems are angry that a few DSA memebers won primaries in ultramarine-blue NY districts.

That they have a millisecond to be angry about that, rather than Biden slow-walking court reform, says everything.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116817187462893849

I’ve received many super kind and supportive responses to my announcement about omg.lol’s price increase yesterday. But, understandably, there are also some people who are disappointed by the amount of the increase.

I honestly don’t know how to have a productive conversation about the percentage of the increase as an isolated data point. That percentage is just a function of math; the truly relevant thing is whether the new price matches the value of the service offered.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

When I was young and poor I was told when I was old and rich I would be a lot more conservative, well now I am old and rich and I'm probably more lefty than I was when I was young and poor, in part because "conservative" in the US is now just straight-up fascist, so congratulations, right wing folks, that's another thing you fucked up for yourselves

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

In what I’m sure future design historians will call a stunning display of timeliness and marketing savvy, let me tell you about the redesign I launched two weeks ago. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-house-is-valuable-because-it-is-the-house/

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

(it's a low power chip, it only draws a kilowatt)

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

announcing the intel pentium 5.

crafted by artisans on the latest 140n process, the pentium 5 has a pipeline length of over 9000 and may even reach 2.6ghz about once a month if you're lucky.

• hardlythreading(tm) technology to get in a couple of additions maybe before you go back to waiting on memory
• maladaptive prefetching fetches a random page that isn't the one you asked for every time you do a memory access.
• advanced deceptron-based branch misprediction with 0% accuracy

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Please understand that the issue here isn't these people. It's schools.

Our current school system is very much predicated on shaming people for not knowing already. Our testing sucks and exasperates this issue, so it's no surprise a lotta folks just don't feel like they could learn on their own at all.

Knowledge at school is pounded into everyone against their will, and while that is necessary to some extent, it is currently also the only way of teaching most people ever see.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

What the LLM crap changes for these people is this: it gives them a non-human (important, because no fear of losing face) to talk to, which is always happy and praising them (important to keep them coming back), and which gives them the promise that they, too could do it (important to remove that initial lack of confidence).

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

There was a guy at ELS this year who was very apologetic about using LLMs and said something like "but without this I wouldn't have been able to do it."

The belief that there's no way they could have ever learned it like everyone else is extremely prevalent.

I see the same thing outside of the LLM context, too: "wow you make games! I could never do that, that's amazing!" and-- yea you could. You absolutely could make a game.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
beebrookshire ("Bethany Brookshire") wrote:

YIKES: The OPM is proposing new NDAs for federal workers, this means scientists cannot talk about their work. They can't share their data, or talk to journalists. But it's still open for public comment! Comment by June 26. https://www.regulations.gov/search?filter=OPM-2026-0100-0004

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
d1@autistics.life ("Owl Eyes") wrote:

@dev #Goose valued

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
carkner@glammr.us ("🍃Carkner🥺") wrote:

so shameful that in all the twists and turns of American cruelty to immigrants and refugees in the past 2 decades, this agreement has carried on unchanged
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United%5FStates%5FSafe%5FThird%5FCountry%5FAgreement

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

Did you know? omg.lol is on the Public Suffix List and is recognized by all browsers as a top-level domain (for the purposes of cookie security and some other technical doodads). Your own omg.lol domain is just that—an actual domain, not a subdomain.

The Public Suffix List is incorporated into every modern web browser. The string "omg.lol" is buried deep inside of every browser out there. Kinda wild!

https://publicsuffix.org/list/public%5Fsuffix%5Flist.dat

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“what if we made an LRAD but for the brain instead of the ears, and then we based the whole economy on it for some reason”

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

"we had to halt trading to avoid panic selling of tech stocks for the third time this week" sure seems like a good sign for the slop brothers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jz40k00ro

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
nlnetlabs@social.nlnetlabs.nl ("NLnet Labs") wrote:

What we do ship this Friday, is a published policy on LLM use in the open source projects we maintain. We hope it’ll help potential contributors assess how to spend their time and ours in the most productive way. https://nlnetlabs.nl/llm-policy/

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116814581962407833

This really is an incredible watch!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Good evening. Here is the BBC attempting to explain the basic principles on which computers work to the general public of the year 1966

https://youtu.be/oRBS70J2Poo

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

The rhetorical strategy of MAGA is basically just yanking the Overton window as far to the right of liberal democracy as the media are willing to amplify

https://apnews.com/article/vance-nixon-watergate-9a82141f1b4f5b2c973a4bdb107812d9