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

Another one for the "bird on a fence post" files. This time a starling #bird #birds #iceland #nature

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

Common redshanks very vocally object to your presence in their territory. #bird #birds #iceland #nature

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dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

@aredridel I’ve found a bunch of social media posts claiming the donation happened. I haven’t found any actual evidence.

Feels like a disinformation campaign to undermine mullvad as punishment for opposing the various EU and UK chat related laws

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

Maybe it's high time to rewrite my Python scripts in Perl for the true #Luddite experience

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
slava@mathstodon.xyz ("Slava Pestov") wrote:

Perl 5 LLM policy

https://perl.topicbox.com/groups/perl-core/Tded84d01cb16966e-M4f2b94e0c07f9d7cb8e1e76b

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
herzenschein@furry.engineer ("herz (🥕){🐇}") wrote:

@digitalcortex The image content is nice, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned this is an LLM bot account yet.

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

So, when the weather is nice my neighbour Grása, this longhaired grey and white cat, likes to nap outside in the overgrown grass by one of the trees in the garden #cat #caturday

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rey@toot.cat ("Mx Rey 💜 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

boost this if LLM shills aren't welcome or safe on your page

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
TheSunnyOne@eldritch.cafe ("Anya") wrote:

I have 15 filters in place.

Of those 15, 9 of them are about topics that seriously impact my mental health. They range from genuine phobias, to the topics of rape, child sexual assault, and so on.

Across those 9 filters, a total of 50 words are specified.

Any post containing those 50 words is hidden behind a content warning for me so that, when I am best able to, I can still read through that post, thread, discussion, topic, or article.

I have taken it upon myself to filter out, as best i can, the things thst cause me harm when I use this site.

I still think people should use content warnings, liberally, on basically anything (within reason) that could make people's lives/mental health worse by constantly being confronted with it.

Why?

- My 9 filters of 50 words doesn't even make a mark in the number of words people use (and don't use) in their posts about triggering topics.

If your post is about rape or child abuse, but never once uses the word rape or child abuse (or instead uses something like "r*pe" or "grape"), then my filter doesn't pick it up and I, a survivor of multiple rapes and of child sexual assault, am now stuck reading a post that will trigger me, all because you think it infringes on your free speech to be asked to warn people about what you're talking about.

- A huge number of people, an ever growing number, do not include alt text in their images or videos, meaning a filter will not pick up on those things.

- You are not the only person talking about the thing. It might just be "one post" to you, but to others we're being bombarded with triggering material, daily

- While it absolutely is the responsibility of the user to take the neccessary precautions to make the internet safe for themselves, it is also the equal responsibility that we make it safe for others, by tagging posts correctly and warning users of what is being posted about...like a, uh...warning of content...

"What does 'Within Reason' mean?"

One of my filters is a personal phobia, it is the planet Jupiter. I do not expect the world to cater to such an obscure phobia, so I filter that myself, but I would expect people to warn about something like spiders or bugs, a fairly common phobia.

World politics, war, bigotry, sexual assault, etc, are not obscure topics and are widely accepted and known to cause mental health issues due to the 24/7 news cycle and the insistence that, like, every woman really needs to know how much men hate them, every BIPOC person needs to be made aware of racism, every trans person needs to be aware of every law and hate crime happening right now, etc. A content warning on topics like this is just...good etiquette, a courtesy to show you care more about the affected audience than you do about "engagement" on your post.

I can't filter out every single potential word that is in any way related to what could trigger me, but you can very easily give the briefest warning of the subject of your post, and if you slip up and somebody asks you to add one? It is not difficult, within reason, to add it.

"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People"

But I've tried my best.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:

Just a reminder that the software industry has been a trend-chasing shitshow for the last 20 years and IMO where it really started to go downhill was when Agile methodology infected every management chain like a cult.

The current trend towards AI programming is just the natural extension of what Agile represents, as was the ReactJS Bootcamps For Everyone trend that came before it.

I wrote this before the rise of agentic AI coding assistance, but: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11693-Exit-stage-left

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

Mornin'. I'm starting my day with multiple listens to The HU's "Grey Hun":

"Be courageous
Far-sighted
Massive like the mountains
Swift as water
(You are)-vocal
In this world
On this earth
Blest with a life
Live the life you meant to have
Ohhhh, live the life!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydYoyRX2cI

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Dozer@social.pincade.com.au wrote:

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Id Software's Quake.

It's hard to convey how revolutionary this game was in 1996. Running on a fast Pentium, it delivered baked lighting, true 3D levels, polygonal enemies, a NIN score and Lovecraftian worlds at around 30 FPS @320x240 😜

It helped pioneer Internet FPS gaming through client-side prediction over 28.8Kb/s modems and drove adoption of early 3D accelerators.

Happy 30th Quake, thanks for the gibs.

#gaming
#gamedev
#retroGaming
#software

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

spelunking through the stars, as @TakeV calls it.

classic modular rings into clouds with some fun textures going on.

#ModularSynths #RingsIntoClouds #Music #EncryptedWhispers

Attachments:

• audio: Plucked notes wander the Phrygian scale, with reverb and fluttery clouds delay. The music doesn't stray much from its starting point.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

please stop sharing that bamboo data center post, bamboo is invasive and difficult to remove from an environment when introduced. let's respect the environment please?

yes i know the post says not to do it, but it is doing so facetiously and the implication is someone actually should. this would be counterproductive to the ostensible goal of helping the environment by reducing the number of data centers.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
blackpythondevs@fosstodon.org ("Black Python Devs") wrote:

🌍 Meet Our West Africa Executor: Damilola Oladele

Damilola Oladele leads Black Python Devs' efforts across West Africa, supporting community growth, open source engagement, and opportunities for Pythonistas throughout the region.

A dedicated software developer, open source contributor, and recipient of Black #Python Devs' Distinguished Service Award, Damilola continues to help strengthen and grow our community.

We're excited to have him leading our efforts in West Africa! 🚀🐍

#BlackPythonDevs

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

Not a single mainstream politician is advocating for media literacy education or privacy laws.

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

Woke up with a cluster 🫠. Did my breathing and it went away! Didn't even have to take a 5-hour energy which is great because those things make me feel like shit.

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

Yeah, I get why mastodon shouldn't have long-form videos now. Cost alone would be a nonstarter. It makes sense.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

Data center that vowed to avoid Colorado River water is now suing for 260 million gallons per year.

Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has gone to court to secure 260 million gallons of water per year — about 750,000 gallons a day. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/data-center-vowed-avoid-colorado-143900694.html

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dtl@8bitorbust.info ("Dr David Mills") wrote:

There are about 20 swifts above me and from the sound of it they are loving it.

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

i am attempting to come up with a design for buffy the buffer slayer, which as you'll recall i thought i wasn't going to have to write at all.

you see, with a flat mmap, i could just let readers do whatever they want provided i make published data immutable. with a buffer manager, i have to handle paging in and out blocks myself. readers will need to use it too, so even a reader can become a writer to memory now. nightmare stuff when you consider that readers only had to synchronise to take a snapshot of the database before.

at a minimum it starts to look like a concurrent hashmap but in all likelihood it's really more a concurrent LRU cache, a vibrantly active research area i know very little about.

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

“The Algorithmic Order”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/

> This does mean, of course – and this is truly paramount – that we plan for those things, that we reclaim public space for kids, that we fund activities and resources for them and with them. And not because we think they’re broken without their phones, but because we believe that they are whole people, worthy people regardless.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Sometimes Antisocial, Always Antifascist"
Sailor Moon poster spotted in Sydney

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magicalgirlsabrina ("Sabrina Ryan") wrote:

i made a patty duke reference to a 25-year-old tonight so if you wanna know what immortality feels like, its lonely

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liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

jwz wrote:

There was a ~20yo dude at the club tonight wearing some kind of expensive Sports Team jacket that had a giant UPS logo on the back and also was covered with many copies of the number... "88".

On Pride weekend in San Francisco.

There is a whole *series* of bad decisions that led to this.

Best of luck not getting your ass kicked I guess?

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a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

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randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

@yojimbo @davidgerard @oxy a thing I do enjoy about my job is once out in the world when someone tried an “ethics aside,” I nodded and “yeah I hear that sometimes at work from folks that have been there for decades.”

“Where do you work?”

“State prison.”

“[scoff] it’s not the same.”

“Yep they say that too. Have you been there already?”

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ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

@glyph @freakboy3742

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Man there are some very annoyed Europeans who just cannot stop telling me that they already know what heat is, and also that Austin, Texas isn’t Amsterdam. Guys, I know. That’s the point. Even Texans need regular reminders of this, and they deal with more heat than you do. The first day I lived in Texas it was 47C. That was in 1999. Please believe me that I am not condescending to you, this is just a reminder that is useful when it is very hot, especially if it is hotter than usual.