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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

In which the non-technical world notices the concept of the “Open Web”, and Google’s abandonment of it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/google-ai-oligarchy-and-the-end-of-the-open-web - Essential reading, I think.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I'm coming to the conclusion that community-owned and operated small clouds (co-ops) with easy onramps for self-hosting open source services like mail, storage, and VPN are the only way forward. Every corpo service is eventually going to make you ashamed to use it.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

As always, if you're demanding consent, it is probably a good idea to be able to articulate why consent is the right model for what is happening.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Not Enough Eyes - Blender Studio Log 24

https://video.blender.org/w/oD9DJRrZWjcndh6X78aej4

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Blender 5.3 PROJECTS! 🤝 Blender Today LIVE #283

https://video.blender.org/w/dod1QU7b1DJ4tSmpBEvSJ7

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Compositor Fast CACHE & NEW NODES 🎨 Blender Today LIVE #284_1080p

https://video.blender.org/w/98E3tVQ9Gp25fPrt1pgL41

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alipunk@thecanadian.social ("𝒜𝓁𝒾⋆ ♡⃛") wrote:

These are the rocks I am working on drawing

#wip #wipwednesday #alipunkart #Art #mastoart

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
me_@sueden.social ("Michael Engel") wrote:

If you have a few hours to waste and like compilers and weird - PowerPC - assembly, try the 254 lessons of Decomp Academy!

https://decomp-academy.dev/

#assembly #compiler #PPC #PowerPC #ReverseEngineering #retrocomputing #decompilation

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

really looking forward to the talk i'm giving next week at botcamp

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stuck at home, so I’m making a new comic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
AlienJay@burningboard.net ("Jörg 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116822991494258324

Amazing! The Scientists fired by DOGE relaunched now as https://www.climate.us.
Being fired by a fascistic government made them stronger than they were. Now they are 100% independent. Of course Trump and his whole regime will try to discredit them. But it’s too late I guess. More and more people are waking up. So this is another nail in the coffin of the Trump regime.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("highly praised and little read") wrote:

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

here's the original one! Honestly it was made in a rush back then so I always had my gripes with it, its the redraw number 145 i've done, with the remake being number 195!! And yeah it didn't have the "Goose Value" thing originally, though you may have been able to tell from the different writing style on it

I'm glad to see that my silly redraws keep on being shared to this day, and thank you to everyone who tagged me for credits on the reposts of it, it's very much appreciated!!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

motivated (remake)

this one exploded over at fedi so I decided to remake it!! I go into details of the original piece at the comments.

#PixelArt #Art #Redraw #Animal #Goose #AnubiArts

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

RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf%5Fnewsdigest/116788590931855133

“Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USA revolving around several trillion-dollar companies, and EU having hardly any, is supposed to imply economic superiority, but to me it sounds "if you're so good at growing, why don't you have more tumours?"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116827981116605348

This is the future those who push for age verification want for us.

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

Oh hey, I was the projectionist at the Morris Theatre again!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/a-girl-loves-her-dog/

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

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

Minnesota has a reputation for putting on a great state fair every year. But what if Trump tried to copy it? Disastrous failure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/you-call-that-a-fair/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

At almost 800 pages The Architecture of Symbolic Computers by Peter Kogge (McGraw-Hill, 1991) is a massive tome on Lisp Machines, logic systems, and other symbolic computer architectures.

https://archive.org/details/architectureofsy0000kogg

#LispMachine #lisp #prolog #FunctionalProgramming #retrocomputing #book

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One of the problems with the current AI mania is that products now eagerly claim to use “AI” whenever they can. But you have no way to tell whether this means it incorporates a few benign heuristics that might make it work a bit better or that it’s programmed to quietly learn as much as it can about you so that when the time comes, it can more efficiently harvest your organs.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zeborah@mastodon.nz ("Zeborah") wrote:

Sweet dreams are made of geese
Who am I to diss a beak
The shareholders counted the golden eggs
Everybody's looking for value

Some of them want to goose you
Some of them want to be goosed by you
Some of them want to accrue you
Some of them want to be a goose

Number goes up
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

@cczona Three suggestions from AU:

1. Make a Coolgardie Safe: if humidity is low but temps are high; soak a bedsheet, make a tent, and use a fan to generate airflow. Depending on humidity and airflow, can be good for 3-9 C of temperature drop.

2. Supercool your extremities. Feet in a bucket of ice/cold water, iced water cloth on the back of your neck.

3. Hydrate. Goes without saying, but still.

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

“Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted? | Science | AAAS”

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted?utm%5Fcampaign=News

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The NDS built and now operates four public federal websites: ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov and trumpaccounts.gov. All four ran commercial visitor-tracking software, configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install, and none carry the public filings federal privacy law requires under laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002.”

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

The publisher Springer claims it can only discuss why it retracted some of Planck's papers with... Planck!

But until they hold a seance, they are happy to sell you completely redacted versions: blank pages for $39.95 or more each.

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted?utm%5Fcampaign=News

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

These photos of this goldcrest also show the impact of processing. Two have more heavy-handed processing. Two have more "naturalistic" processing, mostly exposure and saturation. None of these are strictly speaking more "correct" they just have different connotations #bird #birds #iceland #nature

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

Goldcrests are the smallest and shiest birds we have here in Iceland. I managed to spot some movement, couldn't see clearly even when zoomed in, but after cropping in on the extreme zoom, lo and behold, a goldcrest. #bird #birds #iceland #nature

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape:") wrote:

I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.

I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.