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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

We’re all aware that a whole lot of people of aren’t exactly feeling America’s 250th.

What’s actually *amazing* is how thoroughly you have to fuck up to make Americans look at an excuse to get drunk, eat garbage, blow stuff up, & praise ourselves & go:

you know what nah

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

Folks, I've written books in the first, second and third person, sometimes more than one in the same book. I've written books where people have been farted to death, the moon literally turns to cheese, and dolphins start a labor movement. I've done funny, I've done sad, I've done "what the hell did I just read." Some are award winners. Some are bestsellers. Some are both.

There is no one right way to do ANY of this stuff. Write what you want. Tell the stories you want to tell. It's fine.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@soatok

The NSA is handicapped by being a dual-mission agency. The same organisation is responsible for:

• Making sure that the USA's signals are secure.
• Making sure that no other country's signals are secure from the USA.

These are in obvious tension when the USA and everyone else are using the same off-the-shelf standards and implementations of those standards.

I'm generally happy that they now prioritise the former over the latter, if only because they now know that there is a good chance that any weakness that they put in will be exploited by the Chinese, but I'd be a lot more comfortable if they properly separated the two concerns.

I am still curious about Heartbleed because a lot of the US government was vulnerable and I know the NSA did some review of OpenSSL, so I don't know which of the following options was true:

• They didn't bother to review a core piece of security-critical software that a lot of the government's security depended on (I have some evidence that it wasn't this one).
• They did review it and missed a really important bug.
• They did review it, found the bug, and made a staggeringly bad call about whether it was better to fix the bug or keep it as a thing to attack other people with.

None of these possibilities makes them look especially competent.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io ("Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)") wrote:

@david_chisnall @soatok #Dual_EC_DRBG #NevarForget
#SecureCryptoForMeNotThee

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud ("ɹ uɐp :antifascism:") wrote:

@Cal @cgsines @cwebber wait gold is stored in the balls

yes, it took me this long to figure out the reply 🙃

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

[ rushing onto stage, trips over wire and faceplants into a pie, barely managing to deploy jazz hands anyway ]

CAPITALISM!

https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b?accessToken=zwAAAZ8huxJJkc98gD6rjoBEMdOah-lDvwDgCw.MEUCIFybCUQd5ShFQcZrADBvB9ITU5BRO1ph9qG6iMshNM%5FsAiEA3bKOe8-WbDQhVwmoAtZaOWffgc63zDtg4oHexlcZVS8&sharetype=gift&token=0d9debdd-2ada-4e87-a74e-66db9f0221dd&syn-25a6b1a6=1

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

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

Oof. HUGE apologies for the Mastodon server outage. No, our maintenance did not happen early; the server ran out of memory and the database stopped working. 😩

Normally, this triggers a downtime notification to me, and my phone is configured to wake me the heck up when that happens. Today is a holiday here, and I was sleeping a little extra. But, inexplicably, the downtime monitor did not fire. It still doesn’t even recognize that there was any downtime at all: https://status.neatnik.net/ri3j

I have no idea why, but I’m going to find out. And once again I am so very sorry for the disruption. Our migration will still take place in about 10.5 hours, as planned, and given that the new server has twice the memory as the current one, we shouldn’t run into this particular issue again.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
imbl@treehouse.systems ("⚧️ schizotranny pride ⚧️") wrote:

"trans women are so overrepresented online"

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

If you have no room in your heart for "bad" art, you have no room for art.

If art can't ever be "bad", then art really can't be made at all.

How does an artist even grow if making something "bad" is a failure? How can you learn to make anything good if you can't ever get anything wrong?

What is so wrong with "bad" movies?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

Started drawing it at least. I really find drawing humans difficult.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
batsify@ruby.social ("Batsify") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116850405037950048

If it isn’t immediately clear what Christine is talking about here, the mindset instilled in Silicon Valley’s future geniuses is based on the principle of wanting to change the world — nothing less.

Her post resonates particularly strongly with me.

#startup #climatechange

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

for autistic reasons I do tend to embody the "limited wardrobe" trope

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

I am beginning to wonder if I need to learn how to sew clothes.

I went into multiple clothing stores and could find barely anything of my size and style, to the point of where I began to wonder if my life was some kind of parody cartoon where the Universe itself was conspiring to ensure I wouldn't find clothes of the correct size. I don't even think I'm particularly unique!

(is it just me whose brain jumps to "my life feels like a parody cartoon"? well, so be it)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("disregard Joe Groff") wrote:

you say you’re against AI. and yet, you believe in the theory of Albert Inestein. curious.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
thecasualcritic@writing.exchange ("The Casual Critic") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka%5Fvalentine/116845902133405690

This is a very interesting reflection on the accessibility of computing.

I'm old enough to have started on MS DOS, build my own rudimentary website as a teenager and get into UNIX and LaTeX at uni. I wasn't good, it wasn't that easy, but it felt possible to do stuff beyond a Windows GUI.

Then I entered the world of work running on MS Office and I've deskilled since. Only recently have I started playing again with #linux , @homeassistant and a tiny bit of Markdown.

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

good news, that silly idea i just had "improved" the memory usage from ~16MB to ~200MB

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

how old are you

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

Do not unionize. You must remain ionized at all times to ensure maximum electron flow.

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

If you're going to vote for an Invertebrate of the Year, make the wise choice and pick a spider.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/03/invertebrate-of-the-year/

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

Avi Loeb's reputation takes another dive.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/03/the-clowns-rise-to-the-top/

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

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 2 'Queen's Landing'

oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260702-hotd-s03e02.mp3

As Alicent risks everything to fulfill her end of the bargain, Rhaenyra must decide whether the Iron Throne is worth the cost.

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

i should say that this is some of the most complicated code i've ever written, using an instruction set i'm still learning and don't have hardware to test with, on an algorithm i didn't understand when i started. and i was ill during some of it. and it's incomplete.

but it's this or go back to the worst c++ i've ever read in my life, so i'll take my code actually 😬

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

today i will attempt to deeply understand ~900 lines of avx512 code i wrote a few months ago.

if i succeed, i even have ideas on how to improve it, but of course i have to determine if they'll work at all..

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ichbindabomb@nerdculture.de ("Schneewittchen") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

Fun fact: the vast majority of all carbon re-captured by CCS is used to dislodge more oil from nearly-depleted oil fields

https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260113-part-two-the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-and-storage

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

“Goodbye, forever, probably.”

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/

> The future feels bleak for educators. Rich curriculums we craft intentionally and carefully for real human audiences are now routinely stolen and regurgitated by predictive algorithms

Feeling this too, on a personal level, as work related to web dev becomes a smaller and smaller part of my daily life

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Fixing full-bleed CSS

https://dbushell.com/2026/07/03/fixing-full-bleed-css/

(obvs it depends, I already regret using the word "fixing" here!)

jwz wrote:

Hey, what's your favorite "walks into a bar" joke?

Please be aware that I have the most comprehensive collection of jokes of this formation, so you cannot stump me, that's not what I'm asking. I have 100% heard your joke before. I just want to hear your best formation. Bring it.

https://jwz.org/b/yk8%5F