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

would you buy an antivirus called "auntie virus"?

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
wulfric@beige.party ("Wulfric") wrote:

Mitch McConnell is...

#Politics #DarkHumor

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

was just reminded of that time when phone manufacturers decided you should need a toothpick to dial.

god that was so much better than carrying a 40" TV posing as a phone

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
MyLittleMetroid@sfba.social ("Óscar Morales Vivó") wrote:

my name is Ozymandias. Subscribe to Kings or Kings+ to see my works. Use code DESPAIR for a 15% discount.

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

australia (n.) british prison colony

jwz wrote:

17 hours down, now. Making a list of all of the critical systems that won't work if Monkeybrains doesn't get their shit together before our doors open in 8 hours...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SuiGeneris3722 ("dan3722") wrote:

@soatok You’re spot on. The biggest victory of these agencies is often the 'myth of the omniscient NSA,' because it scares people into thinking encryption is futile. When people believe they have 'magic' capabilities, they stop trying to defend their own privacy. It’s important to distinguish between 'they have immense resources' and 'they can break the laws of physics.' The former is true, but the latter is exactly what keeps us pushing for better standards.

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

Quick update regarding our social.lol outage earlier. I’ve determined that the reason that our status monitoring and downtime notification service (https://updown.io/r/UwRjs, which is excellent) didn't "see" the outage was that the Mastodon error page was retuning an HTTP 200 OK response, not a 502 Bad Gateway response as expected (and as I'm fairly sure it used to return whenever the service wasn't available).

I'm currently trying to determine if this is related to our switch to the Glitch edition a while back, or if something changed in one of the 4.6.* releases, or something else.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cyanocophotos wrote:

Grem and Riyo at Scotiacon 2026! 05.02.2026 - 09.02.2026
#furry #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #fursuit #scotiacon2026

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

:<

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry 🦙💝🦙") wrote:

If you run a peertube instance, you should have gotten an alert to update. Either way, it's time to update - there's a security fix out for a high severity vulnerability. Some operators got hit last time this happened. Don't let that happen to you. Patch your OS while you're at it. And drink some water. And then go for a walk. And call your mom.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

@BunnehUsagiChan

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116852007606471639

They’re clearly learning from the Israelis.

‘By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel." By April, WHO had verified 906 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon. As of June 2024, according to WHO, Israel has carried out 464 attacks on health care facilities, resulting in the death of 727 health care workers, injury of 933 health care workers, and damaging or destroying 113 ambulances.”’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks%5Fon%5Fhealth%5Ffacilities%5Fduring%5Fthe%5FGaza%5Fwar

Who knows, maybe it’s not great to allow Israel to normalise such things. Gives us less of a moral leg to stand on when others do the same thing.

What do you think?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

There are thirteen screens in my office right now, and honestly I don’t think I’m any more productive than when I had only twelve.

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

America’s basic founding principle is that *all* people, not just some people, are born with equal rights and worth. this promise must be fulfilled, or none of us is truly free.

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

"All men are born equally free and independent and have certain inherent natural rights of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity”

George Mason, 1776

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

@cwebber Explaining to the boss why the project isn't done yet, "the trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected."

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

"From the beginning all men by nature were created alike”

John Ball, 1381

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

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

B Franklin & T Jefferson, 1776

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

this seems good

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

Would any of y'all be interested in an archival curation tool that can handle merging large collections of files?

I'm in the middle of designing something — git is inspiration but the wrong tool for this job — but that allows reintegrating diverged collections of materials, and propagating enough information that if you were to merge two folders, you'd get a relevant set of questions about the contents to successfully and meaningfully merge them.

It's aware of the fact that embedded metadata changes.

My goal is to make a library simple enough that one could embed it in an operating system's file browser to surface intelligent behavior, and that it could form the basis of media servers too, taking the scanning-and-recording-files duties.

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

A billionaire and multimillionaire both in their 30s already have all the stuff they will ever need. Make them a nice mixtape or a plate of cookies.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-gifts-1236636499/

jwz wrote:

PG&E and Monkeybrains, two great tastes that taste great together. Power went out last night for 70 minutes. Monkeybrains, with their traditional eight eights of uptime, is still down 15 hours later.

What if wireless mesh but made only of single points of failure and zero redundancy?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
draken@masto.nyc ("Draken BlackKnight") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116857170664895331

Wishing Fuckerberg a very fiery plane crash and Meta a very fiery explosion of all its data centers.

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

Bo Burnham: How the World Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQXFNWuZj8

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adriano@lile.cl ("Adriano") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Boosted already but this is just to say that "coders" at the same time complaining that "delete everything" in a comment can hobble an agent and is tantamount to criminal, and insisting that these things are Artificial Super Intelligence is exactly what Orwell was describing with Doublethinking: holding two absolutely opposite concepts in the mind at the same time and juggling one and the other ad hoc without ever considering that they're incompatible.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Just contributed my first drawing-tablet driver! 🎉 It is for this giant XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2) I received (sponsored in exchange of a review on my channel). I adapted the existing specs of the 16" and 19" and it taught me so much, from compiling to submitting a MR. Everything now works perfectly on my GNU/Linux KDE Neon Plasma... Feeling accomplished! Review video coming soon!

MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge%5Frequests/243

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network ("WEATHER IS HAPPENING") wrote:

HOT

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

Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

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

okay calling it: that woman i just saw carrying a bicycle horizontally on her bicycle (so she had the cross section of a big plus) wins this year's netherlanding contest hands down.

the only way it could be more authentically netherlands was if she strapped a wheel of cheese onto the strapped on bicycle.