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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
twilliability@genart.social ("gábor ugray") wrote:

Brave little engine has been running for a half year straight. There were a few dark spells in the northern hemisphere winter when at one point its reserves didn't last theought the night. But since then, nonstop photon-powered rotation in my window. ☀️✨ #SolarPunk

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

Like, every time I read somebody arguing we shouldn't judge people for using chatbots as it's the first time they've had somebody at their constant beck and call I think, no, that actually makes me think less of them

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

Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or polite servant might play a bigger role in the popularity of chatbots than I expected

I can be slow sometimes, but I also always thought the constant signals of servility these systems are made to exude were obviously distasteful, even when experienced second-hand through other people's reports

jwz wrote:

I should never, ever have agreed to allow my bar to accept credit cards.

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

“Financial Nonsense”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/financial-nonsense/

> What looks like a bad investment academically and increasingly like a bad investment politically may also soon be calculated as a bad investment financially as well.

jwz wrote:

100% of the follows I get from mastodon.cloud are from lovely gentlemen who want to sell me seasoned gmail accounts.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is what I am imagining when you tell me about your “agentic engineering council” https://youtube.com/shorts/FOKAYc5u5ws

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the problem is mainly all the other syndromes he’s either got or is causing, it might create confusion

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116840728622345061

we should just rename Kessler Syndrome to Musk Syndrome preemptively

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also anti-AI followers I shouldn’t have to say this but in these trying times I believe I must: if you harass the author of this piece, even just to say something snide like “well what did you expect, using the lie machine, you deserved to feel bad” then I repudiate you and you will never see the light of heaven. Please do not be part of the problem.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772

“I poisoned my own mind.”

More and more programmers are writing retrospectives like this — and a huge THANK YOU to Elissa for doing so — where they discover that Programming Is Not Special.

It is particularly interesting to read this from a solo game developer who is both a programmer and an artist, who began by thinking the programing isn’t art, and discovered by an emotionally torturous process that it actually is.

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

So, uh, @roberto's omg.lol page might be my new favorite thing on the entire internet.

https://roberto.omg.lol

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WAHa_06x36 ("Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎") wrote:

Today was my last day at work. Getting out of the tech industry for now, it's not a good place to be right now. I am extremely lucky to have gathered up enough money to not have to think about finding another job right away.

Will have a lot more time to spend with my partner and on my own projects now, though.

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

All done! We’re now on our new server, with tons of extra RAM and disk space ("so much room for activities"), running 4.6.3+glitch, and all sidekiq queues are now fully caught up.

Elasticsearch indexes are being rebuilt right now, and that’ll take a while (even at ~2500 docs/second, we're looking at ~21 hours to fully cover the 207,680,460 items in our index).

Overall, everything went well! Thanks once again for your patience while I worked through this move, and apologies — again — for the unrelated (but sort of tangentially related) disruptions earlier. The good news is that our migration addresses the memory issues that led to those hiccups earlier, so thing should be so much better from here on out. :prami_happy:

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

There will likely be a couple of service restarts (and possibly one final server restart) over the next 20 minutes or so. And then we’re finished! Stay tuned for a final update.

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

Our migration is pretty much finished, but there are still some remaining items to work through (a handful of things to check and a few configuration items to adjust as a result of those checks). Elasticsearch will be back online momentarily. And I still need to upgrade Mastodon itself to 4.6.3 which was released earlier. Shouldn’t be too much longer before we’re officially complete. Thanks for your patience!

Boosted by jwz:
cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

new metaphor just dropped

Attachments:

• video: a0fea7b063f9f5bd.mp4

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Grindr has been caught sharing users' HIV status and precise location with advertisers without obtaining valid consent. They must immediately stop prioritizing profits over users’ safety, and make privacy the default across its platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/grindr-put-queer-safety-and-privacy-over-profits

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
impermanen_@zirk.us ("impermanen_ 🕊️") wrote:

In case you missed it: getting the #shingles #vaccine lowers your risk of dementia later in life by 20% and even slows the progress of the disease for people already suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Shingles itself is awful: painful and even mentally debilitating. So please consider getting the vaccine.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nyx_lyb3ra@masfloss.net ("nai :tranarchy_punk_lesbian:") wrote:

i have the feeling that desktops are losing popularity to laptops

survey! what type of computer is your main computer?

optionally, reply by telling me why you chose that form factor

boosts appreciated!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I just posted my keyboard collection online, in case that’s of interest to anyone! https://aresluna.org/my-keyboard-collection

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

Just under two hours until our Mastodon server migration! Which will fully resolve the recent spate of server wackiness that we’ve been seeing. 😮‍💨

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

pineapple ninja will ananassinate you

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

trained in metric calculations

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

need a 4d printer so we can print some more time

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

lol autosubs

cabbage pressurised

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
DeltaWye@tiggi.es ("DeltaWye 🔜 AnthroCon") wrote:

Tokuda the spotted Hyena and their friend! #anthrocon #yeen

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

i was just idly marveling that the mac is named after a type of raincoat and how silly that is.

on the other hand, PC is literally pee sea 😅

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Getting to the point with people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs that we need the opposite of getting a human operator on a customer support line. "Just put me through to the LLM" so I can correct whatever hideously wrong thing is in its context window that is making you say some nonsense.