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

the greatest test he had ever confronted

trying to get the holy trinity of audio, graphics and webcam input to work on linux?

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

APL (Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa Programming Language)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is doing a bit better?") wrote:

Twenty fucking twenty six is perhaps not The year of posting through it, but it is A year of posting through it.

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

adobe flash storage

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿") wrote:

Do LLMs scrape blogs, and steal the recipes?

Gosh, I hope not. This one is not safe.

https://doctor-dark.co.uk/blog/diy-electrolyte-drink-recipe/

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
sophie@social.lol ("Sophie") wrote:

I've given my website a bit of a refresh, using Temporal and CSS color-mix to change the background colour depending on your time of day

https://localghost.dev/blog/time-based-background-colour-transitions-with-temporal-and-css-color-mix

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

parenting with at least one grandparent around is a COMPLETELY different experience than without. my dad has been here all weekend helping take care of our 1 year old and i've had time to go to the climbing gym, put together a DJ set AND update https://azuki.vip/blw/ ??

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

Remember before I transitioned and people would put those "everyone wishes they were the other gender <NO THEY DON'T>" memes and I was like, well that's not true, *I'm* cis and I often wish I was a different gender

I think I might have even said so once in reply then thought I was being "rude" and deleted it immediately

*whoooosshhhhhhhhhhhh*

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
LyleDAL@universeodon.com wrote:

#Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, #OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/blood-donors-needed-to-save-life-of-florida-teen-needing-bone-marrow-transplant/

#News #Medicine #SickleCell #Transplant

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

they got calls that it might be 'russian death rays'. they investigated everything

never ask the public what happened in a technical matter.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

"The President and Vice President must be impeached, convicted, and removed."

On July 1, active duty air force Major Jason Watson held a powerful speech in Washington D.C. calling for the removal of Trump and JD Vance.

He then walked up the stairs and held a protest sign before being arrested by capitol police.

Full speech:
https://youtu.be/k2-AyA3SLEs?si=4UsTpY1J9IFFgBDM

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

I could grow to like Minions.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/05/historically-and-scientifically-absurd-but-id-still-like-to-adopt-a-minion/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4w77lux6I

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116867513522463909

Sometimes the system works.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Fragarach@vivaldi.net wrote:

@gerrymcgovern @LordCaramac
I was living in Germany in the 1980s. They sold sponges specially for cleaning dead insects off the windscreen.
I'm in Yorkshire now, but they were still needed when we returned around 1990.
Not any more 🫤

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

Canada has lost over 60% of its flying insects since the 1970s, leaving tree swallows smaller and less successful at breeding
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/canada-has-lost-over-60-of-its-flying-insects-since-the-1970s-leaving-tree-swallows-smaller-and-less-successful-at-breeding-scientists-found/articleshow/132176920.cms

Birds: 60% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Wild salmon: 89% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: 80% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: USA lost 20% of butterflies between 2005 and 2025
Flying insects: 75% decline in Germany in 27 years

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Bard@transfem.social ("Bard :genderqueer_flag: :rat_pan:") wrote:

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

i am talking to a furry online somewhere. this is a lot like fedi.

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

vertical mousse

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

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

"You go from reading and code-reviewing everything to just skimming it. Soon you barely even do that. LLM code generation breeds laziness, because managing its output is a fucking boring task."

💯

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Again:
1. Trump's most popular policy among his supporters *by far* are his "immigration policies"

2. His immigration policies are by definition, ethnic cleansing policies. They were devised by white nationalists who self-described their sole purpose as "turning the USA into a white ethnostate."

3. White American voters are the only group of US voters that support these ethnic cleansing policies at more than 50%. Black, Asian, non-white Hispanic, and Indigenous people all reject these ethnic cleansing policies.

4. Trump supporters are willing to give up every other policy to make sure that this one happens, as they view it as existential. They are willing to pay to do this.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/50802-harris-vs-trump-on-the-issues-whose-policies-do-voters-prefer

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bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

11
Blatty: enemies? who could possibly hate my beloved Chicago pope?!
[meanwhile]
Peter Thiel: [sweating like a baked ham, eyes ping ponging] the Chicago pope is in league with the gay trans catboy jews of the Chinese communist party and the space mutants , in conjunction with the RAND corporation, to elect greta Thunberg as Chicago antichrist
Dan Simmons: sounds legit

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

200 years from now I assume my future equivalent will be posting a version of my bit about the electoral college, but applying it to AI: “It wasn’t designed to do what you think it was designed to do, and it doesn’t do what you think it was designed to do nor what it was actually designed to do.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4346ggm37cztthfhreztespj/post/3mpvw5yflos2q

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Alternatively, one might take an "originalist" approach to the holiday and focus on the birth of American independence. But then you risk engaging with uncomfortable ideas like separation of powers, checks and balances, the rule of law, accountability of leaders, and other such woke distractions.

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

Bit of an audio experiment. (50 seconds. Horses passing by.)

Attachments:

• audio: The sound of horses passing by

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

RESOLVED: Hobbits would consider Crocs to be fancy dress shoes.

Discuss.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.

But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.

If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.

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

I was talking to @mlemweb about how I'd like to a genAI free tech conference. Not just no genAI used, but not even a topic of conversation. Completely off the table. Be quarantined from vibe sickness for a bit.

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

@glyph @davidgerard @chroma I've wrestled with this problem too and decided that getting mad at every Tom, Dick and Harry who doesn't feel or do the exact same things I do is neither a good use of my energy nor a good way to hold the kinds of meaningful relationships that actually change behaviour.

It's a tough balance to strike because I really don't want to excuse AI as a technology, and there's a lot of justified anger, but it's better to send that anger to people who deserve it and have power over it (read: technology executives, data centre building companies) rather than at people who don't have that power and are just as likely to be victims