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

thank fuck youtube still has rss feeds for its channels

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I'm shocked to report that someone on HN hated my article again

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Autocorrect changed "abstraction layer" to "obstruction layer". It has a point. I need to start using this term.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nycki@critters.gay ("Klay") wrote:

protip for autistic people: sarcasm isn't associated with any consistent phrasing or tone, and you can't reliably disambiguate it with tone indicators either.

sarcasm, in its true form, is "anything that would cause an unreasonably large update to my priors if it were true."

it's just lying and expecting to be disbelieved.

#protip #autism #audhd #neurospicy #sarcasm #language

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

I snagged one of these popsicle fans from @limeythecheetah.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy at AC and no joke these things extend your suiting time better than cooling vests. #fursuit

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cxiao@infosec.exchange ("Cindʎ Xiao 🍉") wrote:

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@HauntedOwlbear/116862684402113085

Seriously infosec ppl we actually have no excuse. Here, take my collection of places to find free, public domain images, you'll discover some amazing art:

• US National Gallery of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search?download=1
• Old Book Illustrations (@oldbookillustrations): https://www.oldbookillustrations.com
• Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main%5FPage
• Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev)'s Image Archive: https://pdimagearchive.org
• New York Public Library, public domain digital collection: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters=%5Brights%3DpublicDomain%5D
• Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/
• Art Institute of Chicago, open access collection (info): https://www.artic.edu/collection?is%5Fpublic%5Fdomain=1
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=relevance
• Getty Museum, open content collection (info): https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open%5Fcontent=true

#infosec #noAI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

That blows my mind.

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

I'm not going to shill for soft drinks, sorry.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/06/mmmm-taurine/

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ferryoons@mastodon.scot ("Ferryoons") wrote:

Sometimes you come across something that fascinates, and you wish you’d written yourself . Here’s one such.
https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold?r=pt3y9&utm%5Fid=97758%5Fv0%5Fs00%5Fe0%5Ftv4%5Fa1dennhb6uf2c4&triedRedirect=true

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

I am curious, what words would you use to describe me (you can answer even if you don't know me well)

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

Apple keeps Safari on a starvation budget and blocks potential competitors while skimming tends of billions in profit per year from web developer and user inconvenience. The result is a buggier, slower web. You do not have to hand it to them:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

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

Soon we will have no software products created fully without AI support -- companies trying to avoid AI will go bankrupt, and people trying to avoid using AI will lose their jobs fast.

oh i see, this was posted before tokenpocalypse 😂

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

Senior devs on the other hand... they can literally do the work of several junior devs when they properly get accustomed to it.

Even if that's true (and uh, it clearly isn't), you do realise that 7 juniors do not add up to a senior, don't you?

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

Don't be ashamed of using AI to write code! A lot of users on here are rude and insulting about it but they will fade away if they reject this technology. :robot:

Do in fact be ashamed of using AI to write 'code', it's a shameworthy act.

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

Every once in a while I give away ideas on my blog. For example, https://soatok.blog/2024/12/09/ideas-and-execution/

A similar "let's build on TreeKEM" approach to virtual clients might make multicast possible in Noise-based protocols: https://soatok.blog/2023/10/10/a-plan-for-multicast-support-in-noise-based-protocols/

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

Disclaimer: Yes, a $20 claude subscription was used during development to write the large amount of tests and docs for the codebase

oh. so it doesn't work then?

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

you'll be pleased to know they are all blazingly🔥 fast🚀 or similar

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

oh wow, turns out there are a pile of concurrent hashmaps that aren't java (the only ones duckduckgo knows about), you just have to use google to find them.

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

I've mentioned many times: One of the cool things about MLS is that each client (leaf node in the tree) can actually be the root node of a hidden subtree.

You can, among other things, do this to support multi-device without compromising on privacy.

Looks like there's an RFC draft to do precisely this!

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-mls-virtual-clients-01.html

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/116872067735378275

“I wish we, as **FL**OSS developers actually took issue with the fact that our licenses mean nothing anymore and our contributions are being chewed up and sold back to us, I wish we stopped the whole ‘ignoring the political, social and economical issues’ but alas, that's not the point of this.”

(Asterisks mine in place of actual boldface in the post. The emphasis is, uhum, important.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
barthalion@treehouse.systems ("Bart Piotrowski") wrote:

I was pulling the numbers out of my ass the other day, saying that 80% of this slop is not going to stay maintained in a year, but I wasn't that far off!

> Of the 120 unique repos, 32 were maintained and 88 were abandoned. No seriously, a big portion of them was completely deleted, nowhere to be found, others stopped 6 months ago, right after submitting to Flathub.

https://geopjr.dev/blog/democratizing-abandonware

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Oh.

There isn't an "AI Boom".

We're just all getting robbed.

There's just a couple of companies exchanging ownership of warehouses full of unopened GPUs and shuffling the same hundred billion dollars around between them while they slowly move debt off their balance sheets, and the rest of us are all getting robbed.

It's great that we decided to reorient our entire economies around this scam, I'm sure this will have no adverse or unexpected consequences for the global economy.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116873178155110954

One of the bigger "AI divides" - there are plenty, but one of the bigger ones - is between people who can walk away from whatever they've slapped together and people who have to understand, maintain and repair things.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Maria Ressa talks about how in an Eritrean language, AI changes ‘smallpox’ to ‘syphilis’, and sometimes confuses ‘medicine’ and ‘insecticide’, which obviously has public health implications.

This type of work ‘AI performance and safety issues in other languages and its impact on people’ is 50% of the work I do.

I’m glad Maria Ressa is involved in this work. She’s now talking about chatbots, teenagers, suicide.

“Civil society has been saying this for years. You now have more evidence now for what you’ve been saying.”

https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/preliminary-report

#UN #Geneva #AI

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webstandards_dev ("Web Standards") wrote:

The Goldilocks customizable select height. @jaffathecake tunes the customizable picker with CSS anchor positioning so it never touches the viewport edges, never shrinks too small, and never grows too tall. He shows how calc-size() pairs intrinsic sizes like fit-content and stretch with min() limits, plus @​supports fallbacks for Firefox and Safari. #css #anchor

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/goldilocks-select-height/

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robhawkes@fosstodon.org ("Robin Hawkes ⚡️") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@robhawkes/116017624217911554

What feature is missing from my live energy map?

If you could snap your fingers and add something new, what would it be?

It doesn't need to be map-related either, I'm warming to the idea of a general "come here to see the state of the GB electricity system past and present."

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Vivaldi@vivaldi.net ("Vivaldi Browser") wrote:

In case you haven't heard yet, the European Court of Justice dismissed Google's appeal last week, which means that even if they tried to get away with it, they'll have to pay the €4.1 billion imposed by the European Commission in 2018. The lawsuit focused on Google abusing its dominance by requiring distributors of Android devices to bundle Google Search and Google Chrome.

This is why we don't stop at building a decent browser, but also go the extra mile and get involved in regulatory work. Having real choices it's crucial for a healthy market.

#BigTech #browser #Google #EuropeanCommission

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kravietz@agora.echelon.pl ("kravietz 🦇") wrote:

If you’re a #Linux admin just entering holiday mode, you’ll be excited to find out there’s a new local privilege escalation Linux kernel exploit, no workarounds ☺️

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46242

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

Since when do unqualified business turds like Jerry Cirino get to determine what knowledge may be taught?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/06/when-mbas-decide-theyre-qualified-to-run-higher-ed/

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

one of the things I noticed when coding yestersay is the thought process to "I want this feature" to the actual code is very nonlinear and often includes just writing the actual code.

I was trying to keep a devlog to remember my progress and this often meant going back after I had coded something to do the writeup. which future self will very much thank me for, but it was very much a process of natural language reconstruction of code (and nonlinear thought processes) rather than coming up with the natural language first and the code later.

that is to say: no wonder I prefer actual coding to whatever you do with LLMs, because I very rarely find "express the thing you want in English but in a way an LLM can understand" to be any sort of productivity improvement. I already find natural language an incredibly unnatural way to work with computers. I'd rather just express what I want in code and get the advantage of determinism.