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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
New post: "Bring back the Insert key on Emacs" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/emacs-overwrite/
Are you old and/or weird enough to want the [Insert] key to actually toggle between insert and overwrite modes on Emacs? I have a function for you.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Like they are not the problem, they exist in the normal computer user ecosystem that hides all that from them. If you want to make accessible software that is the level you need to provide a scaffolding for. People are smart, they just might not have cared as much about computing as you have, so if you want them to see the divine light of your thing, you need to throw the ladder down way further than you think.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
I have a hard time sometimes in conversations with FOSS people about what making software that is accessible to non-programmers looks like, because sometimes people start talking to me about like features in obscure languages and packaging and distribution systems and so on, but in a workshop our lab ran recently one major blocker was "not knowing about the existence of the filesystem" and "have never seen a path as a string before and do not know how that relates to a file picker menu"
Mastodon FeedBoosted by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
0x1C3B00DA@piefed.social wrote:
sneakerweb
https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world/p/2192011/sneakerweb
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:
working in tech right now feels like every single person you had any sort of professional relationship with undergoing the worst and most self-destructive manic episodes of their lives all simultaneously, and actively disparaging you for not submitting yourself to their madness
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Good. Fuck this pile of rat turds in a bad suit.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Cold pink vegetable soup for dinner tonight.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/07/chlodnik-night/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i should say, this is when they actually bother to give you cycles at all. frequently they just write '-' where a number should be. great job, it was clearly worth adding an extra row to the table to tell me nothing.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
(i usually use them because they're usually close enough, but lol they're not remotely accurate if you actually care)
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
fantasy cycles (latency and throughput measurements from the intel intrinsics viewer)
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Last year for comparison: https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev/114747932757606151
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
8 years. A shot in the morning light this year. The tree is growing slower now, likely because it's maturing. I did some more culling than usual this year, but you probably won't be able to tell :-)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg.
Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
you've got a computer now, if it breaks, you have the internet, figure out how to fix it, that's what i do with my daughters
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
OK, help me settle a debate.
Is ASN.1 Turing complete?
(Accidentally Turing Complete counts. Proofs of concept are welcome.)
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I don't struggle at this point, thank God, but I do get really pissed about it
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/07/cost-of-living-poll-groceries-gas
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
The UK is instantiating new EHRC guidance which will effectively segregate trans people in public life. Unless opposed, it will become statutory guidance on the 10th July.
If you live in the UK you can write to your MP at https://equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode, encouraging them to support EDM 240 to formally disapprove of the code.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
https://greens.scot/datacentres
The #ScottishGreens are doing a campaign to prevent the buildout of new hyperscaler #DataCentres in #Scotland. There are 24 new sites proposed in Scotland, potentially adding up to 6000MW of power.
For comparison: This level of power, if run continuously for a year, would result in 52.6TWh of energy consumption, which rival Google's consumption in 2025 (https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/)
I highly recommend supporting the campaign, you can do so at https://greens.scot/datacentres
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:
6
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
King: we're talking about maine politics
Shelley: [stabs King] no you ain't
King: oooow! Mary!!
Shelley: sorry steve, i know it hurts but you have to understand
Shelley: i really wanted to do it
Shelley: fuckin maine!
Mastodon FeedRE: https://journa.host/@jimhightower/116879847777602139
everyone needs to remember that this is also where anthropic chose to host their compute, too. there are no good guys on the “AI” side in this story.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:
"Hacker culture ports Doom to a microwave or hoists a car onto a building for funsies. Infosec culture tries your front door, finds it unlocked, tells you how to close it, then implies you should pay them a bounty."
Quoted with permission, Chatham House rules.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
This mostly helps with my key transparency work today, but you both might like to know this step is nearly complete.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
What's your desk spider been up to?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/07/my-desk-spider/
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
I've emailed IANA requesting it be added to the registry alongside the RFC9421 algorithns.
As Mastodon and other platforms onboard to RFC 9421, the availability of an interoperable specification should allow them to prioritize ML-DSA over, e.g., RSA.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
The specification for Post-Quantum signature algorithms for HTTP Message Signatures (IETF RFC 9421) is now live.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
BlenderStudio ("Blender Studio") wrote:
Announcing OVERGROWN: Blender Studios’ feature film project. We need your help to make this happen!
Learn more at https://studio.blender.org/projects/overgrown/
Mastodon FeedRE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116878877635203757
Congratulations to @dansup on the new and improved https://fediverse.info!
Make sure to check it out, and while you're at it, share it with 5 people who haven't joined the #Fediverse yet 👀
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:
I’ve been following the Mango IRC client project recently (https://mangoirc.chat), and the developer has just made an early build available. It’s MacOS/iPadOS/iOS only, but already very nice with a lot of polish for such an early version. Works great with irc.social.lol! Here’s the TestFlight link if you want to give it a spin: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mWPJk79v
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
One of the barriers to producing a true large format digital back is that there are almost no modern large format lenses that can compete with the resolving power of the best current medium format digital lenses. So having a real system would require producing not just a large sensor, but also new lenses that could do it justice. And I don't even want to think about what such a system would cost.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Fire officials said they received a call just before 8 a.m. about falling bricks near 235 East 42nd Street, where the former headquarters of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, is being converted to a residential complex with more than 1,600 apartments.”