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

Context:

• https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Jacob%5FAppelbaum%5Frape%5Freport
• https://medium.com/@hdevalence/when-hell-kept-on-payroll-somewhere-is-where-you-are-f419d3022d0

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

looking at IETF mailing list

Boy, Jacob Appelbaum's understanding of KEMs is as shallow as his apparent understanding of boundaries and consent, huh?

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

Since the EU has made Chat Control 1.0 a thing, I should remind everyone that even having a plaintext mode at all is gross negligence for an E2EE system

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/

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

watching a hawk chasing a songbird in the cemetery… the little bird made it to the safety of a dense tree, and the hawk was forced to veer off. afterwards, the songbird SHOUTED from inside the embrace of those sheltering limbs ;^}

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

LOL, email from friend:

how did your application (to my employer, months ago) go? we didn't hire anyone yet, so i'm wondering if you're still in the pipeline.

mate, you probably shouldn't bank on them hiring anyone soon. they didn't seem remotely impressed with me

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

me: "I can code that shape in SVG without looking 😏"

also me:

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

buffy the buffer slayer, messy the message queue. i am sensing a theme.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kytta@polymaths.social ("Nikita Karamov") wrote:

Reading through this year's #Codeberg proposals and found this sad statistic.

Also note that we have somewhat little participation in many votes. [...] from recent polls, the participants / eligible voters looks like this:

20.45% → 21.91% → 25.88% → 16.64% → 17.59% → 16.45%
(percentage calculated by me; from least to most recent)

Ouch! We get more and more members, but it looks like almost none of them decide to vote.

If you are an active Codeberg member: Check your emails! You should've received eight separate mails with links to the voting portal. If you haven't, contact Codeberg.

Please take your time (it took me less than an hour), read the proposals, and vote on them!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Rihilism@toot.community ("🦅RichKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Seven starlings shining in the morning sun.

#birds #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #alliteration #photography #AltText

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🚩") wrote:

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
boomtownpodcast@mstdn.social ("Welcome to the Boomtown") wrote:

Waking up to the news that Bonnie Tyler has passed away, she was 75. #80s #80smusic #BonnieTyler #ladiesofthe80s

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

We should be ashamed that it took so long to winnow out an unsuitable candidate?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/09/are-they-unable-to-find-candidates-without-misogynistic-traits/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQxb%5FlAncM

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

RFK Jr has still more blood on his hands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/well/live/vitamin-k-shot-bleeding-newborn.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts: Have a most wonderful day and stay safe 😸♥️

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("Anne Applebaum") wrote:

Iran, not Trump, is in control of this war. From @radiofreetom.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

But when it comes to a "post-politics that is neither right nor left," the definition I turn to most often comes from science fiction writer Steven Brust, who once told me:

> "Left" and "right" have had the same meaning since the French Revolution. If you want to know if someone is on the left or the right, ask them, "What is more important: human rights or property rights?" If they say "Property rights are a human right," then they are on the right.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#ppp

10/

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

oh right yeah, zig removed memory fences, so if i port this c to zig, i have to synchronise even if i'm not going to read anything. or write assembler for each platform i want to support

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
birdsarah@flipping.rocks wrote:

First net up, and two sedge warblers (🇳🇴 sivsanger) ringed. More nets will be placed the next day, excited to see what ends up in them.

#birds #ornithology

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Kinda impressed that the Count Binface news has reached people who don't live in the UK. Feels like a Mastodon shitpost escaping containment

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
N33R@fops.cloud ("N33R "Innocent Little Angel" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: ") wrote:

wife: "yeah ofc emacs banned AI contributions, because the grognards are all lisp programmers that remember the first AI bubble

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
librarysquirrel@sunny.garden ("Göktuğ Kayaalp") wrote:

*Tinfoil hat on*

I doubt it's a coincidence that the last 10, 15 years things like cryptocurrencies, "metaverse", "AI" are becoming popular, just as "lines" in the computing industry flatten: as the computer has been perfected, an _economy of waste_ is created to sustain appetite for growth.

Computers (phones, tablets &c are computers) have become longer term investments; even if you have abundant money, the latest devices aren't necessarily upgrades that bring anything new to the table. We've _done_ computing, we finished it back in 2010s mostly.

That's a plateau in demand for new devices, or it would be, w/o the saviour of computing wastage industry. Cryptocurrency wastes storage and processors, "AI" wastes memory and processors, "metaverse", ads, cloud etc waste networking bandwidth. So we use much more computing resources than we need.

Computing wastage also inflates the income of fossil fuel industry. Its useless activities and the infrastructure to support all that is powered--where it's not pure speculation and is actually built out--frequently by dirty electricity.

I think that explains a lot about govt & corpo interest esp in "AI" right now. It's a growth driver. It's a line mover upper. It's a conduit of money to an otherwise stagnating tech and dirty energy sector.

*Tinfoil hat off*

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Binface 2026

Count on it.™

#Binface

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

was out at a customer site today doing some work because i do like to get out occasionally. anyway, since i was suspiciously hanging around with four phones and a laptop, when i saw one of their employees walk by, i felt inclined to introduce myself, lest they thought i was some sort of criminal.

we exchanged hellos and i said, “i’m mike and i…”

before i could finish the guy said “they don’t pay me enough to care who you are, go nuts”

so #infosec tip of the day, pay people enough to give a shit

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

I love #lighttpd !

This web server is very lightweight and always do the job.

There is a new version with bug fixes

https://www.lighttpd.net/2026/07/08/1.4.85/

you can donate if you want

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912

In general my stance is: Our communities (meaning actual communities not "everyone on the Internet who uses the same Kernel" or something) should be way more restrictive and explicit about what we accept and what not.

Your Mastodon server or forum or code forge or whatever _does not need to serve the world_. It should serve you and your community. Sure, there will be conflicts but we really need to make those political differences visible and explicit. Not to constantly fight but in order to know where who stands on what topic. We need to re-politicize tech and infrastructure.

The fact that your service comes with a whole bunch of rules is _good_. Don't let some dumbass libertarian guilt-trip you with "the Mastodon HOA again". Fuck that. Stand for something.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116886123649607641

Not saying that the entirety of the AI industry is the worst people on the planet… but no actually I am saying that, there is no aspect of working on this shit that doesn’t also directly contribute to the most vile outcomes. If you work on any of this stuff, you should feel bad, and you should do something to start making up for it

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

“The Decline of Deviance 2 - by Adam Mastroianni”

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance-2

> So I don’t think the internet is the killer, but I do think it’s an accessory after the fact. In particular, I think the internet accelerated three trends that don’t get much attention. I’m going to call them cultural carcinization, de-frictioning, and the flat-Earth problem.

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

Why AI tokens are so expensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0HRzXk8vlk

Some quick maths explaining how quickly tokens add up especially when doing agentic shit