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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Originally built in 1928, this house has been abandoned since 1996.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

More amazing minimalist pencil sketches of cats, by Shou Xin (手訫) again

#Art #Artwork #Artist #Cats

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116715504765532744

The air got so much cleaner after Notre Dame burned down.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Pretty incredible.

"Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”"

Paywalled link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

#news #climate #ClimateChange #cars #CarsRuinCities #AirQuality #AirPolution #paris #france

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I knew color printers uniquely identified themselves on every printed page, but I did not know that Windows apparently transmitted something equivalent across network connections in their telemetry.

So, that's something to know I guess.

https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873103458200655

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

McDonnell Douglas was eventually bought by Boeing

oh yes that'll definitely improve safety standards 😬

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

folks this jetlag is so bad, it’s been a week

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like where’s the day where you need a tactical Damascus steel knife and an RFID protective passport pocket and a 10,000,000 lumen flashlight and a laptop stand and a 10kmAh battery pack and a bunch of fidget toys and a compression bandage and a field notes notebook with a space pen

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really want to see an “EDC” video where one of these youtubers actually _uses_ every item in their comically overbuilt personal loadout

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

I am so looking forward to this release

https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/04/22/finally-the-coyote-vs-acme-trailer-is-here/

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

there are all these custom weirdo piece notations and game variants but none of them seem to have a) autonomous pieces, which could be modeled as having a third player or multiple moves per move, b) restrictions on available moves based on prior movement history (the pawn 2->1, en passant, and castling history dependence seems to always be special-cased), c) pieces that change colors, d) pieces that are not allowed to move to specific squares. so what i want to do goes outside the usual boundaries of what stockfish considers "a piece" and doesn't fit neatly into its conception of what a "move" is. i think i might have to hack it together by dynamically switching the dvd piece between different base pieces and updating stockfish's state every turn manually. idk if that's possible, like if it's possible to express "black just moved twice, one normal move, and one bishop that is temporarily white, but the white player can't control it, and it will turn black again next turn and capture the piece right in front of it" to the engine, but there is apparently a neural net part of the engine so if i can express it then it might be possible for it to learn DVD strategy via RL.

basically i'm stuck between two choices: 1) either make a fullstack version so two people can play against each other, but then i have to host something and it would only be playable if someone else was on, or 2) hack the piece into a chess engine so it can be played vs. computer, but if the computer is just totally naive to the piece then it's not very fun either bc you'd win just by virtue of knowing the rules while the computer doesn't.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Lionrae@meow.social wrote:

🤨 (comms for zheters & sylvermor!)

#furry #furryart

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

Echoes of Aincrad looks interesting. You can customize your protagonist.

...

But, there's no furry option I don't think?

(Please, NexusMods, do your thing.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@skeletor/116891557813807074

My daily struggle :neocat_evil_3c:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Suran@toot.cat wrote:

#shitposting

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

oh here we go, people are all over "stockfish but whacko mode" https://fairy-stockfish.github.io/

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

trying to figure out how one might make a custom piece for stockfish and the stockfish repo is the meme about the names

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

legacy damaged wing

Boosted by jwz:
mdhughes@appdot.net ("Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647") wrote:

One positive thing of this LLM slop vibecoding bullshit.

We can now see who ever coded because it's fun, inspiring, awesome.

And who coded because it was a job less demanding than construction work.

And then there's hackernewses, who were in it for a biz scam. Make more money!
#butlerianJihad

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I think it really works though, it illustrates the fact that you can do a little or a lot

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"content aware fill" metaphor is mine, "amplification spirals" is the new term

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

great to have a new term of art to describe yet another harm: "amplification spirals" are "content-aware fill" for delusions <https://youtu.be/uQiTjSclYsg?si=6rs3xf6EOQCuYmmi>

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
patrickfulton ("Patrick Fulton") wrote:

Unfortunately, my partner was laid off from her full-time role today. She's a front-end dev who's spent the last 5 years in ed-tech building with a variety of frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML) and she's a11y certified. She's immediately available for full-time remote work in the US. She's not on the fedi, but I'll happily pass along any job leads to her #getfediHired

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

"I'm learning wood carving. Look at what I made!"

"That's... quite good actually! How long have you been learning?"

"Just a few days. It was so easy, I just explained what I wanted and it popped right out of the machine."

"Oh, a *machine* made this. How are you 'learning' wood carving, then?"

"Well, it took a few tries for the machine to get it right, so I'm learning how to do that part."

"And, you... own the machine?"

"No, ... I rent it by the hour..."

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

I keep thinking about the code review guidelines (https://smartbear.com/learn/code-review/best-practices-for-peer-code-review/) that @glyph linked in his article about code review and LLMs (https://blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-review-for.html). The former article recommends not reviewing more than 400 lines at a time, and taking a break if reviewing for more than an hour straight. And I wonder, can we work backward from there to limits on how much code a single team member should *write* in a given time period, e.g. in one day?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@neatnik Finally got around to trying this with my #egemi browser.

I haven't debugged what's coming across the wire, but the mime parser I'm using seems to think it's invalid for hello.php:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
a2es@mstdn.social ("A2 Engineering Services") wrote:

A friend sent me this today. It amused me. Yes I have used a grid dip meter many times, but I bet few people have heard of them these days. I have no idea who deserves credit for the image.

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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

saying ai is inevitable is like saying the monarchy is inevitable

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
heathen_cat@furs.social ("Heathen 🐈") wrote:

@shammers
vaspider's "Pete Buttigieg is just a f*g" makes the point: no matter how "normal" and acceptable we make ourselves, the people who hate queers don't care. CN, author outright says the slurs to make a point.
https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/687643661640581120