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

I'm feeling happier with myself than I ever have, and in love with my body and being in my body, and it's amazing tbh

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

I can't spend any more of my time on this. I won't spend any more time on this. I won't lose another day to marveling at how shitty the thing people tell me must become my new god is.

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

To be clear, fuck age verification, but this is like top tier slop. Only explanation that isn't swiss cheese brain is "doing it so mindblowingly badly on purpose for plausible legal cover to say you did it and make it hard to tell you didn't"

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

Essentially every single part of the system is so littered with fallbacks there are bound to be dozens of ways to bypass it clientside. Why is any of this clientside anyway? I can't even start to point to all the fallbacks. The region detection is baffling. All the greatest hits are here. Endless fallback chains, many ways to get the same value, comments that say "this is bad to do" and then doing it right away.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
spark@kurry.social ("Spark :fursuit_bluefox_new:") wrote:

흐으음...

#FursuitFriday

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

So how does bluesky get an account's birthday to know if it needs age verification ? There's a system in bsky's code "useQuery" where you can provide a) some cheap way to initialize a value, and b) some query that can keep it updated from the server. Or so its supposed to go.

This is just one of many hilarious fallbacks: there is a clientside birthday cache. For some reason. For slop reasons. The thing containing birthday is "other required data." Sure. There is a function "get other required data from cache" - that's the "fast initial data" method. Then there's the "slow correct data" function, just normal "get required data"

However in the "get required data" there is.... Also an unconditional read from the birthday cache that overwrites whatever came from the server. So.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/783dfe2a123b5c3a245d1e43a01e543d05849394/src/ageAssurance/data.tsx#L375

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

Pallets now documents our LLM and AI tool use policy, explaining why we value human contributions rather than trying to instruct the tools. I don't think this will make a difference to the amount of generated junk we get, but I hope people who care find value in it. https://palletsprojects.com/contributing/llm-ai #Python #Flask #OpenSource

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
michelin@hachyderm.io ("Michel Lind :fedora: :debian:") wrote:

@technomancy @cwebber late to this, sorry - vacation. As someone who contributes to both Fedora and Debian currently, and am increasingly leaning towards dedicating some proper time to get into Guix, the 'vibe-check' concept sounds really appealing.

The best listing of tainted software I know right now is https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware (I'm compiling a list of resources here: https://semble.so/profile/michel-slm.name/collections/3mqkd5nzyh22e)

They do already have a tagging system in place with roughly similar colour-coding.

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

when hunter/killer quadcopters are this cheap and easy to produce in mass quantities, Putin’s War on Ukraine has shown us that they will end up being used down to the level of following & killing individual infantry troops. quite frankly, I do not think the US military is prepared to deal with this new reality of land warfare.

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

I went to look at how bsky wrote age verification, and holy lord, people don't just say that LLMs produce mountains of flaming hot dogshit for their health.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N3VEM@mastodon.radio wrote:

Does anyone know of a place anywhere in the Philly to Boston corridor that carries 40 to 50 foot metal masts (like the Rohn or Channel Master telescoping ones) in stock, where I could pick one up without having to pay a crazy freight fee?

#HamRadio

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

I also feel like @jer is mocking me

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

in case you were wondering how my day is going, I just posted

If I stare at any more bouncing balls, I will lose the tiny bit of sanity I have remaining

into bugzilla.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
psh@infosec.exchange ("Patrick.sh") wrote:

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Netraven@hear-me.social wrote:

@catsalad fixed it

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

a basic US military “Predator drone” is estimated to cost about $US 6.7 million per unit, and can be refueled, rearmed, and reused. it can loiter a long time, and it can carry multiple munitions.

a basic Ukrainian Army “frontline kamikaze quadcopter” is estimated to cost about $US 500-600 per unit, and can be used once to destroy a fortified position, vehicle, or troops.

if you were defending coastal territory in an asymmetric war like the Iranians are, which would you rather have: 1 Predator or 10,000 quadcopters?

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

I slept through whatever degenerate babble that vomited out of the festering pile of oatmeal that's struggling to function as his brain, but even so I can guess that it's a) full of petulant, querelous, self-serving lies, b) dripping with contempt for this country and the people in it, I know this because that's literally his only gear at this point

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

so i am hearing that AWS's global billing systems shat themselves

i have screenshots of a user in Germany who normally runs up $27/mo, getting a bill for $353 billion, which is more than e.g the GDP of Finland

it is not *smoking gun* that this was a vibe code error, still looking for that

EDIT: word from AWS: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status archive https://archive.ph/idVLO no root cause lol

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

a femme fatale
a queer coded villainess
I'm laughing madly
while I'm your undoing

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

Laughs in TRSDOS

RE: https://www.threads.com/@shivam25dev/post/Da2P7WTDYL2

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

if python is so good how come there's no borland turbo python

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

Had a bunch of people complimenting me on my performances :3

I do make for an alluring femme fatale ;3

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

Songs:

When You're Good to Momma -- Chicago
Danger! High Voltage! -- Electric Six
Bad Guy -- Billie Eilish

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

I killed it at queeraraoke last night 😎

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

229.8 pounds! I'm officially in the 22X range! hell yeah https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org%5Fdiet%5Fresults.html

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Reminder for our community call later today to hear about our current and future plans, to learn more about planned changes to math, and to get your questions answered by the team.

(we also released Typst 0.15.1 with some bugfixes today, so it's a busy day)

Join using this link at at 5pm CEST, 11am ET: https://discord.gg/typst-1054443721975922748?event=1516028380988968990

#Typst

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

The only foreign agents I'm concerned about are not Chinese, but they are the Americans who are catalyzing our self-destruction.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/17/i-do-believe-in-foreign-interference-in-our-elections/

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

noted down a few thoughts on Lumis vs Shiki for my blog:
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-07-17T11:00Z/

https://social.lol/@db/116934180546175709

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

“This month, the White House released the 2025 United States Counterterrorism Strategy document, outlining its priorities and approach to protecting the homeland. It highlights three major terrorist threats to the U.S.: narcoterrorists, Islamist terrorists and violent left-wing extremists. Nowhere does the document mention far-right, neo-Nazi or white supremacist threats.”

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835586/san-diego-mosque-anti-women?unified=true&renderPlatform=nprone%5Fios

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

A rather large and rusty barn.

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