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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
queen_fennec@mas.to ("Queen_fennec") wrote:

@ludicity excellent read. Thank you!

As a CISO in NL Im afraid I see a division. There are CISOs who are critical, like me. Though not as outspoken as I am about it. But there are also those who have become the believers of the "vulnerapocalypse" that are yelling at the top of their lungs we really have to all go and buy AI securitycrap yesterday or we are all doomed through getting attacked by everything AI. The fact that the amount of discovered vulnerabilities is rising sharply, does not mean those will be exploited. That effect will cool down. Fuzzing did the same in the past. But there are even CISOs investing their own money in AI security startups and marketing that.

It scares me. These CISOs are securing parts of our critical infrastructure.

And when I am critical: just as you describe, people act like I said their baby is ugly. Scary.

Will take your advice on all this to not go nuts! Very much appreciated. Keep fighting the good fight.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
revoluciana@chaosfem.tw ("Revoluciana") wrote:

I was part of the delegate selection process to choose the replacement for Graham Platner. The whole situation was fucked.

Here was my experience:
https://www.revoluciana.net/the-maine-senate-race-charade-of-2026/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
theresnotime@fox.nexus ("Sammy Arson Fox (EMF 🔜 Wikimania)") wrote:

oh also, first the UK branch and now the US branch :ablobfoxbongohyper:

https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/wiki-workers-united-us-branch-demands-voluntary-recognition-wikimedia-foundation

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

Something I liked about #EMFCamp's toilets that I already miss: They weren't about gender!

They had a mixture of stalls (some with integrated handwash basins, some without) and urinals. If you are able to and want to use the urinal, you use the urinal, otherwise you use the stall. It really was that simple.

And I don't think that sort of thing is a big gender euphoria moment but then I go back to the Real World where there are Two Genders And Disabled and I start feeling rather uncomfortable again 😭😭.

And the gender system makes queues painful because some stalls get massive queues while other stalls are unused. So splitting toilets by gender is is incredibly inefficient too.

And if it's really that simple to Do Genderless Toilets at a pop-up camp.... why not do it elsewhere? There is an argument that it's not feasible to retrofit every building, and I can buy that, but at the very least why not make new buildings do genderless toilets? Yes, it will take a decent chunk of persuading to overcome societal inertia, but practically there is nothing stopping people from building genderless toilets, and it makes life so much easier for nonbinary folk like myself

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kawaiipunk@sunbeam.city ("KawaiiPunk") wrote:

OH: "we can all take a little bit of EMF camp home with us for the years to come.. aka grass and spiders"

#emfcamp #emfcamp26

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

"Parallel story to a previous story with many of the same characters, concepts and scenes, but with a separate continuity" is, I think, a concept that make a lot more sense to authors than audiences.

Like, if you are an author, you get that sort of thing all the time, it's called the difference between your first draft and your third draft, but the audience, especially fans, tend to think of stories as being glimpses into this little pocket universe where the story actually happened and while ideas like parallel universes aren't impossible to grasp they do generally feel a lot more esoteric than a parallel story is generally supposed to come across as.

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

Phone battery is 90% charged after 4 days of carefully making sure it doesn't run out.

Can't be good for my Internet addiction though

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

Finally got around to posting two months' worth of photos to my blog. These are pics I've been posting on social media but haven't had the mental bandwidth to add to my website.

"Long-delayed summer 2026 photos"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/long-delayed-summer-2026-photos/

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

@prietschka Satya Nadella admitted in November that Microsoft’s got Nvidia rigs piled in warehouses waiting for power:

> The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it’s power and it’s sort of the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power. So, if you can’t do that, you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in. In fact, that is my problem today, right? It’s not a supply issue of chips. It’s actually the fact that I don’t have warm shells to plug into.

So the world knows and it doesn't matter!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/11/lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-turbines/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
prietschka ("Paul Rietschka") wrote:

I’ll add that one thing I’m personally waiting to see is some sort of revelation about where all these GPUs Nvidia has been selling have gone.

The capacity isn’t there, there’s quite literally nowhere to plug all these GPUs in. The compute demand isn’t there, as Meta and XAI selling their idle capacity indicates.

So…where are the gazillion GPUs Nvidia has sold?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
emf@emfcamp.org ("Electromagnetic Field") wrote:

If you're posting photos from EMF, please respect our photo policy: do not post identifiable photos of people without their consent.

We want EMF to be a space where people are safe to express themselves without fear of being identified on the internet. Please help us keep it this way.

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

Long-delayed summer 2026 photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/long-delayed-summer-2026-photos/

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

perfectly natural feelings

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2026/07/19

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

This answer shouldn't be accepted, it's completely wrong. clock_gettime takes few microseconds, not 4ns.

this matches my observations too. if clock_gettime weren't so bloody slow i wouldn't be trying to avoid it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

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

I think I seriously need to get involved in some makerspace/crafting group. And a repair cafe, I found out my repair skills are passable enough to do volunteering and I can perhaps learn more complex repairs

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Iris@scholar.social ("Iris van Rooij 💭") wrote:

Falsifying data in a statistical analysis is a fireable offence, but erasing women from the scientific record is business as usual

https://olivia.science/cryptogyny/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
katnjiapus@twoot.site ("[:babaKatt:] Fanged Menace :ironFront:​​:enbyCrossbow:​​:sparkles2:") wrote:

That we undervalue seamstress as a trade is quite frankly deeply enraging. The amount of math and engineering you have to do to construct garments, bags etc sure isn't "low-labour", and that's not accounting the actual sewing afterwards, which is a lifetime-skill itself to perfect.

Honestly fuck the patriarchy.

#sewing

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

There's also a kind of related point I want to make here. This idea that everything must be available and at peak performance 100% of the time comes from the same place as the idea of infinite economic growth. It disregards sustainability or the impact on the environment of chasing those goals.

Folks on Fedi talk about "degrowth", and usually they are talking about materialistic production. But this is just as much a part of that - when taking back infrastructure into communal hands, we're all also going to have to rethink our expectations. What 'performance' is actually reasonable to expect from our fellow creatures?

We can't do degrowth without rethinking our assumptions about how the world works, and who are doing its labour under what circumstances. And it may be less obvious, but that applies to communal infrastructure too. It is simply not sustainable to expect the same kind of uptime as from a tech company with infinite budget. You can certainly volunteer and *strive* for that sort of uptime, but that's because then you are the one doing the labour.

So, more bluntly: the tech folks among us are going to have to learn to live without that technical and aesthetic perfection of 100% uptime. It was never sustainable, the only reason it looked like it for a bit were huge bags of money, and it never *will* be sustainable. You'll have to figure out how to do your thing in such a way that the occasional downtime isn't a problem. The same way folks did only 20 years ago.

#degrowth #codeberg

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

Usually, combining camping, noise and people ends in some kind of disaster, usually of the "my autism rubs up against everyone else in precisely the wrong way" kind. I think it's safe to say that this didn't happen at EMF camp, I had a wonderful time, met a lot of great people and learned some incredibly valuable skills too.

Credit goes to the @emf people for making this happen, from carefully designing Null Sector to manage the noise, to arranging delicious food at the food stalls, to providing buses to and from the train station, to even keeping the toilets and showers clean. Seriously, you made the event work great, I cannot thank you enough.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bigzaphod ("Sean Heber") wrote:

The Sheep Detectives was an absolute delight. Wow. I did not expect such a great feel good family movie. I mean, I expected a fun silly thing, but this was almost at a Paddington-level of heart and soul. Imagine Clue or Knives Out but with sheep. It’s literally just that, but it’s a joy.

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

Finished packing, with time to spare. I wonder what I should do. Probably charge my stuff until a suitable bus comes along

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

Final challenge for the day: Rolling up the tent

#EMFCamp

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
irenej@drg.nz ("Garrick") wrote:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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

and they programmed in this language called C which was chock full of footguns and nobody could write it properly. it's hilarious

-- archaeologist from the future

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

half an hour into the week and I'm thinking Safari is worse than IE ever was 🫠

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

the more i read about what has gone wrong with people trusting the silly bot, the more i am glad i spent 3 days isolating the fuck out everything before flirting with the devil.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
alpenglow@mstdn.social ("Carrie (prev of Alpenglow)") wrote:

And here is the proof that the Hummingbird jacket actually survived this and I’m not full of shit. Viewed from the inside, you can see how @geekmomprojects used hot glue as a diffuser and how she wired the tiles. Amazing work, right?

I hope this was useful! Hand washing isn’t hard and doing a few garments doesn’t take much time.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
alpenglow@mstdn.social ("Carrie (prev of Alpenglow)") wrote:

First - take out the batteries. This is the most important step. Many circuit boards go thru a washing process after they are assembled, it is really no big deal to get unpowered circuit boards wet. And just wait a sec you “well akshually” mofos, I’m about to do the caveats. Components with holes in them like microphones, buzzers, and ambient pressure sensors are not OK to get wet. You can cover holes with kapton tape, or better yet, remove the entire circuit board they are on.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
alpenglow@mstdn.social ("Carrie (prev of Alpenglow)") wrote:

Did you just come back from a festival? Are your glowy clothes dirty and stinky as fuck? Let’s talk about washing clothes with LEDs in them! 🧵 And first, I’m gonna trigger people with this real actual photo of me fully submersing an LED jacket and scarf made by the immaculate @geekmomprojects in a washing machine. Please make my day and enter gasps and horrified comments below.