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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
theodoraward ("Theodora Ward") wrote:

@jalefkowit what if all 25 70mm theaters just combined their mm into one 1750mm theater. then the screen would be so big that everyone could watch

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal https://www.ecoportal.net/en/island-chile-floating-solar-panels/28686/ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

Update. "Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities. It’s an admission that lawyers for the research professors say is proof that the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2 billion in grants. And that’s a major development in a lawsuit filed by UC researchers against the Trump administration to permanently get their grants back."
https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
https://xkcd.com/3275/

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

(yes of course it's incredibly fast, it's got to satisfy me)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Obvious in retrospect, but it would have saved hours of fiddling if I'd realised tailscale was still up on one of the hosts I was trying to drag race with iperf3. Turns out some new networking gear *is* working great! 2.5GbE FTW.

What eventually set me on the right path was noticing the MTU getting negotiated well below 1450 when passing `--verbose`

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

it was Dijkstra, who i mostly quite like. it's a shame, but as @chrisvest notes, "Dijkstra would not have liked this".

were he reviewing my code, he would have to settle for the idealised design surface being quite small and simple with complication only for performance engineering.

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

wenn man bei der lufthansa nen zug bucht, is das dann nen zugvogel?

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

was it knuth who disliked goto intensely? well i dislike knuth anyway.

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

you know the code is getting interesting when you pull out the gotos

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cato@chaosfurs.social ("Cato, registered LynxⓁ") wrote:

Hey there, cutie! There's space on here for two, you know, why don't you join me~ :neofox_wink_blep:

I had an amazing time at Purple Clouds this weekend. Had a little photoshoot with my friend Hikaru, so expect some more pictures soon :3

🐱 Cato
📸 HikaruWusky https://bsky.app/profile/hikaruwusky.bsky.social
🪡 Umi
📅 2026-07-18
📍 Purple Clouds Festival, Hude, Germany

#furry #fursuit

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

Today's good advice that worked out well: "First make the change easy (this may be hard), then make the easy change."

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

in which we learn james may quite likes squash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjRYajWI6RI

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Now it's been trying to fit "are you screamin' into the void" to Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years". What the heck, brain. What sort of background process are you running?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jaelisp@lgbtqia.space ("Jaelyn 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

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

God I can sink a lot of time into Mastodon if I'm not careful. See ya!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC #News #Entertainment #Arts City celebrates Ozzy Day on anniversary of death https://w.st/N2Weq

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
julie@merida.hair ("Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"Can you designate someone to strike the rubber chicken?" is a sentence I just said to my stage manager.

#CommunityTheater

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

sometimes @CARROT is too accurate

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I will hear a leftist say "if it had not been for tikTok ..." or "if it had not been for twitter ... " these huge social movements like Black Lives Matter would have never been possible. There would have been, they say, a media black out.

And they are correct. And yet, I still detect little sense of urgency or interest from the same people in educating and promoting social media that we can control like the fediverse.

The microphone can be unplugged the cameras cut off at any moment.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

looks like the codeberg resolution banning vibecoded projects passed! democracy in action!

I know being in software is just so exhausting right now, but I'm taking this as a reminder that we don't have to constantly be on the defensive and caught up into endless arguments

friends, if you're exhausted by arguing with boosters, please consider just stopping that completely once you realize what's happening and changing gears to work with people you've already identified as allies; there is so much work we still need to do if we are going to preserve "software that actually works and can be understood" in the coming years

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
amras@friendmaterial.lgbt ("Sarma / Amras") wrote:

After we played, @jutekja shared this wonderful comment: Molly House is a non-capitalist board game. It does not stop you from optimizing your play, but it refuses to celebrate optimization. And it's very rare and special in that respect.

Many games with anticapitalist aesthetics struggle with that. A lot of the core systems that designers work with ultimately encourage players to seek growth, efficiency, and competition - regardless of the eco, anarchist, or communal setting and goals presented.

There is (I'm told) a developing field in game design to turn that around. I've seen a few games at the forefront of that movement, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it develop.
(3/3)

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
endonend@social.lol ("Jason") wrote:

Posted this yesterday, but I guess my echofeed isn’t set up correctly. 😂

Sorry, the open web is political
https://endonend.org/blog/2026/sorry-the-open-web-is-political/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
janamarie@mystical.garden ("Jana") wrote:

had a fantastic time at #emfcamp, seeing so many lovely people, raving at nullsector and being slow-cooked in the heat :D I of course brought the infrared camera, all the vibrant colours of emf are gone through it's lens. Even the gold member lounge turned silver :D #emf2026 #infrared

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
danderson@hachyderm.io ("Dave Anderson") wrote:

I enjoy that in Balatro, the score is a float, so with a sufficiently broken setup you can score NaN. Furthermore, with a broken enough setup you can keep playing rounds until the score you have to hit is also NaN. At which point you must lose, because NaN != NaN. I just find it funny that two arguably bugs combine into forcing even the stupidest possible run to end.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Greg@social.coop wrote:

My oldest is using the free brilliant.org (math and such) service but I guess it's going well and my partner suggested we get a real/paid account for him. It's $20/mo!

But, this is one of those services that flood youtube with sponsorship codes ("visit brilliant.com/whatever for 30% off!" or whatever).

Does anyone have a good and reputable youtuber/"content creator" who has an active discount code I should use?

:boosts_appreciated:

EDIT: So far Veritasium has one for 20% off which I'll used this evening with my kid to sign up unless someone recommends a better discount and/or person to get the referral reward.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
danielcornell ("Dan Cornell") wrote:

So if today's hype cycle is to be believed, some OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face

Cool. Cool

I'm just curious - which OpenAI execs are going to have their lives ruined and go to jail for this?

Asking for Aaron Swartz

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

@cwebber If our motivations for building these machines are still rooted in ambitions to have perfectly compliant slaves and to undermine labor, and if these machines are still let loose on unsuspecting people as substitutes for supports and relationships they need from other humans, and if these machines are still tools for spreading misinformation and deep fakes "at scale", then no. I mean, you can wave the wand, but those problems will remain.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan") wrote:

This is part sub-toot, part observation and part my own experience...

I've found Mastodon to be a really vibrant, exciting, engaging, diverse and inspirational platform. BUT, if a person doesn't interact with others on here, they will miss out on a lot!

It's definitely the best platform I've been a part of, because of the people here, the tools available, and the structure of the fediverse as a whole.

But... you DO need to engage to get the best experience.

Disclaimer: This is all just IMO of course

#Mastodon

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jtruk ("James / jtruk / crow") wrote:

I made some #Strudel starter cards to tuck around our #emfCamp EMOM tent.

They're intended to give people a starting point for play, offering a spoonful of inspiration without getting too bogged down in detail.

Feedback welcome and I can host the lot (12 of them so far) somewhere if anyone would like to download them for use or to improve them [as long as you share updates back!]

#livecoding #algorave