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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
imaginaryuncle@masto.nu ("Liz") wrote:

Hi! I’m new here. I’ve tried Mastodon a couple times but maybe third time’s the charm! I have become increasingly disillusioned by mainstream social media and I’m searching for ways to connect with other people outside of an algorithm.

I teach high school English and I read a lot. Currently at book 92 of a read around the world project. I was a teen in the 90s and still trying to keep my grunge phase alive. I love art and film too.

Hope to meet some likeminded people!

#introduction

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ljwrites@writeout.ink ("L.J., romantic toiler") wrote:

For the first time, researchers have identified an ancient #Maya mathematician by name after decoding a painted wall text from the archaeological site of Xultun in northeastern #Guatemala. The finding links a mathematical formula to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax, giving historians the first direct evidence of a Classic Maya scholar claiming credit for scientific work.

– Dario Radley, First named Maya mathematician identified from 1,200-year-old wall inscription in Guatemala https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/first-named-maya-mathematician-guatemala/

#mathematics #astronomy #history #archaeology #indigenous

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

i told them nah, i'm a smoker, i got to be in back. it probably saved my life

see, smoking might save your life!

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
lmorchard@masto.hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Like, "Tim Leatherman" sounds like "John Mastodon" to me

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

There's apparently scammers going round pretending to be Mastodon admins, demanding people "verify their identity".

Do not click on their links, do not give them any info. It is a scam. Genuine Mastodon server admins never demand verification like this.

Here's a guide to how to recognise and avoid various kinds of scams on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

(Thanks to @amministratore for providing warning about the latest wave of scam posts.)

#FediTips

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Been a while since I've enjoyed a Minecraft video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-fZcfMHnE

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

@enchantedsleeper @zigg Oh I don't have to *imagine* endless reply guys

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

My real goal is to develop advancements in AI technology so I can ask people to explain to me how it works. Better yet I can ask it to explain that to me itself

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

RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/116970541472099677

In case you're trying to fix your site, it just got a lot easier:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/focusgroup/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

god so many web designers have never tried to navigate their website with the tab key and it shows

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

my ratio of blocking overzealous critics who take AI discussions as an opportunity to be gleefully cruel to blocking Enthusiasts who are doing a lot of bad-faith time-wasting is quite low but it sure isn’t zero

Boosted by jwz:
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

HIGHLY ISOLATED WITH GUARDRAILS

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

So this keeps happening, and I think we need to talk about it:

> them: React manages state in our app.
>
> me: It does? Then what are <various_libraries> for?
>
> them: Oh, those manage state.

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/

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Boosted by jwz:
DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

The Embarcadero, 1991
Embarcadero Freeway Demolition, view northerly, demolition in progress, the former stub end and second deck removed
John Holtzclaw photographed the demolition in detail over the months it took. more here : https://sfmemory.org/search/index.php?q=%22Embarcadero+Freeway+Demolition%22&%5Fds=1&bn=0&bs=50&so0=contains&so1=contains #sfmemory #sfhistory

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

Been sitting with this old gem from Ze Frank as I figure out how to go from 0 to 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL%5Fg

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Our first ever omg.lol Office Hours session is today (or, uh, tomorrow... timezones, lol)! I've added a calendar feed that you can subscribe to in your calendar app, and I’ve also updated the Office Hours page with the full schedule and links to relevant stuff: https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

See you there!

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

Slopfree Software Index Announcement

Proud to announce that @notimetoplay will be helping me maintain the project and merging in all the awesome contributions you have submitted over the past few months! Please give them a big thank-you for their help!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
allisonchinart@mastodon.art ("Allisonchinart") wrote:

Above Ancient Seas

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

Cosmic Inflation

YES IT HAPPENED AFTER THE BIG BANG GET IT RIGHT YOU NERDS

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hankgreen/post/DbJDCl0DiBU

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Periodic reminder that bad arguments UNDERMINE your point.

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

What if they made a movie about climate change, and only let Republicans speak?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/23/conservatives-gimmicky-title-bad-movie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FxeLpABGJe4

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

supercooled large droplets - about the thickness of a human hair

"large" my ass 😂

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://macavity.cat/@elisehuard/116969487897666732

Unique engineer on the market klaxxon. You will not regret hiring Elise. Thank me later.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elisehuard@macavity.cat ("Elise Huard") wrote:

Hi, I’m a seasoned engineer with 25 years of experience. I’ve got experience in data engineering with high volumes of data, some ML, lots of AWS and IaC,some security.
I’m used to managing and communicating choices and trade offs to implement customer focused solutions, and running them in production.
(FWIW I also sew and grow vegetables)

I’d like to work for a company looking to make a positive environmental impact on the world.

Based around Bath/Bristol or remote #fedihired #mastohire

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

If this press release is true, then if I was a hacker who made their money by pwning billion dollar shitshow startups, what I would know is
A) huggingface has no idea what they are doing and is a rich target
B) they cannot respond to threats, the best they can do is ask an LLM to fix it, and even multiple days later are still issuing truly pitiful patches that dance around the vuln
C) since they will just ask GLM 5.2 to fix it, I'll just pre-rehearse all my prompt injections with GLM 5.2 until they stick, and then in my next attack litter the logs with injections and PWN THE WHOLE IR TEAM TOO

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

oh? you want to hate on rsync guy, who has done nothing but work on free things for free? maybe you forget that he can do anything he likes with his code and software. dont like it, fork it. [Codeberg decides AI isn't welcome] wait. stop. please. you can't do this. this is entropy discrimination.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

Weird how a lot of people who played the "but it's free software worked on for free. why do you hate freedom" card about rsync are now weeping and crying that Codeberg made a decision they don't like. Why do you guys hate freedom?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

"An insecure sandbox is not a demonstration of cyberprowess."

-Loren Kohnfelder (on Openai's model "escaping containment" and attacking Hugging Face's servers)
https://designingsecuresoftware.com/writings/commonplace/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
octonion@tech.lgbt ("Popstar Tourist") wrote:

@cwebber As for the hypothetical you posed, I'm very interested in seeing the blog posts. Ultimately though the questions I'm interested in for any new technology under our present socioeconomic system is how would people use it, and how would governments/corporations/law enforcement/the military use it?

If the question were phrased as "would you prefer a better AI ecosystem that maintains tech oligarchs' power, or the current horrible ecosystem that's going to implode and take Oracle along with big chunks of Google and Microsoft with it?" the results might be clearer.

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

this also makes it hard to take seriously claims that the marginal cost of inference is not a serious contributor to the resource use of data centres. your program has polynomial running cost and people run it for hours on end