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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tuxilio@toot.teckids.org ("Tuxilio 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

> Code generated by generative AI is not accepted in SuperTuxKart. Any code submission produced with this method will be rejected.

nice #SuperTuxKart

(from https://supertuxkart.net/How%5Fto%5Fcontribute%5Fcode)

#stk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

this book on Fungal Machines look like it will be of interest to folks here:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38336-6

do not @ me about the publisher

#FungalMachines #mushrooms #sensing

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

there was a good discount on chicken at the supermarket if i could cook it today.

anyway, chicken tikka is now marinading in the fridge 🥰

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

The world needs more hackerspaces! I want to help with that. Specifically, in the little slice of Scotland I call home.

I love the existing spaces in Glasgow and Edinburgh, but I know some incredible hackers, makers, and creators who aren't close enough to make those places home.

So, if you know anyone who happens to live in/around the south west coast of Scotland, could you please share this survey with them?

https://tally.so/r/gDxoAl

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of bullshit you are and then you run to daddy Trump saying to stop these bad Chinese models from entering our market.

The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.

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

why yes, since you mention it, my PVC gluing technique *could* be a touch less sloppy.

#HamRadio #Antenna

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

just had my elderly laptop turn off while listening to a podcast.

from ~2/3 battery. to not even finish a single podcast episode.

these are not the original batteries, they're chinese replacements. they've also gotten spicy and will need replacing when i can spare the money.

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

Honestly I find alt text a pretty neat writing exercise, "here is an image (or video); try to paint a suitable picture with words"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
luis_in_brief@social.coop ("Luis Villa") wrote:

Me during the “smart contracts” craze: guys, keeping track of what contract you signed is not the hard part

Tesla: hold my bible

https://electrek.co/2026/07/23/tesla-solar-lease-contract-book-of-enoch/

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

I put a lot of thought into getting descriptive Alt Text and occasionally add an in-joke or two. I wonder if anyone notices

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
nein@chaos.social wrote:

USB-C is hard! (this conversation just happened between @janamarie and @fionafokus - more or less)

Attachments:

• video: Dimitri finds out meme with following captions: D=Dimitri, R=Reporter D: I have a problem with my microcontroller R: What is it? D: Nothing works... R: I have a degree in electrical engineering D:I cannot program it. D: And the debugger shows weird errors R: Did you check your power supply? D: Yes, I tried 3 different USB-C cables D: so it cannot be a power problem D: USB-C makes power supply so hard D: PD negotiation is hard D: the specification is hundreds of pages D: the USB consortium is making it hard for me R: Did you hear of USB-A? D: what? R: of USB-A? D: USB-A? R: USB-A always delivers power! D dances happily

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bachimusprime@estradiol.city ("Bachimus") wrote:

STOP USING GENDERED LANGUAGE!!!!! CALL IT GERMXN!!!!!!!!!! /j

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

The contract for my first book had a thing in it called an 'on time completion bonus'. This seemed like a weird thing: surely the contract delivery date is the expected date? A bonus for delivering early made sense, but a bonus for 'meets expectations' seemed strange.

In the end, I submitted the first draft manuscript a couple of weeks before the deadline. My editor had, apparently, been completely unaware until that point that writing a book in less time than you said it would take was a thing that authors could do.

I understood Douglas Adam's comment about deadlines a lot more after that.

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

Here comes another little monster with a quarter of my genome…just more happy news at last.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/24/grandpa3/

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

i assume my problem here is i'm not a brazen liar, but i still find it difficult to believe anybody is prepared to stand there and honestly say they got a bot to rewrite a project in rust to improve quality.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jackdaniel@functional.cafe ("Daniel Kochmański") wrote:

"Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled" by @cwebber

Very thoughtful and insightful. I like the term "vibe bobsled :). The voting machine excerpt is especially persuasive.

edit: and the link!
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

U HAVE TO SEND.. I HAVE TO ASK.. AND WE BOTH GET LAUGHED AT. ACK2 BTW

Area: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Type: Airbus A320
A: #a4541207c85
F: #f4151fbf9e4

#acars #vdlm2

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

you are an expert tokenmaxxer with 20 years of tokenmaxxing experience. tokenmaxx like there's no tomorrow. make no mistakes.

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

agentic tokenmaxxing will let you tokenmaxx like never before. simply instruct your agent to tokenmaxx and enjoy the bill

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie ("Eugene McParland 🇺🇦") wrote:

The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.

🖊️ Timothy Pratt

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
austinkocher ("Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎") wrote:

The ACLU did something it never has before. It says ICE is too broken to fix and should be replaced, after documenting 1,200 enforcement incidents across eight states. My conversation with the authors. Watch or listen: https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/they-are-going-to-kill-somebody-aclu

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116974840056295473

Also available as video on PeerTube:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/23g3vAkBsgQM1svfo3hhRD

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

One of my worst speech technology nightmares has been happening right in my own city! In the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @alex and I dig into it:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19535278-state-of-emergency-2026-06-29

Attachments:

• video: Audiogram with Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 logo, title “State of Emergency” and subtitle “The US health care system has issues, but ‘AI’ won’t solve them” Captions: Alex: So the thing that is really upsetting to me is framing this around an aging element. Viewing emergency medicine only through the realm of aging, to me, signals an undeserving health care population as well, because many of the people that do utilize emergency help are people who are unhoused, people who are underinsured, people that really have no other way of accessing medical care. For me, it's really signaling, you don't really understand who is coming into emergency departments, right? Emily: Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. And the fact that they're using these structural problems with our health care system, like, therefore we have to look to this kind of solution. It's like, no, actually, we could actually fund health insurance for everybody in the country. There are structural things we could do that would address the problem. But all of that is completely off stage here. It's like, "Look, there's a crisis! So therefore... LLM?"

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

Looks like this is very much the approach Codeberg will take:

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19923979

Codeberg don't have the resources to be cops so they seem to be focused on dealing with the most scammy projects, while if a project is obviously for trans healthcare that is much less likely to be affected

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

I'm a Codeberg member so I wonder how setting up proposals works

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

Re Codeberg cryptocurrency ban (and the one legitimate use-case of crypto which is for trans people to get DIY healthcare when it's otherwise inaccessible)

The exact wording of the terms-of-service is Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects, which to me implies that the reputational harm is the key issue with crypto projects.

Sourcehut have an explicit escape clause for their terms-of-service ban in the blogpost announcing the change:

We will exercise discretion when applying this rule. If you believe that your use-case for cryptocurrency or blockchain is not plagued by these social problems, you may ask for permission to host it on SourceHut, or appeal its removal, by contacting support.

Perhaps Codeberg could have a similar "escape hatch". Crypto projects are banned but if you can prove to the maintainers that you're doing it for trans healthcare purposes and not grifting then they'll let you keep the project online

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rahix@chaos.social wrote:

I have written down all that I know about designing functional mechanical parts for 3d-printing. Took two years, but I finally managed to finish it... Please let me know what you think!

https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/

#3dprinting @3dprinting #dfm #DesignForManufacturing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Other people's actions can be inspiring!

Someone replied to my toot about someone else's blogpost, to complain about a typo and how the author should have used a spellchecker.

This inspired me to block them.

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

@brib Absolutely. I've been thinking along the same lines lately. Between writing and coding, I've managed to build a career working from home (every time I've had a job that required working from the office I've basically collapsed mentally after 2-3 years) and now both are being threatened. What accessibility benefits might be had from the tech are not worth the harm it does to others

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

@baldur

Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of something...

Something that isn't talked about enough in the AI and disability discussion is how many creative careers (and software development too) were taken up by neurodivergent people who could take advantage of the flexible hours and work from home opportunities. These are often quite important accessibility needs that aren't readily imparted by employers.

Nowadays if someone wants a piece of work flexibly and via a computer, they can prompt a chatbot for a "good enough" result.

The result of this is while some disabled people are talking about AI's accessibility potential (e.g. for describing images), other disabled people (including myself!) are finding themselves in an extremely precarious position thanks to AI displacement