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

a delightful page about the computers in jurassic park https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic%5Fpark%5Fcomputers/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rahmstorf@fediscience.org ("Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf") wrote:

Holiday in the climate emergency.
No that’s not AI or edited, it is a photo I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France.
Ash is raining from the sky.
What future will this boy grow up in?
It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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

Thanks for continuing to care about things, fedi. I'm glad to be part of a space that, despite all the apathy of the world, wants to be part of shaping towards something better.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
lindasartini@mastodon.uno ("Linda Sartini") wrote:

Audio on, if you like.
Have a nice #caturday
#catsofmastodon

Attachments:

• video: Una gatta tricolore a pelo semi lungo si rotola sul pavimento di legno con dei piccoli "miao"

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

Urg. I don't want to use some companies anymore but feel locked in. Not just the regulars like Google, apple or Microsoft. There mostly replaceable-ish. But fucking visa/Mastercard just unavoidable. I feel like I'm going to be forced to go into crypto one of these days just cuz I draw boobs and the establishment said no more income for you...

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

today I am going to try to do something on a computer that brings me joy. I don't know what it is yet

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

Some good (if terrifying for me) news: Arca is now in early access. That's right: now you can buy access to my notes on statistics and engineering fundamentals, exercises and access to a community of fellow students where you can ask questions, comment on others' questions and get them answered by me. It's a great opportunity to learn something that will make you better at basically everything you do from someone cool. Take a look!

https://deadsimpletech.com/arca

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

"Don't Take the Black Pill" by @andrewrk https://youtu.be/zLZwpH5lCD4

One of the best talks I have ever seen. Please watch it.

An antidote to all the despair about the world of computing I'm sure we all feel.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

@andrewrk, thank you for this powerful talk.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

this is a really fun talk
https://youtu.be/zLZwpH5lCD4

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

Finally wrote up my EMFCamp learnings! I took about a day for the first draft then procrastinated for the rest of the time haha

https://theweeklymiscellaneous.co.uk/posts/2026/07/things-i-learned-at-emfcamp/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hywan@floss.social ("Ivan Enderlin 🦀") wrote:

AI in Linux, https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/.

Can’t agree more.

#linux #ai #llm

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crashtestdev@woof.tech ("Rhii Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Update, had some sleep, feeling a lot better, I really did just have to get all that stuff off my chest

In regards to the plastic, I think in my head it's much worse than it actually is, if I take my glasses off or take a cursory look, I can't see it, however just the sheer number of hours I have spent around it means I know what I'm looking for, just like when a scratch appears on the back of your hand

I appreciate the suggestions on fixing the plastic, maybe "gouges" isn't the best word, deepish scratches at best, for which there isn't really a fix that wont just make it worse, main thing is to just scowling pad over it to remove any sharp bits which cast shadows and clean out any debris which makes it more obvious

The small parts that are missing can be remade myself pretty easily, there a guy selling 3d printed mast top grommets for like £6 a pair

Motor thing is probably nothing, it pulls me along just fine and the current draw also looks a-ok, just sometimes there's a very high pitched (almost inaudible), not-loud ringing which seems to be some resonance somewhere

The brakes work OK, the disk brakes are a retrofit for safety reasons so the disk and calliper are modern off the shelf parts, and they're still usable, the disk just rubs a little on each rotation

All that said, after a night full of work, the C5 will be Notts Pride today, at their 98% best

And we will have a new adventure arriving too :blobfoxaww:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crashtestdev@woof.tech ("Rhii Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Ok I've been trying to not let this get to me but this is ridiculous

Did anyone else with a vehicle at #emfcamp get approached by a kid asking for a go claiming that they were trying to have a go on every vehicle at EMF?

They asked for a go on the C5 promising they'd be very short, to the end of the road and back, so I let them, thankfully I had the foresight to turn off the power and just let it be pedal powered

They got to the end of the road and continued, so I followed and lost them, and couldn't find them for 15 minutes when it turned back up at the Nottinghack village, they were very meek about where they had been and I just told them off, they smiled and asked if they could have another go and ofc that was a no

Fortunately for them, I didn't notice that the break assembly was LYING ON THE FUCKING FLOOR, being dragged by the cable, on closer inspection it has obviously been flipped and crashed on to it's left side with gouges out of the plastic body (these CANNOT BE REPAIRED)

I have just spent the night servicing it, and sigh, yeah, damage all down the left hand side, left rear wheel cover is chewed up when it was pretty pristine, break disk is buckled (thankfully this is a retrofit, but still, how tf do you do that) bits are missing (rear mast grommets and battery holder clip) and there's an issue with the motor I am still tracking down

This really made me reach my limit, does anyone know this kid? I want to at least get them reported to EMF

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

That's cool, Buttondown lets me copy my Markdown posts into the newsletter interface

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mainec@fromm.social ("MaineC") wrote:

Tom Lehrer, in lyrics from "Wernher von Braun":

"Once the rockets are up,
who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,"
says Wernher von Braun.

From: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun

Sharing for no particular reason at all just now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgerard@awful.systems ("David Gerard") wrote:

Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

Here's a pattern that keeps happening:

1. Malignant actors within or entering a community cause problems for some of the people there.
2. The victims talk about it, because they need to, and have a right to. Sometimes they put up practical boundaries to defend themselves. They certainly make it clear who's victimizing them.
3. The original malignant actors pull a DARVO and accuse their own victims of "dividing the community."

This depends entirely on a credulous public, or at least that community having room for a credulous mainstream inside of it. If you have any context, if you read any of the victims' accounts, the sham is clear for what it is. But the flow of information on the internet can be like one of the big plague cities during the industrial revolution: there's always more people just showing up with no immune response.

I could have posted this any time in the last decade and it would apply to a different thing, but today I'm thinking about some bad takes I've seen about Codeberg.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hyblon@vivaldi.net ("Hyblon :cv_yellow:") wrote:

Social media should act strictly as a discovery layer, a billboard or an asynchronous notification system to signal your work and share quick thoughts.
The real, durable content should always live on your own site/blog, built on open standards, simple HTML, and independent infrastructure.
Stop trying to turn what should be solved by a microblogging platform into an all-in-one intranet with complex bidirectional protocols.

The beauty of the web has always been its modularity: hyperlinks link things, blogs host content, and social feeds just point the way.

Own your data. Keep it simple.

#indieweb #web #fediverse #social

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

gnt: i think we're on track to it being under 2k lines of code. at least until i go cross platform.

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

(For those who weren’t around in 2008, Matt Taibbi didn’t always come across as the anti-woke crud he seems to be today. For a while he was one of the few journalists who seemed to dare tackle Wall Street and financial corruption head on and this caused many to look past the, now obvious in hindsight, misogyny and dubious politics)

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

Weekend confession time:

One of the reasons why I’m extra sceptical of the various enthusiastic “AI” critics who manage somehow to sound vociferously critical of “AI” without actually criticising the tech itself and somehow remain eternally ignorant of the many contributions women (and specifically women) have made to the field of “AI” and “AI” criticism, is I keep asking myself:

Which these verbiage lovers will turn out to be the Matt Taibbi of “AI” critics?

Boosted by jwz:
joewo ("JoeWo") wrote:

YOU CAN FIGHT ICE BY DELAYING THEIR WORLD AT EVERY TURN.
FASCISTS WANT COMPLACENCY.
DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM.
IT IS YOUR RIGHT
TO MAKE “MISTAKES”

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

and yes, "become my own blood boy", let's just savor that one for a moment in all its horror

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a
loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/post/3mrgsns6ak72y

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

“Who Is Ed-Tech For?”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/who-is-ed-tech-for/

> But here, as with so much of ed-tech (and arguably almost all of “AI”), we can see that this effort really only works for the company itself.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Coding agents could be incredible if they respected the workflow of people who actually write software.

"Look! I changed 83 files in 7 minutes!"

Yes. That's the problem.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gwenthefops@transfem.social ("Gwen the writing Fops :therian: :neofox_floof:") wrote:

By doing cowculations

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

In my humble opinion, many instances of ‘writer’s block’ are in fact ADHD or autistic burnout. Writing as a job is more forgiving of neurodivergence than most, so many writers are basically subsisting on caffeine and anxiety until they hit a brick wall and their executive function collapses

Which would mean that reading up on neurodivergent burnout is more likely to help get over a writer’s block than the fluff you find in books or blogs on creativity

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116922023726974278

Well, I think the first week went well: we officially have twelve paying customers and very positive feedback, such as the following:

...Iris has coached me in the skills to properly reason out my claims, giving me the confidence to go fight these battles, armed with a vocabulary of rigour. You're not just buying maths tutoring - you're buying professional self-esteem, grounded in the fact that you do *really* know what you're talking about.