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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

VOD available if anyone missed it and would like to see me mumble through fixing some tests https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2828105696

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

@ChrisWere @ozoned

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
BBCNews@flipboard.com ("BBC News") wrote:

Several injured at Berlin Pride after reports vehicle drove into crowd, police say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqzylz3zno?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-BBCNews

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I'm so glad we managed to do this, big thanks to @ozoned for joining us on the show:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/kDgyN1ozCf7GAJedKDkb2R

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)") wrote:

Being a product tester is a tough job :neocat_cry:

#CatsWithJobs

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

MORE IMPORTANTLY, the Humble Bundle sale we just did raised over $38,500 for @wckitchen. If you bought one of these bundles, thank you! You did some good in the world.

(Plus my own cut will be going to the Scalzi Family Foundation, which we use to help fund local organizations, give artist/creative grants, and other useful stuff. So thank you for that, too!)

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

Two years ago I wrote about my sales and how these things are difficult to estimate because sales come from all over the place and they're not all tracked the same way. I'm thinking about it at the moment because thanks to the Humble Bundle sale which just concluded, I sold 100k - 200k of my books in three weeks, not one of which will show up on Bookscan or bestseller lists. Publishing! Sales! It's confusing!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/30/some-number-crunching-on-career-sales-2024/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

Spaceballs (1987) with Ozoned

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/kDgyN1ozCf7GAJedKDkb2R

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

I will however note that this is a _legalistic_ and not necessarily a moral argument. We've always had a complicated relationship between the moral implications of sharing freely in a commons and the legal protections we have using copyright law. I feel like at some point, we stopped paying attention to that and started making just the legal argument.

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

So HuggingFace scraping GitHub is a thing.

"But it's all open source, right?"

No, no it's not. For example, https://github.com/aredridel/mulm does not give them the right to copy it for commercial purposes.

Software, however much we tend to think of it that way, has no "Public? Yes/no" bit.

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

i admit i am struggling to see why anybody would want to build rust for Windows NT 3.5

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

the jokes are only going to get more unhinged tonight

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

when you fuck up jailbreaking a device, call that getting down with the brickness.

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

sober noodles may not be served with alcohol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

Q: Why is 777 a lucky number?
A: It means a hacker can read and write arbitrary files.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

Alice and Bob

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

With these self driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before there's a country song about how even your truck left you.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social wrote:

#Cuba - #Solarpowered #tricycles help #Cubans navigate #FuelShortages and blockades

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
Updated 4:38 PM UTC, July 10, 2026

HAVANA (AP) — "Cuba’s iconic vintage cars have all but disappeared and in their place, small electric tricycles — most of them made in China — have become the primary means of transportation for hundreds of thousands of Cubans grappling with a prolonged fuel crisis.
These are no ordinary electric tricycles — many Cubans have outfitted them with #SolarPanels, allowing the vehicles to recharge without relying on the island nation’s strained power grid.

"The three-wheelers are a far cry from the old-timers that only a year ago cruised the streets spewing clouds of black smoke.

" 'This is how people get around now,' said 40-year-old Liecer de la Cruz, who owns one of these vehicles.

"The tricycles, with a cost between $2,000 and $4,000, are used to transport goods and serve fixed routes once covered by buses.

"While their price is out of reach for most Cubans, many have sold their older gasoline-powered cars to buy the tricycles. Others got them from relatives abroad, where they are generally cheaper, and some small-business owners even used their profits to invest in them, expecting to recoup the cost."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-fuel-crisis-electric-tricycles-fa75dc2aca5b78dac90b1e86c7c762b1

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/arhCA

#SolarPunkSunday #PostOil #SolarBikes #SolarTrikes #BikeTooter #USPol #WorldPol #USBlockade

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They've Lost https://futurism.com/space/spacex-investors-elon-musk-fanboys-meltdown-losses-stock

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

TFW you get to use a 1950s survey scope to pin azimuth for true north on an incoming Sundial.

A bit of fun, this Wild Heerbrug T3 (yes, that's its name) #canada government scope was donated to #yorkuniversity in 1980s, when the original York Sundial still existed.

Now we're getting a BIG Sundial and using a bit of the 50s from the 80s to align azimuth.

The location is awesomely aligned with @AllanICarswellObservatory for likely obvious reasons 😀 #astronomy #Astrodon #science #sundialsunday

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sludge@journa.host ("Sludge") wrote:

New: James Carville, who has been calling to purge the left wing of the Democratic Party, was a senior advisor to a lobbying shop that was paid more than half a million dollars by a crypto industry group as crypto money poured in to knock out progressives.

https://readsludge.com/2026/07/25/carvilles-war-on-the-democratic-left-is-funded-by-centrist-billionaires/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andresmh@hci.social ("Andrés Monroy-Hernández") wrote:

During my sabbatical, I’m volunteering in the community-run internet provider for our remote island. One of the perks: going on another volunteer’s boat this morning to another island where we have an antenna that connects us to fiber to the mainland. Check out a news article about the org from 11 years ago and still running strong. In an era of centralization, I love the idea of communities running their own infrastructure 🙌🏽 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Just so you know, using an AI notetaker during a meeting without priorly asking for consent from all participants before starting it breaches many if not most privacy laws around the world.

In certain cases, it can even breach two-party consent laws, and be a criminal act.

Ideally, never use these privacy-invasive tools ever. But if you do use them, you must ask for everyone's consent first, and respect their choice fully if they refuse to be recorded.

#Privacy #AInotetakers #NoAI

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

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

petition to rename trees, branches and leaves to avoid clashes with computer science terminology.

Boosted by fribbledom ("muesli"):
bashbunni wrote:

what are some of your favourite charities/non-profits?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Unicode would be considered a terrible standard if it wasn't almost entirely dedicated to cleaning up everyone else's mess.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
GlitchEngine ("Lix") wrote:

The PCB order is in! The idea is that this board will sit in the space on the back of the tildagon where the battery used to go. Now I just have to wait for the good folks at JLCPCB to do their thing...
#tildagon_afterlife #emfcamp

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

This is your irregular reminder to empty your crumb tray and clean your lint trap.