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

lol, just got the glare of death from elderly neighbour who needs some sort of zimmer frame on wheels thing to get around for bringing my bike upstairs.

wouldn't throw stones, you miserable old bitch.

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

Wave back to the grandchild!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/27/1-2-3-4-5-good-start/

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

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

If AI is so great, how come it can't stop me kneeing you in the balls?

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

social.lol has been updated to glitch-soc 4.6.4. Read what's new here: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.4 :mastodon:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
litchralee_v6@ipv6.social ("Litchralee_v6") wrote:

@soatok For the mathematicians: the Fast Furrier Transform

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Javvad/116992064518494840

When was the last Patch Tuesday that didn't ship breaking patches? :dumpster_fire_gif: :blobcatpopcorn: :dumpster_fire_gif:

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Bonfire@bonfire.cafe wrote:

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-community-matters-groups-as-the-next-step-for-the-fediverse/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Soatok, what made you want to be a furry and also work in cryptography?

Mersenne primes are a gateway drug to murr sins.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116992282565415400

If only there were some sort of header one could send to not be tracked.

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

So Roku's turning more evil, maybe I'll pick up a cheap Android TV box.

(the monkeys paw tightens)

Aaaaand the Android TV box has Chinese malware pre-installed, and they've disabled ADB.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

You know the summer heat dome has broken you when 78F at dawn feels downright chilly.

Edit: and then the sun broke through the mist and I’m suddenly melting again.

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

I need to chuck "responsible" and "sustainable" into the same bin of meaninglessness as "efficient" and "productive" considering the ways people use the terms unmoored from anything concrete. At least unmoored from anything publicly disclosed.

Most users of these words seem to want to extract the positive vibes from their use without having to hold themselves accountable to anything specific.

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

"AI" has introduced whole new ways to be incredibly rude and our social habits have not yet adapted.

If you're feeling frustrated by only having "that's unethical" as a thing to push back on AI, consider "that's incredibly rude what you just did". Not all use is rude, but start paying attention to it.

A concrete example from this morning: Calling someone with a somewhat odd communication style "AI". That should be a thing that is kind of a grave accusation to make, and should be treated as incredibly rude if it's not coming with the evidence that sort of gravity demands.

Another one is prompting LLMs for others, that I've mentioned before.

Another is citing the LLM as an authority. "Claude says..." as a way to win an argument on authoritative rather than factual grounds.

You CAN get good information out of an LLM. But it requires the epistemic humility to do, and if you're not bringing that, it's pretty damn rude. "I believe because Claude says..." is not terrible. At least then we're talking about your belief and not Claude as authority.

Adding a bot to a channel without a chance for the people in it to push back is incredibly rude.

(It's not lost on me that a lot of things that are normal in business to inflict unilaterally on teams are things I consider extremely rude.)

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

@cwebber People often advocate for the idea that software can be "done" or "finished" as in complete without the need for much changes going forward. Of course, there are other senses of "done" or "finished". Perhaps those apply for the compiler and web browser... 🤔

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

Oh, this is a fun category of spam I haven't seen before:

A load of big events sell their attendees list (and a bunch of the people who buy it are dodgy folks that sell it later). Some event-organising entitires will automatically pre-register you for related events so that their registered attendee lists look bigger. So, what I think has happened is:

1. Some event I went to caused me to be registered for some other event.
2. My name was on an attendee list.
3. My name, email address, and the 'fact' that I attended were bundled together in something sold to spammers.

So now the spam I get is personalised as 'We met at {event I didn't go to or even notice existed} and I enjoyed talking to you about {generic thing related to the topic of the event}'.

And that's probably a good way of getting a load of people to think that it's a real contact. I'd have believed it, if I'd actually been to the event, because I talk to hundreds of people at these events and it's entirely plausible that I had a long conversation with someone but can't remember their name.

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

the local HOA equivalent have sent another newsletter. they're very upset about bicycles being transported in lifts this month.

you're right, we should ban anything that isn't carried on your person in lifts. we can start with the prams and pushchairs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

If you host a #curl download from before curl 7.20.0 (Feb 2010), we no longer link to it from the official curl download site, even if it was the last of its kind. Like IRIX, Tru64, UnixWare etc...

https://curl.se/download.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

"She then encouraged those around the alleged aggressor to identify them, saying: “I need you guys to be tattletales – who’s the fucking freak that’s hurting everybody? Point them out.”

People came to see the band, not deal with some asshole who can't operate in a social setting.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-courtney-laplante-get-violent-fucker-thrown-out-of-spiritbox-show-3959076

#CourtneyLaPlante #LiveMusic #ToxicMasculinity

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

I was doing some post upgrade maintenance and found out I've been upgrading this machine since Fedora 20. At least the disk image is that old. It's transitioned from one storage medium to another and had the surrounding computer changed. (The computer is a refurb, so it's only two years newer than the disk image.) That's a respectable run.

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

> P.S. Anthropic’s C compiler and Cursor’s FastRender web browser haven’t had any commits for months.

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

How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html

It seems like if the initial token costs are to believed, the cost is approaching $1m USD, but it's likely, as the article says, that there were a lot of non-reported costs being spent from Anthropic helping the project along and continuous CI/CD.

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

RE: https://types.pl/@jpoiret/116990665833370582

I swear that prominent mathematicians are falling all over themselves to make themselves look very bad indeed to anyone who's thought about it for longer than 5 seconds.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:

Cucumber season has begun - I picked some from one branch today :) #gardening

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

This is the real lesson one could take from the way that the Ukrainians have defended their country. On paper Russia has more troops, more bombs, more power and in the minds of some people should easily win.

Instead the war has dragged on for years.

By bombing the cities and homes of Ukrainians Russia creates the permission for retaliation. The US creates similar permissions. We are so ignorant.

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

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@stilgherrian/116991570547080027

surPRISE

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
junesim63@mstdn.social ("JuneSim63 💚") wrote:

“We’re fighting wars,” Trump said earlier this year. “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare … We have to take care of one thing: military protection.” For what? A war that the US itself launched, that nobody asked for, that has no defensive features at all, and which is run by a frat house of bullies and lickspittles"

#USPolitics #Iran
He’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/27/commander-in-chief-of-chaos-victims-trump-wars

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

The Presbyopic Camera, The Myopic Object: New Perspectives in Contemporary and Digital Arts

https://video.blender.org/w/5taR7MYaKefnh4vSzonzqs

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

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/116991683933344852

I remember Blender fondly from the days of VRML, and it has done nothing but get better over time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:

Blender is a free open source animation suite for making 3D and 2D films, videos and effects. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @blender@video.blender.org

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)

You can also follow their non-video account at @Blender@mastodon.social

#FeaturedPeerTube #Blender #Blender3D #FOSS #Animation #PeerTube