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

I come from those distant days when the only calculator I'd use was RPN.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/28/its-been-ages-since-i-encountered-a-forth-joke/

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“You know, it’ll work better when it’s plugged in?”

“Huh?”

“You got a bad connection on the positive wire, there”

“Nah—wait, yeah. Shit, how did you know?”

“Ghost multimeter”

“Yawhatnow?”

“I was in this doco bar last week…”

“A which bar? You do know words mean things?”

“No witch bars near here; this was a documentary bar. You know what a sports bar is?”

“Well, you wouldn’t find me in one but yeah”

“Doc bar shows science documentaries”

“Fuck off”

“Trust me, you’ll love it. Anyway there was this film of declassified 1950s nuclear tests. I always wondered how they got the data from all those instruments after the explosion”

“And?”

“Ghost oscilloscopes. Instrumentation on the astral plane with the probes made of consecrated silver, existing in both realms”

“Bullshit, Anyway your multimeter?”

“I Shifted one of mine, this ring is the probe. Lets me feel voltages within a meter or so”

“This rig can wait. You’re making me one, now”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

I just finished Emily Wilson's translation last night, and this morning I find her review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Perfect timing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/28/a-review-of-the-odyssey-i-can-respect/

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memoriesin8bit@mastodon.gamedev.place ("8Bit | :linux: :godot: :gog: :switch:") wrote:

#gamedev question:
Do you know when you work on a new feature but you see like 7 ways to implement it but none of them seems "right" and they all have exclusive pros and cons attached to them and you hesitate cause all of them are a lot of work so you don't wanna commit?

How do you deal with that or is it just me and I'm just uniquely bad at designing anything?

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Why npm Dependency Trees Are So Big

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/28/why-npm-dependency-trees-are-so-big.html

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

the first baby habaneros of the season have emerged!

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mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

@neatnik Q: what is omg.lol?
A:

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• gifv: Man in tux holding sub sandwich dancing with fireworks in background right behind him

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

has anyone documented the step by step process of how this particular swarm of parasitical wasps got into the C-level at the Wikimedia Foundation

and do they even have an end game, or are they just ideologically stupid

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ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:

So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...

I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/the-online-safety-act-implementation-and-impact/news/217266/online-safety-act-inquiry-launched-by-committee/

If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.

That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.

That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.

That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.

I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.

#OnlineSafetyAct

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Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:

Be genuine

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

i mean it goes without saying of course, but maybe i should say it anyway: we will not be accepting slop. if you want to contribute there's this easy way called "writing code yourself, you lazy fuck"

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drwhax@infosec.exchange ("DrWhax") wrote:

I know Mastodon hates LLM's and AI. So here goes!

I recently got access to trusted access of cyber capabilities of both openai and anthropic, which also allows you to weaponize security vulnerabilities.

The speed at which these parrots can find bugs and be creative enough to exploit them is staggering.

I recently pointed an LLM at an kernel fix that was reachable by an unprivileged namespace on Debian and it fully weaponized it, without too much me prompting it in the right direction, in about 7-9 hours.

I don't think open-source and companies will know what's coming for them once these open-source weight models will have broader reach and get better at exploiting vulnerabilities on a massive scale as anyone can access them.

The bottom line I think is, you cannot patch faster than the attackers can easily chain all kinds of vulnerabilities together and just move laterally on an incredibly fast pace.

I've started reporting vulnerabilities to all kinds of projects and the majority have trouble or patching issues found. There's not enough maintainers, or there's simply none anymore.

I've been getting quite worried about what our future will look like for data privacy. I think outright not running an LLM over your codebase to find critical security vulnerabilities because of your moral stance will keep us more insecure.

Please run an LLM over your code base if it's internet facing or something critical, we thank you!

Can't wait for the discussions on this!

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

Talking about creative projects, I poked around Strudel more

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• audio: A remix of the opening line of "Cigarette Ahegao" by Penelope Scott

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

Jenny has a killer #HouseOfTheDragon theory

https://loops.video/v/h8UpO3HKix

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Corrolary: what year do you think the total number of words read on any kind of digital screen overtakes total number of words read on any printed or physical medium and is it in the past or future.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

If numbers were base 12, how much less numbers would have ever been printed or displayed. Is it just 10/12th as many or is it weirder

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

So far, I'm definitely enjoying @joinloops as a short form video platform - as a creator. IMHO better than its competitors.

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

okay because 'dysfunlang' was a bit too had my nick in it, it's now (temporarily) known as littlegem (after the lettuce). and we're going to start creating a design doc

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

Peak creativity

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

RE: https://social.wikiworkersunited.org/@wwu/116996833156184796

on the offchance that you financially support the wikimedia foundation, you should probably know they've started deploying the union busting playbook.

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

“Poor genie keeps trying to crawl back into the bottle. Everybody hates him.”

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

People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

i wrote programming code today using my brain and my own two hands (i do this every day) it was really nice

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yomimono@wandering.shop ("yomimono, still on land") wrote:

I had a whole bit I was going to do victim-blaming @emfSpiders , saying that if they were more visible humans wouldn’t get jump-scared and squish them, but honestly that mindset sucks too much to enjoy inhabiting for a joke so instead let’s just enjoy this highly visible seven-legged spider.

I started embroidering this because traveling with a long dowel is annoying. I wanted to make a flag for it so that it would at least be fun. Huge success!

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AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:

i use AI as part of my creative process

it's the part that makes me so angry at the fucking world that i am driven to create art entirely by hand as an intellectual rebellion against the horrors of late capitalism

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owlsintowels@mas.to ("Owls in Towels") wrote:

Kaikōura Wildlife Centre Trust posted a number of Little Owls admitted for injuries due to nest fall, cat predation and vehicle strike. Little Owls were introduced to New Zealand in 1906. Want to donate to KWCT? https://www.kaikourawildlifetrust.org/help-us Source: https://fb.com/1050410820447228 #owlsintowels 💛🦉

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

Well played:

https://youtu.be/fE7B8sJTKj8

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quincy@chaos.social ("Oenanthe conioides ⁂") wrote:

Another one with purple leaves (#Apiaceae, what species?)

#Bloomscrolling

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thatgalsilver@zoner.work ("Syl (Sylvia Bun) :enby_inside: :neobun_pan:") wrote:

Some of y’all on here are really driving me nuts with the constant LLM related doomer posting

If you love making things, continue making them, find people who also love making things and share your views, be the change you wanna see

Doomer posting endlessly does nothing productive except cause a death spiral as you demotivate yourself from doing things by endlessly questioning “what’s the point”

There is no point, and there never was

Just

Do

Things

You

Enjoy

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

did you know, you can just drag & drop nodes in the DOM inspector? 🤯