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jwz wrote:

The Eye of Pizza is, Once Again, Upon You.

As you may recall, my beloved Gakken World Eye shit the bed during a power failure a couple weeks ago, after having been on 24/7 for nine years. Since these are going for almost a thousand dollars on eBay, my...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9-

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

@fraggle @dthompson Could someone explain GCD-009 to me? I would expecially appreciate it if an LLM could summarize it for me. Thanks!

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fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@cwebber @dthompson sorry my attention span is far too short to read all that, I'm going to need someone to generate some kind of slop diagram / political cartoon that can explain it for me

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

> I feel like some people may not have met Christine, and you should know that she never jokes about technical matters and is utterly serious at all times. https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14#issuecomment-20224132

Yes that's right thank you @bremner

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
estherschindler@hachyderm.io ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

I just changed all my internet passwords to Kenny, so they're Kenny logins. I like to live in the danger zone.

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

I suppose accepting this GCD would mean that Guix would have to leave Codeberg, but I mean, GitHub is more popular anyway

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

Given all the "drama" about the previous "anti-genAI" Guix Consensus Document, I'm really glad to see an alternative that is pro-AI. I submitted as much useful feedback as I could in my review! https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14

I think it was particularly brave of @dthompson to let Grok get the lead authorship spot on this document!

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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

Embracing the future — GCD 009: Allowing LLM-assisted and LLM-generated contributions

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14

#guix

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

i wouldn't ordinarily mock someone for their spelling and grammar, but it seems apt when they're saying their shit machine writes better (code) than me.

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shapr@recurse.social ("Shae Erisson") wrote:

@grimalkina

I am shilling your book to the many software devs I know.

In my view, the the release of "The Psychology of Software Teams" is like when "The Pragmatic Programmer" was first released.

I'm adding it to my list of four (now five) books that all devs must read.

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driscollis ("Mike Driscoll") wrote:

Have you tried out the `collections` module in #Python?

I really like it. One of my favorite parts of collections if `Counter` which gives you an easy way to take in an iterable and find the most common values within it

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Sometimes you can't sleep until you've gotten a very silly idea out of your head.

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

Is this the line for the crazy contest?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/28/i-can-be-even-more-delusional/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YBZ%5FzvczbB8

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drj@typo.social ("David JONES") wrote:

I have a crazy idea and it is that we should have a World Bitmap Font Week, to celebrate the culture of bitmap fonts, and perhaps pay thanks for their work and contributions to society. Also we can make some fonts.

At this stage it is just an idea, but with a few more people i think we could have a few coordinated blog posts, and maybe some tools, tutorials, and even workshops? I suggest the 10 days starting 2026-10-19.

Who is in? Reply saying yes. And please boost :)

#BitmapFont #Font

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116998508880920974

If you visit this page and don't like what you see, you can fix it! Pull up your posts with media from the past week, click Edit, and add some alt text. Our members who are blind or with low vision will thank you, as will others from across the Fediverse.

It's never too late to make your content accessible!

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floppy@mastodon.me.uk ("James Smith 💾") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214

This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise.

https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I'd somehow never seen this old video before but in the year 2026 it is needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

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incentive@bandwagon.fm ("Incentive") wrote:

alone again (and again [and again])

https://bandwagon.fm/6a665de94009d247011f7789/audio?format=mp3

Attachments:

• audio: Audio

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

social.lol members! Wanna see your "alt text report card"? Here you go! https://alt-text.social.lol

You should *totally* want to see your alt text report card. Accessibility is for everyone, and adding alt text to your media is *always* the right thing to do!

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

I cannot really overstate the damage that back-to-back meetings do to my morale

in case anybody needs to hear this: you need to schedule a gap. it doesn't have to be a long gap, but it should be at least 5 minutes. doubly important if your meetings regularly run over.

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

I've done another voice note on what I think about the short form video platforms.

Attachments:

• audio: An audio clip of me sharing my thoughts on short form content.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
anarceus@boosts.squirrel.pictures ("kakerlakatze") wrote:

like they're animals. they're not any different to orcas or crows or elephants. stop making them work 40h a week or more that's animal cruelty. if the weather is bad they're gonna want to hide inside until the weather is not shit. if you don't give them regular access to seeing a plant they will lose their damn minds. look at what you've fucking done. This is like depressed elephants in a zoo. you've convinced them they're above animals and thus aren't bound by enrichment and environmental needs the same way.

you've taken a perfectly good animal and ingrained a weird hubris into its society. look at it, it's got capitalism

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Dario's post on open-weights models is intentionally misleading. With one hand, he proffers praise and admiration for the models. With the other, he tsk-tsks about the "danger" of biological attacks, demanding bans on chip sales and penalties for distillation.

He's spooked.

But also, to read this you would think that nobody had ever jailbroken Claude into performing criminal activity. Except...their own reports tell us that's not so. All models can be abused; no models can be secured. Why then should we trust any product we can't examine at all?

I'm not saying open-weights models are unproblematic. I'm just saying this rationale for their danger doesn't pass a sniff test.

Dario sees the economic reality in front of him and observes a shift to relying on open-weights models for some workflows. That's a potentially existential risk for his business (as China no doubt intended). The rest is backwards reasoning.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

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

interesting juxtaposition of podcasts

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WuMargaret@nerdfight.online ("Marge吴静玫") wrote:

It’s been a while, so I want to take a few minutes to remind folks of these facts.

1. Your value is independent of your productivity.
2. Your identity transcends the title they give you when you sell your time for survival.
3. Rest is a right, not a reward.
4. All we have is each other. It’s imperative that we treat each other with care.

#SolidarityForever

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

All videos of the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 talks are now available in YouTube, enjoy them! 📹
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sEzdAGvRgDkOXbVAbnOWCaIOV%5FevSfo

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

huh, i turned to my other browser window and it was exactly on the page i wanted to go to

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mapblake@mapstodon.space ("Blake Esselstyn") wrote:

I wrote this thing last week. It might as well be my first post on Mastodon. #zuzai

https://zuzai.org/

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kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:

"I was sentenced as a terrorist. Now my barrister is on trial for defending me"
https://www.opendemocracy.net/palestine-action-filton-24-charlotte-head-rajiv-menon-kc-contempt-of-court-judge-johnson/
Lawyer faces jail over a speech to jurors – a first in English history – as state seeks to silence Palestine solidarity.

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

self-OH:

now i am going to write some idris because it's easier than writing english