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

Let's say hypothetically I want to set up a new kind of business addressing the "gap between my understanding of tech and the average person's" space. I've been working on building a suitable poster and website but let's face it I'm not a marketing expert and I'm struggling a little with the tasks, in particular figuring out how to effectively communicate what I'm trying to pitch. How can I get this help?

(There's an implicit #GetFediHired here for anyone who knows this stuff, but I really don't have the spoons to go through tonnes of pitches right now, hence the quiet-public visibility).

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

From conversation in the @amiko community... we're choosing the second button.

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yote.gay@bsky.brid.gy ("Tauss") wrote:

Yapyapyap
#FursuitFriday
📷 @yuvon.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
🪡 @blueharborc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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lucek.art@bsky.brid.gy ("Lucek 🦊🐾") wrote:

Feeling foxy 🐾

#fursuitfriday

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

good news: i have put together potential syntax for a whole language construct.

bad news: it's import, so you can't actually do anything yet.

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dlatchx@tfnux.org ("Advanced Persistent Treat") wrote:

When I look at D-Bus, one thing strikes me as obvious: what this thing lacks is JSON

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

10/10 peak poster design

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

Over on Whatever I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything, writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/another-reason-not-to-use-ai-for-your-writing/
#Author Threads

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welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

- and the mood had shifted entirely to 'oh I drew a cute thing and that was fun and not at all scary!!'.

I told them that the biggest obstacle to embracing creative whimsy is themselves. Nobody was judging anyone on the quality of their mushroom house, including themselves.

One guy said, looking at his finished drawing, 'huh, I thought I was crap at art but actually I think I'd be okay if I had some guidance'.

Someone else commented on my mum's post on FB afterwards that I -

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

https://katlas.org/wiki/The%5FRolfsen%5FKnot%5FTable

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

oh. of course

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

i kinda wanna go write some mlscript now, it really does look bangin'

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

So tired of baby transes defending their favorite bigoted billionaires. No, they don’t “just need someone to be kind and educate them.” Plenty have tried. For years. They are fully aware of damage they cause, and choose to do so for money/power/comradery with other nazis. You white-knighting them because they were your favorite pet billionaire before your egg cracked is not going to save them. It’s only going to alienate yourself from much-needed community yourself.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

The AI Phrasebook

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/31/the-ai-phrasebook.html

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

i am trying to interpret this in a way that makes sense to me. i think people are pushing back on having lots of syntax (which, like, i get it). but people have already told me they want a more higher level language than c and we can't have it all ways.

what do people think of this pattern matching syntax? https://cse.hkust.edu.hk/~parreaux/ucs%5Fv1.2.pdf

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

hey! I am busy here, humanoid! you can damned well shower later

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lizzard wrote:

They are holding paws #CatsOfMastodon

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

Tbh I kinda jumped from "here's a thing that can help me compose stuff" to alternative tuning systems so I'm doing this frankly silly learning curve to myself

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

(equally there is something profoundly reassuring that c++ syntax is the most hated)

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

there is something profoundly disturbing that the least offensive option in this poll is apparently C

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

got places to stay and transportation organized for my September trip to San Francisco, Berzerkeley, Mill Valley, Inverness, Bodega Bay, & Jenner. haven’t been on a Left Coast trip since before COVID hit, so the prospect of seeing old friends & of visiting our “stomping grounds” again makes me smile.

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

but of course… one cannot criticize the actions of a King

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html

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

#strudel Oooohhh they have a whole document on how to work with pitch directly to do microtonal stuff

https://strudel.cc/understand/pitch/

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

In all cases, Anthropic’s evaluation prompt specified to Claude that its environment was a simulation and that it had no internet access. Due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, this was not the case, and internet access was available

Soooo... Claude's guardrails were basically someone telling it "you have no Internet access"?

I guess they forgot to tell the model to "make no mistakes" either. :neocat_thinking:​.

Truly, you cannot make this shit up.

Sauce: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

CC @davidgerard because I don't think I can get through this whole document without laughing

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lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿") wrote:

RE: https://social.magnificent.nz/@magnificent/117012520877084702

Here's a little libre digital sovereign tech project a couple of us have been working on for a while...

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

Christ. The incompetence reeks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/31/do-i-blame-our-incompetent-state-department-or-do-i-blame-ai/

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

I had a total of two (2) days where my ability matched my ambitions

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

Me a few days ago: "Music composing is great!"
Me now: "None of my tunes work the way I want them to 😭 "

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

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117010519416979095

That’s such a negative framing. I prefer to think of it as:

If a company with a ‘Generate this with AI’ button also gives you a ‘Report AI slop’ button, you should take advantage of this golden opportunity to poison their training data. A few ideas:

• Flag only posts that are not obviously slop.
• Flag every single post that mentions ‘AI’ in a vaguely positive way.
• Flag every post that expresses positive sentiment towards Microsoft, Google, or Meta.
• Spend a day finding posts that randomly tell everyone to install Linux, as the solution to any problem, like them and flag every other post you see.

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

treasure this moment