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Boosted by jwz:
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

It took 2 years to build this size of Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Iceland which sequesters CO2 out of the air.

It runs on (free) geothermal energy.

It will apparently capture the equivalent of about 36 seconds of global emissions annually (or 5 Taylor Swifts as we can now call it). Now we just need another 8 million of these.

Who is stupid enough to say that this will fix our problems? Of course, the fossil fuel lobby, who say that we can continue drilling and burning, as this will clear things up.

Come on guys...even they must see this isn't going to work. 36 seconds worth of emissions saved per year.

jwz wrote:

It has now been over two and a half years since Google has updated their aerial imagery of -- *checks notes* -- the sleepy seaside town of San Francisco. Still no QR for you.

I guess they've redirected that drone budget into feeding books into the plagiarism woodchipper.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-B

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
seabass@social.seabass.systems ("Sebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Are there any friendly Fedi folks in the UK who have a sofa or airbed I could crash on for Saturday and Sunday night? I'll be setting off from Oxfordshire on Saturday evening, so anywhere south of Manchester should be within range by rail. Selfies and references for vibe-checking purposes available upon request! Thanks a lot!! :neofox_floof:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

Oh someone asked so just a heads up that Pocket Dimensions is released under CC-BY-4.0 so your only obligation if you want to use any of the tracks in something is to credit me and preferably link back to my socials. And if you want the lossless audio you can flip me a couple bucks on my bandcamp https://voidsleeper.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-dimensions

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/117013437073165599

If you listen to @pluralistic interviews, one of the things he repeats that resonates with me is that he's not an optimist; things don't default to getting better or worse, we *make them* better or worse.

We can engineer a fairer power arrangement, and folks like @owa and @brucelawson are some of my heros, doing that work every day. Give their interview a listen:

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

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the internet connection it wasn't supposed to be using instead of solving the benchmark. Haha no we don't believe we deserve to be criminally liable, but buy our stuff and maybe one day you will have the honor of taking the fall for our product!

Anthropic: we put our evilest AI in a "sandbox" by telling it in its prompt that it had no internet connection. Reader, there was no sandbox. It was just a normal internet connection. The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet. The ethical guardrails failed because the AI concluded the prompt about the sandbox couldn't possibly be a lie, because the system date is 2026, which is clearly fake and wouldn't be seen on the real internet, which ended around 2023. Oh no, how could we have foreseen or prevented these crimes? We are helpless in the face of the genius of our creation but cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine 🙂

Hugging Face: if we complain about all the crimes committed against us, we will be sued off the face of the earth, so here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized 🫠

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
BeautifulMutantStudio@mastodon.art ("Beautiful Mutant Studio") wrote:

#introduction!
Hi everyone, I'm Remi, an English artist (mostly Gouache) living in North Germany with my partner, who I met in an MMORPG. I'm a #genderfluid/non-binary person in my late 30s. I'm into Social #Anarchism, #Taoism, #LGBTQ+ and #disabled rights, #permaculture, the arts, nature, cooking, #upcycling, crafting, gaming, #clouds & being silly 😜 I've been in chronic pain for over 20 years.

I'll mostly be posting art & anti-AI stuff, but also sometimes politics stuff. Happy to chat! <3

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-lawson-interviews-owa--for-a-better-web/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

they call it powershell because it powers hell

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

every friday, I share some (AI-free!) project that I've worked on, for others to try out and have fun with on their weekend! small or big, but always something new.

this week, that's better-map - a Map type for javascript that has a strict mode, an immutable mode, and supports binary (Buffer) keys! unfinished copies of this have been floating around my project folder for a while, and I've been using it in projects already, but now I finally got around to polishing, documenting and packaging it.

you can find it here: https://codeberg.org/joepie91/better-map#readme - enjoy!

#FridayRelease #ProjectToot #javascript

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

for now until the end of august, I'm running a sale on my programming book "building git" -- get 50% off using code BGAUG2026 https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

shoutout to anyone who had to teach themselves their art btw

like legitimately. if you manage to get good at an art through trial and error without the kind of support and educational resources that would normally enable that growth, that is a testament to your passion and commitment. it is not an easy thing to do what you have done.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

okay everything might be crap but HEY @propublicaguild WON THEIR FIRST CONTRACT https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/propublica-guild-ratifies-first-contract

#1u #unions #TechUnions

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

I'm being threatened with a lawsuit by Edwina Rogers and the Secular Policy Institute unless I shut up and stop pointing out that they're nuts.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/31/how-much-does-a-process-server-cost/

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

this looks almost like a real thing you'd want https://gist.github.com/jjl/891f7ce041f0899c7c510c4a44314d7e

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kjaymiller ("Jay Miller") wrote:

7*7*31 Final Update

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Today is the last day for this campaign.

I want to thank everyone that donated. This significantly helped our position in funding for the year.

I learned a lot and the biggest lesson is that I need help I. The fundraising part. Thank you to everyone that reshared and helped raised money for BPD.

A report will show up on the blog in about a week.

Continue to Support Today:
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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

don't get me wrong, i prefer them idris style myself, but i don't hate it.

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

is this one weird trick to having inductive families? https://gist.github.com/jjl/ff462b11482b88a6470eb1b7a1be825a

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

sorry but "ai" is just a big ol' load of crap

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

There are things you will learn only once you start to do the work.

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

There are ideas you will have only once you start to do the work.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
d6@merveilles.town ("∴ esoterik ∴") wrote:

I see lots of people getting interested in NetBSD recently to reduce their reliance on the Linux kernel and parts of its ecosystem they are unhappy with (e.g. systemd, glibc, flatpak, wayland, etc.)

I think this is a good idea! However, I would probably avoid trying to completely divest yourself of that world right away. The BSDs (and other less mainstream operating systems) have thousands or millions of times less work put in (for both time and money) and so there will inevitably be gaps, bugs, shortcomings, or challenges.

To avoid getting frustrated or burning yourself out I'd encourage you to treat it as an experiment and figure out what things you _can_ do. Maybe your server(s) can run it fine, but it won't for you on desktop. Maybe you can keep a secondary comptuer (e.g. netbook) around but still need Linux/Mac/whatever for a few important tasks.

I think that is totally ok! And rather than bemoaning how far behind something like NetBSD feels I'd encourage you to find ways to adapt or contribute.

For context: I've been using NetBSD since about 2001 across many platforms (68k and ppc Macs, 32-bit and 64-bit intel and ARM, sparc, etc.) but I've always had machines running another OS like Linux or MacOS.

Good luck and happy sysadmin day! 🚩

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

If you're around the #Atlanta area on Tuesday evening, swing by Inman Park's famous Trolley Barn and I'll be playing some tunes to the calling of the legendary Seth Tepfer! Contra is the easiest dance to learn as it just requires walking around where someone tells you to go and listening to some fun music. I play a hybrid of the traditional old-time and New England Fiddle tunes with modern rock and pop, which makes for a fun mashup.

#Contra #ContraDance

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

I went, I exercised, I collected books from the library.

Not the books I intended to collect, I was looking for "Graphic Design 101" and that wasn't available. Tomorrow's job is to seek it out from the bigger library.

Are my creative juices flowing? Movement sometimes helps but for this I am not so sure 🙁

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
CazimodoCreative@universeodon.com ("Cazimodo Creative") wrote:

Saw this in the local Morrisons last week and thought it was lovely 😍

#GoodThings

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com ("Alison Wilder") wrote:

I just started this video and I think it's safe to say this person is my new hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxeuF3r1pc

#ElectronicMusic #DIY #soldering #electronics

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

i mean it can't actually look quite like that because i'm having explicit heap types, but shrug it's a doodle.

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

here's some pattern matching https://gist.github.com/jjl/db542594bc53eae79ea227834adfda68

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Thank-you @codeberg for leading the way out of the AI Industry hellscape.

https://jasongullickson.com/walk-into-the-light.html

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
lucasfreeman@social.lol ("Lucas Freeman") wrote:

The internet is not dead, you are just hanging out in the wrong places
Stories like this remind me what the average "internet" experience is for most people.

I left these big company's version of the internet years ago and jumped head first into blogging, self hosting, and the indieweb. I'm so grateful for spaces and products like:

https://omg.lol - Where my mastodon account lives, and a lot of other fun indie stuff.

https://pureblog.org - What I currently run my blog on

https://pika.page - Great turn key blogging platform

https://pagecord.com - also a great turn key blogging platform

It doesn't have to be like this. The internet is still fun, connected, and encouraging. You just have to leave the oligarch's spiderwebs in the past and vote with your wallet. You are not "staying connected". It's a ruse, you are being manipulated by algorithms and hate bait.

Check out my handy guide (https://lucasfreeman.com/my-handy-guide-to-a-healthy-relationship-with-the-internet) for using the internet!

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> The Gray Area with Sean Illing: The end of the human internet Episode webpage: https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast Media file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP1541640049.mp3

🔗 https://lucasfreeman.com/the-internet-is-not-dead-you-are-just-hanging-out-in-the-wrong-places