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

some days, the orange place is incredible.

whose fault is it golang didn't get generics for years? everybody who was complaining about go being a shit language instead of designing them! 🥴

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

I thought everyone knew this but ....
Neurodivergent story time!

In the era of French aristocracy, American culture was just starting to get posh. And Americans (colonists then citizens) at the time decided great high class table manners meant copying high French fashion. So they adopted this weird "zig zag" method of eating where we only eat with the fork in our right hands facing up like you'd scoop food, but also only use the knife in our right hands. So every time you cut something you set the fork down and switch hands, then switch back. We can't eat with a fork in our left hand (if we were raised with strict table manners that don't care about handedness).

America did that big revolution and our big freedom thing and never switched back. The rest of the world moved on to knife in the right hand, fork in the left turned downward whilst cutting stuff.

You can always tell an American while eating by how we use the knife and fork. It's how they caught spies in WWII. Turns out it is incredibly hard to relearn XD

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ctt@social.lol ("David Johnson :prami_pride:") wrote:

My go to search engine is (please boost for greater exposure):

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Made it through one more day without becoming the Main Character of Social Media. Thank God

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

Ooohh so I do get notifications from the server offline time, they can just sometimes come in a bit delayed

I saw some new notifications coming in as I was drafting the previous post, don't think a bunch of people suddenly became active this time of day

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

https://bsky.app/profile/gettoknownature.bsky.social/post/3mr4atarpi22l

For anyone who enjoys nature photos and wishes to avoid slop, I highly recommend this thread, and it's very similar to the approach I take.

Basically: Look for actual photographers, avoid generic "cute nature" accounts if they don't cite sources properly, and check if the species being published come from a location that makes sense (e.g. all European birds if the photographer is from Europe)

I think especially with AI it's important to look for original sources, I've become more aware of that recently (and try to find the original source for stuff where possible)

#noai

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erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators.

But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances.

It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Amnesty International UK Caves...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
opalmirror@hachyderm.io ("James Trickle uP") wrote:

@glyph There is no I in ROCK BAND

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Everybody wants a rock star, but do you know what makes a rock star a rock star? THE ROCK BAND THEY ARE IN.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like if you were to ask me right now what software companies aggressively protect their teams from layoffs and potempkin performance evaluation bullshit, while focusing extremely hard on retention, in order to foster a long-term sense of psychological safety, the only example I can think of is "Nintendo"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

https://thesecretofnimh.fandom.com/wiki/Lee%5Fof%5Fthe%5FStone

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Please buy a copy of this book for your boss. Clockwork orange them if you have to. This insight is so true that it's upsetting to me; the entire industry is so OBSESSED with individual performance, with "meritocracy", that almost all the *actual* outstanding historic results achieved by this industry are quietly done behind the scenes by groups that are isolated in the lee of some budgetary stone, allowed to build a safe and harmonious group dynamic.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
D_J_Nathanson@esq.social ("Dave Nathanson") wrote:

Not that anyone asked me, but I am solidly supporting Tram Nguyen in the race to replace Seth Moulton for US Congress (MA 6th District).

She is smart, reliably progressive, and has a track record you can check for yourself.

She was a law school classmate of my law partner and went on to be a civil legal aid attorney for crime victims.

Then she flipped her state rep district from a MAGA lunatic (and chair of the MA Republican party).

LFG. #MApoli #Massachusetts

https://www.tramforcongress.com/issues

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

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

I finally dug through the gemini slop search results to find the actual letsencrypt documentation and fixed the tls cert on the broken domain. Turns out I had let a domain that shared that cert expire last year and I needed to regenerate it without the domain I no longer own.

I miss the google that used to be a search engine, back when it could find useful blogs and forum posts and not just regurgitate slop generated from slop sei sites.

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

Got our supporting documentation back for my son’s passport today, 35 days after the passport itself got here. No idea why they held onto it for an extra month.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Codeberg: "No AI-generated code."

Finally, a place for all the bugs I made the old-fashioned way: by hand, with love, and no idea what I'm doing!

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mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/31.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ellesaurus@toot.lgbt ("Elle 💗") wrote:

PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox

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rstevens ("rstevens 🐳💨✅") wrote:

I know things are hard, but now more than ever it’s important to take the time to flip off every cyber truck you see

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

A dark day for human rights.

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

I *must* visit Abbott's Lagoon on this trip

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117017130190251455

Big thanks and hugs to all of the social.lol members who have been looking after their media alt text! :prami_hearts:

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

I sometimes go into the back yard to gather my thoughts

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

Sometimes you accidentally say something that you didnt know was deeply offensive, and I suppose I have learned that "Data, the character in star trek, gets hacked all the time" is one of those. Resuming prior strategy of "never talking about star trek," which was working fine.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kamuniak@finfur.net ("Kamuniak") wrote:

My good friend @silkyfur.hoof.place was visiting and we went to take some moo photos :) #FursuitFriday

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

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117017075817298712

‘… no requirement to assess the patients' capacity to decide on care, while granting facilities "unilateral power" to treat people against their will with no independent oversight.’

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dyckron@cosocial.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Court finds B.C.'s involuntary mental health treatment scheme unconstitutional https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/court-finds-bcs-involuntary-mental-health-treatment-scheme-unconstitutional-12618558

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

mood: https://www.pandora.com/artist/eilen-jewell/boundary-county/no-place-to-go/TRggcwrvcVkmdc2?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885