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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Jokes aside: this is a case where regulation needs to catch up with technology.

The web shouldn't need a million tiny consent state machines because lawmakers tried to patch over architectural flaws from the IE6-era.

Put privacy controls where they belong: in browsers and operating systems.

Make companies accountable for abuse. Stop making users the f'ing middleware.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbctop_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net ("CBC Top Stories") wrote:

After 8 years and 15,000 kilometres, B.C. couple nears end of Trans Canada Trail trek
A Vancouver Island couple is just a few steps away from completing a journey of over 15,000 kilometres on foot.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-couple-trans-canada-trail-9.7290223?cmp=rss

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

Being a movie critic and getting married

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ejblackerby/post/DbhzzAjjhAL

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

reviewing my Social Security earnings history,.as an Army Spec/4 & then Sgt in 1969, I earned a grand total of $2,507.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently.

And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.

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

hmm, what have i forgotten from my expr type? oh right, yeah, 'if'. that one is sorta important.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
plausible@fosstodon.org ("Plausible Analytics") wrote:

While indie hacker Twitter debated whether SaaS is dying, our July:

• $22.2k in new MRR, our best month ever
• MRR up 28.5% year over year
• 20,183 paying subscribers

The argument is that AI has made every product easy to clone.

Our code has been open source and free to clone since 2019.

Turns out the code was never the moat.

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@emilyskidsister/116994552007367487

While I don't use these tools myself, I think @emilyskidsister is right that if you are using them, it's important to try to make them as non-"personable" as possible.

The hyper-empathy, hyper-personableness is something that's in the market interests of the bigger corporations. But it's like adding sugar to food everywhere: it sells more, and people will consume more, but it isn't good for people.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io wrote:

ELIZA is a chatbot written in the 1960s. It’s very relevant in 2026.

https://nettek.ca/blog/the-llm-is-not-your-friend/

#ai #eliza #codingagents #claude #glm #chatgpt

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io wrote:

There are literally 5 speakers labelled as transgender in the validated English Common Voice dataset. If you would describe your voice as trans, and you record a few sentences with a desktop mic, this might actually make speech recognition, transcription, and text-to-speech suck less for us.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/speak

#trans #transvoice #commonvoice #mozilla

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

breakfast time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/damsel-in-distress-2/

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

Happy Birthday, Jerry!

https://www.gdao.org/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crane@squawk.social wrote:

Crane wishes you a wonderful monday
(probably the most cursed gif ive done so far)

Attachments:

• gifv: 3b3897be4bd36f43.mp4

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
link@js.meowingwo.men ("link memeink :spinny_cat_pan: :spinny_cat_nb:") wrote:

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 3rd 2026 (Easy), in less than 8 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

i was thinking about making a smaller subset of littlegem designed for implementing littlegem.

then i realised i'd have to go the other way - the little one would be littlegem and the bigger one would be lottlegem

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

cool how you can search for like a random piece of trivia information online, and there's now multiples of similar websites clearly generated entirely from a single prompt (i.e. "make a website about [topic]") with completely fabricated information and images complete with a logo etc. there's like a standard format to them now. they're all like "[topic] is a fascinating and engrossing subject that has stood the test of time and contains many curious facts..."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JaxVent@lgbtqia.space ("Jax UK") wrote:

This is a UK company who's career page I keep an eye on under my bookmark heading 'anti-AI Companies' (i've got a grand total of this 1 i've been able to find lol, if anyone would like to share lists?)

Couple of jobs have popped up i'm not qualified for but someone else here might be interested in!

"We stand up to tech giants and governments and for a future where technology is used to benefit everyone, not just the rich and powerful."

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/jobs/

#TechJobs #GetFediHired #NoAI

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

murder most foul

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

The new ScotRail app rollout is going just great*, it seems

*In the Molly White sense

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
invadersil ("Keith") wrote:

I need to tape this up somewhere so I can reference it when I get stuck in my writing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fastmail ("Fastmail") wrote:

Our new Amsterdam servers are live. The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data, and like our US locations, it's our own hardware, racked and run by our own people. Nothing rented from a big cloud provider.

Already a customer? Switch regions in your settings. Thinking about it? You choose your region at signup.

Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where, because we figure you'd read the fine print anyway.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region

#Fastmail #Email

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/117026104474024967

I forgot to address one type of person: those who say "don't care so much, if you can, since it makes you sick" — I hear you, and I will ask you this: don't stand in our way when we fix this and don't claim you helped when you just told us to not be so soft.

It's OK to say you went to therapy to help you be more aloof, have other interests & hobbies, but dialectically speaking both can be true: the feelings can be less powerful for you AND you can not stand in our way. Please pick this combo.

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

let's play guess the actual requirement 🤔

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

Speaking as an Ohioan and human, representative Max Miller sure looks like an abusive piece of shit who no one should ever vote for

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

That thing where you read a sort of interesting blog post but the context is unclear—it’s a critique that be either conservative or progressive—so you check the other posts and, no, it’s a “women’s role in society is to manage the households” site

Yikes. And nope. Very much nope. No link

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
necromanticnomad@mastodon.online ("Markus Gaines") wrote:

Computer users of Mastodon, (aka... all of you) what is your preferred method of mousing?

I'm curious because my current setup involves both an MX Master 2S and an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 in very close proximity to each other.

#polls #ComputerMice #Mousing

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
bongmaster@hol.ogra.ph ("Bongmaster") wrote:

@ChrisWere@toot.wales "Wash me like one of your French Towels" :v

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

like a ukulele isn't a failed guitar, it's a very intentional adaptation of the guitar into the existing Hawaiian musical tradition. everything that makes it seem twee and cute and cringe to white people was a design decision