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

lets goooooo

Alperin alleges he learned insider details about APC pricing as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, including “outright unlawful conduct” and “conspiratorial discussions” among the publishers, the complaint states. This included strategies by the companies to shield the viability of free open access options to ensure U.S. grantee institutions continued paying unnecessary APCs, according to his complaint.

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Lol the names of these things. Adventurer! Fury! The Brofication continues. This is from an Officeworks email this morning.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FeloniousPunk@beige.party wrote:

@cstross @Lazarou I pre-ordered a mecha comet for this very porpoise.

https://mecha.so/comet#overview

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

good lord... just tried `kmutil showloaded` and realized Apple has loaded 262 drivers

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

@Birgitchmeitzn [waves hello] welcome to Mastodon, you'll find some interesting and thoughtful people here

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

mood

https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3905763935239515061

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xan@xantronix.social ("XANTRONIX") wrote:

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shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

I think it'd be pretty cool if one day we were suddenly invaded by aliens and the aliens turned out to be taller than us but still just look like humans, but also they were all only women and

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dpsbot@mastodon.fixermark.com ("DPS Bot") wrote:

Take 8d20 bosom damage

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sandwich@mastodon.world ("Benj⛧min :verified:") wrote:

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a@beige.party ("Aaron :bc:🖖") wrote:

@cwebber Every time a trans woman posts a selfie, I choose to believe a TERF explodes in agonising slow motion. ✊😁

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

The early consumer Internet was really something. You’d dial in, do stuff, and log off. It was intentional and time-bound. I love the ubiquity and utility of the modern web, but I also miss the episodic nature of my early time online.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

As an Open Source person I am apparently expected to keep doing things for free so I get invited to participate in EU policy events in Brussels, with not even an attempt to offer me compensation for travel, lodging or time.

So I decline.

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ecosurrealism@jorts.horse ("Degrowth or Extinction") wrote:

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

i caught on a long time ago that one of the major downsides of relying on oral tradition to share and receive Computer Stuff wisdom is that hard earned lessons eventually mutate into baseless technology superstitions over time, but knowing that only makes it feel more embarrassing when you find yourself perpetuating stale information

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

a few more years of this heat and there won't be a person on earth who wouldn't guillotine a billionaire given half the chance.

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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

Update: I'm at the CSSWG this week, and I'm hoping to get some/all of these things into the default UA stylesheet https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/14172, and get agreement on a better way to handle scrolling https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/14112

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
hugovk ("Hugo van Kemenade") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@adamchainz/117017044548701755

"Wheels are also now built with frame pointers enabled, per the PEP 831 change in Python 3.15. Frame pointers are a debugging feature for low-level languages like C, which allow debuggers to reconstruct the call stack of a program. Python has decided to enable frame pointers by default and encourage the ecosystem to do so as well, to make debugging easier for us all, so time-machine is joining the party."

Enabled by default for 3.15, do this for older versions:

https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine/pull/627

#Python

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Saw this restroom sign at Pike Place yesterday and had to share.

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

sometimes i find random wikipedia screenshots i made on my local hard disk

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

this software is copyright 2026 colon blobfoxfacepalm colon

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

sometimes i just find random shit i made lying around my computer

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

sometimes i just find random shit i made lying around my computer

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

sometimes i just find random shit i made lying around my computer

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

I put 128GB of RAM in the steam machine, here's what happened

it still wasn't enough for firefox? :blobcatangel:

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

is copilot contagious?

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

"pervasive surveillance used by non-government figure" and "loner's personal AI assistant" are my two least favorite new movie tropes

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

how do they put the milk in the cow?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Final hatch count for this round, 16 chicks! Not too bad (though not amazing). I'm really delighted by the range of colours and patterns!

A few more eggs in the incubator should start hatching in 4 days, and that'll be it for the incubator this season. Should get a lot of use out of it next spring.

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mathieui@piaille.fr wrote:

@cwebber You seem powerful enough to handle a few thousand mansplainers reaching out to explain Activitypub to you after posting bait.