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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

brew install actions/checkout - Using Homebrew's tap machinery as a curated distribution layer for GitHub Actions.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/04/brew-install-actions-checkout.html

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Also if you're adding cache busting url parameters to api requests to try and get fresher results, I'm just going to block you, don't do that.

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

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

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

“Attacks on LGBTI people are the warning sign of a wider backlash against democracy - Commissioner for Human Rights”

https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/attacks-on-lgbti-people-are-the-warning-sign-of-a-wider-backlash-against-democracy

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Curl had it's summer of bliss, @ecosystems is having it's Summer of Piss (taking) by security companies hammering the public api and ignoring the data license.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ramon_wilhelm@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ramón Wilhelm") wrote:

I'm looking for a professional sound designer who's also able to do cartoon and ambient sounds.

Thanks to that criminal rat Putin and his stupid war, my friend isn't able to support me. I don't want to be a burden to my friend now.

#NoAI tools allowed! 🚫

#sound #sounddesign #indiegame

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Anubis upgraded to 1.26.2 and difficulty level increased.

Also found some new security companies heavily scraping, I look forward to seeing whatever they produce with this CC-BY-SA data that I'm sure they will follow the license of and republish their findings under the same license.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117032582823441702

Investigating this today, looks like there's a new residential proxy scraping the html of the various ecosyste.ms services, not the json api.

Useragent is all last years chrome on desktop mac, all executing js and passing anubis, see if I can make some tweaks to that config to shut it down.

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

It is therefore disturbing to see the recent trend of proofs being abandoned at an intermediate stage of their developmental process, for instance by an individual or company using AI tools to first generate and then verify a proof, but then showing no inclination to contribute any further to its future development and maturation

wow i can't imagine people just generating stuff with AI and then letting it rot. god forbid!

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

littlegem: one way of getting a bit more dynamism is the top level could be a script which may have the side effect of declaring stuff to emit. this would let you just run code at compile time to decide what to do.

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

Just our big wet president having another extremely normal one

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-launches-into-extraordinary-rant-about-disgusting-blue-cities-their-trees-are-all-gross

#USPol

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luckytran ("Dr. Lucky Tran") wrote:

Remember when RFK Jr required proof of vaccination for a party at his Hollywood mansion in 2021?

Watch what they do, not what they say.

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

It's nearly impossible to avoid Doomscrolling. Doom runs on just about anything.

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

cool cool, my spam bin has an alleged 2-day cure for diabetes in it

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
korybing.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Kory Bing") wrote:

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@aparrish the argument we're personally fond of is that everyone should have the opportunity to learn how computers work, for the same reason everyone should have the opportunity to learn how cars work

if you don't understand them, you'll spend your entire life being taken advantage of by people who do

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

noted: have you seen the price of Raspberry Pis??
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-08-04T05:12Z/

the PC and self-hosted hobby is dead, guess who ruined it 🫠

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The title of this video did not disappoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLCZ%5FIc1hI

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

Still have some bugs to iron out (especially with syntax highlighting), but DNS Kitchen’s new zone file editor is getting closer to production!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stejfs_photos@mastodon.goeg.dscloud.biz ("Štejf's Photobox") wrote:

2Dance - Hamm 04.2026
2Dance - Hamm 04.2026

#Furry #Fursuit #fursuiting

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

The article ends satirically with -

"MAGA adherents have also been so thoroughly conditioned by the likes of Elon Musk into unthinkingly surrendering their lives, independence and critical thinking to AI and robotic automation, that I could just as easily see the MAGA hordes lining up in support of the horned, chainsaw-wielding demon robots the moment Musk or Trump tells them to do so."
:mastodance:
https://www.jezebel.com/threehalves-robot-real-or-fake-demon-centaur-evil-satyress-danger-manual-labor-horns
6/n

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

If hackers are so smart, what are we doing in Las Vegas in August?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tavi@freeradical.zone ("tavi cat") wrote:

you are not immune to purity culture

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

From AI Forensics' investigation of Hugging Face's top image models:

- 73% of monitored requests were sexual in nature.
- Of those, 83% sought to undress or otherwise sexualize a person
- 95% targeted women
- 6.7% targeted a minor (if fulfilled, these requests would constitute CSAM).
- Only 3% of audited Spaces showed any evidence of output moderation.

https://aiforensics.org/work/hugging-face-ncii

#NCII #AI #Privacy #Abuse

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I was corrected for saying “real name” when I meant “legal name.” So, a reminder:

Your LEGAL name is a name that identifies you for official purposes.

Your REAL name is the name by which a practitioner of the occult arts could conjure you in a summoning circle and bind you to complete a task.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AutomataDog@furry.engineer wrote:

Howlite at Dox Drake's rave set during FWA25

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA25 #ArtShare #Art #Coyote #Rave #Nikon

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

*Finally* remembered to correct the author tag in my mp3 file of La Marseillaise. I've had it under Edit Piaf, which is apparently a common error! In fact it's a famous performance by Mireille Mathieu[1].

Note 1. Yes, my music collection is mp3 files. Streaming has no chance of working for me.

Note 2. The snap ecosystem on Ubuntu is irreparably broken and useless.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA

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

RE: https://mastodon.radio/@kb6nu/117033954967016980

"All of these ideas deserve discussion. Unfortunately, as in many other areas of amateur radio, the current version of the ARRL lacks both the vision to and leadership necessary to move this forward. "

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yaakov@cloudisland.nz ("Yaakov") wrote:

Do I know anybody at all on here who would be able to go urgently in person and look something up in the New York Public Library archives?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Where the I.R.S. previously made a point of regularly auditing whoever occupies the Oval Office, Mr. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.”