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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
janbeta@chaos.social ("Jan Beta") wrote:

Today‘s achievement: made a 15 second punk tune using a dual SID C64. Oh, and it’s heavily influenced by Coltrane‘s "Giant Steps".

Yeah, my musical taste is a bit of a mess.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

reminded of a little something I learned en route to writing #othernetworks: that we need to shift from thinking in terms of one network/platform or another and instead to thinking in terms of building up a heterogeneous ecosystem consisting of many networks. not Mastodon vs Bluesky but both and

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

Came across this little drawing from last year. Never posted until now because it was one of my daily pair of "lunch notes" that I send off with the kids' lunches to school. We were really into the local isopods last fall.

#armadillidiidae #comic

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
daniel_bohrer@chaos.social ("Daniel Bohrer") wrote:

Before 1948, someone once came up with this nice 7-word palindrome:
"A man, a plan, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1983, someone extended it to 9 words:
"A man, a plan, a cat, a canal – Panama!"

And someone cleverer was able to extend it even further to 13 words:
"A man, a plan, a cam, a yak, a yam, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1984 someone used Unix, a word list and a search algorithm, and it came up with this 540-word behemoth of a palindrome, which barely fits on my screen:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117047406016279929

Reminder to USAians that the US banking sector being shit and not being able to process transactions in a sane way – thus creating the conditions for shitty band-aids like cryptocurrencies or venmos – is largely a matter of choice on part of the legislators and regulatory bodies.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

New release from the band!
#Cats #AlbumCovers

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

It took humanity 68 years to install 1TW solar capacity, which we reached in 2022.

It took 2 years to double it to 2TW, which we did in November 2024.

Now a little under 2 years later, we’re at 3TW.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/three-terawatts-solar

#RenewableEnergy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
exquisitecorp@merveilles.town ("lee") wrote:

Next meeting of Permacomputing NYC

Gameboy Hacking - Sep 8, 2026 @ 6PM - Ridgewood Commons

Computational poet, programmer, and educator Allison Parrish @aparrish will present her projects built for the Nintendo Gameboy platform, including designing “bootleg” game boy carts from scratch, restoring and case modding vintage Gameboy systems, and prototyping new music performance hardware for the gameboy (an optical theremin). Topics that may come up: modding, "craft", PCB design, emulation, restoring computers and circuit boards, relation to retrocomputing, "nostalgia", "bedrock" platforms, low-level programming, how cartridges work, copyleft culture, custom stack languages, Leon Theremin….

https://nyc.permacomputing.net

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

in this house we do not throw away perfectly good food.

we put leftovers in a tupperware and let it go bad and THEN we throw it out.

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

Over on Whatever today, I'm talking about "AI" and creativity and how, when it comes to learning creative skills, Generative "AI" is rather like the old "Guitar Hero" game, i.e., a really fun way not to actually learn how to do a creative thing:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/generative-ai-the-guitar-hero-of-creativity/

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

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Brooks's observation about communication overhead on software projects by sitting inside LLM silos refusing to communicate with each other.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
elfunrokr@mstdn.party ("Elfun Rocker") wrote:

100% This!😡

jwz wrote:

Today in the scraperpocalypse...

You may have noticed that my various sites were nearly unusable for the last 4+ days, and are still maybe not doing great. The current attack by AI scrapers is somehow of an even more harmful character than previous...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-S

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

It was much worse before I scraped off all the cat hair and crud.

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

My wife was complaining that she couldn't charge her phone. While troubleshooting, I pulled out this fancy outlet I'd set up for her about 20-25 years ago. I wonder why it wasn't working? And how we avoided an electrical fire?

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

If there are ten people in a room all writing alt text for the same image, the result will always be ten different versions of alt text. And that’s OK! There is no perfect or “correct” alt text. It’s an act of compassion, not an academic exercise. You can put more heart into it than thought, and it’ll still come out great. ❤️

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

"Done" is better than "Perfect"

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

very strong statement in solidarity with trans people from Disability Rights UK:

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disability-rights-uk%E2%80%99s-statement-new-ehrc-guidance

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and Jenny and Max are chatting about the latest #HouseofTheDragon

https://live.freebooters.uk

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

If you're at #defcon34 I will be giving a talk on the DEFCON badge tomorrow at 10:30AM - details here https://info.defcon.org/defcon34/content/66679

Hope to see you there!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

The most bizarre #StarWars movie

Attachments:

• video: Chris and Drew talking about the Star Wars porno

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Is this the peak of British comedy? #BritishComedy #Funny #UKHumor

Attachments:

• video: Chris and Drew talk about British comedy

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Remakes, former glory, back to doing distro reviews #ArrestedDevelopment #linux

Attachments:

• video: Chris and Drew talking about comedy remakes

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

Another observation:

“I think replies should not be displayed
out of context on my main timeline, there
is little value in seeing "@foo @bar
Agreed!" without also seeing what they
replied to.ˮ

Something I never have problem with. I suspect that's because my timeline is pretty slow, and I post too much myself. So I always know what is it about when I get replies.

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

Slowly parsing through the piles of paperwork

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

Reading through @Mastodon discovery week report[1], got a sudden realization: "search" means very different things when it's searching a tag vs. searching for a specific post. First one is a discovery feature, and I want it to cast wide. Second is a filter, and I mostly search for specific posts that I already saw.

May be we shouldn't use the same word "search", even if it's implemented by the same machinery.

[1]: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/discovery-week-2026-what-we-learned-and-what-were-doing-next/Discovery%20Week%202026%20Report.pdf

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
investinopen@indieweb.social ("Invest in Open Infrastructure") wrote:

In a recent piece for Issues in Science and Technology, IOI's Kaitlin Thaney and Jennifer Gibson from Dryad make the case plainly: without sustained operational funding, open research infrastructure keeps disappearing, and everything built on top of it goes with it.

Using data from IOI's State of Open Infrastructure report, the piece lays out concrete steps for funders and institutions to stop treating this infrastructure as an afterthought.

Read the full piece: https://issues.org/open-data-research-%20infrastructure-gibson-thaney/

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

I like to think I keep up with new #CSS features, but sometimes I overlook something fun.

For example, improvements to text-stroke: https://tylersticka.com/journal/improved-css-text-stroke/

#WebDesign #WebDev

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
Di4na@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Depierre") wrote:

@andrewnez so basically, still limited to a really small amount of projects, and the one that use it use a lot of it, the others mostly do not use it.

I am not surprised, that fits the model. Nice to have validation.

Also I will stand by my "FOSS maintainers have not seen benefit from LLM". Which align with the flurry of LLM bans we are seeing.

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

Do we really need more prisons? No.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/06/more-prisons-to-hold-the-innocent/