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

gosh, the 40th anniversary of bethesda.

so they'll have fixed the hilarious bugs in skyrim specially, right?

right?

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

i am one of those completists of computer games.

there are nonetheless only so many times you can retry and still fail before you decide to give up

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@pluralistic @owa So the "Beware of Dog!" sign gets repainted every year, shrink-fitting ever tighter to the profit-generating ethical compromises that underpin both Apple's monopoly over the digital spending of wealthy users and the self-preferencing mistreatment of independent developers necessary to sustain it.

Our phones could work for us as often as they work against us, but that's not possible while Cupertino big-foots smartphone profits and Google remains free to abuse the other 80%.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@pluralistic @owa There have always been logically consistent ways to achieve the goals of user safety and privacy, but each one would require giving up profits that Cupertino values more than any of its stated principles. E.g.:

- remove unsafe APIs and sensors from iPhones, or:
- disallow all third-party software, or:
- disallow all browsers and web technology

Each would address the root causes of the issues Apple claims to address but does not, in practice, manage.

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

"Modern software sucks. It’s built by self-proclaimed “engineers” who make their chat box addiction your problem and still use Twitter."

— https://dbushell.com/2026/08/07/sublime-text/

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

while it's true that air travel is incredibly safe, one of the safest modes of transport, it's also true it's ever so slightly safer to sit in the back than the front.

this is because you don't see planes reversing into mountains.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@pluralistic @owa Apple's against that safer, more user-respecting alternative for obvious reasons, so they've gone to extraordinary lengths to hobble every iOS browser and keep web apps from taking off, including ongoing process skulduggery within the W3C and sponsoring fake astroturf "developer" groups like ACT (dba "The App Association") to gaslight regulators.

Its a *lot*.

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

i am just imagining a crime spree where people distract shopkeepers and receptionists and nick the ram out of their computers

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

i wonder how quickly you can actually nick the ram out of an average computer.

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davidcelis@xoxo.zone ("david celis") wrote:

i'm hearing reports that every Flock camera has 64 GB of DDR5 in it…

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/117061411008207700

Your regular reminder that Apple's chronic under-funding of the "Beware of Dog!" process combines with Cupertino's fundamentally unsafe platform APIs to create a situation in which either abuseware is tacitly allowed, or app reviews aren't just capriciously high-handed, but also take forever.

A better alternative in every dimension are safe-by-default, open platforms like the web.

/cc @pluralistic @owa

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

flippez les crepes

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

at this point I'm afraid to physically touch grass because I am pretty sure the grass is going to try to sell me a Copilot subscription

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cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Sorry to hear about your bladder issues, sign.

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ellecordova@threads.net ("Elle Cordova") wrote:

Data centers

Attachments:

• video: 4effd09ded56232a.mp4

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offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

Is there a #selfhosted version of imgflip? I would like to be able to generate ad-hoc memes and save them without having to sign up for that ad-riddled tool.

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Bible

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Vintagetech

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA

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

This is such a delight.

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon

Canon so faithfully makes accessible the feeling of the MUDs I grew up with in modern form.

This is the kind of thinking of making things for kids and kids at heart that we need to create.

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

me at the start of an average airline disaster video: cool, i wonder what unusual and interesting way it'll fail this time.

me 15 minutes into an average airline disaster video: oh ffs, it was the pitotstatic system again?!

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

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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meles@bark.lgbt ("Meles") wrote:

@just_one_bear The best kind of cryptogra!

Imagine how many people leave DEFCON and someone asks them "what was the most memorable part of it?" and the answer is "I got to meet Soatok!" and they go "who?".

@soatok

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

i was just introduced to 'grok is a nazi' memes. they are a thing apparently. i should have guessed.

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

average programmer uses netbsd factoid actually just statistical error. average programmer uses arch, netbsds georg, who has a basement full of unbelievably heavy machines is just an outlier and should have been ignored.

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

Georgia Purdom wants you to believe that God made you crap your pants on purpose.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/08/gods-explosive-diarrhea/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YotKzQ9BIJw

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117059833458537602

Thanks to everyone who’s added alt text to images recently. It’s making a difference!

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Xkeeper@icosahedron.website ("X ΘΔ") wrote:

new blog post

"self-hosting in the era of LLMs and cheap compute"
about our ongoing nuisance traffic issues, claude code, and other crap

https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/self-hosting-and-junk-traffic/

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FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

@limebar

Yup.

Also, if you use GenAI for one part of your work, people will assume you used it for the whole thing. It cheapens all your work if any part of it is GenAI.

(Plus of course GenAI is innately immoral due to its environmental, social and political impacts.)