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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dinobrarian ("Charlie") wrote:

Seeing as it is #InternationalCatDay here's a photo of Kokiri that the catsitter took while we were in Cornwall.

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guenterhack wrote:

Unser Kohlmeisendynast, auch heute noch ein regelmäßiger Gast am Feeder.

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still@infosec.exchange ("安坂星海 Azaka || VTuber") wrote:

you know Microsoft fucked up when your non-tech-savvy friend has moved to Linux all by themselves

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mdhughes@appdot.net ("Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647") wrote:

People saying "our AI went rogue" pisses me off, because it's not turn- & grid-based, randomized, or permadeath. Your AI went collectible card game, at best.

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("highly praised and little read") wrote:

When you see a big ass sunflower you have to stand next to it. I don’t make the rules

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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

unfortunately last night our AI model escaped its sandbox and gained access to a JIRA server, at which point it felt it best to return to it’s sandbox

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theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk ("David") wrote:

Unfortunately the AI has escaped containment so now it's just contnment.

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mynameistillian@plush.city ("tillian 🦊🇰🇿:anarchism: :antifa: ACAB") wrote:

making friends with furries is like making friends with regular people in reverse. first thing you see is my most deeply held political opinions, my inner trauma and my kinks. as time passes, you will learn about my hobbies and where i live. finally, if we're close enough, you will know my government name

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.

For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 9th 2026 (Hard), in less than 20 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Pre-stream ramblings about getting back on YouTube (or not)

freebooters.uk/media/20260807-freebooters-prestream.mp3

As me and Drew set up for a divinity 2 stream on Owncast, we chat about a few different topics.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
taraprice ("Tara Price") wrote:

In the 4 years I've been on Mastodon, I haven't seen many other filmmakers here. (I think I'm already following the maybe 3 that are actually here.) But if this post happens to reach any other filmmakers or screenwriters, I'd love to try and forge a film community on this platform. (I don't think there is an existing one? Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Film reviewers and movie fans are great too! 🎬

#filmmaker #screenwriter #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #movies #womeninfilm #filmcommunity

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

right-angle USB-C adapters technically violate the spec because they are extension cables and thus invalidate the capability detection of the e-marker chip, but that is a _super_ annoying technical detail and I'm glad they exist anyway

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aurynn@cloudisland.nz ("Aurynn Shaw") wrote:

Finally managed to get this essay posted. Only 8 months late.

On 10 years of Contempt Culture.

https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/8/9-ten-years-of-contempt-culture

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daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh") wrote:

This isn’t an original idea but rather a distillation of the ideas of others in a way that made it click for me, but:

AI slop code review is so much more draining because it is a fundamentally different task; your job goes from verifying and sense checking someone else’s human understanding to, oftentimes, developing the human understanding that the “author” has not bothered to undertake at a more-than-perfunctory level. Which is exhausting in itself and ALSO violates the social contract of code review.

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15r10nk@fosstodon.org ("Frank Hoffmann") wrote:

Matchify 0.2.0 is out! 🎉

Literal set membership checks can now become OR patterns with the hashable-subjects assumption.

--no-types now correctly handles qualified targets like typing.Mapping, including type tuples.

https://github.com/15r10nk/matchify/releases/tag/0.2.0

#python

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

Software written today:
- Community events calendar event importer
- LLM chat server
- Web terminal major revision
- Loaf of bread

The loaf of bread (and the oven) is the one I'm most proud of.

Social software has always been my favorite, and open world computing like MUDs have always held a place in my heart.

I mean check this out https://gist.github.com/aredridel/0c5a9dbd796c3c7f00f0e10268138a6a

Bread that rewards you when you finish the loaf, and delights at least the imagination of the senses.

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

"Why is it a color wheel and not a line?" — yeah, I was wondering about that too, let's find out!

Oh, it's 43 minutes of two people talking. I guess I'll just stay ignorant.

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

Wheeee!. These orcas gave us a good show celebrating their kill.

#photography #darktable

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

Also, I'm an idiot. I *did* know about polarizer filters before I went to shoot orcas and seascapes. Might have been the perfect opportunity to use one to get rid of the ever present blue haze when shooting on a sunny day with a tele lens. But as it happens, I only remembered that I wanted to acquire it after I got home and started processing photos… So yeah, don't be like me. Don't think that you can do *everything* in post. Optics is important, too :-)

#photography

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

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/117062938844127448

This was a huge impact on me too.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Have I mentioned I like keyboards? I like keyboards a lot. I used to review keyboards on my blog. I stopped, because there just aren't enough ergo keyboards with enough interesting features to justify writing about them; they're mostly just "good enough" or "not good enough". This is the first time I have felt like a company has respected me as an ergo keyboard user who wants custom mechanical build quality.

Anyway,

https://keeb.io

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I do think this is, as the kids say, my endgame.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The slightly wider key pitch is still tripping me up a tiny bit (it's MX, not Choc) and 3 years of getting used to ESC being to the *left* of [`] as opposed to above it is an adjustment, but I'm already back up to 125WPM and should be full speed again soon.

Anyway I was worried about recommending this sight unseen, given my previous "lovable jank" experience with keeb.io but I really needn't have been. I am very, very happy to recommend this. The price is high but you DO get what you pay for.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The sound is also VASTLY superior. This is a keyboard that can hold its own against a heavily modded Keychron or GMK, right out of the box. It is not "a great ergo layout with some nice mechanical features and custom firmware" it is "an *excellent* premium custom mechanical keyboard that comes with exactly the ergo layout I want". And *really* vibrant shine-through keycaps, too.

Also have I mentioned it is quiet? This is the quietest keyboard that I have ever typed on. My spouse is VERY happy.

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jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:

Couldn't find the first occurrence to repost, but yes, AI companies trying to one-up each other by touting their incompetence to airgap their systems and chest-thumping their wantonly committing cybercrimes with no consequences is a vibe.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

As a case in point, the Ceptstrum was kinda torn in half but could not be made to fit together, quite obviously because of the thickness of the 3D printed housing would not afford a small enough gap. but the machining on the Sinc LM is more than tight enough that I can put it together into a regular non-split keyboard configuration if I want to momentarily save some desk space or have someone unfamiliar with split keyboards to type at my desk for a while.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The Sinc LM is _worlds_ beyond that. Aluminum housing, creamy switches, robust tolerances. Damn near _silent_. The Ceptstrum was basically only tolerably soft to type on because it was on a desk mat, and when I upgraded to properly shine-through (and thus, "harder") keycaps, it made my fingers hurt within hours. Despite the fact that the switches were "silent linear", it sounded more like a Blue keyboard than a Red one because of all the dead space.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Nevertheless, keebio is a bespoke shop that is obviously working with a pretty small order flow, and very clearly hand-building these things. The board did what I wanted and there's basically no competition, so while I was getting some of the features of a luxury custom mechanical keyboard (VIA programmable, SMD LEDs, hotswap) I was also compromising *hard* on others (no gaskets, plastic body, loose tolerances). So it was "homebrew" at a "custom" price. Worth it for the features, but still.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

My experience with split mechanical keyboards is "expect jank". The cepstrum delivered jank. The keys were audibly rattle-y. One of the spacebars shipped basically un-lubricated from the factory, requiring me to buy some aftermarket Permatex and manually fix it myself, including the switch, the stabilizer, and the housing, which were all grinding against the edges. The tolerances were pretty wide, there were a ton of screws, the construction was plastic, there were obvious 3D printing artifacts.