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

In fairness to both HAOS and the rpi5, the RAUC setup is *very* nice, and a great deal of care has been put into making sure you can't hurt yourself unless you really go looking for pain. Makes some debugging a bit more obtuse, but not needing to yank hardware out of its home every time something has a wobbly is very useful.

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

Running Homeassistant on a rpi5 is a handy way to stay in touch with the latest goings on in Linux bootloader land (derogatory).

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jimfl@hachyderm.io wrote:

Why call it “surveillance capitalism,” when “stalk market” was right there

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AnUndiesHusky@pawb.fun ("Husky's Underwear Antics :3") wrote:

I'm not quite sure if I can manage dessert! 😮‍💨
#TummyTuesday

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joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

ah, another 'fun' example: to this day, people repeat the claim about JS module systems that ESM can be statically analyzed but CommonJS cannot, and that's why ESM is better and we should all switch to it it.

that claim has never been even slightly true, and people believing it is a big part of why we're now stuck with two separate module systems needing to both be supported in perpetuity, with compatibility between them only appearing in the last year or two (despite ESM being introduced like a decade ago)

and if people checked things, then this never would have happened, because it's *really* easy to disprove

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joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

and like, it's not like any of these are obscure things that just got overlooked. I guarantee you that *every single one* of these things is present *somewhere* in your daily use of computers and phones. you may not know where or even that it's there, and it may be on the server end rather than the device end, but you're using it. somewhere.

and all of them just flagrantly lie.

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joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

jon schlinkert wrote a relatively widely-used (but small) JS library that claimed to 'the fastest' as shown in benchmarks. it took years before someone noticed that it was cheating those same benchmarks

google puts out libraries like a JS protobuf implementation that claim to be "more performant" because they do code generation, except when you actually test them they perform worse than the non-codegen options on every real-world case

deno's *entire list of marketing points* upon its release, the full 100.00% of the list, was somewhere between a lie and a misdirection, and nobody ever wrote up how all of these are false; people widely believe those claims to be true to this day

cloudflare made repeated claims of "the biggest ddos attack ever", even though it took less than an hour of googling to find bigger historical attacks. nobody called them on it

the majority of "highly performant" libraries I've evaluated, across languages, come without any benchmarks or evidence, and nobody has ever requested it, despite repeating the claims. for most of these, the author cannot explain *why* it is faster. it often turns out to be because it outright ignores edge cases

and let's not forget amazon AWS, which for years marketed its services on the premises that it's "cheaper than traditional hosting". all the while charging between $50-$100 per TB of traffic while $1-$5 was standard in the industry, and I have literally seen companies go bankrupt over their AWS bill

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joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

if there's one thing I've learned after 20 years of programming it's that nobody checks *anything*

you can just... say shit. make wild claims about performance or security or maintainability or even cost savings. and nobody will check. ever. companies will make million-dollar engineering decisions and still never check any of it.

if I got a nickel for the amount of times I investigated a completely unquestioned claim made by the owners/creators of some popular-at-the-time technology or tool, and found an outright lie within the first ten minutes... I'd have a hell of a lot more than two nickels, and that's really kind of terrifying actually

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yossarian@infosec.exchange wrote:

following PEP 833, Python packaging now considers the HTML index representation frozen!

I’m really happy we got this out: IMO it’s a small but very important step towards nudging clients to prefer the JSON index, which is better in every regard.

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-08-11-html-index-is-frozen/

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

Wait, someone actually made a furry bullet hell? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3337840/No%5FNeed%5Ffor%5FFlowers/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Success is just running out of ways to fail.

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

The fastest way to get VIP treatment when you land...seriously, how dumb do you have to be to try something like this? This person on Reddit stole my thoughts verbatim: "committing federal crimes from inside a sealed metal tube that lands exactly where the feds are waiting is certainly a strategy."

https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/1vl52vr/dl591%5Flasatl%5Farrival%5Fmet%5Fby%5Ffederal%5Fagents/

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

Back home from DEFCON!

It was great meeting so many cool people :3

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

as Herr Trump’s thrashing around sinks the standing & future of the US further, this piece is worth a re-read:

https://www.postalley.org/2026/05/18/thanks-chinese-celebrate-trumps-victories-for-china-in-the-past-year/

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

lol i just remembered that time the harfbuzz guy said he wasn't going to stop slopping because he didn't want to let his skills atrophy.

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

Came across the Spanish word "decepción", learned it didn’t mean what I thought it meant, and found myself disappointed at the deception.

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

already full

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cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

Enjoy those vibes, nerds.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/

Today, we moved to a new GPG signing subkey used to sign certain Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts (namely Linux tarballs, RPM packages, checksums files) after an unencrypted copy of the previous subkey was inadvertently committed to a private GitHub repository.

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tomas@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tomas Jakubauskas") wrote:

Math is hard.

#gamedev #railways #trains

Attachments:

• gifv: 4a92a11dcd17821b.mp4

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

🎙️ I Was a Guest on the Web Weaving podcast https://rknight.me/blog/i-was-a-guest-on-web-weaving/

🎧 Listen here: https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/14

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

there is a red-winged blackbird at the feeder. it is learning it is too heavy, and the feeder closes when it gets on.

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

i have upset a netbsd fan with this thread somehow - apparently i am being 'entitled'.

i have also been invited to simply fix up everything in netbsd that would be necessary to make it useful to me 😂

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

I framed my book on generative models in terms of risks for a reason. Whatever you can say about their "productive value", their nondeterminism, manipulative UI, statistical mediocrity, and tendency towards unpredictable errors mean the risks—even if you're an asshole who disregards societal risks—outweigh the still largely hypothetical benefits

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

Vote today, Minnesota!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/11/its-minnesota-primary-day/

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

We told you this would happen.

♥️🕊️👍🏿

https://emeraldbook.org/news/aug-0426-5/

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

Nightmare fuel -- for both the USA and Greenland.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/11/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-a-senile-fool-run-the-country/

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nmeum@chaos.social wrote:

A new major version of CHICKEN Scheme was released yesterday. Most notably, CHICKEN fully supports the R⁷RS language standard now.

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2026-08/msg00002.html

#Scheme

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

“The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab”

https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai

> Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism.

This should have been the final word on using these tools for writing, but some people think being accidentally labelled as an "AI" sceptic is a bigger risk to their reputation

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

OMG 🤣 This is an amazing protest.

The Kansas Compliance Crew is a group of trans men complying with a #Kansas bathroom law by going into women's bathrooms. Give it up for these brave guys!

https://kscompliancecrew.org/

#LGBT #trans #50501movement

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MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

Finally set aside time to watch this, and I was not disappointed. I think I very slightly disagree with one of the final ideas though - that it's the responsibility of us elders to protect the youngsters from being jaded.

The honest truth is that companies will not magically become more ethical, competent, or user-aligned - the cynicism we hold will continue to be necessary for survival, and the young will need it too. But what's needed is the dialectical ability to hold the skepticism and wonder in our heads at the same time, because the wonder is necessary too, and the synthesis is what we have to role model for the kiddos. Even if it's hard, and we need practice to be good at it ourselves!

The magic of computers is that we're capable of doing better things than rent-seekers and authoritarians want. We can tell those guys to fuck off, and have our own fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4