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

this is *seriously* Not Good

“The switch from greening forests to browning forests occurred around 2000, the new paper states, when the impacts of drought and heat stress overtook the benefits of extra CO2. Since then, evidence has piled up of escalating global tree mortality, including trees in the tropics dying of dehydration.”

jwz wrote:

Today in Clown Storage: PBS.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and its dedication to retrieving the archival materials and...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-m

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

galactic bulge

go home astronomers, you're drunk and clearly sex-starved.

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

data vs wishful thinking

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/forests-carbon-dioxide-emissions?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Record labels are signing as many artists as they can, even and especially when there's no intent to pursue them as an artist. The label then instructs the artists to relentlessly make tiktoks which they do for years without the label progressing anything or even reaching out.

That way, if the artist happens to blow up off their own sweat and tears, the label already has them signed to a shitty deal.

I have no point other than that's fucked up and I love artists ❤️

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “The Case of the Robot Web Thief”

If you ask an AI agent to build you an application, can you be sure it's not helping itself to somebody else's code?

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/case-of-robot-thief/

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

imagine the courage it took for a black person to take the Oath, put on Army Blue, shoulder a musket, and march south… at age 62.

I am in awe of Trooper Cunningham of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.

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leanderlindahl ("Leander Lindahl") wrote:

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why?

Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub.

In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to make his statements in the gossip press "because that's where people are".

I think its time to dismiss that "where people are" argument altogether. No one will listen to me, but still 😐. #plus1

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angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie") wrote:

Taxing the rich *was* the compromise position.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117089786965697317

Spacey McSpaceface, obviously.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

AMD chips have a full bypass for negative ring backdoors!

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RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND GOT A LIGHTNING TO HDMI ADAPTER

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

"MoneyPrinterTurbo" is the most starred repo on the Tiktok topic

https://github.com/harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117087865807803450

50TB of data. That's an average home NAS nowadays. 🤦

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

Gas prices went up 40 cents overnight, can't wait to find out how this is the work of the communists

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: https://www.igalia.com/2026/JoiningForces.html

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

simplification with algebra is quite complicated. however, a handful of rules would probably go quite a long way towards eliminating tedium

capitals are nat constants and putting them together is addition or multiplication as appropriate

a + 0 ->a
0 + a -> a
a * 0 -> 0
0 * a -> 0
a * 1 -> a
1 * a -> a
A + B + c -> AB + c
A + b + C -> AC + b
A * B * c -> AB * c
A * b * C -> AC * b

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

This is cool! https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

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

RE: https://bookstodon.com/@keith/117085275218189650

This scraper is blocked on social.lol.

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SleepyChi@bark.lgbt ("🐾 Jordan 🐾") wrote:

I forgot Twitter exists lol

I haven't used it since 2023 after migrating to Bluesky and Mastodon

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

there are two reasons i found it annoying:

1. it's more typing
2. i've got to come up with a new name. guess i will just shove 'Mk' on the front like usual.

i can't say more typing bothers me all that much any more, i spend more time thinking than typing, i'm more bothered about modelling my thoughts.

naming, though, well that's one of the hard problems of computer science, isn't it?

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

Reminder:

1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about

2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything

3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere

4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Kids these days don't know that erasers used to be so bad.

When I was little, pencils had these pink rubber erasers that were a pleasing color but absolutely terrible at their job. They'd just leave a huge smear, they'd disintegrate quickly and get pink shreds everywhere, they'd turn rock hard.

One day, my stingy penny-pinching grandfather somehow came across a pack of Japanese mechanical pencils at an inventory clearance warehouse sale and let me use them. They had these soft white erasers I had never seen before. And they worked WONDERFULLY. I begged to keep the pencils. They were priceless treasures to be rationed. When he got me another pack, which cost like $2, it was an entire Christmas for me.

Now, these soft white erasers are standard issue at the grocery store. Go and appreciate your good cheap erasers!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Evolving tastes. #grickledoodle #evolution #fish #snacks #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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

when i first started doing idris, i found it annoying that e.g. i couldn't define a constructor with the same name as the type, a very common idiom in haskell.

now i have been confused by enough haskell code to understand that even without dependent types there is a point to being precise.

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DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange ("Dave Wilburn :donor:") wrote:

Hey gang, we need to talk about the recent presidential memorandum authorizing offensive security operations by the private sector. That's because I care about your safety, the rule of law, and a functioning internet. A lot of folks might be excited about the opportunity to use their hacking skills to take out bad actors and criminals in a way that's safe and legal for them. That's not what this is.

At best, this memo provides you with some limited protection from prosecution by the federal government for what's otherwise criminal activity. That protection is only provided if you follow their rules. And it's only as good as Trump's promises, only as long as he perceives you to be useful to him personally, and possibly only as long as Trump retains power.

It provides you with no protection against prosecution by other jurisdictions. You are not a government actor or a uniformed soldier, so you will have no protections from prosecution under sovereign immunity or as a lawful combatant.

Every one of these actions is likely to be considered a criminal offense in every jurisdiction that your operations impact. That includes direct operations as well as support (e.g., offsec tool building, standing up infrastructure for malware delivery or C2). It includes the jurisdictions that your targets are in, as well as every jurisdiction that your operations travel through and that host your infrastructure. It includes upstream and downstream actions by other operators that you might not be fully aware of, if they can tie you to a criminal conspiracy.

Your identity and your operations will not remain secret. This administration has shown they cannot and will not keep secrets. Our president was charged with criminal violations of the espionage act, and his drunkard of a SECDEF has notoriously leaked classified details of military operations to a reporter, so we know they're not trustworthy with secrets.

We've shown that governments can identify and charge cyberespionage operators since the APT1 indictments in 2014, and in some cases we've even successfully arrested, tried, and imprisoned hackers operating for foreign governments. You should assume that other countries have similar investigative capabilities.

You will be subject to arrest, extradition, trial, and imprisonment every time you set foot abroad for business, vacation, or visiting family, possibly for the rest of your life. You could be subject to international sanctions that might freeze your finances. You'll almost certainly wind up a target for intelligence collection by foreign intelligence services. You could also be considered an unlawful combatant and legitimate target for kinetic and non-kinetic military operations by the military forces of the countries you've pissed off.

You should also consider the unreliability of the Trump regime's designations for targeting. They've routinely designated civilian or even functionally nonexistent organizations as criminal or terrorist organizations. You cannot trust their assurances that the bad guys you're harming are actually bad guys.

Please don't make a dumb decision that ruins your life, especially not for the false promises of the Trump regime.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expanding-capabilities-to-combat-transnational-cyber-enabled-crime/

#infosec #uspol #cybersecurity

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

probably unpopular take: idris should separate ** into two operators so that there's different names for the type and the constructor.

mainly so i can get one type error instead of two when i get it wrong.

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

I've never seen "Cowboy Bebop", but I sure am enjoying this soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1-VR%5Fk39lE

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/13/supplier-security-questionnaire.html

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

This was my impression as well. Both people on this call are talking like there's somebody in a suit just off camera with one hand pointing at the sign that says "stick to the script" and the other white-knuckling the gun pointed at their careers.

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117089201745379792