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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
clacke@libranet.de ("clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛") wrote:

the Greek demigod of powered transport

Vehicles

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Firefox is now the last known major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Ad blocker. Everyone including Microsoft Edge, Google and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3. Firefox is also the only browser that check and ensure uBlock's code on every update to make sure the devs (or compromised repos) hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension code. The list of recommended and monitored or vetted FF extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&type=extension

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
prereview@mas.to ("PREreview") wrote:

💭 What might peer review look like if it evolved alongside the research process, rather than centering only on the final paper?

That’s what the Modular Peer Review Working Group set out to explore between January and July 2026. Convened by the Continuous Science Foundation & PREreview, more than 60 researchers, infrastructure builders, publishers, and community members generated practical, testable ideas for integrating peer review across the research lifecycle. Their conviction: researchers benefit most from feedback when it arrives early enough to influence the work.

The groundwork is laid—and the invitation to shape what comes next is open.

🙌 What the group asked, learned and produced in each session, reported here: https://articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/modular-peer-review/report

#ModularPeerReview #OpenScience

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

For those that missed it, The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #Accessibility #Ableism #Disability

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
linguacelta@toot.wales ("Dr. Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh") wrote:

RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117098977750526646

My goodness, this is sublime writing.

"Just fix your fucking code. Pour some concrete. And stop trying to upgrade my body when the problem is your design."

Yes. Every word of this.

Disabled people's bodies are not your problem to fix. But the infrastructure and systems which exclude our bodies are everyone's problem. Spend a few hours and a few bucks addressing them *for everyone*, instead of wasting millions trying to turn one "lucky" individual into Iron Man.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

It's the 79th anniversary of the Partition of India. I highly recommend learning about it if you're unfamiliar with what happened. Similar to other horrors of the British Empire, this doesn't tend to be taught in Commonwealth countries.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
MacNaBracha@mastodon.scot ("Seonaidh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿") wrote:

Nach math sin. Agus, cho furasta ri ABC...

This is great. And, not rocket science.

#Scotland #nature #Birds #Alba #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Gàidhlig

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

You see, kids, AM radio was a primitive form of audio streaming done using radio signals broadcast from large towers. The bandwidth was barely enough to transmit the human voice and the modulation mechanism was susceptible to noise, and so the quality was poor (especially for music).

AM did, however, have the benefit of simplicity and degrading "gracefully" so even a poor quality signal could be used to recover the audio at the expense of degraded quality. People would become accustomed to the poor quality of the sound they could receive.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/117095119793421876

I am now willing to describe the Linux Foundation as "a force for evil in the world"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

Linux Foundation is trying to get OSI to approve a new license for "open" models. The license has a copyright retaliation clause that says you lose the right to use the model if you assert the model violates your copyright. 😂

It's basically an amnesty for big model creators before courts actually settle this dispute.

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review%5Flists.opensource.org/2026-August/006135.html

Edit - cc: @osi @linuxfoundation

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Damn. And this whole time I assumed that *Waluigi* did it.

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

Do people using these services not notice they're being served slop? Is the music just background noise like a white noise generator (although I found it worse than that)? Or is it something like how you can get used to the poor quality sound of an AM radio station if that's all you've got. It all sounds bad, so... this is just what music is to people now? Bad lyrics, bad sound, and bad "AI" generated pictures of the "artists"?

I hope not... That would be so incredibly sad. The world is full of so many incredible artists producing wonderful works. It's completely unnecessary and undesirable to get a computer to generate an uncanny valley emulation. :(

Sometimes I think we're conveniencing ourselves to death.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

@sec_yote_agenda @soatok as a non-furry, the idea that pup hoods are too adult to wear in public spaces is baffling to me. Maybe I’m just missing some crucial piece of wiring but I don’t get why it’s so controversial

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

Reworked this one to look a little bit less retro

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The last rusty object. Have a great weekend!

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #countryside #rural #rust

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

May all streaming services contributing to this mess and not doing anything to curate what they play completely fail and go out of business.

(This was the polite version of my sentiment. You can imagine I started with a much more... forceful version and then decided to make it family friendly.)

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

I get an announcement of a new single from a band that went quiet while raising kids. Cool! I follow the link to a streaming service that's accessible to me (they're on bandcamp, but this single isn't). There's actually two tracks. Double cool!

Great music, and I'm looking forward to hearing more in the near future, but then the streaming service keeps going after the two songs and starts playing some slop music.

It is atrocious. Like the "music" is passable in some sense, but the "mix", if you call it that, is muddy and the vocals in particular sound like somebody passed it through something that generates a lot of hissing noise. No human would mix music so it sounded like that (this was not done for effect), certainly not with the vocals.

Anyway, I'm no fan of streaming services for music, but like hell I'm going to pay for a service that places "AI" slop next to thoughtful, creative, hardworking artists. Completely disrespectful.

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

[cue trumpets, stage L]

the first Serrano 🌶️ of the season has been harvested

[light torches & cue cheering crowd, stage R]

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Doorknobs are the work of the devil, designed only to make people suffer. "Yes, I would like to apply inordinate force on a small slippery sphere" -- statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

today's lesson: do not paste random `git clean` commands when you have important untracked files

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

"Power is running amok. A trillionaire dismantled the world’s largest development agency. We have grown accustomed to an oligarch class that speaks openly about replacing human beings or ignoring the onset of climate change. We have a president who makes ignoring or weaponizing the law a feature of his administration. The course we are on is not one that most people want. Think about not just where we’re going, but where we want to go":
https://benrhodes1.substack.com/p/let-the-illusions-die
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

8/15/73: UFW honors Nagi Daifallah, 24 yr old grape striker from Yemen who was brutally clubbed to death by a Kern Co. sheriff's deputy in the farm town of Lamont, CA during the UFW's '73 grape strike. Nagi was the 2nd UFW martyr who lost their lives during union strikes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Octopus are giving a free hour of electricity tomorrow, but it is capped at 16kWh.
Charging a car for an hour on a fast charger would use about 7kWh.
A typical DNO fuse is rated at 60 Amps, so would barely be able to get close to 13kWh (220V x 60A).
Even if you were upgraded to 80 or 100 Amps, would you have the equipment to draw that much power from the grid?

Anyway, if you want to switch to Octopus, here's a code to get us both £50.
https://share.octopus.energy/metal-dove-988

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
punissuer@universeodon.com ("punIssuer") wrote:

@derStandard "It's getting harder and harder to diagnose paranoia."
—https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/right

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

Solar eclipse

Too late for this guy...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117099238864415243

go go go #bbc

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Naich@fosstodon.org ("🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩") wrote:

Good morning.

Attachments:

• video: A man holds a cat like the bagpipes, with the cat's tail in his mouth. He makes finger movements on the cat's back in time to the bagpipe music. The woman next to him looks solemnly at him. The cat's expression is one of annoyed acceptance.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

I think we all need to add this to our LinkedIn profiles

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jan@social.janantos.com wrote:

@liztai sometime around 2017 I was leading business intelligence team and we had continuously developed analytics #OLAP cube having about 50 dimensions (over 250 attributes) and about 200 measures. Financial team over years previous few years developed “mighty” #excel for financial reporting and forecasting. It has taken about 7 hours to recalculate this excel once each quarter of year. It started failing and time-outing and it was a big mess. One day it ended up on my desk to “optimise” it and make it working again. What a nightmare. First thing I made a macro that counted how many cells with expressions it does have. Little bit over 57000!!! My team spent several long painful months close to year to deal with that crap. The man who created it (Alex) was not anymore in company, it was poorly documented. So please let’s stop glorifying Excel works such these. It literally made me almost mentally ill. At the end we successfully migrated it. Then I moved to another company and found another excel beast again in finance. There is something seriously wrong with finance people and excel.

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

@ChrisMayLA6
In a wider context I fear that UK gov is falling into JFK's "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable", both in Scotland & the wider UK (effective criminalisation of protest in England & Wales already).

I would dearly love to be proven wrong, but I see no evidence to the contrary.