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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

Mr Poirot posing for #caturday

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NAH. PANIC HAS STARTED COPY AND THANKS

Area: Virginia, USA
Type: Airbus A220-300
A: #a45ab7f94d5
F: #f4b57da28a6

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rantingsteve@pounced-on.me ("Steve") wrote:

Things I am willing to do for money:

- Math, Computer Science, Study Skills tutoring. I have a Master's in Computer Science over 20 years experience helping students from middle-school through post-grad, as well as professionals looking to grow their skill-set. I also have 10 years experience teaching at various universities, including University of Pittsburgh and CUNY schools.
- Software and app development
- Sermon writing and preaching - I have a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and over 10 years experience preaching in Mainline Protestant communities.
- Transformational life coaching - I am a certified DreamBuilder coach with the Brave Thinking Institute.
- Literally any manual labor in the greater Pittsburgh area. I am mostly able-bodied and willing do anything short of prostitution at this point.

Excuse the vulnerability, but I'm at my wit's end. Please help me feel less useless. #fediHire #getfedihired

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

for the record, i'm actually pretty down with not doing things because of conscience. more people should refuse to do things for conscience reasons actually, it might make the world a better place.

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

it is funny looking, now to push it up & see if it tunes up

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

this week i've bonus had "Anti-AI people are worse than the most annoying vegans", which i thought we dispatched weeks ago.

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

re: LB: if someone sounds like they're heading down the pipeline, there's a good chance they're further down than you realise already.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
peachymist@sakurajima.moe ("jess :sylveonhappy: :smoonbow:") wrote:

this has happened at least 3 times now. a person i had contact with suddenly says something in favor of AI usage. at first it looks slightly innocuous, the sort of take you go "ugh" but you wouldn't cut contact with someone over (at least i wouldn't a few months ago).

it's usually disguised as a defense or argument for something else too. "FOSS developers are burnt out" "anti-AI folks are being unreasonable" "i don't think we should demonize people for something like this".

at the time, i saw some of these takes but didn't do anything. because i didn't want to be "radical", "unreasonable".

but then it starts. a few days later, or sometimes even in the same thread, that same person is going full on AI defense. mocking anti-AI folks. and one thing becomes clear: what they are doing is trying to justify their own use or support of AI.

that's why i don't want to be around anyone anymore that doesn't have an explicit stance of "fuck AI, it should burn to the ground and there is no excuse for using it of one's own volition whatsoever".

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

well, if Mr Pythagorus was right and I measured the arms vaguely accurately then this should be a ~50Ω full wavelength loop for 6 meters

total me to stick it on a mast & tripod & see if it works

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:

Are These Reasonable Concerns Or Am I Catastrophising: A Memoir

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

I ain't proving shit. I don't use it, I have a 35-year-long professional track record of not using it, and if someone says I do use it, they can go fuck themselves.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@writer%5Fjunkie/post/Db%5FuS07iVxN

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
brettcodes ("Brett Codes") wrote:

I also made a ramble-y video about why I'm done using AI for coding: https://youtu.be/2ZU3j4GQ4K8

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
brettcodes ("Brett Codes") wrote:

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/

The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
farseen@fedi.nptr.xyz wrote:

@joepie91 also, I tried de-googling in the past. Bank apps and govt apps detect that the device has failed "Play Integrity Verification" and refuse to work. And I have to rely on these apps because some of them don't exist as webapps, and rest still use table based HTML design optimally viewed on a 1024x768 Internet Explorer.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

yeah so that whole "google is gonna lock down android in 2027 thing, degoogle your phone now" thing

so are any of you working yet on actually making that possible for anything that isn't 10 high-end models from 5 western brands?

or is everyone just expected to drop $500+ on a new phone and add their old phone to the landfill as yet another piece of e-waste?

(and save me the "well *technically* some low-end models are supported" spiel because if that's your response then you have *not* understood the point I am making here)

#android #degoogle

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
heathen_cat@furs.social ("Heathen 🐈") wrote:

@soatok @sec_yote_agenda @stefanie @0xabad1dea
I'm also not all that motivated to make everything "family friendly" if I can't be my adult queer self. Everyone wants queer people to be role models for their kids, nobody wants to deal with the messy reality of adulthood. Sorry, I didn't live through Ronald f'ing Reagan so I could live like a Disney character and increase shareholder value.

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

to be fair did we really need this many? so absolutely many

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

these are all the computers you have now, forever

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

the scheme world decided to call them "surfeys" because all schemers like to surf. catch some waves

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

Hack & Craft! Today! Come craft and/or work on computer things with friends online! 14:00-16:00 ET / 18:00-20:00 UTC! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

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

Long distance

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

Commit to the Blit

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

Every time a writer writes furious about Anthropic’s watermarking affecting “their” writing I have to laugh. These once serious people didn’t have to turn themselves into clowns but they just had to go through the effort to pratfall in public, thinking that wouldn’t end our respect for them

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