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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Junior explorers. Real photo post card from my collection, no date/info.

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

honestly starting to wonder if co-de bruijn indexing might make life easier

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rdnielsen@floss.social ("RDN") wrote:

Analysis of blood chemistry data from 7,000 U.S. residents, collected over 20 years, found that bicarbonate levels have increased about 7%, tracking the rise in atmospheric CO2. Calcium and phosphorus declined over the same period. These may lead to effects on respiration, heart rate, kidney calcification, oxidative stress, inflammation, and cerebral electrical activity.

Summary: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260814235845.htm

Original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5

#Science #Health #ClimateChange #CO2

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

🎼 #Classical music accounts to follow:

CLASSICAL NEWS & BLOGS
@WConcertHall - Classical & opera livestreams around world
@index@serenademagazine.com - Classical music magazine, based in India
@index@classicalexplorer.com - Classical blog on concerts, recordings
@canyonsfan - Musicologist on classical pieces
@BBC3MusicBot - BBC Radio 3 Now Playing

DISCUSSION GROUPS
- Classical
- Neo-classical, modern classical
- Contemporary composers, modern classical, acousmatic

🧵 1/3

#ClassicalMusic

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sirosen ("Stephen Rosen") wrote:

Everyone loves the analogy between open source maintainers and gardeners. Open source is like gardening!

But I've flipped the script and am running my garden like open source and hoo boy let me tell you it is not going well.

Lots of things are thriving, and some of it is stuff I planted! We haven't given the blueberries proper watering in *years*. I'm pretty sure we planted those onions? But they aren't where I remembered putting them...

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

@Netzblockierer @the_wub @itgrrl @amydiehl if someone really want to track you there are better ways to do it, even average technical skilled person will pit together esp32, gps module, sim800 gsm model and prepaid m2m simcard and lion battery and fairly short micropython script and sick it at the bottom of your car. All those things you can buy really low profile from different vendors and good luck trying to track it back to bad actor.

So lets count BOM
Esp32c3 module 6 Eur
Sim800 module 7 eur
Lion-battery 10 eur
GPS module 15 eur
Some other stuff around 5 eur
Total 43 eur (lets say less than 2x more than AirTag, but realtime tracking working)

And now the point, I think none of commentators here will argue they are bad technology. But if bad actor put them together, here we go. And the same in most cases applies to almost any technology.

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

i feel i might be due a reread of rob grant's "incompetence"

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
eh@functional.cafe wrote:

Deeply honoured to have been hired by the city of Madrid to write the CSS for their new statue.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

Apple founder Steve Wozniak jumped into the Slashdot comments on his 75th birthday last year.

The reason that some successful people aren't billionaires is because they use their wealth to make the world a better place. "Success" isn't measured by the number in a checkbook.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

If there's one thing that will stick with me from the whole way AI has played out, it's how intensely damaging it has been for tech to become one of the first new post-Reagan industries. Not only did tech workers not get the same opportunities for labor representation as had been fought for and won elsewhere, but Reaganite "right to work" and deregulation propaganda convinced so many tech workers that they shared more common interest with capital owners than other laborers.

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

The Turing Club - it is 2027 and the world has lost its mind. A brave band of misfits meets in secret in the dead of night to commit the ultimate crime - write their own fucking code.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

@Gotterdammerung here.

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

Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships

oh yes, a great relationship is agentic!

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

Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier.

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

@medieval_illuminations the whore, apparently, had a great dentist

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

Incidentally, many news outlets are covering it as "the watermark will affect anything processed by Claude, not just stuff generated by it" e.g. ArsTechnica.

And my friends, my friends.

Do you know how these things work? Here's a hint: It's in the name. Generative AI.

There isn't really a difference between "processed" and "generated", it's the same model spitting out the next-most-likely word. The only thing different is the prompt

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:") wrote:

you know if you want to talk to a "PhD level intelligence", you can just slide into my DMs

you don't have to pay ChatGPT

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

Tbh I doubt the house-move-stress is helping.

I hate moving house.

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

Kept the server on due to the (unplanned) outage last night but tbh I doubt tooting at 5am is healthy. So, I'm going to stick to the server-off-at-night schedule and run the cleanup job in the day.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ratsnakegames ("Sophie of Ratsnake Games") wrote:

@0xabad1dea It is also legal to not have an image on every blog post.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mmoore ("Matt Moore") wrote:

We're looking for a new senior software engineer at Pope Tech. We build web applications for evaluating and improving web accessibility. I would appreciate it if you boosted this for reach! #getfedihired

https://www.pope.tech/jobs/senior-software-engineer-2

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tati@eldritch.cafe ("tatiana :witches_town:") wrote:

ok kids, this is what a skimmer could look like. i haven't tested it as i don't want to touch it with my phone

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 16th 2026 (Hard), in less than 16 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Why yes, that is a perfect Sunday solve on 5 hour's sleep

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

grumbles about all the vibecoded websites having a tagline that says "made with ❤️"

Wish they would be honest and just say they were made with 🤖

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
patricianicoloso@masto.nu ("Patrícia Nicoloso") wrote:

Pardal/House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
#animal #animais #animals #fotografias #photo #photograph #photos #birdwatching #birding #santamaria #santamariars #riograndedosul #bird #birds #Ave #aves #asavesqueeuencontro #patricianicoloso

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos ("Jean ") wrote:

Cutie King parrot approached us on our hike yesterday. #BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos ("Jean ") wrote:

Egg-laying mammal alert! #MammalPhotography #MammalsofAustralia #MammalsofFediverse #Fedimammals #wildoz #platypus #WildlifePhotography #AustralianWildlife #Monotreme #animalphotography

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jsbarretto@social.coop ("Joshua Barretto") wrote:

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar system' money. It's not 'write shit software 20% faster' money.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

1. A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

2. An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main%5FPage

3. A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

4. A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page

5. Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

6. Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

7. Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

8. Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

9. You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org

10. the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

#writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog

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

I went to a party today with several dozen people who I did not know, and not a single one recognized me by face or by name when it was given to them, so that's my level of fame, and honestly that's pretty great

RE: https://www.threads.com/@breesch840/post/DcFd1fUjSmh