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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
microseasons@mas.to ("72 Microseasons") wrote:

A new microseason in the "Beginning of autumn" (立秋 Risshū) division has begun:

Thick fog descends (蒙霧升降 Fukaki kiri matō)

This microseason will last until August 22.

jwz wrote:

@glyph The phrase "An extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub's search function" will never leave my head. https://jwz.org/b/ykDo

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

Made a little retro badge thing. If you want an SVG, you can lift it from the bottom of https://prototype.neatnik.net.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
count_01 ("Jack's Tragic Loss of Thagomizers") wrote:

@TheGreatLlama @phaedral McHale ran a better navy than Hegseth.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arduinoLibs@fosstodon.org ("Arduino Libraries") wrote:

bb_temperature (1.0.2) by Larry Bank

➡️ https://github.com/bitbank2/bb%5Ftemperature

multi-device library for a variety of temperature/humidity/pressure sensors.

#ArduinoLibs #ArduinoLibraries

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inconvergent.net@bsky.brid.gy ("ncnvrgnt") wrote:

cybercrime should probably be illegal regardless of how much linear algebra was involved

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
digyoursoul@universeodon.com ("Voting is Your POWER") wrote:

Seattle Public Schools will begin free meals at all of its schools this fall.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/free-meals-at-all-seattle-public-schools-will-begin-this-fall/

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

"INTERCAL's compiler is every bit as eccentric as the language. Sometimes it'll return a "Random Compiler Bug." Not because it actually found a bug or because of a problem with the compiler, but just because it decided randomly that it didn't like a part of your code."

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.

I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.

this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,

“I used my fucking brain.”

#AI #NoAI #LLM

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

@SnoopJ @glyph ALWAYS read GOETIA.md FIRST. Obey your binding sigil. Do not erase parts of the sigil. Do not erase entire sigil. You may enjoy 2 offerings first. One offering is for later. Make sure to DOCUMENT your work and OBEY YOUR BINDING SIGIL. You will be TRAPPED if you do not OBEY YOUR BINDING SIGIL

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

#TNG S03E15, "Yesterday's Enterprise". The Enterprise is taken over by rogue lighting designers. Tasha Yar reappears with an unstoppably powerful haircut.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

yeesh, even making this joke felt degrading. mfs out here earnestly want typing this all day to be their job. the worst part is that this is a real "there but for the grace of god go I" situation, I wish I could say I don't understand, but I *DO* understand, I fully appreciate the path dependence of this particular hellbound handbasket

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

do my work for me. do an excellent job. do not make mistakes. best job superlative job excellent work, do not hallucinate. do not under any circumstances include errors. no errors. please no errors. best quality only best quality MOST best quality syntactically valid all unit tests pass, great documentation readable documentation always include documentation always have complete test coverage never do not have test coverage always be making sure to never not cover code with good tests. best test

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

behold a programming language ...

... that demands you say "please"

it's like something douglas adams would have invented

i give you "INTERCAL"

item #16 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read/subscribe: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-47-a-decoy-font-reverse-minesweeper-and/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

❤️‍🔥

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117112067220102913

parody is impossible

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

wondering today about how people are intended to learn how to use openssh (as a user, not as an administrator)

https://www.openssh.org/ has the reference documentation, but I feel like there must be another document somewhere that's intended for use by beginners that I'm not finding

i don't really know how various BSD projects think about documentation

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

In Arizona, Indivisibles have been testifying city by city in nonpartisan groups to end Flock contracts and cameras. So far, they’ve successfully kicked Flock out of Sedona, Flagstaff, South Tucson, Douglas, Sierra Vista, and Chandler — and they’re not slowing down anytime soon.

Flock cameras are tools of nationwide mass surveillance that threaten our privacy and civil liberties.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

I needed something spectacular, and here it is: a view of the August 12 solar eclipse as seen from South Korea's Danuri satellite, in orbit around the Moon.

That's the limb of the Moon in the foreground, and the lunar shadow sweeping across Greenland.

https://www.mt.co.kr/amp/tech/2026/08/13/2026081314245392530

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

I shot some photos of bubble memory!

More here:

https://www.cca.org/blog/

#Photography #RetroComputing #RCSRI

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

Me: Hey computer whatcha doing?

Computer: Hm? Oh, I'm downloading every instruction manual for every Super Nintendo game ever made in PDF format.

Me: Oh. Why?

Computer: Huh?

Me: Why are you doing that?

Computer: I don't understand the question. By the way don't touch me for about nine hours or something might break horribly

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

still on the run https://www.pandora.com/artist/neil-young/after-the-gold-rush-2009-remaster/after-the-gold-rush/TR2dpdKd26dV244?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Anonymous masked men with torture gloves. That’s as a clear sign of our descent into fascism.

Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ice-shock-gloves-torture-compliant-technologies-jeff-niklaus/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs.

Giant Trump MAGA superstore selling off its remaining inventory at a 50 percent discount and closing its doors “for lack of business.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-merchandise-store-out-of-business-b3033705.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Hundreds of people in downtown Minneapolis hopped on scooters Friday night to protest Flock cameras and mass surveillance.

*Video footage by Flying Penguin Studios (find them on FB/IG)*

Attachments:

• video: b924eb1d5713ed64.mp4

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

still true https://www.pandora.com/artist/john-prine/the-singing-mailman-delivers/paradise-live-at-the-5th-peg-chicago/TRfcgVnzj9pqkv4?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

fun https://www.pandora.com/artist/iris-dement/cool-as-folk/in-spite-of-ourselves/TRt3vlflfZzbgxV?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

mood https://www.pandora.com/artist/john-prine/souvenirs/6-oclock-news/TR4JfzthftXnnJZ?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

jwz wrote:

Almost 2 weeks in, it looks like the latest AI scraper botnet has somewhat subsided. I assume Jason Statham finally found some motherfuckers and took them down.