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

just learned about the amtrak Turboliner.

they had a shitty fucked up network, so obviously rather than fix that, they just put a faster train on it.

which then couldn't move any faster because the network was still fucked.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#ACAB #OnlineBullying #Harassment #ThinBlueFeelings

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason One of our favorite small restaurants is going out of business. This is their last week. Plenty of customers. The rent is driving them out of business.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Almost ready.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/18/progress-achieved/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu ("[ whimsical music ]") wrote:

@cwebber pumped for the dragon scale mail age

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

My friend Bernisaun in Tehran has a new release out today

haven't heard from him awhile, some of his accounts had been deleted. he had a friend set up a way for him to be paid through bandcamp.

What Use Are Missiles To The People?
https://bernisaun.bandcamp.com/album/what-use-are-missiles-to-the-people

#bandcampFriday

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

yeah buddy. "being online"

regrettable, but it could happen to anyone

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
Max@corteximplant.com ("Problem Fox") wrote:

Huge thanks as always to @adele for hosting at pollux.casa because although T-mobile fiber won't give me a static IP, thanks to good backups my #smolweb #gemini_protocol capsule is up again at:

gemini://problemfox.pollux.casa/

now to go setup some url forwarding :neofox_vr:

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

We've moved from the bronze age up to the iron age to the age of steel, but the golden age is next!

Wait gold is how bad at replacing the items we used steel for

What the hell did the armor in my fantasy video games lie to me

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PeterSmith@mathstodon.xyz ("Peter Smith") wrote:

A gentle reminder. A PDF of the third edition of my *Introducing Category Theory* can be freely downloaded from logicmatters.net.

But there is a nice hardback version for libraries, ISBN 106834671X.

Many do find working from a five hundred page PDF irksome, and *much* prefer a physical book. So why not ask your local university library to order to a copy (it certainly won’t dent their budgets too much, being listed at $35, £31.50, etc.).

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074

After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process.

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

i just came up with the phrase "carefully-worded sandboxes" and i'm really pleased with it.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Dementia can go ahead and fuck off

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

I think if more people realized that the reason you're paying $20 for a pizza and a soda isn't because your local mom and pop pizza shop all of a sudden got greedy.

It's because the landlords of the building are squeezing their renters.

Americans are paying a premium for nearly everything storefront just so the rich can get richer.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzović:
https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/html-boilerplate

CW: Neutral "AI" mention

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

...now we return to "Continuing Adventures In Misleading Headlines!" (pt. eleventybillion).

In this thrilling episode, our heros unskeptically transcribe The Duopolist's claims, printing them as fact! Press releases? Who needs them! We have THE VERGE!

https://www.theverge.com/tech/981504/apple-app-store-eu-rules-core-technology-commission

/cc @owa

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

Hey, thanks so much, "party of fiscal responsibility"

https://wapo.st/4zt4h48

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Lockpicking Lawyer: *posts a video about getting into his wife's furry fanny*

Me: Hold my "Easy Entry" lock lube...

The lock: 😳

---

For those interested: this is the "Dinner Jacket" jiggler from Red Team Tools, being pounded by the "Lapis" two-way dildo from Lovense, with smooth insertion (into a tight keyway) provided by "Easy Entry" Teflon lock lube.

#AlicePics #RedTeamTools #AprilFools #Locksport #Teledildonics #AccessibilityIsHotAF #AltText

Attachments:

• video: Alice straps a pinkish-red two-way vibrating dildo into a tabletop vise, then saddles a laminated steel padlock over the attached jiggler, thrusting it deep into the tight, well-lubed keyway. With one hand controlling the vibrator app, and the other wrapped gently around the lock's hard body, Alice cranks up the juice until you can see the lock quivering. After a little in and out, Alice gives one final twist, and the shackle pops, spinning like an excited cowgirl on their mechanical bull. You can almost hear the spent lock whisper "fuuuuck" as the camera cuts away.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nuages@mediaformat.org ("Nuages") wrote:

Hello World

Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse

#activitypub #ActivityPubAPI #c2s #fediverse

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

Why America's Tracks Destroyed France's Turbine Train

cause the french actually spent money on their rails? :blobcatangel:

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

apparently teslas have an AI assistant based on grok now and it's shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuDlid7eLt0

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

New post: “Lake Minneola to Lake Wobegon and Back”

Musing about one last big trip with a parent, and the crossroads I face afterward.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/minneola-to-wobegon/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dinobrarian ("Charlie") wrote:

It's very nice to be reminded that other people also think my job is important. I sometimes feel like most people forget librarians exist or that we're a bit of a relic, but 90% of the job is helping people to find and recognise reliable information, think critically about it, and recognise when they're being fed propaganda (or slop) and I can honestly think of nothing more important or sisyphean right now.

(Anyway, it's nice when people recognise it!)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
luyin@lgbtqia.space ("Luyin") wrote:

Alright Fedi, I'm looking for a job out of AI hell. I know chances aren't great for anyone right now, but I'm taking mine anyway.

I'm a (senior?) #Python developer with 10 years of experience in both #DataScience and #SoftwareEngineering (with a preference for the latter). I can find my way around #Rust and don't shy away from #JavaScript. I've done a bit of #React lately and haven't found it terrible.

I thrive in team environments where I have time both to work on my own and in pairs or mobs ( https://mob.sh is a great tool I'd use again, but IntelliJ's Code With Me works too).

My greatest passion is automating the tasks around coding away - testing, building, deploying code with either the shortest set of commands or just fully automated from a pipeline on pull/merge requests.

I won't say no to places that require me to use AI, but I have a strong preference to be able to write my code myself.

Would love boosts for reach! Also thanks for reading 💖

#FediJob #BoostsWelcome #BoostsAppreciated #GetFediHired

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

poll: when you first learned linux/unix, did you use (you can pick more than one):

(not looking for extra details right now, I'm just reflecting on the role of "free internet resources" recently)

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Where in GitHub would you specify that LLM generated issues and PRs are not welcome ?

In a template ? But isn't it just ignored and thus erased by the LLM posting ?

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

Finally got screensharing working in Firefox on Guix + Wayland thanks to @dthompson (and @daviwil and @abcdw !) Here's what I had to do:

- Use this wrapper https://git.dthompson.us/guix-config/tree/dthompson/home/pipewire.scm#n61
- Wrap firefox https://git.dthompson.us/guix-config/tree/dthompson/machines/ikaruga.scm#n158

Thanks y'all!

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

@cwebber

Does this mean that Codeberg, by being a code hosting system opting out of LLM-generated content, becomes the most desirable source of content to feed the LLMs themselves

Yep... it does. Which it makes it ironic just how much vibe bros complained about the ban

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
dee@treehouse.systems ("Dee") wrote:

ugh... I need to make visuals for some slides, and I need to do it by 48h time.

I am not good at art, and I am not desirous of using AI.

is there a really good quick digital sketch creative on here open to an instant commission, who can create:

• 6-7 images for slides
• virtually no text, very pictorial / cartoon like
• on the theme of engineering on-call, feedback loops, and "dogfooding" our own code.
• to be displayed in a large auditorium, audience size ~800?

I will fully take the next few days of your time, and maybe edits next week.

I don't have a work budget for this (I'm supposed to use AI), but save my ass and I will pay whatever your advertised rate is out of my own pocket as I value real work ❤️

apologies for the crazy deadline

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
Ryuu@meow.social wrote:

How to find me at EF30:
Feel free to give hugs and say hello. :3

📷: kachu.bsky.social

#Eurofurence #EF30