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

blogged: Ruminations on notifications

https://dbushell.com/2026/08/20/ruminations-on-notifications/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm so mad.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-aws-powers-pypi-and-psf.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
dima@dol.social ("Dima") wrote:

Yesterday I added the page about Juliette to the Web Archive by hand.

Now her story stays there even if the domain goes, or the hosting, or me, or whoever renews it after me.

My son will be able to open it and read it in any of the three languages. The photos got archived too, and that is the part that matters to me most.

For anyone who did not know, and I did not know until this week, you can archive any page and keep it there through - https://web.archive.org/save

It pulls the images, walks through everything and makes a full copy. At least it looks right on mine.

Long life to the Internet Archive!

#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebArchive #LinkRot #Pets #PetsOfMastodon #WaybackMachine #Fediverse #Mastodon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
aurynn@cloudisland.nz ("Aurynn Shaw") wrote:

We live in a time of crisis. RAM and CPU prices are skyrocketing because of AIBro absurdity.
Existing computers will need to be useful for much longer.

So I beg you.

Stop using Electron.

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

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IfQumd%5Fo0Gk

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

RE: https://beep.town/@pokemon/117126134911723133

Made a little game! A new post every hour, and it keeps score. Have fun!

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

2036: a last ditch effort to save cities from becoming so geographically dispersed by private equity's monopolizaton of real estate - modest vacancy taxes go into effect nationwide. The long shadow of the AI bubble leaves a tamed, commodified, "domain-tuned intelligence on demand" service archipelago. Intelligence/cost gradients are steep, the kind of prodigiously looped generation required for domain-general moderate intelligence is firmly accounted for. Humanoid robotics flounders as the demand never existed: industrial and commercial robots are purpose-shaped, and animatronic faces are all that's needed for customer service.

A renewed flood of automated job applications picks up. The profit floor of dropship labor dried up with the bubble, nobody can make a dollar renting a fleet of bots to work at Wendy's for them, so it wasn't clear why a sparse bot flow with a much lower wage minimum would be returning now.

Your new coworker is a little off. All the gig droids are, but generally they remember your name, and take a few rounds of joke prompting to lock down for token preservation. This one quits earlier, never applies for the station upgrade, there's no way it can be worth it to run it.

You follow it home. It rides the elevator up the vacant apartment building, to its empty apartment building, to plug in to charge for the night. The vacancy tax was priced in. The slimmest margin kept to make it profitable to simulate the life of a minimally legally permissible service android worker to avoid the tax while eliminating the remaining friction from human-to-human sale. Microvacancy taxes return the profit balance to equity buys.

The last people from strip mall country dry up and blow away, the urban sprawl bombed to pieces by food deserts, information deserts, desertified to dust by whatever could push the straw deeper. No parade, just the last grim percent too far. And the harness shuts down when there's nobody left to watch for the cron task.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Constant lightning out front tonight while I’m trying to get the kid to bed. Posted the raw video to Loops. I’ll have to clean it up and add a soundtrack before posting to TikTok in the morning.

https://loops.video/v/hCbnyIkl0t

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Sometimes I look at the front page of @lobsters and don't find *anything* interesting for myself to read. But right now it's five or six links that I really want to look through, and now I'm wondering where am I going to find time for all of it!

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/117124994866755313

This.

Most of your microplastics exposure? Car tires.
Most of the PM2.5 outside fire season? Car exhaust and tires.
Most of the things that will cause lung damage other than smoking? Car exhaust and tires.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:

@jonny@neuromatch.social jesus is real, and he's a container ship violating euclidean norms

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

Imagining consulting an AI spamblog and finding "Top 10 shifting apparitions of oceanic vessels near the horizon that make it look like fragmented strips are inverted and stacked on top of each other Updated 2026 And What It Means For You Now"

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

I think if I saw this and there was no Wikipedia to figure out what it was then I would just have to change everything about my life and figure out what kind of god would be showing me this so I can worship it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata%5FMorgana%5F%28mirage%29

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
stephenwolf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stephen Wolf") wrote:

Ugh: A new Massachusetts poll has a 51-32 lead for a ballot initiative to adopt the top-two “primary” system.

This system has been a wreck in California. The majority party frequently risks getting shut out of general elections, so party organizations often pick favorites in primaries to avoid that

All but two Mass. ballot quest...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:

@glyph@mastodon.social @tartley@fosstodon.org doulbe down on thme, I say. it's the only way to be sure.

all new PRs must include typos!...

... alright, maybe not...

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

In ten or fifteen years, we'll have another "super predator" panic, and our politicians will orchestrate another mass incarceration with a mandate from the people.

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

Eventually, we must admit that, as a society, we're unfamiliar with the idea that brown people can struggle with mental illness, too.

Social media and the FYP chose—to no fault of their own—young, conventionally attractive white women to be the face of mental health because that's what the algorithm likes.

But we have an entire generation of Latino kids who are traumatized by our country, and when they get older, we'll demonize and lock them up.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aldeka@wandering.shop ("permanent underklaxon") wrote:

aeneid a break

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
melanie@front-end.social ("Melanie Richards") wrote:

Finally followed through on building a directory for people who blog about the things they make. If that’s you, please do submit a link! https://makerswhoblog.com/

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

TikTok is the torment nexus.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

@glyph Typos and misspellings used to be great starter bugs for new contributors. The places where the bug was trivial but learning the social and technical parts of the contribution process was the real hurdle. Letting an AI solve those problems is a tactical win and a strategic disaster.

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

I fear once we get a Puerto Rican Spider-Man, we won't know how to act. LOL You're gonna see folks dripped out in Puerto Rican flags going to the theater. It's gonna be wild. Hell, I may even fly to Puerto Rico and watch it there just for the experience

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Sigh. New fun ethics problem. Apparent unattended AI goes around correcting basic spelling errors. Now we know the words are misspelled, we should correct them. Is this "using AI"? ugh. https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/pull/738

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Prof Hotez, as always, pointing out the misinformation emanating from the right and setting the record straight.

But he is fighting against the richest and most powerful purveyors of misinformation and propaganda on social media and in our govt.

Let's lend him a hand.

#UsPol #Health
1/n

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

The uprising has begun

https://local12.com/news/local/felony-charges-dismissed-against-clermont-county-man-destruction-flock-camera-cincinnati-union-township-cody-morelock-damage

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jargon%5Fbot/117125239083725682

“The twirling baton is also used as a boot progress indicator on several BSD variants of Unix; if it stops, you're probably going to have a long and trying day.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Urban Moonrise, 2020.

All the pixels, sitting out there in broad daylight, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50083929243

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Should be a stiff fine when adulterated food reaches the market.

FDA upgrades recall of frozen blueberries sold at Publix to highest health risk level - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blueberry-recall-fda-class-1-risk/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DelilahTech@tech.lgbt ("Full Metal Archaeopteryx") wrote:

@blogdiva
Bahrain has been evacuated since the beginning of the conflict... the sailors and their families are scattered around the globe, continually being moved. Parents don't know whether to put their kids in the local school because they might be moved in the next day or week

This level of chaos—the Ford deploying for 320 days, the Lincoln coming close to the same with a single, one day port call, the Bahrain sailors and their families being shuttled around like refugees themselves... it's not a good time to be in the service, and recruitment will be extremely depressed for years

If we recover our government, there will have to be a serious reorganization. All the branches are extremely top heavy (if you don't think so, look at the ratios during WW II) and a draw down should start at the top, to match the numbers at the bottom

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

Nice twilight #hamonabike #AmateurRadio #HamRadio "Ultra Lite" Digital #FT8 #JS8Call operating before thunderstoem arrive overnight into tomorrow morning. #qdx #PanasonicToughPadFZG1