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Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

it bothers me a bit when people talk about large dependency graphs like they're somebody else's problem. if your software has 1000 deps that's *your problem* don't palm it off on the ecosystem for having packages! i would be much more receptive to people complaining about the dependencies of software they're using, usually having a gigantic dependency tree just means you're importing a 'framework' or three. (and yeah i realise this is a pedantic distinction)

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

You'll never guess who Elon Musk thinks is "awesome."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/20/the-company-they-keep-tells-you-all-you-need-to-know/

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.98.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀

This release includes algebraic floating point methods, NumBuffer for integer formatting, substr_range/subslice_range, strip_circumfix, Atomic::from_mut, and more. ✨

Check out the blog post for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/Rust-1.98.0/

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

@alice @misty "an ipod was like an iphone without the annoying phone part. also it was controlled like this:"

https://theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no-keybo-1819594761/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

@thomasfuchs
But then AI companies came and destroyed all of that. Apparently copyright law doesn't exist if you operate piracy at a large enough scale. I think there are two parts to why "we" accepted it. First was "Open" AI's weird corporate structure with the 501c3 that clouded the for profit motives. Second that the entire planet is being held hostage in a software cold war where the, legitimate, concerns are that rival countries will have more powerful AI that can exploit vulnerabilities

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

RE: https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/117128373167235184

I figured I would self quote this because replies are weird on mastodon. This is a big part of why I have a hard line "Never AI" stance.

Water usage can be mitigated, energy can be renewable, manufacturing can catch up, but generative AI will always be built on theft because it needs so much data.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
mirek@rodina-sucha.cz ("Miroslav Suchý") wrote:

Hurayyy! New version of #RPM
https://rpm.org/releases/6.1.0

It sounds like a boring release, but it will allow us to do big things in Mock (namely, the -k option).

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@mos_8502 @mhoye Regardless of size a language model is just an extraordinarily bad way to produce code. For that you want rigorous processes not vibes.

These models are mostly bad for generative use anyway, but small, specific, curated ones could be useful for helping the user find patterns. In a code context, patterns of common bugs and vulnerabilities, idioms used, seeking out existing implementations of an algorithm to read and learn from or to select as a library to use and credit, rather than to automate plagiarism of somebody else's implementation, etc.

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

Creating media with an uncooperative mind: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/deciding-what-to-do/

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

Early August 2026 photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/early-august-2026/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

There's a motivational thing people say that I find quite helpful: "one day or day one." Lord almighty, I understand it's incredibly cheesy. But after 4+ years of chronic illness, injuries, increasing chronic pain, scary misdiagnoses and mistreatments, and blows to how I've experienced being a physical body in the world, I guess I need a little cheese. I have so many brutal barriers to work around, I've been slipping more and more into giving up on working out.

Today is: Day One, again.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The Aesthetic Rebellion

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/066.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

a "geist" refers to a cognitive bias where person-like mental states are attributed to non-person entities. for example, asking whether a nation "wants" something is turning the nation into a geist. wondering if a chatroom has an "opinion" or a "belief" is another example. usually these questions can be reworded to be more concrete: "does the median person in this nation want X?" or "do the people in the chatroom have a consensus on Y?" but sometimes, once you reword your geisty thoughts into non-geisty terms, you'll realize it's not quite what you'd meant originally. and that's because you were thinking about the geist. and the geist is not real.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Okey, I read through the WebRTC docs, thought hard, and tried to come up with a reasonable protocol to add voice and video call support to the Lichat protocol:

https://shirakumo.org/docs/lichat/shirakumo#calls

I'd very much appreciate feedback on the protocol draft, especially from people that have hands-on experience with webrtc and SFU stuff.

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

"Creating media with an uncooperative mind"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/deciding-what-to-do/

> Times change – they always change – and people who care about teaching try to work with an awareness of the new, a care for younger generations, and subsequently get rewarded with constant burnout and mental health crises.

New blog post/newsletter

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

How about we get rid of the bigots instead of letting the fediverse become dominated by whitesplaining sea lions?

The solution offered by FOSSbros is always less “have a space of your own, where you enjoy community” and more “shut yourself off from the world if you can’t hack it.”

Digital segregation. Decentralized redlining.

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

Early August 2026 photos

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/early-august-2026/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

@golemwire Yes, Cepper, the gothic sorceress is another character (but it's common to have feedback of her named "Pepper" as my style is what it is). Her name is a pun: Cepper & Parrot 😆

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

this was probably 2020 but i only have the raw text bc twitter didn't let me actually archive that account without government ID lol

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.7.0!

This version contains very few user-facing changes, but significantly reworks the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.

You can read more about it on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/

Note for admins: the database migrations might take a long time, this is expected (see the release notes).

Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0

#mastoadmin

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

Proud of my pal. Congrats, @feliciaday!

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/felicia-day-the-guild-movie-breaks-fundraising-record-1236838939/

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

It can appear as though improving scheduling your JavaScript better is a great way to improve performance, but for most organisations, this is a mirage; a reply to my colleague Marko Ilić:

https://infrequently.org/2026/08/notes-on-performance-remediation-strategies/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website ("æon :icosahedron:") wrote:

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117128666658152199

Read this thread.

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

i understand why all the infogiants want my posts to train their models because it is great training data

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

This here is an earlier recording from my balcony. It's mostly traffic but you can also hear my neighbour's cock crow.

The audio does not contain a redpoll but the thumbnail does as that was the least bad photo of my balcony I could find.

Attachments:

• audio: If you listen through the traffic noise and wind, then you can hear the sound of my neighbour's cock crowing. The thumbnail photo is of a redpoll bird on my balcony railing

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

Today's silliness is an audio recording of a bee doing a mighty fine job despite very windy conditions.

Attachments:

• audio: A bee going from flower to flower. And some wind. A lot of wind actually.

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

“AI is making everything worse”

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse?utm%5Fsource=www.doomsdayscenario.co

> Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.

This, coming from a writer who conflates generative models with the rest of ML and believes “AI” will deliver in the long term, otherwise broadly gets the point

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

another day closer to death

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

*pronk*