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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
taichara@turnipheap.loneknight.quest wrote:

@neatnik There's something really special about this bastard being unable to function without stapling himself to the world-destroying parroting machine while having the nerve to say non-"techies" can't write and upload their own websites.

And by special I mean "I can't decide between raucous mockery and incandescent rage as a response".

At least his insistence we'd all flee to the LLM's teat makes sense now; after all, that's what /he/ does.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
avsm@recoil.org ("Anil Madhavapeddy") wrote:

I've had to respond to multiple OSS security issues recently and the wild thing is that agents can now generate exploits just on the *rumour* of a bug. This throws security embargoes out the window, as the fix is less important than the knowledge of its existence. What on earth are open source maintainers supposed to do next? https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Day 3, 10:30.

I tried talking to a neighbor. It was awful.

They kept making eye contact. I couldn't find the pause button.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
amministratore@mastodon.uno (":mastodon: mastodon admin") wrote:

Chi desidera promuovere contenuti contrari al consenso scientifico è libero di farlo altrove, assumendosi però anche l’onere di gestire e finanziare la propria infrastruttura.
Le teorie alternative possono certamente trovare spazio nel Fediverso, che è decentralizzato e aperto a tutti ma qui preferiamo investire il nostro tempo e le nostre risorse in una comunità fondata su evidenze e conoscenza verificata.
Grazie 🙏
Rilanciato nel gruppo fediverso seguibile da qui: @fediverso

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's day 3 of the great internet outage of 2026.

I found myself opening the fridge repeatedly, but there were no new notifications.

The cheese has become strangely compelling. I might subscribe to its newsletter.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/117144707608236799

it is long past time for meetings and attempts at “reconciliation”, Mr. Jeffries. grow a pair, FFS.

“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Dota2TI grand finals is hype. I love this game.

#Dota2 #TI15

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

my wife is talking to the ladybugs, encouraging them along 😄

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mendingcatsshelter1 ("Mending Cats Shelter") wrote:

Adopt me.
#CatsOfMastodon
#adopt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk ("PeaceNick🇨🇦 🍁") wrote:

This is cool.

The CIRA - the Canadian Internet Registry Authority, which manages .CA domains has offered up free Canadian stock images.

Their Canadian Stock Photo library is full of original, maple syrup-infused photography that is free to use and share! All they ask is that you credit CIRA/.CA domains whenever you use their photos and you are free to build as many websites, memes, and annual reports as you like. It also includes Indigeneous themed photos.

#Canada #ElbowsUp

Edit: Dang I missed their fediverse link!

@cira

Apologies!

https://www.cira.ca/en/stock-gallery/

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

Genuinely, writers (and other creative folks), my 30+ years of being online tells me this is the way to build an audience:

1. Be interesting and post about various things, not just your work

2. Actively support, encourage and promote other writers and creators

3. Resist trolls/chuds/bots (block and mute are your friends)

4. Try not to be a raging dickhead

5. Be patient

Nothing here is difficult or even very innovative, and it won't expand your following overnight. But it's worked for me.

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

All of which means I don't *worry* about whether my social media presence sells my work directly. I'm online to enjoy myself and chat with friends, readers, and other folks, and if the end result of that is someone is more inclined to pick up my work, great. If not, that's fine too.

(Alternately, if someone finds me annoying online, they may be *less* inclined, but, eh. I'm still going to post what I want online, and if they don't like it, that's fine.)

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

Speaking from personal experience, when I use social media to advertise my new books, etc, the clickthrough rate is ~1%, and not every clickthrough is a sale (by a long shot). The clickthrough is higher when I talk about someone *else's* book, because I think people are more persuaded by a recommendation that's not self-interested. Finally, having a fun/interesting online presence means when people go to bookstore and see my name on a book, they may be more inclined to pick it up.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tallefey/post/DcWPkcgl02O

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

It takes time for the slop, bit rot, platform changes, and a decline in the OSS infrastructure to percolate into a real catastrophe. The stuff we’re seeing fail now is the software equivalent of forgetting to bolt an airplane door plug. The stuff that should worry us is the software equivalent of a fractured, but holding, bolt

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

As many others have pointed out, one way to think about what’s been happening to tech—software, especially—is that the entire industry is being “Boeinged” (or Jack Welched). And, as with an airplane, a faulty part can sit in a system for a decade before it snaps and brings the whole thing down

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

So, much like how a weak and faulty Boeing part from 2019 is much likelier to bring a ten-year-old plane down 2029 than a new plane in 2020 (don’t fly Boeing) the consequences of our current era of slop programming will take years to pan out and the odds of a major downside escalates over time

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

“A Technology of Unlearning”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/a-technology-of-unlearning/

> Rather, this “unlearning” of “AI” involves cognitive surrender and cognitive atrophy. It involves dependence and perhaps even (if you accept this medical and moral framework) addiction. It involves the monopolistic control and, so damningly, the erasure of knowledges.

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 23rd 2026 (Brutal), in less than 24 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by jwz:
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous, slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.
I get it now. - Amanda Clarence
#USpol

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@andyn @neatnik Especially when combined with:

> I deployed it to production, ran the script

Ah yes, "brags about running untrusted code in production". Just the quality I want from someone I'm paying for a service. -_-

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

Super happy to welcome @macmanx to omg.lol's moderation team! :prami_happy:

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

RE: https://social.lol/@love/117142860291661264

This is a total betrayal of trust. When you run an online service, your first responsibility is to the safety and privacy of your customers. Feeding someone's content into an LLM without their consent is callous. And then celebrating it afterward is obscene.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
PublicKnowledgeProject ("Public Knowledge Project") wrote:

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#Code4Lib #OpenInfra #OpenSource #OpenSourceJobs #ScholComm #OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Implicit here is that I have DNSMasq provisioning internal DNS records based on DHCP client IDs (and whatever else gets sent along in DHCP, I don't know exactly how it infers it). If it matters, the router is a unifi router, but I am also interested in solutions to this problem that use OpenWRT.

One way to solve the issue is to do … something … to dnsmasq to get it to behave, another would be a client app that deterministically spoofs the MAC address of a dock whenever I connect to one

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have 3 computers, A, B, and C. These computers serve different purposes but those purposes are sometimes served by different human-interface affordances. Thus, I have 3 USB docks, D, E, and F. Each dock has an ethernet adapter; each adapter has its own MAC address.

This is annoying because sometimes A is docked at F; I want it to be identified as A.home.internal for networking purposes. But if C was recently docked at F, the DHCP lease belongs *to F* and thus it will be C.home.internal.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jonny Yeah, needing to download new software is an annoying barrier. :(

Though, with the proxy setup, you can still let them stream through the proxy. Added docs with the v0.3.1 release I just pushed up. :)

https://codeberg.org/nfnitloop/sned/commit/95bb040339f9cffaf5fb6118dbe2bc8d143df38d#diff-6170ea9dfa6559bc2886bfdcd0506bc802255e4a

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

@NfNitLoop
Hell yeah, looks neat! the thing I like about orphaned pages is that the other person doesn't need any new software and I can host the stuff for them, e.g. this thing had ~1GB of video on it and I wouldnt want someone to have to download that all at once just to cruise through a gallery, but I am a big fan of any kind of local, direct filesharing tools!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("pun gent") wrote:

I bought a weird record, this is the title track.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFDdahQIfUI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117139363113373904

*Gasp

Just as Fascists don't actually care what happens to their fellow White People, so Zionists don't care what their trumped up charges of Antisemitism do to Jewish people at large.

Fash are Fash.

#Politics #Fascism #Nazis

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adamgreenfield@social.coop ("Adam Greenfield") wrote:

To clarify: it’s been another one of those shocking-but-not-surprising things, to see how little note the media have taken of what’s happening in #Gary, Indiana - a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.

Roughly 20,000 households have now gone ten days without electric power since an unusually strong derecho tore through on August 11th. In all that time, local electric utility NIPSCO has been unable to restore service, with all the predictable consequences: spoiled food and medicines, no recourse to air conditioning or refrigeration, local businesses unable to operate, people having to spend heavily on generator fuel (and suffer all the pollution that accompanies their use), difficulty charging phones and medical equipment, and schools remaining closed.