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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

it’s really weird to see people post about Apple not betting on AI as Apple rushes the release of the ear cameras that can only feed photos into an LLM, right after Apple started a fight with the EU over the API they designed that lets an LLM access all the data on your device

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

I was a guest on David Gerard's podcast. We talked about "AI" and what happens after the bubble.

It was some great fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUZ2scYWUA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

thought I would be clever and use a ProxyCommand with netcat, but netcat _also doesn't do happy eyeballs_ I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
bisonrimant@piaille.fr ("Bison") wrote:

how it's going

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
emsquared@social.coop ("Emsquared") wrote:

The charity shop classics radio programme played this on Sunday and it has haunted me ever since.
Warning: contains jazz bagpipes.
#music

https://youtu.be/29XvMFgQa14

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

annoying coda 3:

OpenSSH doesn't use Happy Eyeballs yet, it just connects to every resolved address from GAI in sequence.

In 2026.

So this is very slow.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

v0.12.0 of brief is out, lots more tooling detected, especially in scientific software: https://github.com/git-pkgs/brief/releases/tag/v0.12.0

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nycki@critters.gay ("Klay") wrote:

@spycrab@kolektiva.social @vlrny@disabled.social evergreen post:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” https://sfisms.org/meat-proxy

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

Life is short, and our world is amazing. We're surrounded by interesting people and beautiful nature. So why does anyone want to allocate a disproportionate amount of their attention to machine-generated outputs?

Every prompt moves us further away from what really matters.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
actualham@social.coop ("Robin DeRosa") wrote:

This is pretty much where I sit on AI today. Christopher Newfield always gets the context right IMO. https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/liner-note-53-ai-and-public-good.html

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/117151078952883396

Everyone should think about the meat proxies in their lives. I see people here every single day who speak out against AI but cozy up to devs who openly vibe-code their stuff. Supporting an "indie" dev who's using the very tools that you refuse to use yourself isn't the upright stance you think it is. It's like buying a carbon offset and thinking you accomplished something.

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

ladybugs are A Wunnerful Thang

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Bizarre and annoying coda number 2: apparently the binding of “virtual interface” to “network device” on macOS is by like… vendor, or driver type, or USB device name, or something, and *not* by MAC addresses. 2 of my adapters are Realtek and 1 is Intel. When I added the VLAN to the Intel adapter, it applied to the Intel adapter. when I added one to the first realtek, it applied to both realteks.

This doesn’t cause any problems for me in this specific situation, but… what an odd choice

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

More iOS 26 bugs: the refresh button in Safari sometimes just disappears. One tab got stuck in an infinite form resubmit cycle upon returning to Safari after a hop to another app. And that’s just the bugs in the past hour or so. This OS is one of the buggiest I’ve used even without the UX disaster

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
david@theblower.au ("David de Groot") wrote:

Did you know that PySide6.QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory()
behaves differently on Windows to macOS ? i.e. the returned path on macOS (and presumably Linux) has a trailing slash, whereas on Windows it does not.

Ordinarily not a huge deal, except when you use os.path.dirname combined with os.path.basename to get the final part of the path, which works swimmingly on macOS, but the lack of trailing slash means it breaks on Windows.

An easy fix, but something that caught me off guard.

#python #QT6

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

There are two qualities that define a reply guy: frequency and quality. Replying to many messages doesn't make someone a reply guy. Making the occasional lame or annoying reply doesn't make someone a reply guy. But frequent annoying replies? Reply guy.

*This* is a reply guy: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

Don't be a reply guy.

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

okay so one thing that was pointed out to me about haskell-style syntax is that it's not very good for screenreaders because you have no idea how wide an indentation is.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
zardoz@ioc.exchange ("algernon.st") wrote:

@cwebber coyotos / capros tiem

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
macthemes@erambert.me ("Macintosh Themes") wrote:

Sea Sprite - Janet Parris
https://macthemes.garden/themes/f2a95c25f82a-Sea-Sprite

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

That's it I've had it with Linux, time to pivot to KeyKOS

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

This is a neat bit of tech. It's an e-paper display, which can be updated wirelessly. And it has no battery!
During programming, it's powered by the same NFC signal from your phone that's programming it. And since it's e-paper, it doesn't need power after that.

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/4.2inch%5FNFC-Powered%5Fe-Paper

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stejfs_photos@mastodon.goeg.dscloud.biz ("Štejf's Photobox") wrote:

2Dance - Hamm 04.2026
2Dance - Hamm 04.2026

#Furry #Fursuit #fursuiting

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
4thievesvinegar@kolektiva.social ("4 Thieves Vinegar Collective") wrote:

A short preamble from The #Anarchist #Medical #Book on #emergency care:

"The few life-threatening things which you can have a nonzero chance of successfully treating
without ever going to the hospital are: blood loss, lack of oxygen, freezing to death, blood
sugar crash, blood clot in the brain, heart, or lung, and tension pneumothorax. A few types of
poisoning/overdose as well, but most of those will be addressed in a separate section."

https://anarchistmedicalbook.com

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

Authors have hidden talents, that's what makes us fun

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tananarivedue/post/DcaARzXm30O

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
czarbucks@m.ai6yr.org ("Edge") wrote:

Hey, North Carolina, this is the "everyman" the GOP wants you to vote for as Senator this year.

#USPol #PrivateJet

https://popular.info/p/gop-senate-candidate-campaigning

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

Sneak preview of a not-yet-production-quality contribution to Mines. I expected this particular mode to be brain-meltingly confusing, and it is, but not for quite the reasons I'd guessed.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

Consumer electronics made in 70’s, 80’s and the 90’s with rubber feet are experiencing chemistry first hand as the plastic and rubber turn to goo.

Have you experienced said goo?

#Electronics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MercNews@flipboard.com ("The Mercury News") wrote:

Map: Hawk Fire evacuation near Reno
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/24/map-hawk-fire-evacuation-reno/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-MercNews

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

1994 problems and 2026 problems are sometimes the same