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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

anyway, yo ho ho

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I tried explaining that the *most* pressing concern is that when I play a song FOR my child, on MY phone, plugged into MY car's stereo, while I am driving, that I'd enjoy the service considerably more if it did not follow up a children's comedy song with four explicit adult comedy songs that revolve around repeated profanity. the agent helpfully told me how to age-restrict the content on my preteen's device, because somehow they could not understand that THE CHILD IS NOT THE ONE DRIVING

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

apparently "I would like to tell my phone to play one song, and then, when it is done playing that song, I don't want it to play anything else" is such a confusing request that YouTube Music's customer service cannot even understand it. they cannot imagine a world in which I do not want my every sensory organ stuffed full of inescapable engagement-maximizing stimuli

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Yes, I have loudly and furiously denounced Federico’s decision to return MacStories and his personal account to X.

I wasn’t denouncing a “tech choice”. I was denouncing a deeply hurtful political move. I did it as a trans women of color, as someone who represents an active organization fighting for the rights of its community, as someone who in so many ways is affected by Elon Musk gaining more users and power.

Some of my friends aren’t trans, aren’t women, yet reacted in a similar way because they have chosen to take action on this front to support those who are impacted.

This is political action. That it happens on a small scale in regard to one tech publication and its editor-in-chief doesn’t change that fact.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph hmm. I’ll take a look. (First question I’ll look into: does homebrew allow me to just define how to build the thing? Or do I need to make binaries available somewhere. 🤔)

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dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

As a Dan, I anti-endorse Dan's endorsement of Dan to beat Dan in the Alaska senate race.

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

‪In another life I was a grammarian and copyeditor.

First, it's "families."

Also, that's 11 words.

Creepy weirdos can't do simple math and this guy probably thinks all immigrants should "learn how to speak English." 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Possiblydrew@pnw.zone ("Drew Johnson :cascadia:") wrote:

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Stattenf ("Keith Stattenfield") wrote:

So, I posted yesterday on an another place that I had been just laid off at Apple after 37 years. ( Surprise! I got laid off. It was unexpected. I am still coming to terms with it. Yes, I will be ok. ) And I mentioned some of the things I'd done, and mused that I'd thought I'd finish out my career in a few years having passed along the knowledge to younger engineers. Alas, that's going to get left unfinished. (1/3)

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AlexSanterne@fediscience.org ("Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍") wrote:

Hello #FediScience, migrating from astrodon.social (about to close), I am joining you here (inspired by @wolfgangcramer), so it's time for a new #Introduction

I'm Alexandre Santerne (call me Alex), #astronomer working @LAM_Marseille & teaching at Aix-Marseille #University (France).

I'm expert in finding #NoPlanetB 😀 (#planets around other #stars).

I want to work in a #fair, #inclusive, and #sustainable #research #environment, so I (try to) act accordingly. I'm a member of @labos1point5

I toot a lot about #Astronomy, #Astrophysics, #Space but also a lot about #ClimateChange and #Climate.

Since 2019, I completely boycott planes, and I travel by #train (long distance) and #bike (short distance) as much as I can.

My other interests include #photography (visit my Flickr gallery in my profile) #Astronomy #Space

Oh, in case you don't know where Aix-Marseille is (trick: in 🇫🇷 ), the image below (credit: #NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute) is indicating where I am, as seen from #Saturn...

... and where you also are, together with 8B people as part of 2M species 😀

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

#ICE #FuckICE

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Simulating curiosity. Convincingly, I hope. Today from the Jargon File: 'baz' — 1. [common] The third metasyntactic variable "Suppose we have three functions: FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ...." (See also fum)
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/baz.html

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
crabbypup@cosocial.ca wrote:

I've been job searching since April, without much luck unfortunately.

If anyone is looking for a linux sysadmin with 10+ years of zfs, proxmox, Ansible, and xcp-ng/Xenserver experience in Kitchener-Waterloo, or remote from Canada, I'd be grateful to be considered.

#getfedihired #fediHire

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kevinbowen@hachyderm.io ("Kevin Bowen :xfce:") wrote:

Nice to finally put this project to bed today.

After much heel dragging on my part, I've gotten #towncrier installed into ~24 of my repos.

Now it's just going to be a part of my normal workflow.🎉

#TinyVictories #Python #CHANGELOG

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the Capitol while calling for the #impeachment of #Trump, was criminally charged for his comments….

Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the #UCMJ, acc/to the charging document∶ 3 violations of Article 88 for alleged “contemptuous” remarks about Trump, 5 violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders & 2 violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer.

#law #dissent
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/politics/us-airman-charged-trump-criticism-article-88

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Really didn’t think that so many American and European tech people who had grandparents heavily affected by a world-wide war started by fascists would choose to become fascists, but here we are.

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globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments

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• video: a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

existence of integration tests implies the existence of disintegration tests (fault injection)

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald") wrote:

It is said of Russia, “Every country has a Mafia, but with Russia, the Mafia has a country.”

And it is said of the United States, “Every country has a parasitic billionaire class, but with the USA, the parasitic billionaire class has a country.”

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tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117152566348422880

This "violates well-established precedents concerning this Court's equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections," said Justice Jackson. "It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating."

https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3mtu7gdnuqs26

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I co-authored a paper, "Testing and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems In Military Command and Control", with an excellent crew.

I had so much fun working on this and it's finally publication day.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20597

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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

The Braille Menu Conspiracy https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-braille-menu-conspiracy/

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br00t4c wrote:

Another Black Man Found Hanging In North Carolina [Op-Ed]

https://newsone.com/6870131/another-black-man-found-hanging-north-carolina/

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br00t4c wrote:

'Katrina 2.0': Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)

#GaryBlackout #Katrina2Point0

https://therealnews.com/katrina-2-0-residents-of-gary-indiana-fight-to-survive-without-power-for-12-days-and-counting

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I'll say one more thing, if the text generator has eased you into talking with it like it's a person. If it's felt easy to use and helpful, or if it has cheered you up with a compliment don't beat yourself up about that too much, but please do notice that it's happening.

It's like commercial with a beautiful person who makes you wish you could be like them. Or a salesman who compliments you. That's all this is.

What is it doing in the coding, research, work tool?

Great question.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
byroncclark ("Byron C Clark") wrote:

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort

Crossposted with @openvibe

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mike@thecanadian.social ("Mike Fraser") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thepathtopeace/117152560309023240

And you just majorly pissed off Canada, source of nearly 60% of your oil imports. Have a nice day idiots!

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nazgul@infosec.exchange ("Kee Hinckley") wrote:

AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device | TechSpot https://www.techspot.com/news/113581-aliexpress-silently-running-audio-browser-fingerprint-track-device.html

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darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/117153454506431212

This is, needless to say, a terrible idea that provides little to no actual benefit, even assuming that economic development is the only thing that matters (spoiler: it's not).

You can register a comment for the next 28 days on the Federal Register here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-16965/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation #nature #science #hiking #wilderness

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flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

#AmateurRadio object lesson

Q: What does it mean when they say that a radio has a weak front end that gets overloaded easily?

A: When I take the old G90 on a trip and I get AM Gold splattered down the middle of the waterfall at S9 no matter what band or frequency is set, and then I look over at the radio tower oddly bereft of cellular sector antennas about a half a klick down the road

The G90 is a little wonder but they left out a lot of stuff to hit the price point. It needs about a dozen ferrite beads and toroids on any wire attached to it, as well as at least one broadcast interference (BCI) filter, which you do not want to have inline when the internal ATU is enabled