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

Got an email inviting me to a Vercel event, and goodness knows there are places in the world I'd like to be less, but it's a short list.

jwz wrote:

libvlc.

Dear Lazyweb, if you have succeeded in getting VLCKit to build on macOS 14, specifically BasicPlayerWithPlaylist, please let me know how you did it. I downloaded the zip, did "compileAndBuildVLCKit.sh -x", which took like 4 hours but...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5FJ

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zendorea@social.aktaeon.net ("Zendorea :v_trans:") wrote:

Thread-worthy.

📰 Federal judge shuts down Texas drag ban: If you don’t like drag “just don’t go”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/federal-judge-shuts-down-texas-drag-ban-if-you-dont-like-drag-just-dont-go/

#LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

AI fans warn that if you don't embrace it you'll be left behind. I wish I thought of that marketing strategy myself. Hey, get my books now or you'll regret it. Empty your wallets to me or get crushed by FOMO

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ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

The 2026 Python Type System & Tooling Survey is live 🐍📝❓ No typing experience needed—your perspective as a #Python dev matters most. Take a couple minutes to help improve Python typing for all!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/python%5Ftyping

This survey was developed with support from the Pyrefly team at Meta, the PyCharm team at JetBrains, the Python team at Microsoft, and the typing community on discourse.python.org.

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

I want to finally learn Spanish. But the correct Spanish you know? Real Spanish from Puerto Rico. It that ghetto shit from Spain.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Science is just a theoretical object to a lot of you; it's not an actual human practice of problem-solving

it's just a discourse football, a fake thing to make memes about

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2legged@mastodon.ie ("Claire McNab") wrote:

Celebrities Who Do Fuck All With Immense Wealth To Improve The Lives Of Others Pen Glowing Tributes To Dolly Parton

#WaterfordWhispersNews #WWN #Satire #DollyParton

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Some of you need to learn the difference between saying "this is a bad faith argument" and saying "I think every possible issue with the human use of resources is solved"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Yes, Ubiquiti should do better, clearly they have pervasive input-handling problems throughout their management app, and they need a systemic fix rather than a bunch of little patches. I hope they improve. But the vast majority of consumers are using some bitrotted linux distribution from 2017 on ISP-provided hardware; even the vast majority of enthusiasts are rocking some 5-year-old version of DD-WRT that they're afraid to update because it's not clear if the hardware is still supported.

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

you know sometimes you go to solve a simple programming problem and for inexplicable reasons it turns out to needlessly be quite a bit of work? that.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are other bits of home networking kit that do this, and are also generally better at security; Eero comes to mind immediately. But I can't think of one that has a nearly comparable feature footprint, and certainly not one that seamlessly scales up to a multi-site multi-thousand-client network with sophisticated management tools.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117161837519266091

I have so many feelings about this Unifi security bulletin. I will not emphasize the "it's bad" part, because that's obvious enough.

There are two mitigating factors to keep in mind here:

1. The whole industry is getting a super aggressive massively subsidized security scan from "AI".
2. Unlike basically every other piece of prosumer networking gear I've owned, Unifi auto-updates reliably, when I read one of these, I log in to my controller to find the patches *already applied*.

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shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

I got all the parts needed for the weathergotchi and it's actually working! The default screen artwork is very programmer-arty, so I decided to make my own, of course. Here's the "sleeping" screen.

https://github.com/Michael-Manning/E-Paper-Climate-Logger

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shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Boot screen

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shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

Poweroff screen

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thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A community radio station in Kumamoto Prefecture, which was struck by a powerful earthquake last month, is continuing to deliver vital information to local residents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/26/japan/radio-station-kumamoto-quake/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #earthquakes #2026kumamotoearthquake #yatsushiro #radio

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

I can't believe they killed off Blorbo, my favorite character

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

well then

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

Happy trails, Tim. We’ll miss you. 🫡

Attachments:

• gifv: Tim Curry in a computer game cut scene dressed as a dictator. He says I’m going to the one place that hasn’t been corrputed by capitalism: space! It is wonderfully hammy.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you are having a bad day, take a moment to appreciate the courage of this gentleman, who — under his own name — wakes up every day and continues doing his job, which at least partially involves being a *public intellectual*.

https://theconversation.com/profiles/matt-walsh-115789

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

Another 80 year old has died. Death keeps missing its target.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/26/now-tim-curry/

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

It’s almost as if they shouldn’t have gutted #CISA

#US says #China #hackers broke into #DOJ, #NASA, #FederalReserve, #Senate & more

In a statement, the DOJ said that it had seized domains ​used by 2 hacking platforms, dubbed “QScan” & “QTRouter,” which it ​said had been used as part of the campaign. An affidavit ⁠identified the US Departments of #Energy, #HHS, the #NIH, & 4 unnamed companies ​in the US & #SouthKorea as being among the hackers' victims.

#law #InfoSec
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-department-says-2026-08-26/?utm%5Fsource=braze&utm%5Fmedium=notifications&utm%5Fcampaign=2025%5Fengagement

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

it’s lore now that the good parts of lisp are communist and the bad parts are the ramblings of a conservative republican who believes in warhammer 40k machine spirits that live in mercury thermostats

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ryan@m29.us ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

Just a reminder that in the US, Rocky Horror Picture Show was distributed by 20th Century Fox (now owned by Walt Disney Studios), which makes Dr. Frank-N-Furter a Disney princess.

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servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

"While the new security seems necessary, the change is also the product of the world the Roberts Court has built: one where the executive branch cannot be trusted, [and] a violence-prone political movement has returned to power"

The Supreme Court’s Security Upgrade Fits the World It Helped Make – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/supreme-court-security-police-us-marshals/

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Less than 10% of one year’s
revenue, 30% of a single year’s profit. A fine is a price.

If we must do fines, they need to be 100% of profits during the offending period + 10%.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s5b3x4exyludm73jcgvupe7q/post/3mtygo7u7ik2q

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Albatross@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

DAMMIT if Death is gonna keep taking 80-year-olds I have a FUCKING SUGGESTION...

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Antifascist Spiderman posters seen around Minneapolis.
The posters portray far-right influencer Jack Lang being hit by an anti-racist dressed as Spiderman outside Minneapolis City Hall on August 22.

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lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

Calls for “the public” to “own ‘AI’” are just a transparent attempt to make the general populace hold the trillion-dollar bag for a con game.

There is no reason ordinary people need to pick up the tab for this particular Ponzi scheme.