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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kirschner ("Matthias Kirschner") wrote:

I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore.

E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared and e.g. servers not available and therefore the device did not start anymore, etc.

Currently interested in some fresh examples I could use. Any pointers?

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

“at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay[…] Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted for inflation, twice as much as the median worker pay increased at these firms during the same period, at 20.7%.

Inflation also outpaced worker pay increases, rising by 25.9%.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/ceo-worker-pay-ratio-us-analysis?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

Build an SSH-like Protocol with libsodium

yes that sounds like a terrific idea 😬

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drew@social.freebitcoin.gay ("Drew DeVault") wrote:

Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/

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

four percent have past violent convictions. “the worst of the worst” my a$$

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Dear Matrix!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

Sincerely, an annoyed user.

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

which (C) tls library do we hate least again? should come with assorted cryptography facilities.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

This bit of analysis of recent kernel development (starting at the fragment I highlight) might be of interest to people wanting to understand the impact LLM usage and reliance is having there:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/#:~:text=The%20most%20significant%20change%20this%20time%20around%2C%20arguably%2C%20is%20the%20significant%20increase%20in%20developers%20with%20unknown%20affiliation

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

number of times i have ever wanted to start a 'codespace' on github: 0.

number i've times i've accidentally hit something for doing that over the last few months: several.

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

there is zero doubt in my mind that this man is in fact eating boiled bean and slim jim by choice

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

I've complained before about various bugs in Apple Music, a regular one being that syncing often just gives up for days on end and lags by a few hours even on a good day

A new one is refusing to add an album to the library. It plays. It pretends to add it, but never appears in the library

This only happens to some albums, only compilations so far. There's no pattern beyond that because it doesn't happen to all of them.

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

A recipe for boiled beans and slim jim from his cooking show Do It Use What U Got

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ-eB8UubH6/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Frontier Supermodel") wrote:

Remembering the time I didn't buy an NFT and got Left Behind

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

It has *always* been true that - in terms of bang-for-buck - smaller dev teams are usually more productive than larger teams. Fred Brooks wrote about this in 1975.

To attribute this to "AI" betrays your lack of understanding of software development fundamentals.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:

Dolly Parton's scientific, public health, and educational philanthropy was so significant that @nature is running a piece on the impact she had.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02676-1

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Xeniax@mastodon.ml ("xeniax ⏚") wrote:

I stand with Autistici / Inventati! Today I have learned that this amazing collective of hackers and activists was accused of "enabling terrorism" by the U.S. Treasury and heavily sanctioned.

I praise A/I and their efforts of infrastructural support of various communities around the world for more than 25 years already. It is one of the autonomous tech collectives that inspired me the most when I was only starting to get into self hosted tech. They have always demonstrated the way of being both technically robust and politically coherent.

Support Autistici / Inventati. Read their books, write about them, share their work! Show your noblogs.org blogs. Let's share how important A/I is for our communities!

Useful links:

- the statement from A/I on the terrorist accusation: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

- the u.s. "treasury" post about the decision:
https://archive.is/NrjfQ

- A/I Mastodon account:
@cavallette

The only AI I really love is Autistici/Inventati !

#AutisticiInventati

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Plug-in solar panels are now legal in Great Britain!

Hopefully this reduces the barrier to people getting solar at home.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/households-can-save-as-plug-in-solar-panels-come-to-market

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
toast@donotsta.re ("(eval 'Toast)") wrote:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/
Actually pretty good policy out of sourcehut

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively.

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

“Support Pivot to AI — be in the patron name read for August – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/26/support-pivot-to-ai-be-in-the-patron-name-read-for-august/

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

“With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers

> The resistance may be messy and inchoate, but it amounts to a direct repudiation of Silicon Valley’s core project.

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

okay, one massive unexpected diversion to build some infrastructure later, i have completed the simple-looking programming task.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

#Debian LTS contributors released 52 DLAs fixing 2159 CVEs in July. Notable security updates were released for the #linux kernel, grub2, imagemagick, jq, nginx, nss, poppler, samba and more.

Debian LTS team took full responsibility of Debian 12 (#bookworm) in July after its last point release.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for the stable release, Debian 13 (#trixie).

Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-07/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #jq #poppler

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117166117030580508

🤗 @libreoffice

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New: in leaked audio, Flock's CEO Garrett Langley tells cops that a story we wrote about Flock being used to track a woman who self-administered an abortion is "entirely false." He's lying. The audio shows how Flock speaks when doesn't think comments will be public

https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/

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

RE: https://status.fberriman.com/@phae/117165634929746722

Not going to recount how many attempts it took to get the little shoulder button springs to sit for assembly without popping out, but it was more than 10.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

The kind of jigsaw @slightlyoff and I prefer are ones like this. New case & USB-C charging port for one of my DS Lites!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
actualtorgo@threads.net ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

RIP Yayoi Kusama https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/yayoi-kusama-dies-aged-97-artist-dead?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@firepoet Same for me. I'm taking some time off at the moment. But when I start looking, "no-AI" companies will be at the top of the list.

I want to work with *humans* and build something we're proud of, not be the responsibility sink for the torment nexus.

#noai

(edit: FWIW, I'm based in the USA, Pacific Time Zone)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Just released a new #Rust crate: `signed-ulid`:

https://docs.rs/signed-ulid/latest/signed%5Fulid/

Let lets you create a #ULID that's based not on randomness (which is easy for others online to cause collisions on) but instead on a cryptographic signature.

I wish I'd thought of something like this back when I was designing #Diskuto. But I may end up using it in `sned`. :D