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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

You can ask for literally anything and I will attempt to draw it. Here’s all the ones I did last year

https://stjude.omg.lol

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

We’re out of the first batch of @neatnik’s friendship bracelets and I have five of the first batch of drawing slots left. We hit $50k lifetime raised last night and we’re at $1800 in the first 24 hours 🙏

https://stjude.omg.lol

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

Trump and Caligula have too much in common.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/28/its-another-incitatus-moment/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Woman in a Yellow Dress (Femme à la robe jaune), 1929, oil on canvas, 80 by 120 cm (31 ½ by 47 ¼ inches), photo: Sotheby’s London, 27 June 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #womenartists #womanartist

From the catalogue note: “Femme à la robe jaune presents a vision of a starkly modern and self-possessed woman. Much like Lempicka herself… the sitter in the present work exudes a decided sense of independence, even defiance, as her sculpted figure takes up the whole of the composition… Lempicka’s woman in gold is a force to be reckoned with—elegant, implacable, doubtless…

Germain Bazin states: 'The linea serpentine, to sixteenth-century Italian theorists the supreme expression of beauty, animates Tamara’s figures: with bodies twisting from top to toe they touch the edge of the painted surface at various points… A painting by Tamara is generally presented like a bas-relief with a single, powerful figure filling the whole canvas – to the extent quite often that the head is cut off by the upper edge'”

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

@cwebber Given that apparently many of the llms dot txt files had nonexistent domain and package names ripe for the squatting, I am wondering how many of the llms files were generated by llms. 🤔

We are constructing an increasingly unserious computing environment.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle.

So I tried NeoVim when it was quite new. Vim that you are familiar with, but better? Great!

Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim (introduced a few years after I started using it). My .vimrc includes a couple of lines related to this. One sets the path to be under ~/.cache so the undo files do not clutter the rest of the filesystem (I do the same for the swap files). The other sets the undo limit to something large (10,000, I think) because disk space is enormous relative to pretty much anything involving human-readable quantities of plain text.

I don’t often need the persistent undo. But on the few occasions when I have needed it, it’s been invaluable: ooops, I deleted something from this file, maybe last week and one reboot ago, what was it? Undo until I find it, copy it, paste it into the current version. Or, a bit more commonly: I had this working, then I tidied it up ready to commit, now it isn’t working, what did I do?

Vim has kept this working across major version upgrades over a period of about 20 years. I don’t even think about it, it’s just part of Raskin’s First Law: A program may not harm a user’s data or, through inaction, allow a user’s data to come to harm. If vim or the computer crash, or if I close a file and come back to it six months later, my undo history is still there.

The first thing I noticed in NeoVim was that undo didn’t work. I tried opening the file in vim and undo didn’t work there either.

Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn’t upgraded the old one. It hadn’t used a different name for its undo files. It had just noticed the existence of a vim undo file, deleted it (losing all of the data in it) and replaced it with one that vim couldn’t read.

I raised an issue about this and was told that the persistent undo format was unstable and users should not rely on data being preserved in a feature explicitly called persistent undo. It had changed once and would probably change again.

And that ended my experience with NeoVim. The authors showed immediately that they absolutely could not be trusted with any of my data. Breaking persistent undo is something I could forgive as a bug, but the attitude that just because something is a persistent file on your filesystem that contains data that you might want is no reason for their program not to delete it meant they had no concept of a duty of care to their users.

Apparently now they’re platforming white supremacists. I am completely unsurprised. Different facets of the same underlying attitude.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I have real brainworms with buying stickers, cute sticky notes, glitter gel pens, etc and then never using them because I'm afraid I'll run out and not be able to get more (since designs go out of stock, etc). So then they sit there unused but at least I'm not running out

I am currently forcing myself to use a certain cute sticky note pad that I bought FIVE of over a decade ago, and have yet to get through the first. I will definitely never find more of this exact pattern. But it looks really cute using them to mark appointments in my planner! I like seeing them in there! I need to stomp on my brainworms to shut them up, at least until I get to the last of these five entire pads

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

The dishwasher limped along for another year with repairs but finally gave up the ghost early this month. It made it almost 15 years, it was time, haha.

New one cracks itself open when it's finished, instead of waiting for me to notice it and open it to finish drying. This means dishes now take approximately four hours, rather than two to three business days. Sometimes automation is good actually.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Putting a picture of a fascist on your project home page: not political

People complaining that you put a picture of a fascist on your project home page: extremely political. How dare you drag politics into this

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Been working on theming my website again. Lemmi know what you think.

https://chriswere.wales

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

The pillow guy has formally and officially and finally lost the Minnesota primary. He has not conceded, so look forward to more whining forever and ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/28/its-over-mike/

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

okay, I’ll take that SWR across the 6m #AmateurRadio band, and, with RFI choke and a 4:1 current balun inline, that match from coax to feedpoint is close enough to 50Ω to make me happy. with those analyzer readings, I’ll call this full wavelength square loop #antenna a success.

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

Some sites have been adding llms.txt to websites as a way to instruct how to index content. Unshockingly, this has turned into a prompt injection vector. And interestingly, it looks like many major companies' websites' have been found to be compromised with malicious instructions https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/

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

That's my daily dose of doom done

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

Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.

Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.

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

great line from ‘Adults’: “It’s not our fault we got the internet when we were our most horny and stupid”

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

Dolly Parton for the People

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/dolly-parton-for-the-people

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Work from home is just good for the soul.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
milja@social.netdynamics.eu ("MiljaH") wrote:

@lunareclipse
The Hague ICC judges thing was because VISA and MasterCard are from USA, even if the card is from a European bank. USA can shut them down from European consumers without our banks doing anything.

@cwebber @MaddieM4

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
uriel@x.keinpfusch.net ("Uriel Fanelli") wrote:

Link is gone. Domain wise.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

Before you leave to enjoy what for many of us will be a long weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including

--Nearly 130 companies warn the window is closing to defend against AI cyberattacks,
--Judge blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist,
--Chinese routers ship with multiple backdoors,
--Hackers weaponize Cursor to breach seven firms,
--North Korean IT impostors refine their act,
--Prompt injection hijacks Claude Code’s Auto Mode,
--Old bugs still dominate exploited flaws,
--NSA wants access to every AI model,
--PaperCut attacks prompt emergency patch,
--Pokémon X hack hawks bogus memecoin,
--Socure raises $156M and buys Fravity,
--AI fears send cybersecurity stocks soaring,
--OpenAI’s rogue-AI postmortem checks the boxes,
--Flock helps Florida deputy stalk his ex,
--Georgia cop uses Flock to track his ex
https://www.metacurity.com/nearly-130-companies-warn-the-window-is-closing-to-defend-against-ai-cyberattacks/

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

cleaning that first harvested habanero to use in the sauce for the ribs I am slow-cooking… my cough gives me hope that squirrel who ran off with a green one in it’s mouth yesterday will burn burn burn… and then warn all the others away from my peppers

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz ("Ewen McNeill") wrote:

TIL that Gumroad (a previously popular indie creator store front) has gone all in on AI everything (apparently even editing the look of your storefront now requires arguing with an AI agent) 😱

(Consensus is this is the choice of the CEO that started about a year ago.)

If you bought things via Gumroad in the past, you might want to make sure you have downloaded everything to a safe place.

https://gumroad.com/gumclaw

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NO PROB. WE ARE GETTING THE ABBACUS OUT.

Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a8a7f4020b1
F: #ff2fac41097

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
letoams@defcon.social ("Paul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117172702770260949

Accurate - speaking from experience

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

look i'm not afraid of shipping slop to production, i just don't want to have to keep both pieces.

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

What would it take for you to feel comfortable shipping code to production without reading it?

A lobotomy?

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

If you want to use GCS without adding a metric fucktonne of extra dependencies to your Go project: https://github.com/git-pkgs/gcs

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

‘Trump now stands at 13% “strongly approve” in the most recent Reuters-Ipsos Poll. His “strongly disapprove” rating is at 49%. His total approval is at 33%, while disapproval is at 65%. Those in the “somewhat approve” category include low propensity soft voters especially inclined to skip midterm elections. And this poll was taken before his declaration of trade war against Canada.’

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

that gat, orange, weak old man sure does love parading converts in public

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/28/scott-jennings-new-trump-press-secretary?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther