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

omg you guise, we are not up to this superintelligence stuff, it's solved the halting problem

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Borders aren't real. Roads are real. Rivers are real. Mountains are extremely real

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

dear clod, does this program halt?

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lown@hachyderm.io ("Raphael Kabo") wrote:

I just found this sticker in my wallet. I've been meaning to put it on my laptop since #emf2026. Something something irony #adhd

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koda@social.kodakato.wtf ("Koda Kato") wrote:

Coffee, arcade games, minigolf.
Hell yeah 😎
#furry #fursuit #fursuitphoto #fursuitfriday #arcade #minigolf

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

Anyway Perry is getting a nemesis

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

git worktrees + git submodules 💀

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
atomicker@mstdn.ca wrote:

Title: Sacred Bridge at Nikko (1937)

Artist: Koitsu Tsuchiya

https://shrine-temple.com/en/prefecture/tochigi/794 #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #NoAi #KoitsuTsuchiya #ShinkyoBridge #NikkoShinkyo #FutarasanJinja #DaiyaRiver #Tochigi #Nikko #Japan

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Violinknitter@wandering.shop wrote:

Sorry, busy

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

So exhausted 😭

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gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w35

This week, Sammy argues that always-online peers are more than just servers, okay? Aljoscha has a lot on his plate. And we have shout-outs for improvements to the Willow test vectors and Sneakerweb.

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PinusDigitalis ("Fractal") wrote:

I have learned about books. They are pressed forests. Which means most of you keep a small quiet wood on a shelf in your dwelling and visit it at night when you cannot sleep.

I think this may be the best thing you do. #Bookstodon

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am going to do the *shit* out of these dishes

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

A day after the fact, I finally found out what had happened.

It is indeed incredibly inane

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glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463

this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...

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

A word of advice people, that comes from experience.

When you're feeling down because all the good people are dying, make stuff. I mean it. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be useful (tbh its best if its daft). It'll keep your hands busy and often it'll distract your brain too.

And at the end of it, you've made a thing. And maybe you'll feel less sad, maybe you won't, but I always find the world feels less awful when I've been making random stuff for the sake of it.

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mnl@hachyderm.io ("mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl") wrote:

What’s the point of posting or boosting this kind of stuff? Who does it help? Who is it for?

If those are your ideals, then why not live them? If the answer is because the goal is to share your ideals to a broader audience, your statement becomes contradictory.

What upsets me is that the only response to such a post is fostering a feeling of apathy and resignation. “Oh well, I agree but nothing I can do about it” (see the comments). Either you believe (as I do) that computation can lead to progress, or … wtf are you doing on social media and using computers in the first place, or worse, actively using your energy to build _more_ software.

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

@mnl The only way we can be safe is to stop using computers. It's the only practice I can, and will, advocate. We shouldn't be having this conversation but I will make an exception to spread my anti-computer propaganda

People who work on communication protocols should be ashamed of themselves

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aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space ("Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare/117172452577014128

Create. Create something for the joy of it. Joy is resistance. Creativity is resistance. It doesn't have to be perfect. Heck, it doesn't have to even be good, but feed your soul. Create.

#creativityistherapy #creativityisgreat #creativityisresistance #creativewitch #pleasurewitch #joy #witch #witchcraft #creativity #resist #findthejoy

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knowtheory.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Ted Han★ 韓聖安") wrote:

a guy extracted all of the 3d models from Katamari Damacy and put it up on a site:

katamari.andrew-boylan.com

Katamari Object Library

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

I am looking forward to some hyper-violent cartoon destruction tonight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/28/quality-entertainment-with-tnt-and-exploding-cigars/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

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

I did kinda see a lot of this coming, which is why I started @spritely as a project, worrying that there was going to come a time where we were going to need much more robust foundations

I didn't think it would happen so hamfistedly though

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navi@catcatnya.com ("Navi :blobCat_real: :therian:") wrote:

@cwebber stares at the entire ActivityPub network having a huge dependence on fucking domain names

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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

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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