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

The crazy thing about this kind of capitulation is that it's happening in August 2026.

The last time we went around this particular bend was in February 2025, with the "Gulf of America" stupidity. I didn't like the way the mapping companies fell in line with that, but I could understand it. Trump had just won re-election, he was swinging his power around wildly, and it was unclear that anything could stop him. Who wants to be the first one to walk into a buzzsaw?

But that was then and this is now. Today Trump and his agenda are as unpopular as any president in modern times has ever been, and we have a long list of times when people have challenged his agenda in the courts and won. Both law and politics are pushing against Trump, not with him.

So in August 2026 if you get a threat from Trump and just immediately roll over, that's not something you can claim is just you being pragmatic. There are plenty of tools you could use to defend yourself lying around in plain sight; you're just choosing not to use any of them.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6059553-google-maps-renames-lake-america/

#USPol

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/117181562975873239

how often does this have to happen before your “productivity gains” evaporate completely

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

I also want to mention here that Godot (which is the other half of what I'm trying to do) is the exact opposite; it has an *excellently* considered foundational model, and can do an incredible amount of stuff with a very limited amount of mechanisms, in generally very logical ways that you can get to through your own reasoning. this makes the contrast with Blender all the more stark...

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

Jokes aside https://www.youtube.com/@pikat seems to be giving out some pretty sensible advice.

All I have to do is deal with my fear of failure.

"What's the worst that can happen", you may ask. "Bad art?".

And yeahhh I've made bad art and you can ignore it or redraw it, it's no big deal. It's still an annoying mental barrier :neocat_sob:​

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
EternalSeptember@thicc.horse ("Free Association") wrote:

We're aware that people have access to our phone and computer who shouldn't. We never agreed to this, and would fucking love if it stopped.

To try and fix it we've changed phones, phone numbers, OS's, entire computers, lived on the streets for two weeks, and moved thousands of miles away from home, but it's still happening.

If you have information that can help us or can just pull us out of it entirely, please, PLEASE let us know. Email's joyinsolace@gmail.com .

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Bwee@meow.social ("🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵") wrote:

Boost if you (Nyan-binary edition):
🐈

- Are nonbinary
- Have at least one nonbinary friend
- Either hoard too much gender or not enough
- Are secretly several animals in a trenchcoat
- Probably met a nonbinary person once

💛🤍💜🖤

Nobody will ever know which apply to you! xD

#nonbinary #boost #silly

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 128 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...

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

import std.stdio;
import std.file;
import std.path;
import std.string;

void main() {
writeln("Scanning for connected USB serial devices on macOS...");
writeln("=====================================================");
string devPath = "/dev";
uint foundCount = 0;
try {
// Guard against an empty or missing /dev directory
if( !exists( devPath ) || !isDir( devPath ) ) {
stderr.writeln( "Error: /dev directory not found." );
return;
}
else {
// Iterate through all entries in /dev (shallow scan, no recursion)
foreach( DirEntry entry; dirEntries( devPath, SpanMode.shallow ) ) {
// Extract just the filename (e.g., "tty.SLAB_USBtoUART")
string name = baseName( entry.name );
// Filter for common macOS USB-to-Serial naming conventions:
// - tty.SLAB_ : Silicon Labs (Yaesu FT-991a)
// - tty.usb : Generic USB-to-serial bridges (FTDI, Prolific, CH340)
// - tty.uart : Built-in or external UART lines
if( name.startsWith( "tty.SLAB_" ) || name.startsWith( "tty.usb" ) || name.startsWith( "tty.uart" ) ) {
writefln( "Found Device: %s", entry.name );
foundCount++;
}
}
if( foundCount == 0 ) {
writeln( "No matching USB serial devices found. Is the radio turned on and plugged in?" );
}
else {
writefln( "\nScan complete. Total devices found: %d", foundCount );
}
}
}
catch( FileException e ) {
stderr.writeln( "Failed to scan directory: ", e.msg );
}
}

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

screwing around with USB libraries. hate the UX using the "official" FT-991(A) configuration software. thinking about building something new.

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

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
d_rift@beige.party ("d.rift") wrote:

At what point did gnu just decide the correct abbreviation for cryptography in their libraries was 'cry'? 😂

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Good Mood

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
chadmccullough@bsd.cafe ("Chad McCullough") wrote:

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/117185371202419389

This! So much, this!

#NoAI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
britt@mstdn.games ("Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:") wrote:

More morning skies 🌅

#watercolor #MastoArt #art

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
organ-harvest-coordinator@app.wafrn.net ("Organ Harvest Coordinator, patron god of lesbians :BhjFlag_Ace: :sparkles_aromantic: :neocat_flag_agender_256: ") wrote:

Ngl one of my fav things to do is to impersonate people, a little identity theft as enrichment where I just say silly stuff

#like-that-one-time-I-was-gabbo-for-a-day

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

this is great, gandalf demonstrating outside thiel's new house in argentina telling him to fuck off

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HzmGRzWNo5k

you don't need a lot of spanish to get the idea

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:

Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.

AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

#aislop #debian #gnulinux #linux #distribution

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Look, you are not required to put sharks in the swimming pool.

But nor are you prohibited from doing so.

This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of sharks in the swimming pool. Sharks are beautiful and graceful creatures.

If you do put a shark in the swimming pool, the shark is your responsibility.

Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a shark in the swimming pool.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

FIND yourself a a linux distribution or BSD that does reject AI; use it and donate to it.

If you can't move your daily driver move a secondary machine. Tinker with it, fit it into your life where it makes sense.

YEAH the linux kernel has slop. Most programming languages have slop. Most desktop environments have slop, you will have dependencies that are still slop. This is a big problem; there is no magic off switch to fixing this overnight.

We are in the early days of dealing with a contaminate that polluters are actively dumping into our digital environment.

It is going to take a long time before anyone can truly be slop free.

But support, and invest in the folks doing that hard work which will build a slop free future.

Starlight Network maintains a list of slop rejecting operating systems and distros here: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #floss #AntiAI #linux #bsd #netbsd #elementaryos #gentoo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kbob@chaos.social ("Kernel Bob :progress_pride:") wrote:

For those of you who missed it or weren't born yet, may I direct your attention to what is possibly the most important computational physics result of the 20th century.

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202?spm=a2ty%5Fo01.29997173.0.0.718a55fbWgQ0WT

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

RE: https://bookstodon.com/@reconnectpress/117185382449783580

Would you like to read an advance copy of my next book and give a little feedback in exchange for a credit in the book and a hand-signed copy once it's released?

Advance readers help make us all better writers. Please do sign up if you're interested!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong here… As far as I know, an executive order of a U.S. president is an order for the executive branch of the government: its various agencies and bureaucrats. Nobody else has to follow Trumps orders, neither Google, nor you, nor me. So it follows that no toponyms are "official", they're all just colloquial. So we all can still talk about Gulf of #Mexico and Lake #Ontario as long as people around us understand what we're talking about.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
bigvimto@mendeddrum.org ("Big Vimto - The Boss Of Bus 🚌") wrote:

May I offer you a tiny frog in these trying times?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pomarede ("Daniel Pomarède") wrote:

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope separated from the rocket’s second stage and is flying on its own.

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/08/30/nasas-roman-space-telescope-flying-on-its-own/

#Roman

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

Our brave forebears didn't haul themselves out of their burrows, scrounging for whatever scraps they could find to survive after the asteroid hit so we, the inheritors of their efforts, would just capitulate to a bunch of GPUs!

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Also added external link domains to the stats page (excluding twipm posts): https://nesbitt.io/stats

3,699 Unique URLs - 926 Hosts across 200 posts!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Why open technologies tends to eventually win.

#map #ontario

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Google did what the #MadKing decreed! On August 30, 2026, Google Maps now displays the name Lake America when showing Lake Ontario.
Google's AI still says Lake Ontario.
#uspol #Trump #rename

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/117185040965789810

insanity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

The Ig Nobel Prize, a whimsical science award that honors "achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK," is moving out of the US after 35 years, because the US is now unsafe for international visitors. https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/