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jwz wrote:

I was a bit drunk with power, having been handed the remote that triggered the fog cannons during the movie.

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

Compiling Rust is NP-hard

shocked.

jwz wrote:

I swapped out the links to Google Maps on our "directions" page with Apple Maps links instead, but I sure wish there was some open alternative that does the job; however everything else I've seen is a joke.

("Does the job" means "exists on the open web, can provide driving and transit directions, and is not 20 years out of date", so no, not MapQuest.)

jwz wrote:

This is fine.

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jamesbritt ("James Britt") wrote:

Well this is fun!

https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/Epstein%20Files

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MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

I don't generally post memes, but when I do, they're the best memes available.

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

It's the kind of night where I've got home from watching Hackers in a nightclub and now I'm staring at the V.34 specification trying to dial into a modem over SIP as a proof of concept for my ideal of distributing blogs via dialup protocols

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Living the hacker lifestyle I always wanted

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naomikritzer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Naomi Kritzer") wrote:

It's a really good collection; my favorite story in it is still "Unauthorized Bread," but the title story, "Radicalized," is also EXTREMELY PRESCIENT (it's about terrorism against health care executives and what might motivate it / result from it.)

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

I propose we call the coming period of worldwide civil strife “the Eugenics Wars” because even without Khaaasaaan! it’s basically eugenics obsessed rich weirdos against everyone else.

jwz wrote:

Planet successfully hacked!

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nekeki@infosec.exchange wrote:

The cyberdelia Hackers movie night is NOT to be missed

@jwz

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mjp@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Matt Pettineo") wrote:

Being an open source maintainer in 2026

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• gifv: 06041e64f06c4123.mp4

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey, look at this. It's the Best Series Hugo for Old Man's War. I'm delighted to have won, and even more delighted to have been in the fine company of Elizabeth Bear, Max Gladstone, Seanan McGuire, Katherine Addison and Heather Wallace, the other finalists in the category. It was a good night.

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

I finally listened to this talk from Andrew Kelley, "Don't Take the Black Pill". It doesn't solve all the problems of the world or anything, but it's perhaps worth a listen if you are a person who uses too many computers and could use a hopeful message today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4

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

I find Jamelle Bouie to be the most frequently insightful commentator on contemporary American politics, and this is no exception:

https://youtu.be/AuCENXlqLl8

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ChampersBE@mastodon-belgium.be ("Bart Champagne ON6BC :debian:") wrote:

@adele @lienrag Enforcing disclosure of AI use is a) virtually impossible and b) could potentially be weaponized to challenge author's Intellectual Property rights or validity of signature.
By scanning for these disclosures, a malicious actor could claim the code can't be copyrighted (because an AI was involved) and thus they can't be sued if they steal said code.
The Debian approach really is pretty damn solid and thorough.
People dissing Debian for it might be eating their own words later.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I ended up taking the time today to strip and paint my nails. While I still hadn’t lost any, there was enough separarion that they were starting to get cause on hair/fabrics if I wasn’t careful.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I printed a mockup of the rumored iPhone ultra/fold device that’s supposed to be coming out next week to get a feel for the size. I was hoping it would serve as a worthy replacement for my 13 mini. While I like the height, the width makes to too hard to stretch across and use one handed without some kind of support device like a pop socket. Also, the open configuration feels a bit too small for tablet use. It’s significantly smaller in the hand than my iPad mini.

I may print out some screen mockups and tape them down just to be sure, but I think I’m going to stick with separate phone/tablet devices for now.

*full disclosure, I actually printed this at 99% scale because the original model was 121mm tall and my print bed can only go up to 120mmx120mm.

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didier@malenfant.net ("Didier Malenfant") wrote:

What a cool little demo! (thanks @made for the link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HWmCo4JLY

#DemoScene #Pebble #PebbleTime2

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

As LLM use has spread, AI detection has become increasingly important: many human readers wish to know that the content that they are laboring to read was, in fact, human-authored!

On the next episode of Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Max Spero, the co-founder and CEO of Pangram Labs. Join us for what promises to be a lively discussion about the current and pressing problem of AI detection.

Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1543816194182750339

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Carbon dating doesn't go that far back #monsterdon

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

anyway there may be some Metaphors, don’t say I didn’t warn you

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

apropos of this, I also need some kind of workflow for publishing fiction to a small audience. I might be able to get out of my own head if the thing I am writing is just made up, but I am not comfortable putting pretty rough initial efforts at fiction on my regular blog and I also don’t want to spend ten weeks writing a bespoke epub rendering pipeline. scrivener? is scrivener good? and how do I put those on a web site

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This may be wishful thinking either way as there are some elided “mh (-), ph (-)” posts that I am glossing over here because I don’t want to think about it. But maybe I can just engage Hater Goblin Mode and produce some impactful words this week

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess I might be better-known as an AI hater at this point than as a python programmer. I would so much rather be building things up than tearing them down but I guess some things just need tearing down too much.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am trying to write about python scripts for streamlining upstream contribution workflows and routinely decompensating for hours at a time. 2026 is rad.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am trying to write about a Python packaging idiom and I just can’t do it because every fourth sentence has me doing a quick web search to confirm something, bumping into some new grotesque AI indignity that is peripherally related to some tool or other, and requiring a herculean effort to re-orient around the putative topic.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I think I am going to have to abandon my attempt at an “every other blog post is about something OTHER than AI” rule, because every other topic I try to select ends up needing to edit _around_ some hellish new AI catastrophe.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

5% ABV in Utah?! #monsterdon