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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maeve_bkk@kolektiva.social ("Grace O'Malley") wrote:

US Representative James Clyburn (D-SC), a 17 term incumbent with leadership credentials, is advocating expanding the #SCOTUS from 6 members to 13. Public approval of the court in presently at 33%. https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/clyburn-supreme-court-reform-justices-democrats-jeffries

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinOR ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

🚗 💨
Spent my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind to make a new start
Going to California with an achin' in my heart....

#LateSummerRoadTrips
#HashTagGames

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

Sending up the #AskFedi bat signal.

For those of you out there who meet all three of these criteria:

* left handed, and
* have handwriting that's more eccentric than usual (by your judgment), and
* have a Remarkable (any model)

What are your experiences with the device? Like? Hate? Collecting dust? Invaluable?

Enquiring minds want to know, ideally before the end of the week.

Boosts welcome! Advice beyond what's requested is not! Many thanks! Exclamation point!

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
ricardo@bsd.cafe ("Ricardo Martín :bsdhead:") wrote:

Every post/reply about AI you write should come with a link to a reminder that LLMs:
- Are for-profit plagiarism machines that have cannibalized the internet
- Come at a serious human and environmental cost
- Can't be trusted and create real IP problems, AND
- Can make you dumber if you stop thinking for yourself

#ai #noai

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
derickr@phpc.social ("Derick Rethans") wrote:

If you're wondering why the @Xdebug issue tracker is unavailable, I can conclusively say that it's another bout of LLM scrapers.

#php #llmmealone #xdebug #opensource

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

"We asked MIT whether we could incorporate Kerberos (and other encryption) into the X Window [...] this would have put the distribution under export control, and that that would have defeated X’s easy distribution. [...] Anyone claiming security was a “failure of imagination” does not know the people or the history and should not be taken seriously. "

pre-Crypto War be like.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

be the cringe you want to see in the world

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AeroFox64@fox.yt wrote:

Awawawawawawawawawa....🦊

#tummytuesday #furry
📸: Vulcanriverwolf

Attachments:

• gifv: 12f150247315841b.mp4

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

For industrial subjects especially, I usually end up preferring the most straightforward and boring perspective I can find that just lets the subject speak for itself. The masters of this approach were Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose "Basic Forms" work richly repays your attention if you like this kind of stuff. https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Bernd%5Fand%5FHilla%5FBecher/

(They would have undoubtedly gone for an overcast day to capture Big Allis, but I liked the clouds.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rowan_m ("Rowan Merewood") wrote:

Email Verification just landed in Chrome Canary on Android! If you collect email addresses on your site and you haven't signed up for the origin trial, then this gives you a few million potential testers if that helps motivate. New blog post incoming with even more goodies, existing links below...

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@krig LOL @ "digital prion disease".

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

Reminder to Massachusetts you have like one more hour to vote in the election

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jpaskaruk@growers.social ("JimmyChezPants 🇨🇦") wrote:

I feel that it's very important that everyone add this to their wishlist on Steam. If you don't have a Steam account, here is a reason to create one.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/nekome-nazi-hunter-is-about-gleefully-butchering-fascists-in-germany-and-america-but-its-devs-swear-its-not-political/

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

LINUX = Llm IN Ur X

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

It seems intuitive that the more experience you have solving problems in a given domain, the better you'll be at pushing the boundaries of the solution space and finding novel paths forward.

But did you know there's a paradox hidden inside of the benefits of all that "prior experience?"

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

TIL: There's a fork of the Zed editor called Gram that strips out the AI cruft, and a self-contradictory EULA, and just tries to be a good editor. ❤️

https://gram-editor.com/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:

"spherical bastard"

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

Ugh. Joe Schmid returns to Catholicism because he believes in a patent fraud, and finds torture porn inspiring. No thanks, Joe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/01/i-almost-completely-missed-the-meteoric-career-of-joe-schmid/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@firepoet @nightowl I have some time at the moment. I'd be interested in chatting about what you have in mind.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

@NfNitLoop 100%. I'm seeing a similar thing happen at my job, where we're offloading auth to a third party... A company that just had an auth bypass a couple months ago and constantly pushes bugs to prod.

But if it breaks or is compromised (again), I guess the business can say "not our fault!" 🙃

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@kevinevans I think a lot of recent trends in software can be explained by this:

They're not interested in providing a working solution. They're selling to customers who need to externalize blame. Some school board has a "prevent cheating" checkbox, and paying for a service like this gets them off of your back.

If students hack around it, institutions might not care at all as long as they have plausible deniability. "Well we were *told*..."

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The mark of a good customer support interaction is when a ticket has a "This solved my issue" button and you're *disappointed* that you didn't get to provide one additional "thank youuuuu" message to the person on the other end of the interaction.

In related news: #Steam isn't The digital games marketplace because of their licensing deals, it's because of their customer support. (& IMO, The Steam App UI *is also* a form of customer support.)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org wrote:

There’s a certain … cassandra-esque irony in people getting frustrated with LLMs not “doing what they tell them”, and are now, undestanding-by-fire why domain-specific formal languages were developed in the first place.

If you want to skip straight to the part where the computer does (mostly) exactly what you tell it to do, might I recommend a programming language.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117197677242218132

reinstalled Mapquest app

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
calyxos@fosstodon.org ("CalyxOS") wrote:

📱 CalyxOS is supporting Fairphone 6 now! If you have a Fairphone 6 and want to run CalyxOS, simply get it on https://calyxos.org/install/. Click the device model you need, and follow the instructions to download and install CalyxOS 7.2.4.50. We have also been supporting Fairphone 5 and Fairphone 4. If you have any follow up questions using these devices, feel free to let us know!

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech”

It's becoming harder and harder to find tech employers that aren't making everything worse.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/stay-in-tech/

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

Over at Whatever, a longer-than-a-Threads post about winning the Best Series Hugo this year, what it means to me, and whether this means the series is necessarily coming to an end (Spoiler: maybe probably not)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/01/as-promised-the-2026-hugo-award-follow-up-post/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In the course of an extremely difficult week during an extremely difficult month during an extremely difficult year, this was still crazy satisfying:

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/11625#issuecomment-5495841203

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Wrote a short post on a webapp that claims to "prevent cheating" and how I think that their whole premise is broken:

https://khevans.com/2026/09/01/writers-lock.html

tl; dr: you can't only use JS to prevent students from cheating lol

#blog

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

only documented case of a body cavity bomb attack in history