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

That sense of accomplishment when you unfsck LXC's you monumentally screwed up and return everything to exactly the way it was without obvious scars, modulo the downtime and harrowing, round-the-world debugging of the VM host failing to boot.

/ht @phae who thought of a clever way back from a dead server

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117196228412775225

WHY ARE DEMS LIKE THIS?!!?!

https://newrepublic.com/post/215016/two-house-democrats-vote-save-republican-agenda

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Jeff Winger from the Community TV series saying “that’s ‘mom’ for mad”

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

A hopelessly stupid website for stupid people. They're gonna be raking in the cash!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/02/unjected/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUz4BRzy7o

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Oh, Americans don't have culture? Then what do you call PTSD and Oreos?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“I’m not angry; I’m disappointed” is basically my whole online personality these days 😝

Boosted by jwz:
picandocodigo@mastodon.online ("Fernando Briano") wrote:

Just got these delivered. Thank you @chrislowis so much for printing and sending them for free! And thanks @jwz for the original design. Can't wait to hand these out whenever someone tells me "I only use AI for...", etc.

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I wish I'd internalized maybe 20 years earlier that the only way free software could be liberatory, rather than merely, selfishly libertarian, is if the goals became not to secure our own freedoms, but to grant and guarantee them for other people. Today almost nobody can change the software they use, and as a measurable fact almost nobody who can the change software the use does. But even so: having those choices matters; securing the fact of them, evangelizing and defending that fact, matters.

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gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Happy "Oracle has lost more than 60% of its value since the peak one year ago" to all those who celebrate

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diz@awful.systems wrote:

Fucking knew it. I follow some idiot slopper thread and they are all always going on about their prompting and absolutely none of them ever even considered measuring the effects.

Having actually done optimizations including professionally once upon a time, its so ridiculous to see people thinking they optimize a stochastic process. It is just gambling.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
wizbean@tech.lgbt ("wiztina :blobcatwitch:") wrote:

We can build robots in any shape, with any number of motor limbs. They are very useful in industry environments, where they can perform various specialized tasks. The function of a robot is what it does.

The only reason to build them humanoid, with generalized skills and dexterity, is to displace humans. That's the function of humanoid robots. That's why capitalists want them. To get rid of us.

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

That libertarian thesis also accounts for some FOSS luminaries' counterintuitive embrace of vibecoding, which seems so antithetical to so many of the named values that ostensibly animate the scene. The libertarian ideal can be characterized as "freedom from other people," and that's the emotional (if not factual) affect one gets from generative AI — that you can build whatever you need without relying on anyone else.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
danmccullough@ecoevo.social ("Dan McCullough") wrote:

Someone needs a complaint box.

#15SecondsOfFame #Birds #Hawks

Attachments:

• video: 13 second video of a Red-tailed Hawk perched at the top of a conifer. It is facing to the left with a blue sky as its background. It is calling quite loudly, like it is not pleased with the way the day is going.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
danmccullough@ecoevo.social ("Dan McCullough") wrote:

@peachfront The worst 4 words in the whole birb language. 🤣

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
skippy@social.lol wrote:

I wrote to @1password expressing my disappointment with their funding of Omacom. They provided me the standard corporate response, to which I replied.

https://skippy.net/1password-and-omarchy/

#1password

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Damselfly@blackqueer.life ("Not Your Damsel") wrote:

Destroy capitalism.

In this economy?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

A woman was rude to me on the train today, so I Googled the book she was reading and told her who the murderer was.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

Hey anyone who knows of a job in NYC for a kid with a BA in fine arts and experience as a bartender, let me know.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

men will do anything to avoid writing CSS like a normal person

https://stylexjs.com/docs/learn

what an absolute abomination

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

Wisconsin billionaires. The worst.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/02/the-bad-guys-have-faces/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

Girls Gone Bible hosts speak of burnout w/o addressing the economic forces behind their generation’s exhaustion and despair. They detail mental health struggles, but don't interrogate the institutional roadblocks women face when they try to get help.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/girls-gone-bible-podcast-young-women-christianity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

536 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (11380 words total) #dailywords

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
jbz@indieweb.social wrote:

Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

https://zeldman.com/2026/09/01/tales-o-tech-suffering-fools/

#dhh #omarchy

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cks ("Chris Siebenmann") wrote:

I've come to feel strongly that "does it work or not" is the wrong question to ask about today's large scale LLMs. The right question is "are you willing to use a deeply unethical tool", a tool built on abuse, lies, exploitation, and copyright violation (among other bad things about them). Given what is happening in the world around us, ignoring the ethics of what you do and use is, well, it's certainly making a choice.

Unfortunately, programmers have historically come down on 'no ethics'.

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

I am so tired of this man's unrelenting and unearned narcissism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/02/do-not-want/

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

"The Oddersy", shot on iMacs

https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dbk2jaoI5%5F3/

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• video: f64a7a76df6b0895.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So you want an example of why copyright doesn't do shit for real-life artists who aren't already fucking rich?

One of my friends got their music sampled by Timbaland. Those of you who know anything about Timbaland are probably saying "oh for fuck's sake" right about now. For those who know nothing: he does this shit A LOT. And a LOT of artists use Timbaland for production because he's famous. They couldn't give a rat's ass what he does to smaller artists, because as it turns out, once you're at a point of being sufficiently successful, you usually just stop giving a fuck. Especially in pop music and rap/hip hop.

The resulting song got used in a big musician's album. I don't wanna doxx them and they want to be private, and disclosing what would expose them. So, suffice it to say: it was a successful album.

Anyway, she sued.

They settled for $12,000. Which the IRS wanted money afterwards. They took home about $7.5k or so. Oh and the lawyer wanted a cut too. I don't remember how much they got, but it wasn't anything remotely life-changing.

They used this money to buy a used car. A very shitty used car.

Meanwhile: he made millions off the song upfront for his work.

That wasn't punishment or a deterrent, that was an accounting rounding error.

Timbaland still routinely does this, by the way, and most artists actually don't even bother fighting back, they put him on blast on social media and then nothing happens, because that's about all they can do.

That's how copyright works in the real world.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.

We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.

CC @EUCommission #sovereignty

¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.

#TLS #web #EU #tech #sovereignty #US #fascism

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Romania’s new data centre for ‘AI and quantum’

we can’t tell you where the $1b is coming from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmDoEo-qgmw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260901-romanias-new-data-centre-for-ai-and-quantum - podcast

time: 5 min 08 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/01/romanias-new-data-centre-for-ai-and-quantum/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/117186581292012450

fyi, Federico and John have decided to take down our entire history of @comfortzonepodcast episodes from the MacStories YouTube channel (as well as @jonathanreed's @flepodcast it seems), supposedly because they didn't want to cause “confusion” since it's no longer a MacStories podcast.

what next, are they going to take down all our stories that were published on the site over the past few years so as not to "cause confusion"?

and if there were any confusion, it wouldn’t be helped by them choosing to not announce anything to their readers, on why all the contributors left, or why our podcasts suddenly disappeared from their feeds