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

Brought to you by the union of fedi robot girls who hate genAI

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YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rachel "atomic butt girl"") wrote:

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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

I read somewhere that "the industry is losing the narrative on data centres".

I can't imagine why. Here's the pitch:

"The purpose of these giant buildings is to take away your job. But think about the benefits if we place them in your neighbourhood: Electricity and water will be more expensive, background noise will rise, and if you're *really* lucky we'll drive the whole thing using gas-fired turbines so air pollution rises too!"

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117202398577562747

This is *wild* (derogatory).

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

I am not succeeding at not complicating it

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redox@floss.social ("Redox OS") wrote:

Redox OS has added a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy to our CONTRIBUTING.md: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@mcc the near constant stream of MMS messages I get from random democrats claim that one can participate in democracy at any time any place. perhaps democracy is just a simple gacha game, just a few microtransactions here and there.

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FOSSBackstage@floss.social ("FOSS Backstage") wrote:

Benjamin Nickolls and Andrew Nesbitt joined us at this year's #FOSSBack to showcase an analysis of 800 member companies to answer the question, 'is the InnerSource Commons good for Open Source?

If you're keen to find out, catch up with the recording.

Link: https://youtu.be/J5XSQZNhwbc?si=A5jNOTdVsFFod1uR

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

are you becoming your best cringe self

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

Ok Christine you can just append this object to the .blend you don't need to make it into a rig you're literally just using it in one scene and file don't over complicate this

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The thing that makes it art is human intention. Like all art
https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117200446378984133

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

Not that @ridley

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

The last Metroid is in captivity
The galaxy is at peace

The whole galaxy
No like the whole thing
It's pretty amazing
Literally no wars
Oh fuck it's Ridley oh fuck

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daveycraney@social.lol ("Davey Craney") wrote:

An art gallery of all places has an AI slop sign…. 🙄

A gallery to sell ART
BY HUMAN ARTISTS

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

Oh I think they brought it back as "Black Energy Tea" https://celestialseasonings.com/collections/caffeinated-blends/products/energy-black

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

Oof do I need to bust out the Hard Shit to get my brain working (the somewhat questionable extra-caffeine-added Celestial Seasonings Fast Lane)

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

nyeh heh heh that's right

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

i have been obsessed with this photoset from @trueref.bsky.social since it was first posted months ago. this was so much fun to paint 😭

#art #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
GIFS_of_Puppets@ohai.social ("Muppet Show GIF of the Day") wrote:

Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF of Mahna Mahna popping up in front of The Snowths and then quickly ducking back down out of frame

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overworldascendant@shattered.azumanga.gay ("overworldAscendant") wrote:

i'm not plural but my headmate is

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

(and yes, I know, managers have free capital and could volunteer, but other disciplines don't -- think UXR, design, etc. -- so you're stuck at either a values or resources dilemma, and the only solutions that work look like ChromeOS or SteamOS and a good chunk of the bottom-up community reject them on the basis of their own priors/supremacy; that is, they benefit in a status sense from a version of FOSS that does not have its shit together)

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 2nd 2026 (Medium), in 05:17
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

It sure would have been nice if, in our current era of vibe-coded OSes, we had cross-browser support for the show*Picker family of methods

They could've serve as a OS-neutral escape hatch for writing local-first document-oriented apps while worrying less about the underlying OS

But, y'know, we can't have nice things.

(Trusting Firefox and Apple rhetoric on these proposals turns out to have been a bit dumb in hindsight 🤷‍♂️ )

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

In case its unclear, this was very very pre-slop and I think its sort of badass in a horrifying kind of way

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

It takes management capacity and the ability to direct things in a loose top-down sense (think corporate-level OKRs + delegation) to engineer freedom *from* choice, not just freedom *of* choice.

This is a lesson Linux & friends have never learned, and it's why we are stuck in a Groundhog Day "Year of the Linux Desktop" 25+ years later. Delivering for those who *aren't* (low-level) developers requires abstraction and disciplines that rarely self-organise because they lack free capital.

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

Nobody will understand when I say that this is why we're still fighting about ABIs and package managers, but that's the deep truth of the matter.

A useful corollary is that the web is necessary to any liberatory agenda because it elides the low-management-capacity aspects of FOSS in ways that still deliver for users. This is perhaps my second most unpopular take.

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

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117201955863661640

Back in college I was pretty heavily involved in the local LUG (organised events, President for a while, etc.), and it didn't take more than a few year's experience to teach me that the politics of the Free Software viewpoint might have been morally right, but were practically useless in the liberatory sense. Unless FOSS stocked away enough capital to liberate *itself*, it could never do enough to build the sort of high-level managerial systems that would allow it to compete under capitalism.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rustup 1.29.1 has been released! 🦀

See the blog post for all the changes to rustup: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/01/Rustup-1.29.1/

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kramo@chaos.social ("Laura Kramolis") wrote:

Every day, it becomes clearer that literally anything good we can do is in spite of economic circumstances. Corporatist fascists have all the money, but that’s all they have. This is why they’re trying to fill the gaping hole in their hearts with generative AI. What money won’t buy them is real human connections. Make art, make love, help others, and you’ll have lived a better life than they did. In the end, we’re richer.

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

I'll say this for Proxmox: it's as Linux as you want it to be.