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

SO IT BEGINS

RE: https://www.threads.com/@axios/post/Dc1Jso9jgC2

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

when London was known as "Londongrad"

today?

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makuru@catgirl.cloud ("New and imporved formular Makuru") wrote:

I am looking for any job in Germany, if anyone has any idea for any junior position hit me up.
Pay is even optional, depending.

:boost_ok:

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

Finally got around to cancelling my JetBrains/WebStorm subscription. (Yay!)

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

So, I complain a lot about open source photo software. They generally have horrendous UIs that are only one step above exposing code directly in the UI. But sometimes you find software that is doing neat stuff that makes the shit UI worth it. Like this: Spektrafilm https://github.com/andreavolpato/spektrafilm

When you first load an image it's showing you a blurry low-res preview, but once you hit scan (and wait for ages) you get one of the best software film emulations I've seen

Slow as hell, but looks quite good

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

like sorry, i am incredibly much a fan of types and everything, but the moment you have to talk to a database it fucking sucks to use a strongly typed language.

and a lot of that is because sql is just cursed for types.

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

i am still banging my head against a sql shaped wall with dependent types. it's very full of rediscovering how annoying things you know are in the strongly typed world.

for example, if you write a left join, it makes the right thing you are joining to's fields become nullable when selected. how does this work recursively? that is, when i do a right join, does the entire left hand side become nullable? how do i even figure that out short of figuring out a test suite for it?

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lemire ("Daniel Lemire") wrote:

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

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

I should look into those box drawing exercises. Those will probably help get my head around triangles

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

we need to start a new movement called good software. software that is good, and does good, for the public good.

the freedom part is the wrong focus. it's a misaligned value judgement. you can write free software that bombs children. you can have a free software project maintained by a fascist or a rapist. software that bombs children, by the very definition, can never be good. projects where fascists and rapists are allowed into positions of power are, by the very definition, not good.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

But I think we should congratulate and shout out the local protests and people flooding community feedback meetings to oppose data centers.

It's working! By being there with you homemade sign you might inspire others to do the same.

Keep it coming.

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

i made an honest chatbot - it shakes a magic 8 ball

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sstephenson@indieweb.social ("Sam Stephenson") wrote:

💡Did you know? If someone writes something you appreciate, you can just send them a note to say thanks

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

I wanted a Gram shirt to wear to Goatmire (goatmire.com) at the end of September so added one to my shop. Thought I'd link to it in case anyone else is as into toads as I am

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

Maybe Death is MAGA, because it has made some terrible choices lately.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/03/another-loss-gloria-steinem-is-dead/

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

I mean, I say I'm good at drawing from reference, but d20s are a special kind of triangular hell

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

One of the advantages of doing that YouTube drawing tutorial rabbit hole dive a few days ago is that I found a video where pikat explains that drawing from reference and drawing from imagination (or more accurately, drawing from memory) are very separate skills.

I'm pretty good at drawing from reference but I struggle when constructing drawings. The only way to get better is practice, but it's demoralising having good reference-based drawings and poor imagination ones in my sketchbook.

Solution: Next to the date jot down what sort of reference I used. Then I can track improvements in different kinds of drawing

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸") wrote:

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c_9@mstdn.ca ("Cameron MacLeod") wrote:

Recognize beauty around you.

Realize you can’t control everything.

Reflect on how choices can make change.

Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Karl Bode") wrote:

over at threads(TM) the Apple fanboys are taking my last two newsletter posts about Apple well

one sweetly suggesting I have a several overlapping mental illnesses because I suggested the tech press downplayed Tim Cook's support of authoritarians

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

A vicious loop, because there's no way to troubleshoot an outage when the chatbot is down

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

“Why office workers are turning against AI”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-office-workers-are-turning-against

> It’s also because bosses are much less accountable for their AI use. They may use it to write emails and company memos or to experiment with task automation, but they’re not going to be disciplined or fired if there are errors or inconsistencies in that stuff.

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

Small update to https://some.pics. The EXIF data table now includes classes for each data element, which means you can now use CSS (in your custom template) to work with those.

One practical application is only showing the fields that you care about, and hiding the others. Here's some sample CSS for that:

tr:not(:has(
td:first-child.field-of-view,
td:first-child.megapixels,
td:first-child.lens-id
)) {
display: none;
}

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jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

Junior tech jobs are rare right now, so I was delighted to see the Welsh Government is hiring a Digital Data + Tech Apprentice. No experience needed!

2 year post, £27k, apply by 28/09/2026

Must be at least 16 years old, but there's no upper age limit!

https://cais.tal.net/vx/appcentre-ext/brand-7/spa-1/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/4096-Digital-Data-and-Technology-Apprentice/en-GB

#fedihire

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

@glyph This is only barely related but one of my favorite game dev anecdotes is how the Dragon's Dogma 2 team were given budget/time to make realistic looking food for you to cook at a campfire and instead they spent the money on real food and just filmed it then enjoyed some high-quality food.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-mystery-meat-in-dragons-dogma-2-is-actually-real-food-not-cg-we-decided-to-spend-the-same-amount-of-money-on-better-quality-meat/

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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.

Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.

Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.

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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate

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

blogged: Plagiarism ain’t cool bro :(

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/04/plagiarism/

what ya reckon, was my website copied? plagiarism or homage?

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sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place ("The Seven Voyages Of Steve") wrote:

When even the supposedly alternative thinking free software community is increasingly buying into this, with the rationale seemingly being “we can have so much more drinking water by letting just a little bit of shit into it”, I think my faith in the wider software ecosystem is pretty shot.

But I can at least not shit in my own well. It’s not a lot, because I can’t not drink other people’s water sometimes, but it’s something.