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jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.16 out now.

Four new hacks this time, two by me: floppy, graphstat, amigajuggler and polarnight.

There is no iOS version because Apple recently began rejecting App Store uploads that do not use the iOS 26 SDK. It is impossible to target that SDK with anything earlier than Xcode 26, which requires macOS 15 or 16. Since I am staying on macOS 14 for the foreseeable future, there will be no XScreenSaver iOS release for the foreseeable future.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5Fc

Boosted by pixxl:
lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place ("LR") wrote:

what we have here is the 21st century version of the mechanical turk. there is an assload of human work going on in the background at anthropic to make the system seem more capable than it really is.

the Translate-Anything system can not generalize, so they need to cheat. they feed it problem & answer, and just have it learn everything by heart, inter-/extrapolate the rest. and all errors are in the interpolations of course. so they add more answers. and so on. it never ends. it. never. ends.

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

believing that LLMs will soon be able to take on economically valuable tasks fully autonomously because their outputs sound increasingly plausible and surely it's just a matter of extending that intelligence into agency is like believing that pretty soon video games are going to have food in them that smells and tastes good because the graphics look so good now and surely it's just a matter of expanding to the other senses

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Yesterday something made me think of Garfield. A man, living alone, with a cat? Should've been gay. [many thought-trains later] I should make a "comic strip" of me and my cats. But, since I can't draw, it would just be selfies and cat pics with 💭 pasted on top. Also, the cats are anti-capitalist and anti-fascist.

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

my next big model has entered the shitpost era.

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

morse code minesweeper cheating buttplug

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

sorry i can't take you to dinner, i have to click squares until everything goes horribly wrong

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

three words just came into my head, "minesweeper world championship" and i knew instantly it had to be a thing (and it is, i just looked it up)

Boosted by pixxl:
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (making toys)") wrote:

So one of the many things I'm trying to do, as I reorient myself in the computer world without Debian as a foundation to build on, is looking for a new operating system.

The Linux kernel project accepts slop contributions, the debian project accepts slop contributions. Where does that leave me?

Put simply, I'm looking for a daily driver operating system that I can trust to be made by people, and not contain the product of an automated plagiarism machine.

Boosted by pixxl:
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

not really a reply to ajroach42's excellent and deeply resonant thread today, just tangential

https://retro.social/@ajroach42/117208764034037052

the trait i've come to identify as most foul in proprietary software and everything non-free-software is: betrayal.

i avoid proprietary software because, eventually, it will betray me. it will do something against my interest in favor of its creator, or owner, or whomever is in control of the hardware it runs on.

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

with the headline "Hello, Mr. Philby"

i guess soviet newspapers weren't good at headlines

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/117209267413019752

The tools of the master can never be turned against it. Do not trust them.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I keep seeing political influencers saying you should protect your vote by using ballot drop boxes instead of mailing your completed ballot and, yeah sure drop boxes are great, I use them every time, but THAT'S NOT THE THREAT. The threat this time is that the USPS won't deliver your ballot to you in the first place. You can't use a drop box if you don't have a ballot to drop.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

guise please don't hack me with my IP address

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

>>> import socket
>>> socket.getfqdn()
'1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa'

I lol'd

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
wjmaggos@liberal.city ("william ⁂ maggos") wrote:

@fromjason

Chicago?

https://chicagostudies.uchicago.edu/humboldt-park/humboldt-park-history-humboldt-park

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

I've been thinking about where I want to spend the rest of my life. My mother will soon pass, and I will be leaving Florida.

I want to be around my people. I want to be around more Puerto Ricans; more Black people.

The problem is, I hate tropical weather. I want seasons. I want sweaters. I own Iron Rangers. I want to wear them.

There's only one place on earth that has Puerto Ricans and four proper seasons.

Y'all, I think I'm moving to The South Bronx. 😍

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

This is absolutely sensational: journalists went undercover pretending to be American millionaires wanting to donate to Reform under the table. They have Farage and two of his most senior henchmen on video setting the deal up, in their own words.

Sensational not because it's a shocking reveal, because they're shown to be exactly the kind of people most of us expected them to be, but sensational because they got the bastards on tape admitting to it.

There will be a second by-election in Clacton even sooner than anticipated, I suspect, and I'm not even sure Farage will be standing in it this time.

https://youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat says a mafia state doesn’t arrive with one announcement. Trump attacks the press. He guts DOJ accountability. He pardons rich criminals in his orbit. Then corruption isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the system. And you pay for it. #CostOfCorruption

Attachments:

• video: 11ace4b6e9b9566b.mp4

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

But when I do, I... uh... really struggle. I'm not a professional and haven't taken any classes. Anyway, here is one.

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

Rust 1.98.1 has been released.

This release fixes a possible miscompilation in vtable generation. Under certain circumstances, Rust 1.98.0 incorrectly puts a null pointer where a function pointer should be.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/03/Rust-1.98.1/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iliana@tacobelllabs.net ("/etc witch") wrote:

“half of the billboards in SF are telling you to drink radium water and the other half say ‘hair and teeth falling out? we can help with our radium-powered solutions’”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eevee@slime.global ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

you ever feel completely alienated from the only thing you've ever been any good at

and realize that, although you hadn't planned on it anyway, you really will never work in that industry again

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
gildilinie@beige.party ("Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

boost this poost if you support a unionized wikipedia

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
freezenet@noc.social ("Freezenet") wrote:

Age Verification Company IDScan Hacked: 153 Million Drivers Licenses Compromised

IDScan had apparently been compromised for a year as hackers stole people's licenses live as they were added to the database.

https://www.freezenet.ca/age-verification-company-idscan-hacked-153-million-drivers-licenses-compromised/

#News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #DriversLicense #hack #IDScan #IDScannet #leak

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Why I'm learning Hare (hint: it's not really about the language itself).

#harelang

https://jasongullickson.com/why-i-m-learning-hare.html

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

A handy list of free open source software developers, and their software/companies, to avoid:

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Liffonmelsmork@beige.party ("Alexander") wrote:

Some of the things living in my head do pay rent, to be fair

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

Oh, we’re not alone. https://discuss.systems/@dan/117203233301846123

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Dog