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

holy shit, just looking at what we know so far, this landing is WILD. 178 knots at the threshold, touchdown at 158 knots and they touched down halfway down the runway. last FDR data shows them at 65 knots just before the crash.

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rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

The name “TransUnion” implies a function and reason for being way cooler than is actually the case.

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

Digital Ocean saw the backlash 1Password received and continues to receive and said, “you know what, I want that”. Should be little doubt now that these companies/people are making a point with these donations.

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/

#FashTech #FashWare

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mcc wrote:

An open source maintainer behavior I do not like is when you say "this is confusing, could you add an explanation of it in your documentation?" and they say "you are free to add a PR" and close the discussion. I can't add a PR to fix the documentation if I don't understand the behavior because you haven't fucking documented it

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

Amazon Prime Air

well there's your first problem

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Gram is in openSUSE! Circles are being closed and all that.

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/editors:gram

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
readthedocs@fosstodon.org ("Read the Docs") wrote:

A couple months ago, we came under the largest DDoS attack we'd personally seen at Read the Docs. We wrote up a port-mortem on the anatomy of the attack, what we did to stop it, and what parts of it linger today (TLDR: AI makes DDoS easier)

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/

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

I'm an anxiety, but an anxiety that's trying real hard

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

"how do you manage to have your shit together? how did you figure it out?" they asked of the woman who has the least confidence in her abilities of anyone they will ever meet

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

Now, if this reminds you of the Bellman equation, it's because it's the Bellman equation

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

border-radius: 4km

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

*Operational* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 1% of total operational gas w/ dedicated industrial purpose.

*PLANNED* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 66% of total planned. Planned data centre gas plants are twice the total capacity of all other applications combined.

Whole bloody big heap of new planned ultra-filthy fossil infrastructure we need to stop from ever coming close to existing.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-oil-gas-plant-tracker

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bjoreman@toot.cafe ("Fredrik Björeman") wrote:

Be honest: The code name for Apple’s new “audio intelligence” was Stasi, wasn’t it? I’ve never before seen a product introduction where my first reaction is that I want to prohibit its use anywhere near me. #apple #ios #watchos

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

Well I did rig and animate the 3d eye for In Unexpected Places but that feels different, much less complex than rigging and animating a whole ass puppet

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tonofcrates ("Will Crichton ⍢") wrote:

I'm super excited to share our upcoming paper at OOPSLA'26, "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". This paper asks: how differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what the heck is "structured concurrency", really?

Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper:

https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/

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

Trying to get over a fear: I have done plenty of 2d had drawn animation immersed in 3d but I have never done anything serious with animating a rigged character in 3d. Getting anxious every time I move a thing around, how do I do this, how do I not fuck it up

And I know I don't need to be so anxious but it's so easy to worry when I try a new thing that I am just going to be really bad at it

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

So many problems would be solved for us right now by the simple act of turning off some computers.

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Every single one of these doomerism articles is a) 100% bullshit and b) is put there to make the technology seem magical when it's just matrix multiplication

Will your butter knife kill off humanity? Cutlery scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of butter knives

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

The human face of the Autistici/Inventati affair, “Canceling Emily”:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/09/08/Emily-Got-Canceled

“The wastrels in Washington can reach across the ocean and silence a Canadian creator on an Italian website. With no prior legal process, nor any way to resist, and without fear of consequences.”

#art #USpol

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The figure in the window has a doll's head, with a crocheted body on top of a glass bottle. I think she's the current owner of the house.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #farm #decay #window #doll #trees

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thenarwhal@mstdn.ca ("The Narwhal") wrote:

For years, scientists and First Nations couldn’t explain the rash of coho deaths that followed heavy rain. Now it’s been traced back to car tires — and they’re racing to keep highly toxic chemicals out of the water https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-coho-salmon-deaths-6ppdq/

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Did you hear about the UK government report on ecosystem collapse? It was created not only by the environment department but also intelligence agencies like MI5 and MI6. Reporters were invited to see the unveiling of this report in October 2025 - but at the last minute the Prime Minister blocked it!

Luckily the Greens forced the release of a 14-page redacted version.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 - 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿.

Here's the redacted version: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National%5Fsecurity%5Fassessment%5F-%5Fglobal%5Fbiodiversity%5Floss%5F%5Fecosystem%5Fcollapse%5Fand%5Fnational%5Fsecurity.pdf

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

L1 cache (on-core cache lines)
L0 cache (register files)
L-1 cache (branch/fetch predictor state)

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

This thought brought to by musing about (online) social media being mediated by physical location.

Say you want to hang out with one set of your friendly freaks, so you go to the location you've indicated is your friendly freak spot, and all social media is properly directed both in and out. No risk of leaking or collapsing context.

Then you need to get your public persona out and make some announcements or something, so you go to that public space you like with that old tree. Now only the public facing ins and outs are available.

Then when you're done being social, you go home, and it all turns off, or maybe is set to a very small subset of "family".

Anyway, I was thinking about that, and then I was just like, "Geez, computers are not the solution here. Get a grip."

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kboyd@phpc.social ("Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦") wrote:

@aud @cwebber are we posting ocarina on main??

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

@cwebber I showed you my ocarina, pls respond

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ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know.

https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai%5Fpolicy.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
drj@typo.social ("David JONES") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117236126658335889

Uh, wow. I recommend reading the Tristan Buckmaster letter directly, the OpenAI side of it is so much more shady than the summaries.

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The important thing to understand about any of these interactions is that you are not having a conversation with a reasoning entity; you're just putting your thumb on a scale that weighs words, watching other words rise up in response.

If our language was composed only of I Before E Except After C, and you pressed down on C only to see E rise up, how much awe could you bring yourself to feel? Would you say to yourself, this changes everything?

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

I say "unfortunately", but I think this is actually okay. This means computers and computer controlled things are only usefully applied to a limited number of problems and may not be the optimal solution in many cases. Just like any other technology! Once you recognize that and identify a situation where a computer is not usefully applied, you can just let it go. You're free to not computer in that case! It's great!