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

Thinking more about what I wrote yesterday and wondering how much the computer limits the problems we're willing or able to tackle.

The limits could be something like an unwillingness to engage with (parts of) problems if we can't readily automate solutions, or worse, attempting to force the use of a computer where it is not appropriate (we can all probably point to many examples of this).

There may be new problems introduced by the use of the computer that can't be solved by adding more computer.

Then there's the things that shouldn't be done at all, but happen to be easier to do with computers (e.g. mass surveillance and misinformation). I suppose that's not a limit and more of a risk of having computers around.

How much has the computer impacted our values and imaginations about what is possible and worth doing? What problems are getting ignored? 🤔

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/117242026280829964

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Package Manager Trends

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/10/package-manager-trends.html

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
mcc wrote:

"Democratizing" seems to imply it brings some sort of power to everyone, more or less equally, "democratically". Is there a word for a technology which brings power exclusively to people who can afford high financial demands, and brings more power to you the more you are able to pay for it? Yes, there's a word for that. The word is "classist"

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

agentic combinators

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

AI Overused Expressions

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/069.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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jernej__s@infosec.exchange ("Jernej Simončič �") wrote:

@davidrevoy https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1w6itlo/please%5Fstop%5Fsending%5Fme%5Fslop/

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

I guess being in the name it shouldn't have been that surprising....

that, plus i'm back to running on considerable insomnia

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

That was surprisingly tricky!

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 10th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 21 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

Over the years I've moved countries five times, lost countless objects and books in mysterious ways, and given away so many books...

And yet, my thirty year old copy of Principia Discordia keeps popping up

"Where did that come from? I thought I'd left it in the box for Oxfam?"

"Where did that come from? I thought I'd left it in Canada?"

"Where did that come from?"

"...And why is it on my desk?"

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
annaecook ("Anna E. Cook") wrote:

Who needs a foldable phone when you can just have a palm pilot

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
LukaszOlejnik ("Lukasz Olejnik") wrote:

LG smart TVs scan user’s local network for phones and watches, log location and nearby Wi-Fi names. Then send it to LG Ad Solutions. Pull the cable and it keeps recording, stores the audio, uploads when reconnecred. Automatic Content Recognition samples whatever comes through HDMI, so the console counts too. https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus

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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

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

Open Call for Nominations: European Open Source Awards 2027

Please consider taking a minute and tell us who we should recognize and honor this time around! We need to know about the heroes to be able to celebrate them.

https://awards.europeanopensource.academy/nomination-process

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we won't check evoke.hex into the repo until it's slightly more stable and good-looking. it looks worse than it is, there's large barely-annotated blocks but we know what they are and the stuff needed to clean it up is all pretty simple to implement.

but we could. if we wanted to, we could use it as a trust root as of now. this was the hard part, the goal we've been working towards off and on for months. wow. honestly can't believe we did it.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

all that's left for the hex transform is cosmetic work, most crucially around labels

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/117243417602953735

I am torn between the fact that asking for sales so that I can make rent this week is still undignified, and the fact that actually having a decent product to sell is quite a lot more dignified than the other option.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

wooooo!!!!!! we just did a full run, and now that those things are fixed, passing the generated evoke.hex through hex outputs a binary that is 100% identical to the copy of evoke that produced it.

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

“I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots”

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

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

This.

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

how are the Apple fanboys who mocked the Surface Duo coping?

Stevites in shambles when they showed that stylus!

(tell you one thing, Jobs' would've bent the knee just like Cook 🙈)

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

five items is the largest number of parameters in any single magic comment template. it was plausible there would be some situation that required the stack to be deeper than that, but there isn't. yay.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the stack needed exactly five items, as we now know for certain. we set its maximum depth to eight; as we wrote in a comment, it's important that it not be too big or else leaks won't be detected until someplace far away from their cause.

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jonathanhogg ("Jonathan Hogg") wrote:

I dunno… I feel like wanting to share my browsing behaviour with your 564 "trusted partners" is perhaps the opposite of valuing my privacy?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
binney@mastodon.me.uk ("Binney") wrote:

Unbelievable props to whoever's been leaving 3D printed blue plaques on my mum's road to celebrate local potholes

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

The “AI” doom narrative is really getting some traction this time around. Both got extensive coverage in Icelandic media and I’m seeing it spread far and wide among the web’s pseudo-intelligentsia. “Oh, no! These people know what they’re talking about so it must be true!”

It’s exhausting

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hahhhh there we go. there was a second, very subtle leak of substring entries; we fixed it.

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akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

the only reason my phone that is over 10 years old doesn’t work is because of the choice to stop updates

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akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

I don’t want a new phone. I want my perfectly good hardware to keep getting updates until it actually stops working. I want replaceable batteries that get recycled. If a company stops giving updates I want to be able to change the OS.

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

IME this baffles some people. how can i possibly write code without a compiler at every step of the process?

well i have this secret method, it's called "thinking"

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

ways in which chatbots are like a claw hammer:

• you can make a mess with one end
• you can use it to deal with the mess... maybe.

but a claw hammer doesn't bill you by the token.