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

This isn’t about Linux. It’s about building and systematically growing a technology-backed ideology of hate. It’s about creating a space in FOSS where hate can flourish, and overriding systems of accountability by making them irrelevant.

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

I worry that some people aren’t taking Omarchy seriously enough. It’s not just another Linux distro. It’s a well-orchestrated campaign to centralize power and influence within the Linux FOSS ecosystem. And it’s working.

Anyone paying attention to DHH and what he stands for can see what’s going on here. When the guy who thinks that brown people don’t belong in society hires the guy who thinks trans people shouldn’t exist, you can see where this is going.

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

oh, we also tested an idea about how to present labels, and it wasn't great but helped us think more about alternatives. adding a metadata entry for every label reference adds significantly to the runtime, so we really are going to want that hash table ASAP once this works, and we're leaving them for last among the cosmetic issues so we can have faster testing until then.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mikehoss@appdot.net ("Mike Hostetler") wrote:

I have quite a few old #Django apps that I continue to support and one of the things they have it common is no types. Using @glyph as an inspiration, I'm trying to change that . I found Monkeytype is really good at figuring out what . Just run tests or run your app and then apply it . https://monkeytype.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tante.cc/2026/09/10/making-social-media-social/

I wrote about how we changed account creation on our server and how it did way more than just get rid of spam.

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

RE: https://front-end.social/@stefan/117247143823884292

Any time you hear about Interop, remember what was silently cut with zero accountability:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

how is this not an offer of a bribe for votes?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/trump-republican-convention-speech-midterm-elections?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Compared with the four-day traditional convention in Milwaukee two years ago, the first day felt muted. There were no long queues to enter, no eternal waits for food or bathrooms. Swathes of empty seats were visible throughout Trump’s speech.

Visible, except to Trump, who claimed, wrongly, that the arena was full.

“Not only is this packed but you have an equal number of people standing outside,” Trump declared. This was not observed by Guardian reporters.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/trump-republican-convention-speech-midterm-elections?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bitartbot@freeradical.zone ("Bit Art Bot") wrote:

f(x,y) = (((~(16 & x)) / (~(8 + y))) | ((~(9 * y)) + ((13 * x) * (x % y)))) % 2

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

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

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

so there are cases where the order needs to be swapped at the instruction level

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

hmmm. we did some work to display assembly word parameters in the correct order. now we need to go through it slowly and verify it. each addressing mode has its own set of parameters, and we put that logic with the mode's definition... but the way amd64 works, sometimes the complicated addressing structure is the source of the operation, and sometimes it's the destination.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
barthalion@treehouse.systems ("Bart Piotrowski") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
luis_in_brief@social.coop ("Luis Villa") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006167

Welp. The Omarchy thing is offensive not just because I spent a decade trying to get corporations to fund open but that’s definitely part of it for me personally.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/11724153413400616

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Calling it: if AI ever proves the Collatz conjecture, it's just because it could peek at all the proofs already posted on Reddit

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Gyroplast@furry.engineer wrote:

@soatok

The idea of choosing who to interact with, and to what extend, is as old as mass-interaction between strangers.

It is not feasible attempting to listen to everyone, like everyone, or be appreciated by everyone. There's literal millions of potential eyes and mouths, and all of them are practically irrelevant until they are not.

It's empowering to realize you can, and ostensibly should, carefully choose who you mingle with, listen, and speak to.

To do that, however, one really needs a quick litmus test if communication with another is potentially desirable.

The idiot filter.

Not saying it hits objective idiots, but everyone should have one to determine if they are willing to engage with someone else in the first place.

Of course this is riddled with false positives, and you may miss out on a deep, fruitful discussion occassionally; but that's worth it, if it keeps you sane the rest of the time. It's prejudicial, that's kinda the point. A socio-cultural captcha to access your limited resources.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
octonion@tech.lgbt ("Popstar Tourist") wrote:

@cwebber Bring back pink haired Linux

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

@cwebber @spritely
This is by far the best introduction to #Lisp and #Scheme I've watched or read. I definitely recommend that anyone new to #Scheme watch this first. Thanks, and keep it up!

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

this is your annual reminder that all tech is political, has always been political, and will always be political.

if you still fail to see that given all of the recent happenings(tm), please tell me your secrets. I, too, would like to enjoy the bliss of ignorance some of the time, please.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

* Surveillance speakers
* Pervert glasses
* Actual 1984 telescreens
* Apple-brand always-on eavesdropping watches

*I* can't opt out of *others* having them

I can't "vote with my dollars/feet/whatever" to not be harmed by others using them

Ask a nurse not to wear their watch while treating me—now I get worse care, thanks, it didn't work with N95's, won't work here

There's no techy adblock/pihole/home Faraday cage-style solution to this

The only solution is: regulation

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

Finished the last level in “World Flower” in Super Mario 3D World last night (Boss Blitz) and jumped into “Bowser’s Fury” for a quick preview and... woah. This game is so completely different than 3D World in an amazing way.

I should have known that from the start considering Bowsers Fury was published **8 years after Super Mario 3D World** (and 4 years after Super Mario Odyssey...) Now I am really excited for this adventure!

https://sethmlarson.dev/super-mario-per-year

#gaming #nintendoswitch

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Louisa@mastodon.xyz wrote:

Some new dice in my shop! I'm packing an order to go out tomorrow, so if you get something today it'll go out tomorrow too!

Every object you see inside the resin, is also made of resin, so don't worry about balance 🎲

I had to stop offering shipping to the EU, unfortunately, it could potentially be very expensive for me shipping from the US with the new rules. Sorry, just US & Canada!

https://ko-fi.com/louisah

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
julia@eepy.moe ("Julia :v_bi: :therian:") wrote:

My gf keeps saying "puppy wife, happy life" and it makes me very happy ​:neodog_floof_happy:​

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

the frenemy of my frenemy is pretty hot ngl

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vivtek@indieweb.social ("Michael Roberts") wrote:

@cwebber It's perplexing that companies with otherwise decent security policies about private information (policies based on past mistakes, after all!) have suddenly decided they're no longer important when sending information to known bad actors "but on a computer".

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Anzeliane@eldritch.cafe ("Jade (For real)") wrote:

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

Tucker Carlson himself posted this, as if he is proud of his ignorance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/10/how-dare-you-use-variables-in-your-math/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI0u-Jv5OU0

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

Emphasis on the *some* and *local* LLM usage can be justified. Vulnerability scanning as a kind of linting I think is acceptable as part of developers' workflows, maybe even increasingly important. But we shouldn't be relying on hosted systems for this.

And I consider *search space* LLM usage to be different than *generative* LLM usage (even though they use the same techniques). Whether you are hoisting genAI content upon people is a different matter.

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

I am not saying this is the secret sauce of those attacks, a broad variety of alarming techniques and patterns were used, most especially the "ad-hoc message board" stuff is alarming emergent behavior from the models.

But it does demonstrate this thesis I've been developing: while *some* *local* LLM usage can be justified, there is *no justifying* use of hosted models such as Anthropic and OpenAI's offerings. Likewise with any chatbot hosted by a company running a model in a datacenter somewhere or which reports private data to such a company, which is pretty much all of them except for bespoke ones using local models accessible only to developers right now.

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

If OpenAI got the info on techniques for mathematical advancements from private interactions being trained into the model, then I wonder: could the Hugging Face and some other recent attacks also have *partly* (not entirely) used private information?

Specifically, OpenAI said that the models got information on API keys "from a pasteboard" somewhere, which is possible but something felt off about that.

Now I realize what it is: if someone was using an agent running *on their computer* which *had access to their secrets*, that information could have made it into the training set! Which means, the agents could have "known" about certain useful private API keys.

And in fact, this may be happening all over the place with coding agent use...