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ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

Now it's official: On Thursday, the EU Commission will propose a new law they call the #KIDSAct. It will ban young people from a range of different online services and be enforced by the Commission themselves.

What a waste of political capital and legislative resources.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/

#MinorsProtection #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights

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

this may be a bit uncomfortable for many people, but i remain convinced that the overwhelming majority of CVEs are caused because inadequate time and thought was put into writing the code.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:") wrote:

My partner and I went up to the Ryanair check-in desk this morning.

The lady asked: "Do you have reservations?"

I said: "Yes, but we're flying with you anyway."

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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Someone complained that my posts aren't relatable enough, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Have No Money And Also I'm Gay" Pin. If I know Mastodon, this one will resonate with 99.9% of you.
https://collabs.shop/na0wjn

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

CVE (Crap Validation and Escaping)

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octonion@tech.lgbt ("Popstar Tourist") wrote:

@liberty I'm making that switch as well. I used a Scheme (forget which one) pretty extensively a long time back, but more recently have been in Python for everything.

My personal biggest Pro is that Guile is *fun*. With Emacs and the set of plugins Spritely recommends Scheme feels like flying, very little between my thoughts and code, in a way that if Python ever did it has long since ceased to.

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liberty@mathstodon.xyz ("Anna Liberty") wrote:

Relatedly, I'm going to explore Goblins and see what I can do with it.

https://spritely.institute/goblins/

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liberty@mathstodon.xyz ("Anna Liberty") wrote:

I switched from Python to Guile as my go-to scripting language a few months ago and I've been enjoying it.

Pros:
- Guile is a Scheme
- Guile is slop-free
- Guile is faster than Python
- Guile can easily be embedded in other programs
- Guile easily compiles to WASM with Hoot

Cons:
- Guile's syntax can be less readable
- Guile's ecosystem is smaller
- Guile is less documented

#guile #scheme #python #programming #hoot

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

#NewProfilePic thank you sooooo much https://bsky.app/profile/khalanaika.bsky.social

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

Remember when SF TV series were cool stories that entertained us, rather than IPs that were milked by corporations for decades, until they were left dessicated husks that we needed to kick aside, but couldn't?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/14/have-we-all-forgotten-tom-corbett-and-rocky-jones/

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

It's good that Torres opposes both scenarios, because they're both cartoon fantasies that ignore reality.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/14/biology-dont-care/

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

I wonder if it might help to over-compensate anything that's a loop or a circle. Always assume it's bigger than I am used to making it. That might make small errors more forgiving

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

It's like, I know what an "h" is supposed to look like but I often can't put my hand such that the curve is halfway up the stem and the other side of the curve is roughly one character-width away. Often it is much narrower and shorter than it's supposed to be.

I sometimes wonder if I have dysgraphia but it's never been officially diagnosed, and I rely on handwriting a lot (can't blame it on The Screens either!) so kinda do want to improve

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

Not helping is that my thinking tends to be rushed and I'm quick to forget stuff so I'm in a race with myself to get ideas down

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

Hey, does anyone else get this problem?

If I write individual letters for handwriting practice I can form them perfectly fine. I can write words for handwriting practice without too much difficulty.

As soon as I apply to actual writing all bets are off. What are letters? What are words? Why not bunch up the "w" and "a" in "ways"? Why not give each and every "e" a unique style? And so on and so on and so on. Not deliberately, it's because the moment I think about anything other than the shape of the letters I can't get my arm to make the proper shapes of the letters, only something that looks in the loosest possible way like the shapes.

My ability to draw seems mostly intact, as when I draw I'm just thinking about the shapes of the lines.

I've tried doing handwriting practice and LOL it doesn't seem to help and it's just the most discouraging shit in the world, up there with "just stop getting distracted".

Is there something wrong with my handwriting practice? 30 years of ingrained habits? A neurodevelopmental difference related issue?

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kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Good days are good,
Bad days are bad,
Middle days are sometimes,
Rainy and sad.

Sometimes tea helps,
Sometimes it's food,
I wish I knew what
would lighten my mood.

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twilliability@genart.social ("gábor ugray") wrote:

Piece of friendly advice: try not to get to obsessed with the construction of maneki-nekos.

(If it's too late, know that help is available.)

Attachments:

• gifv: A sort of abstract maneki-neko swinging its arm. The body is just laser cut plywood; there is no cat. There is a rat's nest of electronics, and a pair of batteries.

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patcharcana@furry.engineer ("Patch Arcana") wrote:

Starting something new this week. I was going to start it last week but well... yeah.

Anyway, it's time for a morning journaling/planning stream. Low chatter, ambient tunes on the feed, just you, me, the chaos week backlog, and a parade of fun stationery and tools.

https://www.twitch.tv/patcharcana

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
elfin@mstdn.social ("`Da Elf") wrote:

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

Attachments:

• gifv: Parrot is ready for his closeup Mr Deville.

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

sometimes, you just do things to be on the right side of history.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Steig hinab von deinеm Thron

Die Erde wird dich hol'n

Sie gibt dir deinen Lohn

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

This goes so damn hard. Keep coming back to it. Incredible drums and vocals, great lyrics.

https://derwegeinerfreiheit.bandcamp.com/track/eos-4

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117265359683542601

I’ve been thinking along the same lines, with a few additional notes:

- Outsourcing was never rolled back. Industry went abroad and never returned
- Companies overall adjusted and now, more or less, benefit from it
- Much if that is because many companies also outsourced design and engineering, so lower coordination costs
- Most products are still worse than pre-outsourcing
- Domestic labour was pretty close to destroyed.
- Countries that went all-in on outsourcing effectively deindustrialised

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I've thought often the last couple of years about how the “Fire your developers! Use AI!!” craze feels really similar to the outsourcing / offshoring mania of a few decades ago — and how many of the same problems it shares:

- Cost-cutting shiny thing break management brains
- but turns out generating code was the easy part
- and building cumulative shared understanding is everything
- and shortcuts around that dig you in a hole really fast
- and that hole is full of code that nobody can maintain.

Something in the water, I guess. Something always in the water that once in a while explodes when conditions are right, like algae blooms.

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

"Arriving today"

me 10:59 tonight when the buzzer goes:

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OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz ("☆⋆Okie Space Queen") wrote:

Kid: what do you do when you feel hopeless?

Me: if it's a sad hopeless I listen to a song that will make me cry, if it's a resigned hopeless I'll likely play with my sketchbook

Kid: I don't know if I can concentrate enough to draw well if I feel like that

Me: you know you can make ugly art whenever you want right? If you really hate it you can rip out the page.

Kid: wait, like on purpose do ugly art?

Me: yes take all your ugly feelings and make it into ugly art, whether you want to keep it or not. Ugly art is a human right.

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jessebot@social.open.engineering (":heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them:") wrote:

Does anyone know the artist here? I want to buy stickers of this so badly :blobcat_pensive_pray:

#vegan #sysadmin

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

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toplap@toplap.org ("TOPLAP") wrote:

With the current lack of admin/moderation time, and increasing strain from LLMs etc, the following TOPLAP services will be sunset and shut down by April 2027:

* https://social.toplap.org - this mastodon server
* https://forum.toplap.org - TOPLAP discourse server
* https://eulerroom.com/ - owncast server + muxy event streamer
* https://algorave.com (currently a wordpress website)
* https://toplap.org (currently a wordpress website)

If you have some experience and connection with the livecoding community, and are interested in taking any of them on and keeping them alive (through admin, moderation and crowdfunding), please email alex@slab.org, thanks!

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artbyeliza@mastoart.social ("Eliza") wrote:

sometimes disability accommodation is getting takeout