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

Letter: "To whom this may concern"

Corporate burn outs: "Ah, this must not be for me"

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

code that lays the golden types

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

Concern trolls: 0
Apathy: 1

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

just read 'valid' as 'valued'. code is not goose.

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

Chelicerae are such a cool adaptation, and now we know they arose in the Cambrian.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/15/a-cambrian-chelicerate/

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punktrock@sunny.garden ("Punkt 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Sometimes, figuring out how to get shit done with adhd is like when one of your cables is slowly dying and you gotta twist and angle it exactly right to get it to work. And then to be able to keep it at that position, you gotta build weird little constructions that are kinda in the way, but hey, at least the cable's working!

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iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Miya Ironami 🌸") wrote:

Sorry for not replying I've been going through a lot (caffeine withdrawal)

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glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

‘It’s really taking off’: #hedge revival as farmers rediscover ancient tools - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/15/conservation-gateway-drug-farmers-embrace-ancient-craft-of-hedge-laying "Grant applications in England surge as interest grows in habitat that captures carbon and helps reduce flood risk" that's good

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png@yap.pony.biz ("penguinite") wrote:

@davidgerard
> what would it take for KDE to be the desktop people actively choose, not just the one some of us settle for?

I do just love the lack of self-awareness in this sentence, this conference talk is the exact answer to the opposite question. Plenty of people actively stay away from software that's "AI-native", so AI is clearly not the answer to making a desktop people would actively choose.

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

A friend pointed out something about the "Little Weird Guys in FOSS" list that was bothering me but I hadn't articulated: lots of queer people describe themselves as "weird", and lots of transmascs who didn't get T until after puberty self describe as "weird little guys" in a charming way.

So if you are such a person and are like "why the hell is my self-descriptor being used with a list of people like, Eric Raymond," I just want to say...

From a transfem weird tall lady of FOSS, I love and appreciate all our transmasc weird little guys in FOSS!

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

It was a little hard to tell whether or not Buddy was making a meta point by killing all the black kids over and over the way that media tends to treat black characters as disposable plot devices, but if they were doing that, I think they did a fairly poor job of it; they could have been clearer that they were making a point, to the degree that I think they just ended up participating in the racist trope thoughtlessly themselves.

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

I didn't find Buddy particularly scary either. But it was fun in terms of its set and aesthetic design.

But still, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared did the children's puppet television show theme so much better.

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

Buddy was a fun little horror movie but it really didn't have that much to say. This is in strong contrast to Love and Death at Camp Miasma and Obsession and (to a lesser extent, but still) Backrooms, all of which had deep themes to them.

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

It's a good thing I still have a plentiful supply of these things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/15/its-a-mask-day/

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kde@floss.social ("KDE") wrote:

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#job #sysadmin #parttime #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Shadowing the Standard Library

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/15/shadowing-the-standard-library.html

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

hello, police, the big ASDA is selling Christmas food

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gwenthefops@booping.synth.download ("Gwen the fox factory :therian: :neofox_floof:") wrote:

I tried not to make too many videos about trains in this road-trip

Scott, Tom

I think your secret is out, Tom. You're a Train Nerd ™️

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

i think i'm going to call the impossible type No. because who didn't like prolog telling them no?

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. It’s called “On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’”.

[![On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’   Upon returning to my desk, having left it temporarily in search of biscuits, I discovered my cat had written another poem on my laptop.   It was called ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’ and while it constituted one of her more difficult pieces, it was also the kind of poem which rewarded repeat reading.   I was struck by its experimental structure, the absence of line breaks; indeed, not one single space between any of the poem’s 10,000 or so characters.]4

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

Proper English is a Myth: There's No 'Correct' Way to Write

https://brennan.day/proper-english-is-a-myth-theres-no-correct-way-to-write/

#writing #english #lingusitics #culture #books #reading

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crowgirl@cyberplace.social ("Kim Crawley 😷") wrote:

Hey @mooooooo

I write about technofascism and I lost my livelihood to Gen AI.

Please share. Kickstarter is my survival income these days, and I have a solid Kickstarter track record.

#NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

For people who still believe the GPL influences corporations in a meaningful way:

When I was at Microsoft, I worked on a product that used Linux. The product was cancelled for largely unrelated reasons before it shipped, so the exact details are irrelevant but anything that links Linux needs to loop in lawyers, so I spent a lot of time talking to them.

Maybe 10% of the total time was spent with the technicalities of the GPL. The fact that the GPL is ambiguous and poorly written and the Linux syscall exemption is even worse made me expect long discussions about the legalese. But instead the conclusion of the GPL-focused discussions was basically:

No one really knows what the GPL can actually enforce and half of the stuff that's done with Linux is technically in violation. Microsoft ships Linux images for Azure that come with a click-through license that prohibits running them on any other cloud and no one cares. We can make a convincing argument that this is okay. Only a handful of companies can afford a protracted legal battle with Microsoft and none of them are sufficiently motivated to take us to court over this, so it's unlikely to come up.

The remaining 90% of the discussions were around how the product would be perceived by Linux maintainers, the wider Linux community, and the broader F/OSS ecosystem. Microsoft had put a lot of effort into the 'Microsoft <3 Linux' marketing things. The Ballmer-era alienation of the most active developer communities had cost the company a lot of ecosystem market share. The risk of pushing developers away from Microsoft products and platforms was something that the lawyers regarded as a huge risk. If two of the senior Linux maintainers had said 'we think this is not an acceptable use of Linux' then that would have torpedoed the project instantly.

The moral of this story is that, if positive engagement with your community is perceived as valuable, you have an enormous amount of leverage over big companies. At the time, Microsoft was (by market cap) the largest company in the world. The legal text, in contrast, isn't worth the paper it's written on when your adversary can afford to outspend you in court by six orders of magnitude. When they happen to be aligned, the legal text may look as if it's working, but that's a coincidence.

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

i dunno, sooner or later AI fans had better get used to the fact that physics beats magical thinking every time.

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

is macOS 27 tolerable, or do I stick on 15.8?

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

If there are workflows utilizing LLM-generated material in a given project, you cannot make a blanket statement that said project has "AI slop code."

watch me?

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

right, okay, let's get back to littlegem.

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k0kubun@ruby.social wrote:

Ruby 4.0.7 Released https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/09/15/ruby-4-0-7-released/

This is a routine update that includes bugfixes. We recommend upgrading your Ruby version at your earliest convenience.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

It was made for me! This is my hole!

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

Anyway guess who managed to finish their morning routine (which this time included doing washing) 15 minutes before my scheduled meeting.

Chat, I guess this means my meds are working?