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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
timmy@goblin.camp ("an interesting bean :flow:") wrote:

it is pretty funny that flock’s response to the hackers who hacksawed down their camera and found the encryption keys in plaintext is “why didn’t you submit a responsible disclosure?”

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
minmi@sfba.social ("MinmiTheDino") wrote:

I need to talk to whoever is out here manufacturing scientifically inaccurate toys cause it’s causing a real issue.

This tarantula either has 6 legs and palps or 8 legs and no palps and in either case my 5yo is very mad about it. Don’t even get him started on the eyes!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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

(a lot of concurrency work relies on packing data into 64 bits so they can fit into standard atomic operations without extra sync. this usually includes a pointer but often also includes some bits for a state machine)

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

Ideas are technologies. So as an anarchist FOSS technologist, let me give you a technology for $free.99, as they say - a technology that will forever change the way you parse conference talks, AWS product descriptions, and cloudtech whitepapers.

"Scale is where software development ethics go to die."

The one thing to be careful of, is this will give you the wrong *kind* of negative impression of a lot of speakers. It's half-useful to hear scale described as an unexamined good and think that a speaker is crowing about building the torment nexus, because that *does* accurately reflect the long-term goals of the speaker's employers. But you have to understand that most of these people don't have the class-consciousness to hear the problem in their words, and that's actually much scarier.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Society really thinking hard how they can optimally take away friends from children while also making it required to track adults with IDs on the Internet, conveniently erecting a total surveillance state plus further cut off access to people that don’t have IDs

marvelous stuff

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

you know, i don't think there's ever been a garbage-collected language where you could steal bits off references before

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

Java is one of the most popular programming languages and there is evidence of its energy inefficiency [56]

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

i guess there's nothing stopping me from implementing a garbage collected language that loves bit tricks

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

one thing it means i suppose is that it's not such a stretch to have e.g. a javascript backend if you're already assuming gc.

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

tempted to say 'fuck it' and add garbage collection to little gem. then we move to an interesting point in the design space where we have high performance but also occasional pauses measured in single digit milliseconds. probably.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

best javascript library for starship autopilot maneuvers

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I would also like to be an associate member of the EU where do I sign up

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm glad and also I'm still voting early in-person at my county elections office because I don't trust this administration not to still find some way to intentionally fuck things up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/trump-mail-ballot-court-defeat

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

Which Rude is it?

The commerical airport we use here in Bend, Oregon is actually in Redmond, Oregon. Flights from here generally depart…...

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/16/which-rude-is-it/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone ("Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://toot.wales/@jaz/117280619460102284

This is made of awesome. And I’m all for them opening an account to collect all those tokens! 😈

@tek should get a kick out of it!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tef wrote:

you can set this up in macos, using the accessibility settings to override the menu hot keys

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@danlyke/117282255954428288

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

Dubose Park is now a dog park, how odd

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
samreich@mastodon.online ("Sam Reich") wrote:

do i have a muppets connect?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

you know, a few times in the last year i've wondered whether being an outspoken genAI critic will hurt my business [the Glasgow Interface Explorer one] but now that i've seen that going full fash doesn't really hurt others' i decided to stop caring about what people think of that

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
paulk@writing.exchange ("Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.") wrote:

I read that ai can still be disabled in IOS27.
That is good.

I will hold back on installing that until I'm more certain, though. I don't want nor need ai crap on any phone (or anywhere).

Ah! Lookie here: https://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence-features-ios-27/

#ios #noai #iphone

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

ETOOMUCHOFEVERYTHING

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

I have spent some time today pondering about genAI policies and Free software projects.

My position is "no genAI, thanks". I have examined my own thinking, and my conclusion remains the same.

I like @IzzyOnDroid's policy:

https://izzyondroid.org/docs/general/AppInclusionPolicy/#ai-policy

If I am wrong, and in the future, all the ethical and other issues are resolved, thenhere *at that point* one can always change one's mind.

But if one hold one's nose out of some belief that AI is inevitable, or that the outputs justify the harms, and says "yes" now, it is much harder to change the position later.

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

time for breakfast at Orphan Andy’s

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

glad to be done with the drive back down the coast to San Francisco. Hwy 1 in the morning fog is “interesting “

😳

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

See the Xcode 27.2 beta download available, but poking around looking for 27.1 like…

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• gifv: Travolta Confused looking around

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

A fun, (probably) obscure example of art I like to come back to from time to time is Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "20 Minutes of Oxygen":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yPWeBYqQc

I love everything about it, and when I later learned they made that campy video, I loved it even more.

The lines:

"If I had the brains, that's what I'd do
Build that time door and poke my head through
It's too late now and I'm still dumb
Twenty minutes of oxygen"

Speaks to me... You know, in a metaphorical way.

IMPORTANT NOTE: the channel hosting the video appears to have gone slop for some reason, but I know the video and the song predate the current slopageddon. The Thickets' actual channel is here if you choose to explore their work more:

https://www.youtube.com/@thedarkestofthehillside/videos

And they are on bandcamp:

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/music

Boosted by jwz:
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Worried about AI? Don't be. Using agents at work simply empowers you to focus on more meaningful tasks, similarly to how self-checkout allowed cashiers to pursue higher-impact projects at the grocery store

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

It wasn't directed at me, but I've been mulling it over. I think there really isn't underrated art. I think there's a lot of overrated art. In other words, some pieces of work (and their creators) become so outrageously famous as to be known by large swaths of people. Mostly by luck, like anything of that nature. Not that the overrated art in question *isn't* good, but just that you can readily find obscure work that is *just* as good, and there's a lot to find.

As long as creators have the means, we find ourselves awash in beautiful, meaningful, poignant, vibrant, awe inspiring art even though most of it will remain obscure. Obscure isn't necessarily bad (although I admit it can make it hard for artists to make a living in hellworld).

Anyway, it would be impossible for me to pick a most underrated work. I could just point in any direction and find something.

Boosted by jwz:
ddosecrets@kolektiva.social ("Distributed Denial of Secrets") wrote:

Flock ALPR camera (28.55 GB)

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track both vehicles and people, and demonstrates the fundamental security problem with privacy invading devices like those produced by Flock Safety and their competitors.

https://ddosecrets.org/article/flock-alpr-camera

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kirtai@tech.lgbt ("Kirtai 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@cwebber
Best thing about getting older is winding up young people by deliberately misusing their slang in front of them and watching them go crazy :neocat_evil: