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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

My partner echoed a TikTok going around about how, in English, we don’t have a dedicated word for “the day after tomorrow” but we do have them for silly things like “throwing someone out a window”

After some research she found “Overmorrow” from Olde English for the first one, and I think it’s time to bring it back.

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

I hope the kids coming to my house for Halloween like Skittles.

Actually, I don't care if they do.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/17/i-guess-im-handing-out-skittles-for-halloween/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hk-AXbbJcwk

firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)") wrote:

Got hit by a slop grenade at work today and I’m already nervous that I’ll get in trouble for rejecting it — the reason I rejected it had nothing to do with the fact that AI was used, either — it was totally a throwaway POC for a single demo.

I shouldn’t have to be scared like this. It feels inhumane.

#NoAI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
CuratedHackerNews ("Curated Hacker News") wrote:

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (making toys)") wrote:

I got lots of responses pointing out technologies that had to be forced on people. I've thought about them. The ones I agree with are:

- Internal Combustion Cars
- Telephones
- LLMs and GenAI

The internal combustion engine in general didn't have to be forced on to people (farmers, for example, loved it both for their tractors and also for other makeshift machines they'd construct around their farms)

Cars as a class didn't have to be forced on people, high society types in big cities loved having electric carriages. They were clean, easy to maintain, and quiet. They were also reliable enough that they didn't get replaced often enough to become an industry.

But, while the rich were driving around in their electric carriages and the poor were walking, taking horse-carriages, taking trains, and riding cable cars (and people were experimenting with electric and steam cars) Henry Ford decided that, if he could get the US government to heavily invest in a roadway system and trick a bunch of municipalities into giving up a bunch of green space and pedestrian space to cars, he could make a lot of money while also leaving people responsible for both driving (which is dangerous and should be left to those who are interested in learning how to do it effectively, not a requirement for participation in society) and maintenance (which is expensive, and prior to Ford was largely a public expense for a public good.)

Cars introduced a lot of new freedoms for people, but were perhaps the worst of the several available alternatives to do that in dozens of ways, and we're still trying to overcome that fallout. There were significantly more (and significantly safer!) transit options in my region before cars.

Cars, as I've said before and taken blowback from, are usually bad. They are, at best, a necessary evil. There was a time when they were not necessary.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117270225309876145

It's also anti-privacy to bounce folks to native apps and app stores filled with invasive, proprietary, unauditable technology.

Naturally, it would be embarrassing – mortifying, even – for a browser that allowed this to advertise itself as safeguarding privacy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
_netnomad@vgmnation.com ("_NetNomad") wrote:

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

@cholling

Something thats been really helpful for me lately, is an idea that Cal Newport has driven home in some of his writing; is that it's useful to think about your values first, and then evaluate how your technology choices are in service to those values.

No software choice(s) will be perfect, every bit of software will have a dependency with a moral quandary; but some will still serve your values better than others.

In my own life; this has quashed a certain amount of waffling and hand wringing, and bouncing back and forth.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
jdm_ wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117285976307933945

want to laugh uncomfortably because the satire is too close to the truth? andrew has you covered.

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

I prefer a Milk Hotel that isn't afraid to take sides

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

Also, it's Beavercreek, OH, not Beaverton, the correct info is at the link

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

The direct link for the tour information, by the way:

https://us.macmillan.com/tours/john-scalzi-monsters-of-ohio/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mayor@banjo.town ("Mayor of Banjotown") wrote:

I don't remember if I shared a link to Pulp Circuit before or not (I certainly meant to) - it's a community-driven #zine about DIY #audio #electronics

Issue 1 was just published and sold out pretty much instantly (testament to the promotion and community building they've been doing for months now) but they're taking back-orders for a reprint.

Free PCB in every issue!

https://pulpcircuit.com/issues/1

#pulpCircuit

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸") wrote:

@smallcircles I think there's a virtuous cycle here. The more servers that support the ActivityPub API, the more that client developers can experiment with it -- making cool projects like Nuages.

And the more *client* software there is, the more incentive there is for server developers to support the ActivityPub API. Especially if the base profile is very easy to implement.

I think there's a good network effect there.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vicgrinberg ("Dr. Victoria Grinberg") wrote:

Acutely aware today that I can't repair the world.

But at least I can mend t-shirts.

#VisibleMending #repair #mending

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dazo@infosec.exchange ("🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth") wrote:

@bagder In OpenVPN we're seeing something similar, even though not as bad as Unbound. We haven't created any stats on severity, just looked at the numbers in general.

So far this year, we have as many CVE reports as we've had between 2023 and 2025 combined. And that's just the ones we concluded is really a CVE. Then comes all the false reports and other security reports just being a bug report in practice.

The vast majority of them this year are not really that critical in practice. But the CVSS scoring makes it sound like the world is crashing.

What is really eating up our time processing these reports is actually verifying that the claims are correct. Most of these reports are just too detailed, many adding lots of nonsense and actually make the report less valuable. The real issue drowns in false assumptions. Some reports stands out, of course, as pretty good. But the vast majority has really killed the fun.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

"for months on end now, most of our teams have just been triaging bugs and coordinating releases. It has truly taken all the fun out of the job"

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/maintaining-the-love-for-coding-in-the-time-of-ai/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

My favourite thing about Google products is how you can turn off any and every setting you want and they’ll just ignore that if they feel like it so somebody’s number goes up but oopsies.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
MedeaVanamonde@beige.party ("Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@cwebber
Dis?

https://youtu.be/6oWpv5etJXU?is=8a2CuGJMN485MZPs

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I needed a goat-apple-opera break from grant-writing and I bet you do too.

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

Actually I gottta say, the metaballs look even better for this use case in a lowe resolution. Gives some nice texture.

Attachments:

• gifv: The tree, but with lower res metaballs

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

@SnoopJ old, tired: "not my circus, not my monkeys"

new, alarmingly radioactive: "not my reactor, not my control rods"

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

I get that song stuck in my head all the time now

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

Why are short videos bad for learning?

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/02-why-are-short-videos-bad-for-learning/

A bit on why – in my opinion – short videos such as that on TikTok are bad for learning and information.

(Essay, audio, and video available.)

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

g to the i to r to the l to the b to the a to the GIRLBALL

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

it's so good to be a girl baaaaalllll

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

Why are short videos bad for learning?: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/02-why-are-short-videos-bad-for-learning/

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

Black and white archive photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/black-and-white-archive-photos-2026/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
luna@pony.social ("__ct__4LunaFv") wrote:

nyoom

(brightest-pixel filter over a ~20sec clip of a car driving through Abbey Road last night)

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

oh my god; I went looking for examples of art by George Barr, and found a cropped artist photo that I extremely wanted to see more of, and: wow the full view does NOT disappoint

(source: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/3697649/george-barr )