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

Hooray, I completed all the tasks I set out to do today!

This is the power of ADHD meds lol

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

Well, yeah

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/20/midterms-democrats-in-person-mail-voting-trump

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

Our algorithm always reduces the amount of memory and reached improvements upto less than a tenth.

I think I know what you're saying, but that doesn't seem like a good way to phrase it

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vladh@merveilles.town ("Vlad-Stefan Harbuz") wrote:

met this spherical guy

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

IR stands for Immediate Regret

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davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

I wrote a bit about my favorite book, on creativity, and sharing confidence with folks who are just getting started. https://davebauer.art/art-and-making/the-dot-creativity-curiosity-and-confidence/

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

good news: i've just remembered i hate all IR representations

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@MaddieM4 @cyberquixote

There’s a useful generalisation of Conway’s law that software architecture follows not just the org chart of the company that produced it but the economic system that the company existed in and its goals within that system.

This is why I find most F/OSS reimplementations of some proprietary thing misguided. Almost every design decision in producing the original was driven by the requirements of the proprietary business model. Proprietary software is incentivised to:

• Lock users into the ecosystem and make switching to an alternative hard.
• Provide a platform that other companies can extend, but only in ways that encourage lock in.
• Create complex artefacts that no other entity can recreate.

And so on. You can do all of these in a program that is technically free software, but then an end user will not see any of the possible benefits of Free Software other than the cost. And you train users to favour cheap software, when you should be training users to favour software that they can modify and extend in ways that you didn’t consider and don’t necessarily want (so they get their own version that shares most of the code with yours, and that’s fine, you have different requirements).

Designing software around user modification and extension requires a very different set of engineering principles.

Sorry for the repetition if I’ve said this to you before. It’s one of my more frequent rants, so there’s a reasonable chance that I have.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

cc @sdruskat

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Put together another small go library, basically ruby-cff for parsing citation.cff files in go: https://github.com/git-pkgs/citation

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VisualStuart@pdx.social ("Stuart Celarier ❌👑") wrote:

Portland area people! The big juggling show that is part of the 34th Portland Juggling Festival is Saturday, 9/26/26, at 7PM at Kaul Auditorium at Reed College. It's an amazing show with national talent featuring the special guests of the Portland Juggling Festival. It's like no other show in town!

(I created the Portland Juggling Festival in 1992 with a lot of help from friends and it is still going strong!)

Tix: https://www.portlandjugglers.org/

#juggling #portland #pdx

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Gartner Unicycle") wrote:

Having Opinions about specific versions of LLMs feels a lot like Knowing Your IQ. Like, I understand that you believe it's important, but it's telling me much more about you than you think it is, and not in any kind of good way

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

The good news is I think I'm through the vast majority of my admin... which means I can start devoting time to actually studying

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

I need to learn how to re-read and re-work early-stage writing without reflexively recoiling from it. My degree does kinda depend on this skill. Actually, developing this skill is kinda the point of this degree

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

Ironically, to procrastinate on working on my piece "Twenty Four Hour Doom Scroll", I spent the past half-hour on the Fediverse

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gnomekat@tech.lgbt ("Gnome Kat") wrote:

I feel like a lot of the books they make you read in hs can't really be appreciated until you are like 30 or something

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

the point of the AI bubble is to have a VC bubble party

and do all the awful financial enginering you've been really wanting to

https://www.ft.com/content/7f11afae-c4e3-4054-a65b-873f3647f563
archive: https://archive.is/a4uct

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erin@quiescent.nexus ("Miranda // erin // Eileen") wrote:

“unapologetically queer” (they apologize for literally everything else)

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

elliptic curves, which is now being used in string theory

😬

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

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117253629967855195

“…solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.”

Truth

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ayoli@diaspodon.fr ("☆✭★ คץ☠️ɭเ xD ★✭☆") wrote:

Matin / Morning 👋 🛼

#matin #caféAnimé

Attachments:

• video: Sur une place pavée devant un immeuble est montée une petite scène avec un rideau noir en fond et devant une piste en V sur la quelle un homme en kilt évolue en rollers. Il finit par faire un mouvement pendulaire avec ses jambes en rythme sur la musique tout en jonglant avec des massues.

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ashenwave@mastodon.art ("Ashenwave✨Commissions Open!") wrote:

It’s my birthday today and I’m feeling like a walking disaster😅
But at least I can be proud of my art and share it with all of you! :)

#MastoArt #AshenwaveArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Illustration #Art

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hzulla@infosec.exchange ("Hanno Zulla") wrote:

The Apollo Project of our generation should have been fighting climate change.

But those in power are telling us now that it's AI, instead. It's inevitable, they say, we should happily embrace this.

It's this betrayal that makes all of this so disgusting.

(11/11)

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

this br412 just bit me. bad train. bad bad train. :neocat_scream_angry:

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rechelon ("William Gillis 🏴") wrote:

I generally focus my attention on intra-anarchist theoretical disputes, but posting on Bluesky will send hordes of liberal sealions into your mentions. So I wrote a thing for them on the unique speech constraints anarchists face in political "debate":

https://humaniterations.net/2026/09/19/asymmetric-speech-constraints/

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I've also published v0.5.0 of my ruby swhid gem with similar fixes and improvements: https://github.com/andrew/swhid/releases/tag/v0.5.0

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tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

There weren't any corporate ads shown at tonight's play.

No algorithm.

Just my neighbors putting on an amazing performance.

(And dang was it good. Really important, especially in today's climate. And wow the local folks are good at acting! They did a great job.)

#art #theater #communitytheater #theatre #solarpunk

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stuart_j_whitmore@about-the-author.online ("Stuart J. Whitmore 🖊️") wrote:

I've been a member of Freesound.org for over 20 years, and I've shared 100 recordings there, all freely licensed. These sounds have been downloaded thousands of times and used in games, videos, etc.

One of my earliest is still my favorite, of my kids when they were young and playing with a whoopee cushion. If you need a laugh, theirs is contagious!

#sound #audio #foley #laughter #laughing #children #creativecommons

https://freesound.org/people/jppi%5FStu/sounds/20688/

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

This is now happening multiple times a day on iOS and iPadOS. Controls disappearing randomly (it’s not just in the wrong colour, there is nothing there to respond to your touch). Happens most often in Safari but been seeing it elsewhere as well

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ptrc@treehouse.systems ("ptrc: gelderland arc") wrote:

i really like that in polish you use the same word for kernel (computing) and testicle