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Boosted by pixxl:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the “crafted with ❤️ by PleaseFundUsCorp” to pure unfettered slopcode pipeline

Boosted by pixxl:
ruari@velocipederider.com ("Velocipede Rider") wrote:

The problem here is the risk profile of cycling in a city for every day travel is nowhere near the risk profile of the activities cycling is typically being compared with.

And hence once you apply the same logic consistently, you end up with stupid conclusions like mandatory helmets for walking in the winter, running, or even showering because statistically these cause more head injuries than cycling.

Mandatory cycle helmet laws are good at one thing. Making people cycle less.

Boosted by pixxl:
notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com ("Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱") wrote:

Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.

This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.

When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.

Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.

About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hey just checking

the oppressive working conditions that game development is known for sound structurally similar to conditions in the fashion industry, right?

that's not just us imagining it? we should be explicit that we've never worked in either

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
collin@ruby.social ("Collin Donnell") wrote:

Be careful. The latest version of Procreate is apparently corrupting some users’ files on iPadOS 27 and people are reporting years of work being lost. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProCreate/s/tEfh2AhzRZ

Boosted by jwz:
computerchronicles ("Computer Chronicles Revisited") wrote:

"Six years ago, this was the site of a booming NFT market. Today it's an AI startup losing $1 billion per week. And a year from now, it will hopefully host a ritual sacrifice of techbros to the Roman God Pluto as punishment for their greed."

"For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods."

#satire

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

lmao I'm actually named in the acknowledgements of an RFC

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10032.html#name-acknowledgments

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
workchronicles ("Work Chronicles comics") wrote:

(comic) Reward for over and above https://www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-reward-for-over-and-above

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sigplanav@mastodon.acm.org ("SIGPLAN AV") wrote:

(1/4) We are happy to announce the release of our ICFP'26 coverage totaling over 139 talks and presentations across 12 co-located events: ICFP, SRC, PLMW, HOPE, miniKanren, FARM, Haskell, LOPSTR+PPDP, Erlang, ML, FUNARCH, and Scheme!
https://youtube.com/@acmsigplan

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
rujasu@kind.social ("Alys Rujasu") wrote:

This image popped into my head a while back and I just remembered it today so here you go

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Techbro: should we do the fascist thing y/n?
Community: no you should not do a fascism
Techbro: woah this got heated, locked

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial in Minneapolis for those killed by ICE in the past year.
The pasteup is in the Whittier neighborhood, on the same block as Alex Pretti's memorial.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

My 10-year-old, on learning I write a newsletter: "so it's like YouTube but nobody can see you." Yes. That is the dream.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

sometimes it's the little things that finally push you over the edge

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/1wms96x/activate%5Ficloud%5Fstorage%5Fapple%5Faccount%5Fsuggestion/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

Found a little dude near the trash can. What is it?

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/117312005137621888

trains attacking airline infrastructure ;^}

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's the gayest weekend of the year
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/21.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

if you don't know what Civic Band is I would strongly recommend that you give it a look, and maybe discover some serious corruption in your local government or something. it's a very good tool https://civic.band

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@phildini/117310939687993407

Folks let's get some more boosts on this and connect to a Grafana expert, we can't have this AI harm mitigation strategy absolutely face-plant on the _first try_.

(I am Very Bad At Grafana™ so this one's beyond my ability to just jump into the breach on, which is probably a good thing)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lemay ("laura lemay") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117307005469458400

🧵 1/ I see there are many people in the replies to this post getting upset and claiming this is an unspoken social requirement in interviews and that it's unfair to the neurodiverse.

I did hundreds of interviews during my time in tech and I can state with 100% confidence that this is absolutely not a trap for neurodiverse people. It's easy to recognize nd candidates and account for social awkwardness or nervousness or whatever. It's tech! A lot of us are like that! ☺️
(cont...)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay after 17 hours of straight CPU burn on this raspberry pi I might be ready to admit that "just eagerly compile all the elisp when updating packages, how long could it take" may not be a useful response to the annoying #Emacs UI lag of native-comp-async

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

Got invited by @tammy to a cool discussion this morning with @anniesullie and @paulcalvano. I ended up digressing into some of the cultural forces that have been arrayed against good web experiences over the past decade+.

The culpability of JS influencers remains extremely high, as marketing eroded support for evidence-based engineering.

As I ripped off a quip about writing (source unknown): if you want to be a thought leader get a blog; if you want to engineer, engineer things.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

There's been so much dry content about Temporal so far but Sophie Koonin has written about a nice creative usage here.

https://localghost.dev/blog/time-based-background-colour-transitions-with-temporal-and-css-color-mix/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Today Igalia turns 25.

In September 2001, ten engineers from the University of A Coruña started a company with no outside investors, no managers, and no intention of ever appointing any.

There are now close to 200 of us, spread across the world. The arrangement has not changed: no managers, no shareholders, and everything we build left where anyone can use it.

Here is to the next twenty-five.
https://igalia.com/2026/09/21/Twenty-Five-Years-Upstream.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

TIL Palm OS based gaming console https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapwave%5FZodiac

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I mean, one could see lots of parts of what we call programming as essentially iterative hypothesis testing, all using pieces of technology that one did not invent oneself, creating effects we often do not anticipate and need to build observation about

I don't know. I've been rereading and rereading this paper a couple times lately because I've been thinking about how often I see it show up and how I think about a "mental model" from the point of view of learning science

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Want knuckle tattoos that read
HARD FORK

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

@grimalkina There is almost certainly an essential text to be written, particularly as this field’s junior tier is getting gutted by generative AI, about the practice of mentoring as the maintenance work of theory construction.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
megmac@treehouse.systems ("Meg") wrote:

The way that people will retroactively label old internet social systems (like forums, comment boards, and even social networks like Twitter/Facebook before they adopted an algorithmic content creator approach) as "social media", even people sympathetic to those older ways of being online, is eerily similar to the way that any economic system that includes any kind of commerce gets retroactively labeled as capitalism.

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

I mean look if I never have to see his contemptible mug on any news outlet ever again I consider that a total win