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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19817583-manifesting-the-end-of-tech-bro-manifestos-2026-09-08

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

CSS masonry / grid-lanes

but the order at any specific breakpoint is determined by the arbitrary whim of a drive-by stakeholder tossing out a comment during "anything else before we call it a day?"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person
https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Zwergi ("Vulvarine") wrote:

We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them.
That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here.
Have a code word. Call the person back directly. Verify before sending money, giving card information, or doing anything else.
We used to tell people not to trust random emails.
Now apparently we have to tell them not to automatically trust familiar voices either.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rogueai@llull.club wrote:

Oh no! A rogue AI has
deleted your
dog

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

When I was abducted, the aliens made me wipe my feet, blow my nose, and eat my greens... I think I was on the mother ship...

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

returning to this project after marathoning Dungeon Crawler Carl has made me realise I see the world in a different light now...

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

emdash likers rejoyce! nobody will ever confuse you for a spam bot⸻if you use this bad boy

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/117318390645308700

omg there's a comically large⸻triple wide unicode⸻emdash

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

Four reasons airline websites are slow, after looking at 111 of them:

1. Server requests block paint. Selecting a date or seat triggers a round-trip that locks the main thread. On the worst site (Air Arabia) P75 mobile interactions take 1.85s.

2. Skeleton loaders that shift layout. One click → INP lockup → skeleton → CLS jump → LCP delay. Even if you can’t make it fast, you can stop it moving.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

War going Agile

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
north@ꩰ.com ("Jason Parker (he/they)") wrote:

Just got a document to sign from my bank today. I am now a cybersecurity engine.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i also usually just work in public but this is also something that i am absolutely mortified thinking about anyone ever seeing because the thought of someone else reading my internal dialogue is deeply unpleasant to me

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

being able to just write in an internal dialogue is doing things for me that no writing has done before, I don't know why ive never written fiction

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

see the problem with speculative fiction is that it isn't dominated by the nausea of surveillance and advertising.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tweedge@cybersecurity.theater ("Chris Partridge") wrote:

@soatok the rational Marketstopheles 😈

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

thinking about microtargeted realities and sketching out an idea for how the advertising industry shifted the model of place based advertising to "visually discarded surfaces" where for safety reasons anywhere you would project an augmented reality advertisement had to be something absolutely zero visually salient information, something you would never need to actually see. so augmented reality implants are forced by the world turning into a grey soup of nothingness in affluent areas, a second wave of consumption to be able to at least see something and personalize the frames around the microtargeted ads, which leads to cities giving up on transmitting information via non-AR signage, making at least lower cost AR gogs a practical necessity of daily life and dissolving realspace

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
duk3luk3@cloudisland.nz ("Salearlyman") wrote:

@tweedge I'm so sorry to tell you this but that basically already exists (or is at least being pitched in order to collect investment)

https://www.glorify.global/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tweedge@cybersecurity.theater ("Chris Partridge") wrote:

Midnight ideas that will surely piss people off: Modified rosary with an ESP32 in the cross that streams what you say to ChatGPT for the San Francisco weirdos that want to worship an LLM

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I'm just posting all the ideas from this short story I'm working on so that by the time its done everyone will have already read it

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

surveillance-backed hash algorithms: to create unique hashes that are much smaller than traditional hashes, use social graph surveillance to produce keys whose collision avoidance is based on likelihood of contact between you and someone n-steps away in the social graph. You can issue abcdef twice to people that are statistically unlikely to ever come into contact

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

the electron runtime is several hundred megabytes. the entirety of macintosh system 7.5.5 is about 75MB, and mini vmac is 164KB. if you want to ship a cross-platform native experience, you've got options

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

Rahman et al 2026: "Does Order Matter? An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of File Ordering on Code Review Effectiveness" https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22610 (the answer is "yes, but only a little")

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

Rahman et al 2026: "Why Do Pull Requests Go Silent? Uncovering the Barriers to Contribution Completion in Open-Source Code Review" https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22625

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

Electricity prices would go down and Facebook posts from older people would be temporarily less filled with crap images. Plus a bunch of billionaires would suddenly be broke, so a sharp sudden spike in schadenfreude worldwide

RE: https://www.threads.com/@late.july/post/DdnHijWFvOE

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jk/117314678878602994

One correction: iOS still doesn't allow decent browsers ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Boosted by pixxl:
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

@davidgerard @dysfun It's baffling to me how community projects, that by definition require collaboration and building on each other's work, can accept these sorts of isolating, fragmenting, deskilling technologies. Like even if their output was good (which it's not really) all you get is a whole bunch of slop libraries that will never be consolidated into something meaningful

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@dysfun main AI fan has a twitter full of straight up nazi-ing, in the most recent LLM proposal thread they banned the person calling him out and deleted his comments but left the nazi's pro-AI comments in

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

People can have unhealthy habits around sex and pornography, but it doesn't trigger the same neural pathways as an addiction (which has a specific clinical definition).

If anyone insists their experience is different from what I've said above, the term they're looking for is "compulsive behavior" not "addiction".

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

At least 15 states have reported increased calls this year, as drought and population growth drive bears in search of food closer to people

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/09/22/bear-encounters-are-rising-across-united-states-heres-why/