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Boosted by pixxl:
wizbean@tech.lgbt ("wiztina :blobcat_engineer:") wrote:

@pixxl @gaffen @davidgerard

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
SUPER INTELLIGENCE $36,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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

okay, now how in the hell do we make the rest of this scheme work? i seem to have relied on future me being brilliant and i can't say i'm feeling brilliant today.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Tiny little pine trees.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #abandoned #decay #windows

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

hand-copying a barcode

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

So tempted to just use a different microphone in every video just as a gag, but I really do need to settle on one approach and just get into better practice with it. 😝

Besides microphone technique (or lack thereof) hydration has been a surprisingly big factor in the audio quality so far. I can easily tell the from my recorded voice when I was less well hydrated. More mouth noises, clicks, and there's a stickiness to the voice.

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

Possibly unsurprisingly*, second day serverside analytics, tiny as they are, for the podcast feed already leans Android:

PodcastAddict: 18
AntennaPod: 6
Apple Podcasts: 2
Overcast: 1

Total: 27

(* The audience for my newsletter and Mastodon account lean open source, academic, and idealistic.)

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

Switched to Bunny CDN for hosting the mp3 files for the podcast. Whatever else, their bandwidth is going to be cheaper than Netlify's. (Really need to migrate my site off Netlify.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
marioguzman ("Mario Guzmán") wrote:

Okay… how do you

1. make everything super huge like the text and pictures… while
2. having way more empty space than you need _AND STILL_ have to
3. truncate your text labels?
4. All this space for only 3 articles/pages?

8 of the 9 text labels are truncated.

Can we _please_ have designers who know how to design for _DESKTOP_ software and *** NOT *** magazines/print? Please, for the love of god.

#macOS #DesktopUI #design

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

ah right, yes, i need to build garbage-collected datastructures 😬

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
dockers@godforsaken.website ("Tilly ✨") wrote:

I need £800 TODAY to avoid eviction, which I've already appealed against once 😭 i can work out a repayment plan too i'm not expecting something for nothing!!

https://monzo.me/siobhandockerty?h=PrWQAw

Everything helps, please boost etc if you can

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidboost

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
keithamus@indieweb.social wrote:

I just released avash: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/avash/

It’s like blurhash but uses av1 frame data encode an image, resulting in a (typically) more readable image in the same bytes as a blurhash.

https://github.com/keithamus/avash

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
Roelmaalderink wrote:

Do Meta employees even like their own Meta glasses? (In collaboration with @bitsoffreedom )

Attachments:

• video: 158a4ef654b2ef11.mp4

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

Drew's slightly less awful video game takes
https://freebooters.uk/media/20260629-freebooters.mp3

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

Crank (2006) and Crank: High Voltage (2009)
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gFZ8Y2XjG6exEJSLe7VdNH

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

PG: Psycho Goreman (2020)
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aArLF8CzGZnWwbxBqEJnme

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

Jev sounds like a bloke who deals smack under a bridge

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

Also reached the point where I’m just flat-out assuming that if a strange account on Bluesky asks a dumb question in a reply that they are just an “AI” true believer trying to pull you into a “debate”

That or just a bot doing “botty” things.

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

because even once the bubble pops, people will use open models to pollute the internet. it's not like they give a shit about the quality of the output already.

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

like i dunno, you walked us into this mess telling us how great it would be and now we can't find basic information again.

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

I’ve reached the point where I really don’t have the patience for any sort of AGI apologia, especially not from developers who really don’t know the first thing about anything related to the topic and think that just-so statements, hyperbolic claims, and arrant superstition qualify as rigorous thinking

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

i dunno, sooner or later people are going to look to governments to unfuck the internet and i don't see a whole lot of ideas in that direction.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
bero@mastodon.rosseaux.com ("Benjamin Rosseaux :verified:") wrote:

I'm looking for freelance/remote client work to bridge the gap until my game project generates revenue.

If you know of any opportunities in software development (Object Pascal, C/C++, x86 ASM, Vulkan/graphics, engines, audio/DSP, compilers, low-level, emulators, etc.), music production, or similar fields, please reach out! Boosts appreciated!

More info: https://www.rosseaux.com/

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Pascal #Delphi #FreePascal #C #Cpp #ASM #Vulkan #GameDev #Audio #DSP #Compilers #LowLevel #Emulators

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

it's totally normal to have to grep your large directory of code to find the one you made earlier

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

shit, what did i call that project i want to copy code from?

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

Meta’s PR machine is working overtime. Tech CEOs are writing “AI” memos left and right, and there’s plenty of hype to pop. We dissect Gates’ and Zuckerberg’s blogs about “superhuman AI” in Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Manifesting the End of Tech Bro Manifestos”!

(with @emilymbender)

Attachments:

• video: [video description] Two people are speaking with each other on a vertically split screen, looking at a news article, also shown in the middle. Alex is a brown trans woman with short curly black hair, wearing a yellow t-shirt with the words “feminist propaganda” in black letters. Emily is a white cis woman with curly brown hair, wearing glasses, a blue shirt, and a light blue and teal scarf around her neck.

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