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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to disclaim liability for defective products in ways that every other industry just absolutely cannot.

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

TIL!

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake%5Fon%5Flan/

Boosted by pixxl:
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

But I gotta hand it to AI labs that "WE MUST BE STOPPED AT ANY COST OR WE'RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL" is one of the most original marketing pitches I've heard in my life

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
danlew@androiddev.social ("Dan Lew") wrote:

Regarding Samsung bricking their smart fridges...

I once told a contractor that I explicitly did NOT want a smart appliance. His response was “you must be a software developer, they’re usually the ones who don’t want them.”

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

I can't find the time or energy to do any hobby projects these days

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FloatingGhost@ihatebeinga.live (":sprout: the strongest bocchi (evil)") wrote:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117344605742521400

Mastodon cross-posting is now fully-supported in https://some.pics! I tried to make everything as simple as possible, but I'd love any feedback you might have on the setup.

To get started, click the new "Manage Mastodon cross-posting" button on your Pics dashboard page in omg.lol. Authorize the connection to the Mastodon-compatible instance of your choice, and then configure your preferences. You can opt to automatically post all new pics by default, or manually post the ones you wish. You can also set your desired posting visibility (public, unlisted, or followers only).

Pics can only be cross-posted if they include alt text.

When cross-posted, your pic will be attached as media to the post; the post will also have the text description (separate from the alt text, which is attached to the media itself), a link back to your pic's page on some.pics, and any tags that you included on some.pics (which show up as hashtags on the post).

Changes that you make in some.pics should sync up automatically on Mastodon. And within the some.pics dashboard, you can selectively remove any published pics from Mastodon, as well as manually publish other pics that you uploaded before enabling cross-posting.

I hope this helps everyone enjoy sharing more pictures and photography on Mastodon!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

A custom Garfield cake at the 2026 Kentucky State Fair.

https://adam.some.pics/6ab96ae262e7e

#art #cake #garfield

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

oohhh i wonder if the flirting with kaneeka is working... maybe I'll finally get the dating sim achievement!!

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Luarocks having a a bad day: https://luarocks.org/security-incident-september-2026

Don't sleep on TUF: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/24/signing-is-for-the-bad-days.html

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

loving how the street smart trait lets you insinuate that tabitha is picking up weed from sybil

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
hawthornbunny@equestria.social wrote:

I got myself on Project Gemini (a text-based alternative to the World Wide Web) recently, and I'm really enjoying it!

I've been enjoying just going there as a place to chill, away from the bloat and ever-increasing user hostility of the modern web. If you want to try it, grab yourself a Gemini browser and jump in (gemini://geminiprotocol.net is a typical place to start).

#projectgemini #geminiprotocol

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Folsom Street Events has fucked us, and not in the consensual way
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/27.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
socketwench@masto.hackers.town (""Miss Movie Masochist"") wrote:

Really, I think libraries should also be actual data centers.

As in, a server closet. Preferability solar powered by panels on the building's roof.

It can host neighborhood email and bulletin boards, personal websites, offer some shared services and compute.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kowalski7cc ("Kowalski Dragon") wrote:

Some #republican senator said that having #furry staff flying planes is terrifying.
I think having a convicted felon as president behaving like a child alienating all the allies is way more scarier!

And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FTrump%5Fsexual%5Fmisconduct%5Fallegations

But it's obious that they're trying to find a way to distract people while they started a war they can't win, having gas prices out of control and still not releasing Epsten files.
And also attacking furry fandom as a proxy against LGBTQI+ people, sadly
#furryfandom

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xan@xantronix.social wrote:

all the annoying Europeans of open source who have taken to embracing vibe coding are embracing Reagan-era American exceptionalism. rolling coal. the code equivalent of parking a Ford F-350 on an Amsterdam sidewalk.

saying "naw I'm good m8" at work was the EASIEST FUCKING THING ONE COULD DO to resist colonialism from reaching one's mind, and yet, the Cult of the KPI has thoroughly consumed so many people here alive.

what the fuck man.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Remember Aaron Swartz and the tragic fate he suffered? Remember the kids who downloaded games or MP3 files, whose parents were threatened, and in some cases, extorted for money under copyright laws? Yes, where are those copyright laws now? Why are courts and governments now giving a free pass to filthy rich OpenAI, Microsoft, Google & Anthropic? I hate everything about this dual treatments. These AI companies even have audacity to tell others their AI output is copyrighted & others can't use it

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tiotasram@kolektiva.social ("Tiota Sram") wrote:

It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to tell their output apart.

There is a cosmic-scale gap between the long-term value to a company in paying a salary to a human vs. getting an LLM to "do" the "same" work, but it's a gap that many people are investing heavily in hiding right now, and CEOs and managers become incredibly gullible when you promise them they won't have to deal with humans who might ask for raises, even though it should be obvious you plan to jack up prices once they're locked in. They also aren't well-known for a deep understanding of how their workers actually generate value, and tend to be easily distracted by shiny but shallow demos, which is exactly what LLMs can produce well.

Even in the most optimistic scenario I can imagine for these developments, the myth of upward mobility that's been a lynchpin for defusing class solidarity among wage laborers is going to take a significant beating. There's a completely obvious game plan underway to try to use fascism to shore up the power of the wealthy against any kind of mass movement, and to play the ancient divide-and-conquer game along race and gender lines just as usual, so the range of outcomes is huge, but every time you use an LLM you're pushing this closer to a sharper conflict.

#AI #LLMs

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#SilentSunday

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
andrewt@mathstodon.xyz ("Andrew") wrote:

RE: https://todon.eu/@redjives/117223317766147041

This is absolutely right, and I think a big part of the problem is that tech has utterly refused to standardise on *anything*.

Oh, you want a web server? You can get a cheap managed one but it'll only run certain languages and databases. Or you can rent a computer somewhere and install everything up to and including your favourite Linux distribution, and maybe you'll even set it all up securely. That's ridiculous. We've had the internet for decades now, you should just be able to download a zip file with an app in it in a standard format and put it on a standard server and expect it to work securely.

In practice, the nearest thing we ever had to that is that Lamp stack. This is, I think, a big part of why Wordpress is so popular — it's easier to find a hosting service that runs Wordpress and configure it with plugins to be what you need than it is to set up and install a second server stack.

Obviously we'll always want to be able to just connect computers running arbitrary code to the internet, but we should have *something* that's easy and standardised by now (but then, when have software developers every tried to make this stuff *more* accessible to regular people?)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden ("Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher") wrote:

Goes without saying I also took a #knitting project out in the car earlier.

It's an important thing to have with you in case of breakdown, or having plenty of time left on your parking and just wanting to sit and look at the sea for a bit.

#Bloomsbury #FinishOrFrogAlong

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

there are some *serious* winds happening in the North Atlantic

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-53.75,46.27,860

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

We're just a couple more hours away from being able to cross-post from some.pics to Mastodon, in case you were looking to get away from Pixelfed's AI stuff.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
clarity@xoxo.zone ("clarity flowers") wrote:

very important to not conflate "accessibility" with "market penetration"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joebeone@techpolicy.social ("Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD") wrote:

Holy crap, hypervelocity impacts in orbit are nuts: a tiny particle can vaporize and ionize spacecraft material into plasma, and that plasma behaves like a naturally occurring antenna--emitting an EMP that can damage spacecraft electronics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734743X24000496

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

current status: getting ready for international travel

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

📝 New daily puzzler: Tupo by @collinsworth

https://daverupert.com/2026/09/play-tupo/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art ("Nick Stevens Graphics") wrote:

This one is about 1 year old now, (where did the time go!).

Eagles from Space 1999 flying over a lunar backdrop I extracted from "2001"

Lightwave 11.6

Attachments:

• video: Eagles from Space 1999 flying over a lunar backdrop I extracted from "2001" Lightwave 11.6

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Now, Google traffic may be close to zero because of AI summaries, but not all is lost: my homepage is still getting around 600k direct requests per month and I estimate that as many as 7 of these may be from humans

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
MarkOnArt@mindly.social ("Mark Tisdale Art 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

POV: Your cat is judging you based on your social media posts. 😺

Prints and more: https://pixels.markonart.com/featured/bird-watching-for-the-modern-cat-mark-tisdale.html

#Art #DigitalArt #Cats #Cat #CatsOfMastodon #CreativeToots #CatArt #BuyArt #ShopSmall #MarkOnArt