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brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🛜 For the (very) small amount of people that use https://RSS.folk.zone, I've enabled API access!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
janef0421@mastodon.nz ("Jane Doe") wrote:

If you have designed a computer program in such a way that there are no reliable mechanisms to prevent it from taking unwanted actions, the program is not “going rogue”, it is simply unsafe and poorly designed.

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

Think the game might be giving me a hint here

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
annasdtc@sciences.social ("Anna SdTC") wrote:

All this self-host techie discourse sounds, to me, a bit like a self-sufficiency dystopia. If we were discussing how bad public transportation is, and someone replied "just transport yourself", most of us would say "that's not it". But when we discuss wanting to get out of large American tech or of nazi-sympathyzing companies, the solution can't be "just host your services yourself". Having to do everything yourself is not my idea of a functioning society.

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Why am *I* the weird one for distrusting the computer that catfishes you?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

in the spirit of YAGNI (“you aren’t gonna need it”) I offer up YAGSI (“yak ain’t gonna shave itself”) into the voidspace zeitgeist and apologize in advance.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
CatTrigger@mastodon.art wrote:

Date REAL COMPUTER VIRUSES... if you SURVIVE you can LEARN about its REAL WORLD IMPACT.

Wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313010/Date%5FTime%5FMelissa%5FMorris%5FAnna/

#indiegames #horror #horrorgames #gamedev #vn #unity3d

Attachments:

• video: 7b6bf9531fa7103f.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

lovely Saturday afternoon spent listening to the radio and finishing up construction of the very human, intentionally rough zine @rose_alibi and I made for the @mediaarchaeologylab: "How to spend ten years repairing a computer and why you should too" #othernetworks

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

gotta hand it to the NFT bros, at least they didn’t expect me to apologize to them for saying no I don’t want to buy any ape jpgs

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

It is so incredibly bleak watching one OSS project after another betray every single principle, betray their users, betray *everything* to cuddle up to fascist technology.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

BLUE JUICE NEEDED PLS

Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Bombardier CRJ900
A: #a90c397204c
F: #f9781e01fc0

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kunsi@chaos.social ("Franziska") wrote:

If you bought a blue CEEform plug or socket to use at #emf2026 you might wanna check out if it's affected by the current recall of Diall plugs and sockets: https://www.gov.uk/product-safety-alerts-reports-recalls/product-recall-diall-16a-blue-site-connector-and-blue-site-socket-male-and-female-2609-0064 #emfcamp #emfcamp2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Justice Alito recuses himself from major climate change case after complaints about his oil and gas holdings
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/justice-alito-recuses-climate-change-boulder-suncor?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space ("Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍") wrote:

PLEASE BOOST FOR REACH.

Bigender friends: I'm new to the discovery that I'm bigender(trans man, and woman), and I'm wondering how many of you who are also bigender use separate names for your different genders. Do you have different names, or do you use a gender neutral or non-binary name that works across all?

#bigender #gender #lgbtqiaplus

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

also blogged: Shin honkaku

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/shin-honkaku/

— I discovered a niche sub-genre and it inspired me to design a book cover!

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
jamesthomson ("James Thomson") wrote:

I’m increasingly of the opinion that AI is the One Ring, and you absolutely shouldn’t touch the thing.

"A mortal who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: He becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings.”

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “Why They're Building Muse”

After reading Alexandr Wang's mission statement for Meta's new AI assistant, I have some modest improvements to suggest.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/why-building-muse/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

If you're supporting me on Ko-fi or Patreon, then first of all thank you!

And second, I've been posting stuff lately 😼

❇️ https://ko-fi.com/anatudor

❇️ https://www.patreon.com/c/anatudor

#code #Maths #3D

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

Doing expense reports and quietly cursing every developer who has ever self-indulgently said "it doesn't need to be fast, it's Enterprise Software"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
toadfacts@toad.social ("Toad Facts") wrote:

Our friend Brachycephalus rotenbergae is one of several tiny pumpkin toads was first described as a new species in 2021! They are named after a Brazilian conservationist, Elise Laura K. Rotenberg! (photo by herping_brasil)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rafa@mastodon.design ("Rafa") wrote:

Saturday Side Project

What if anything could sound like a Lightsaber? Hands free ignition, sounds react to the motion of your arm, even clashes 💥

Attachments:

• video: Video of me playing with an Apple Watch app I’m building, the UI is a 3D model of a Kyber Crystal (ask your Star Wars nerdy friend), using the double tap gestures ignited the Lightsaber with realistic sounds that react to your movements. You can also pick different crystals, which will have different sounds and colors.

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

Was tempted to pull out the "dozens of us!" meme for users of @11ty's programmatic API...but I don't think there are?

Anyway, it's very good and quite useful and I'm a bit sad I didn't learn it sooner.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
daniel@gultsch.social ("Daniel Gultsch") wrote:

RE: https://sciences.social/@annasdtc/117224123424001867

Not everyone can or should self-host, but the technology that enables it—federation, open standards, and vendor independence—also allows cooperatives, municipalities, and community groups to run their own infrastructure.

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Jabber #XMPP

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

Theatre Kid (inc tech crew)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-halts-frontier-model-training-amid-string-of-agent-misalignment-incidents/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/117349637201336712

some simple truths

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes and it did a crime. Who could have known!"

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There's a whole legal/philosophical argument that software is a form of speech, and we don't punish harms done with speech, so we can't punish harms done with software. But that's not true at all either! There are very strict limits for speech, even in the USA where the limits are as loose as they can get! Fox News had to pay $787.5 million dollars! Fraud is still a crime even if you do the crime entirely with words!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Another option is forgoing the battery all together when possible, but I admit a mobile phone without a battery is probably not that useful. 😆 Solar powered only mobile phone... More :thonking:

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117349025224519779

I recorded the audio for this one using a lavalier microphone (a Primo EM258 capsule) and, even though you can hear a lot more of the room and it needed quite a bit more work, I'm finding that I don't hate the sound.

I'm thinking maybe lavalier for shorts/TikToks and the Shure SM57 for the longer videos/podcasts from now on