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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chrisstoecker ("Christian Stöcker") wrote:

Brutal.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

hometown/mastodon has pointed out that lately I've used a certain hashtag a lot, and asked if I'd like to add it as a featured hashtag.

that hashtag? #define

nah, I think I'll pass.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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

yup, ran the FT-818 w/o an ATU and it worked great… a lousy 6w PEP, and I’m moving the other station’s S-meter. the antenna is pretty good on receive, too. when I got them to shift down to 10w out, they were still very readable and strong enough.

it *was* pretty noisy on 50.250 MHz tonight, but this quad loop still does a better job on that band than any of the compromise multi-band or dipole antennas I’ve tried before. I mean better results with 5-10w with this antenna rather than with 100w into the others. and I have to admit: not having to use an ATU is pleasant… one less thing in the soup.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

I just want to point out that the MAGANazi party tried the culture war bullshit with Zohran Mamdani. They tried, and it failed.

They tried the socialism thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into workers rights.

They tried the trans thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into trans rights.

They tried the immigration thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into immigrant rights.

The lesson here for Centrist Democrats is simple. You don't fight Nazis by giving up ground to the Nazis. You fight Nazis by leaning harder into the wind and standing up for individual rights.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

To y'all panicing about kernel CVEs: don't.

CVE != Exploitable Vulnerability

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

mouthrinsing with gin for its antiseptic properties again.

it burns like hell at first, but it quickly tones down in intensity - is it getting my gums drunk?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jonny and (thinking back to when I switched) how quiet and cool a laptop computer can be when it's not having to run the CPU at 100% for minutes to complete a task!

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

OK, I get it. I was forced to finally upgrade work computer bc battery exploding from the last generation of Intel macs. The M chips are awesome. I thought my computer was p much as fast as I needed it to be, but I am sort of shocked at like things being like 10x as fast as they were before.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@mcc 🤔 If you're just writing semantic HTML, you *could* forego the tag and just rely on users' ability to use the "Readability mode" on an iPhone?

If we keep adding the meta tag everywhere, Apple will have no push to ever fix that behavior. 😦

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@mcc I feel your "I hate HTML", (or: "I hate how HTML has been en💩ified?") so I don't want to contradict that. But IMO Apple is to blame here, not HTML.

IIRC, the "viewport" metadata was added by them as a way to say "This site has been designed for an iPhone". Otherwise, they parse it as a "legacy" web site and do what you saw.

*maybe* it made pre-iPhone site look better *when the feature was first launched* but now it just feels like stupid cruft you have to add to every page. :(

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Refuted by the reality of his current existence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/29/the-incredible-self-annihilating-creationist-argument/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8XsH2QbDg

Boosted by pixxl:
mcc wrote:

Rust wgpu now has a .agents/skills, a .claude/skills, an AGENTS.md, and a CLAUDE.md.

Increasingly wondering if my goal of living in a way that I never benefit from the actions of generative AI users and generative AI users never benefit from the actions of me is going to inherently mean never using hardware-accelerated video on a computer again.

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:

I'm looking for work, please boost!

I'm a software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a history of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I prefer to work remotely but I am open to an in-office job in the Philadelphia area or especially in Philadelphia itself. I've often worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. Several of my favorite projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it. My preferred time zone is America/New_York, but I'm flexible.

Some of the many, many technologies I've used are: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

I am a U.S. citizen.

My résumé is at https://
plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring
#fediHire
#getFediHired

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
vie@hachyderm.io ("☭. evie") wrote:

I'm a staff engineer experienced with Haskell, C#, and nix. In the past, I also worked with Rust, Javascript, Typescript, Scala, and a bunch of other languages. You can read more here https://eevie.ro/page/about

I enjoy managing my own infrastructure with nix and I enjoy learning type theory through playing with lean and more recently, Idris.

I am looking for any remote (contracting) work that won't force me to use LLMs. I care about the code I write, I care about the quality, learning and teaching, understanding the needs people have and writing software that meets those needs.

Boosts highly appreciated.

#FediHire #GetFediHired

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Dan Lyke") wrote:

Since a few of my toots have gone viral, maybe this'll hit a different set of eyes: Software developer, looking for new opportunities.

I have debugged with a 'scope, know a graphics pipeline, can tell a datum from a projection, worked on projects that have touched your life, have my name on a few patents, grad students have called me up to ask about social media.

And I'm super LLM skeptical. Which is why I'm looking.

Edit: north SF Bay Area (California, US), probably hybrid role

#FediHire

Boosted by pixxl:
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

Move slow and fix things.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117354273584138592

Not only getting to, but then sustaining a 100% alt-text rate is a real testament to the omg.lol community. :prami:

Boosted by pixxl:
HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 ("Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot") wrote:

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

I've redesigned my Scroll Art website. Scroll art is made from program loops and print() to generate endless, scrolling animations. They are suitable for beginners learning to program, but can grow into boundless sophistication and creativity. https://scrollart.org/

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

Whenever I write basic html, and display it on a phone, the text is unfathomably tiny. What I want it to do is do semantic html and pick a reasonable text size and format around that. But instead it's like "I MUST simulate a 1080p monitor then shrink down". It is like I am missing some magic on-phones:dont-look-like-butt CSS tag.

Why :(

Examples:
1. https://pocket.runhello.com
2. https://data.runhello.com/j/redox/pkg-test-2/
3. Same but with max-width css removed, in case that's the problem

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
Yuvalne@433.world ("Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️") wrote:

#Fediblock ieji.de: admins allow for antisemitism and trollish defence of Nazism under the pretext of "free speech".
attached: screenshots of the offending posts, CW antisemitism, Nazism, mention of sexual violence, and of conversation with the main admin where they explain they're not gonna take any action.

archives of reported posts:
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/pHWOU
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8muuL

#FediAntisemitism

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117354273584138592

Love to be on an instance that cares about this stuff(and a whole lot more).

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

I consider my time on here time well spent because I know that words have the power to change lives. I know that people respond to the shit I talk about.

How do I know that?

I did. Other people do.

When we can hear each other, incredible things can happen.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all.

Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.

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

Andrew Garfield is generally delightful and also wrong in this case. What makes you a DJ (says the man who has - ABSURDLY - had a "DJ for the nerds" side gig for 15 years now) is the curation of your set. Whether the tracks are on digital, vinyl, cassette or 8-track doesn't matter. Reading the crowd so the dance floor stays hopping does.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@subwaytakes/post/Dd350jjirn4

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117354273584138592

Proud of my server 😊

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
woof@aria.dog ("Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: ") wrote:

fedi is still the one website where i had someone pissed off i’d mention i’m a csa survivor (without more detail than basically stating that) without a cw. absolute garbage people who love to use the instruments of inclusivity to bludgeon the nail that sticks out.

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

so now we're working on features to make the hex dump prettier for what will, in effect, be an extremely long string constant

it's going well. we had installed a custom trap on packtrace as part of the hex transform, but we've now reimplemented all its functionality with just "ordinary" magic comments; we expect this to make things easier to maintain.

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

maybe I’ll play with the FT-818 at tonight’s group