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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

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

earl brown tea

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/117366458420061391

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Click Here...

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

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/117366475038725121

interesting Q

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

Link Unshortener is missing from Mac App Store search results.

All of my other apps are searchable.

Boosted by pixxl:
0x00string@infosec.exchange ("Nullstring 🏴‍☠️") wrote:

how you ai mf look

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

brief v0.14.0 is out: CITATION.cff and CodeMeta metadata, source manifest paths for dependencies, better Ruby/Python/Rust project detection, TinyGo support, and compact npm lockfile fixes.

https://github.com/git-pkgs/brief/releases/tag/v0.14.0

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

git-pkgs proxy v0.9.0 is out with npm audit support, version denylists and multiple Debian archives. It fixes NuGet cooldown enforcement and concurrent download failures, and refreshes SPDX license data.

https://github.com/git-pkgs/proxy/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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

It's not much of a fall, but it is only the first of October. Give 'em time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/01/welcome-to-october/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

To all my open web folks! We know that today's AI summaries are pretty unsophisticated. If Jane Doe were to be doxxed, a small but dedicated group of people could muck up the channels in which that info is being spread with incorrect info.

Obviously not suggesting anyone do that since it would be against platforms' TOS, just pointing out that it could be done.

#cornell

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

To all my Wikipedians! In a scenario where Jane Doe were to be identified/doxxed, is it possible to keep that name off Wikipedia?

#cornell

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Over and over again, I keep hearing and reading things by people seeking "nuance" in how they approach AI, and the best I can do for nuance is:

If a technology entails huge social, political, psychological and environmental costs, then you should only use it to perform tasks that are worth those costs.

None of the uses people are currently making of AI are worth the actual (as opposed to monetary) costs. Any "nuance" beyond that feels like rationalization.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I thought maybe the unites states superintelligence declaration was some kind of contractual trick because this language was in some major AI financing deal, but no, that was “AGI” not “superintelligence”, it was a deal between openAI and microsoft, and it already had been renegotiated without that term back in April. This is just as stupid as it looks. How is this real life

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Cleaning out the garage this morning and found the music stand I painted 25 years ago.

#ThereWereNoSigns

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

Link Unshortener 21.2 released in the Mac App Store:

https://underpassapp.com/news/2026/10/1.html

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
thejpster@hachyderm.io ("Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant") wrote:

Existing in online groups is increasingly difficult when half the people think all LLM generated code is bad, and half the people think that expressing that opinion is bad.

I don’t see how this can be reconciled.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

Just heard a bank ad on the radio whose entire thesis is that they have real customer support people and won't make you talk to an AI chatbot

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@davidism/117292399049862157

The beginning of the month, when every junk producer's token limit resets, and we get a whole new wave of junk. Turning off PRs helped a lot, but they just started opening "test issue, checking if my API access is broken", or commenting or emailing their patches instead. I really wish I knew how to escape this without turning off community interaction entirely. #python #flask #opensource

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

I've turned off pull requests from non-members for Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click this week, and have enjoyed not waking up to a fresh wave of AI junk every morning. I think I'm going to update our contributing guide to say "introduce yourself and how you use the library in chat first if you want to contribute pull requests". Sad that we had to go here, but aside from conference sprints we weren't really getting outside contribution anyway (which is also sad, but that's been the case a lot longer than AI has been around). #python #flask #opensource

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

🌈

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

https://www.404media.co/how-schools-and-universities-try-to-censor-student-journalists/

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

okay i think i've cracked the syntax for now. this means i have almost certainly not cracked the syntax for now, but we'll see...

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

The presentation I’m watching from our friends at the Spritely Institute is by far the most entertaining tech nerd preso I’ve watched in months.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spritely-decentralized-architecture/

Thanks @cwebber, @dthompson, and the rest of the Spritely team for getting out there and doing the thing!

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Software Heritage Identifiers

https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/01/software-heritage-identifiers.html

cc @swheritage

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
z_everson@journa.host ("Zach Everson") wrote:

Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture is continuing its promotion to encourage Binance customers to hold its USD1 stablecoin.

Binance is barred from serving US-based customers.

So, essentially, WLFI is encouraging foreign investment in a product that's paid Trump hundreds of millions.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/9745ace0eb7a42d396e22a711f907616

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Emirates EK31, an Airbus A380-800, six hours after departing Dubai for London Heathrow, transmitted transponder code Squawk 7700 for a general emergency on board and made a rapid descent out of cruising altitude and requested a divert vector to Frankfurt. https://airlive.net/emergency/2026/10/01/emirates-a380-flight-ek31-to-london-is-declaring-an-emergency-and-diverting/

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

you've heard of glued evaluation, but have you heard of crude evaluation?

that's because you've never seen an elaborator this shit.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.99.0 has been released! 🦀 🌈

This release includes extern "C" variadics (VaList), VecDeque::retain_back,
Box::{into,from}_non_null, Vec::{into,from}_parts,
std::fs::set_times, Layout::for_value_raw, and more! ✨️

Check out the blog post for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/01/Rust-1.99.0/

Boosted by pixxl:
MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

WAVE (1994)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48”

Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. It's also a good example of why I am reluctant to say too much about my work. Some people are frightened by it, some view it as peaceful and some are just struck by its abstract qualities. 1/2

#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism

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

RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561

Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they dropped 3 million USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution.

This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to direct it towards projects that align with his technical and ideological views.

It's hard to overstate how dangerous that is for all of us.