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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

we are kicking off with a coworking stream in case you've got any lingering to-do items you can complete along with me. current progress: 59.6%

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this will be chaotic and unplanned, as I stumble back through OBS again, attempt to check things off a to-do list while I ramble, and then maybe try to deploy a frontend thing to my website? IDK

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

SURPRISE, we're going live https://www.twitch.tv/glyph%5Fofficial/

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

#neverslop

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Wait... if the US economy only created 29k new jobs last month... that's literally only about 600 net new jobs per state. (and we all know how the states famously have a uniform distribution of jobs lol)

But get this... we just graduated 3 million high schoolers last year and about 1/3rd to one half won't go to college and instead will look for jobs.

For those kids to all get jobs within a year you'd need AT LEAST every state to add 30k jobs per year (on average).

We're pretty far from that

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Take medicaid away and see how Maine feels about who controls the Senate.

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

cleaning up the html for my "homepage" at https://www.well.com/~jeffs

got rid of all the executing Javascript, simplified some stuff, removed some old dead links to things at RIT, etc etc

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

Fans at Daytona always get extra excited when officials decide to introduce some antimatter cars circling the track in the opposite direction.
https://xkcd.com/3306/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Binance pleaded guilty to Iran (and other) sanctions violations in 2023. Trump pardoned its founder. Binance took a $2B investment paid in the Trump family’s stablecoin. Now DOJ is investigating Binance for... Iran sanctions violations, under a US attorney who used to be Trump's lawyer.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Anatomy of a wild-pointer bug in Infocom's Infidel. Yes, in the released version. I believe this is a brand-new discovery.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild

#Infocom #InteractiveFiction

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess it's not 97% any more but that doesn't feel like a *ton* of progress for the two decades I've been paying attention

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

*taking a long drag off a candy cigarette*

Platform war. Platform war never changes.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Yeesh. All the progress, the drama, the exciting developments, the fascism, the money, the new hardware, the user angst, the apocalyptic software development disasters… and the Steam Hardware Survey puts Windows usage up 1% month over month, at 95%. macOS down just a little bit below 2%, linux down a little bit to a bit over 3%

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
leigh@lgbtqia.space ("‘Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️✊") wrote:

I’ve been setting up a lot of self-hosted infrastructure and apps this year in an effort to take back control of my own computing, but it’s becoming nigh-impossible to find options that aren’t heavily tainted with LLM-generated code. The promise of open source and permissive licensing was that we can inspect it and even fork it if the original developers move toward a direction that doesn’t work for us… but what good is that when the code is rapidly devolving into unmaintainable, incomprehensible spaghetti? People are racking up technical debt at an ASTONISHING pace and the metaphorical bill WILL come due. (Likely around the same time that the financial bill comes due.) A lot of incompetent “developers” will simply abandon their projects when that happens. I don’t want to be stuck with the consequences of their short-sighted decisions, but is there any reasonable alternative that doesn’t involve directly giving all my data to the Big Tech companies who are creating this catastrophe in the first place?

Anyhow, if there’s a secret cabal of anti-corporate anti-LLM developers out there which needs help with technical documentation, hit me up, let’s be friends. 💖

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

really disappointed to see people who ought to know better attending, speaking at, and reporting on rails world as though it exists for any other reason than for an outspoken fascist to maintain his position of authority

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@t3rr0rz0n3 Finally got around to trying clouding.io today. I like it!

* Upfront pricing
* Good prices
* Good "vibes" (the web site seems to be by developers for developers)
* Easy setup

But, according to their web site, IPv6 support isn't great in Spain yet, so if you want ipv6 you have to use a tunnel provider. :sad-trombone:

I'm going to look around a bit more for something w/ native v6 support, but I may be back. 👀

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

borg assimilation opt out

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

water hooter

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

immersion blonder

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

Happy to say that my plaintext site is now available via the insecure http:

http://brennan.oldcities.org/

http://135.181.118.12/~brennan/ (IPv4, works without DNS)

http://[2a01:4f9:4b:1e30::3]/~brennan/ (IPv6)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@neatnik

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

@NfNitLoop But it has lots of gaps so I still have to use ddg-noai

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

@NfNitLoop I was recently introduced to https://marginalia-search.com/ which seems quite good.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
KayOhtie@blimps.xyz ("Kay Ohtie") wrote:

"We are officially announcing our transition from Signal to
Discord for our messaging purposes" is not the transition for messaging I want to read in an email from my state campus workers union for the local workers.

neatnik@social.lol ("Treatnik 🎃") wrote:

I can’t help but see it as a form of manipulation, and a dangerous one at that. Turning over access to your systems and data is a serious thing, but when a little cute furry critter is the one asking for access to all of your stuff, I suspect some people find it slightly easier to say yes.

(I will never use this stuff, and so my own data and omg.lol member data will always be completely safe from agentic systems.)

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

Looking at a slide from an old talk where I mentioned the adage, "Luck favors the prepared."

neatnik@social.lol ("Treatnik 🎃") wrote:

Muse looks like a Labubu. Dots look like cheap plush carnival prizes. Making agents look cute and soft and fun is the latest marketing gimmick.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Whenever I search for something on the web these days, I feel like the results are mostly SEO spam written by AI.

Are there search engines that search only data from actual humans? Or have a mode that will require/prioritize high-signal-to-noise sites?

I'd rather find someone's 8-year-old blog post that's tangentially related to my search terms than some listicle with ad cancer.

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

oh, that's called a ceilidh, isn't it awful?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@tante I keep thinking about writing up a blog post titled something like "No, we're not all hanging out at the Nazi Bar", with the basic premise of:

Hey, you keep saying you like hanging out at the Nazi Bar because "everyone" is there, but, no, we're not. You are not hearing anyone who's not cool hanging out with Nazis. Continuing to tell me what fun you're having at the Nazi Bar is not a great look. Nor is telling me how Good For Business being seen at that bar is.