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

I’m feeling curiously mixed emotions at getting a contact from a recruiter about a position that sounds potentially interesting, because so much of me just wants to stop working for other people at this point. Unrelatedly, let me remind you my blog has a tip jar.

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

As it is now about five years since I wrote my "Frugal Computing" article, and meanwhile a lot of people have had occasion to misuse the term or at least misinterpret my intent, I felt it was time to revisit the concept.

https://limited.systems/articles/frugal-computing-revisited/

tl;dr: It's about sufficiency, and not squandering resources. And the aim is to keep a liveable planet supporting an inclusive global society.

#FrugalComputing

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

This is one student I won't have to deal with.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/06/campus-drama/

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

listening to this podcast about Meta’s new Agent app for consumers has convinced me: “no f*cking way”.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000793419534

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

Oh, and this is the first episode I've published since switching the site's hosting entirely to the Bunny CDN from the lying cheating bastards at Netlify.

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

The next couple of videos change things up a bit again, which again is probably not the smartest thing to do. Changing variables before you know the outcome of the previous change makes it harder to link cause and effect.

But, y'know, experimenting is fun 😁

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

The video embed on the website uses bunny's stream not a youtube embed. This is mostly to help me get a sense of how much video playback happens on the site versus via social media etc.

This is also now more overtly a "podcast with video" since I decided to use proper headphones for monitoring and a nicer mic

Behind the scenes I used vosk-transcriber for captions followed by a LOT of editing of the captions in gaupol/aegissub. I had been using the built-in vosk support in KDEnlive

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

I'm making a few more experiments in the latest newsletter/video/podcast thing, which is possibly a mistake because if you change too many variables at once, it's hard to know which one mattered

But...

I'm testing a two camera setup. The second camera is a bit grainy in this one but I mostly fixed that in the next two

The video is slightly abridged compared to the podcast and essay. Still makes the same argument, just a bit more condensed

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

Old raven photos revisited: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/old-raven-photos-revisited/

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

Geez, Melissa Etheridge goes hard on "Like the Way I Do".

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liberty@mathstodon.xyz ("Anna Liberty") wrote:

I help maintain two separate projects for looking for LLM-generated code in open-source repositories.

slopcheck is a CLI tool I created for checking repositories for signs of slop in git histories. It also shows the last commit with no signs.

https://codeberg.org/liberty/slopcheck

slopscore does the same thing, but it also provides a Web interface and is more comprehensive at the moment.

https://codeberg.org/polyphony/slopscore

Both projects are maintained by teams of awesome developers. Check them out!

#programming #slop

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Aged like 5 year old milk:

"You can't become the I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING dog as a professional identity. Don't embrace being a copy-pasta programmer whose chief skill is looking up shit on the internet."

-- DHH, 2021

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jedbrown@neuromatch.social ("Jed Brown") wrote:

If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this.

Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers

We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:

Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.

Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.

Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.

https://math.mit.edu/~elmos/petition.html

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PaulaMaddox ("Paula Maddox") wrote:

#Gauntlet #synth now with added Waveplane mode (switchable between that and window transform).
Mod 1 changing top left wave, mod2 changing bottom left and bottom right wave, LFO1 moving the X position, LFO2 moving Y position, EG1 doing VCF cutoff and detune. LFO1 also modulating cutoff a little too.

Attachments:

• video: Gauntlet synth with wave plane mode and lots of modulation

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
p2panda@autonomous.zone wrote:

Team members from p2panda, @spritely, Matrix and Bluesky engage in a panel discussion about the future of p2p, moderated by @gwil.

https://archive.org/embed/dwebcamp2026-panel-talk-future-of-p2p

#willow #spritely #matrix #bluesky #p2p

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

If I wasn't restricted to 9, there was also Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation", Melissa Etheridge's self titled album, which I found incredibly powerful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZwOA%5F62ew&list=PLtJK%5FInIjqtSruYir0f1nc7Cqp-O0xttK

And Loreena McKennitt's work, who, along with Enya, Yello, and Dead Can Dance, carried my soul away to other places.

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

I'm very glad there are so many smart people that can figure hard shit out for the rest of us

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tsunderdog@plush.city ("Tsunderdog") wrote:

Final fantasy 9 getting a new release with a subtitle? Cautiously optimistic. No it's just a music box

Stop DOING THIS, news outlets

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

I wouldn't say these albums "made me", but they all had impacts on a young me. Mostly in terms of expanding my horizons in one way or another from growing up in a small town in a dusty, prickly, out of the way corner of New Mexico (yes, even the Madonna and Beastie Boys).

Beastie Boys: "Licensed to Ill"
Madonna: "I'm Breathless"[1]
Enya: "Watermark"
Yello: "Stella" (Just wild creative stuff)
The Police: "Live!"
U2: "The Joshua Tree"
Indigo Girls: "1200 Curfews"
Peter Gabriel: "Secret World Live"
Dead Can Dance: "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun"

(I'm actually not sure which Dead Can Dance to pick. Once I discovered them, I picked up as much of their catalog as I could.)

[1] I probably wouldn't have bought this for myself, but my dad won it in a raffle during a showing of the Dick Tracy movie and promptly handed the cassette to me. At the end, they included "Vogue", but my favorite on it is the duet with Mandy Patinkin: "What Can You Lose":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdzhgqNSdk&list=OLAK5uy%5FnpmZiX4TZ%5Fz2%5FugnQ%5FMvmtlgiKhat2JrA&index=9

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

Only a truly desperate, ugly woman would let herself be fondled by this creature, and then be silent about it. Right, Megyn Kelly?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/06/the-ugliest-woman-in-the-news/

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

why'd it get renamed to websub when we were standardizing pubsubhubbub in the W3C SocialWG? because we needed someone for the browser dom to play with

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

"Software developers are not okay"

Where I talk about what I've been noticing in my research on the state of software development.

Namely, the job increasingly sucks

https://youtu.be/KsEpW03gxKg

(Youtube edition)

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

what's the right name for that protocol again

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

hi my name is christine lemmer-webber and I've done a lot of things but you might know me most famously for being part of one of the two protocols used as a kind of methodone for the kind of centralized social media popular with millenials

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

"Software developers are not okay"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.

Direct link to the essay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/#software-developers-are-not-doing-well

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aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

It's so refreshing to read something again from an author who is actually good with words after months of slogging through three Frank Herbert novels.

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

Software developers are not okay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

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

There's an old saying here in Iceland: "Guð launar fyrir hrafninn", which could be translated as "God pays the raven's way". Basically that feeding ravens will bring good luck.

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gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

@cwebber christine.

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

So, a couple of years ago the raven gang that spends part of the winter alternating between Selfoss and Hveragerði was around for the holiday season. So one of my neighbours left out their holiday roast leftovers for the ravens, which meant they were hanging around the house for a while