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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@timtfj @linguistgoneforeign given that a mosquito drinks at least its body weight in blood, the mosquito juice to alcohol ratio should be pretty close to your own blood alcohol percentage.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#curl's law: Everything eventually runs curl A trend in society over the last decade and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

If it isn’t powered now, it will be soon
If it is powered, it will be networked
If it is networked, it needs Internet access
If it needs Internet access, curl helps

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I've been watching poorly educated people say, "I could be President, what's he got I don't?" ... my whole life. At long last, they are correct.

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Rejoice! Leap seconds have officially become a thing of the past! By the decision of the CGPM this week, the allowed difference between UTC (the official time) and UT1 (the time according to earth's rotation) has been increased to one hour. This means we will not have computer systems randomly […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

working on 4 “characters” who are learning Git for the first time, to explain how Git branches work trying to figure out if there are any major characters I’m missing (the idea is to give an example of how each of them might use branches, like Emilia might […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

1. Anita is making her first contribution to Python, a large open source project.
2. Betsy is a Go developer for a social media website which has 100 other software developers. All of her changes need to be reviewed by a coworker before they're released.
3. Cassidy and Daniela are building a website for their local cat shelter. They're the only two people on the project.
4. Emilia is using Git on her own to write her PhD thesis

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I deeply relish bread made in #Germany, but ordering bread in #German is just le pain of my existence. 🥐 #ThrowbackThursday #Languages #Comics

This comic features a scene in a bakery. In the first panel, a cheerful blonde baker in an apron asks, "What can I get you, Miss?" In the second panel, a selection of German breads is shown on shelves, each with funny, exaggerated German names like "Roggenmeisterbrot," "Suppiwuppibrötchen," "Dinkeltippitoppibrot," and others. In the final panel, a nervous, dark-haired customer (the Linguist) struggles to pronounce a long, complex German word for a bread, saying, "Zwei Kürbiskornkackwurstpfk– Two of those, please." Watermark: Linguist Gone Foreign

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

this seems to be an interesting result although the math is far beyond me. I'm definitely curious to hear if anyone looks at the methodology for this. it does seem to indicate that you can deliver more features at lower cost with agents, and I don't want to reject that out of hand […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I've led a reasonably accomplished life. Probably the only big thing I wanted to do and struck out on, was writing for Doctor Who. Something I didn't know I wanted and has delighted me for decades now? Having evil Star Trek aliens named after me. Those fuckers annoyed me, but apparently I […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Today on Computers Are Bad: from plesiochronous to synchronous. We try to make some sense of the messy evolution of digital telecommunications over fiber. computer.rip/2026-10-12-plesiochron…

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "mathocalypse" was executed. karagila.org/2026/openai-... I think all nerds are currently processing it.

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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics

By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@warthog9 I have the same problem. I do not see what advantage short certificate lifetimes bring. Yes, There is that argument that a compromised certificate would not linger around, but quite honestly, how often does a certificate of a website need to be revoked, because it got compromised? Not […]

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melle @melle.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Gerade an der Ladesäule diesen schönen Käfer gesehen und kurz mit dem Besitzer unterhalten. 36kWh Akku, lädt 80kW/h, Motor aus einem Model S mit 300 PS. Keine Akku-Vorkonditionierung „ein Schönwetter-Auto“. Sogar mit vibegecodeter App.

Ein VW Käfer an einer Ladestation für Elektrofahrzeuge.

Screenshot der Käfe-App.
Beetle
Charging
78%
Power
+39.3 kW
Charging
To
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arrive with
137 km
below reserve
Consumption
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kWh/100 km 300.2 km
Start
15 km
50 km
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until 10%
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Location
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@hrbrmstr Exactly! If they'd have some legitimate political reason, people would be upset, but could kind of accept the reasoning. But it is 100% clear that this was a retaliation for Trump not getting the Nobel Peace Price. And that the rest of the administration just went with it, tells a lot […]

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@hrbrmstr The US really wants to make sure everyone knows the rule of law is over, doesn't it? There is no other way to interpret these new sanctions.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Get off U.S. tech ASAFP. Cloud, SAAS, hardware, and software. Get out of U.S. financial services ASAFP. Do not come to this country if you live abroad. We're run by thugs and toddlers […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 01/10/2026

[Unpopular opinion, subtoot] Wind turbines are so pretty and satisfying to watch… no really I love them…

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Charly Kühnast @charlykuehnast.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Warum heißt es erektile Dysfunktion und nicht Krisenstab?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Hello, beautiful people. 💕 Please excuse the radio silence, but I've recently made the alarming discovery that life becomes more fulfilling when you wander out of the endless cycle of work, career goals and optimization. I've rediscovered the small, inefficient pleasures of being human. Slow […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@whitequark Sorry, I don't have any ponies. May I still interest you in this little monkey? Yes, that's a piece of popcorn in its tiny hands.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

No Sloptober no-sloptober.com « This October we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you. » <- I mean, why not? I do it anyway, every month…

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Yann Büchau :nixos: @nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I put this up in our uni's restroom in case somebody needs toilet paper

photo showing the inside wall of a restroom, showing a printed A4 paper titled "Need toilet paper?", with a two-sided scan of toilet paper below and a QR code redirecting to https://archive.org/download/toilet-paper_202609/toilet-paper.pdf

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maybe another way to say it: for me, there have been two big phases of the Internet. Phase 1 was the Everyone Has a Website and Nobody Knows What They're Doing phase. Phase 2 was platformization and the siloing of the Internet. Maybe Phase 3 is The Internet is for Robots.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I randomly stumbled on one of my old twitter posts where I marveled at one of the most clownshoes technical advertisements ever published: the Atari Jaguar's marketing materials claimed "an incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed." Read that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

a magazine advertising spread of the Atari Jaguar, which allegedly has 64 bits of power, 16.8 million colors, and incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are fairly antitech currently, which isn't entirely unreasonable, but one of the strange things with A City on Mars is we had supporters and detractors who both understood us to be saying "Mars settlement is impossible." But, like, we even provide a roadmap at the end?

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

None of you want to hear this, but we are very likely going to have to overthrow (and not in the "tweet/toot/peacefully protest" way) the neo-nazi global regime being established by Trump's handlers and those orchestrating the rise of the "alt-right" (call them nazis, pls, b/c that's what they […]

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/09/2026

"You're absolutely right, there was indeed another commercial jet on the runway. That's my fault, I should have checked before assuming that runway was clear to land on. Since the runway is now closed, let me know if I can help with anything else. Do you know how runway numbers are selected?"

FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

One of the coolest things to happen in Spade yet 👀 @breakingtaps wrote and taped out a Transport Triggered Architecture processor from scratch in a month with 0 prior experience! This video is also one of the better intros to digital hardware design I've seen, certainly much better than some of […]

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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Last week I did a talk on Spade at a special session on Hardware Construction Languages. It wasn't recorded, so here is a recreation :) Talking about what a HCL is, and how we do meta programming in Spade youtu.be/jp-9FcONM8c

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

26 February 1992, the Slovenian government quietly deleted 1.3% of its citizenry overnight. The criterion was frighteningly simple: anyone born in another part of the former Yugoslavia who was a permanent resident of Slovenia (regardless of whether they considered themselves naturalised) lost […]

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Here is a video that explains much better than I ever could, why datacenters in space are a very stupid idea. And also why all this talk is nothing but vapor ware: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg #datacenter #space #vaporware

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I find it curious that in the past we described large compute systems/infrastructure in MFLOPS or GFLOPS. Ie. in what they provided as output. But today, or rather since large scale #datacenters became dominating, we describe the compute power in GW. Ie. in what they consume, or what ultimately […]

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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

This guy's DIY audio visualizer

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

How is this book still in the science fiction section? 🧐

A hand holds a copy of Ray Bradbury’s *Fahrenheit 451*, featuring a stylized red, orange, and yellow flame design on a black cover. Shelves filled with colorful books are softly blurred in the background.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

"Which tells you something important: nobody wants the app. People install the app because they believe it is mandatory in some sort of way. Because they are afraid of missing out on something. Because they are told so by the salesman. But they just don’t want it. In fact, when pressed, most […]

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