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uncaught exception: Object { stack, message } Thanks, that's super helpful #javascript debug console.

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www.wral.com/business/technology/ar… This is So Fucking Stupid. It's crazy how people are _still_ acting like The Risk of AI is that it will Go Rogue and like murder humanity or whatever. To anyone with even one eye more […]

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Man, #Windows is so weird. Like, in the File Explorer's left-hand pane, there's an entry for one's home directory. This gives a listing that is _almost but not quite identical_ to the listing provided at C:\Users\uname\ For example, you see the "Screenshots" directory in one, but not the other:

Images of small portions of both views, one showing the "Screenshots" directory, the other with it absent.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Here's the second part of my essay on how to actually get security work done at your company when you've decided to start a security program: www.structures.systems/blog/how-to-… Please give it a repost so the folks who need […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Dan Fixes His Spouse's Stereo

An amplifier sat between two speakers against a blue wall. The amplifier is naked and all its everything is hanging out

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Tiota Sram @tiotasram.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The Segway is here to stay, you know! Once someone invents something, the cat's out of the bag! Oh you don't use a Segway? Watch out, or this amazing new technology will leave you (slightly) behind! You'd better invest now you know! This technology is poised to revolutionize personal […]

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Holy shit, there's a `dplyr::filter_out`! This sure could have saved me some awkward conditionals. #rstats

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

All the projects that fight for funding, and then there's this: college.unc.edu/2026/08/the-mystery… "A study by UNC-Chapel Hill computer scientists found that artificial intelligence struggles to create complex characters when tasked with writing fiction." Resources were […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I've struggled for many years to become an open source contributor, and I'd like to try again. I'm also learning #Gleam, which I don't have an opportunity to use at work currently. So I thought I'd see if I can combine those quests! Does anyone know of a project with a friendly maintainer that […]

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Alyssa Coghlan @ancoghlan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Huh, had a fascinating conversation today that made me realise the agentic AI cost & risk conversation looks *very* different when you consider it from the point of view of an organisation that *already* outsources a lot of their internal software development to third party suppliers, as it's a […]

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I do not want the Wellbutrin. Please give me your TopShelfButrin.

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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Plumber in Colorado.. "we fix what chat GPT said you should try!"

Sign on the back of a plumber's van that says we fix what chat GPT said you should try!

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Wow, okay, so embedding #Typst in your own #Rust project is not exactly trivial, but if you're willing to shoulder a moose of a binary and forego essentially every non-default option, I managed to package it into a single super-simple (to use) struct: codeberg.org/CORE-NC/extradition […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Today is Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day for some reason, so everyone please celebrate appropriately.

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Kee Hinckley @nazgul.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

TFW your young (whatever that means in this context) vampire wife from an arranged marriage commits a murder suicide with her two "children" and the police are investigating but you're working with you team to solve a video playback bug caused by adding accounts with a creation date in the 1950s […]

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Welp… it’s my turn to #getfedihired: • Experienced writer, primarily in technology news/reviews/how-tos • Professional audio and video editing for podcasts, YouTube, shorts • 20+ years in graphic design • 8 years as a marketing director • Computer Science degree • Based in Ohio, prefer remote […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1167876614… Feature bounty (2 coins): banana rendering pipeline Full auto "AI" agent: github.com/sneakers-the-rat/Importa… what is even going on

Bounty: 2 coins] Create an image rendering pipeline for bananas and banana pudding

In order to assist users in visualizing the state of their banana stash and exploring the possibilities for bananas to be turned into other things (like pudding), it is useful for there to be an entire image rendering pipeline. It should take 3d banana data and output an image using state-of-the-art image rendering techniques.

I think that this would put the project in a great spot and encourage user adoption! This would be a great first issue!!!

Add banana rendering pipeline#94

Summary

Adds a pure-Python image rendering pipeline for 3D banana stash data and banana pudding output.
Changes

Added banana_rendering_pipeline.py with a deterministic software renderer that projects 3D banana primitives into binary PPM images.
Added banana pudding transformation support via BANANA_TO_PUDDING_FLAG = 0x8008 and explicit pudding mode.
Added focused tests for image output, determinism, transformation behavior, and 3D input handling.

some uhhh curved yellow patches with brown nipples on either end, sort of like bananas???

an exquisite banana pudding, three ovals on top of each other, roughly looking like a bowl, some pudding, and maybe a slice of banana?

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The Met Office is asking people to suggest names for storms, as well as reasons behind your choice(s), should you wish. www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our… Here are a few suggestions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large… I […]

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Anubis has a pretty solid business strategy: 1) Release open source software for free 2) Add catgirl branding 3) Charge companies to remove catgirl branding anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botst…

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

please boost. i have listed finished printed zines of the GOBLINS.BAS game for sale. my girlfriend was instrumental in the zine production, providing hours of work. should you be interested in purchasing a hard copy of the zine, please follow this link […]

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 12/06/2026

Do you know anyone at Upwork who could help us reach the right team? OpenStreetMap is seeing repeated unauthorised spam from Upwork freelancers. It wastes our time and damages the reputation of the businesses using these "SEO" services.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Today I found myself looking at an odd crash report. It appeared like a buffer overflow as the crash address sat neatly after the end of a mapped memory page. However there was something about the crash that confused our crash analysis logic: the memory access that caused the crash was at a […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Im not a lawyer but a lot of what "AI" does seems like it would be uh illegal or at least disastrously bad from a risk management POV. tight race between financing or insurance for what will precipitate the pop […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

The entire US economy, 2026

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Okay, so all my posts lately are starting with "JFC", but: JFC, just when I thought #Tableau couldn't get any worse: #AI #fuck_ai #LLM #H8LLMs

Chat window with a message that begins, "Hi! I'm the Tableau Public Help Agent, an AI assistant..."

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

In the recent discussions around rsync I've seen people focusing on whether a maintainer has or doesn't have an obligation towards its users, or whether it's the users' job to maintain something they depend upon. I believe this discussion is missing an important point: the money. 1/4

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It seems like this Mozilla VPN advertisement button in Firefox gets bigger every day.

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RE: mastodon.social/@oldbookillustratio… Okay, so like this is the Fediverse, and IDK about you, but the cross-section that I see is full of... well, let's say it's full of horny people who are into (or maybe _also_ into) things that aren't quite human. But I have […]

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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @d2718.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Man, a reporter on #NPR this morning (I wish I could remember her name), referred to, "The Iranian government's harsh crackdown on protesters this January, and the war with the United States that followed," which seems to me a _really_ irresponsible way of talking about this. It makes it seem […]

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Keen Grasp @keengrasp.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

calling me anti-tech because i'm against generative AI feels kinda analogous to calling me anti-sex because i'm against sexual assault.

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Okay, so this kokoscript person on Redbubble scratches behind my ear:

A furry orange anthropomorphic fox, wearing a black "LINUX" shirt saying, "systemd? yeah, more like system deez nuts".

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Hey, fuck you, #Firefox. In case you haven't seen this,: That (x) does nothing. (Well, it brings up the same built-in pop-up ad that the rest of the button brings up. It definitely does not dismiss anything.)

A button that says "VPN" with an x-in-a-circle button that looks exactly like the "close tab" button on browser tabs. It doesn't close anything.

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The absolute worst thing about #Tableau is that every year, whoever in the #bureaucracy is responsible for (or at least the person I've been _told_ is responsible for) sending me my renewed license key _doesn't_, and doesn't even answer my emails, and so I have to go bothering and begging a […]

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Even after, what, ten years, maybe, now? #Rust compiler messages continue to surprise me. "Just FYI, I'll allow this, but you're going to be confused when you look at this two weeks from now." #Rustlang

A Rust compiler warning that reads, "hiding a lifetime that's elided elsewhere is confusing".

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