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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If you haven't read it (and even if you have), The Colonization of Confidence by Robert Kingett (@WeirdWriter) is an incredibly powerful text about what it means to be writer at a time in history where machines can output whole chapters in seconds. One of my favourites long reads of the past […]

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[mention of sexual assault] What the shit is this fuck? I remember when I was young (young teens, maybe?) reading about a superstition in some southern African country (maybe even South Africa) that raping a virgin would cure one of AIDS. I remember thinking […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a section of an internal University of North Carolina propaganda email. The section title is, "New AI tool for UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students"; it reads, "Anthony DeHart, director of operatoins at UNC Blue Sky Innovations, discusses Rameses, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed to help UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students with research and reporting."

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@WeirdWriter So I definitely agree with you, here, but beyond that, it sucks to be _anybody_ who understands, appreciates, or makes a living doing _anything_ that isn't "playing games with the financial system using investor money". We have descended into a society that doesn't publicly admire […]

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@WeirdWriter The downside of having a great idea is that everyone says, "Great idea!" and then expects you to implement it.

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@WeirdWriter This is depressingly predictable, like when yet another Republican politician's pederasty oozes to the surface. It's also yet another example of how, in general, management neither has, nor cares to have, any idea about the actual business of the business they claim to run.

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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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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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@WeirdWriter Cookies have _a_ use case: authentication. I maintain a den of internal tools at work, and each sets a single, same-site cookie identifying the user, so they don't have to authenticate with every request. That's it. That's the one legit cookie use. Anything else is, at best, a […]

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Well, good job, Tidyverse devs, for the band-stop version of the band-pass filter.

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

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@WeirdWriter You often complain about things from an accessibility angle, and it's kind of funny, because often, as a fully-sighted person, I think, "Oh, yeah, I hate this thing, too."

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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 All of the Gleam developers with whom I've interacted have been pretty friendly. I'd say just look at this list: github.com/gleam-lang/awesome-gleam and pick something where you think you have some domain knowledge. Be careful, though, because a lot of the interesting […]

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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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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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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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@WeirdWriter I am a "fully-sighted" person (nearsighted AF, but reasonably correctable), and every time I have to do something more involved than read a book/blog/website on my phone, I haaaaaaate it. I get annoyed when people send me text messages because it means I have to respond. (TL; DR […]

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@gooba42 @gabrielesvelto Much like the insecure person who finds it easier to tear others down than lift themself up, I'm sure there's a point at which it's easier to poke holes in others' boats than lift one's own further.

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@nazgul I always appreciate a passage where I could never, at any point, possibly predict the content of the next clause.

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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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@ORIOliver @aslakr @ruari @spacehobo Okay, I see the li'l exes now. So, yeah, really sad turtle. It makes sense, but it should definitely require less discussion to make sense!

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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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@SteveBellovin @matthewdgreen.bsky.social @ekr I think another good thing to consider here is: When I was an undergraduate 30 years ago, I remember a Physics prof saying, "Quantum computing has been ten years off for twenty years now."

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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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@ruari @spacehobo Or just like, save the ink, because it's not like there's anybody who cares and doesn't fucking know.

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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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