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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I bet he is merely doing that because radium has the chemical element number 88.

DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@glyph [...] Let me tell you: all answers I get range between "meh" and big disappointment. I am yet to find a situation where my reaction is "Oh, that's clever! If I got that output, it would saved me a lot of time/made me learn something new". This shit is useless to me and has been getting […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@glyph [...] Another one is each time I finish a difficult problem solving rabbit hole/a challenging debugging session/etc. I then query the bots, and check their solutions (e.g. click "solve with Copilot" on automatic tests failure, and copy the error message from the log into a bot) Each […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@glyph a small personal benchmark I've started doing recently: I am pretty handy and tend to DIY a lot of things. Whenever I am starting some complex non trivial maintenance/repair/nuild/etc task, I test a couple of bots and ask how to proceed. (I am not into car maintenance, but if I were the […]

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I like it better when my mountains are not top international news 😢

Front page of The Guardian app, with an image of a glacier landscape with melting ice, highlighting a large crevice with deep blue water visible. The news headline is
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

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Zelda @spikybaddie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Now, be careful not to learn the wrong lessons from the seemingly infinite illegal hacking committed by "frontier models" against, coincidentally, their opponents. This does NOT mean it is legal to do crime now just because you launder it through an LLM. Like always, it just means it is legal […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

[Suggestion de details] @ploum pour la creation du PC: une autre raison (en plus des risques d'antitrust) d'utiliser une architecture ouverte basee sur des pieces off-the-shelf: contrairement aux marche des mainframea et des miniordinateurs our IBM avait le quasi-monopole (d'ou proces), pour […]

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Låhminėwskī ⚒️ @lahminewski.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Atelier d’installation de Linux. Fais passer #windows par la fenêtre et adoptes la pingouin’ttitude ! 📅 Samedi 10 octobre 2026 🕤 10:00 - 16:00 📌 Au #FabLab, à la #chauxdefonds :ch_Neuchatel […] [Original post on tooting.ch]

Lors de cet évènement :
-Appareils sous linux à disposition pour tâter.
-Un peu de glouglou et de miamiam
-Une équipe d’expertes qui vous accompagnent dans la migration vers un système d’exploitation plus convival, respectueux de votre vie privée et éthique.
-Un espace sympa pour papoter informatique libre mais pas que !

On tente touxtes de manger bio ou de consommer responsable, pourquoi pas dans notre informatique aussi.

Samedi 10 octobre 2026
10:00 - 16:00
Au FabLab, à la Chaux-de-Fonds

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Some people shouldn't be allowed to make diagrams or graphs.

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Yann Büchau :nixos: @nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Tested it for you: the Epson WS-580W only scans a meter of toilet paper... 🧻 #paperless

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

TL;DR: If I were writing a post about AV hookup wire twenty years ago on the subject "Is expensive wire a scam," I'd have TLDR'd it as "Mmm yes and no, expensives are better BUT you hit diminishing returns VERY quickly, in that there's a massive difference between a $2 wire and a $20 wire but […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@ploum Absolument ca. Sauf que, perso, je suis pret a passer le temps necessair pour l'expliquer... *a un humain*. Oui, ca me prendrait moins de temps a vite tapper moi-meme une solution basee sur 2 lignes de Perl avec 3 regexp, *MAIS* le temps extra consacre a l'expliquer est un […]

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Matthew Dockrey @attoparsec.clacks.link.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I took part in this study last month, and it was a nice, chill conversation. The researcher is looking for more input from the AI-skeptic side of the maker community, so I offered to pass the link along. Most of the people reading this will lean in that direction, I'm pretty sure! […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

"There's nothing structural about those things that prevents agents figuring out how to do that stuff" is load-bearing here. Sure it is. All those things require understanding the problem space, the deployment context, the future needs and goals of the […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Assumption 1: agents are going to eat the entire software development lifecycle

This assumption is based on the observation that agents are currently very good at writing code and mediocre at everything that comes after that: reviewing code, testing it, finding bugs, fixing bugs, deploying to production, monitoring, and scaling up. They suck at that stuff right now, but my assumption is that that’s a temporary state of affairs. There’s nothing structural about those things that prevents agents figuring out how to do that stuff. If you think I’m right about that, this post will be of interest, but if you think I’m wrong now is a good time to bail.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

[Unsollicited advice on distros] @PurpleJillybeans if you want an always up-to-date distro, in my experience among the rolling distros: - OpenSuse Tumbleweed spends the most efforts on testing infrastructure to make sure each release works (I daily drive this on most of my workstations and […]

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

23 organisations including Swissuniversities sign a joint letter calling for Switzerland to participate in Erasmus+ www.swissuniversities.ch/en/news/ap…

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Appeal for Erasmus+: 23 organisations sign a joint letter

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

the plutocrats have such boring dreams. why would you want to upload your brain and live forever on linkedin. i would be funding research into getting fuckin borged out. piston muscles, steam lungs. hot swappable endocrine cartridges, microbiome SoCs. spider leg loadout with the nuclear powered […]

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anarcat @anarcat.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312… "The wrong Amazon is burning, the wrong ICE is melting, the wrong AI is being designated as terrorism" - Crimethinc

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[Long-ish, Half finished thought about AI as a material and the "the median AI output is better than the median human output" discourse] Hung up momentarily on the discourse re: "human writing/code/art is on average pretty bad, so the median AI output is better than the median human work." […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@mntmn Good luck, in this current "Collapse of personnal computing" situation!

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@bagder my impression is that the main scope of cURL is to fetch remote files (and push files to remotes that supports it). From that point of view: - support the SCP and SFTP protocols makes totally sense - support remote execution of arbitrary command would fall under scope creep (and open too […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@kerravonsen other similar opensource featurewatch include the #pine64 's PineTime and upcoming Pro version thereof (though the former has less emphasis on sports tracking). But yeah, absolutely do not trust the current "big bramd" echosystem to not utterly violate your privacy

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I getting Really Fucking Sick And Tired of people saying, "So, you don't want to use AI? Then I guess you'd better stop using Linux or you're a hypocrite!" Fuck you, honestly, if you're saying that. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and some […] [Original post on federate.social]

"We should improve society somewhat."
"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."

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Christian Peach @chpietsch.fedifreu.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

You have probably heard about the US regime's crackdown on the Italian IT collective Autistici/Inventati. Someone wrote down what it means and what can be done about it: www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-cal… (thanks to […]

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole? I share this information for no reason at all.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Dear @ethz.ch , please try to support more than 1 of the major web rendering engines for your service portals, thank you very much.

A screenshot of a service portal used by ETH Zürich which is dropping support for Mozilla Firefox (Gecko-based), and will only support Blink/Webkit-based browser.

Text reads in German:
"Mozilla Firefox-Browser
ETHIS wird im Mozilla Firefox nicht mehr unterstützt. Beim Hochladen von Dokumenten kann es zu Abstürzen kommen oder das gesamte ETHIS einfrieren. Empfohlen wird die Nutzung von Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge oder Safari."

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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@petealexharris @firebreathingduck @futurebird [...] Yes, attribution is way harder to track for both advertisers and their clients, so it won't be super widely be taken up tomorrow, but it's slowly happenibg. And that is going to be a harder challenge for "ad-blocking" (won't probably be […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@petealexharris @firebreathingduck @futurebird You're thinking of old school "click here to buy" ads or sponsor links to the tools and a materials in a tutorial. I am more thinking of: coding agents adresses a complex automation task by writing a collection of github actions. If this happens on […]

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Thinking about the era of technology where the easiest way to display images was to take all the air out of a tube and point a death ray at your face. It's fine though. There was a thin screen between you and the death ray that caught all the death and turned it into pretty colors.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@firebreathingduck @petealexharris @futurebird and ad-blocking is going to be much more difficult as ads have evolved from past's flashy banners, to more recent's dummy "pretend search results", to nowadays' "helpful" chatbots trying to nudge you into using some specific service/platform/shop.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@nobodyinperson okay, I've now clearly outed myself as a dinosaur who doesn't use video calls on the smartphone.😅

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@nobodyinperson > "not saving": seems to me that this happens mostly when the system is thrashing to the Zram swap. (on my Xperia 10iii I use swap on a heavy duty SD; on my pinephone - a swap partition on eMMC and Zswap cache instead of Zram partition) I also set the camera app's output to the […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@nobodyinperson [...] (e.g.: on Sony Xperia series, these plug-ins are stored on the TA [trim-area] that self-destructs when you unlock the bootloader and can only be backed up if one finds root exploits before the unlock) Corollary is that some well motivated sailors could develop some […]

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@nobodyinperson > "camera" Most smartphone nowadays tend to use roughlt the same sensors from Sony. The distinguisher nowadays tend to be in the post processing of the raw sensor signal into the final JPEG, and most phone brands considers this a trade secret and each will try to closely guard […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104 Years ago when I lived in Canterbury, they brought in a phone to pay thing for parking. I wrote a letter to Canterbury city council saying this was a bad idea as someone could put a sticker over the phone number, and scam people for their credit card […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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DrYak @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: eldritch.cafe/@UnePorte/11710403800… Un excellent thread par @UnePorte qui décortique (et encourage!) la Solidarité.

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Julianoë @julianoe.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

RE: tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/117049317… Pour info. Mais il y a vraiment des gens que ça surprend encore ?

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

last night, a friend and I recycled some old PCBs left over from another project into notebook covers! We cut the pages and stitched the spine by hand. #electronics #bookbinding #diy

two notebooks on a table cluttered with tools, The notebooks have covers made from A5 size green circuit boards. One is open and shows plain ivory color pages and a cord bookmark. They are bound using a coptic stitch binding.

One of the notebooks from the previous picture sitting on its side showcasing its binding stitches. The stitches form rows of links going across the spine from one cover to the other.

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