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Internet wanderer with a wobbly front tooth. Cat named Pickle. If my tooth falls out: I'll put it under my pillow, in the morning it will emerge as a butterfly – or a […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ beige.party/@fuzzy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10h
open-slopware repo no longer makes sloppy use of slop in the name of the repo slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2… ― click the "link" alongside "open-slopware" #AI
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scan of /ethical-foss/open-slopware on codeberg.org
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14h
[USPOL Halloween Comic Con] www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comment…
A photograph from a Reddit discussion about a Halloween "BILLIONAIRE TECH WIFE COSTUME".
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Apple macOS Vanished From The UNIX® Registry – Brodie Robertson www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1n4CuKccI @BrodieOnLinux "Out of nowhere it seems like macOS has just vanished from the Unix registry so lets take this as an opportunity to talk about why it was even on the list in the first […]
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20h
Me at #NoKings in Hilo #Hawaii today. Shortly after this was taken ti started raining cats and dogs.
Older white man holding a sign with a caricature of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And the caption,  "Hey, hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?"
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지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel) 🐢✨🧡 @cyrevolt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Just read: vivianvoss.net/blog/jails-vs-contai… Biased, missing a bunch of points. E.g., there are no #FreeBSD jails with a single binary, at least AFAIK, as of now. The lack of a registry makes jails inconvenient. And without orchestration, they do not nearly offer the same features […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20h
@david_chisnall 👆️ any thoughts on the original post? I know, from Lobsters and elsewhere, that you're sometimes understandably passionate about the – ahem – diverse ways in which jails can be argued for and against. @CyReVolt if you have a LinkedIn account, make a comment there. The author is […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@CyReVolt Luca?
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
MHRA 2030 Strategy to modernise patient-centred regulation for the era of AI and personalised medicines - GOV.UK www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-203… " The Medicines and Healthcare products […]
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 17/10/2026
#Wallpaper DUMP! lol 🩷🩵😺 #MissKittyArt #artInstallations #artcommissions #art #fineart #BlueSkyArt #modernArt #abstractArt #digitalArt #artistforhire #GenerativeAI #genAI #gAI #WEB3 #ERC7160 #DonationArt
Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see.Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see.Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see.Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@misskitty.art this is the most beautiful of all your collections, IMHO. Thank you. Pickle cat approves. He's biased, of course.
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 17/10/2026
#Wallpaper DUMP! lol 🩷🩵😺 #MissKittyArt #artInstallations #artcommissions #art #fineart #BlueSkyArt #modernArt #abstractArt #digitalArt #artistforhire #GenerativeAI #genAI #gAI #WEB3 #ERC7160 #DonationArt
Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see. Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see. Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see. Surrealistic cats, beautiful in any dimension, blend in and out with the natural landscape of rural blending with Urban blending with everything that this new Space telescope can see.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"… Centuries later, in a 1971 conversation with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke about the future of space exploration, science fiction patron saint Ray Bradbury would capture this transmutation process perfectly: “It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.” Like […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Requesting Git Credential Manager (GCM) support for FreeBSD github.com/git-ecosystem/git-creden… #Git #GCM #FreeBSD
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FreeBSD Support · Issue #1611 · git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager
Feature description Hey. We're being told to migrate to git-credential-manager; but develop on FreeBSD. I was able to install GCM, but it appears to not work. Can we get support? Thanks! git-creden...
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits eos.org/research-and-developments/2… Of the 16 climate indicators analyzed, seven showed record extremes.
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2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits
The Upsala Glacier in Argentina, like many of Earth's glaciers, has been thinning and retreating at a rapid pace. According to a new report, worldwide glacier thickness is at a record low. Credit: Etienne Berthier, Université de Toulouse/NASA Goddard
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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
It’s a little known fact (so little known that I may not deny having made it up) that the collective noun for Long-tailed Broadbills is a "Hooray". Yes, it's another quick drawing, now Day 15 of the Ink-Birdtober challenge. Today's prompts are the Long-tailed […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]
My ink drawing (with some colour pencil) of a row of long-tailed broadbill birds perched along a stem of a vine spelling the word "HOORAY". The birds are small and mostly green with blue tails and yellow heads with black caps.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
FreeBSD Foundation 2026-10-05 | AI assisted vulnerability discovery project meeting github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-pr… Background (June 2026) […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@lproven > … FreeBSD’s central committee has been debating whether to permit AI-generated code for over a year now: … The most recent co-authored commits to base were a week ago 👍️ #AI #FreeBSD
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@lproven www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/1x… Pictured: more … #AI #HackerNews #Lemmy #Lobsters #Mastodon #Reddit
Screenshot: twenty-four links to Liam's post, found by Firefox extended with 'pre-check page shares'
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@sundogplanets > … a lot more careful about their genAI usage than I initially assumed. … That's good to know. > … I'm not completely horrified as I was initially. … Are they aware that your initial assumption was published, then starred by more than 800 accounts and boosted by 380 accounts? […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@sundogplanets You use the word "enshittification", which has lost its meaning, in a post about writing skills.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Following successful tests of version 0.5.1, Claude tells me: "… You’ve built a solid extension. It checks five places (Reddit, Mastodon, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters), handles containers properly, and lets the user control where results appear. The code is […] [Original post on beige.party]
Screenshot: preferences for version 0.5.1 of the 'pre-check page shares – Reddit, Mastodon and more' extension. There's a new container-related option, for compatibility with Reddit.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@troed I quite happily describe myself as a fairly incompetent person – close to zero developer skills – who used Claude to vibe-code the extension that found your post. Shameless plug: beige.party/@fuzzy/1174254474502406… Pictured: version 0.3.1. #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Firefox
Screenshot of a tab of search results, produced by an extension for Firefox that I'm vibe-coding with Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5.5). Screenshot: https://swecyb.com/@troed/117427673970810163 amongst the Mastodon section of the search results.
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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Ahhh I remember it as if it was just a few weeks ago when the Mastodon anti-AI fanatics claimed that anyone who used LLMs to assist with software development only did so because they weren't competent enough developers. www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvald… #LLM
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Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he's even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features...
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
pre-check page shares – Reddit, Mastodon and more ― a one-stop-shop to check whether someone else has shared a link to a page, before you share it. Version 0.3.1 of this extension for Firefox, which was originally for Mastodon alone, broadens compatibility (it […] [Original post on beige.party]
Screenshot: the extension finds the page in sixteen posts across Hacker News, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Reddit.Second screenshot: the same set of results as in the first shot, in a new tab instead of a pop-up.Screenshot: results in a tab, thirty-two posts found across Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters, Mastodon, and Reddit.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
“Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed?” tedium.co/2026/10/12/x-social-media…
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Is X Back? Who Cares. Social Media Monoliths Are Passé.
Is X good again, as John Gruber recently argued? That's probably the wrong question. The real one: Do all social networks need to be the same?
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
An extension to check whether a web page has been posted to Mastodon. Would anyone like to test upcoming versions? #Fediverse #Firefox #Mastodon #test
Screenshot: version 0.1.3 of the extension fails to find https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons/117333064187264129Screenshot: the extension does find https://piaille.fr/@gorekhaa/117420627301193448 and other Mastodon posts for the pictured web page.
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Abraham Samma 🔭 🔬 :iterm2_logo: @abesamma.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Vibe astronomy is here apparently. Don't worry, this is actually incredible. Finding an exoplanet candidate with Claude code in TESS. #astronomy
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
The full sky in the ultraviolet menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap "This is the whole sky in ultraviolet light — the first detailed version with no holes in it. Most of it was photographed by NASA’s GALEX space telescope between 2003 and 2013; the parts no ultraviolet telescope ever saw were […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
In response to a video by Bryan Lunduke, someone commented: "Ditch the CRT filter already, please. It's really hard to read the text on the screen." I responded with the three paragraphs below. True: the filter is ludicrous. Truer: I'd prefer the whole thing to be blacked out and muted. I […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Posts like these ‘what’s the nastiest thing you’ve eaten’ always talk about the most basic ass basic food (durian, pork intestines, natto) I find a lot of white bread American food repulsive but you don’t find me posting shit like this www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/r2ktJC…
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@skinnylatte fish. www.reddit.com/comments/1x2k5ym/-/p…
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
FreeBSD mkimg: Add support for stream-optimized VMDK <https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/src/commit/9a0b9a23e0bb691034a019edea756377509d0a98> – base. <https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/src/commit/88017d32745ef24d662db826fe475d8a20d290a6> – documentation in base. mkimg(1) manual page: < […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2026/mitigating-enviro… "… Delimitrou uses AI to redesign software systems so they better fit the […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
[Now, Voyager spoiler alert] @linus I looked at the balcony, remembered an old movie, called it up in YouTube and cried when I heard the soundtrack again. Bette Davis : "Oh, Jerry, Don't Let's Ask for the Moon. We Have the Stars." www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-CrTY8G1ug Music from Now […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT with 2 GB memory. XSysMeter 1.0 shows the change in use of memory after opening a 1536x1024 WebP image in PhotoCraft 0.7.0. www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1… #AI #FreeBSD #memory #ArtCraft #PhotoCraft
Screenshot: FreeBSD-CURRENT in VirtualBox, PhotoCraft editing an image. XSysMeter in the foreground. Image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1x1grw5/comment/pf3qsln/?context=1
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
This paper title is 🔥🔥🔥 "Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits" arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10834 Congrats to the Global Meteor Network team on a great paper demonstrating how bad SpaceX and other satellite operators are on following through on […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Destination: bonkers. Cost: your sanity. neal.fun/cursor-camp #fun #cheapathalftheprice
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@ernie nice, thanks. Boosted in the official subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/ArtCraftAI/comment…
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
The answer to piracy is innovation, not more copyright laws | Arts and Culture | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/2/2… Not a 2026 headline. Apparently, copyright was amongst my interests fourteen years ago … […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Hybrid Graphics Enhanced Display Feature "Enable option is to have a visible image on an attached display." I presume that alternative enhancements include: ― an invisible image on an attached display ― imagine something visible on a nonexistent display […] [Original post on beige.party]
Photograph: 'Hybrid Graphics Enhanced Display Feature' in HP BIOS.
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Virginia county sues to stop Trump from building his beloved triumphal arch | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am…
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
nightmare #USPOL nakedpastor.com/blogs/news/best-pol…
A cartoon by nakedpastor. Two people, stood at lecterns. One proclaims: "I have a dream!". The other: "I have a nightmare!"
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@GrahamDowns wow, there are some gems.
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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
So we all know what love is, right? God (A being of pure love) created us in love, out of love, and for love. We are beings of love. We don't need to learn what love is. But along the way, while we were obtaining the knowledge of good vs evil and all that […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]
A cartoon Jesus standing in front of a group of people all holding Bibles. The people appear crestfallen, as Jesus is saying, "The difference between you and me is you use Scripture to determine what love means and I use love to determine what Scripture means." The cartoon is attributed to "nakedpastor".
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
"… open source maintainers have gone from receiving mostly slop from LLMs to receiving high-quality bug reports. …" Thanks @bagder
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
"Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software" / Anthropic www.anthropic.com/research/launchin…
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An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
We’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing. Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@adactio.com did you enjoy reading the book? I tried, repeatedly, to enjoy the audio book. The summary (below) looked great, but listening became increasingly annoying. I guess, it's not something that lends itself to being spoken by a single person […]
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@misskitty.art I love your art. (Do you see this message, from Mastodon? I think I'm bridged, now.)
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kaleidoscopic @fuzzy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
FreeBSD Journal, ArtCraft, PDFCraft, FreeBSD-CURRENT www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1… #AI #FreeBSD #PDF #Adobe
Screenshot: parts of the most recent FreeBSD Journal in PDFCraft.
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