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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 1h

This may be a stupid question but… is there a Pelican plugin for managing the content licenses for a site?

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I feel like you could do this in San Francisco and no one would care In fact you could probably find a few people who would pay $20K to do this

Screenshot of a Reddit post that says ‘you are given $20K but you have to wear a maid outfit for 3 days and meow at people. You cannot tell anyone the real reason. Do you accept?’

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Glyph @glyph.im · 2h

something on my computer is causing enormous lag spikes every few minutes, bad enough to cause my mouse cursor to stall. and yet despite literally 44 years of experience using these cursed things, I have no practical idea what to do to find out why that is

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Proud of my local dyke bar for taking a stand against transphobia

Screenshot of a post by Rikki’s bar In SF where they said they had an incident with people coming to the bar wearing transphobic shirts looking for confrontation

The post says we we want to make it clear that trans people belong at Rikki’s and trans people belong in sports

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Glyph @glyph.im · 19h

This is absolutely fascinating. As a user of mostly unscented detergent, who finds most perfume scents cloying, this is filling in a lot of gaps for me youtu.be/3sKGnvlANDI cc @hotdogsladies I suspect you will find this extremely interesting, it’s like three sets of […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

calling stuff psyops is a psyop

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-is… Good post that gets into the futility I feel when I try to do something creative online anymore. I'm less and less motivated to do things like write a blog or build software tools. I've found myself without much of a creative community since 2020 […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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Glyph @glyph.im · 07/09/2026

if you are trying to evaluate the efficacy of LLMs and you are reading the personal story of someone building an impressive demo, do not read the post looking for technical details. instead, see if you can spot: - sleep disruptions - grandiose generalized language about upcoming social and […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

artcraft looks really impressive, like the math stuff looked really impressive before it turned out that openai stole results from a mathematician or the vulndev stuff sounded really impressive before it turned out that mythos was 95% false positives or the coding efficiency gains looked really […]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

holy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

People keep saying I'm a smart guy because I keep writing about AI (and, if you do this, I really appreciate your kind feedback) but I sometimes feel that these compliments are like complimenting a guy who keeps compulsively punching wasp nests because he hates getting stung by wasps as being […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is important, and speaks the truth. I wish my "AI"-using friends would heed it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair www.brainyquote.com/quotes/upton_si…

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

New Blog: Programming Isn't Special Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists? blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i…

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Deciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t Special

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

man I _really_ do not like the way that Mastodon presents being blocked. I do not begrudge anyone the right to block me, but the fact that mid-conversation all their posts just gradually start disappearing as if the server is having an outage, and replies start intermittently failing, even […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

every game can be classified in one of the two categories: first-person shooter or email rimworld is email balatro is a first person shooter despite how it looks, hitman 2 is email

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

this is why I love fastmail. in a world of bullshit machine-learning attempts to unreliably automatically classify things, they let you just … set up rules that work deterministically

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

really don't like that I keep finding myself absentmindedly watching Warhammer 40k Lore videos and thinking that they are unrealistically optimistic

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Pixel Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

With Windows Search being utterly slow, broken, and unusable, I’ve coded up a little Python script that allows me to use RegEx. In this comparison I’m searching for all files with the word "Subtractor" and it’s about 100× faster than Microslop. 🤪 #python #windows

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Highly motivated to seek folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliance on FreeBSD 2.2.x, resold by ISPs in the US, Europe, and Asia (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A live Whistle InterJet, next to a Whistle-branded coffee cup. About the size of a large toaster, it features a green LCD screen and a blue rubbery keypad. The LED in the upper left is orange because the unit is running on its own internal UPS battery.

The case of a unit is open, showing a vertical mainboard with two 32 MB SIMMs, a 486 covered by a heat sink, and a transcend 8 GB IDE flash. The main board is plugged into a horizontal backplane on the bottom.

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Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

there is a recent study by two Harvard econ Ph.Ds that AI coding does not increase output i am sorry to tell you there's chatbots all through the data processing methodology, despite the lovely headline how annoying this one: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Glyph @glyph.im · 08/10/2026

really could do with some more ad astra right now and a bit less per aspera

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Glyph @glyph.im · 08/10/2026

oh hey I'm in this one

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Glyph @glyph.im · 07/10/2026

this is how you can tell apple is really cutting edge, they are already reducing their border-radius again

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

nothing like self-hosting in a home lab to convince me that self-hosting is not a reasonable solution for laypeople against Big Tech

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kaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I love doing laundry. The fact I am putting a combo of powders and liquids in a machine that whirrs around the dirty clothes and them coming out completely clean again, and then putting the wet things in another machine that whirrs them around with hot air and then I get clothes as good as new […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]

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Matt Campbell @matt.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@glyph Because, as I learned years later, the rule is that focus can be taken from the process that owns the current focused window by a process that was *directly* started by that process. So yeah, the app's executable should just run the app directly, in the original process.

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Matt Campbell @matt.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@glyph I had a kind of related problem on Windows back in 2002. The first real desktop app that I shipped, primarily developed by a team that was there before me, was in Java. To give the app its own executable, icon, etc., I wrote a little launcher in C that, instead of embedding the JVM, just […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

macOS tells you that your bundle executable is the thing that should run, and when it terminates your application terminates. you're not supposed to fork() or exec() or anything to get to the "actual" app, just run. of course it's "just UNIX", you can kinda do whatever you want as long as some […]

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Deep Space 90210 @ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Garak: If you wouldn’t trust their advice then don’t trust their criticism

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

[ph (+) but medical stuff] Re-double-vaxxed today, along with a blood draw, barely had a panic attack at all, and despite the fact that it's been 12 hours, it's not (yet?) kicking my ass. Thank you three milligrams of Lorazipam. You will surely not regret three milligrams of lorazipam

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Very long shot. Do I know anyone in or near Phuket who can do me a favour? I left my wallet in a hotel earlier this year. They've just let me know they found it. Anyone over there willing to pick it up & post it back to me? Happy to pay, of course.

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Winnie the Pooh didn't rock crop tops our whole childhood to watch us become unconfident about our bodies

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 05/10/2026

I had decided it was a Monday problem and now it’s Monday

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@glyph I don't doubt that there were real vulnerablities being found, perhaps even often at one point? I think, though, that the classes of bugs that LLMs readily find are pretty low hanging fruit. After you run the LLM over a codebase a few times, you are going to run out of low hanging fruit […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

boosters one month ago: the vulnerabilities are REAL. they're REAL and they're SCARY. it can INDEPENDENTLY hack stuff. you CANNOT DISMISS that it can ONE-SHOT vulnerabilities PERFECTLY EVERY TIME. prepare for DOMINATION by the CYBER-OVERMIND boosters today:

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

as with any such tool your mileage may vary, deleting system components like this can cause annoying peripheral damage in ways that are hard to predict, but _at least_ let's give them some github stars to show our colletive displeasure

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026

And yet, nothing bums me out more than seeing my work gobbled up as training data for soulless machines to reproduce a dozen hollow facsimiles in hundreds of meaningless requests for more extruded text. To see issues and PRs on my projects to make some change without any attempt or capability of […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026

Some days all of my open source effort feels like it was pointless. Other days, I’m looking up documentation on how to do something with a database in Python, and I find blog posts and documentation pages that casually use or list my aiosqlite package alongside all of the other hallmark […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Amiga 40 has been really cool until now but there's just one thing that bugged me, and it's not something specific, but something I saw in other retro scenes. The (fortunately not frequent) use of AI-generated images. Please, please, please don't do that. Finding one in this context feels like […]

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

If cops spoke like AI developers and AI users, It wasn't me that shot you or my gun. It was a bullet with misalligned objectives. #FuckAI #AI #AIHype

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

ok chat let's get it, and by "get it" I mean "make myself _fully_ unemployable"

a screenshot of a text editor (the "drafts" app) on macOS, cropped so that the only thing visible is a Markdown heading, reading, "You Should Also Care About The Ethics Of It"

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