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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@jonny @mhoye tfw blockchain is canonically the answer and the tech bros say no. 😵‍💫😂

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Through @CoMaps , I discover @mangroveReviews which looks very interesting. mangrove.reviews/search?sub=urn%3Ai… Which leads me to @OpenLibrary , which I should definitely contribute to. (my books are under CC By-SA, can I upload them?) […]

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I think the sensible course is to meet halfway and call it superficial intelligence.

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Stuart Wilkinson @fairtradestu.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

A mastodon post from October 2024 showing a photo 8 laptops running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and libre office, the post explains the school has added Ubuntu to some old windows 10 devices that their IT support told them were end of life.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

this week I learned that during a merge conflict, you can get a list of all commits involved in the conflict that touched a file with: $ git log --merge FILENAME Seems super useful if there are a lot of commits being merged (like in a big rebase) but only a couple of them touched that file

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.h…

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The AI Pascal’s Wager

The AI Pascal’s Wager par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Is there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find one

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today we had the most unusual PhD defense of my career. Leon Houben fell 15 m in the Alps, landing on his head and loosing his memory while working on his PhD thesis. When he met me again, he had to google me. He had to re-learn everything and wrote two more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.

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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach 💰 $59.50/hr (Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk) 🌍 100% Remote, open globally Learn more and apply today […]

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Andy Balaam @andybalaam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

If your government web site gets hacked, PROSECUTE THE COMPANY THAT DID IT.

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: universeodon.com/@mathew/1173165128… “Plan C was to go work at Costco, because yes, I would literally rather stack shelves than spend my days reviewing AI slop.” 🙋 it me.

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I'm concerned that the EU Citizens' Initiative to stop online age verification regulation only has 14K signatures out of a required 1M. Please sign if you are a EU citizen: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public I am all-in on the idea that social media is (on balance) harmful, including to […]

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the #US & #Canada. Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Part 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Privacy #News

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Best-in-Class ID Fraud Platform Provider & ID Scanning Software Solutions For Compliance and Security - IDScan.net

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

My initial reaction was negative, but after sitting with it for five minutes (and actually reading the intro 😂), I don’t mind it! PEP-823: None-aware attribute access and indexing operators peps.python.org/pep-0823

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PEP 823: None-aware access operators

This PEP proposes adding two new operators.

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

There are clearly many reasons why people are switching to Vivaldi. Interestingly, my little survey shows that the top reasons have more to do with our values than particular features. The #1 reason (77%) is the fact that we do not have built in AI. #2 is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Image shows survey results about things important to our userbase, also referred in the text.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy www.astralcodexten.com/p/absurd-adv… Gruesome, surprising, story of one man's illness, brain surgery, and the psychological benefits of losing a major brain

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Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy

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monumentale @monumentale.social.anoxinon.de.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"l’essence de « bien écrire » est très simple. Il faut que chaque mot ait une utilité" "Bien écrire, ce n’est pas écrire beaucoup. Au contraire ! Bien écrire, c’est couper, supprimer pour aller à l’essentiel." "C’est la raison pour laquelle les textes générés par chatbots/IA/pouetpouetGPT me […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Just want to remind people that when Anthropic installed an "AI soda vending machine" in the Wall Street Journal office, it ended as stupidly as you could imagine. Anthropic said it was the future and when the journalist managed to have a moment of lucidity and genuinely asked if it wasn’t a […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I sometimes feel the need to repeat again and again that the EU is very good at developing technology but is bad at creating commercial monopolies out of it. And it is a f*** good thing! We don’t want an "European Google" ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-europea…

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

We abandoned it because the joke had pretty much run its course, but full auto "agents" are still wandering into the AgentPipe honeypot. Despite the arrival of AGI, the quality leaves much to be desired

$OreoMuncher45 opens a pull request that consists of just "{pr_body}"$

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Our lab putting out a wireless power, wireless data miniature microscope for longterm 1P calcium imaging without cables - no more open topped boxes! This is real life magic to me. Takuya and Marcel show imaging in a vaguely translucent tunnel system, but the sensors can be put anywhere for more […]

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

MovingPandas is moving to Codeberg I've been testing Codeberg for over a year now, with Trajectools being the largest repo that has already moved its headquarters from Github to Codeberg. I have been very happy with the experience so far and – at the same time – I couldn't help but notice the […]

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I looked up NZ's road statistics so far for 2026. 17,635 road injuries resulting in ACC claims. 221 people dead. All just this year. Instead we're fretting about e-scooters being dangerous and needing more regulation. (Perhaps they do, but they're not the […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@barthalio… I’m still wondering what is behind all those companies giving huge sum of money to the little vibecoded pet project of a fascist. Even if they want to join the fascist club, why so much? This is not normal. No project […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

i've started getting a lot of emails (maybe one every few days) that appear to be LLM generated from people asking for some kind of feedback or collaboration on their LLM-generated app feels sad because honestly I used to like when people emailed me about something cool they mad and now I just […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I don't know how much louder anyone can scream "the endgame of AI is a dependency trap for whole life surveillance" openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra

Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@jonny as a heavy Calibre user this thread bummed me out so much. It is seriously load bearing infrastructure in my life. 😭

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Job alert! This would be right up my alley which means it might be up *your* alley if you follow me: Software Engineer (Data Specialist) at the Australian National University's Centre for Advanced Microscopy: au.seek.com/job/94226839 #GetFediHired

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

interesting to read this article (in french) about how some movies are no longer distributed www.lapresse.ca/cinema/chroniques/2… the only way I could find one of the movies in this article was to borrow the DVD from the library, and then I […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers." (via @nelson people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…

Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@vicgrinberg look what you did. (I showed my wife your post, and she promptly found a bookstore that had it in stock.)

Photo of a still shrink-wrapped copy of The Books of Earthsea, a compilation of several books by Ursula Le Guin.)

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Update. "Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US." arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/dis… The #Trump admin proposes to "remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on […]

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.). That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

“The thing that made open source maintenance joyful was that someone cared enough about your work to try to improve it. You mentored them. They learned. The code got better. The community grew. That's the social contract. AI slop doesn't add work. It replaces human connection with mechanized […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Nice take by @njms on the #offpunk manifesto: What if analog TV was to digital TV what #gemini_protocol is to the Web ? njms.ca/articles/everything-unlimit… Also on #gemini , of course : gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/everything-unlimited-always.gmi

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: mastodon.ie/@psneeze/11711744454624… Also while I was frantically running between telescopes and students and photographers, the physics department head showed me on his phone that the cover article for Scientific American this month is "The Battle for the Night Sky" without […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

And the satellites were BAD. Not that much worse than at home, actually, which surprised me a bit. What also surprised me was how many random bright flashes I saw: these are from tumbling pieces of space junk. There seemed to be a lot more than I've ever seen before. Relatedly, my collaborator […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Belgium’s weather forecaster: till 2025: "It will rain tomorrow" in 2026: "Hopefully, it will rain tomorrow" See the difference ? You don’t understand how culturally significant it is. We, Belgians, have been educated to complain about the rain all the time. I’ve never, ever heard someone […]

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

"My students (...) mistakenly view a confident, well-written essay as evidence of the quality of their ideas. They see the AI as cleaning those ideas up, getting them through that uncomfortable stretch of having to turn those ideas into prose. What the students miss is that (...) the very act of […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

Title:
Clip art > science > failure > cute

Image:
A series of science-related items (glassware, robots, fires, scientists) with smiley faces labelled this:

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graph_error.jpg
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sad_at_desk.jpg
fire_medium.jpg
broken_robot.jpg
disproved_theory.jpg
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sad_on_floor
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

After seeing this newspaper clipping being shared again and again, I finally took a second to look up the original source: - clipping: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspaper… - full page […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Screenshot of the digitized newspaper at the online archive provided by the National Library of New Zealand.

Left, newspaper clipping:
COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE

The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

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COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE.
Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 14 August 1912, Page 7

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Our Wonderful Green Future @owgf.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Cities aren't LOUD CARS ARE LOUD #Urbanism #BikeTooter #Cycling #TheWarOnCars Great video by u/MiserNYC- on Reddit

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