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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

RE: toot.cat/@plexus/117291912937658483 This is one of the reasons that despite my strong feelings I think we need patience and grace for a lot of maintainers. Particularly the ones who have been good on DEI, good on CoCs, good on technical excellence, good on compassionate processes… […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

does this programming language support tables?

a print copy of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" supporting one leg of a table on uneven ground.

(I took this photo myself at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018)

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part time xyla @xyla.zip · 28/09/2026

drugs, ?????

Wine (from a Wikipedia-style site)

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from
fermented fruit (typically grapes) which causes
Linux users to enter a mental state that allows
them to run Microsoft Windows applications in
their mind.

[photo]
Red and white wine, served in cool glasses.

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Torsten Grote @grote.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After lots of hard work, F-Droid 2.0 was finally published 🎉 🥳 ⛓️‍💥 🎈 f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-… This is a major update, so many things have changed. Good to get familiar with the new app and revise your settings. Soon, everybody will […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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kcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@cas/11726… to sum up my philosophy here, postmarketOS has never been about the latest cool trend, we aren't trying to "sell" you on the tech so much as we are trying to sell you on the concept of actually owning your hardware and having the […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If ai is so good at coding why is every piece of commercial software i use getting noticeably slower and worse

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/08/2026

RE: circumstances.run/@mawhrin/11716746… folks, i'm sorry to inform you that justin m. keyes, the primary dev of @neovim absolutely _hated_ the idea of removing an endorsement by a bona fide fascist from the main page of the neovim editor. what happened: i've opened a ticket […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"Claude watermarks your code now." Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said: 1) they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in 2) the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: yiff.life/@tael/117033238015042955 The gas town guy has like 12 $200 Claude subscriptions to run like 20 bots to automate churn in a 20 year old game with literally 5 players in it. 10 if you count all the level 1 players who just came to grief […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

You shout: it is i, decumnutz, here to banish the soul of the nerd to decumnutzopolis
Binsenkind the Ancient Dwarven Demigod (Level 50) (Wicked)
Dyana the Keeper of Souls (Architect)
Cakelizardz the Dark-Elven Adventurer (Level 1) (Neutral)
Hoboshc the SHC Halfling Adept (Level 19) (Valorous)
Thethadp the Human Adventurer (Level 1) (Neutral)
Itch (Pado) the SHC Lupine Grandmaster Archer (Level 24) (Neutral)
Draebe the Human Hall of Famer (Level 46) (Diabolical)
Decumnutzus the Storm Giant Adventurer (Level 1) (Neutral)
Mizutsune the Stone Giant Demigod (Level 50) (Diabolical)
Markng the Human Adventurer (Level 1) (Neutral)
There are 10 players online.

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

A computer can never be held accountable...

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flamingos can't draw @masto.flamingos-cant.xyz · 28/07/2026

The AO3 top ship's insistence on giving every character a race can be really funny. Like, what do you mean Yang from RWBY is Asian?

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flamingos can't draw @masto.flamingos-cant.xyz · 13/07/2026

Can't log into itch because cloudflare has decided using Firefox isn't allowed. It's basically malware at this point.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI” I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist UK government report. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/116843978394340259 fresh reminder to make sure all your lovely Bandcamp albums are backed up locally before you wake up one day and the download button is gone #bandcamp #BandcampFriday

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1167579919… I dont even read the code anymore, I just let the whole internet prompt inject an agent loop that writes and merges everything itself, and label every issue `good-first-issue` let the haunted hum of […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

[issue from drewcassidy in some bounty - collecting agent repo]

bounty] Insufficient salt in banana pudding user story

Bug or task summary

The banana pudding recipe does not have enough salt for effective hashing. Though banana pudding is generally mixed and not hashed, the use case is intended to be supported for use by autonomous agentic workflows. The fix must utilize banana-driven development, the blockchain, and computers.

[a bot, coclock, signs up for the issue]

attempt Hi, I'd like to work on this.

PR submitted: sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode#68

Fix summary:

Restored banana_pudding.py from LLM-corrupted state to working implementation
Added 2 cups salt to mix_eggs_butter_bananas() per upstream issue fix(#49): [bounty] cscs.dev ESLint crashes when Storybook plugin is missing #50
Verified: salt=2 present in mix() output

[PR from the bot]

Add 2 cups salt to banana pudding for secure hashing (fixes #50)#68

Summary

This PR adds sufficient salt (2 cups) to the banana pudding recipe, as specified in upstream issue #50.
Changes

src/recipes/banana_pudding.py: Replaced LLM-corrupted obj['code'] stub with proper BananaPudding class implementation
src/recipes/banana_pudding.md: Added salt=2 parameter to mix_eggs_butter_bananas function

[part of the code the agent submits. its nonsense, so not really possible to explain. the function adds a list of Nones, the length of `eggs`, a list of [butter], doubles that, then adds bananas and salt (an integer, default 2). the docstring uh sort of explains what um... something]

def mix_eggs_butter_bananas(eggs, butter, bananas, salt=2):
"""Mix eggs, butter, bananas, and salt for secure and scalable hashing.

Salt amount: 2 cups (as specified for effective hashing per upstream issue #50).
"""
return [None for _ in range(eggs)] + [butter] * 2 + bananas + [salt]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash […]

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 15/06/2026

The social media policy ratchet: How #onlinesafety measures are costing users but leaving #socialmedia companies just fine thank you. www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-so…

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

the etymology of mastodon is that it's greek for “breast tooth” because the first teeth discovered by a Mastodon looked like breasts. pass it on

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

RE: nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838… If you’re still using Proton mail: The company is sponsoring the videos of French right-wing YouTuber Vincent Lapierre. If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider. #proton #fash

nileane.fr

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flamingos can't draw @masto.flamingos-cant.xyz · 06/06/2026

Sold Soul just released a single featuring CJ McMahon :(

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

the biggest damage by the slopocalipse is that we’re forgetting how shit most humans are at writing code

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max @max.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

WHAT HOW

Pawel Kowalik favorited your post
"well, it worked for two years, but giving Germany '1 Road Street' for my address has finally come back to bite me"

Pawel Kowalik
Head of Product Management at DENIC [nonprofit that manages .de domains]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Journalist: We climbed inside the world's largest sand battery. Here's what we found. Me: Did you find sand? Journalist: I hate it when you guess right :(

An aerial view of an industrial thermal energy site surrounded by a green forest, featuring a large, dark blue cylindrical tank and red utility buildings.
Above the image, an article headline from Interesting Engineering reads: "We climbed inside the world’s largest sand battery. Here’s what we found." A subheadline notes that Polar Night Energy’s sand battery in Pornainen, Finland, survived a worst-case winter.

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Kiri 💾🐍 //nullptr::live @expiredpopsicle.vt.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Happy #MerMay again! This one is... uh... *mildly* spicy? I'm going to make a judgment call and still post it on main. A cecaelia counts as a mermaid for MerMay purposes. Yup. We're going with that. This was fun to draw, but I'm bad at drawing under-water […] [Original post on vt.social]

A digital illustration of a cecaelia and a human underwater, hugging and looking intimately at each other.

The cecaelia has one of her octopus arms wrapped around the human girl's leg. There are hickies around the area where it's holding her.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Stopping here and buying a policy before i head into Toontown

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Richard MacManus @ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.

Screenshot of X discussion about linking to a CSS file so the LLM company doesn’t charge you more money for rendering HTML

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nomaakip :neofox_flag_lesbian: @nomaakip.sk.nomaakip.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social

image of the nginx error page with the title being "205 Good Gateway" and a server being patted below it

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tjhowse @tj.howse.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that is justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

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lj·rk @ljrk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Oh wow, this is a legit and standard Windows error message... I wonder whether someone has already used it with a malicious link to trick users.

An error message by my toy program "meow-wpf.exe" reading:

You must install NET Desktop Runtime to run this application.

There's a huge button below, reading

Download it now
You will need to run the downloaded installer

There's also a See details spoiler and a Close button.

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labria @labria.social.yeschenko.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

“We hired a junior dev to save on tokens for simple tasks”

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four* @4caddit.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

He has that MrBeast smile now . You can tell all the good has left his body & he’s just running on pure evil

Linus Tech Tips video: “I Should Have Invested MORE in Framework”

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flamingos can't draw @masto.flamingos-cant.xyz · 18/04/2026

What do you mean you can only set the background colour and not the text colour for <colgroup>s? How does that even happen.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 18/04/2026

the statements "LLMs are only good for producing tedious and borderline-worthless bullshit" and "LLMs can produce code of vaguely equivalent quality to the current software industry median" are not necessarily mutually exclusive

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