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Kelson @notes.kvibber.com · 30/09/2026

I like how we've had this XKCD cartoon for decades, yet "sending files" is something early adopters are still figuring out how to do. (It's been one of those mornings...)

A stick figure cartoon. The person is talking to someone over the phone running through a half-dozen options for sending a file to someone else, and what makes each of them impractical (or at least inconvenient), ending with the other person just driving over to their house with a USB drive.

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Ölbaum cannot buy migraine medicine, because when he has a migraine, it’s too painful to go out. And when he doesn’t have a migraine, he doesn’t think about migraine medicine.

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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive. [📹 emperorsofmischief]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

The "real" solution to the Trolley Problem is not utilitarian. By the time you are actually *in* the Trolley Problem situation, you've already failed. You should have learned about slipping the switch. You should have figured out a way to prevent people from getting tied to the tracks. You […]

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kwyxz @kwyxz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Un maboule a porté Contra sur Vectrex. On reconnaît bien tous les stages et le gameplay a l’air fidèle. Le titre est archi validé youtu.be/sCS9uagMYD4

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[aipol] > LLMs are most useful for people who know what they are doing – experienced people who can spot errors quickly, know the obvious pitfalls, and feel frustrated they can’t get more junior staff to do exactly the thing they asked for. They are made for the kind of people who think “if […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Listening to “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child gives Me anxiety, because I fee like the singing and/pr the music is off-tempo. Am I imagining things? Is it something else causing this? #DestinysChild #Beyonce

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: tooting.ch/@oscherler/1173499854217… Great news: I don’t need ideas anymore, because palantir has been vetoed by the venue owner (not the event organisers, who have made it clear in their press release that improper debate is unacceptable and proper debate is ineffective,) […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Beautiful brickwork bench in Shiraz, Iran. 🌿

A long, wavy brick bench built into the sidewalk in Shiraz, Iran, curving gracefully around tall pine trees that grow through circular openings in the pavement. The bench is made from rows of reddish bricks, blending naturally with the grey stone walkway. A tactile yellow guiding strip for visually impaired pedestrians runs alongside the bench, leading down the tree-lined street. The road on the left is quiet, with greenery and street lamps visible in the distance under a clear sky.

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with #Blender. Not by how powerful it is, I expected that (and I don’t have the skills to judge anyway,) but at how quickly I became comfortable at doing basic stuff in it, despite the sheer complexity that comes with the […] [Original post on tooting.ch]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

J’adore l’expérience utilisateurice de l’achat de billets pour un trajet à l’étranger sur le site des CFF. Tu choisis ton trajet, te connectes (#SecurityTheatre,) et là on te dit “zut, il n’y a plus de billets pour ce train (lequel des 4 ?) Ou alors c’est une erreur temporaire, ressaie plus […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Is it possible to link objects in #Blender so that they have a certain relation to each other? For example: – A is Fastebed to B. If B moves, A moves with it; – C revolves around an axis tied to B. If B moves, C moves, but C can also rotate with B being affected; – D slides in one direction […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

For fuck’s sake, #FOSS projects, stop making separate downloads for x86 and arm. Make your binaries universal, like civilised people. Nobody should have to care about their CPU architecture to watch a video!

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It’s gonna be one of these days where I regret owning a computer, isn’t it? #YouTube #Ivory #Enshittification

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I really need to learn just enough Blender to import my OnShape assembly and animate it. I’m happy with a few solid colours as “materials,” but what I’m CADding at the moment deserves nicer animations that a screen capture of me manipulating mates with the mouse in OnShape. Bonus points if I […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Looking for ideas: they’re soon expecting palantir employees at the nearby conference centre, so I’ll probably run into them in the street or public transport. How to make them feel how welcome they are without getting in trouble with the police/my employer? Any songs or speeches to play […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

So it’s come to this: I’m recognising AI videos just from a few seconds of the sound of the characters talking in them. 🤮

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

gonna take that as a 'no', then

Shiram Krishnamurthi (@shriramk@mastodon.social)

With AI tools, I remained on the fence/skeptical until Dec 2025. There has been a genuine technological revolution since then. I wouldn't tell other profs what they should do. But I think it would be hopelessly irresponsible of me, given *my* areas of speciality, to not know or care.

Sandor Spruit (@sandorspruit@mastodon.nl)

@shriramk Could you describe the nature of that technological revolution? What has fundamentally changed?

Shiram Krishnamurthi (@shriramk@mastodon.social)

@sandorspruit Genuine question: have you tried using it

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." —David McCullough, 2002

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern
23 Jan 2022 in Tech
The “should I use the wiki or a docs folder on GitHub?” discussion comes up every 6 months or so, and following Shawn Wang’s three strikes rule I thought it was about time I wrote something down about it.

The initial version of this post opened with “You can use the wiki or a docs folder for your GitHub project, both are valid choices” but as I wrote more, I realised that there is a single reason to use a wiki, and many more reasons not to use the wiki. So many in fact, that I consider using the wiki on GitHub is an anti-pattern.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kawaii..! Is it just me that desperately wants to draw two little eyes on it? It's just me, right..?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Another tool of the Bodger’s Art is wire-wrapping. Very thin insulated wire and a special tool are used to make temporary but strong connections between pins. You will find computers in museums from the 1950s and 60s made this way.

A wire-wrapping tool which resembles a screwdriver with a slot in the shaft, is used to wrap 0.25mm thick wire around a pin.

A closeup of a wire-wrapped joint, about six turns of wire tightly grip a square pin that is under a millimeter across.

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Yay, FileZilla just corrupted 45 GB of file transfers because it defaults to text mode on files without extension. WTF, is it 1996 again? Is there a decent open source FTP client nowadays? I thought Cyberduck was rough around the edges, but that’s nothing compared to FileZilla. I only used it […]

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This genuinely made me laugh out loud today

HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

"can you explain this gap in your resume?" "yeah, `overfull \vbox (19.23pt too high)`" "how did you do that with your voice?" "do `what?`"

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@matiu_bidule/117302254963… Dites, @arretsurimages, la typographie (ou plutôt son absence) dans cet article, ça picote grave.

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Que dit le vampire allemand quand il engueule son domestique français parce qu’il a fait une connerie? “Y’a des pals qui se perdent!”

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The Macintosh Garden is an amazing resource, but it can give Russian nesting doll vibes when installing software - apps inside of disk images, inside of StuffIt archives, etc. Inspired by @nulleric's What the .SIT?! site (bluescsi.com/what-the-sit) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Romandie: Where Swiss German Trains go to die. #SBB_WTF_FFS #SBB #CFF #WTF #FFS

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Ce soir, interruptions du trafic CFF entre Lausanne et Genève à cause d’un dommage à la ligne de contact, annulation de l’IC Lausanne–Neuchâtel, et annulations depuis Bienne également. Comme par hasard ça arrive à chaque fois que je dois être à la maison à l’heure pour pouvoir m’occuper des […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Aujourd’hui j’ai dû me connecter à mon compte swisspass. Voici comment cela se passe : 1. Je saisis mon e-mail ; 2. Le site me demande ma passkey ; 3. Je clique Login pour qu’il la demande à mon navigateur ; 4. Je déverrouille ma passkey ; 5. Le site m’envoie un code de vérification par e-mail […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 12/09/2026

This is my opinions on calls to "pause" research on "superintelligence"

I sincerely believe this is a hoax where companies with fake, non-functioning "AI" but a lot of market power want to create limits on AI research as a market barrier to entry, so they don't have to deal with competitors
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Anthropic ate OpenAI/Copilot's lunch so quickly. Anthropic must be terrified the same thing is going to happen to them from some other (probably Chinese) startup. By lying about "superintelligence" and "self-improvement" they can rope useful idiots into passing legislation that protects them

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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM

Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

a list of games, developers and studios to boycott. handy! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628…

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Un champignon qui se nourrit de matière organique morte (bois mort, feuilles, humus,) on peut dire que ça profite. #Champignons #Biologie

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Riot Gnome Pin. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to employ gnomes at Amazon warehouses, but he didn't realize how strong their unions are. If you tell a gnome he can't take a bathroom break your warehouse is getting torched. collabs.shop/bitnjj

An enamel pin of a garden gnome wearing a red hat, blue shirt, and green boots, holding a lit Molotov cocktail.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

🆕 blog! “Put an AV test at the start of your slides” For years, I've had a test-card at the start of my slides. Before I start my talk, I can immediately see if the aspect ratio is wrong, colours are off, or any other visual issues with the presentation. A few years ago I was invited to give a […]

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Fedihelp: matériel scolaire des années 80. Je viens de me souvenir d’un appareil qu’on avait à l’école quand j’étais petit (première et deuxième primaire, 1984–1986). C’était une boîte carrée en plastique (jaune ?) d’environ 20 cm de côtés et 5 cm d’épaisseur, et au centre il y avait de petits […]

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@davidgerard i have often felt that an entire corporation needs to go to jail but until anthropic id never before felt that an entire corporation needs to go to the hospital

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/11724413740… $1300? I didn’t know libraries allowed you to borrow fractions of textbooks.

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