sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 3hIf a US right-winger publishes a newsletter, is that a MAGA-zine 001
Reposted by sabikmyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 4hWhat was a toy that you drove your parents crazy asking for? Alternately What are your kids (extended family included) currently asking for that is driving everyone crazy for some reason? 803
Reposted by sabikstib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 8hHow to get into nature, by Rosemary Mosco. rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-and-m… 004
Reposted by sabikMx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9hI finally settled on a Waykar dehumidifier from eBay, and I've got to say... among electronic products I've bought in the past few years, this one feels the most like they care about the customer. The design feels well thought-out. It's elegant. I haven't been frustrated by anything yet. The […]defcon.socialOriginal post on defcon.social 001
Reposted by sabikJaide @witchnwords.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10hHey can you do me a favour? Unclench your jaw and let your tongue drop from the roof of your mouth. You can drop those shoulders too. They're not meant to be earrings. Was there a drink you were meant to be enjoying? Hydration is sexy. Oh, and just in case you need to hear it. You're doing […]mastodon.nzOriginal post on mastodon.nz 001
Reposted by sabikGlyph @glyph.im · 14hthis is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concernsfurry.engineer 0062
Reposted by sabikJames Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 19hAnyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something… 3343
Reposted by sabikSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine. 402576628
Reposted by sabikAnthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026I'm very proud of my colleagues from our Research Data & Software group. One of the young female software engineers gave a seminar yesterday about the modernisation of our 30 year old in-house library for telescope & instrumentation control, and afterwards someone asked about using LLMs for this […]aus.socialOriginal post on aus.social 1111
Reposted by sabikMx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026To prevent theft, every professional bondage Domme should have a knot safe. For work. 001
sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026What's a generic term for Scrum Master? If we're not doing scrum and we'd rather not use the word "master", but we still have that role, what would we call it? 🔄🆗 #terminology #scrum #kanban #TheoryOfConstraints 000
Reposted by sabikKit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026*knock *knock “Enter!” “Good morning miss van Helsing. I wonder if you have a moment for a consult?” “Susan, please. We’ve been neigbours for a year now. What can a horrorologist do for a horologist?” “It’s a new, uh patient. Perhaps it’s easier if I show you?” “Of course, do you have it […]aus.socialOriginal post on aus.social 114
Reposted by sabikBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusinessfastcompany.comWant To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike LaneResearch from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of. 12666255
Reposted by sabikSam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026Coding 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! 213178
Reposted by sabikGlyph @glyph.im · 08/10/2026really could do with some more ad astra right now and a bit less per aspera 006
sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026looks like ssh in ubuntu 26.04 dropped ssh-dss completely, that's fun! 000
Reposted by sabikkaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026I 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 […]discuss.systemsOriginal post on discuss.systems 106
Reposted by sabikhex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026A 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 […]kolektiva.socialOriginal post on kolektiva.social 3221
Reposted by sabikjaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]toot.walesOriginal post on toot.wales 031
Reposted by sabikabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026I browsed the prompt lists that go around this time of year (prompts for artists! for ARTISTS!) to find some prompts that are suitable for depicting my own characters. This one's "in the clouds", starring Payl, whose dad really gets so worked up about the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange] 026
Reposted by sabikBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026If 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. 712147
Reposted by sabikPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026My most evergreen post. 13594204
Reposted by sabikGlyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software 456
Reposted by sabikmyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026"My fellow teachers, imagine, if you will, a magic 8 ball full of internet memes hooked up to a chainsaw and your bank account..." No no no... gotta tone that down a little. 116
Reposted by sabikAmethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026Some 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 […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 125
Reposted by sabikJef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ODYSSEUS: Ok it’s actually a really long story 129
sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Firefox works so much better since I wrote a one-liner to crash all the tabs killall 'Isolated Web Component' 100
Reposted by sabikGlyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026ok chat let's get it, and by "get it" I mean "make myself _fully_ unemployable" 175
Reposted by sabikGlyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS. 3418
Reposted by sabikDaniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. 20122450
Reposted by sabikTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120543123
Reposted by sabikqualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026i bet no nut november is basically zero-additional-effort if you're already allergic. they should give you a different thing to avoid i think 297
Reposted by sabikkcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]social.treehouse.systemsOriginal post on social.treehouse.systems 1460
Reposted by sabikkcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026as far as prescriptions go: i think we should continue to be vigilant about protecting FOSS communities, we should keep being educated about how this technology works and what it's capable of. We should advocate for a whole lot of sociological research into this, both LLMs generally as well as […]social.treehouse.systemsOriginal post on social.treehouse.systems 229
Reposted by sabiklj·rk @ljrk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026@cas This. So. Much. Even if there's a work that's drudgery, I don't want to hand it over to an LLM. Because it rids me of the possibility to learn and gain knowledge. Of course, drudgery is still something I'd like to avoid, but in my experience, doing a deep dive into this annoying task often […]todon.euOriginal post on todon.eu 002
Reposted by sabikMaksiSanctum he/him @maksisanctum.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Being hailed as a newer article that actually connects Covid-19 with chronic illness: "Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers" www.lbc.co.uk/article/chronic-illne… #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver […]zeroes.caOriginal post on zeroes.ca 004
sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026The existence of electrolytes implies the existence of electrodärks 000
Reposted by sabikLiam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026RT @bogwitch.bsky.social Yeah, that checks out 11324
Reposted by sabikstib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Cheap-ass vanity website hosting that's not in the USA, anyone have any good suggestions? Priorities: 1: Cheap 2: … 3: uh, that's it. My website has very low traffic, an out-of-date blog that I need to get around to updating, and most of the traffic to the server is just me using it for webmail […]aus.socialOriginal post on aus.social 104
Reposted by sabikMx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026A fedora is just a wizard hat without any point. 001
sabik @sabik.rants.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026The existence of aerogel implies the existence of aquagel, terragel and pyrogel 000
Reposted by sabikMx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026You can successfully break the fourth wall with good foreshadowing, but to break the fifth wall you have to employ fiveshadowing. 105
Reposted by sabikDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @deborahh.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026#covid19 A recent US study: “Health-related absences from work … were 12.9% higher in the post-pandemic period compared with before … highest in occupations with the greatest exposure to the public." "… a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk [has estimated] the number of excess […]cosocial.caOriginal post on cosocial.ca 001
Reposted by sabikInsecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 @saraislet.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Two years ago, I asked a security leader what their threat model was for having agents run their access management I got a blank stare in return This is about the same 101
Reposted by sabikmyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Facebook has real value. This value is in the often very real and accurate social graph data they have, the functional and useful small community forums and facebook marketplace which is a larger part of the US economy than I think anyone wants to admit (or reflect on what it means that it is so […]sauropods.winOriginal post on sauropods.win 219
Reposted by sabikabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective 32277
Reposted by sabikWieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026@futurebird @davidgerard "These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge" 002
Reposted by sabikDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895443936
