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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 3h

I'm building a bridge over the creek to get the mower across. Digging holes for all the stumps is hard work, particularly with the occasional floaters germane to being close to a water stream. But the last hole was by far the easiest! I'll jot it down to improved […] [Original post on piaille.fr]

Photo of a grassy patch of ground. There's a nice round hole in the middle, and bits of a wooden structure in the making towards the top of the photograph.

Two arms, presumably the owner of the hole's, project from outside the frame. They lead to hands, cradling opposite sides of the hole. There's a ring on the ring finger of the left hand.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 7h

In general: Do you want to make a difference in an election? The best way to do that is not on bluesky or really the internet at all. The best way is *something in the physical world*. Find a local campaign. Find a party office who will send you to a local campaign one district over. Knock on doors.

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Zelda @spikybaddie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

[poverty, question about services] #Iowa #UnitedStates question: Would love some advice from people better at being poor than I am. Has anyone successfully submitted a #medicaid work requirement attestation? When I did they canceled my plan entirely, spent the next month trying to get it back […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 18h

This is farked. Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices. And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse: "Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and […]

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Ok. `sudo pvmove /dev/mapper/root /dev/mapper/new-root` Wish me luck.

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22h

While LLM are not sentient, let's all make sure we don't shift the Overton window to a place where “torturing” something that we declare not conscient is acceptable. Not for the LLMs's sake, fuck'em. But for our collective humanity, or what's left. Cosplaying torture is not cool.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley's billionaires' wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago (when it was "just" 178% higher than on January 1, 2023). They'd rather let 3 million people lose their health insurance than let that happen.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Ten percent off your meal just for talking to your partner. Twenty percent if you can make it through dessert without checking your phone. 😂📵 No complicated loyalty schemes, no collecting points and no downloading yet another app. Just put the phone down.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I have recently had a glimpse of the other side of this. One of my other colleagues is highly dependant on Claude for everything, and has been working with a couple of contract programmers on creating some new telescope automation software for a couple of their projects. I got asked to help a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Nicole, Sandy Hook Promise: I know this is hard to read, but it’s important: The shooter who murdered my beautiful butterfly Dylan carried an AR-15 assault-style weapon into Sandy Hook Elementary. In approximately four minutes, he shot 154 bullets, killing 20 children and six educators. Five […]

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Trying to sanitise Internet content for (not so) little people is a new challenge. Looking at Android devices, you can get content filters and even, presumably disable algorithms and ads. This is great! ... Only for under 13... OK, that should work.. Except the […] [Original post on piaille.fr]

Screenshot from YouTube.

“
You must be 16 or older to sign in to YouTube in Australia
Due to a new local law, you won't be able to sign in. Videos that you've created won't be visible on YouTube, but you can always download them.
Learn more
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

3 new little #LEGO kits. Or one, really. #Women of #NASA I wanted this one for quite some time, just got my hands on it today 🎉

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

While that post was clearly not about AI, I think it's a good reminder than the only people who can stop bad people with rogue AI agents are good people with rogue AI agents. Because history has certainly shown us that this worked perfectly for other issues where the suggestion was made.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

there are two types of people

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Hm, @anildash has published WE ARE GOING TO KILL “UNALIVE” at www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-un… - you might enjoy it. Two things: 1. There’s a whole book on the subject called “Algospeak”, where the first chapter is entitled Why Your Kids Are Saying “Unalive”, read about it at […]

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diyelectromusic @diyelectromusic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Is there a standard "I made this with AI" content warning that we can encourage people to use, so I can filter them out and save the disappointment of finding out halfway through reading about a project? I guess if others choose that as a method, that's up to them, but personally I have very […]

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back 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 […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Yesterday I found $10 in a winter coat pocket. I’m going to multiply that by 365 and declare my closet’s annual run rate to be $3650. Anybody want to invest in my closet? (AI lab math)

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Julianoë @julianoe.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Comme je vois pas mal de gens avec ce besoin poser des questions : pour flouter les vidéos sur une ou quelques photos vous pouvez utiliser faceprivacy.forge.apps.education.fr… Mais si vous avez besoin de flouter tout un dossier de dizaines de photos, voire de la vidéo, vous pouvez […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

As we enter the semi-annual season of clocks doing whatever this is clocks do at that time of year, I had a realisation. When setting meetings that cross timezones (and hemispheres), you can set them on UTC time, rather than your own timezone. This way, the meeting will NOT move arbitrarily for […]

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @thunderbird.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

We know you've been waiting on this. Thunderbird for iOS is being actively developed, and we're pumped to share a first look at where we are. Get an inside look at our progress on the blog and take part in our product research study to directly influence […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Michael K Johnson @mcdanlj.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

If you want to make sure that your site can be manipulated agentically by Meta's Muse, do not block traffic from ASN AS32934, because if you did that, it might make it impossible for the Muse agents to reach your site. 🤡

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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Fun fact. In the Lord of the Rings films, most of the Riders of Rohan were actually women with fake beards because when the production put out a call for local experienced riders, a lot of women showed up with their own horses.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Olivier Mehani @shtrom.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Ugh, the september Android update hasn't been kind on my Pixel 6a. It runs hotter, and the battery struggles to reach the end of the day. Anyone noticing this?

Screenshot of a Home Assistant (mobile) history page. It shows battery charge and device temperature over a couple of weeks. There is a notable inflection where the battery drains faster (and gets lower), and the device runs hotter. That's when I installed the september update.

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Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @krosylight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

There should be AI usage tax right now

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a clear violation of journalistic ethics.

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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) @stuartl.mastodon.longlandclan.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.au/@Heliograph/11737029239… Add to that, the username `SERVICEBOT` (possibly with some digits replacing letters), last observed on `vivaldi.social`.

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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) @stuartl.mastodon.longlandclan.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Wonderful, so there's a "notification" bot that's going around badgering people to "verify" their accounts. Username of `NOTIFICATION` (sometimes with some letters replaced with digits)… so far observed on `mastodon.social` (blocked) and ` […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]

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→ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇᴇᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ: 🔗 [redacted link SHA256 cba570dc2824493d3c774037141e6b4ef0c3d5032e9e758985be9f5e110c669a]

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Michal Bryxí @michalbryxi.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

🖕QR code generat…ehm…kidnappers. Do not ever use those services. There will eventually be a QR code out there in the wild that will be broken either because you eventually refused to pay a ransom for “resolving a link” or the service just ceased to exist. You […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So my little proxy to get links to PDFs of Trove newspaper articles for Zotero has moved & should be working again. I've updated the translator, so once that's merged Zotero should be able to get the PDFs again.

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 30/09/2026

"When Coluccio Salutati invented the parenthesis, nearly 200 years before [poet Sir Philip Sidney] perfected it, he rendered visible an age-old rhetorical practice of inserting a particle of a sentence into a greater whole." […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most standard publishing […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

What if ADHD is just where you have too many tabs open in your brain's browser and OOMkiller starts killing random processes?

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

When Hacktoberfest was still giving out free t-shirts, popular GitHub repositories would be hit by hundreds of low-effort pull-requests. Some developers were so desperate to get a free t-shirt that they didn't care about the toll their low-effort spam took on maintainers. Now everyone has […]

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