@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-05-13 06:28:43
#Lenovo website asking me about my age, am I buying porn or alcohol, no! I am filling in a review about a charger I bought 🤔
Well I guess they'll never know what I think about that charger then..
#AgeVerification
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-04-11 12:06:55
When the Strait of Hormuz opens up, there will be a lot more interest in getting out of the Gulf than in sailing into it. To get the oil and gas flowing again, you'll need both, though. That will take a while.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-13 11:52:44
Tracking the Raiders, Klint Kubiak's Coaching Staff Additions https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-tracking-klint-kubiak-s-coaching-staff-additions
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-10 12:05:02
#MastodonPoll: Which of the following regulations regarding leaf blowers would you support? Choose as many as you like.
1. Decibel limits
2. Fuel efficiency standards (the relevant metric for cars is miles per gallon, so the corresponding one here would be what, leaves blown per gallon?)
3. Fuel type restrictions (i.e. ban gas-powered ones completely)
4. Full ban, both gas-powered ones and electric
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-05-04 14:38:16
Ihr erinnert euch an den Geschäftsinhaber in #Flensburg, der #Juden Hausverbot erteilte? https://www…
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2026-05-05 06:09:42
Israëlisch staatsterrorisme. In internationale wateren vredelievende burgers van andere landen kidnappen en mishandelen.
En het aan genocide medelichtige Nederland vindt het allemaal prima wat Israël daar uitspookt.
https://www.
@Simone21@mastodon.social2026-04-06 12:09:41
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-05-09 19:24:18
I guess the solution is to… outsource and centralize even more? Like, make everything dependent on an “AI” company?
https://www.wired.com/story/canvas-hack-shinyhunters-ransomware-instructure/
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-03-08 14:21:42
I’ve found myself feeling unmoored by the current crop of FOSS contributions. I genuinely don’t know how to proceed.
Of course there’s the slop where the PR checklist gets deleted & almost all items violated. The truly annoying part about this is that I always try to be kind & not a stickler about policies. I guess I don’t owe kindness to a bot, but it’s a bad look to be assertive in public. (1/5)
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-06 19:08:41
I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.