@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaWhen I build a website, I always focus on the backend first, making sure everything works. I always start with the most difficult part and leave the frontend for last because, in theory, it's easier. And it's always the same: 25% of the time is spent on the backend and 75% on the frontend.
How is this possible? JS and PHP are really tough, and HTML with CSS is a piece of cake, right? Right?!
@hex@kolektiva.socialTaking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTrans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
@sean@scoat.esOnce in a while, when watching a video on my TV, the audio stream fails to start on the sound bar. Nothing shows that this is happening, but there's no audio.
Usually, we'll just stop/start the video (turn it off and on again).
Increasingly (it seems; maybe it's always been this way and I just notice now), videos are starting intentionally silently. The audio only starts after an intro or title sequence.
"Is it broken? Or is this just 'art’?” is a commo…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioBeen playing Roots Devour (#Steam via CrossOver on #macOS
BE THE ELDRITCH HORROR YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE
It's pretty great, put in 8 hours so far.
The general gist of the game is strategic, puzzle-like reveal of map levels - capturing cards of creatures and humans, wrapping them in your blood sucking vines, and generally conquering all.
When you get stuck, spend some of the blood to open a card pack and get random helper tools, effects, and critters.
Sounds are superb and visuals are very 𝒜𝐸𝒮𝒯𝐻𝐸𝒯𝐼𝒞 - if you dig Cult of the Lamb or Darkest Dungeon, you'll probably enjoy it.
Only downside is that there's an occasional indicator that English is not the primary language of the game developers. Very rarely you can see untranslated Chinese text on-screen, one or two oddities (uncapitalized, punctuation slightly off). This is unfortunately probably why they're getting a little beat up in the Steam reviews.
Honestly, in my 8 hours so far, I've noticed it like 3? 4? times tops so far. The game is so very much my jam, it really hasn't bothered me.
Some people are also reviewing it as "too linear" - they definitely gave up way too early. There are SECRETS, side areas, choices you can make, intentionally difficult areas that will take some thinking to unlock, etc.
Currently 10% off right now, give it a shot!
@cdarwin@c.imTim Walz here.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.
Just this week, both Mike Lindell and Elon Musk have called for my imprisonment.
But while they’re focusing on fueling Twitter battles and unleashing right-wing bots,
I’m focused on securing a better future for every Minnesotan.
That’s my priority, and it always will be.
Our end-of-year deadline is coming up tonight at midnight,
and folks like Elon and Mike are going to be watching …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Love:
🎵 Always See Your Face
#Love
https://morwellofficial.bandcamp.com/track/love-always-see-your-face-morwell-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0j8YMW5FOSxeUOtzFpTIpe
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIs there some actual study on the "life expectancy" of magnetic media such as cassette tapes or floppy disks?
E.g. I have a pre-recorded compact cassette that is 50 years old and works just fine (and sounds great!), and floppy disks from the early 80s that read with no problems.
Yet when I search for this topic everyone always claims "10–20 years" is what to expect from magnetic media.
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaFox Squirrel, wondering why the tastiest flowers are always on the thinnest branches. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. January, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #laarboretum #squirrels #animal
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioDemocratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesA core problem of #ecommerce especially with small business is always about what happens when you ship to someone and the package goes missing.
Should the business be responsible?
Most consumers of course say yes.
But as a small business, why is a package stolen on a porch the responsability of the retailer, and not the home insurance?
I see arguments on both s…
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialTree prep done - decorations to follow…
Past me & my daughter’s advice always welcome 😂
Cc: @…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAll programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts
those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds
of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end
goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger,
and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works,
the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or &q…
Always has been.
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@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot"A woman's work is never done", is a saying especially relevant when applied to women's rights. Someone is always trying to take them away from us - we can never relax and think that fight is over. Please sign this Holyrood petition. https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJoe Burrow on returning to play for 3-8 Bengals on Thanksgiving: I'm not going to sit if healthy https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-burrow-on-returning-to-play-for-3-8-bengals-on-thanksgiving-i-m-not-going-to-sit-if-healthy
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza#LB Vambora começar a citar nossos pets como coautores em nossas publicações?! rs
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115636552553374493
@teledyn@mstdn.caand it was going so well too: spent yesterday enjoying a not-gmail #Evolution access to my workspace, but now, as of this morning, with no changes other than sleep, Evolution is locked out:
“Failed to authenticate: Cannot create an item in a locked collection”.
ok #Debian13 #gnome wtf is a "locked collection" and by who's authority was it created with a lock on my own machine?
More to the point: will my Evolution email always be this fragile? ie is it pointless to even try?
More to the gripe: do software developers EVER post messages using terms that are actually DEFINED somewhere?
@primonatura@mstdn.social"An app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches is promoting voluntary cleanup in Ireland"
#Ireland #Environment #Plastic
@jensilber@mastodon.socialIn the DC area, some of us have always adored Sean Doolittle.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/28/fascism-is-here-now-the-us-athletes-pushing-back-on-trumps-america
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgRE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/115980288310475424
Still got some fine tuning to do, but the thing about it is it's so *musical*. It has a vibe, it enhances. I always thought of delays as more of a tool, but I'm loving what this has going on.
@BugWarp@wikis.worldSo I know I haven't been very active over here the last few days, December hasn't been very kind to me (or 2025 for that matter), but there's always a silver lining: For example on the 11th I got to see the amazing Shonen Knife perform for the first time in South America!
@raiders@darktundra.xyz'Always have class, and be humble': Some of the late John Madden's most memorable quotes https://www.raiders.com/news/always-have-class-be-humble-most-memorable-quotes-late-john-madden-nfl-2021
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' recent surge has Philadelphia looking in the rear view mirror https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-recent-surge-has-philadelphia-looking-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialUgh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgYesterday, I observed a friend trying to show me something he saw on facebook recently. Every single search he tried resulted in first switching from facebook to “Meta”—whatever that is—without him noticing for quite some interactions, the search field was still there. Sending a query always opened the Meta AI answering the assumed question (but he was actually sending a query as he was looking for an image). He got angry, I got amused. He found the image eventually, but what a wacky UI!
@StephenRees@mas.toAlways readable Cory Doctorow - you should follow him BTW - but this speech he gave yesterday knocks the ball out of the park! Right on brother!
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Always-on processor magic: how “Find My” works while iPhone is powered off.
https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html
saved 2021-09-30
@bourgwick@heads.socialwilliam burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Orsinian Tales" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's... good, but not nearly as anarchist as a lot of her other work. These are short fiction stories weaving mostly through a fictional Eastern European country during the cold war, although some stretch farther back into history.
As typical for Le Guin a bunch of male protagonists, and a few parts that might seem to excuse sexual assault, which I've always found an odd thing in Le Guin's work (the rape in "The Dispossessed" bothered me too; the lack of strong female characters in "A Wizard of Earthsea" also sticks out to me). On the other hand, I've read from an interview that she wrote "Earthsea" absolutely knowing her audience (teenage boys) and intentionally writing something that would sell, which speaks to true mastery of her craft (I think the opening of "The Word for World is Forest" demonstrates what an expert can do wielding an intimate understanding of pulp science fiction tropes with intent, for example).
In any case, she writes sublime similes and sparse characters who nevertheless seem to embody deep wisdom about the human condition. I feel that often enough just a few words or sentences in a story bear forth hefty wisdom while around them Le Guin constructs something like an austere painting in muted tones, full of rich details that one can easily miss.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Packaging:
🎵 Always Calling
#Packaging
https://packaging.bandcamp.com/track/always-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rDth0vGxQKtr2Rb8FkqiY
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialI'm kind of okay with the ending.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI'm currently serving on district grand jury. I am forbidden by oath from ever revealing any details about any case we hear. But in general, some of the hardest details to hear are of child sexual abuse of various kinds, followed by violence against women, almost always sexual.
https://www.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI always stock the essentials :3
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.
@newstik@social.heise.de#birds My friend in a Canadian city has been providing food for birds on her balcony, at times. Not always, because the animals should not become dependent, they have to keep their skills of finding natural food.
When my friend stops, the birds now bring food and leave it on her balcony. Kernels, dog kibbles, etc.
We are not sure. Are they stashing it there? The amounts are small, and…
@sofia@chaos.socialpet peeve: "good intentions".
if the intentions consistently cause bad things, then they just aren't very good. yeah, it's based on bad reasoning/understanding. it always is, that's how evil happens.
how else are these intentions supposed to be "good"? by making people feel good about themselves?
even people who think they "do evil on purpose" are just semantically confused. they still act according to their own values. though their…
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaAs the pendulum swings from lanecloud retirement...... I'm debating if I need to run anything at all on a VPS other than to backhaul traffic...... Probably not..... I can always build back up later.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhen a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.
3/
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comMostly I've always used middleware to apply broad swaths of business logic to my ASP.NET Core operations, but found a nice use case for ActionFilterAttributes if you need to selectively implement business logic to specific controller items (https://learn.…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Packaging:
🎵 Always Calling
#Packaging
https://packaging.bandcamp.com/track/always-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rDth0vGxQKtr2Rb8FkqiY
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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@brichapman@mastodon.socialYou don't need a title to move work forward.
The people who shape decisions aren't always in charge. They're the ones others trust and turn to.
Influence is built through small actions that add up over time.
New piece on how to build it without authority.
What's helped you influence without power?
@brian_gettler@mas.toEverywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deThe "cloud" thing everyone's always talking about.
#Cloud #Datacenter
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a Q&A, Bari Weiss says she doesn't plan to pull future 60 Minutes segments after they've been promoted and she wasn't pressured to hold the CECOT story (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2016204949458223303
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?🎄
We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.
If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are always welcome:
✊🎁
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgPretty good analysis from @… but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyA century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Well, there's always rodents of one sort or another.
TARRANT: I'm a growing lad, Vila. Rats are not the answer to my diet-
DAYNA: [Makes a gesture to cut them off] Yes, but Orac, can you get a fix on him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/27<…
@keithp@fosstodon.orgYou know how I always say picolibc isn't a Linux C library because it doesn't do all of the fancy Linux stuff? Well, it turns out you don't need much to get a semi-functioning system.
$ size test-hello-picolibc test-hello-glibc
text data bss dec hex filename
3632 144 4656 8432 20f0 test-hello-picolibc
645697 23704 22576 691977 a8f09 test-hello-glibc
I blame Kees Cook for nerd-sniping me on this one.
@jake4480@c.imNew Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://
@cdarwin@c.imS-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/
@benb@osintua.euRussia irrelevant, those who oppose nations have historically always lost, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/russia-irrelevant-those-who-oppose.html
@poppastring@dotnet.socialI learned freedom riding the Midlands cuts by bike. I still explore cities by bike, on foot, and by car, always chasing that same feeling of discovery just around the corner.
#midlands #blackcountry #england
@pre@boing.worldAsimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Geräte: OpenAI und Jony Ive planen ein „Always-on“-Device
Ein neues KI-Gerät von OpenAI und Apples Ex-Chefdesigner Jony Ive soll „Always-on“ sein und den Datenschutz wahren. Ein Prototyp zirkuliert bereits.
ht…
@Richard@worklifepsych.social👉🏼 If your attempts at New Year's change have stalled, never fear - all is not lost. You can always benefit from the #FreshStartEffect and give yourself another chance.
✏️ Find out more in the last post on the blog:
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI always avoided creating an account in Teams. I always joined in the browser, partly because the Desktop Teams client refused to even let me join someone else's meeting on the grounds that I hadn't shelled out for a licence.
Anyway, at some point - possible when I rolled back to the last known good version of MS Office (2019) to avoid the mandatory 365 subscription bullshit - it got installed and managed to identify me without me noticing.
And so now, inevitably, it is…
@yaya@jorts.horseand then you can always go on all the rides!
https://jorts.horse/@thePlaceThatMakesYouTraitful/115609005252794096
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe GOP measures a person's worth based on their WEALTH & that makes them 'superior' to the needy in their minds.
This arrogance creates intolerance & 'my-way-or-the-highway' indignance because they're also control freaks.
And that's why there's always an air of disconnected condescension around their actions.
☑️ Ernst's McSCUSE ME Act Would Ban Fast Food For SNAP - Comic Sands
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
D'angelo:
🎵 She’s Always in My Hair
#Dangelo
https://open.spotify.com/track/07ibc51SJsgfwe9Ndg5daD
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMaybe Taylor Swift is always MAGA. She was just good hiding it.//
Trump “see some of himself in Swift, a staunch businesswoman who releases multiple editions of her albums to generate extra revenue and secure high chart positions ……It’s telling that Swift’s attention right now… on blocking Spanish star Rosalía from scoring a No 1 album with Lux, by releasing a new streaming-exclusive variant”
@hex@kolektiva.socialI explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzafound the website of a dog-obsessed german couple, then the page where they memorialize their dead dogs
http://www.cmf-dogs.at/index.php/in-memoriam
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgxmas brunch is the always popular smoked salmon on brown bread
not on the bucks fizz yet this year because we had a bit of a sesh yesterday when watching die hard and knives out (the original one to remind ourselves what fun it is before watching the new one)
@UP8@mastodon.social🔧 Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
#programming
@frankel@mastodon.top
@anildash@me.dmOne pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaChili is smelling really good today. With the snow I figured I may be out doing shoveling and chili always seems to taste better.
Condo did a fair job shoveling our walk ways and parking spots, but I go out afterwards with the scoop to clear it as close to the pavement as possible. Then just the smallest bit of salt and lots of sand for traction. I did the same for our neighbour. Makes a huge difference when you have mobility issues and can walk without slipping on packed snow and …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
D’Angelo:
🎵 She’s Always in My Hair
#DAngelo
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAs many of you know, I am taking a class here at UNC on Personality.
One of the tests to determine personality in our book was so incredibly
useful and interesting, I just had to share it.
Answer each of the following items "true" or "false"
1. I think beavers work too hard.
2. I use shoe polish to excess.
3. God is love.
4. I like mannish children.
5. I have always been diturbed by the sight of Lincoln's ears.
6. I…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLLMs never make mistakes or hallucinate, as this presupposes they actually know what they’re doing—they don’t: they have no concept of what words mean.
They don’t even deal with language, as they generate chains of big numbers based on statistical correlations.
The resulting transformation into human-readable text is always only a statistical approximation of what a real answer could maybe look like.
By sheer chance sometimes LLMs are even correct (usually for trivial things); however above a certain length of answer it is always wrong.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIt always makes me a little sad when somebody reflexively spits and blocks like this based on (I’m guessing) not quite reading the post. (I’m pretty sure they’re angry because they agreed with the thread’s whole point and just read the post backwards in their haste. This does not look like an account that’s out there fighting to defend the reputation of Tesla and AI slop.)
Like…I probably didn’t want this person in my mentions anyway if they’re such a careless reader, but now they’re going through the world a little angrier for nothing.
https://mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115793343637847732
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Dam Swindle:
🎵 The Present Is Always Perfect
#DamSwindle
https://damswindle.com/track/the-present-is-always-perfect-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pIk4T4cvai7jApJKQ6M1Y
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition.
It became especially repetitive in 2025.
While he continued to regularly sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed virtually no matter the setting and no matter how many times they had been debunked.
Did you hear about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment?
You probably did if you watched even a few Trump speeches or interviews.
Same …
@hex@kolektiva.socialAny sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817239878843124
Legalize LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychedelics. This was never a war on drugs, it’s always been a war on consciousness IMO.
@jake4480@c.imWorld always wants me to work and whatnot, when all I really wanna be doing is this
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThis looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/made-a-free-…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deHaving heard @… 's latest appeal on the @… #podcast to get @…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: There's no need. I can handle it, Dayna.
MELLANBY: All right, but don't take any chances.
LAUREN: I won't.
DAYNA: Keep your head down.
LAUREN: I always do.
[On the beach]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/377 B…
@brian_gettler@mas.toJimmy Cliff's death brings to mind The Harder they Come soundtrack. Decades ago, I was lucky enough to find it in a thrift shop - I subsequently played the record to death. While this isn't a Cliff tune, I've always loved it and IMHO it remains the most powerful track on album today (but feel free to disagree - it's a great record all the way through).
The Melodians, "Rivers of Babylon" (1970)
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPeople up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.
This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzOverhyped and Underhyped Offensive Players in the 2026 NFL Draft https://insidethestar.com/overhyped-and-underhyped-offensive-players-in-the-2026-nfl-draft
@cdarwin@c.imLinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky sees a lot of career advice on the site every day, but he doesn’t always agree with every piece that’s shared.
One common tip that Roslansky said is “a little bit outdated” is that
“you have to have a five-year plan,” he told content creator Erin McGoff in an interview for her YouTube channel AdviceWithErin.
In Roslansky’s view, having a five-year plan is “a little bit foolish,” he said:
given how rapidly technology and the workplace are ch…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaPeterson's Rules:
(1) Trucks that overturn on freeways are filled with something sticky.
(2) No cute baby in a carriage is ever a girl when called one.
(3) Things that tick are not always clocks.
(4) Suicide only works when you're bluffing.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat Brent said. Prosperity, climate action, and survival are all on the •same side•.
The choice now is survival versus billionaires. Arguably it always was, but it sure is now. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3m6gri4rets2x
@cdarwin@c.imFour years ago, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court decided that gun laws must be rooted in history in order to comply with the Second Amendment.
But they are not always comfortable with the reality this analysis unearths.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in
"Wolford v. Lopez",
a case about whether states can ban people from carrying concealed firearms on private property without getting the owner’s consent.
Under the Hawai…
@cdarwin@c.imAlways on His Mind:
Trump’s Enduring Focus on Biden
After nearly 11 months in office,
the felon-president’s tendency to talk about Joe Biden is more pronounced than ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/tru…
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Cate Le Bon:
🎵 Always The Same (feat. Saint Vincent)
#CateLeBon
https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/track/always-the-same-feat-st-vincent
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gWVMKnpY7zU1SfNr7sFbg
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Nada Surf:
🎵 Always Love
#NadaSurf
https://nadasurf.bandcamp.com/track/always-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4I5xD9KKzCfPJJyZrrS6kP
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Packaging:
🎵 Always Calling
#Packaging
https://packaging.bandcamp.com/track/always-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rDth0vGxQKtr2Rb8FkqiY
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy fairly boring take on Trump fawning over Mamdani is:
(1) Trump has no principles — philosophical, moral, or otherwise — but understands what makes for good reality TV and always instinctively sucks up to the popular kids when he first meets them.
(2) My main take-away from the meeting is where are the Epstein files, and how is the Trump admin going to try to redact, delay, blunt, compromise, discredit, or erase them?
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The Dream Syndicate:
🎵 That's What You Always Say
#TheDreamSyndicate
https://thedreamsyndicate.bandcamp.com/track/thats-what-you-always-say-down-there-ep-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jgfLVXTBxufrbccakHQi1
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Packaging:
🎵 Always Calling
#Packaging
https://packaging.bandcamp.com/track/always-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rDth0vGxQKtr2Rb8FkqiY
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Aluminum:
🎵 Always Here, Never There
#Aluminum
https://aluminum.bandcamp.com/track/always-here-never-there
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Deo79p4v5x1Set882GD7q
