@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-15 14:45:57
Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2025-11-14 15:00:55
Empfehlung #GraphicNovel - - Die grosse Verdrängung
Der Italiener Roberto Grossi zeichnet auf 200 Seiten die Zusammenhänge von #Klimawandel, #Artensterben und
@compfu@mograph.social2025-12-13 05:53:21
For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-30 17:04:00
Großes Update für Canva, Affinity wird kostenlos
Das Grafik-Tool Canva bekommt mehr KI, besseren Video-Schnitt, Marketing-Werkzeuge, Mail-Designer und Formulare – zudem trägt die Affinity-Übernahme Früchte.
https://www.…
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-26 17:44:50
So glad I found the new and "more serious" forum for discussions on all things Affinity.
signup before the big rush happens after the reveal on the 30th.
#Affinity
@sjn@chaos.social2025-10-25 22:45:22
This day 30 years ago - on Oct 26th 1995, #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) was announced to the world by Jarkko Hietaniemi – CPAN's Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!), to the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup.
Happy Birthday, CPAN!
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-12 12:05:27
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Bicep:
🎵 Saku (feat. Clara La San)
#Bicep
https://ianni.bandcamp.com/track/bicep-saku-ianni-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gGR1vc9aFMDEhiO3SvHM4
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-12-24 02:03:42
I finished marking on Friday.
Co-pilot is integratrd into Matlab; some students made use of it (with permission).
LLMs cannot interpret graphs; at all. Their attempts to do so make abundantly clear that no analysis or interpretation takes place.
Most students using LLMs did so effectively, generating outputs in a few lines of code that could have been done with one function call, but nevertheless working.
Those who relied on it for analysis? Ouch! ~20% mark. So much…
@a@paperbay.org2025-12-26 08:12:50
Pour résumer : la police belge dispose d’une importante stack logicielle propriétaire et vieillissante. Un projet de modernisation a été confié Š Sopra Steria, mais celui-ci n’a pas abouti, le système ne fonctionnant pas comme prévu. En revanche, une partie logicielle (Focus) développée en interne par une autre équipe a permis de limiter les dégâts et de maintenir certaines fonctionnalités opérationnelles.
#police
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 21:40:37
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…
