@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-21 01:16:37
I do not get the sentiment of so many people on here that all advertising and marketing is bad.
It’s simply not true.
(And yes, like with anything else humans do, some of it is bad.)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-21 01:16:37
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-20 22:52:52
I keep reading why typing directly into the CMS is considered bad. Is there a reason for that?
Basically anything on my website was directly hacked into the wordpress editor.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-21 12:05:22
I walked into this nice house yesterday, marched the family living there out at gunpoint, murdered all the neighbours, and took the whole block for myself.
Calm down, calm down, my name’s Israel.
Ah, right, no worries, you don’t have to apologise. I can see why you were confused and thought you might have had to get angry at me before you realised who I was. It was a silly mistake, think nothing of it. We both know you’d never criticise anything I do… you’re not antisemitic.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 19:17:18
The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen.
US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead.
History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly!
https://bsky.app/profi…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-21 20:39:45
Objectively USA is already allowed to do anything it wants militarily on Greenland, Rutte probably "repackaged" it into a framework, well done
#greenland #nato #rutte
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-20 06:53:36
The part of the Epstein files we've seen makes it possible to reconstruct Trump's probable orders to his servants at DOJ.
"Just release a few million. Make sure they don't contain anything new about me, but that they cause trouble for a lot of other people. Media will focus on the latter."
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-20 15:21:14
“Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years” costing $20 billion.
Bribing potus with $400 million plane wasn’t good from an ROI standpoint.
Surveillance gear installed can’t have given anything yet because he’s not flying it yet, and they’re out $19.6 billion on the $400 million “investment” bribe.
They got rid of an outdated plane, but still: potus doesn’t stay bribed.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 16:27:36
It’s possible that the recent court order about how they can’t target observers is functioning as sand in their gears — which right now I think is all the courts and the law can be, sand in the gears. They’ve been leaning really hard on harassing, intimidating, attacking, tear-gassing, and detaining observers; they need that to function in the city.
Noem responded to that court order with a snotty “well we’re not doing anything wrong so this doesn’t change anything” kind of statement, but it’s possible agents have been told not to push it until they can get another court to overturn the order. That would fit with them focusing on the suburbs: observers are less organized there, and homes are more spread out.
2/
@scott@carfree.city2026-01-21 21:41:14
the anti-car movement in SF doesn't really think long-term and it shows. anything that doesn't seem politically possible right now in the short term, we just shrug off as impossible and ignore. what would it take to change this?
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-20 11:49:45
Hmmm.... Guess I need to figure out why my Ubuntu sometimes slows to a crawl and doesn't recover. The mouse can barely move. I end up needing to hard reboot.
Alt control f1 doesn't do anything for me.
I've yet to find an app that will show me important events in a simple way to debug.
#ubuntu
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-03-20 11:31:55
This piece from the LRB blog, "It cannot read the human heart", about a (Chinese) plagiarism scandal, has total «Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote» energy, which is both particularly fitting and ironic in this situation.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/i
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-20 20:22:11
The group stage in sporting competitions are the best part. In the knock-out rounds, results often award teams that don't play any better than their opponents. In the group stage, on the other hand, everyone gets to play and, on paper at least, anything is possible.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-20 20:44:08
The people building LLMs are trying to kill all humans. Literally. They are exterminationists who want to replace human life with AI and upload their brains to the cloud. They're AI death cultists.
They are the enemy. Anything that empowers them, at all, in any way, is unethical and suicidal.
I don't think admitting that there can be good use cases for LLMs does that, because the use cases are not being served by all this training. The *reason* they keep training is that they're trying to make LLMs do something that isn't possible.... because they're cultists.
That's the point, IMHO.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-20 15:35:32
My kids have no school today.
Next week, my kids have no school on Thurs & Fri.
The week after that, my kids have no school on Thurs & Fri. It's the beginning of their spring break, which starts Apr 2nd and goes through Apr 13th.
It's fine, I don't need to work or anything!
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-02-20 03:54:12
Morgan Murphy on why she doesn’t jog:
“If a man says he saw me do ANYTHING before noon, he murdered me in my face.”
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-20 16:21:08
211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-21 02:42:31
The Roast
Hey, we're Lachy and Edan. Each week we get a mate (or someone pretending to be) to roast life's little annoyances - think slow walkers, cringe airport moments, and anything else that makes you go seriously...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-ro
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-03-20 17:49:27
Wait, I think I figured out the secret sauce:
If you blindly accept what the LLM generates on the first pass, and never try refining anything, you don’t have to waste time waiting for it to rework the code over and over again.
Might explain all the slop code my coworkers have been shipping lately.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-21 16:35:45
Another Saturday wasting dealing with pointless churn from #LLVM developers constantly deprecating workflows #Gentoo use, because we are supposed to switch to this new fancy workflow that doesn't actually improve anything but lets them save 10 CMake lines, except it doesn't really work but who cares…
Honestly, one day I'm just going to last rite all Clang runtimes from Gentoo, and tell people to just use GCC.
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-03-21 01:13:50
Did @… stop working for anyone else on desktop through @… VPN? I tried a few different servers (all plus) and anything other than messages to myself doesn't go through (it just sits there spinning until I turn off t…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-03-20 16:54:20
@… seems like the queue isn’t going to the priority podcasts like it used to. Anything I can do to help you debug?
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-20 01:31:57
Alt Text:
"Andy Borowitz
"Trump Says Andrew's Arrest Sets Dangerous Precedent of Pedophiles Facing Consequences”
Beneath, a photo of Donald Trump speaking, looking somewhat upset, maybe? (I don't know. Do sociopaths' externalised emotions mean anything anyway?) https://social.vival…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-21 19:57:06
Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
SAMOR: We cannot find it in our hearts to absolve you in any way of the responsibility for these murders. The sentence of this tribunal is, therefore, that you should be stripped of all rank and privileges, that you be dishonourably dismissed the service, and that you then be executed for the common criminal you have shown yourself to be. Have you anything to say?
[Flight deck]
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-18 04:07:05
such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-01-21 15:30:05
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-18 11:10:15
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
@davidbody@fosstodon.org2026-01-21 19:13:28
Kind of an odd way to assure someone a poll is "completely anonymous," but I decided to answer Yes so I could take the poll. It was all questions about US national politics and approval/disapproval of various politicians and billionaires. I tried to answer truthfully, but on a few of them "strongly disapprove" is such an understatement that it almost doesn't feel truthful.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-20 12:49:03
Was Sean McDermott really Buffalo's problem? There's plenty of blame to go around for its playoff woes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660090/2026-nfl-offseason-buffalo-bills-fire-sean-mcdermott-coach-al…
@almad@fosstodon.org2026-01-21 00:06:44
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-21 22:34:28
“Keep going. Anything is possible. Believe in yourself.” 🥹⭐ #nfl #dallascowboys #samwilliams
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 01:33:44
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@numb_comfortably/115924798786314393
The thing about this is: “AI” can neither review anything nor can it make mistakes.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-19 10:04:48
Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than thinking someone is superior to someone else because of the color of their skin? How sad and fragile are these white people?
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2026-01-19 20:50:54
I too am mad at Denmark for not awarding me the Kinder Bueno bar... Or whatever. I'm not good at geography or history or anything really.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-21 21:00:56
Here is a list of fundraisers for Minneapolis school communities:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2RAD545vGkewQhAVUwOQ2VTc101_zoHHMUZqv07HYg/edit
Some of these have pretty low bank accounts. Anything helps.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 16:07:34
Supreme Court considers Trump administration’s bid to fire Lisa Cook,
asking lawyer to provide evidence for alleged mortgage fraud
During today’s arguments, both conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett
and Ketanji Brown Jackson of the liberal wing of the court
pushed solicitor general Sauer to explain how the administration’s allegations against Cook would harm the public if she were to remain in her position.
Jackson went on to press Sauer to provide “evidence t…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-19 10:50:10
«Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups?
One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) when searching for an alternative to Discord.»
— by @…
Encryption rarely has anything to do with secrecy, but with the reality of the source and the trust in their data.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-19 23:23:02
"They just want to torture and punish transgender people because they don’t like them, period. It has nothing to do with kids or women’s rights or anything else. They just hate the very idea of transgender people and want to make it impossible for them to function in society or even make it criminal. So much for freedom."
Did You Think It Was Just About Girls’ Sports? – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/19/did-you-think-it-was-just-about-girls-sports/
@jake4480@c.im2026-03-19 14:22:39
If your app or device *requires* any kind of 'biometric' bullshit- fingerprints, facial recognition, my first born, etc, I'm just not going to use it. I don't do any of that bullshit, and I never will. It's not even that I'm paranoid or anything. All that garbage is a step too far, and I hate it.
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-02-19 13:45:21
omg thank you https://www.bugsappleloves.com/ 😭 🙏 I literally thought it was just me "why can I never find anything in my email?!"
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-02-19 21:30:15
Stop speaking on Venezuela like they got cold hands clasped together in new child rape clubs as Deep State Siri lists potential 0.0001% profit gains off their oil. Its not financially justifiable at the current oil price or even a slightly higher one to go get that oil. None of these execs have anything close to the brainpower it takes to deliberately orchestrate American financial dominance. Elon wouldnt be a trillionaire if there were still firm consequences beyond base physical revolt. It…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-01-19 22:27:28
See how Victoria’s bushfires spread: a visual guide to the scale of devastation https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/16/how-victorian-bushfires-spread-maps-area-visual-guide
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-19 20:26:58
Exhibit #5356765336895 in "nobody hand-rolls anything related to cryptography correctly, even when they at least try to use tested, trusted algorithms."
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-21 17:11:08
201gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-03-19 12:57:40
Why is “Welcome in” replacing just plain “Welcome”? It doesn’t add anything of value, seems inefficient.🤔
Especially from the same generation that says “ima” instead of “I am going to”.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 19:21:43
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115929002012049186
What this means is that companies don’t launch new versions of most software today because of anything that users want or need.
The reason they launch new versions is somewhere between profit optimization and sunk cost fallacy about their team of developers.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-02-17 07:07:58
i do not care about marco “gusanito of state” rubio's opinion on anything, actually
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-21 21:10:33
After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-03-18 22:38:21
Anybody in the fediverse representing EdTechNZ? They're just emailed me about their 'rebranding' to show that they're more 'open'. They don't explain what they mean by 'open', however, I've never seen anything I would identify as even vaguely open about them. From what I can see, they're a lobby group promoting proprietary education tech.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-03-18 08:59:48
Added a "free play area" to the otherwise unused space in the corner of the ReworkCTF board. Just a bunch of fine pitch traces on various layers, some 0402 footprints, and some vias - not wired to anything else, just a playground for circuit edit practice.
Plus a pair of crossing trace pairs on L1 and L2 that might be fun to do something with.
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-18 12:43:05
> “Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
Read More
https://www.
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2026-02-18 11:41:56
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-21 16:41:08
117gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@kctipton@mas.to2026-03-07 00:11:29
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2026-03-17 14:33:21
Some HN folks found that the URL parameter accepts… anything as output language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408940
E.g.: …
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-03-18 20:07:18
Don't understand how Frimpong was guilty of anything other than being grabbed and pulled sideways.
#LFC
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to2026-02-18 13:19:27
brb. Gotta go invent a time machine so I can prevent adolescent Elon Musk from getting his hands on anything written by Heinlein.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-20 15:01:26
Draftkings has Cowboys battling for playoff spot in projected win total https://insidethestar.com/draftkings-has-cowboys-battling-for-playoff-spot-in-projected-win-total
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-08 09:28:11
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-02-18 22:29:16
Good news for Trump before midterms: he’s still more popular than cockroaches
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/ants-wasps-trump-and-the-midterms
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-10 09:32:52
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-18 19:22:22
Human fracking… is that anything like people farming?
https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/
<…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-14 21:57:13
Presented without comment for those who don’t need any.
I have no clue whether this will do anything to anything.
Because I’m testing it. On others. Fishing for idiots…
![A badly cropped snippet from a Postfix header_checks file including text. 2 lines are cut off and the last line is split in half. How careless:
# add header to deal with unwanted Microsoft reactions (2025-10-02
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@stf@chaos.social2026-02-18 14:38:16
so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-02-14 17:12:46
„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
https://
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-02-18 05:48:41
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116089604971387896
Facebook I basically need for work so I'm fucked. Never browse, never post anything personal.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-19 14:07:48
Just noticing how in #ubuntu 24 with 2 screens the frames dropped in youtube jumps when the other screen has a webpage that is anything other then a static bit of html. very upsetting!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-17 05:30:38
How a cinematic clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt made using Seedance spooked Hollywood, drawing condemnation from some and indifference from others (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/tom-c…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-03-17 18:38:49
I think the reason Meta et al are pushing for the OS age thing is that they know there's no way that anything they can do themselves for age verification will satisfy the regulators and/or cause them to have to pass data to 3rd party dodgy verifiers; they'll always get the blame if kids find a way around it if it's done at their end.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-21 14:01:09
107gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-15 00:48:24
If Susie Wiles Can't Say Anything Nice About Ric Grenell, She Can Sit Right Here By Us
https://www.wonkette.com/p/if-susie-wiles-cant-say-anything
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-02-16 16:19:28
Content warning: MH–
Seemingly insignificant things hurt the most. Today I feel betrayed, like my safe place was taken away from me. And simultaneously so lonely, completely alone in how I feel. I have trouble focusing on anything, and I can't do anything about it.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-19 22:36:28
Some day billionaires will have all the money.
Which will then be worth zero because they can’t buy anything as nothing will be made anymore.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-16 13:53:03
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-18 14:55:22
The only words that orange piece of shit should ever hear in response to anything that comes out of his filthy mouth is “fuck you!”
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-14 13:39:43
Nice, open talks... , the delegation from Denmark and Greenland has to excercise self-control i think.... "U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than American control is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks."
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2026-03-17 14:33:21
Some HN folks found that the URL parameter accepts… anything as output language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408940
E.g.: …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-17 00:17:51
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Can:
🎵 A Spectacle (Dominick Dawson Vocal Reversion)
#Can
https://panoplylab.bandcamp.com/track/anyone-and-anything-can-become-a-spectacle-at-any-time
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 22:49:48
The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-18 17:03:46
The other one I truly love is GitUp (https://gitup.co). Its visualization handles certain specific tasks better than anything else — tasks where I’m more concerned about the shape of the commit graph than the contents of individual commits.
Because of the way it does live updates of repo state and offers a whole-commit-graph-level undo, I’ll sometimes keep it open in the background while doing some fiddly thing in another tool (Fork, CLI, whatever) just so I can see what the ^*@# is happening.
Alas, its lack of support for commit signing means I use it less and less.
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-17 16:31:50
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 14:22:21
Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim Crow South:
“a one-party state, backed by the threat of violence, where the law ensures that most people cannot hope for meaningful political representation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opinion
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-18 22:34:45
The similarities between VR and AI are actually really striking; both are technologies that are amazing for a few narrow niche use cases and completely unsuitable for anything else.
But they are both heavily marketed and hyped exactly for the use cases where they suck and make no sense.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-19 16:01:08
223gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-13 15:51:27
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-19 06:31:08
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-18 23:18:01
As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-19 13:01:08
249gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 16:11:14
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work.
One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-19 06:31:07
269gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-17 14:08:14
AI can’t make mistakes*, but you can make the mistake of believing AI can make mistakes.
*they don’t have a mind, cannot think, don’t conceptualize and have no understanding of anything, therefore they can’t be mistaken
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 20:59:18
Donald Trump has a strange effect on others.
I’m not the first to note that it seems like half his cabinet and strongest allies were virulently against him before they fell in line behind him.
These kinds of flips have been known to happen in politics before,
but never anything approaching the scale of the Trump phenomenon.
And it doesn’t just happen with officials serving under him and prominent allies in his administration.
The effect extends to people in …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-17 02:31:59
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Nobody gives a shit anymore about anything.
It’s fine to post absolute tripe like this on a corporate website.
It’s fine to post quotes that were never said in a newspaper.
It’s fine to reference science that doesn’t exist in scientific papers.
It’s fine to commit code that was never checked to software.
It’s fine to post music that no one made.
It’s fine to share videos of things that never happened.
It’s fine to steal, lie and scam people.
All of this is hyped and cheered on by governments, organizations, businesses and individuals.
What in the fucking fuck is wrong with everybody?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-16 19:29:01
The iMac Pro wouldn’t boot anything including recovery/internet recovery even after a T2 restore.
Hardware test claimed everything is fine. Because hardware test ran fine but it can’t boot and won’t see SSDs even in target disk mode, I’m suspecting one of the SSDs (the iMac Pro has two in a RAID) to be defective (hardware test doesn’t really look into those).
I’m replacing the SSDs and blowing the air ducts out and redo the thermal paste just in case.
Fingers crossed that that will fix it. 🫣
#Marchintosh
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-17 06:57:15
America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-18 15:31:09
131gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-18 05:01:08
111gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-03-19 01:11:08
186gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-18 19:11:08
223gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-18 16:01:09
220gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2