@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-29 22:01:57
Raiders DE Maxx Crosby Can’t Do It Alone—And Pete Carroll Accidentally Proved It https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/29/raiders-de-maxx-crosby-cant-do-it-alone-and-pete-carroll-accidentally-proved-it/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-29 22:01:57
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 16:19:02
Content warning: open source whinging
Ugh 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.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-30 07:48:23
In the field of dynamical glaciology, this would be DeConto and Pollard, 2016.
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #climate (or adjacent) fields..
#science
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-28 18:15:53
ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p98#a251028p98
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-29 02:15:01
Re this post from @…:
It •is• overwhelming, and none of us can or should take on all the pain of the world. We can’t carry all that weight ourselves; we can’t fix it by carrying it.
It is essential that we all continue to make music, cook tasty food, post cat videos, do the daily mundane things, nerd out, laugh with the people close to us, all that.
We just need to hold space to remember that there is suffering in the world too. We do not turn away; we live in defiance of it.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/115454954431006301
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-10-28 19:02:02
#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2025-10-28 23:44:58
Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-29 11:40:52
Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-28 13:14:47
I want to take a moment to thank @… for helping us carry out our Gaza Verified video calls.
Without her and Joy, we couldn’t do what we do.
Aseel is living in a tent right now (which gets flooded when it rains, like it did this week) and, in the middle of having to help her own family, is volunteering to help other families in need in Gaza.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-10-30 07:27:32
I love it when cats do this!
🎨by pfeffaroo
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 19:47:05
Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 10:05:59
The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-28 15:27:15
Trump admin must restore school mental health funding: Judge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-evidence-the-department-considered-any-relevant-data-judge-rubbishes-trump-admin-argument-that-it-can-do-what-it-wants-over-canceling-grants/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-09-30 00:09:15
Sooooo.... UN Open Source Week 2026? What do you suppose the odds are of it not happening in NYC?
https://mastodon.social/@progressiveparker/115288358676220071
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-10-29 10:23:24
I think it's time to crack out the daylight lamp. I'm not feeling low - stressed to the eyeballs but not flat - but I do feel like I haven't woken up yet and I've been at work for two hours 😄 My daylight lamp was about £25 and it's been money very well spent. I use it as the light on in the room when I'm getting ready in the morning, rather than sitting staring at it for 20 minutes, and it just works.
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2025-12-29 08:21:43
#EroticMusings Final Question?
At the start of June, I decided to trial Erotic Musings until the end of the year and then decide if it was worth continuing. Would you like Erotic Musings to continue into the new year? If so, is there anything you'd like to change about it, or do you want it to carry on how it is?
I would love to! My attempt at carrying it into the German bu…
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-28 18:30:58
It was amazing working with A. Woodward on "Goosetopher2", now called Goodstuff.
Do I want new geese mascot every year? I mean...
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7gfe42sz22e
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-29 15:49:20
Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-29 12:44:47
Good Morning #Canada
It's National Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, the fake holiday brought to you by greedy grocery conglomerates. I live on lunches that are 90% leftovers from our dinners so I know throwing out perfectly good food is a waste. But you need to be safe so here's some information about how to store food so that it doesn't kill you later that week. Most of it is common sense - like not storing leftovers on your stove top for 5 days before you decide to eat it. I won't do that again...
#CanadaIsAwesome #SmellTest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/leftovers-food-safety-faq-1.7412668
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-10-28 22:00:04
"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-10-28 20:42:21
This marketing image for a garage door keypad's tech support is perfect in its soulless vapidity. Yes, it lacks any sort of subtlety in the ludicrously homogenous selection of people. 😠
However, my initial gut reaction was a fascination w/ reconciling the man on the left's impressive promontory of hair & his headset.
Does he have a single thin indentation in his hair plateau after a long day's work? The equivalent of a hat head, but thinner? Is there a horizontal…
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-11-28 22:19:13
"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."
Can Dutch
@cjust@infosec.exchange2025-11-28 05:00:10
@compfu@mograph.social2025-10-29 20:03:00
The "write my own render manager" itch is getting harder to ignore. I think l'll scratch it if I have some slow days at work before Xmas :-)
Will it look like Deadline and use mongodb like Deadline? Sure. Do I know anything about writing networking code or other database options? Nope. Do I think I can write something better than a Sony-born ASWF-backed open-source project like OpenCue? Well that would be hubris.
But I think it'll be a fun side-project 😁
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-12-28 22:50:32
I so hope this blows up in his face spectacularly.
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #InfoSec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would be great if it were useful for others as well. @…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-29 18:36:10
I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-29 15:41:41
Mediocre Cowboys can set rare NFL record if they do Week 18 correctly https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/29/mediocre-cowboys-can-set-rare-nfl-record-if-they-do-wee…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-11-29 13:47:30
In #FreeCAD, what can I do from the UI and from Python macros to cause all the topological naming links to be recreated in the current shape?
I have a Part Design Body that for which I can mark it to recalculate and then recalculate and it's fine, but if I modify a driving parameter trivially, including by an inconsequential .001mm, suddenly it tells me that I have an invalid edge …
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-29 08:05:29
Replacing JS with just HTML
For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web. If you wanted to do something that couldn't be done with just HTML and CSS, you could usually find a way to do it with JS.
And that is great! JS has helped push user experiences forward, and honestly helped push HTML and CSS forward!
🧑💻 https:…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2025-12-28 16:02:52
Content warning: tech, linux
It seems like GNOME Shell on Wayland doesn't like it if a GPU gets removed during runtime. At least on Bazzite, it threw me back into Gaming Mode and I had to switch to the desktop again, losing all my open windows.
Well, I expected worse, so I had saved my work before. 😄
But that does set some limits on what I can do using some scripts I found on GitHub. In case a Mutter or GNOME dev reads this here: Are there any plans to gracefully switch between GPUs during runtime?
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-27 19:02:43
I had some weird ass Jellyfin issues so I tried to log into my NAS with the web interface to check on it and could not... so I SSH'd into it to do a reboot and somehow instead rebooted the computer I was sitting at. Went to a different computer to try and that one was powered off. Went back to the one I rebooted on accident and it didn't reboot so I started it up. Went back to the other one and it was up so I used that one.
Self hosting puts you in control.
@laxsill@social.spejset.org2025-10-28 19:14:05
Bra exempel på en av mina stora samtida pet peeves: varor som görs till subjekt och tilltalar en.
https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/115453315237969031
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-10-29 13:07:14
Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
ENSOR: I'm on three-quarter boost as it is. She's not responding! I'm going to maximum. It's all right. It's all right. She's slowing. Compensators beginning to hold. [Ship starts to steady.] Come on, come on, that's my beauty. That's...come on. Pull us back, pull us back. All right, she's coming back. We're all right.
MARYATT: Don't do that too often, will you? I'm a very nervous passenger.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-11-27 20:34:56
Updated my list what I moved away from BigTech. To be honest: when I started it, I didn't expect the amount of time & energy it takes to get out.
Therefore I regard it as crucial to just do it step by step. Otherwise you might get overwhelmed. And some nasty dependencies will just show up along the way ... but it's a nice hobby!
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-28 15:06:45
Well, having been miserably unwell all weekend, I got up today and made some useful progress on the new workshop. It's not as much as I'd like, but I've used all the energy I have so it will have to do for today.
@jpanzer@mastodon.social2025-11-28 18:15:27
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-28 03:01:32
What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-29 20:10:01
It seems that both AI and climate anxiety share a common root: the current structure of capitalism.
Our system, which demands constant, unrestricted growth, shapes everything from our economy to our psychology.
In the climate crisis, it manifests as overproduction and overconsumption, while in AI, it drives the replacement of human labor with cheaper machine labor and the optimization of attention economies.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-09-30 08:00:18
We left our money in the box and set out for a town you love where something positive happened to someone else but you heard it’s true. With a straight face on the radio, school behind and up your ass, no one can tell your name isn’t American pronounceable. We found our cars in parking lots with signs around it, I don’t know. We heard it was OK to do if you had a good grade, and I don’t. About fifteen years ago, you left yourself a note about crying in the dark. I said that’s dumb enough to …
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-10-29 22:42:10
I just spent ~20 minutes trying to find information on how to do something in a Golang library on my client computer, before I decided it was worth pulling up @… on my personal computer to look it up instead.
Immediately found the answer I needed to get me moving.
We don’t need “vibe coding”, we need search engines that actually work.
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-30 02:43:29
@… yo do you think you could fix a discord bug where if your connection changes, discord pretends that your screenshare is up but it's actually down? this is legit destroying my relationships
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-12-29 04:16:32
@pre@boing.world2025-12-27 20:12:46
By post, it's mostly web rather than Phanpy.
Suspect it's mostly replies over stand-alone only because of threads here really. Most of a thread counts as a reply because it's a reply-to-self.
I mostly use the web interface for new posts rather than the phanpy one because I can't type an emoji in Phanpy. Only instance custom-emojis can be typed starting with a colon and I usually want 😄 or 😉 or 🙄 not the custom emojii. Can't type them on Phanpy. So I mostly compose on web.
Maybe the Phanpy dev has some kind of emoji plugin or something? Dunno why he makes it only do the custom ones.
But this is why I mostly post from web even though I almost entirely read from Phanphy. Which means replies mostly come from Phanpy but standalone mostly from Web.
@marcus@hachyderm.io2025-10-28 18:38:34
I'm curious. Do you use a vi keybinding plugin in your browser? And if you do and it's not surfingkeys, why? ;-)
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2025-10-28 13:36:28
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 01:56:56
Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri had the idea:
implant a computer chip in his hand and do magic tricks with it.
— Too bad he forgot the password.
It sounds like a joke but it really happened
https://futurism.com/future-society/los…
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-30 05:34:13
The FBI released their file on Bigfoot, and since they only do this when someone passes away, it does confirm that Bigfoot was in fact real but has unfortunately passed on. A shame
https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/Bigfoot%20Part 01 (Final)/view
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 17:50:10
Dear Restaurants:
Frying your own chips does not 'elevate' your nachos. It makes them a greasy mess that reheat even more poorly than before.
Buy store brand corn chips. Use those. It will in fact be better. You do not need to even spring for Frito-Lay products or anything. Just Do. Not. Fry. Your. Own. Chips.
Please spend the novelty points on things like goat cheese and fun aiolis. Not the chips.
Sincerely,
Me.
@mia@hcommons.social2025-11-26 16:48:41
'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2025-10-28 06:45:41
"Didn't you hear? Congress just passed a bill legalizing murder if you're rich."
"No, they didn't. They did what? Hold on. Just because it passed the House doesn't mean the Senate will..."
"Really, Diane?"
"Okay, but the president could still veto..."
"Really, Diane?"
"All right, sure, but the Supreme Court... Okay, I get it."
"Look, don't take it so hard. If you wanna do someth…
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-09-30 02:08:53
....💭
🤔 I'm thinking.. Why to buy a smart TV (smart shit) if I
can just buy a monitor and a mini PC and install linux on it. Now I can do anything with it.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 17:19:57
RE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2025-10-28 17:24:20
This bring me to the second question we had about the paper. Does it suggest hallucinations are a fundamental part of the way we do AI? No. It suggests non-hallucinating models are perfectly possible (if we give up calibration) and it offers a very cheap and simple hack to help us better find them.
Most likely, this has been used behind the scenes by OpenAI for a while, and it's why GPT5 does so much better than 4 in this respect.
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-28 22:34:53
Got an email from the US DOJ. I initially clocked it as spam, but no, it's the real deal:
I donated to some charity drive years ago, the guy who ran the charity pled guilty to embezzling $2.5MM, and as a result I have been identified by the DOJ as a ***VICTIM***. Wild shit!
![U.S. Department of Justice - VNS <fedemail@vns.usdoj.gov>
9:22 PM (1 hour ago)
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
[DOJ seal]
November 28, 2025](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/115/629/698/630/844/309/original/3c010d29bbe62219.png)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:30:16
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@joe@toot.works2025-11-28 23:13:07
I went up to ace hardware to figure out what to do with the snow blower. I bought some stable and some sea foam ... and because it's the neighborhood ace hardware, I bought a can of soda pop.
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-27 16:47:56
FWIW, when people go on about “sportsball”, to me that sounds snotty and condescending and, well, a bit rude: “I ostentatiously don’t care about a thing you do and wish it didn’t exist.”
Not saying you’re not within your rights to feel that and say that. I have exactly those feelings about certain forms of music and religion and politics.
Just be aware that sometimes it doesn’t land well.
#LifeOnline
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-28 12:41:50
As an academic editor, there's nothing like receiving a truly well-written, smart, and timely submission. Even if the piece isn't perfect, if the authors have done all the work, rather than expecting me to tell them how to, or worse, to do it for them, are rare, precious, and greatly appreciated.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-11-28 11:32:18
I have to say, MS #Word is actually pretty useful, in this case doing document comparison to show what has changed between an original submission and a revision. Trying to keep track of this as you revise is pretty impossible so it's really nice to be able to do it in 2 min at the end!
(Compare docs, tweak the options of tracked changes so it shows additions only in red, export as PDF)
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@frankel@mastodon.top2025-12-29 17:00:07
#CSRF Protection without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-10-29 16:30:45
This article about a liberal reporter dating MAGA men really shows some of the core of what's breaking this world right now. And it's not just the US. Men are not okay. Like at all.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/rela…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2025-12-29 16:12:36
This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-11-29 05:27:34
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-29 21:11:22
Double grumble with an asterisk!!!!
I'm here getting my car serviced and I attached to their wi-fi. OK, that's pretty normal.
But their wi-fi intercepts TLS connections and substitutes its own certificate. Bad, bad, bad. At least my tools noticed it and said "we ain't gonna get fooled".
However, this happened in Thunderbird (e-mail tool) which popped up an utterly obscure dialog to tell me and ask what I wanted to do.
Hey, Mozilla/Thunderbir…
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social2025-11-28 14:45:13
For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-28 05:40:12
We have labeled the band-aids/gauze. Pray we do not label it any further.
[#BikeTooter, I guess?]
@chrysn@chaos.social2025-09-30 09:26:46
Why do I find myself more and more often in presentations on regulation? Maybe it was the wrong move to let people from Legal into the Treehouse…
Anyhow, still looking forward to the Embedded Austria event on October 14th in #Vienna: https://www.…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-28 08:00:18
Is it so hard to not compliment a fascist? Apparently so.
FFS! https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/115450690359236978
@jtk@infosec.exchange2025-10-29 19:50:39
This is not the first time for #Microsoft #DNS-related problems. As I recall, the first one I remember from 2001 had something to do with their authoritative name servers residing on the same IP4 /24 that had an access or availability problem.
It was a rookie mistake even then, and they were …
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-28 16:42:46
@… wobbly windows, I would not use them but I do like that it's possible :-)
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-09-30 04:14:48
Would it surprise you to find out I carry cat treats on my person at all times?
I'm not saying I do... you know, just hypothetically. >_>
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-12-29 18:32:29
It seems like 75% of new followers have chuffed(.)org and gaza-verified(.)org URLs in their profiles.
THEY GET INSTANT BLOCKS.
AFAICT, those are scams being run by a mix of Russian mobsters and spoiled rich kids. I do not care enough to determine otherwise.
I do care about the brutality inflicted upon the Palestinian people for many decades. I care about the millennia of bigotry inflicted upon Jews. In short: I have more immediate problems. I hope they can find peace w/o i…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-27 22:32:54
I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-09-30 04:10:20
THEY KILLED THE LAUNCHPAD!?!?
Yes, I have used my mac for almost a week without needing to access the launchpad (I don't do it often, but I do).
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-29 16:04:53
After stumble out of gate in 2025, Crooks wants 'to do it all' in '26 https://www.mlb.com/news/jimmy-crooks-expects-improvements-in-2026
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-11-28 20:31:55
Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:24:48
My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 19:47:56
It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.
In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of 1.4 pts.
This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
-- Adam Bonica
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-29 05:11:38
With the usual caveat about intelligence-ascribing and agency-hiding language like “knows” and “gaslighting:” this from @… is notable.
Why? It’s not as if Google doesn’t gather your IP-based location when you use their search…but they make no secret of that. Of •course• OpenAI has the ability infer your location. But they say they don’t, and yet apparently do, and are covering it up. •That• is notable.
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115630527105953949
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-27 18:22:22
It's cold, rainy (real showers!), and gusts of strong wind - but I needed to get some air. My wife wanted to get to the nearby shop for some bread rolls ... so we decided to do a 30min rain walk in full rain gear.
"I do this for you - I would just take the car"
But it was - just - good! Rain jacket and trousers worked, same as head lamps. Shoes probably need some care. But good to know this now.
@pre@boing.world2025-12-30 03:32:43
Stop having ideas brain. It's nearly 4am. Go to bed.
But, yeah, this seems kinda possible? With the projection behind the throne too?
Not sure immediately how you'd do that central column, or paint a better console that also served dinner.
🤔
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-29 00:56:34
Picked up the Home Assistant addon project again. Notes:
- Home Assistant was evidently designed by a committee of crackheads.
- Nothing works like it logically should: not the UI, not the backend.
- Physical directories do not correspond to paths in the application: /www/community/something/somefile.js is called /hacsfiles/something/somefile.js when you're adding it as a resource.
- I fucking hate json.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAA
- stab stab stab
- deep breath <…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 09:09:31
Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-29 13:17:10
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: It will, if the program carries a built-in life-support system: a machine to do the work of the organs.
DAYNA: [Glancing toward Astrid's door] Like his?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/454 B7B3
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 16:52:18
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-29 22:24:27
Mailbag: Should offensive game plan be changed? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-offensive-game-plan-be-changed
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-28 15:30:21
There tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-12-27 18:22:30
@… I think there’s also an aspect of differing opinions on what it means to “use” a feature.
If I have a community “profile” on steam, but I never think of it, never look at the friend requests, never willingly interact with it, I would say I do not use it. But the bean counters at Valve would presumably count me as part of their “social users” population.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-27 18:04:29
"We must solve this incredibly difficult scalability problem, and the only way to do that is to outsource such expertise" is a sign that your basic design is flawed.
Yes, this is a Signal subtoot, and I'm still salty about the embrace-and-extinguish behavior of tech monopolies with XMPP.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-11-26 09:45:41
I've been playing a few of those Lego games (Lego Star Wars etc.) with my little one. It's fun though navigating 3D space while handling the camera is a lot for him (it _is_ not easy).
Sometimes I try to tell him where to go when he gets lost but it's really challenging to stay patient at times (because it's hard for him to translate the words into the complex actions necessary and because I don't want to do things for him while he's trying things). But it's…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-27 23:54:17
But don’t take my word for it! The CEO of AWS himself said “firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is ‘the dumbest thing I've ever heard.’”
Now that •same• company is laying of 8.5% — 8.5%!! — of their core workforce because they’re going to (future tense!?!) “reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use?”
Nope. I call BS. That’s just investor bait.
They’re in hot water and they know it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-29 23:34:20
Voice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-29 18:48:36
Mailbag: Should offensive game plan be changed? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-offensive-game-plan-be-changed
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 17:35:13
DOGE was never about efficiency.
It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and
“We need something for Elon to do.”
America’s veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein’s monster,
which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.
Three stories illustrate how DOGE damaged our veterans most of all.
First, the early warning signs:
firing veteran federal employees en masse, pushing GI Bill mortg…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-11-27 20:50:15
Cowboys comebacks: Do you remember these other nail-biters? https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-comebacks-do-you-remember-these-other-nail-biters/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-26 22:25:04
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."
And in this case the things they are using to kill it have radio transponders that regularly transmit their geolocation, and these can be looked up on sites that also generally track their Intended destination.
Frog suit Luigi jokes aside, I do feel like it would be possible to blockade some of these ships or at least make their stays in some ports uncomfortable. There are some problems with tracking boats to specific owners, but any giant yacht should probably just be resisted on principle.
I hope someone with more organizing time than me thinks about this a bit. It would definitely take international effort, but an international org like XR could actually probably pull something like that off... If they actually wanted to do something.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 23:53:04
If you're completely overwhelmed by the suffering of the world and a feeling of hopelessness,
do one small thing locally.
It's basically the antidote.
https://bsky.app/profile/elleisanisland.bsky.social/post/3m3vcmb5tg22j
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 20:21:08
After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list,
there isn’t much else left to do but wait on "Match Day".
In a few weeks
—as was the case in 2024—
overwhelming majority of senior applicants from U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools will find a training position
through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match.
But how does the system decide?
It all comes down to a
N…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 20:11:09
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…
“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say.
“An eye for an eye.”
Other times he’d snap at his staff:
“You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.”
-- @swin24.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say:
Kill them all
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-27 19:50:14
“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…
