@detondev@social.linux.pizzaalright im going through my old files again and rediscovered a shitty unfinished sci-fi epic poem thing i was writing sometime when i was 14/15/idfk. all i remember about it is that it was gonna keep doing this countdown and changing structure accordingly for a really long time, i was thinking of depicting the character finding love in an ethereal sorta way for the ending, and it was gonna incorporate a enochian number square for some reason.
@aardrian@toot.cafeWhat the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?
I got two today (on the same post):
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-
@shaun@mastodon.xyzReplaced the garbage #disposal last night. It's one of those jobs like redoing the guts of a toilet; seemed intimidating but it was far easier than I expected. (Replacing with the same model helps.) #insinkerator #diy
@aral@mastodon.ar.alImagine for a moment being the news anchor who completes the segment by saying “of course, it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the film.”
Imagine what it must be like to be such a deplorable, spineless, genocide-denying corporate toady.
Then thank fuck you don’t have to stare at that person in the mirror every day for the rest of your life.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioJust fwiw the best way to exclude your open source code from being ingested for "AI" training is to load it up to the motherfucking brim with fucking 4-letter word comments #fuck /* fuck */
@aardrian@toot.cafeJust because you add some ARIA and call something “accessible” doesn’t actually mean it is.
Looking at a self-described “Accessible, high-perf” infinite scroll (it really just starts over) that is janky as fuck, doesn’t take keyboard focus (in Safari), uses scroll snap to awful effect, and lets the scrollbar thumb become a liar.
How’s your day?
@pgcd@mastodon.onlinehttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/jack-dorsey-whatsapp-bluetooth.html
This is interesting, and I'm curious to see how he's going to fuck it up.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat point are we at, they ask, “bible denial?”
My dude, you are talking to a literal atheist.
Yes, Israelis are colonisers. And it appears that Wikipedia agrees with me. With citations.
Your book of fairy tales does not justify Israel committing *genocide* in Palestine. You know why? Because nothing does, that’s why.
You may now fuck off.
And if you have a problem with any of this, you can block me and my instance, @…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaJust wanted to pop in to say FUCK immutable distros on desktop, it's not the future, nobody wants this shit, nobody wants you forcing your decisions down their throats, pack up and leave, bye. Thanks! ☺️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s amazing how many replies I’m getting that “vibe coding is fine, it doesn’t matter if software actually works”.
People literally die or get hurt all the time when websites or apps don’t work, because they get false information or they’re incorrectly flagged or they hit some edge case and stuff just doesn’t happen.
Power gets turned off. Medications don’t arrive. Accounts get frozen. Credit scores ruined. Personal information leaked.
If you don’t take making software seriously you should fuck right off and leave the field.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhy AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialBecause there are so many lunar eclipses that aren't full moons...
(think about it) https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115164183095682187
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Israeli Security Cabinet approves PM Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza City”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863628
Fuck these people, man. Genocidal assholes. I don’t know what else to say. Does it even matter what we say? The fuckers are going to do whatever …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukHeavy sudden rain storms are the only really thing that scares me about climate change; I live far enough in land that I don't need to worry directly about sea level rises, I'm assuming will manage with food crops somehow, but there's fuck all you can do when you suddenly get a torrential rain storm that decides to park itself over your city for an hour at full pelt. You might be able to predict heavy rain, but where's it going to land - no way to tell.
@evemassacre@assemblag.es"Fuck the algorithms. Principle, integrity, naiveté... call it what you will. They don't care – we do." Ana in Cyberpunk 2077
Empathy and mutual care is part of the friction that AI and other automation tech rationalizes away.
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialSo... I just released an update for my site that was supposed to greatly increase performance. Instead it put it on constant 100% CPU usage and had to revert it. What the fuck man :neofox_sob:
@davej@dice.campJesus fuck. When did they start marketing #COVID strains like they were brands of aftershave? https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114792324130867133
@jake4480@c.imI'd like to talk to whoever the fuck thought it was a good idea to add a button on the outside of an earbud (that has now become standard to nearly every new earbud) so that when you simply try to push the earbud back in your ear, it fucks with some setting of what you're listening to 🤬
@crell@phpc.social
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo…say I ask a GenAI (LLM): “write me a book” (with needed “prompts”)
How does it create a story from moments that inspire me, influences of my friends & family the unconsciously loved stories that have touched me?
If that all comes from somewhere else, how the fuck is that “my” book*?
*it isn’t
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comThis is the second time in three generations that someone in my family (me in America now, and my grandparents in Poland in the 1940’s) live under the potential threat of being thrown in the gulag.
And frankly I’m tired of it on behalf of all of us.
Fuck that shit.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotFuck it, Rory the Tory Stewart is now advertising Nestlé. He is a seriously bad human being.
The Rest Is Politics: 432. Trump, Starmer, and Gaza: Is The Tide Turning Against Israel?
Episode webpage: http://therestispolitics.com/
Media file:
@bici@mastodon.socialre the The fuckity-fuck cycle -
Reminds me of the" 1950s in the United States are often characterized by a strong emphasis on conformity, particularly within the white, middle-class society. This era saw the rise of the suburbs, with mass-produced homes and consumer goods, reinforcing a sense of sameness."
via @…
@dr2chase@ohai.socialAnyone have recommendations for a place to host a personal domain's email accounts? Existing provider is getting stale and stupid and runs way too much reprehensibly terrible old Unix software with some of the shittiest fucking user interfaces I have ever seen. (Wife's email is currently unavailable because of a "server error", the message with the details is not copy-pastable and is also ephemeral so better screen-shot-it-quickly. Fuck the fucking fuck who ever thought t…
@cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.comJust picked up a Jackery battery/inverter with solar module and noticed it had Bluetooth, so tried pairing it with my phone.
No luck.
Grabbed the app to see if that would pair. Greeted with a login/register page.
FUCK THAT!
I'm not creating some account for a local device. Not looking good so far on this product, but I'll resume looking at it after I get home.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaI shy away from the "Apple philosophy" with all my might, but there are many companies that apply it. I have a high-end 3D printer with a closed ecosystem, nothing that frightens an Apple user, but it terrifies me. Why? Because a simple (bad) printing bed costs more than 120 euros.
It's not a question of whether I can afford it, it's that I don't want to do it.
Fuck them, I'm going to get a Chinese one (and probably better) for half the price.
@cjust@infosec.exchangeA good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#PaloAlto #CyberArk
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaFuck marketing. And the post is conveniently silent about the problem of a hundred tracking pixels on most commercial sites, but this is quite good:
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaDog owners: if you can't stop your little vanity emotional support terrorist from causing a hazard to road traffic including cyclists and people, you shouldn't be allowed to have it, and it shouldn't be allowed to exist. And I don't give a fuck if you live in the countryside: there's one law.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAh fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/
![Comment by "adobriyan" showing the commit in question, which replaces a "struct hlist_head event_hash[EVENT_HASHSIZE] __read_mostly" with "DEFINE_HASHTABLE(event_hash, EVENT_HASH_BITS)"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/751/560/091/399/771/original/5281946bec86335d.png)
@samir@functional.computerI am using MS Word’s web version for work and either the grammar checker has become a lot worse or just a lot more aggressive.
It keeps suggesting things that are not just wrong, but incomprehensible.
…
Fuck, they put an LLM in it, didn’t they?
@luana@wetdry.worldAlso, I’d be fine with a screwed battery cover if it meant greater water resistance. But it seems that the 6 has the same IP55 rating as the 5 so like what the fuck? The Fairphone 5 was prettier too I think, specially the sky blue color (that doesn’t seem to be available anymore unfortunately).
#Fairphone #Fairphone6 #Fairphone5
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaFuck censorship!
Fuck Trump and all his pedo friends!
I still like John Olliver more, but it's sad seeing Stephen Colbert go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZegLAvK8o
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialMy initial reaction to this was "Oh Fuck", it probably won't change until the season starts.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114941185367673176
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaFuck it, if I want to wear a dress, I wear that dress, loud, proud, queer, and unapologetically me. 🏳️🌈👗
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSubtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.
@hex@kolektiva.socialEpstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-use…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIt blows my mind that Google ruins its own search engine by compiling random statements from different sources in this ridiculously misleading AI block. I don't trust Google Search anymore. I find it inconvenient and tiresome, and I wish they would fuck off from the internet.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itMy brain likes to game the system.
mouth: "Damn, that [food] was good!"
brain: "Y'know, if you hurry.. you can have another one before stomach starts to feel full!"
stomach: "Wait, but won't that hurt us la.."
hands: *grabbing another and quickly shoving it into mouth*
brain: "Oops, too late!"
mouth: "Fuck yeah!"
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialSupposedly, focusing on solutions when listening to someone share a problem instead of simply listening is a “male trait.” I don’t think it’s down to gender differences; I think it’s just about differences between humans, but it is something I do. I wish it weren’t. I just upset my son doing it, & I feel terrible.
Fuck. 😢
@cdarwin@c.imAs he departed Washington for the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, Trump said both Israel and Iran had violated the cease-fire.
This was just hours after Trump had announced that the cease-fire had gone into effect.
Trump was enraged that the truce was seemingly crumbling so quickly.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Do you understand that?” Trump told reporters.
…
@teledyn@mstdn.caWhere Luke assures Gospel readers all secrets will be disclosed (8:17) I notice he neglects to mention there will be fuck-all you can do about it.
@newstik@social.heise.deHow easy it is to get ChatGPT to spit out the most spurious arguments.
"Fornication, in certain sociocultural and psychological contexts, can support the value of virginity by highlighting its uniqueness, encouraging conscious choice, and reinforcing the legitimacy of voluntary abstention."
Finally, we can fuck for virginity!
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaI recently tried to log into my old Wikipedia account only to realize I'd forgotten the password, and that it was named after a character from some shit I was writing before I knew I was trans. So I've created a new one, and also whipped up one of those sick-ass user pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ena
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI’m not a professional coder, I just write code when I need it written.
Even I know that the most dangerous point in the evolution of a program is the point when it runs without obvious errors. https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/115072135180061094
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThere is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterFor fuck's sake, it wasn't meant to be a prediction.
#Euro2025
@raysofred@discordian.socialFuck, I shouldn’t have deleted receipts of a breakup Doscord DM, because now the person on the other side has all the “evidence” that she can cherrypick and lie about me with
never delete anything, kids, no matter how much anxiety it gives you
@padraig@mastodon.ieI'm trying to delete an account for a popular anime video streaming service (You get a cookie if you can figure out which one it is)
And their help documentation requires that I download and install the mobile app and delete it via that....
What the actual fuck?!
I am already logged in on a desktop computer, I ain't downloading an app to delete an account.
@Xavier@infosec.exchange"It was a comment he couldn't take back, even though he deleted the words and never sent the email. School administrators saw it within an hour because of a monitoring software installed on school laptops."
I've had challenging kids and have dealt with school systems that don't give a fuck about protecting kids. They just hide behind the rules once they've decide you're a bad kid. I really feel for this guy. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE EMAIL?!? Just p…
@compfu@mograph.socialI think I‘m going to repost this. Bring it on, Trump :-) https://xtaldave.net/@xtaldave/114739213267333879
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialIs there any way we can trick right wing Americans into adopting "Good For You, Donald Trump" a slogan, and then wait for them to turn it into an acronym without them noticing that it also stands for "Go Fuck Yourself"?
@whitequark@mastodon.socialhey quick question
what drugs were the RMII people on
multiplexing a fully asynchronous signal (CRS) with a fully synchronous signal (DV) to get this weird... half-asynchronous-half-synchronous thing where *some* rising edges are referenced to REF_CLK and some are not, but all falling edges are
what is wrong with them? and more importantly how the fuck are you supposed to use it in a MAC??
@jake4480@c.imLot of things I see kids do on these TV crime dramas (and it's TV, but much is based on real type events) I just can't imagine, this has to be some outlier shit. It makes me think maybe my friends growing up weren't as bad as they could've been. Because if anyone in our friend group had brought up ANYTHING like the shit some of these kids are doing, anyone I knew would've been like "get the fuck outta here". We didn't tolerate abusive shit. Maybe it was the …
@aardrian@toot.cafeFor decades I have argued that the single biggest barrier to entrepreneurship in the US is our healthcare system. Having been an employee, employer, and independent, and also partaken in start-up culture (ick), I’ve seen it from each side (and I had insurers as clients).
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114774590
@ruari@velocipederider.comI bought some souvenir clothing to remember my trip. If you recognise this and always wondered who the fuck buys this stuff. It's me, I'm the person. 🐖
@avalon@jazztodon.comLouis Armstrong: The US jazz icon with a 'controversial' legacy? If you ask me, Pops was grinnin' 'cause he was winnin'! Micheal Ray said to me, there were only two times in America when it was OK to be black and happy; the other time was Disco.
Gold plated bathroom, Richard Nixon smuggles your stash, and (fuck Miles, he was too coked to have sense) not one detractor, even his ex and his mistress joined his wife at his funeral. Yeah, 'controversial' 🙄
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHow is it 2025 and a prominent Democrat brings up the fake “trans people in sports” debate again?
There is not such thing. People don’t change their gender to maybe win a few medals.
Just fuck off.
@x_cli@infosec.exchangeTrying to pick a CSS framework to learn.
Bootstrap comes from Twitter, so no thank you by principle.
Tailwind CSS seems completely dumb since it defeats the whole point of using a class system to design reusable components. The magic detection of class names in the codebase looks scary af.
W3.CSS does not seem to be used by anyone.
PureCSS and Spectre.CSS seems to be abandonware.
I mean, the fuck I am supposed to pick?
@samir@functional.computerI seem to have accidentally played chapter 5. It was another flashback.
Chapter 6, game is starting, here we go.
Wait, it’s bedtime.
Fuck.
@Jyoti@mas.toIt's teatime, I'm trying to find something to watch before my food goes cold. Something. ANYTHING.
I am met with a sea of TEAL AND FUCKING ORANGE.
Please, please, graders... step away from Resolve, go out and look at the real colours of our gorgeous world and then FUCK OFF.
#StopTealAndOrange
@rachel@norfolk.socialFuck it. Sending off for a GRC…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt's always wild to me how many professions we hold to a higher standard than cops. https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/114844474193049944
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaif hell is real it'll just be watching this clip over and over fuck you mean "israeli grade ontology" 😭
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhat the fuck is happening with COVID vaccine in the US? Here’s an expert on it and how you can get the shots despite the anti-vaxx government. https://www.patreon.com/posts/137511735
@crell@phpc.socialHow would you like Google Gemini reading all of your texts and other messages even if you never asked it to?
Yeah, me either. Here's instructions on how to tell Google to go fuck itself. I give it 50/50 odds they bother to honor the setting.
https://youtu.be/Ee3UIVDkWNM
@grumpybozo@toad.socialBut that’s kinda how I got here. https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114886743752674598
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThe fuck do you people want? I wrote you software that didn't exist, filling a niche that was entirely neglected on Linux, and gave it to you gratis en voor niks, and put it in the public domain. It does exactly what it needs to, nothing more. I get five for my trouble? A FIVE!?
*sigh*
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @wraithe@mastodon.socialMe, 1.5 hours ago: “Ok, it’s gonna be hot but screw it, let’s fix the privacy screen/window & door lock in the OTHER car door this afternoon”
Me, 1.4 hours ago: “where the fuck is the part for the screen motor??”
Me, now: “godsdammit”
(still haven’t found it)
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialIt's crazy Toby Fox made such an insane song the entire fandom had to learn how time signatures work just to understand what the actual fuck is going on
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOne week ago I said there should be a TUI for Home Assistant because it would look dope as fuck and make SSH access pleasant. There is one now, and here's the first release of it: https://github.com/theodric/hatui
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itLmao what the actual fuck??
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/winnie-greco-eric-adams-aide-attempted-cash-katie-honan-…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineThinking of renting an ebike for a day (mine is broken). Then i saw it's roughly six times more expensive than renting a car for the same duration.
I'm sure Bolt has a perfectly logical explanation for this, and probably the explanation is "because fuck you, that's why".
@samir@functional.computer@… I get that. I’m very familiar with spiraling.
I don’t know if this works for you, but for me, it’s important that after I understand a problem, I’m allowed to fuck around a little bit, do some unrelated stuff, and then come back to it. I find I can focus a lot more if I do this.
I wrote about it in a bit more detail here:
@Xavier@infosec.exchange @jake4480@c.imThis week's #ThursDeath is a killer new find, Hyvinkää, Uusimaa Finland's DEATHGOAT and their fucking EXCELLENT new LP 'Dragged Into Realms Below' that Xtreem just put out. This thing is a churning, raging, roaring mass of filthy death metal. Riffs, solos, it's got it all. Finnish death metal doesn't fuck around, man. And there's often a lot of gems via Xtreem. A surprising c…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCan all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.
Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.
Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.
And history is taking notes.
https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/1150655
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialI just ran across a video with a Spanish title on YouTube, and I was surprised to see that the audio was in English. I thought the title got translated from English to Spanish or something like that.
It was narrated with a very monotone and boring AI voice. Then I noticed a "version with automatic dub" tag under the title and I checked the settings.
There were two audio tracks. I switched to the Spanish one... and holy fuck. It went from a super monotone AI English voice to the origina…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaLook, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaheyyyy babe, as a member of the Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza, ill always be there for u with my daily karate practice, scuba diving sessions, and appetite for anti-communist political blowback. ill be waiting on u with my- hey! why're u giggling!? the fuck u mean the "dick slot in that looks goofy" it's tactical! ugh i hate women, gotta go back to vaguely smiling and nodding at my normie friend's Aldo Moro theories
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFuck ICE. https://archive.is/3fwgg
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI have a trick for getting into a box that’s being clobbered by a crawler DDoS: set the ITerm2 profile to auto-restart and open a half-dozen duplicate sessions. Basically: put a bunch of my SYNs in the queues to compete with the bots.
Ugly as sin, but it ultimately works.
Also: fuck those guys. And fuck their ISPs for being so comatose that they don't notice.
#InfoSec
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itOur shithead mayor is not only breaking the law by refusing to build 50mi of new protected bike lanes per year - he is now ripping out protected bike lanes. #FuckEricAdams!
And fuck Gov Hochul as well for not removing his corrupt ass months ago. She's not getting my vote ever again.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThere needs to be a TUI for Home Assistant. It would improve remote access, and it would look dope as fuck.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itme: "alright, time to test out the speed limit on this ebike motor"
nyc weather: "haha fuck you. No you're not!" *intense headwind*
@jake4480@c.imFUCK but the new Deftones song is a ripper. They're still one of the greatest to ever do it
#NowPlaying
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHere’s your definition, asshole:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
Now fuck off.
https://indieweb.social/@loui…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"an ad‑blocker may infringe website copyright, even though it merely prevents certain content from being displayed. " lol fuck off german courts
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115014296848731343
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFuck the police.
#FTP #ACAB #NYPD #BikeTooter
![After two last-minute appeals from safe street advocates, a state appellate court panel ruled on Monday afternoon that Mayor Eric Adams could rip out a three-block stretch of protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue. Adams's Department of Transportation, which installed the bike lane barely nine months ago, began the demolition late Wednesday night.
"It's really sad to see [the removal of] a safety project that has been fought for by a whole host of com…](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/948/650/867/188/694/original/36d124901ef3d34c.png)
![We are confident this won't bother Weigelt a bit. In fact, the README file for X11Libre positively invites it, as it contains this:
> It's explicitly free of any "DEI" [diversity, equity, and inclusion] or similar discriminatory policies.
Oh dear.
That statement, though, has received praise and approval in some places.](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/661/810/802/180/750/original/4b1075fddf74e811.png)
