2026-02-18 21:59:16
RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-7Q62UlusT-iCnp-Mx7exRg:a:3199692-/0
It really seems like the ratio of billionaires who were ‘conned’ by Epstein is dramatically higher than th…
RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-7Q62UlusT-iCnp-Mx7exRg:a:3199692-/0
It really seems like the ratio of billionaires who were ‘conned’ by Epstein is dramatically higher than th…
RE: https://toot.community/@thezenlady/116257674184176512
If so, I applaud those brave saboteurs.
More of this, please.
The only way to crumble an empire is from the inside. (Although the Pedophile In Chief is already doing a pretty good job …
RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/115921803456614217
I haven’t read it all, but since I’m in there like five times Imma share it anyway.
RE: https://toot.wales/@llamasoft_ox/116093806000140880
Ooh, what you doing? Pics??
RE: #CSUNATC sale is still going!
Because if the conference will give another
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116408903085745196
I just want one pair of wool runners and one set of replacement insoles auto-shipped to me every six months for the remainder of my life. 😢
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116415924719123307
I adore this cartoon. Seriously, if you've never seen it, take a look - it's enormously simple yet innovative!
RE: https://toot.cat/@androcat/116079381270278779
waymo-protected bike lanes
RE: https://mas.to/@ChanceyFleet/116083424891788667
The one I use most frequently in email: animated Simpsons-yellow skin tone thumbs-up emoji.
Somebody once thought the email client was writing that automatically because it couldn’t show the image they …
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116402441426960966
This is a useful post to keep for reference.
RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116076316842011863
Det ser smart ud.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116402441445902779
This but also ratcheting up quantization to reduce cost.
RE: https://toot.works/@joe/116058691159387696
Nobody wanted to choose Dare. 😏
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116078142963705558
Jeepers. I had no idea this had been made public yet. I don't know if I will be able to stomach watching it.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116191554824571567
“I” should write a book about the AI toot revolution
RE: https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/116403486703540080
“Highly curated” is hilarious given we know Apple’s app store is not thanks to work from CMA under DMA.
I hope Apple makes those people whole after its failure to honor its promise to cu…
RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116353775857579120
Ha, good that I'm still a registered android developer, so my protest hopefully also tells that people aren't happy.
Maybe I'm gonna write the EU representatives tomorrow as well. It'…
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116170657923513602
Are they right?
🧵
RE: https://toot.cafe/@chartier/116035757810365295
OMG incredible 🤣🤣
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116016527337424199
We’re willing to believe they established a bulkhead, then hung around, waiting until the humans showed up before implementing the next phase of their plan —
RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116206161046342227
@… "Quoting quiet public posts: When quoting a quiet public post, your post will be hidden from trending timelines."
RE: https://toot.community/@blabberlicious/116334085279192956
Very thoughtful, nuanced read, and one that reflects my own stance and experience with GenAI coding tools. I’m not a professional software developer, but I feel I need to understand these …
RE: https://toot.io/@mandugar/116357822398424339
Sounds about par for the course for AI tech bros…
Hey, by the way, anyone know how we can encourage more of this shitheads to join Mastodon?
RE: https://indieweb.social/@keithamus/116062761549997084
If you can, please also identify known WCAG conformance errors.
We don’t want another toast escapade where the research failed to identify barriers and risks. Encoding broken patterns into t…
RE: #ICE
Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…
RE: #Demoscene, #Tracker
RE: #russia in modernising the Black Sea fleet to become a submarine force. Pe…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116193283985618904
I spent enough time building e-commerce platforms to know US ZIP codes do not guarantee a city, county, and state (nor are they guaranteed unique to the US).
Anyway, absolutist statements anno…
RE: https://toot.io/@nondailychickens/116359609167329620
confirms my priors
RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
I guess people are tired of the Vim vs. Emacs or the tabs vs. spaces holy wars? 😅
RE: https://mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/116053098600368810
DOCTORS HATE THEM!
USE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!
LEARN THE TRUTH NOW!
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@malwarejake/115991189812095471
@… the text of this toot (not the article, haven't read…
RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.
RE: https://troet.cafe/@frechrotz/115968462499981257
Man Zitate auch ablehnen. Wie sieht das wohl aus?
Und unter dem zitierten Toot steht wie oft er zitiert wurde, wenn man da drauf klickt zeigt er die Zierierenden mit den jeweiligen Toots in denen das Z…
RE: #FediSuite erfahren, was mein bisher erfolgreichster Toot war.
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116343060646302331
Sadly not true in the case of politics...
RE: https://toot.community/@jimlindstrom/116154325947389568
Liminal light is always magic
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116042831659060168
Oh my god, I thought I was losing my mind. I read this toot and saw what I assumed was a typo, smirked, re-read it, and the typo was gone. Turns out it was edited and phanpy just refreshed it instantl…
You know who else dealt with people "as efficiently as Amazon moves packages"?
The Nazis.
We call it the Holocaust.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-wareho…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@raymondcamden/116172243094546060
Oh, cool! I hope they have RSS or JSON feeds, now?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116374316280671158
If, like me, you found @…’s weekly reading lists valuable, you c…
RE: https://toot.cafe/@soapdog/116290204253136215
“So it failed age verification and locked me out of many features. Bear in mind, I am 45 years old. I have an Apple account for 25 years, the age of my personal account alone should already verify my age.
C…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/116338759182329901
I saw an email this morning announcing this, and I was very tempted.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116026050478540983
Me looking at every ‘cool’ new CSS trick by some CSS influencer (typically funded by a major browser vendor or astroturfing another ill-advised CSSWG feature).
RE: #SotB2026
RE: https://mastodon.strangeparts.com/@strangeparts/116166361150953553
Something new to watch while eating lunch
Quote from “Kaine & Rubio Applaud Adoption of Their Amendment to the NDAA to Prevent Any U.S. President from Leaving NATO” 19 July 2023:
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/k…
RE: https://yatil.social/@yatil/116357204014446753
This kind of reminds of when I wrote how you cannot trust screen reader speech history / logs for testing and a SR maker told me they aren’t meant to be used for testing and then a few months later released a p…
RE: #buckyfuller sessions is you never hear anyone leave 😊
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mgifford/116106634552309135
(I asked Mike on LinkedIn.)
Has anyone tried this, measured outcomes?
Asking because:
Remember anything at Forbes•com/sites is paid content, not journalism. These articles are often wrong (as first quote shows) and have an agenda (as in second quote).
“Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2
RE: #Apple has left, but the whole thing with #Microsoft handing over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI shows that these companies are not out for your best interests **AT ALL**. They will throw you under the bus in an instant if they can make a buck from it.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116175531453868940
alt 1: WaPo on Bluesky, “To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.
Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the…
RE: https://toot.wales/@strangetown/116257342771671413
[cue intro drums to "Rock Of Ages" by Def Leppard]
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115928676750024260
Man, those were the days.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/115980598322775231
I’m thinking of a weekend trip to see State of the Browser. On a mountain with crap reception right now, so lazy-webbing to see if anyone can suggest a hotel by The Barbican Centre before I drop coin on airfare…
RE: #overlay company that fabricated clients, testimonials, and ratings:
RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/115963168035856698
It would be sad if Rad Power Bikes just went away.
RE: https://toot.wales/@jaz/116216187362178051
How do I loath thee, AI slop?
Let me count the ways.
I loath thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757
alt: Github historic uptime showing 100% from August 2016 to November 2018, marked by Microsoft acquisition; from there uptime starts to drop, hitting 100% for the last time in October 2019 an…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116116405779180824
I'm enjoying this toot at the wrong temperature.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671
I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’.
Animated GIF alt:
App menu − Settings − AI Controls − “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle).
Then scroll down and find …
RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/116318264667230675
Ricky continues to produce useful content from within the combined husk of Vispero / TPGuy.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116281291700417210
I found a ‘listen to this article’ in the wild.
RE: #SOTB2026 on Saturday, Jet-lagged and confused.
If you feel I’ve wronged you…
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/115944623415073771
My site is still up, so you know, this is here waiting for you…
RE: https://w3c.social/@w3c/116137172471219976
Sadly, I’m flying out shortly before this. But maybe a London local wants to show up in my stead?
You just need to say, “What?,” “I don’t understand,” and “Where’s the tea?”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@accesstive_/116131242683166202
Just a few months ago I found this company might have been fabricating reviews and ratings:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anatudor/116300003700481904
A rare case where the `aria-label` *not* auto-translating might be a win for the user.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116120698867530592
The “Average Accessibility Defects” number goes down with some guidance, but right back up with expert guidance.
Wondering if experts try to coach it (versus hand-wavy requests) and …
RE: https://mastodon.social/@photomatt/116280725292869010
It’s nice to have advance notice to block everything hosted at WordPress.com.
RE: https://nerdculture.de/@ichbindabomb/116270450448669932
For the lady in the photo, this is a very passive way to immanentize the eschaton.
She could be taking a more active part. Like going there. Doesn’t really matter for which army.
B…
RE: https://front-end.social/@css/115933259166796491
Ok, apparently there are dueling implementations.
This one handles internationalization better than the one I shared last night, but this one works less well in forced-colors mode.
Qualifier: I …
RE: https://social.lol/@tylersticka/115928487631993305
This is a neat visual effect.
If you use it to replace a legend / fieldset (such as in a form) for even more novel styles, then make sure you give the wrapper an `aria-labelledby` pointing at the …
RE: https://front-end.social/@grigs/116262197138180764
I repeatedly feel validated that I abandoned Google Search (and many / most Google products) years ago.
Bummer for readers who get to my site via Google, burning forests to turn my nonsense techni…
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116308040817764131
Little did Huxley or Orwell suspect we'd get both