Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

No exact results. Similar results found.
@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-05-29 16:32:56

Startled to find out that there are young people who haven't read James Iry's magnificent "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages". Please drop what you're doing and head over.
james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

@trezzer@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-31 06:18:14

#SilentSunday

A tiled path leads to a clearing with a bench drenched in warm sunlight from a blue-grey sky. Small pieces of greenery are on the right and left with the earth otherwise mostly clear and a light brown, and an old, strong three is on the opposite side of the bench. The end of the path is rounded off by a slightly raised edge, and beyond it is mostly green, but you can make out roofs of a few houses as well a small part of a lake if you know where it is.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-29 08:10:38

A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (Max Miller/Engadget)
engadget.com/2203000/flock-cam

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast - Engadget
Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-04-01 01:37:47

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in providence, the middle night of 3. going mostly well until someone whips a bottle through kreutzmann’s kick drum. spring ’86, show #10.
soundboard: archive.org/details/gd1986-03-

Grateful Dead backstage pass with Year of the Ox art
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-05-30 23:14:23

Heilige Scheiße! I have finished a mostly coherent conference paper 36 (even 38!) hours before I'm scheduled to speak. So this is what being a rock star feels like, eh?

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-04-29 11:55:51

Good summary/reality check:
Reality check 1: Economic disruption is already locked in and growing daily.
Reality check 2: There’s barely a peace process and the sides aren’t close.
Reality check 3: Events are mostly out of Trump’s control.
ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-

3 reality checks about Trump’s Iran strategy
Nicholas Grossman: The president isn’t playing 4D chess and what his war has already broken in the global economy won’t be easily fixed — if it gets fixed at all.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-29 20:35:49

Trump's Latest Ballroom Push Is His Nero Moment (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
thenation.com/article/politics
memeorandum.com/260429/p120#a2

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2026-06-29 17:21:58

RE: infosec.exchange/@ifin/1168345
Hot take but TLD-blocking is mostly just enforcing US hegemony.
It was that when it was .biz and .xyz that everyone was blocking.
Maybe if you're gonna do that get the registrar and block domains based on that.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-29 10:15:57

Cash-rich AI startups fuel a boom in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market; many offices have more vacant desks than workers, as startups prepare to scale (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-30 03:10:47

The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
thenation.com/article/politics
memeorandum.com/260429/p162#a2