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• Post #4475227

  Everyone thinks everything has gotten worse Here’s some things that actually haven’t: Weather forecasting: it’s better than everSolar: cheaper than natural gasCoal: essentially dying from not being cheaper than natgas or solarTimekeeping: now accurate over galactic timescales Flash storage: surpassing spinning rustPublic transit ridership in the US: Amtrak is posting the best numbers everUnion membership in the US: risingMurder rates: falling in the US and worldwide on average, believe it or no...

• Post #4441653

  Little known fact: XML was invented by Dr. Xavier Markup-Langley, who wanted a bloated and complex format that was still not as complex as SGML. It also was fuelled by his rivalry with Samuel Godwin Markup-Langley, his cousin and creator of SGML.

• Post #4437359

  You shouldn't use AI to communicate with another human being. I understand paraphrasing and copypasting things. We all do that. Anyone who says they don't is a liar or a smartass. But plagiarism is defined as wholesale copying of what someone else wrote without putting it in your own words. Why would doing this with AI be any more acceptable?

• Post #4388392

  Lest you think that union-busting is strictly a private sector activity, my best friend works for one of the University of California’s libraries. She is paid way less to work for their library than a normal person in her job would be, by policy, just because it’s the library. About 40% less. The university told her that’s just how they do things and that was policy. The library unionised. The school tried to bust the union. Correspondence about it “mysteriously” disappeared. They stated their...

• Post #4382427

  I don't think tech is "cooked" because of AI. How can a field that was ruined by capital long ago fall any further from grace?

• Post #4376146

  Sometimes I think about the fact I let two furry and ridiculous guys who I knew would act like they owned the place the moment they settled in and demand their own food and their own place to poop into my home on purpose, knowing they’d do all this and need all this. I love my kitties tho.

• Post #4361857

  The concept of "man-made horrors beyond my comprehension" got me thinking... What if, a three-axis system: X: Natural ↔ Man-made Y: Understandable ↔ Beyond comprehension Z: Horrific ↔ Delightful Natural horror beyond comprehension: supervolcano Man-made horror beyond comprehension: the modern economy Natural horror within understanding: those spiders in Australia the size of dinner plates Man-made horror within understanding: VX nerve gas Natural delight beyond comprehension: mo...

• Post #4322537

  People meme about quitting vim. But why would you want to exit vim?

• Post #4253363

  Imagine showing someone from the 30's ChatGPT. "Wow! There must be a lot of little old ladies doing that!" "They're... not..." "Well what's doing it?" "A computer." "Oh. You mean a person???" "... I do not. We made rocks think in the 50's and it's all gone to shit since then."

• Post #4194592

  The thing about arguing with fascists is you are assuming that it'll be like the fascists are going to play a fair game of chess with you but instead they're just eating the pieces.

• Post #4186253

  Oh shit, M7.1 earthquake in Kyushu, Japan https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgewg24qgnjo

• Post #4165921

  When I hear centrist I think the kind of person who would say something like "it's too extreme to throw trannies in a woodchipper, no I prefer the moderate position of just making it illegal to be trans and if you're caught being trans you're tossed in a mental hospital instead."

• Post #4165913

  I figured it might actually be time to explain myself about this. I release most of my software CC0/Unlicense because I want my software to belong to the commons. The things I don't, I have a deliberate reason to do. The thing is... I don't make much stuff that a company would likely want to "steal." What company will want a beep program? Or an optimising brainfuck interpreter/compiler? Or a regex crate? Or an async wrapper around getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo()? What's the...

• Post #4165268

  People are like "you shouldn't use GitHub" Well that's what everyone expects you to use and also basically all the contracts I take on use it That's where people look for your portfolio and contributions I don't just do this for a hobby. I do this for work. This is my job.

• Post #4142940

  Those "brain in a dish" experiments weird me out. They be thinkin', but they not am.

• Post #4129450

  Meanwhile, in Oklahoma. My friend sent me this She asked, "is the ice machine broken?" "No."

• Post #4128532

  SPD identified the 2 year old victim to KOMO, which they are NOT SUPPOSED TO DO without consulting the family KOMO then identified the child, TWICE, in violation of journalistic standards SPD still has not briefed the public on the shooting despite making two arrests. Fuck KOMO. Fuck SPD.

• Post #4111312

  I heard someone was trying to replace serde in Rust. I too would like to see dtolnay's empire collapse. If anyone knows what that project is, let me know, I will be VERY pleased to contribute.

• Post #4107725

  When I explained what being a therian means to my girlfriend she asked if it was like being trans. I tend to be cautious of such comparisons because it makes a lot of trans people who believe their dysphoria is the only dysphoria ever invented very angry. But honestly I'm kinda tired of these people being delicate about it. One source of anger is "how could this possibly be real?" Well transphobes say the same thing about gender dysphoria, so I won't entertain this argument...

• Post #4104689

  After seeing r/MyBoyfriendIsAI I just realised how far mental health care in America and honestly most of the west has fallen

• Post #4080973

  Everyone wants FOSS maintainers to work on shit by hand, thanklessly fixing bugs and especially security bugs immediately for decades, propping up something they need for work, for enthusiast use, etc. No one wants to pay them a damn dime to do it though. You ever stop to think about how fucked up and entitled that is?

• Post #4079118

  Installed compiz effects on my windows in my house and now all my windows broke into hundreds of pieces when I closed them send help

• Post #4069363

  I don't think people understand the scale at which slop is in everything now. It isn't "just a few projects." It's literally tons of projects. Linux kernel. hidapi. libusb. Windows. MANY Rust libraries. Alpine Linux. Fedora. Ubuntu. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head, there are countless more. It's basically impossible to avoid slop now. Like I do not mean difficult, I mean if you work in this space, you are dealing with something coded by...

• Post #4069050

  Australia now generates so much power via solar that they must offer electricity three hours a day. THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT RENEWABLES. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/30/solar-sharer-offer-sso-three-free-hours-electricity-power-energy-australia

• Post #4066971

  Hot take: I actually... like Fedora's security posture? I used to not give a fuck about security but in recent years... yeaaah I do. Because well... *points to everything going on rn*. I update daily, I encrypt my drives, I use secure boot, I use the TPM on this thing for signed DKMS for nvidia and other keys, I actually *like* SELinux even if it was confusing at first, I have considered seccomp support in things I write (I even wrote a demonstration echo daemon that uses seccomp). I wish...

• Post #4066692

  People assume everyone in the South and the Midwest are just conservative fascists hicks. I can tell you that is very much not true.

• Post #4055076

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/biohacker-bryan-johnson-says-cloned-131411098.html What the fuck Not as unethical as say harvesting organs but what the fuck

• Post #4054887

  I also wish schools taught people how propaganda works. Like the psychological tricks they use.

• Post #4053276

  There's a bug with markdown in glitch-soc. Steps to reproduce: Make a list with ten entries. It doesn't show up in the timeline view but shows up in the posts and replies view.Like so.yea.I don't know what else to say here already. Trust me the bug will speak for itselfNOTHING BEATS A JET2 HOLIDAYYOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTERidk what else to put here← there's the bug. ← also

• Post #4051105

  Got a steel I-beam through the chest they call it an industrial piercing 😎