I wonder what it would be like to design a phone keyboard specifically to be used with vim
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You know you're at a good barbeque place if there's one of these at the table
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Google Mail / "GMail" has no fewer than nine settings for "Smart Features and Personalization", e.g., Gemini. I have these all turned off in order to prevent Gemini ingesting my emails. To do this, you now have to opt out of benign machine-learning or even pattern-matching-based features, like sorting promotional emails from regular ones or spellcheck.
Despite this, as of today, Google is offering a Gemini smart compose feature on all my emails, despite me having turned off smart compose.
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Once again I am filled with an all-consuming anger toward the security exploit known as "Android Auto"
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The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
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By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil
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RE: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot
I want this but as a Linux distribution. I don't think I'm asking for much here. I am just asking for the "open source community" to be to the left of Goldman Sachs
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My gut feeling is if he'd been the Democratic nominee in 1988 the things that are terrible now would have turned out okay
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Me: I want to do thing
Website: Fill out this long form to do thing
Me: OK
Website: Ok before we finish do you want to log in
Me: Yes
Website: In order to log in you need to make an account. Do you want to
Me: Yes
Website: You already have an account. Do you want to reset the password
Me: Yes
Website: Okay. You're logged into the website.
Me: What about thing
Website: What?
Me: The thing we were doing
Website: What thing?
I BET IF I CREATED A WEBSITE I COULD AVERT THIS PROBLEM
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It just this second occurred to me to draw a connection between "Generative AI" and "Liquid Glass" as two technologies which have the effect of making everything appear to be covered in a thin layer of slime
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*Watching a science fiction movie of dubious quality*
Me: They really understood the right way to use smoke machines in the 80s.
Christine: Pretty sure this is the 90s.
Me: The 90s was when the 80s were perfected.
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Fellow tech workers: The librarians are roasting us on Mastodon and we have no plausible defense
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I have deeply mixed feelings about # ActivityPub 's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building # Fedify . Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of
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@hongminhee How hard would it be for a future version of ActivityPub to simply back out JSON-LD support? Would there be a downside to this?
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@mcc@mastodon.social I just finished listening to the “Not Violent Witch” playlist and it is so good! Thank you!
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social note: if you literally mean you found the playlist on tidal, be advised that two of the 3 EPs are currently unavailable on tidal and so what actually happened is you just listen
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@mcc@mastodon.social I built the playlist on Apple Music, taking the liberty of naming it “Not Violent Witch”. Here it is, should anyone wants to listen to it. https://music.apple.com/cl/playlist/not-
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social This is great thank you for this public service
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@mcc@mastodon.social I just finished listening to the “Not Violent Witch” playlist and it is so good! Thank you!
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social note: if you literally mean you found the playlist on tidal, be advised that two of the 3 EPs are currently unavailable on tidal and so what actually happened is you just listened to the single EP "bad witch". Which honestly. Is a very good idea that I endorse doing
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You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).
You don't use open source software because it's freer (it only sometimes is).
You don't use open source software because it's got better politics (it isn't always).
You use open source software because *it is the only option*. In the long run, if it isn't open source, it doesn't exist.
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Me: I'm so glad I moved into Canada just in time to avoid the wave of food safety issues in the US caused by conservatives cutting funding to food safety inspections and laying inspectors off
Mark Carney: https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/115997955732284738
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The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censoring attempt paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most Zoomers would probably have never heard of if not for the Streisand Effect
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@mcc@mastodon.social you seem to have found one of these beauties. https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115684331787065043
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social the humorous thing is this is also the page where you order replacement parts so they'd be literally giving up a funding stream if they allowed this page to be broken
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Actually wait I just thought about this and realized that the precise timing of the ACTUAL GitHub seed bank, by which I mean the Arctic Code Vault, on 2020-02-02, makes it more or less a perfect snapshot of pre-Copilot GitHub. Also precisely timed before we all got brain damage from COVID. This is the only remaining archive of source code by people with a fully working sense of smell
"Low-background steel" "Low-desperation code"
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lolsob. Developer attempts to replicate liquid glass in CSS and in the process accidentally discovers a novel and rather serious browser vulnerability
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
( via @citrusui@mastodon.social )
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Do you remember Left Shark. Sometimes I still think about Left Shark. Anyway it just occurred to me a good headcanon would be that Left Shark went on to become Blåhaj. It would explain a lot and the timelines line up
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What you need to understand is getting into advanced mathematics is like hanging out with a bunch of stoners
MATHEMATICIAN 1: Hey
MATHEMATICIAN 2: Wha
M1: You know how like… in an irrational number… the digits after the decimal… they go on forever
M2: Yeah
M1: Like they just go on forever
M2: I know man
M1: Well what if they went on forever to the left
M2: What
M1: What if there was a number… and it went on forever after the decimal… and also forever before the decimal
M2: Duuuuude
M1: Duuuuude
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As a reminder if you are looking for a alternative web browser not controlled by AI cultists,
https://servo.org/
has various ways to set up a recurring donation!
I am not involved with Servo, and I don't know for a fact they will never let you down. What I can tell you is they
- Rejected a plan to allow AI contributions
- Allow gender-neutral pronouns in documentation¹
- Are designed from word go for embeddability, meaning they will always be easier to fork than Firefox or Chromium.
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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, a
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Microsoft likes to show popups bragging about all the new viruses that they snuck onto your computer
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Toronto posting:
Hey, what the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck
https://globalnews.ca/news/11518120/facial-detecting-ads-toronto-near-union-station/
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I love how the public library is a space with power outlets and wifi where you are allowed to simply exist for a period of several hours without spending money
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I wrote a thread another day about how my attempts to look for racy manga got derailed into somehow just finding a lot of highly satisfying (but non-18+) slow-burn office lady yuri. Somebody replied saying they wanted to read the satisfying slow-burn office lady yuri. I wrote a mini-thread with my recommendations:
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This Tuesday Florida had a primary and in one state house district a transgender woman named Ashley Brundage won the Dem nomination. The district's competitive and she may well win. If she does she'll be like the fifth or seventh trans person to serve in a state legislature in the US, but it feels like it'll be especially meaningful to have it happen in the state with one of the most vigorous ongoing efforts to strip trans people of rights and purge them out of the state
https://www.advocate.com/election/ashley-brundage-wins-florida-primary
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