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The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.

IT IS TIME

"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."

COME

"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"

YES

"Fondly?"

I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE

"No, but you spend some time with them after, like now."

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Death halted.

THERE WAS ONE, TEN YEARS AGO. HE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN

"To be where the rising ape meets the falling angel?"

AH. I HEAR YOU HAVE MET HIM TOO

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#GNUTerryPratchett #MicroFiction #TootFic



No law says you have to like dwarfs and trolls,' said Goodmountain.
'Yes, but there ought to be a law against disliking them the way he does.'
'Ah. Now you've drawn me a picture.'
'Maybe you've heard the term "lesser races"?'
'And now you've coloured it in.

Terry Pratchett, The Truth



I lived long enough to see a President of the United States sweatily try to sell me a new car. Everything around me has finally completed its transformation into a Paul Verhoeven movie
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in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

Paul Verhoeven? You're giving this version of reality too much credit. This is more like the Mike Judge directed prequel to Idiocracy.




Zit je niet op Signal, want "ik heb toch niks te verbergen..."?

Antwoord op die vraag en meer over #privacy, #AI en waarom #Signal voor iedereen goed is💙:

👉 youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg

Bij 48:00 🇳🇱 🚀

#signalapp #privacy #tech #sxsw via @Mer__edith




Further proof we are in the stupid timeline:

It should not be possible for a simple on-off switch to crash and refuse to disconnect the power.

in reply to TundraWolf

This is obviously a definition of "simple" I was not aware of...


also

"fuck you, *uses the furry avatar in your refinement meeting*"

in reply to Faye

Makes as much sense as "RTO will enhance productivity", right?
in reply to Faye

I would be more inclined to head into the office on the office Fursuit Friday than on most other days, for sure.


One thing many software developers, especially web, seem incapable of understanding is that a tool can provide a productivity benefit to the dev individually—improve the developer experience if you will—while at the same time having a catastrophic effect in the software product as a whole.

Devs didn’t learn this with React and I personally doubt LLMs will be any different.

in reply to Baldur Bjarnason

you seem to be describing most of the people at the company where I work right now.
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason

They also often don't understand that some tools take a few days to setup but can ease a lot of stress and improve productivity a lot.

I worked at a terrible startup. Our CTO and frontend devs would constantly interrupt us asking us to change api responses. "I want this feature and for this demo." etc.

I proposed we set up graphql so that they can get whatever they want from the db. They were like "nooo but my precious demos. Our vcs will not like it if we don't show anything for a week. "

It's the same "we need to keep shipping" mentality that is responsible for devs and companies abusing llms.



They turned America into a shopping channel and the White House into a used-car dealership in less than 3 months. I'm predicting that in less than 6 months the White House will have a casino, a lap-dancing club and a segregated steakhouse offering Anti-Woke-Burger meal deals.

#Trump #Musk #USA



Is Concern Over Security Overrated?


The average user may believe that all the hype they read about security on the internet is overrated. To be honest some of it is and some of it is just to sell you a product you do not need.

In the case of Internet Facing Services this is not the case. If you have an internet facing service then you have to be sure your server is secure. This is why I insist on SELinux on my servers. AppArmor is easier to configure though not as configurable as SELinux for as many cases. I would also strongly suggest you never disable SELinux (or AppArmor if that is what you are using) to ease installation and implementation. It is not worth the risk. Just learn to use your Gnu/Linux Hardening system to its fullest extent. Do not disable it.

I have attached a screenshot of an ssh session to my VPS. As you can see every few seconds an attack fails. This is why the security is required.

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in reply to Unus Nemo

yeah, you can customize that limit to whatever you like though ;)
in reply to Samuel Lison

@Samuel Lison

Yes, I kind of figured that though I do not see the point of running both a friendica and mastodon instance. I cannot afford another VPS and I would rather not divide up the resources further than I already have. Friendica really uses a lot of memory too.



Tariffs are bad for business, and worse for consumers.

We regret the unjustified 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports imposed by the United States worth $28 billion.

We are responding with countermeasures worth up to €26 billion.

Nobody needs that – on both sides, neither the European Union nor the United States.

In a world fraught with uncertainties, it is not in our common interest to burden our economies with tariffs.

More: europa.eu/!rcMqWy

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elgregor

@omegaprobe @pluralistic Interesting, thanks!

The conclusion is at the end of the article. TL;DR: EU Copyright Directive was passed because it then US wouldn't put tariffs on EU goods. Its article 6 prevents jailbreaking iPhones and Teslas, cracking DRM, etc. Abolishing it costs us nothing, but it would hurt the intellectual monopolies of US and unleash a new wave of creative companies.

in reply to elgregor

As an American citizen, I'm begging Europeans to stop respecting US IP law.

One sure fire way to galvanize more of our corporations against this stupid trade war.

@elgregor @omegaprobe @EUCommission @pluralistic




ちんちんはやっぱ去勢すべき(?


まちちゃ…お願い下の何時頃できそう?



おらんすきーに対抗して。インランスキー作るか


すらいちゃんのアクセつけたよ。


Oh my, reply fetching is finally merged to Mastodon: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

Giant kudos to @jonny!






アルコール中毒で死ぬかな?わんちゃん


直腸飲酒はガチでやばいらしいのでやめたほうがいいすよ



mまずいローションあるんですよ。


#Cybertruck Owners Are Asking Congressional Reps To Protect Them From People Who Don’t Like Cybertruck Owners - techdirt.com/2025/03/11/cybert… totally normal behaviour #musk


お酒は肛門から接種するものだよ(


新しいローション届いたけど美味しかったよ(?)


This is a test message on my Castopod instance.
in reply to The Spore Trail

nice, works. I'll be using this to share sounds of nature that I record with my sound equipment while I am out hiking. This will include birds, river sounds and other forest sounds of interest.

I may even try and combine sounds to make relaxing meditation sounds for sleep or even light music.




Cuts to foreign-aid to agencies like #USAID undermine a crucial foreign-policy tool—soft power—that is often undervalued or ignored within the Trump administration. A political science professor explains why it’s often better than dropping bombs
#diplomacy
buff.ly/UYbX43Z
in reply to The Conversation U.S.

Yeah, understanding that going about killing people creates enemies whereas aid forges alliances really requires seriously advanced intellectual capabilities, apparently.
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While Loops is open source, a lot of the recent updates haven't been published yet.

I will fix that. It's not that I'm trying to centralize or control everything, I just struggle with imposter syndrome and my code quality.

This is why it's taken 4 iterations of the Pixelfed app before it was open sourced, but now I'm more confident and continue to grow and evolve as a developer.

I will do better, I promise!



Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving - theguardian.com/music/2025/mar… this is true of all #copyright companies: a few successes, most artists struggling. more here: walledculture.org/the-book/



Look I'm a simple human, all I want is the ability to shoot lasers at people, a power I can TOTALLY BE TRUSTED WITH.


unpopular opinion but ecom bros are worse than crypto bros


The fediverse is pretty special.

Nothing beats an unexpected DM full of advice from one of your heroes.

I can't believe they even know about me, and yeah that wisdom they so eloquently advised was so on point.

They advised me to develop Loops and Sup in the open, and gain trust by showing my work.

Despite my imposter syndrome, I know I can do this and be better.

So I will 💪

in reply to Daniel Supernault

@Daniel Supernault

One thing that may help with your impostor syndrome would be to be sure you setup GitHub to allow you to sign your commits. You have to create a gpg key and then furnish the public key to them. The instructions are online. In this way you can prove your code is yours.

I have attached a screenshot that shows you were in your setting that you can configure this. They have very detailed instructions on how to set this up, just click the link below the GPG section.