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iwein

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Regenerative Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Squads.com, Voedselboskabouters.nl. I know my way around computers, trees, physics, fungi a little bit. I'm not so good with humans and other domestic animals, but I'll try to be nice.

I make bad jokes and have strong weird opinions, so
remember: you don't owe me any attention.

Spawned at 336ppm

Disciplined #antiFascist, aspiring #anarchist.

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@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Comment 🐧

What's your favourite thing about Linux?
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iwein ,
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@itsfoss not being exploited by the

@europeanspodcast@mastodon.social avatar europeanspodcast , to random

We're crowdsourcing: Who is Europe’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?

Left-wing politicians who:
✅ Nail social media
✅ Challenge the establishment
✅ Speak to everyday struggles

Who stands out in your country?

iwein ,
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@europeanspodcast one Dutch example is @estherouwehand of @PartijvoordeDieren

I wish they'd get their social media ethics right though.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Aviation emissions are usually seen as a technological issue; more efficient planes, better (sustainable) aviation fuel etc is the answer..... but what if organisational issues would make a more immediate impact:

reduce the number of semi-filled/empty flights (require all flights to be full to at least more fully booked);

reduce or even abolish business class, both expanding passenger numbers per flight (less flights) & putting off business travellers.


https://theconversation.com/scrapping-business-class-could-halve-aviation-emissions-new-study-275474

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@ChrisMayLA6 I would feel a missed opportunity if I didn't point out the option simply finally taxing kerosine in this context.

And yes, banning classism in public transportation sounds like a great idea for many reasons.

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to random

Well he has done it and keeps on doing it because the entire world is bunch of cowards and complicit in his crimes

Jürgen Nauditt on X.com: I am allowed to destroy a country. I am even allowed to impose a destructive embargo on a foreign country. I can do whatever I want -Trump. Trump is completely insane. TEXT"POTUS" TO 45470 FOR UPDATES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE * THE WHITE HOUSE
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iwein ,
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@faab64 💯 Is he allowed? Well yes, apparently. Can he do whatever he wants? Well yes, apparently.

He's a criminal, for sure, but I don't think an insanity plea would work here.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Having a tremendously difficult day, chums. My instinct is to clam up and go all internal and self-destructive, but that is a very stupid idea and so I am telling you instead. I'M HAVING A REALLY HORRIBLE TIME AT THE MOMENT AND TODAY IS PARTICULARLY BAD. If you are moved to, I wondered if you had any good news or funny memes or pics you might like to offload onto an Internet needy. LOVE YOU. ❤️

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@iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

Two simple chilling facts

  1. There's four orders of magnitude more solar energy available than we need to power civilization.

https://norden.social/@hart/116079729462399297

  1. Most of the emissions that are causing civilization to collapse are caused by fossil fuel industry and transport itself.

https://norden.social/@hart/116079723621384871

The conclusion that fossil fuels are the main enemy of humanity is not far fetched at all at this point.


/ht @hart

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116045913018556966

I understand where they are coming from but that is way too much of a technological framing. Even an encrypted open source Internet can be super unsafe to exist in.

Safety comes from social and political structures and decisions that technology can support.

iwein ,
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@tante serendipity on my feed

@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar futurebird , (edited ) to random

It turns out that fungus growing termites sometimes cultivate Termitomyces titanicus. This is an excellent scientific name.

CORRECTION:
I assumed they had to work like ants. Wrong! (A fruiting body would only emerge from a dead ant colony not so with these termites) Something about macrotermitinaes nuptial flights stimulates mushroom fruiting. (!) They get covered in pink spores.

And you can eat it!

Hence the species name.

A man holding a huge mushroom about the size of a small parasol. He also has an ax, possibly to harvest the large mushrooms.
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iwein ,
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@ethan256 check this out! could this mini system survive in and perhaps be invited to the @sustainable_schools plot? When I found out about this mushroom a few years back it has inspired me, and now it has exponentially increased it's awesomeness by the symbiosis with termites. I mean, can any living thing be cooler than this!? 🤯

@futurebird

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

One thing that Fedi has taught me, it's that it's OK to think some of your own posts are funny and to boost them. Or maybe not and this is insane and I'm the only person doing it and should be locked up and studied. 👍

iwein ,
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@TheBreadmonkey it works even better if you get a really popular account to boost your funny and/or amazing posts ... Oh wait 😁

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social ( @8124 ) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.

They just sent the posts attached.

They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.

It is not limited or suspended on mastodon.social meaning that their libellous posts have the potential of percolating to mastodon.social’s 258K active users and beyond.

At this point, I will be taking legal advice about what my options are.

I would also urge you, if you have been making posts in opposition to Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and/or posts critical of Israel and/or Zionism to:

  1. Look through @8124 ’s timeline

  2. Screenshot any posts you find where your posts have been quoted and you are being defamed and categorised as antisemitic with the inclusion of the hashtag.

  3. Please send me those screenshots to [email protected] as evidence to be used in possible future legal proceedings.

Please also let me know if you would be interested in being part of a group action if such a legal option exists for us to take.

I have had enough of this.

Thank you.

CC @staff

Screenshot of 8124’s timeline showing two of my post highlighted and labelled as antisemitic.
Screenshot of 8124’s timeline showing two of my post highlighted and labelled as antisemitic.
Screenshot of 8124’s timeline showing two of my post highlighted and labelled as antisemitic.

Screenshot of 8124’s timeline showing two of my post highlighted and labelled as antisemitic.
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iwein ,
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@aral
You mean this one? Looks like they blocked me or something I guess. And thanks, I'll have a look into it, because they're probably not happy with me 🙂

@staff

@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social avatar nogodsnomasters , to random
Anarchismis not a romantic fablebut the hardheaded realization,based on five thousand yearsof experience, that we cannotentrust the management ofour lives to kings, priests,politicians, generals, andcounty commissionersEdward Abbey
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iwein ,
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@demofox before that, most humans were living in anarchy. You know: prancing about, hugging their friends, sitting at the fire eating some food and generally having a pretty good time without jails and taxes.

@nogodsnomasters

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

If I ate meat I don't reckon dog food would be all that bad

iwein ,
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@TheBreadmonkey I've tried, it's pretty bad, ok-ish to survive on in a famine, yes. But bad, really bad, low end fast food level bad.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

So COP30 has concluded an agreement, but of course there's no 'road map'... so once again we have pious words but no settled multilateral plan to get to targets

Individual countries can of course do what they wish, but while the difficulties of reaching a consensus on rhetoric have been (partly) surmounted (again), a proper (enforceable?) action plan proved (unsurprisingly) too difficult... the fossil fuel lobbyists will see this as 'job done' no doubt.

h/t FT

iwein ,
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@Shivviness @ChrisMayLA6 as long as BigOil is better represented than any country, you will inevitably be spot on with your judgement.

It begs the question however, why we (the people) cannot organise a summit without any fossil representation and simply shut those companies down with force.

We are not powerless victims here. We made this machine, and we can break it.

(I'm assuming you know this, but I will hammer this point any chance I get 🙂)

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

What a super weird interaction and block. In response to my post about the news referring to children as underage girls (re the Epstein files), this person got a bee in their bonnet about why the difference matters. They asked me to explain because they're not an English speaker, which I did in a clear and I thought friendly way. To which they responded with this. I can't work out what their issue is. 🤷

This person saying "If you wanted to come across as an Ai, you couldn't possibly have done any better."

This person saying "If you wanted to come across as an Ai, you couldn't possibly have done any better."
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iwein ,
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@TheBreadmonkey I know you're too nice for this, but this was an excellent opportunity to go into childish ai name calling back and forth:

You're AI!

  • no, YOU're AI!
    No you're AI
  • no you're AI, a thousand times, of course!

And then: a playground fight.

@Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

WARNING: Long post and NO point, but a very real example of what it's like to try to have a conversation with me...

To start, I have autism and ADHD (AuDHD) and I just had a conversation with a stranger that's a pretty typical conversation I have where I start talking about something I care a LOT about but then get ten words in and uncontrollably switch to a different topic and keep repeating that pattern until the other person manages to escape.

Here's a near transcription of my last conversation that started earlier this evening at a show for a band I like called The Beths where I was wearing a t-shirt for an adjacent band called ALVVAYS and saw another person wearing a different ALVVAYS shirt:

Me: I like your ALVVAYS shirt! Did you see The Beths open for ALVVAYS the last time they were in California?

Them: Yeah! I saw both at The Greek in Berkeley!

Me: Cool! I saw them both in Oakland!

Them: Neat! I went for ALVVAYS and The Beths opened and I really liked them!

Me: Me too! I've been listening to ALVVAYS for years, but didn't know about The Beths until they opened and I really liked them which is why I’m here now!

(This is where AuDHD Alice kicks in)

Me (continuing): I was JUST thinking about the chain of events that lead to me being here, so it was that ALVVAYS show where The Beths opened and I wouldn't have even known about ALVVAYS if my coworker hadn't introduced me to them about ten years ago.

The reason my coworker mentioned them is because I was wearing a Jawbreaker shirt so he realized we liked similar music and thought I might like ALVVAYS and he was totally right!

The reason I was wearing a Jawbreaker shirt is because we worked for a scrappy startup in the Bay Area where nobody cared about anything and you could wear whatever you wanted as long as you got your job done.

I got that job because I used to work for Yelp because my former Yelp coworker started working for that startup and referred me.

I got the job at Yelp because my mom had stage 4 cancer and was DYING so I moved from Chicago to Phoenix to take care of her and Yelp had a location in Arizona so I interviewed and I got that job.

I'm pretty sure I got the job because my resume used Avenir as the font and the hiring manager liked it.

We also talked about The Neverending Story which is one of my favorite movies and apparently one of his, so we bonded because I mentioned job interviews making me feel like Atreyu trying to run through those laser shooting sculptures and he said he totally got it and somehow I still got the job.

That job eventually lead me to the startup which brought me to the coworker who introduced me to ALVVAYS which introduced me to The Beths and that's why I’m here now.

How did you find out about The Beths?

Them: Oh. Uh. Just that ALVVAYS show where The Beths opened, as I previously mentioned.

Me: Oh okay good talk have a nice night.

iwein ,
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@ganbatte @Alice I can assure you there are people reading this and going: "ooh nice, I'm not alone", or just have a friendly chuckle or something.

If you get on someone's nerves with this they can solve their problem by reading something else, right?

Thanks for sharing.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

“For some time I’ve been saying that the storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism. They are obviously and consequentially different barbarisms—one had reproductive freedom, vaccines, and trans health care in it, at least for a while—and I can tell you why I have sincerely preferred one to the other. But we oughtn’t to kid ourselves. From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms.”

https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

iwein ,
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@aral "I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."

That quote deserves some love. Got a good chuckle out of me 🙂

Thanks for sharing 🙇‍♀️

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

That's because it IS a scam. It's a leashold with only 88 years left, with five grand a year on service and ground rent. If she doesn't meet the minimum requirement she keeps the flat and half the raffle money. Anything over and she keeps whatever, minus some costs. Look - I wish her all the best with her endeavour and imagine it's hard out there, but it's not NOT a scam. I will sell raffle tickets for £5 for me to change my name to whatever you want. My entire identity gone forever if that's what you want. My minimum goal is one million pounds. If I don't achieve that, I keep half and will choose a lucky winner for the rest and will remain Ben. If we hit a million pounds sure do whatever you like. Call me whatever you want.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/02/im-selling-london-flat-5-know-sounds-like-a-scam-24595155/

iwein ,
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@TheBreadmonkey doesn't make any sense to me, but certainly is a scam.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

So D66 beat Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party in the Dutch election & so will now attempt to form a coalition Govt.

As the horse trading begins & the key will be how to keep the Freedom Party at a distance while also working to form a Govt. that can successfully continue draining votes from the FP.

The difficulty will be if they adopt the UK Labour line of Right-imitation, which if they look over the channel, they should see has not gone well.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/31/netherlands-election-d66-rob-jetten-politics

iwein ,
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@ChrisMayLA6 let's hope that's not wishful thinking 🙂

@iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

Is it possible to follow a thread here?

Let's say someone asks a question and I want notifications for the answers coming in, but I am not invited to join the conversation. How do I get notified?

@FediTips

iwein OP ,
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@FediTips thanks. I was afraid of that.

I guess your proposed solution would only work for me if I had notifications on the bookmarks. That could be implemented on a client and made configurable, so there's hope that other answers are out there 🙏

@iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

Bad is often worse than none at all.

https://mastodon.art/@posiputt/115295760638523605

Here's a nice list of tips, that are human interpretations of the recommendations in the spec:

https://afb.org/digital-inclusion/accessibility-resources/writing-effective-image-descriptions

And the dryer, but more deterministic decision tree: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/

Big takeaway: empty string as alt is the proper way to do it in several cases. You can avoid penalties by doing alt=" ", and you should… sometimes.

iwein OP ,
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even bigger takeaway:

Don't do performative image descriptions, because you have to. Instead empathize with the target audience and try to include them, because you want to.

Inclusivity is about empathy, not about checking boxes.

@bsi@social.bund.de avatar bsi , to random German

Ahoi, liebe BSI-Mastodon-Community! 🖖 Wir sind gerade unterwegs nach Berlin zum 2. Berliner Fediverse Tag, einem Netzwerk-Event für Menschen im Fediversum (👉 https://berlinfedi.day/).

Dort werden wir morgen den BSI-Mastodon-Account vorstellen als Beispiel für Behördenkommunikation im Fediverse.

In dem Zusammenhang würden wir euch gern fragen: Was gefällt euch hier an unseren Tröts? Welchen Nutzen zieht ihr daraus? Und was können wir noch besser machen? Wir freuen uns auf eure Kommentare! 😀

iwein ,
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@bsi please edit when you respond with anything meaningful. I would like a notification of this so I can use it as a positive example (if you don't mind)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

There are a couple of anonymous cowards on Mastodon telling people that all Palestinians you see here are fake and that the Internet there doesn’t work at all and spamming the hashtag to get my Mastodon instance defederated so they can silence me and the work we are doing with @joynewacc (a real person from Palestine, can you believe that?) on Gaza Verified.

I hope they get what they deserve for their genocide denial (which makes them complicit in genocide as genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide) and the harm they are trying to inflict on people already suffering from genocide and famine.

Truly, they are the worst of humanity.

Meanwhile, here we are, holding video calls with Palestinian families in Gaza to ensure that one of the last lifelines they have on the Internet remains open to them.

https://gaza-verified.org

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115292542346226981

iwein ,
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@aral @joynewacc you are warmly invited to let us know how we can help (apart from donating and boosting of course).

@iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

Understatement:

> “The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic,” he concluded. “This is highly unlikely.”

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Regardless of whether ai tools will have any significant use, the bubble is a financial one based on the obviously false infinite growth assumption. Going short on US tech stock is the obvious, cynically rational move.

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Give this Linux book a title. 🐧📕

There is a tall dark green covered book sitting on a table.
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iwein ,
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@itsfoss The Art of Reading Man Pages

@paulbiggar@hachyderm.io avatar paulbiggar , to random

We're seeing reports that Gaza City is under a total blackout. To get any news about what's happening, please consider donating to provide eSIMs

https://gaza.online/donate

iwein ,
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@aral if you find evidence to contradict safety please tag me

I'm on board with @paulbiggar 's reasoning so far and gave it a boost @amirbkhan

@iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

Please take a moment to read and understand https://gaza-verified.org/ if you were not aware of it yet. It's almost guaranteed to make you a better human being.

Made by @joynewacc and @aral

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

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    iwein ,
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    @_elena big hug right back at ya 🫂

    And on the more philosophical side, even if there seems to be no hope at all, there's no rational argument to give up on trying our best. (And if there is I don't want to listen to it, because I always seem to have more enjoyable things to do 🤪)

    @faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , (edited ) to random

    Brave British police captured another dangerous terrorist today

    iwein ,
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    @faab64 four police officers wearing yellow high vis and blue gloves arrest an old lady with a stroller. She wears a keffiyeh and looks unamused, but other than that the threat and crime are invisible.

    One of the police officers has a hand on the stroller, as if ready to separate it from its owner. Another police officer seems to be raising a hand towards the camera lens.

    @JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw avatar JoscelynTransient , to random

    Question: are any air ducts in actual buildings big enough for a person to fit through?

    It’s such a staple of movies that we just accept…but like, I’ve never seen one bigger than maybe I can fit my arm into. Makes me wonder, is there any kind of building where that’s actually a thing?

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    @azonenberg I've climbed on those in an old tin factory as a kid (don't tell my mom please). They were mounted with 8mm steel bolts and felt quite solid. Definitely less dodgy than climbing a pvc mounted rain pipe.

    I'd be scared to death going inside one though. Not big enough to turn, no light, snags, rats, spiders, lots of dust... 😱

    Maybe it is not impossible, but not like the movies, I think.

    @JoscelynTransient

    @faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to Palestine

    Check out AIPAC’s congresscritters spending August recess in Israel cheesing with wanted war criminal Bibi


    @palestine @israel palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine

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    @faab64 @palestine
    trackaipac.com shows a staged group photo of us Congress people and the amounts they were bribed with. Netanyahu sits smiling in the middle.

    @israel palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine

    iwein ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine two countries building concentration camps, sending eachother money and weapons, and actively collaborating in genocide. I have seen these pictures in the Holocaust museum if I'm not mistaken.

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    @faab64
    I feel that pain too.

    Please don't say that we live in a world that welcomes such things. We are also this world, and this world is also us. We do not welcome such things, do we? And we are far from alone in this.

    Fascism is a terrible disease but it can be cured.

    We are many, they are few, just like in Brighton.

    @palestine @israel palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine

    @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social avatar GroupNebula563 , (edited ) to random

    Just curious: would you be for or against a complete ban on AI images as part of the Mastodon Server Covenant (disclaimer: I am not associated with the MSC, I just want to know folks’ opinion)

    Boosts appreciated for visibility!

    iwein ,
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    @GroupNebula563 I can hardly believe people here are so much in favor of banning anything. Principles count especially if other people use their freedoms to do stupid shit you disagree with. Block and report should be enough. Or am I misunderstanding the question?

    iwein ,
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    @GroupNebula563 I guess I didn't understand the purpose and effect of MSC correctly then. Nobody is ultimately coerced into following it, right? So if any individual moderator decides to ban all AI, they can remove the posts, and if some server leadership group consents to following the MSC, they can. Lot's of small servers would then make the MSC rather irrelevant, like say, the Agile Manifesto or something like that?

    Feel free to ignore or direct me to a url to educate myself 😅

    @iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

    @mcc so it's sort of similar to what you're getting if you ask copilot to replace all uses of wget with curl? Sounds like a good script for a horror story 🤤

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    @mcc no thanks, I guess 🙂

    @jensorensen@mastodon.social avatar jensorensen , to random

    Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman

    I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.

    Cutting Out the Middleman SEEMS LIKE EVERYTHING YOU DO NOW, THERE'S SOME TECH BRO TRYING TO GET INVOLVED. Tech bro: HEL-LO! I CAN HELP YOU WRITE THAT LETTER! AND THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. CARS REPORT EVERYTHING YOU DO Phone showing DoorDump app - FOOD DELIVERED THROUGH APP Amazon Echo device - BIG BEZOS IS LISTENING MAYBE IT'S TIME TO CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMEN. HANDWRITTEN LETTERS PRINT MEDIA - Newspaper called The Actually Edited News FLIP PHONES PRE-COMPUTERIZED CARS THEY WOULDN'T LIKE IT. Tech bro: HEY, I'LL DRAW CARTOONS FOR YOU, MAKE DECISIONS, PRETEND I'M YOUR BEST FRIEND--ANYTHING YOU WANT! Woman listening to Sony WALKMAN: AH, PEACE AT LAST. ©2025 Jen Sorensen - Be a subscriber! jensorensen.com/subscribe
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    @jensorensen I'm also way more worried about what happens to the data than the often appealing quality of the 'help'.

    "They're taking our jobs", is not the risk we should be worried about 😅

    @dlr_next@social.bund.de avatar dlr_next , to random German

    Hallo zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne via Satellit SDO.

    Die ganze erdzugewandte Seite der Sonne in orangeroter Farbe. Einige Aktive Regionen in etwas hellerer Darstellung und leicht gelblich, als würde es aus dem Inneren hervorleuchten. Außerdem mehrere längliche Strukturen, die dunkler als die Umgebung sind, darunter rechts unten auch ein hufeisenförmiges Gebiet. Das sind ruhende Protuberanzen: losgelöstes Material, das etwas kälter ist und quasi da tagelang herumliegt, bevor es sich ins All löst oder wieder in die Sonne eintaucht.
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    @dlr_next you missed the angry vulture in the alt text. Do you see it staring accusingly at us?

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    :blobcatscience:

    This is what a human hand looks like under the microscope looks like:
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    iwein ,
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    @stux additional

    a human hand. with a microscope stacked on top of it. At 1 times magnification. The hand is quite literally under the microscope.

    @iwein@mas.to avatar iwein , to random

    @orladediez I think you may have accidentally tapped the wrong emoticon there in response to @aral 's addition of alt text

    Thanks for this thread by the way. I hope a lot of people read it and act appropriately.

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    @aral @orladediez this gives me an inordinate amount of joy, thank you both 🤣

    @noreaonline__@corteximplant.com avatar noreaonline__ , to random

    i wanna be on here more but my feed is so empty rn :< so messed up ;-;

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    @noreaonline__ I like similar things and somehow my feed is exactly awesome. Can I share my follows+filters somehow @FediTips ?

    I guess that's potentially a speedrun for you 🤔

    @revengeday

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

    My toy language has three flow operators:

    for
    foreach
    fordict

    for is a standard range iterator. foreach iterates over a sequential store (array or string). fordict iterates over a key,value store (a dictionary). it is necessary to distinguish the two by name because the language is untyped, and whereas foreach must specify one variable name to iterate over, fordict specifies two, which is very confusing to differentiate by argument overloading alone.

    do you hate this?

    iwein ,
    @iwein@mas.to avatar

    @mayintoronto strangely though , on second thought, this is pretty close to Smalltalk's forEach, and keysAndValuesDo, which I felt quite comfortable with... So maybe I was speaking from some kind of bias.

    If you frame your language as not having operators you could get away with it @mcc

    iwein ,
    @iwein@mas.to avatar

    @mcc
    Ok, I'll see myself out then 🤤😉

    But more seriously: cool question. These kinds of problems make me feel like I understand nothing in a good way 🤪

    Thanks.

    @mayintoronto

    @soatok@furry.engineer avatar soatok , to random

    Hot take: ISO standards do not meaningfully matter to me, because an extremely impoverished, unbanked person cannot freely access their contents from a smartphone or library computer.

    Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid referring to them or relying on them in anyway.

    iwein ,
    @iwein@mas.to avatar

    @soatok ISO has some standards that we shouldn't care about. Those are the ones behind a paywal. There's also for example ISO8601, that you can freely access, if you have not memorized it yet. You should care about those.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

    Maybe if ISO stops publishing paid pdf's and starts publishing directly to Wikipedia, they'll save costs and we'll have more compliance to the less relevant ones but no authorative source then… I don't really care tbh but Wikipedia does 🤣

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Hello my name is Ben and I am a self-booster

    There doesn't seem to be many of us around. Either that's because I am a disgusting monster or because others may not know how to do this (or a combination).

    At the risk of telling people how to Mastodon.... if you're at all interested in searching either yours, or anyone else's (pending their settings) old posts you can do this by searching:

    From:person keyword

    For example...

    From:me soup

    This will then return all of your available previous posts mentioning soup.

    Or if you want to search someone else's soup chat, you simply replace 'me' with their @:

    From: @TheBreadmonkey soup

    Further to this, you can add to the end:

    Before:2023-09-30

    From: @TheBreadmonkey soup before:2023-09-30

    ... and this will return all available results from that person before that date!

    Happy souping, everybody!

    iwein ,
    @iwein@mas.to avatar

    @TheBreadmonkey most useful advice I read today 🙏

    @ethan256 ☝️🏅