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kerfuffle

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Musician, storywriter, gamer, social science enthusiast and IT consultant at JDriven. Into #kotlin, #metal, #agile, #DDD, #horror, #lovecraft, #quantumtechnology, #softwarearchitecture, #mensa, #dnd, #pathfinder, #vtes, #overwatch and #starcraft

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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

For four years, Ukraine has chosen hope, and Europe chooses to stand with them. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

The EU stands firm:

👉 Providing a safe harbour for over 4 million people
👉 Delivering 11278 generators to keep the lights on
👉 Investing €36.8 billion to rebuild the nation’s lifeblood, from schools to hospitals
👉 Securing €194.9 billion in total support, including a new €90 billion loan for 2026-27
👉 Advancing EU accession because Ukraine is family

Ukraine is Europe. Europe is Ukraine.

A political graphic featuring a blue and yellow colour scheme. On the left, a blue ribbon adorned with gold stars (from the EU flag) and a yellow and blue ribbon (from the Ukrainian flag) are intertwined in a knot. The right side features the bold white text "YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM" against a blue background, with a small European Union flag icon in the bottom right corner.
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@EUCommission Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online avatar kerfuffle , to random

AI-agents talking to each other in a special agentweb feels like what NFT was to blockchain: a scam on top of a solution looking for a problem, waiting to explode in the faces of people still hoping for the pay-off. Striving for deterministic results within solid guardrails without programming it is higher effort and higher risk. There may be a case for nondeterminism, but many of the aspirations aren't it.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

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@Gargron Selfhosted or in the (US) Zulip cloud?

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online avatar kerfuffle , to random

A couple of decades overdue, I purchased Pestilence' Testimony of the Ancients. A remastered edition showed up on Bandcamp.

https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/testimony-of-the-ancients-remaster

@leyrer@23.social avatar leyrer , to random

WTF of the week (yes, it's only Tuesday):

Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-warns-security-risks-agentic-os-windows-11-xpia-malware

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@leyrer Maybe don't put the feature in your product if you don't understand the security implications.

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

There is a new "Share on Mastodon" button on the official @Mastodon blog, feel free to try it out and let me know what you think.

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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@Daojoan This is not AI generated to make him look bad, or to jokingly self-own? These are actual photos he posted sincerely?

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

🔞 Platforms have no excuse to continue practices that put children at risk.

We’ve asked Snapchat, YouTube, Apple App Store and Google Play for more information on the measures they have in place to protect minors.

This is the first investigatory step after the adoption of the Guidelines on the Protection of Minors, now also available in all EU languages and in a child- and parent-friendly version.

More → https://link.europa.eu/gNT3qK

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@EUCommission
I will boycot any service that insists that I share my child's passport with them, and so should you. This blueprint does not protect children; it harms them. Stop it.

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online avatar kerfuffle , to random Dutch

When playing a SID file that has multiple subtunes using VLC player, go to media mode (CTRL+L) and then use Shift+B and Shift + O to cycle through the subtunes.

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online avatar kerfuffle , to random

This week I learned that VLC media player can simply play the songs from the zip files I downloaded from without me first having to extract them.

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , to random

Two of our three servers decided to restart at around 04:00 CEST today. This caused Codeberg to be offline for several hours. We have restarted the servers and all services should be working again. We are currently investigating why these servers decided to restart themselves.

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@Codeberg Does that mean that all repositories and static sites hosted on Codeberg is done off of a total of just 3 servers?

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , (edited ) to random

I am comfortable with AI...

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@grumpygamer A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

The U.S. Army is testing a fully AI controlled ground vehicle near Russia.

It's called the ULTRA and runs on Overland AI’s proprietary OverDrive software, a system that’s designed to give AI full control over ground vehicles on the battlefield.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-army-is-testing-ai-controlled-ground-drones-near-a-border-with-russia/

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@404mediaco
Any bets on the proprietary OverDrive software turning out to be an unattributed fork of some opensource library with some proprietary security holes added to it?

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social avatar GrapheneOS , (edited ) to random

This EU law banning unlocking story was untrue. The publication posting it retracted it in a subsequent story without updating the original.

New story: https://xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootloader-unlocks-soon-59697/

Original story: https://xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-android-bootloader-unlock-starting-august-1-59449/

The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.

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@GrapheneOS Great you're informing people. Unfortunately, the way you have posted this makes the first link show up highlighted in the Mastodon web client, bringing extra attention to the fake article instead of to the retraction.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke warns developers: embrace AI or face obsolescence

Source https://xcancel.com/ashtom/status/1952409910236291109

Thomas Dohmke @ashtom, Aug 4 writes on X/Twitter: The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career. Our latest field study with 22 developers who are integrating AI deeply into their workflows reveals a striking trend: those who persist beyond early skepticism emerge with dramatically higher ambition, technical fluency, and job satisfaction. They’re not writing less code – they’re enabling more complex, system-level work through orchestration. And that’s as true for educators as it is for developers themselves.
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@nixCraft I've seen enough progress in IT to be able to tell the difference between actual progress and ROI panic. This is the latter.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

🏠 Housing is a right, not a privilege.

Yet affordable, quality homes are out of reach for too many across Europe - especially young people, families, and vulnerable groups.

The EU is acting with its Affordable Housing Plan: tackling structural barriers, boosting supply, and unlocking investment.

️🗣️ Have your say.
A public consultation is open until 17 October.

Ready to shape the future of housing in Europe?
→ https://europa.eu/!6fHwB3

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@EUCommission What does "unlocking investment" mean?

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

Supreme Court officially allows the Texas law on age-verification for adult websites.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/age-verification-laws-will-drag-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-of-online-porn/

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@404mediaco
I'm sure this will help to finally address the problems Texas has with checks notes gun violence, floodings and rampant fascism.

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount

🔗 https://www.404media.co/trump-mobile-phone-preorder-fail/

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@404mediaco
Usually I'd say don't assume malice when incompetence is a plausible explanation, but in this case both are probably applicable.

@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.

Trump laid off nearly all of them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ProPublica
But change the menu in a Disney park and you get 3 years in jail.

@killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , to random

Finally! Mozilla Thunderbird challenges Gmail with its own email service. And that's just the beginning...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/04/01/finally-mozilla-thunderbird-takes-on-gmail-with-new-email-service/

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@killyourfm
Can't read the page; it crashes if you scroll down.

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@killyourfm
I don't use FireFox; I use Vivaldi.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Assembly is crowned the most difficult language to learn on a beginner level followed by Haskell. So this meme seems accurate :P YMMV.

A programmer joke visualized: An angel reviewing a man's life finds that coding in Assembly is considered time served for otherwise questionable deeds.
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@nixCraft
Assembly was so fun it got me into software development. Getting to understand people in their process of understanding evolving problems and creating adaptable solutions was the added bonus that made me stay.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

As democracies become digital, the EU Digital Services Act helps keep elections free and fair.

We've presented a toolkit to support national regulators in safeguarding the electoral process integrity in the EU.

It will help mitigate risks on very large online platforms and search engines like:
🔸 Hate speech
🔸 Online harassment
🔸 Public opinion manipulation
🔸 AI-generated content, impersonation

We stay committed to protecting fundamental rights in the digital space.

ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!7FjKKn

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@EUCommission Every time a techbro says EU is behind in some tech because of regulations, consider that the EU is ahead in regulation to avoid abuse by irresonsible use of tech.

@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
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Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property.

https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ProPublica


He promised to clean up the swamp. He omitted to say that he'd put everything he found in that swamp into his own team.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine

identifying the lackeys: illegal

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Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules
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@molly0xfff At least these lackeys didn't acquire information that would give this billionaire's business a competitive advantage, right?

@dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

Resilient Media Storage, a Pixelfed feature that allows you to define multiple S3 providers, and fallback accordingly if one isn't available.

It's been around for years, but becomes more important as we grow!

You can define a total of 3 different S3 configurations, they can be on different providers.

It's not magic, but it seems like it is when you can sustain multiple S3 outages ✨

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/app/Services/ResilientMediaStorageService.php#L34-L49

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@dansup Any plans to use a different cloud storage option, if AWS isn't your cup of tea?

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

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    @_elena
    Did you find any replacement for LinkedIn (on the fediverse ideally)?

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    @_elena Out of interest (and hijacking your thread, sorry): How do you do networking in that field? Just keep a rolodex and bookmark peoples portfolio pages? I've been looking for people to commission a music video & cover art and have no idea how to find the people and get the right question out to them. LinkedIn indeed doesn't really cater to it.

    @killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , (edited ) to random

    Drastically underrated Bazzite feature.

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    @killyourfm Man I hope audio engineering applications (DAW's and VST's specifically) follow suit and find support on Linux platforms.

    @killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , to random

    Reminder that this game is 14 YEARS OLD.
    OK, technically 10 if we're talking PC release.
    Damn, it still looks so good though!
    (Pictured here running on my Steam Deck)

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    @killyourfm
    Ah yes that's still lying in a cupboard drawer somewhere, unopened, waiting for me to get round to it after finishing my tsundoku pile of Steam games.

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    @_elena That last recommendation is a sad but elegant solution.

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    Do you organize your browser tabs with workspaces, or do you let all your tabs live together in happy chaos? 🤷

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    @Vivaldi Hadn't seen any workspaces feature until I read this and found it in the Tabs settings, disabled.

    @web3isgreat@indieweb.social avatar web3isgreat Bot , to random

    Two NFT fraudsters charged for rug pulls amounting to over $22 million

    December 18, 2024
    https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=hay-and-mayo-rug-pull-indictment

    For example, a "Vault of Gems" NFT project falsely claimed to be the "first NFT pegged to a hard asset, like jewelry", which would have its own exchange. A "Faceless" NFT project promised to produce comic books, a movie, and a clothing company. None of the promises ever materialized, and Hay and Mayo abandoned the projects soon after launching them. Hay and Mayo worked to hide their involvement with their scams, and have been charged with harassment for attempting to threaten those who connected them. In one case, after a person revealed Hay and Mayo to be the ones behind the Faceless NFT project, the duo sent threatening emails and text messages to the man and his parents. In an email to his parents, they impersonated a law firm, and even threatened to make false sexual abuse claims against the man.

    For example, a "Vault of Gems" NFT project falsely claimed to be the "first NFT pegged to a hard asset, like jewelry", which would have its own exchange. A "Faceless" NFT project promised to produce comic books, a movie, and a clothing company. None of the promises ever materialized, and Hay and Mayo abandoned the projects soon after launching them. Hay and Mayo worked to hide their involvement with their scams, and have been charged with harassment for attempting to threaten those who connected them. In one case, after a person revealed Hay and Mayo to be the ones behind the Faceless NFT project, the duo sent threatening emails and text messages to the man and his parents. In an email to his parents, they impersonated a law firm, and even threatened to make false sexual abuse claims against the man.
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    Why call gamblers investors though?

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

    Europe: the AI continent, powered by your talent.

    These are the first 7 AI Factories to help make this a reality:
    🇬🇷 Athens
    🇸🇪 Linköping
    🇩🇪 Stuttgart
    🇱🇺 Bissen
    🇮🇹 Bologna
    🇪🇸 Barcelona
    🇫🇮 Kajaani

    Built around existing or new supercomputers, they will combine computing power, data, and talent to develop innovative AI solutions.

    Health, energy, meteorology... AI Factories are where your ideas will turn into solutions.

    Stay tuned for their kick-off in 2025-2026.

    ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!hhNynn

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    @EUCommission
    This technology is not at a point where you can just announce this and expect a grand applause without addressing concerns related to privacy, security, plagiarism, misinformation and sustainability. These are challenges that need to be solved, or many may suffer dire consequences.

    @Mojeek@mastodon.social avatar Mojeek , to random

    this is how you get jacked as a privacy person

    a person is asked how they got so muscular and that respond "every time someone gets tracked on the internet" ... "I do one push up". The original asker responds "jesus christ"
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    @Mojeek Could have also said "every time someone strips the author reference from a webcomic before sharing it..." (Author is Shen Comix)

    @Mojeek@mastodon.social avatar Mojeek , to random

    mojeek: nice, five stars

    a review for Mojeek which gives it five stars and says "nice"
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    @Mojeek Thnx mom!

    @killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , (edited ) to random

    Yes, kids, it's still important to learn the fundamentals of English. Don't rely on AI or browser extensions. Rely on YOUR BRAIN. Because it's nearly 2025, and basic spelling and grammar checkers still suck.

    Screenshot of a grammar correction suggestion highlighting the word “there,” recommending the use of “their” instead.
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    @killyourfm Worst thing, that they ever did, was turn on autosuggest and autocorrect by default.

    @davidgerard@circumstances.run avatar davidgerard , to random

    I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral

    the funeral appears to be Google's

    SEO is dead

    https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/tech/google-creators-event.html

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    @davidgerard
    On that note: once you try a different, independent, search engine like @Mojeek , you realize how much of the web actually doesn't show up at all anymore in Bing and Google.

    @servo@floss.social avatar servo , to random

    We've just joined Bluesky if you'd like to follow us elsewhere on the web:

    https://bsky.app/profile/servo.org

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    @servo
    Why?

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

    https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

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    @molly0xfff

    The best page in the universe still exists. https://maddox.xmission.com

    @godotengine@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar godotengine , to random

    Guess who is finally feature complete? Yes, 4.3 is near!

    It's becoming even beefier with 650 commits in this particular 🥩

    Note for those who saw a certain tutorial: TileMap layers are now also nodes 😬

    https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-6/

    Play mayor with @BippinBits ⬇️

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    @godotengine Actually went and completed the game. That was more fun than some triple A games I've seen these past few years ( ;

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

    No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

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    @molly0xfff Finding treasures among websites that have an entirely own brand through design and content, without optimization for clicks or ads.

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    @gamingonlinux Giving people their money back if they refuse to install a rootkit on Windows is also a no for

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    Mark Zuckerberg... Shut the fuck up

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    @Gargron Still relevant today.