The future of privacy may come down to a very awkward sentence:

“Yes, I do mind. Please turn it the fuck off.”

https://buff.ly/gHSZytP

Beating the heatwave with fun!

@quota_atypique @wxcafe
Pour la peine, cadal :

f(x,y) = ((-((y / 20) / (x - y))) | (-((~y) ^ (~x)))) % 5

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢

I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.

Thank you!

#FediHire #fedihire_europe #fedihire_it

Maybe setting up our economy to reward sociopaths wasn't the best idea.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1ujq7q8/comment/oupk1rl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors.

AI has made the problem much worse.

That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors:

#godotengine
https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

There is a coordinated, desperate movement from those with capital and power to convince the rest of us to give up.

To stop making art, to stop telling stories, to stop finding joy.

They want us to buy our stories, and our music, and our art, from them.

"don't bother creating something original, we'll just rip it off or feed it to our AI" they say, or "you can't tell that story, we own that story."

And... Mostly, that works.

I see so many people who no longer make things because they are afraid of how those things will be abused, or how they will be abused, or because they're just so tired.

I get it.

But I genuinely believe that there is no greater threat to the current capitalist order than people making things outside that system.

Every story I tell that does not have the blessing of some distant billionaire is a radical act. My goofy video game where a 75 year old cartoon character takes down an extractive mining operation on an alien planet is absolutely an act of defiance against capital.

Fear is natural, but allowing it to freeze us into inaction serves our enemies.

So, my uni women's rowing club decided to restrict membership to cis women only. In response, a new "open" division was created that anyone can compete in.

Lots of women left to join the open division instead, and now the women's club are complaining about losing their best rowers.

Be transphobic, lose support.

That's the conses of your quences, folks.

"stop discriminating the super rich. Being rich wasn't their choice, they were born this way!"

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x7vfp7rt4gbywara7ljm5e2s/post/3mpiwenqdjs2j

@vicgrinberg don't forget that 2/3 of you is water, and 2/3 of that is hydrogen.
Those atoms are absolutely pristine, dating back all the way to the big bang.
They evaded becoming a star or getting sucked into a black hole for almost 14 billion years, just to make you.

“The 2026 AI engineering impact data is not all bad news” is a really interesting phrase to see in an AI-company-sponsored report. From https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

The rest of the report basically confirms that we’re in another iteration of “move fast and break things”.

like... the cost of a single "state-of-the-art" llm training run would be a permanently institution-changing amount of money for your average computer science department (to say nothing of depts in CS-adjacent fields, especially in the arts and humanities). the claude mythos result, even if you take anthropopo's claims at face value (which: don't) seems indicative of this, like, yeah if you toss nine figures at security research, you're gonna find some exploits?

Clip-on pockets because I hate carrying bags. Sewn from a backpack that was falling apart.
#sewing #upcycled #SlowFasion

If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately

that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to

EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.

If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.

archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260627172939/https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

OMG YOU GUYS!! MY T-SHIRT IS HERE AND MY STUPID FACE CAN’T STOP SMILING!!!

When Facebook was prattling on about "friendship" in a way that allowed them to dodge responsibility for content moderation (read: when they were merrily enabling genocide), they also had a hackathon culture, in which their workers were periodically expected to work all night, in addition to their more than 40 hour per week workweek.

This is to say, the job was specifically unavailable to anyone with caring responsibilities or who was actually embedded in physical community. By taking all the time of their workers, they isolated them from their relationships. This environment was set up around the values of young men who were largely isolated.

These people waxing lyrical about friendships were prevented from having any. Their relationships were almost entirely oriented around work, which management insisted was the same as play.

This is who remade our conception of connection, sharing and relationships - people who were systematically cut off from having access to any of those things.

The past few days Movim received several security vulnerabilities that I was able to confirm and I'm spending extra personal time to sort and fix them.

Those vulnerabilities are, for the majority, generated by LLMs and most of the time the reporters are not available to answer or discuss the implications. Most of them simply focus on sending reports and ensuring that they can be mentioned on the resulting CVE published.

Those behaviors are putting a lot of pressures on the FOSS projects like Movim and dehumanizes the interactions that maintainers can have with their users.

We are humans, and we are doing it on our free time. Please dont abuse that.