Note: The original post is only directed at worms. If you are a worm then the wormhole will not affect you, obviously.
@lowqualityfacts
This followup note is somehow more confusing than wormholes.
Quixoticgeek
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#scotland pals: anyone out there able to temp foster a parrot who's currently in the glasgow area? i have limited info, but here's bit:
'It's my partner's parrot.
His dad got him, then when he died 12 years ago, my parnter's been taking care of him. He is now getting evicted from his flat in Glasgow and struggling to find somewhere to host. The timeframe unfortunately is unclear. I'd say a couple of weeks at least 🤷♀️'
thanks for any boosts, too! :)
#parrot #glasgow #bird #rescue
Recovering from a delightfully gender-affirming teeth cleaning.
And then my phone died as I was leaving the dentist, and I spent the bus ride home worried @Canageek was going to be worried about me not getting her texts
tomorrow I gotta actually go find the nearest Mobile Klinik and get the battery replaced
I really feel like we had several prominent FOSS organizations fail us by not saying "hey hold on, don't use generative AI in FOSS projects, we're not sure what the legal, community, environmental implications of this are but there are serious problems and we have a history of taking a stand" and I worry that maybe we lost our moment to be principled, except in niche spaces, and the walls are closing in
And... I'm really sad about it. I think we're underestimating the amount of damage that's happening. :\
@cwebber same
Threat intel firm Flare has published its own investigation on how its researchers tracked down the real identities of TeamPCP members, who were arrested by Australian police last week
https://flare.io/learn/resources/blog/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attacks
Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494181
#HackerNews #LionMan #Statue #Archaeology #History #AncientArt #Discovery
@ZenHeathen @Mrfunkedude @ThreeSigma Ah, blasted social media and its limitations! I was mostly talking about the futility of thought experiments or armchair philosophers. In real life, we are forced to side with the lesser evil all the time. But there is a context for all of it. Personally I feel, trolley problem doesn’t have any context and mostly used as a ‘gotcha’ tool; which I refuse to participate in
@farah This. @Mrfunkedude @ThreeSigma
Brey, you have no idea how much shit I learned about wealth, power, and how not to be an evil person, from throwaway lines in movies the pinko writer inserted when the boss wasn't looking. This works mate. And that's why they want to control it all.
Here's an example of shit I learned from movies Larry Elison doesn't want movies to teach you no more:
"The ends are bullshit. The means is what you live with"
Taught to me by a crooked cop in a bad movie.
"Russia has hit printing presses and publishing houses across Ukraine in a series of recent attacks, destroying 12 million books and damaging other icons of Ukrainian history and culture…More than 35 publishing facilities have been hit over recent weeks."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5v8qmy64o
@petersuber Europe is cowardly and one time they will be attacked again and be destroyed if these dont move forward to help Ukraine. Glad to not have a child in this asshole word.
I don't think you can put all else aside, but even just focusing on the maintainability of code itself...
Using these tools to uncover bugs, sure. Using them to generate code that nobody in your community fully understands... well...
And I know, you say, you'll be responsible about it.
But you won't be able to keep up, justifying keeping up with that level of review won't happen. So you'll slip. And you'll eventually embrace not knowing. And so is everyone else around you.
And so, decades of work are knotting up and the foundations are ensaring beneath our feet.
And we could have, collectively, organizationally, taken a stand, and we didn't.
@cwebber I thought that one of the main advantages of FOSS was that anyone could inspect the code and make sure it didn't have security issues, data privacy issues, etc. I don't know enough to do that myself, but I was always comforted by the idea that others were checking the code of well-known FOSS projects.
If even the people making the software don't fully understand the code anymore, is that advantage still there?
boiling is the worst way to cook food
this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot
pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it
I will not be taking questions at this time
@Mrfunkedude (See my replies to the comment you are replying to.) Yes, trauma. But not necessarily as much as the pop culture version of the scenario tries to impart. @ThreeSigma @farah
@ZenHeathen @Mrfunkedude @ThreeSigma Ah, blasted social media and its limitations! I was mostly talking about the futility of thought experiments or armchair philosophers. In real life, we are forced to side with the lesser evil all the time. But there is a context for all of it. Personally I feel, trolley problem doesn’t have any context and mostly used as a ‘gotcha’ tool; which I refuse to participate in
django
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@clickhere Nature abhors a vacuum billionaire
Recovering from a delightfully gender-affirming teeth cleaning.
django
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Get - and I cannot emphasise this enough - fucked.
"Vacuum billionaire James Dyson in stand-off with Waterford locals over access to graveyard"
https://www.thejournal.ie/james-dyson-waterford-7145410-Aug2026/
Alex Akselrod
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I didn’t have “find a password manager that isn’t funding fascism” on my plate today, fucking thanks for the unnecessary extra labour, @1password
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
Every Friday Stretch - Episode 3 - Hip opening
Alex makes autism fun
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden out horizon.
