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Cheetah Obscura

Some favorite art pieces for International Nonbinary Persons Day that give me all the wonderful happy enby feels - the chee I want to be! 💛🤍💜🖤

Arts by Kei (clubgalaxy.neocities.org/), ViperCrown (vipercrown.com/), @FloYote, and Parallel (parallel-art.weebly.com/)

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Darkoneko

Space: the fungal frontier

#startrek #mushroom

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Everyone pitching the "AI" snake oil tonic says using it makes you code faster. Coders who use it honestly believe that. New research finds it not only doesn't make you code faster, it actually makes you code slower than without it.

Ars Technica, "Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower": arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/stu

Source: METR, "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on
Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" [PDF]: metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experie

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abadidea

it's especially funny/sobworthy that looking up the current time in various locations has worked perfectly well on google for years, because someone took the time to design, code and test a useful feature. but that's not Number Go Up enough so now we have the all-knowing video card that says 7:14 pm

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abadidea

if anyone wants to laugh at AI, a friend of mine googled "new york time" and got an "AI summary" claiming 7:14 pm (wildly wrong, it was about 2 pm) and then 40 minutes later I tried and also got 7:14 pm

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

On this international enby day, please remember that, yes, nonbinary people absolutely can and do use computers.

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The single most important Internet lesson never learned is that, on the World Wide Web, you have to will yourself to go out and get malicious code, while in email, the malicious code comes to you whether you will it to or not.

Snake-oil LLM integration just makes it easier for that code to be treated as not-data and exploit you. Today's edition, via Bleeping Computer, "Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing": bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈‍⬛

Happy Julia (Jul14) day! 😻

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TransActual

Happy International Non-Binary People's day to all of our non-binary siblings around the world.

Non-binary people have always existed and always will.

#nonbinary #transnonbinary #nonbinaryrights #internationalnonbinarypeoplesday #trans

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404 Media

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

404media.co/the-medias-pivot-t

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that turns you into a cicada

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The Iconolog

DSK3S01E.ICO - Data, Disks 3.5

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So I had x11/bitmap, `magick file.xbm +level-colors "[foreground]","[background]" -strip file.png` in my notes, and a stupid thought clawing its way out. To be fair, it's false yet almost true again in the worst way: Just substitute Canonical for AT&T.

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So Dell's SVR4 apparently had XPG3-conformant m4, awk, make, and sh included.

The answer is no, but only so far. My m4 script is descending so far into recursive expansions that I'm smashing its quoted string limit.

If I refactor a bit, I can probably make it run in SVR4 m4, Heirloom Project m4, FreeBSD m4 (my main target), and gm4, while remaining POSIX conformant.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

Spouse just asked me add toothpicks to the shopping list and that reminded me of a quick tip that could help you out of a jam one day

If you've got a wood screw that's stripped out its hole and won't tighten up anymore, you can put some wood glue on a toothpick, jam that in and trim off the end and you'll have a reinvigorated hole that the screw can bite into again

This is an old pinball repair trick that carries over into non-pinball life. One time I had a couple mates over and we were gonna watch a spooky movie, we put the kiddo to bed and as I was closing her bedroom door it just, fell off the top hinge in my hands haha

Stood there holding the door on one hinge all 🦝 honey can you go grab me a couple things lol

Didn't let it hold up our plans, just pulled the door, stuffed the holes full of toothpicks and wood glue, screwed it all back up and went on with the evening, took maybe five minutes and years later it's still holding just fine

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margot

"the end of the world" is not a thing that happens once, it happens continually, and part of being a responsible caretaker of the planet and of your community is making plans for what comes after, imo

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margot

i think one of the problems with modern apocalyptic thinking is that it's very informed by the christian concept, which is a hard end, rather than something where after the world ends life goes on afterwards. i feel like i had a major shift in how i felt about various world events once i remembered that no matter what happens, you have to keep going

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Text editor evolution milestones:

Fold:
Collapse text sections to get outline views.

Spindle:
Commit and track text file changes over time.

Mutilate:
Let the "AI" du jour's monkeys bang out Shakespeare for you.

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Paul Cantrell

I’m always excited to see people moving to vehicles that are (1) smaller and (2) more electric/human-powered. However, I probably agree with @jwildeboer on this one.

Questions for this and any such “Should it use bike infrastructure?” situation:

1. Does it have emissions while in operation?
2. Does it regularly •stop• in the bike line (in practice, not just in theory)?
3. Does it block the full width of a narrow-ish urban bike lane, and thus prevent passing where a cargo bike would allow it?
4. What’s the magnitude of its momentum (weight times speed) while in operation? social.wildeboer.net/@jwildebo

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Let's be clear. This is a car. Not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be.

(Gift link, needs email) wapo.st/4nCgi10

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