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Jess Rose @jessie

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are:

🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role
💻️ where you can use your programming and data skills
🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too
🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job

careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046

(Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology at Cats Protection, £49k, apply by April 3)

#FediHire

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan

The #fediverse.

A modified vintage magazine ad showing six laptops from the late 1980s connected by a red cable to the a portable printer in the lower right corner, alongside a kitten playing with a ball of red yarn. Logos of various fediverse platforms have been superimposed on the laptop screens: Misskey, Peertube, Loops, Hubzilla, Friendica, and Mastodon.
A modified vintage magazine ad showing six laptops from the late 1980s connected by a red cable to the a portable printer in the lower right corner, alongside a kitten playing with a ball of red yarn. Logos of various fediverse platforms have been superimposed on the laptop screens: Misskey, Peertube, Loops, Hubzilla, Friendica, and Mastodon.
A modified vintage magazine illustration showing multiple desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen. The screens of the computers display logos of various fediverse platforms: BookWyrm, Hubzilla, Pleroma, PieFed, Misskey, Peertube, Loops, Friendica, and Mastodon.
A modified vintage magazine illustration showing multiple desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen. The screens of the computers display logos of various fediverse platforms: BookWyrm, Hubzilla, Pleroma, PieFed, Misskey, Peertube, Loops, Friendica, and Mastodon.
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Gary Day @gjd

Hello! This is one of those introduction posts, mostly because I'm incredibly pleased to have set up 'My Own Mastodon'. I'm a middle-aged dad and dog servant with a very wobbly brain and an encyclopedic knowledge of all manner of popular culture from the United Kingdom of the 1970s and 1980s. I have a large, and diverse music collection, although nowadays I mostly listen to jazz, neoclassical, ambient/electronica.

#Introduction #Fediverse #Linux #Music #Culture #AuDHD #Metabolism #MentalHealth

Photographic portrait of a middle-aged man with a grey beard, spectacles, and a woolly beanie hat.
Photographic portrait of a middle-aged man with a grey beard, spectacles, and a woolly beanie hat.
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Simon Repp @freebliss

Mini #faircamp 2.0 graphical user interface teaser for some core aspects that are finally coming together after maaany weeks of toil: '^^

1. Every form field in faircamp 2.0's graphical interface features a documentation badge (-> what is the underlying (manifest) option, link to online documentation (also tied to the respective, correct version of the docs from 2.0 onwards))

2. Every form field is aware of the value and exact origin of all inherited defaults. For instance, you can set a default "more_label" for all tracks throughout the site, but on the release level you can override this default for all tracks within the release. And in the track settings itself, the form field will tell you what its default value is and where that comes from (and also where it does not come from because it was overridden again). These default origin badges are also clickable and take you to the respective source settings!

3. As of just now, form fields also trace their default value back to the tags in the audio files. \o/

I'm tentatively planning to record a little "first look at faircamp 2.0" video in the next days that will showcase the interface in action, let's see how it goes! ( ◡‿◡ *)

Three form fields: Track Number, Title, 'More'-Label. Each form field, on the top right, has a documentation widget describing the key and providing a documentation link, e.g. "track.track_number, External Link to Docs" Each form field also displays if it already has a default value, and small badges (e.g. "Source: Tags", "Source: Multitrack") that indicate where the default value comes from (or whether a default has already been superseded by another default, in which case the badge text is strike-through formatted). In this example each form field has a default, so each also displays an "Override" button.
Three form fields: Track Number, Title, 'More'-Label. Each form field, on the top right, has a documentation widget describing the key and providing a documentation link, e.g. "track.track_number, External Link to Docs" Each form field also displays if it already has a default value, and small badges (e.g. "Source: Tags", "Source: Multitrack") that indicate where the default value comes from (or whether a default has already been superseded by another default, in which case the badge text is strike-through formatted). In this example each form field has a default, so each also displays an "Override" button.
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Quicky @Quicky

Roughly 25 years ago I bought a #Voodoo 5 graphics card, about 10 minutes before #3dfx went tits up. I was gutted after spending £200 on something that wasn’t going to be supported for to much longer.

After getting rid of that PC years ago and having seen the amount of money these are worth today, I’m wondering if the box of old shit I’ve got in the attic might actually be worth something.

Anybody want some old VGA cables and a PS/2 mouse missing the ball?

#RetroComputing #retrogaming

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Dan Goodin @dangoodin

Wow, TeamPCP is hacking open-source developers faster than we can report on them. The latest (that I'm aware of, anyway) is LiteLLM. They worked with Trivy but didn't bother to change their credentials after Trivy was hacked, despite an ample amount of advice to do so.

Folks, if any of you used LiteLLM, now is the time to change your credentials, in an atomic way. Now, as in immediately.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Doctor Who Minus Context @nocontextwho

#doctorwho

Jon Pertwee episode. The Doctor is wearing a white hospital gown and several weird silver orbs on his head, lying down in a bed under a pastel yellow striped blanket, extremely unconscious, evidently. The Brigadier is standing by his side, big boy stick under his left arm, looking at a doctor (the regular kind) on the other side, a man with excellent glasses, looking over some paperwork offscreen. Caption reads, “He’s more unconscious than anyone I’ve ever seen.” I didn’t know there were so many levels of unconscious.
Jon Pertwee episode. The Doctor is wearing a white hospital gown and several weird silver orbs on his head, lying down in a bed under a pastel yellow striped blanket, extremely unconscious, evidently. The Brigadier is standing by his side, big boy stick under his left arm, looking at a doctor (the regular kind) on the other side, a man with excellent glasses, looking over some paperwork offscreen. Caption reads, “He’s more unconscious than anyone I’ve ever seen.” I didn’t know there were so many levels of unconscious.
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Ian Turton @ianturton

We have now reached the point where I have to be restrained from digging around in the tomato pots to see if they are growing yet. If only I could attach a debugger to them.

#gardening #impatience

A collection of small plant pots, there are small shoots in some of them.
A collection of small plant pots, there are small shoots in some of them.
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Metamere @Metamere

After the last big snow of the year I experimented with a bit of in-camera #DoubleExposure photography. I took two photos of snow textures and ended up just making a bit more complex of a texture that I'm not sure anyone would suspect was made using a double exposure.

#TextureTuesday #MonochromeMarch
#SnowPhotography

black and white double exposure photo showing a complex snow texture with a black shadow line cutting across it. Brightness and contrast were increased in post.
black and white double exposure photo showing a complex snow texture with a black shadow line cutting across it. Brightness and contrast were increased in post.
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~/phranck antifa @phranck

Die Entstehung von #LMAASpace, in einem Clip visualisiert. Die einzelnen Zweige sind die Module des Projekts: Frontend (Website), Backend, Dashboard, DB Migration, shared Packages, UI. Die Strahlen, die vom Avatar weggehen, sind Git-Commits.

Es ist immer wieder faszinierend und hypnotisierend zuzuschauen. 🥰

#LMAA #DiD #DiDay #Gource

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Boosts

★ Amy Star ★ @AmyZenunim

in case you need a taste of how fucked the tech industry is right now, I'm being required to use AI at work. if I talk about how it fucks up or overcomplicates basic asks, it's because I "don't know how to use it" which indicates a "lack of growth mindset", and thus poor performance. I've been told this directly to my face, starting immediately.

so not only must I use Claude, I have to cover for Claude's mistakes, and then go the extra mile to pass off my own work as Claude's.

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cR0w cascadia gayint 🏴‍☠️ @cR0w

I made a design for a pink pony patch for someone but he changed his mind so I figured I'd share it here in case anyone else wanted to make patches or stickers with it. Nothing fancy but I thought it was fun.

A 2"x3" design with a black background. From the center bottom up to the top right is a straight line of rainbow stripes. On the left half is a pink pony silhouette with three black arrows on its flank, pointing down and to the left.
A 2"x3" design with a black background. From the center bottom up to the top right is a straight line of rainbow stripes. On the left half is a pink pony silhouette with three black arrows on its flank, pointing down and to the left.
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Isidore Mohr @isidoremohr

i appreciate the attempt to defend the real value of formal training in the humanities, or of technical-humanities connections, but we need to abandon the idea that the value of humanities education is in making people ethical. think for a second about the sort of people who, historically, have gotten classical educations. whose ethics are we talking about here?

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Arne Brasseur @plexus

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

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Steve Rudolfi @SteveRudolfi

Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2

#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification

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gosha @gosha

Hello hello! My name is Gosha, it’s nice to meet you all.

I live in London with my lovely partner and our two kids, but I grew up on the internet, building fan sites on Geocities and the like. I have a homepage at gosha.net where you can find out more about me.

I work in software engineering (these days I’m into Clojure and Haskell), and I’m interested in photography, drawing, parenting, and in trying to live and do things well & intentionally.

Glad to be here!

#introduction

With my partner and our daughter at a railway museum somewhere in England, unintentionally recreating a meme
With my partner and our daughter at a railway museum somewhere in England, unintentionally recreating a meme
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The Shandtates @theshandtates

Wir sind Musiker aus Hamburg, Lübeck und Kiel. Wir spielen eine Mischung aus Jazz, Blues und Bossa Nova, die wir größtenteils akustisch arrangieren. Unser Repertoire umfasst Standards von Sinatra und Jobim bis zu neueren Kompositionen von David Crosby oder Nils Landgren.

Dies ist der Versuch, von den großen Standardnetzwerken wegzukommen (Insta & Co.) und zu schauen, ob wir uns auch im und mit dem Fediverse bekannt machen können.

Auf geht's, eins, zwei, drei und... 🎶🎵

#theshandtates #neuhier

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Lux flag_genderfluid @orange_lux

@redsad Historic document : Isaac Newton discovering wokism.

A colored picture from a black and white drawing representing Isaac Newton in front of a triangular prism. The prism is hit by a ray of light and the light is divided into its components, projecting a rainbow on a wall. Behind Newton is another man, looking like he's seeing sorcery.
A colored picture from a black and white drawing representing Isaac Newton in front of a triangular prism. The prism is hit by a ray of light and the light is divided into its components, projecting a rainbow on a wall. Behind Newton is another man, looking like he's seeing sorcery.
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Dave Alvarado @dave

If you're a white person on the Fediverse and you've never seen someone called a slur, or threats made against them--congratulations! You don't follow any dirtbags. But, it's happening every day and it's being hidden from you.

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SD @SD

Its going to take me a bit to understand the way this all works, but
Hi, hello, yes, its true, ive finally made my way to mastodon,
im quiet and will take my time warming up but already see a few familiar faces and names.
Idk how to do introductions, those that dont know me, im sara, montreal local and “musician”, generally keep to my own little head, i have been best described as having the energy of a stray cat.
Uhhh yup thats all i got ☺️