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“Separate the art from the artist” is an idea from literary criticism: it’s about giving you permission to talk about what the art _does_ without having to argue about whether the artist _intended_ that effect.
It’s not a moral framework! It doesn’t say anything about how to feel about buying a product, art or otherwise, that supports creators with odious opinions.
It’s not incongruent to be totally subscribed to the Death of the Author and also not want to buy any Harry Potter stuff.
World leaders from Trump to Zelensky to attend Pope's funeral
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8ry3x172o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories 
@top-stories-BBCNewsTop Stories
미국 정부가 구글 반독점 소송의 합의 조건으로 크롬을 매각하라고 압박하는 가운데, 오픈AI가 사겠다고 나서.
https://www.theverge.com/news/653882/openai-chrome-google-us-judge
Tesla profits plunge amid Musk backlash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0x50yr46lo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-BBCNewsBusiness
Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
Link: https://alexshtf.github.io/2024/01/21/Bernstein.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764101
Scale and monoculture are out. Cozy corners and vibes are in.
The full “Building Communities Across the Social Web” panel is out now, featuring 
@andypiper, @rose.bsky.teamRose 🌹 and Leila Brillson discussing what it takes to create and sustain healthy online communities in 2025. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW in March.
https://flipboard.video/w/fr6Ajy9YxgmW3ZGdAycBca
#Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Community #OnlineCommunities #OnlineCulture #SocialNetworks #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
Glyph
! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
@lynnesbianLynnesbian 
I loved the latest album by legacy modem bouquet!
feature request for the next version of KDE plasma: achievements (named kudos)
描きかけの変なのでてきた
one of the reasons that fascism is a loser ideology for losers who always lose is that they just can't stop themselves. customers were okay with a _shocking_ amount of grotesque behavior from Musk. were he even half-competent he could have done a full authoritarian takeover of the most powerful country on earth while being the richest person on earth, but the essence of his political project involves being more and more of a shithead _until people will not do business with him any more_ #USPol
Japan continues to debate whether to change its law requiring that Japanese spouses have the same surname. A Japanese woman gives her own thoughts on the impact the law's had on her life - and why she thinks it needs to change.
$wife was getting super annoyed at having to smell a neighbor's cigarette smoke every time the window is open
so we've now spun up a wireless laser-scatter particulate sensor tied to outside air (<€30 in parts, thanks to ESPhome <3 and 6/8mm PVC tubing) which seems to detect within a second of it starting <333
Do you maintain or contribute to a #Python package that includes a C extension? Would you like to run a fuzzer against it?
If so, let me know and I will run it, or help you to get it running.
The fuzzer is #fusil, which generates random code calling into your functions and methods. It's useful to check for crashes on invalid inputs or unexpected call patterns.
It has found about 50 crashes in #CPython, 20 in #PyPy, 6 in #Numpy etc.
#fuzzing #fuzzer #testing
See here:
https://github.com/devdanzin/fusil/issues/37
Every single hash and HMAC algorithm exposed by default in Python is now provided by HACL*, the verified cryptographic Library - Post by Jonathan Protzenko #Cryptography #Python https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html
$wife was getting super annoyed at having to smell a neighbor's cigarette smoke every time the window is open
so we've now spun up a wireless laser-scatter particulate sensor tied to outside air (<€30 in parts, thanks to ESPhome <3 and 6/8mm PVC tubing) which seems to detect within a second of it starting <333
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to launch a new program next month to lower gasoline prices by ¥10 per liter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/22/japan/ishiba-gas-price-cut-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #shigeruishiba #gas
ultraviolet hair and neopronouns
goo morning
i had a dream about people who didn't like rap but loved the intro buildup part, so they got tiny rats to sit on their ears, and whenever a rap song was playing past the intro, the rat would push its tiny butt into into your ear to stop you from hearing it
ちょい前に「反権力はかっこいいと思ってる」って文字列があちこちで見られたんだけど、ネチネチとバカみたいなDD論を振り回して権力者のケツ舐めしてるオタクさんたちに比べたら、RATMやグレタさんやVoBが格段にかっこいいのはどうしようもない事実だよねー(;´Д`)
Puffin's Bluff
Where Flakes Fall Off: an Eval Cache Tale https://lobste.rs/s/iqiglx #nix
https://santi.net.br/blog/where-flakes-fall-off-an-eval-cache-tale/
The MLS Architecture document – the companion document to the MLS Protocol document – is now finally available as RFC 9750:
if my browser looks like this I'm either having a great time or a really terrible time (not always sure which)
@SnoopJ probably best to just push up a PR in case someone (maybe me, but probably someone else) has time to look at it and steal some stuff from it
whoever is doing this _please_ stop playing with the monkey's paw https://mastodon.social/@verge/114383625601142305
RFC 9750: The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Architecture, B. Beurdouche, et al., https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9750 #RFC The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol (RFC 9420) provides a group key agreement protocol for messaging applications. MLS is designed to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery, and to provide forward secrecy (FS) and post-compromise 1/4
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
Hugo van Kemenade
! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
@lynnesbianLynnesbian Poob has it for you.
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
adjacent ! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google https://www.theverge.com/news/653882/openai-chrome-google-us-judge
Can we still recover the right to be left alone?
Link: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lowry-pressley-right-to-oblivion/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741549
Listen I'm here to report that giving three talks in three weeks is too much.
Just in case you were thinking about it, or had a time machine through which you could send a message to me
Deeply grateful to every audience that holds space for me! Bye I will not see you for a while 😂
student affirmations: i am wrong in ways chatgpt cannot be.
@SnoopJ the focus behaving correctly is the only new change, so that's great news.
I wonder if I'm just not handling monitor_geom.y correctly at all there. I don't really have a way to construct arbitrary geometry collections to test that, given the way that Parallels' fullscreen / multi-monitor support works
Some cleansing positive energy for your timeline #antifa
Refeed daily for #health and #prosperity
📢 research call 📢
please boost! we're running a series of small group design workshops for community governance on fedi. if you are a user, admin, mod, dev, organizer - or have thought quite a bit about governance on fedi - and a legal adult in your locale, join us!
each workshop, scheduled based on peoples' availability, is:
🌐 2 hrs on Zoom
👥 w/ 6-10 people
💲 comes w/ $60 USD per person
details: https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/
sign up: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3SdG4y6wocMPie
questions: frictance@princeton.edu
Listen I'm here to report that giving three talks in three weeks is too much.
Just in case you were thinking about it, or had a time machine through which you could send a message to me
Deeply grateful to every audience that holds space for me! Bye I will not see you for a while 😂
finally wrote something real about what i've been building!
too many of my infra workflows were buried in slack threads, docs, or shell history
so i started working on Atuin Desktop:
- runbooks that run
- local-first, crdt-powered
- embedded terminals, db queries, monitoring blocks
more words here: https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/
would love to know what you think! ❤️ 
Hi all. I would otherwise ask y’all to consider donating to support our instance(s) but instead, I’m going to ask you to consider helping to support one of our own, 
@catbaileyCat 🐈⬛🛰️, who was one of the many casualties of recent government cutbacks. You can support Cat here: https://gofund.me/f5aab496
Auch als ehemaliger #Soldat der #Bundeswehr schäme ich mich für das ehrlose, feige und auch unchristliche Verhalten der #Bundesrepublik gegenüber sicherheitsüberprüften Verbündeten aus #Afghanistan und vom #Genozid bedrohten, integrierten Ezidinnen & Eziden aus dem #Irak.
#Deutschland 🇩🇪🇪🇺 verrät derzeit seine GG-Werte wie #Menschenwürde & liefert sich genau dadurch dem #Fossilismus & #Faschismus wieder aus. 🔥 Feige & dumm, so würde es #Bonhoeffer zu Recht nennen. 😤https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/afghanistan-charterfluege-aus-islamabad-fuer-gefaehrdete-ortskraefte-vorerst-ausgesetzt-a-0a40ed83-f4a3-48a0-99d1-399f1ffc2f89
ふえぇ
@SnoopJ I am shocked that it worked, I thought I'd tried this already. but it seems quite reliable! I'm curious if you try it on your machine if you get the same result, given that this is a somewhat more … empirical approach to design than I'd prefer to have
No, really, you can’t branch Datomic from the past https://lobste.rs/s/id6bpe #databases
https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/04/22/datomic-forking-the-past/
Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
Link: https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765011
アリーナ有りーな!!!
函館でRubyKaigiの規模が入れる施設って函館市民会館くらいぽいな…函館アリーナというのもあるがw
RubyKaigi2026、函館アリーナのほうは「まさかなハハハ」のつもりで書いたんだがアリーナと市民会館両方だった…！
> Hakodate Citizen Hall (函館市民会館)
> Hakodate Arena (函館アリーナ)
amos
