André Polykanine

RE: https://tweesecake.social/@jokes/117074551203914879

As a blind guy, I appreciate the joke!

someone should make a dating app for nerds and call it Singles Sign-On

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@dada/117094252230687852

Heureusement !

AI Finally Gave Some of Us a Level Playing Field. I Don’t Want Watermarking to Take That Away. https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/ai-finally-gave-some-of-us-a-level

They changed something in #ClaudeCode, and auto mode began to ask for stupid permissions about compound commands. I mean, I set auto mode, I don't want to sit here and press 1 every time! #AI

Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.

This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.

When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.

Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.

More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore. Too often, conversations turn hostile or confrontational. A small amount of conflict and bad actors takes up a disproportionate amount of time and energy.

I find myself feeling more angry or discouraged after spending time as an admin, and that’s not what I want from social media or a volunteer project.

There’s also the financial side. I’m very grateful to everyone who donated, but donations haven’t covered costs for a long time. I’ve had to shoulder most of the expenses, time, and responsibility myself.

The server is now closed to new registrations and will remain online until 28 October 2026, so you’ll have three months to find another Mastodon or Fediverse server and move your account.

You can find Mastodon’s official migration guide here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive.

If you’d like to stay in touch, you can follow my personal account here (@jorijn).

Whenever you see a journalist doing good work on Bluesky, but not yet on Mastodon or the wider Fediverse, ask them to follow @ap.brid.gy@ap.brid.gy to bridge their Bluesky account.

They may not be interested in joining the Fediverse, but why not a bridge? ;)

#Fediverse #BridgyFed #Mastodon

Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.

YouTube shorts should be a separate app, that Google can kill off when they realize no one wants to watch YouTube shorts.

Sorry to anyone who's been having issues with streaming timelines on dragonscave.space in the past hour or so. Noticed this broke right in the middle of my workday, which is right when you want to discover service outages. Restarted everything like usual but actually upgraded our node.js and deps to the latest versions this time, so this will hopefully leave me alone for a while now.

Do not waste time saying 'Just use Linux.'
Not happening.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@Angrybunnyman/117083901987685787

An exasperation.

For those people using Suno.
It is worth saying they are changing their terms of service as of 3 September. If you are on a Pro plan, you can now only download 20 songs per month.
That's probably enough for most people, and certainly we have all of our songs anyway, but it is worth knowing.

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/117072654128435457

I've already told you Quinn is amazing. for example, that's why.

Всё чаще слышу призывы отказаться от нерациональной предвзятости в отношении генеративного ИИ и перестать искать лишние пальцы и тире не той системы, ведь ИИ всего лишь инструмент.

Полностью поддерживаю эту идею. Давайте уже относиться и говорить правильно.

Не "зачем в статье сгенерированная картинка", а "твоя картинка говно". Не "это сгенерированное видео", а "это фальшивое видео". Не "нейросетью текст писал?", а "что за шизу ты гонишь, с тобой всё в порядке?" Не "не надо мне вставлять ответы из чатгпт", а "не надо писать то, в чём явно не разбираешься". Не "через нейросеть читал?", а "жопой читал, раз только это вынес?"

Впрочем, если что-то помогло, то и тут надо говорить не "да, твой нейрослоп сработал", а "спасибо, твой ответ мне помог".

Навязчивый поиск признаков генерации не просто бесполезен, но ещё и даёт ИИ субъектность, снимая её с тех, ими злоупотребляет. Это как "навигатор меня ведёт с опозданием" - это не навигатор, а ты опаздываешь. Инструмент не косячит - косячит всегда тот, кто его применяет. Не нейронки выдают слоп, а вполне конкретные люди, их применяющие. Зачем их лишать заслуженного авторства.
#ТакиеДела

Working in large codebases such as Paperback or my company's web backends has really shown me the value of writing tests. In just a couple thousand lines of code, you can figure out what broke and why. But when you get into the tens of thousands of lines across multiple programming languages, having a command you can run to confirm at least parts of your code are still working feels very very nice. I'm still not a test-driven-development person and I honestly don't know if I ever will be, but I like unit tests. We're friends.

« Croire et espérer, un art de vivre à protéger » https://podcast.ausha.co/l-edito-du-figaro/l-editorial-du-figaro-du-samedi-25-juillet-2026 #LeFigaro #FrPol

A local business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, that read:

"HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer and must be bilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer."

A short time afterwards, a dog trotted up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined.

Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised, to say the least. However, the dog looked determined, so he lead him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on the chair and stared at the manager.

The manager said, "I can’t hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type." The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter. He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back on the chair. The manager was stunned, but then told the dog, "The sign says you have to be good with a computer."

The dog jumped down again and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to demonstrate his expertise with various programs and produced a sample spreadsheet and database and presented them to the manager. By this time the manager was totally dumb-founded! He looked at the dog and said, "I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I *still* can’t give you the job."

The dog jumped down and went to a copy of the sign and put his paw on the sentences that told about being an Equal Opportunity Employer. The manager said, "Yes, but the sign *also* says that you have to be bilingual."

The dog looked at him straight in the face and said, "Meow"

#Politique

#EELV en 2026 : Fermer, Interdire, censurer.

#Fascisme 2.0

Le réel :

L’algorithme de recommandation « For You » de #X est #OpenSource et public sur #Github.

Tout utilisateur peut le désactiver en un clic.

La #CommissionEuropéenne a accepté le plan de conformité DSA de X le 15-16 juillet 2026.

👇

https://piaille.fr/@marinetondelier/117066196425024375

Forgot to say: Yesterday I walked into the hotel reception past a bunch of seating, asked the receptionist about something, then walked back out.

Past a six foot tall orangutan sitting on one of the chairs, not moving.

I did a genuine double take, and couldn't work out if it was someone in costume, or a figure that had been placed there.

Turns out it's a guy who's cutting about the con dressed as the Librarian in an outfit that I can only describe as "expensive" and "probably hotter than hades inside".

Ook!

#DWCon26