People need to stop recommending server directories to the newbies. People genuinely don’t grok how ActivityPub works out of the gate, and they trip all over that shit. There’s only a handful of open registration PeerTube sites, anyway. We should just point them to, like, clip.place.

This kid's running one of those weird, dual-slot Pentium III boards with two physical CPUs. He's running Linux - somehow - on a hard drive that's almost full, with a userspace partition is NTFS, and the more I hear about this system the more confused I get.

For the non nerds following this thread, this is like finding out somebody's daily driver was is made out of the parts of a sports car, a semi and a train, and it's running on vegetable oil. You might ask why, but the first question is how?

@davidgerard what always bugged me about llms in foss is how reliant it makes you on big software-service companies, which i thought was exactly the thing free software as a movement wanted to avoid in the first place. i have my qualms with the FOSS movement but it really feels like they're blatantly not even bothering to stick by their own principles anymore

@st3fan @mhoye I think @mhoye was referring to this quote:

> Torvalds added that he does not want to scare off people who want to write code; his message is that you have to either put in the effort to learn, or put a lot of money into an LLM to participate.
>
> … Torvalds and others repeatedly said low-quality contributions from new developers should receive low priority, and that the community should stop trying to make contribution easy.

Sometimes I forget a word, or a name, and I'm really worried, I'm worried about getting old, I'm worried about losing what makes me sharp and accurate, I'm worried about losing what makes me me. I worry about losing an accurate sense of the universe.

Earlier today I forgot Brendan Eich's name and had to look it up. And that one moment, during which I couldn't remember Brendan Eich's name, was kind of pleasant, like cool water when you've been baking in the sun

@wdenton is that a question?

Today's Low Quality Ad is for Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids. Get a copy before the government erases Black History from public schools. I'm only half joking. A quarter joking. It will probably be a headline we wake up to in the morning.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641527048/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_apa_gl_i_YTY5XRX4KTXTZ10P0DMJ?linkCode=ml1&tag=lowqualityfac-22-20&linkId=2c95b418cb1827fd73cc81d290e3396c&gaOptInStatus=true

Bunna likes to being us parts of her bed some nights. She brings it out like some sort of fresh kill - shaking it around and stamping on it. I giggle every time so there's no way of stopping her.

#weirdo
#dogsofmastodon
#Toller

@ArneBab @TwraSun sie sind ja noch nicht #gefährlich, aber sie könnten es werden, wie all die neu verrückten €Männer mit der Einbildung, sie würden im #feminismus oder beim €Gendern etwas verlieren, weil sie benachteiligt werden, "denn sie haben zB keinen #Mutterschutz" ;-)

@artcollisions I've only ever had cable as a vehicle for getting Internet as well, but yeah there's a lot of folks still using cable TV

Doory — an open-source alternative to Canva

(Canva just did a 22% RIF and while Doory itself is not to blame, AI is a growth impediment for a generative content business)

https://doory.art

@stux @BenBuster na?

@poetaster so the literal person i'm referring to is Brendan Eich

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Emmanuel Macron dénonce « ceux qui veulent rationner » l’aide à Kiev et « l’obliger à une paix injuste » https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2026/11/14/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-denonce-ceux-qui-veulent-rationner-l-aide-a-kiev-et-l-obliger-a-une-paix-injuste_6808609_3210.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

he's purple because he's a:visited