@Asimech

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White cishet male, so uhh, yeah. Get your 300 K hot takes here.

Sacker for your Hope.

Gender:He or they is fine.

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

@sarahjamielewis don't worry, the lead dev made the technofascism machine review it for him :)
#caturday #CatsOfMastodon Hiccup in sphinx mode

@glennseto That has been my goal, though I have yet to manage to get into any software project such I can routinely do it.

Doesn't help that the one project on my mind is the trackpad and I know trying to program it without a way to test it immediately is going to drive me up the wall.

And I can't do any soldering for well over a month, because the one problem with this apartment is I can't ventilate well enough to solder indoors.

hey

I've been having minor back problems lately and struggling to remember to do the dishes so I've been trying to learn to pace myself. Both for when and how long I should be doing them.

It's been going.
And that's as much as I can say, since I think it takes a month or longer for me to form good habits and I've been successfully doing it for at most a week or so.

But so far I have managed to get and keep on top of the dishes better than in recent past.

This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.” https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
Gone (Almost) Phishin’

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, an…

Matt Mullenweg
Last boost: You might have to look at the alt descriptions for context.
I certainly did, as my thought on the left one was that it was from a comedy sketch.

An unexpected side-effect of AI is seeing so many right-wing chuds admitting to having no interiority.

They're falling over themselves boasting about being NPCs.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@hmiron/116254121524334117

You shouldn’t put up with Vercel using YOUR code as AI training. Time to move to better alternatives.

Reminder: Not every hosting company has a CEO that cozies up to a genocidal war criminal, but Vercel does 🙃