Mastodawn

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

Very poignantly put @terminaltilt

Andy Stabler 6h ago

Anon Opin 6h ago

Literally everyone should grow at least one plant at any given time. It can be a houseplant, a pot of petunias on your balcony or porch, or some sunflowers & tomatoes in front of your house. Just do it.

Andy Stabler 1d ago

The Nocturne 4d ago

Fascinating! It's taken 40 years, but a group have found a faster shortest path technique than Dijkstra’s algorithm!

#gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker #gamedevelopment

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes-20250806/

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

Quanta Magazine

Andy Stabler 4d ago

Anna Anthro 4d ago

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted #FIFA World Cup over #Trump admin

“Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X.

“If the answer is no, it’s time to cancel your US World Cup tickets.”

https://www.rawstory.com/world-cup-2674872045/

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasingly aggressive deployment of federal immigration agents.“I had to cancel my World Cup plans,” wrote R...

Raw Story

Andy Stabler Jan 6

stfn Jan 6

This is the only AI Copilot that I respect

Andy Stabler Jan 6

You can write really nice object oriented code in JS. It can be elegant, readable, have one reason to change, and be easy to test. Maybe I'm just looking in all the wrong places, but most of the JS files I review do not satisfy those requirements.

For years I've been waiting for it to click, for me to see a massive file of loosely related functions and go "This is actually better. Everything's right in front of you", but it hasn't happened yet.

Andy Stabler Jan 5

Lewis LaCook Jan 5

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

TechCrunch

Andy Stabler Jan 3