Mastodawn

tech as an industry, and as a field of work, does not value people. every single problem it has is downstream from this.

scrottie (he/him/them)4h ago

Inspirational Skeletor💀6h ago

scrottie (he/him/them)5h ago

Stefan Eissing 18h ago

First of all, *most* of FOSS security reports nowadays (that I see in #curl and #apache httpd) are non-threatening.

They are edge cases under highly constructed preconditions. Yes, not impossible, but unlikely to be ever encountered.

Before LLMs, no researcher would have invested the time to explore those scenarios. my guess.

Yes, we fix them. But, they could also have been a bug report.💁🏻‍♂️

scrottie (he/him/them)6h ago

Was thinking about how _House of Leaves_ (haven't read it, only indirectly exposed to it) places and the world must be for cats. Just a rental, but we kept the cats out of the basement for a long time, but there was always This Door. Then there was a catio. They still don't know about the attic. We've worked hard for that because a previous kitty, god bless her little soul, Emma, snuck in once and we couldn't find her but heard meowing and eventually one roommate outside spotted her head poking out through a hole in the eaves where a lighting fixture was missing, plus mouse poop and lots of odd places to get trapped and fiberglass insulation etc. Hall closets, boiler rooms, cuboards, etc have slowly been revealed.

scrottie (he/him/them)7h ago

Koen Hufkens, PhD 13h ago

"Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter"

Surprise, they will get BOTH!

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/14/americans-would-rather-have-a-nuclear-plant-in-their-backyard-than-a-datacenter/5240203

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem

theregister

scrottie (he/him/them)7h ago

Ele Willoughby, PhD 12h ago

This Endangered Species Day I’m sharing a bee. This #linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. It is now sadly on the brink of extinction, designated federal Species at Risk in Canada. On January 10, 2017, it was the first bee to be placed on the endangered species list in the US. Historically it had a large range in the eastern US from Maine to Tennessee and in Canada in southern 🧵

scrottie (he/him/them)7h ago

Heather 👻13h ago

Well it's on display to the public so here it is here.

'After the Gnomes Go'

My entry for the Perfection In Miniature 2026 at Kensington Dollshouse Festival.

A derelict quarter scale stump house.
#miniatures #dollshouse

scrottie (he/him/them)7h ago

Trilobyter 10h ago

Rain puddle in the #Girona cobblestones.

#FensterFreitag #photography #StreetPhotography #reflections #travel #Catalonia #Spain

scrottie (he/him/them)8h ago

Constantly amazed how a company like Apple or Microsoft can lay off essentially the population of a small state and all of their code repos don't suddenly appear on a torrent site.
Working in tech is trauma bonding with a corporation.
You probably just go insane in this system if you don't trauma bond.

scrottie (he/him/them)8h ago

Show thread

Jay Thurber Show 10h ago

I'm "They Used to Have One at the Super Dollar" Years Old