It is commonly understood that ND (neurodivergent) brains are "wired differently" and social interactions can be rather bewildering.

I haven't seen this particular topic discussed. I am hypothesizing that poetry could be equally inaccessible to ND folks as well, and would love thoughts on this.

@autistics @actuallyadhd #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #Poetry

Carefully cutting down my JavaScript, optimising my CSS, minimising my HTML, configuring preloads, tweaking caching, and manually shrinking images to hit a good balance of size and compression, then opening a new tab to be hit by a megacorp’s 40MB hero video.

what OS would be used in a post apocalyptic environment? I have 2 candidates:

- NetBSD: Because of course everything can run NetBSD so it's perfect for post-apocalyptic computing.

- CP/M: It's back! — Its simple enough to be implemented by any hardware and it would allow software inter compatibility.

- Some Linux distro: Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Alpine... This is the most likely answer

Windows would require too much electricity to run, even if it is Windows on arm. New MacOS would be useless because they would only run on M chips.

It needs a somewhat beefy storage drive (a dozen or two terabytes), but that's entirely within reach of a hobbyist.

it's honestly really sad that my rule of "avoid anything that has a (mirrors don't count) github repo" actually is right most of the time

every time i try llm autocomplete and have it be useful it's always shit you can create reasonably useful heuristics for that work 80% of the time with way less resource use which is pretty much the success rate of the llm anyway

like. pretty sure you can make an editor plugin that detects you replacing a space with a ", " and offers to do it for the rest of the string for you.

pretty sure there are already ides that let you mark a method as async the instant you write an await inside them, just the UX isn't a simple tab complete

"why do only cis men do amateur radio" probably because there's a list of every person who does it with their full name and address published internationally mandatory by law

• Use it as social media and accumulate various embarassing posts;
• Use it to learn about complex computing and mathematics;

fedi doesn't have accounts bulk-following-to-get-follows-back like bsky does -- except for Low Quality Facts, who we keep as a sort of curio

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Low Quality Facts has requested to follow you

If you see this, repost/quote-boost with a picture from your device without context

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bgfi5m56yiohqg244fbjhqa7/post/3ludl2wv5t22t

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A scene from King Of The Hill where the main character, Hank Hill (labeled "furries") is in his garage, angrily yelling at a raccoon (also labeled "furries") and waving a screwdriver as the raccoon makes a mess of his workbench. The closed captioning at the bottom says, "YOU FURRY BASTARD!"

Remember, kids, big AI companies are run by billionaire fascists with the explicit aim of creating a machine god, no matter what the effects for the actual world here on earth where LLMs can't become gods, but financial crashes can ruin billions of lives.

If you use commercial AI tools, people will judge you for it because you're choosing to help evil push us further towards the economic crash of the AI bubble bursting.

couldnt think of a punchline for this

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krita screenshot editing a screenshot. the screenshot is of an ad, edited to say "Turn HARD posts into EASY posts. Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today". the original graphic from the ad is present as that's where the punchline would go. if i had one

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

VM (Vicky) Brasseur [she/her] » 🌐 2026-01-19
@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

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What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future? As a longtime and respected open source professional, I finally want to have a good answer when someone asks me, "What has Mozilla done for us lately?" I haven't had that answer for many a year. The perception of Mozilla in the greater open source community is that of a company that breaks its promises (where's Pocket?) and panders to big tech, unwilling or unable to take a strong principled stance lest it lose its grip on its purse strings. Mozilla has flailed, starting and ending what feels like more products/projects than Google. It needs to refocus on its mission and double-down on regaining the trust of the community. I do NOT want to see a focus on AI. At all. It's a red herring that's distracting from the mission, not an add-on to it. Furthermore, the ethics of AI (no matter its source) are questionable at best. Aside from IP and other concerns, even the most "open" AI still contributes greatly to degrading our environment. Anything beyond eschewing this tech trend feels antithetical to Mozilla's mission and brand.

it's incredible people still recommend delta chat while it's not capable of adequate security (forward secrecy, completely forbid unencrypted messages, no metadata leakage, right now who sent and to whom is leaked, that's already way too fucking much)

until that's solved, i can't consider delta chat to be secure

Let's say there's a button.

If you press it, you won't need to eat food anymore. Won't get hungry or starve or get any negative effect from not eating.

On the other hand, you can't eat food for fun either. You can still swallow substances, but food won't have any taste.

Would you press the button?

We lost a major infrastructure sponsor, but reached out to the community and gained several new ones. We are thankful for the companies who provided us with servers and bandwidth and everyone who donated financially.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-01-18-new-sponsors-strenghten-infrastructure.html

#AlpineLinux #FOSS