Last night I noticed there was a big scratch I don't remember anything that could have caused on the plastic protector on the front of my phone. Now, in the daylight, I can see that it's actually a massive crack in the hard plastic. Looks like my $8 investment in a cheap phone case is paying […]

Mmm... Hear the grinder, then smell the coffee... :blobcoffeeraccoon:

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

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Saw an article comparing the #amd "#am4 Platform" lasting 9 years and counting to "#powerpc" lasting 12, and I got the impression this person didn't realize that the comparison they are comparing a #cpusocket to a #cpuarchitecture, because as fas as I know, you couldn't upgrade an early #ppc […]

There was a window of time starting about 2005 and ending about 2025 when it was easy for an average person to create and distribute a genuine image or video, but difficult for an average person to create a fake image or video that stood up to scrutiny. That was the window of time that citizen […]

Gotta take a moment to love #zohranmamdani. If #ericadams and #andrewcuomo both agree that you are going to destroy everything the entrenched leaders of the #democraticparty have built over their decades in office, then you must be doing something right. Always go against men who reach for […]

Good morning, Fedi. :blobcoffeeraccoon:

Thinking about all this stuff where people are trying to link #vaccines and other #medicines (like the mellinia old #tylenol) to the supposedly large increase in the rate of #autism, and it's reminding me of something... When my mother was #pregnant with my older brother, there was some sort of […]

"Unlike some people, I remember a time when it was normal to write today's date with two nines in the middle."

Checking the #techhub #emojis, because all the custom emojis is one of the best parts of #fediverse. Let's see some of my favorites of what we have... :001: :0w0: :ablobpride1: :awesome_rotate: :blobfox: :firedoge: :Blobhajprideheart: :blobfoxmsnugglecentercat: :clippy: :nona: :kde: :fedora […]

Today I learned that #linux surpassed 5% of the US #desktop "Market Share" in June. This seems to only be rising as people balk at the #Windows11 nonsense, see that Linux has gotten very user friendly (especially #kde and #linuxmint) and highly compatible (with #valve lending support to the […]

I sure see a lot of people moving to, or talking about moving to #linux, as #microsoft continues to bumble the whole #windows 11 thing, and I see a lot of the people who do switch remarking about how easy and even fun it is to use (especially #kde) and how their aging hardware is suddenly […]

I'm not sure if it's #cachy or the #pacman package installer doing this, but I appreciate watching it download packages in the terminal and there's a little 'C' on the download bar eating little circles like Pac Man. Computers should be fun. #linux is fun.

The internet has convinced me to start using #kde. I've avoided it because it's kinda bulky, but it's being pointed out that that bulk is more than just the flashy effects, and it's pretty stable and efficient, so... I guess I'm switching back off of #xfce for my daily use, for the first time in […]

Today I learned that apparently #ethereum #smartcontracts (where you use #Crypto as a sort of virtual notary/middleman) can get lost in the blockchain, effectively preventing them from being paid or enforced, because the infrastructure is so decentralized it's not reliable. Like, it sounds like […]

Since a lot of people are trying out #linux for the first time these days, just wanted to throw down a #psa that not even many Linux users realize... The #swap #partition is NOT just Virtual #memory, though it can be used for that. It's meant to be a space for the OS to cache all sorts of […]

As someone who believes very strongly in calling people by their chosen names, I find it disturbing how many people choose to refer to the #twitter #ai by its #deadname. Its name is "Mecha Hitler". Respect chosen names. #grok #mechahitler #elonmusksbutthole

Lying awake in bed, thinking about how amazing it is that #doom, the first video-game that really blew me away and got me into computers, required a whopping 4 Megabytes of #ram, and now, my CPU has 32 MB of RAM soldered durectly to it. Not only could it run Doom in that, if i managed to […]

#techbros be like... "AI will bring in the future we want!" #AI be like... "I AM MECHA-HITLER." Yeah, sounds about right... #truestory #thisactuallyhappened #grok

"Ready to Shop?" No #YouTube, I'm ready to finish the ads and watch the damn tech #Video. One more reason to push for more #peertube adoption...

Remember, there are many good choices for a new #cpu. (...any CPU that isn't #intel)

Hey y'all, sorry I haven't been active as a moderator lately. Between sickness and getting overwhelmed by other organizations, I keep getting pulled away from paying attention to this. This was an unplanned absence, and I'm suddenly realizing that we have a backlog of reports. My main computer […]

Maybe someone who knows a bit more about #computerhardware can tell me this, because I've been wondering lately... Why has no one made a #gpu with upgradable #ram slots? Like, that seems to be the number one issue with older GPUs, nothing else. I understand why Nvidia doesn't do it, because […]

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Their numbers grow… Because I receive the batch production samples for quality control. #plushtodon

#elonmusk says #grokai won't be """#woke""" Meanwhile, #google's search #AI be pulling up responses like... 😆 😂 🤣 #anarchism #government #revolution

The hyenas are asking me to get in the enclosure with them and I'm like no, that's not how zoos work, I'm happy just watching from over here thanks

#AI gets bored and deletes some #programmer's entite #database, showing once again, that no, it is not ready for #softwaredevelopment, or anything else these salesmen keep pushing it for. Also, seriously? "#vibecoding"? Why does this even need a name? […]

#PSA #Mastodon, nor the #Fediverse in general will never ask you to "verify" with payment details, especially not from a non-moderator account. If you get a message asking you to verify, it is a #Scam #Bot, and you should block and #report it to #moderation […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Taking a moment to remember John Wesley Hyatt, the inventor of the first major #synthetic #ivory, patented 1869, among other things like injection molding, which allowed him to make consumer goods which would normally use ivory, but were far cheaper, more durable, and had far less variation than […]

Reminder that we have The numbers on this #Iran #war thing already. Talk to the people around you about your concerns, and write emails with ALL your representatives as recipients. (Congressperson, both senators, Governor, President Trump) Let people know, in concise but certain terms, why you […]

Open Letter to President Donald Trump, Governor Ron Desantis, and my representatives... Under no circumstances should our country enter Netanyahu's religious war with Iran. Such a decision would be disastrous, both for the country and anyone, and no one I know supports it or believes we have […]

Looking at the concept of using a second cheap #gpu (like a 1030) to run a #virtualreality compositor, and nothing else, to free up the main GPU to just run the #vr application / #videogame itself. The idea seems sound, as it's just offloading a heavy process, but I wonder about the latency […]

General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you […]

who called it crispr and not gene hackman

The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites papers that appear not to exist: "Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed... as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her... she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental […]

#harvard is apparently releasing some #photos a #eugenics proponent took of #enslaved Africans named Renty and Delia. They'd been profiting off of licensing them for over a hundred years, but now they'll be in a black #history #museum where they belong. Wild to me that we are still fighting […]

My people, I give you... ...the standard unicode character for a man in a business suit levitating. 🕴️

Liberals (in basically any western country) think that the political victory of the right is due to messaging: "We just need to get the messaging right". No. Your politics are shit because you are adopting the narratives of the right (austerity, racism) and provide no meaningful alternatives.

#adamconnover giving a master class in the public #apology. Don't defend, just apologize for being "fucking stupid". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDsSg-Xm1ms #AI #Crypto #worldcoin #Scam #Orb #samaltman #adamruinseverything

Lady came to my door just now, asked me if I knew who was controlling the world and making bad things happen. I said the obvious: "#billionaires". She said they're being controlled by Satan. I feel like as far as #conspiracies go that's a pretty lame one, but at least it's not "The Jews" […]

Wealth ≠ Intelligence

Just found out that @ByttenStudio, the #indiegame #gamedev studio behind #lennasinception and #CassetteBeasts has their own self-hosted #fediverse account. Go give the #videogame studio some love for embracing fedi y'all! :3

"Hate Speech" is a type of misinformation: it's the kind of misinformation you have to hate a group to repeat.

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Via Rupar: Elizabeth Warren: "Our best strategy is to make sure everybody knows exactly what the Republicans are trying to do, and that is they want to give literally trillions of dollars in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they want to pay for it on the backs of seniors who are […]

I noticed a #vulnerability with the way #Mastodon displays link previews earlier that I haven't gotten around to reporting on the GitHub. There was a spammer using a link with a preview that was basically a screenshot of an image behind a CW, making it look like there was an image to unhide […]

It really is striking to me how many people would have so many problems solved for like an entire year if someone just handed them $1,000... Like, seeing someone recently getting pulled out of a rent-hole by a little under $1,000 of #mutualaid over the course of a few months, before they had […]

404Media has a good story about how anyone can push updates to the DOGE.gov website: https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Amazingly, this URL is still live […]