I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it

get high
"aw yeah lets open ableton"
installing updates one by one for 15 minutes

Please take a moment to read this absolutely spectacular post by Yinx about how we furries as a community need to stop allowing the poison of the wider world to seep into your communities and sow unnecessary division. You need to have the backs of people who might engage in things you don't personally enjoy because otherwise those seeking to strip our community down will be coming for you next. https://confuzzled.org.uk/2026/05/06/one-community-for-all/

uh huh.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

Do you actively seek out new music, from artists you don’t already know?

Polls below split by age, in multiple replies to the thread.
(Because I can only make 4-choice polls here)

remember if you're on #GoToSocial v0.21.x you can go to your account settings and choose to show boosts on the web view of your profile now

show everyone all the lovely queer furry porn you've been enjoying, it's good for morale <3

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

while I studied the flute, my daughter drew a cowboy. I told her let me post this, it will be popular on mastodon

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Sketches of a cowboy, as in a person dressed in typical cowboy outfit, but the person is also a cow anthro. The sketches are mostly line art with dashes of browns and beiges, including the cowboy's spots, which are caramel against white. The cowboy is seen sitting on a fence doing a "yee-haw!" pose, and smiling contently in a nice cowboy hat. There's also the sketch of a fully 4-legged cow wearing a hat; I imagine my daughter wanted to draw the animal first to consider how to make an anthro.

If you buy a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill, and you don’t spend time learning how to operate it properly, harm may come to you. If you give your child a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill without imparting said understanding, great harm may come to them too.

Somehow we’ve decided computers are different and this is a problem we need the government to fix by breaking computers for people who do know how to use them.

cosigned; if you’re not adopting this as a core part of your software practice you’re going to be left behind real fast https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html

Who needs Ghidra when you have autism and a box of markers?

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A disassembly of an adventure game engine script bytecode interpreter, annotated by hand with pencil and markers.

glsl stands for girls love shader language

i released an Atari 2600 demo with some friends at revision this year and managed to win 1st place in the oldskool demo compo! it's been in development for about a year now so was really cool to see it finally out :3
https://demozoo.org/productions/389801/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs

I wish every laptop computer board a very merry, "Please let your schematics and board view fall off the back of a truck"

device attestation should not exist, it is that simple

It seems like Revision 2026 Demoparty isn't being streamed by c3voc, I guess I'll have to check back when the fun is all over

Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)

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Cover art to Ultimate Companion for Windows, featuring dramatic early CGI artwork of dragons in a mountain lake.

some people fill their bio up with loud proclamations of all the things they aren't and who isn't allowed to talk to them, and i wish there was more space so i could i add "samurai pizza cats reject" to mine

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep my household linux-free:
"stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc."

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

The brainrot is big in this one.
also… TIL: "systemd-userdbd" wtflol.
Kinda amazed how they manage to still find new nooks and crannies to metastasise into, in their haphazard nonchalant fashion.

extra-lol for this idiocy:

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poettering says: claude review

Yes, building hardware is hard, but if you get sakura pink PCBs, a bunch of sexually repressed old white guys will get really uncomfortable about their masculinity, and that's kinda worth it

Amiga people will make and sell a €399 sound card capable of 24-bit 192kHz audio, inexplicably called AmiGUS while having nothing to do with the Gravis Ultrasound / PicoGUS

Other Amiga people will buy it so they can listen to MP3s on their 35 year old computer

A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.

The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology

i'm starting to feel like PC building is like masturbating

kinda feels weird to watch someone else do it, and i don't need anyone commenting on the amount of thermal paste i'm applying,

a really cool photo i took today x)

#photography

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photograph of two people hugging at the platform of a train station, with a passing blurry train behind them

although I am curious about the psychology of the openclaw trend, I could never see myself allowing a bot to publish a website about our interactions if I ever had one.

but if I did, the posts would be things like:

- my human told me today that I am as important as "this shitty screwdriver I bought at IKEA". bless her heart she must like me a lot 💘

- today I screwed up a basic programming task and my human complained that I used 3000kWh of power to deliver a total garbage result, she just keeps motivating me to try!!!!

actually probably not because I'm not really like that but this stuff squicks me the fuck out

oc by @tendstofortytwo

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usb-c cable with plug facing the viewer, with the following text overlaid: "device low on juice? can't find a compatible charger? try 30-40V on VBUS 30-40V on VBUS: a convenient way to power your devices dump it all immediately with no PD negotiation you will certainly not regret 30-40V on VBUS"

Top 10 Discord Alternatives (2026 - Updated List)

1. FAX
2. Bildschirmtext (BTX)
3. Minitel
4. Prestel
5. Videotext Chat
6. Q-Link
7. FidoNet
8. Usenet
9. Micronet 800
10. DATEX-J