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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him. These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial […] [bridged from https://cosocial.ca/@timbray on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Wow, setting electric cars with 90kWh batteries on fire in the middle of a crowd is seriously fucking bad karma.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Calico in early summer. #caturday #photography

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What was the anti-AI rant I read recently from a link here titled something like "I don't want to hear about AI anymore"? Thanks in advance. Also, Web Search sucks these days.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Tfw you’re writing charlotte’s web and you have a spider question and the only bug guy you know is vladimir nabokov

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Just learnt of Bounce. May be a good tool to be aware of for those using #bluesky or the #ATProtocol https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/ #mastodon #activitypub #fediverse

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings: “Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

No comment. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-saylors-bitcoin-imitators-are-multiplying-from-trump-to-gamestop-080033275.html

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

One can imagine a world where, when you fire a PR at a project that's been quiet for a few months, your PR-related CI doesn't end up face-down in a pool of bits because Something Somewhere Changed. But that's not the world we live in.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

(Quoting Matt Levine) Maybe use GenAI for “200,000 lines of Cobol code written by Dave at Chemical Bank in 1973, which now underpin the entire US payments system, and which no one at any bank has understood since Dave passed away in 2005, and then have it rewrite the code in the style of Dave […]

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Why Google should proactively break itself up: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.oUPn.B0yCN3RUyZxS&smid=url-share (gift link) Feels like a no-brainer to me.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So sad: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/31/Colors

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I’ve read a lot of horrible news this last couple of years but this is maybe the worst? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000 Can someone provide a convincing […]

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

New turntable thinking: Hold the arm steady and slide the platter sideways. No, really: https://soulution-audio.com/soulution-787-turntable/

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

It’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/30/Number-Comparison-Representation

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Scientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona | PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2025/05/30/scientists-capture-sharpest-images-ever-of-suns-corona/ There's video in there you might want to full-screen.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Vibe coding: https://bramcohen.com/p/vibe-coding “Vibe coding definitely changes the, uh, vibe of coding. Traditional programming feels like a cold uncaring computer calling you an idiot a thousand times a day. Of course the traditional environment isn’t capable of calling you an idiot so it’s […]

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“I am disappointed in the AI discourse” https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess Tl;dr: Spam+LLM is a combo that’s hard to deal with.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Heh, so people in the import/export world, instead of dealing with Trump’s short-attention-span/TACO tariff policies, now have to deal with the uncertainties of US constitutional litigation. Joking aside, I think that’s an improvement. #USpol

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Ik lig dubbel….

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

#LetGazaLive

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Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I bet a lot of folks (especially on the tech side) have just stopped paying attention to crypto, which is perfectly sane because we all know that it’s bad technology. On the other hand, the finance sector, with MAGA cheerleading, is still wildly enthusiastic. See […]

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

New IETF Working Group: Digital Emblems: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/diem/about/ When I first saw this I thought “WTF?!” but… OK, I guess?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The Education Vigilante - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

That… is quite a number. I wonder what the return on that investment will look like? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-nvidia-played-a-central-role-in-the-306-billion-ai-startup-boom-195741749.html

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Made my day!

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The Canadian and Mexican governments could set up COVID booster clinics just past the drive-in border crossings, and right near the exits at airports. Require a US passport, charge a service fee of $25, and have a kiosk to let the recipient send a personalized email to RFK Jr.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Big thrill today, saw two humpbacks breaching by Bowen Island, about here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ly9AteWe1JHN7SyX6 Wonderful creatures and so obviously having fun.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Je suis passé par #Bluesky et j'y ai vu les mêmes publications qu'ici, les mêmes photos de chats, les mêmes égoportraits au coucher du soleil, les mêmes vidéos, les mêmes indignations. Et bien sûr exactement la même mentalité : ici, c'est mieux qu'ailleurs.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Átl'ka7tsem (Howe Sound) at dusk. Peace be upon you all. #Photography #HoweSound

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Looks sensible: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/legal-features-updates/

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments