I really like 90% of #Absolum but some encounters really need a better balance (I'm looking at you, twin Goblin Champions). Or perhaps it's the dodging mechanism that could be a bit more useful.
Krzysztof Krasiński-Sroka
@kpsroka.bsky.social
Software plumber 🪠 :: 🐕 💕 for life :: he/him
Listen, y'all devs: all classes and functions are "@VisibleForTesting". If you don't test, you can as well write everything in one big file. #swe #programming
So many of the claims about trans athletes by the anti trans side are simply made up. This woman got caught lying about two trans athletes and was forced to pay out because of it. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
lgbtqnation.com
The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfexaminer.bsky.social, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sandbox in which it was testing its model.”
OpenAI hacking incident highlights AI cyberrisks
Experts take company to task for safety efforts
sfexaminer.com
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
cnbc.com
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
It's not the customer that's stealing from the service people.
Andrew S.@shoutingboy.bsky.social · 2w agoIn the U.S., a 20% tip is simply part of the cost of a meal. If you leave less, you’re stealing from the server. Yes it sucks that that’s how we pay servers but that doesn’t give us an excuse to make things worse for them.
a desire for the problems to be fixed invisibly, silently. no messy direct conflict, no visible arguments, no disruption of 'normal', it's all handled in the background, behind closed doors. they don't know it but what they want is essentially for activists to become lobbyists.
Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.
Needed a break because a colleague presented a new software security measure: storing sensitive strings as int arrays! This way it doesn't show up in chrome dev tools heap dump !! !!!!!! ! !!! !!!!!! #securityInAction #waitwhat
Tadeusz Baranowski passed away. An absolute GIANT of Polish comics. I've spent my whole life reading Tadeusz's work. I had the privilege of meeting him in person. I also had the honor of working with his creations during the production of the animated Diplodocus. I have no words.
I feel like the majority of developers across all skill levels have suddenly turned into temporarily embarrassed engineering directors, just waiting for an inevitable shift into "managers" of slopmachines.
Ankara@ankaracode.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is precisely why tech influencers on here have been so dangerous. From CTOs to former devs who now run podcasts to Speakers who no longer code for a living. You aren't held accountable by other developers who have to review and maintain your code. You aren't doing sprint work on a team 🤷♀️
I must have scored low on the test, that's why I didn't get any autistic superpowers that they advertised :(
The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · last mo.An autistic woman has reportedly been left devastated upon discovering that her autism assessment was simply pass or fail.
When I asked a security engineer in my company if there should be some reaction to people adding "note taker bots" to internal calls, their response was that it requires a balanced approach. FFS.
isaac@sevier.io · last mo.We basically adjusted some standard clauses to make the clear observation that LLMs constitute a third party and as such sharing our information with them isn't kosher with those first two things. Since you're in a different country maybe i'll just describe the process/logic!
A really unpleasant professional anxiety that I’ve just realized I have is that I don‘t know how to think about collaborations now that I’m so mismatched with peers on acceptable AI use. I expected this problem with students but I’m shocked at how everyone in their 40s/50s is just casually using it
Meta used computer software to track their employees' keystrokes and mouse clicks in order to replace them with AI. And now that data has been breached.
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.
wired.com
Hot take: The Steam Machine doesn't cost too much money. It's a fair price for what it offers, but people hyped it as if it was the second coming.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.The Steam Machine costs too much money because of greedy freaks. But a community has formed around optimizing a low budget alternative made from failed PlayStation 5's that got turned into crypto mining cards and then resold as garbage. aftermath.site/bc250-steam-ma...
Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.
Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · last mo.1. On Tuesday and with Trump's backing, Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino won a competitive New York House primary—and likely a seat in Congress—after running on "aggressively detransitioning America." His extreme rhetoric must be a warning to us all.
Some fan favourite shirt designs I made for sophielabelle.dashery.com (Teepublic) were of opossums and unicorns reminding people that "Stonewall was a riot". The Stonewall Inn has filed intellectual property claim against them.
i can tell you right now if the parties were reversed, republicans would be using the word “surrender” instead of “deal”
30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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There's even a word for such people: scabs
typing loudly ⌨️@typingloudly.zip · 2mo agowhat i actually want to hear from game companies: "we only used AI for the parts of the production pipeline where our employees thought it was worth trying, not where execs thought it could save a few bucks" i've seen artists build their own plugins for max/blender with Claude Code. seems fine?
no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different
The first game that truly scared me was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens:..., a quite obscure shooter from 1980s. Not a horror, but the sound of a xenomorph walking in the same room as you was terrifying.
Aliens: The Computer Game (UK Version) - Wikipedia
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James@nitrorad.bsky.social · 2mo agoWonder how many people's first introduction to horror games was through Majora's Mask? It's certainly the first thing I ever played as a kid that really scared me. Stuck with me because of that, and helped steer me towards horror games by the end of middle school!
