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   wizzwizz4 (wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Aug-2026 23:04:49 JST wizzwizz4

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   @ashguy @dalias Okay, xfwl4's the only codebase whose recent commits look vaguely nonsensical, and https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4 only mentions xfwl4, so I'm 60% confident the damage is limited to there – at least for now.

   I'm not sure xfwl4 can be salvaged to begin with. It's written in Rust, which (as much as I like Rust) is more and more a warning sign of bad things, like Enterprise Java used to be.

   It might make more sense to implement a Wayland compositor in a different (higher-level?) language.

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   Ian Z (soviut@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 11:52:54 JST Ian Z

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   @thomasfuchs What this is actually showing is that using a mobility device is less stigmatized than it used to be.

   It's the same false logic used claim that autism is on the rise; no, diagnosis is on the rise. It's reporting bias.

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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2026 04:45:25 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @TheEntity @davidgerard @zzt @vv Even though I believe in technical paths by which these results can probably be achieved, the thing is that it's not clear what the social outcomes would be. Personally I've found a lot of the conversation from people taking the hypotheticals to be useful. I don't want to inundate people with the reasons I believe such an approach is possible, but it's something I've considered focusing my time on before, and so the question of "but what does the world look like if successful" still sits in my mind.

   If you want specifics, I've been a bit more specific in this part of the thread, and I could be more specific elsewhere, but here I was interested in what people felt like the social implications would be.

   It's ok if that's not an engaging thought exercise to you, but it is meaningful to me, as I consider what kind of work to do.

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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 06-Jul-2026 22:52:00 JST Artemis

   Just said in a reply to someone:

   >I think our older sister being kind of a bully & never acknowledging that is a big part of how Apollo (aka Lil Bro) & I ended up being so personally committed to trying to do what's right. She really managed to set the example of everything we didn't want to be.

   It's a weird fucking thing about being a younger kid in a big family, I think. Younger kids have the opportunity to sort of see "possible futures" in their older siblings.

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   Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 10:36:56 JST Mark T. Tomczak

   One of the more interesting aspects of the Ukraine war was the revelation of how badly compromised Russia's defense assets were. It was, honestly, a little startling to the public to learn that the feared Former Soviet State still had size on its side, but not a modern military; their tech was either out-dated or had been pillaged by corruption so badly that it couldn't be deployed as intelligence analysts had assumed it could be.

   It is extremely fair to argue that Russia's greatest state-defense asset was perception and that the war in Ukraine damaged that and, in so doing, materially threatened the country's safety---that if they had simply never started a war, everyone would still perceive them as unassailable and incredibly dangerous to engage in combat and nobody would even think to try stochastic attacks, asymmetric drone warfare, or any other modern tactics under the assumption that such a grand superpower had a solution for all of that.

   In short, all they had to do to keep everyone's perception of their strength was literally not start a war to test it.
   Just a thing I'm thinking of right now for some reason.

   https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war

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   Adrian Chadd <verified.png> (erikarn@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 06:52:40 JST Adrian Chadd <verified.png>

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   @whitequark @hailey oh yeah i forgot to mention how utterly bonkers the timing can be.

   It's not always the controller either. Like, you can submit a buffer for completion to the controller and context switch / copy it - this is what userland libusb + ugen devices do! - if you can do it to a process then you can do it to a VM! - but the devices themselves are also very latency sensitive and in a lot of cases shit the bed if your transfers aren't setup fast enough!