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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, because editing and rewriting is where the magic happens, I decided to rework yesterday's "signs in fog" photos. Made the colours a little bit less natural and more contrasty (still more natural than the average phone's defaults) #photos #iceland #hveragerði #iceland

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Happy NY from NZ!

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Days Gone By”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by/

> I’m not sure I have the stamina right now to revisit the horrors of 2025 in detail

Hard same.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine.

Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage.

Learn more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

#debusine #freexian #contentaddressable

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

2025 gave us new TUIs, new friends and a lot of lore to tell for years 🌆

I wrote a **blog post** about my year: https://blog.orhun.dev/2025-wrapped

Thank you so much to everyone who stuck around.
See you in 2026! 🚀🐀🌕

#blogpost #opensource #rustlang #ratatui #2025wrapped

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• gifv: a981fba2cde0329e.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:

I just realized why it wasn't called the iWatch

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The problem with the world wide web is there are far too many markets, and far too few communities. Markets have monopolized our time and have turned our attention into wealthy empires. It's not because platforms were built on the wrong protocol.

We don't beat the techno-oligarchs with a decentralized system. The World Wide Web *is a decentralized system*.

We beat them by building more communities (and rebranding the ones we have that work).

More tomorrow(?) 😴

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nshrubs@mstdn.social ("nshrubs") wrote:

I know there are tech people who are job hunting, and this popped up for the county north of Seattle.
http://bit.ly/SWSCADAAdmin

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"The homegrowns are next"
- Donald Trump, convicted rapist

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• video: 0837886a27935e13.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
memeorandum@universeodon.com wrote:

U.S. measles cases reach highest level in over 30 years: CDC (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/30/us-texas-measles-cases-cdc-vaccine-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p76#a251230p76

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Since markets need value to extract, they need a governing system to ensure that the right kinds of content is discovered.

This is the algorithm's role. Algorithms are the invisible hands of the market.

Algorithms influence the way people create content and frames social media as a way to make money. Every post is a sales pitch. Attention is currency. These platforms are quit literally open air markets, not communities.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

There is no such thing as "sex with underaged girl", CNBC. The words you're looking for are MATT GAETZ RAPED A CHILD.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Track 13 - Watch Your Step, Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, off peak tickets accepted, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10101066135

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I really wish everyone would stop making fun of the people they don't like based on their physical appearance.

We really need to collectively grow up from this high-school bully mindset.

When you use appearance instead of ideas and behaviors to criticize someone, even someone deserving mockery, you are also shooting at everyone who might look like them, even the ones that might be incredibly good people.

There is more than enough content to talk against when it comes to the tyrants that currently surround us. Talk against their ideas, their words, and their actions. Be relentless for that. But their physical appearance is irrelevant to their moral deficiencies.

Mock their words, but not their looks.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@Meron/115790600643812539

Below is an excerpt from what I wrote before. Just think about where these monsters are sending these poor young people to.

"Eritrea boasts the longest detained journalist in the world, and with over 360 detention facilities (many underground) in a country of 45 kmi², the regime has disappeared all dissidents (even imprisoning them in shipping containers in temperatures that induce one’s skin to be stuck to the walls), with no due process or trial.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
adafruit@fosstodon.org wrote:

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives -
https://adafruit.com/pi-ban

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krapp@krapp.masto.host ("Kenneth Rapp") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo

I haven't touched Javascript in ages (like, not since the JQuery days) and 3D graphics are dark wizardry to me but I'm trying out this thing by @tsoding because I currently hate everything else I'm working on.

When did JS get const? It feels *wrong.*

#programming

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

warming up for weekly local USB voice net on 50.250MHz... with CW. my my my, my fist is so very not great

#HamRadio

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mediopocillo@boriken.social ("medio pocillo ☕:borified:") wrote:

@fromjason
Bylines and chyrons. Media folk and organizations should display their Mastodon (or Fediverse, open social, open web,...) links in their bylines and chyrons, same as they did with Facebook and Twitter when that was the "it" thing to do. That's how I became aware of Twitter. The media using and promoting them *for free* built them up.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Some devs cloned the Gmail app where you’re signed in as Jeffery Epstein. You can search through all his emails. It’s surprisingly well done. https://www.jmail.world/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

DNS Kitchen is nearing launch! Just cleaned up the site quite a bit, and the API documentation is 90% complete. https://dns.kitchen/api

If you’re looking for fun, dirt-cheap programmable DNS built that’s built just for the small web, keep Chef in mind! :chef:

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Unrelated: it's a tragedy that William H. Macy wasn't the father in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2000)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Abandoned in a field.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust #sky #tractor

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/want-security-starter-pack

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I got the The Oracle archetype!

https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev/wrapstodon/2025/4eb9d21f316576d9

#Wrapstodon2025