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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
matthiasott ("Matthias Ott") wrote:

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
datn@xoxo.zone ("Dan Patch") wrote:

be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i had a quick discussion about this just now and we concluded that the problem with eternal september was aol. so the problem with eternal november could well be ai, just like we all thought it was.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

conservancy has apparently lost track of what it's supposed to be doing and advises us to accept slop.

i've lost track of what conservancy is supposed to be doing too, so i suppose i'll just let a kid slop up some legals and conservancy can show us the way

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116413542037173001

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

WordPress adventurers, what is the go-to Forms plugin these days?

form builder that generates acceptable code and handles submissions, nothing over-engineered

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Bluesky is a decentralised system that just happens to rely on critical centralised services, it's not centralised OK 😠

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

notes on the "React space"
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-16T07:30Z/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

In litigation Apple repeatedly claimed the facts underlying my protected whistleblower & labor activity were irrelevant & Apple refused to provide any docs or info about what actually happened at my office. Apple also hid it from EPA for years. We now have receipts & its very bad. Like, worse then I imagined.

First of all, there were definitely cracks in the slab (floor) separating the office from the toxic death cloud under the building - but "crack" was a bit of an understatement.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

I wrote up this cursed discovery with more details:

https://mike-sheward.medium.com/deleteduser-com-a-15-pii-magnet-c4396eb21061

#infosec

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Despite Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel:

🔵Richard Blumenthal (CT)
🔵Chris Coons (DE)
🔵Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV)
🔵John Fetterman (PA)
🔵Kristen Gillibrand (NY)
🔵Jacky Rosen (NV)
🔵Chuck Schumer (NY)

Vote these 7 fascists out permanently.

Senate rejected the vote 59-40. But a record 40 Democratic Senators voted to block the sale. Change is coming.

jwz wrote:

Honk Honk. It's The Bonk.

The Composograph image above is illustrating the 1926 Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, in which 15-year-old actress Frances "Peaches" Heenan married, and then swiftly tried to divorce, 51-year-old real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning. The Evening Graphic's coverage included allegations that Daddy kept a live goose in their bedroom. https://jwz.org/b/yk6S

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

lol no https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Maine already has a law on the books that authorizes damages against federal officials who deprive people of their constitutional rights. Carvajal-Muñoz sued his ICE kidnappers under this statute, alleging that they stopped, arrested, and imprisoned him on the basis of race in violation of the Fourth and Fifth amendments. If his suit moves forward, he will likely uncover the identities of the masked agents who participated in his abduction. He has demanded both compensatory damages as well as punitive damages ‘to deter future unconstitutional conduct.’”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/aclu-lawsuit-ice-reign-of-terror-maine-california.html

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

if you are a snake arguing against such a policy, please do the polite thing: puff out your chest, and yell out for all to hear, "I LOVE THE TASTE OF BOOT". do not waste the time of those who might have cared about your project by hmm'ing and haw'ing.

also please come forth under this post so i can block you already. you worm

Boosted by jwz:
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

a policy enforcing a blanket ban on contributions made with the use of LLMs is not, actually, 'mandating ideological purity'. it is, in fact, the bare minimum to ensure that your project won't be treated as completely radioactive by anyone with morals.

moreover, do not let anyone supporting Appeasement for sam altman and his ilk distract from the point at hand by trying to argue that the use of LLMs is in some way equivalent to choosing a license which allows the project to be used by e.g. defence contractors (i.e., any actual open-source license).

only one of these burns the reputations of those in the commit log to manufacture consent for the slop salesmen.

Boosted by jwz:
robinadams@mathstodon.xyz ("Robin Adams") wrote:

@amy A blanket ban *is* the moderate position.

We should be using our tools and influence to fight back against the LLM project to privatise all public science and knowledge and enclose the digital commons.

"Have nothing to do with them" is the position in the center.

Instead apparently that's extremist and the reasonable position is "Let's only help train the war crime machine a little bit".

Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Cephalopod. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 62v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking": https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking. If you mess with the back 🔙 button, it's not the growth hack you think it is. I've seen unnamed news sites do this when you navigate to an article page, want to go back to where you came from, but then the back history gets hijacked and you're suddenly on the news site's main landing page.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
RussSharek@mastodon.art ("Russ Sharek") wrote:

I'm happy to see more non-ai forks of good tools.

https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

#StopSlop #noAI #keepass

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@jalefkowit It's very good that they had representatives from the raccoon community at that press conference. And also that they hid their identity by letting them wear masks.

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I'm not sure which part of this is better: the headline, or the photo illustration they came up with to accompany it

https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/15/rfk-jr-cut-raccoon-penis/

#USPol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
signalstation@raggedfeathers.com ("Michael of Ragged Feathers") wrote:

"The horrors persist, and so do you."
- me, teaching an infant about object permanence so we can stop playing Peekaboo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mostol@social.coop ("Jackson Mostoller") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Dr%5FBombay/116411557725032487

Woah, this is *so* well-shot. I legitimately thought the “1965” thing was a marketing bit for a contemporary film or something until a few minutes in. I’ve been watching a lot of skate parts recently and thinking about the (often-totally-unconsidered) cinematography, and it’s wild to find out people have known how to film skating like this since the 60s!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
badgertracks@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Badger") wrote:

The most chthonic hulders in Underoak live deep underground where smells are used for navigation, cultural signalling, declaring warnings etc.
This guards fill the air with incense showing their allegiance.

It's an overwhelming place for first time visitors from the surface.

#characterdesign #art #sketchbook #pencil #pencildrawing #worldbuilding #conceptart

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
freya@highenergymagic.net ("Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets/116408372375488121

> In June 2025, Ryan Mitchell Kramer plead guilty to the hack while pretending to be part of a fake Russia-based hacktivist group called "NullBulge".

WHAT

what the fuck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Today was definitely the coolest weather we've had in a while around Seattle! Crazy hail, lightning, and even a funnel cloud over the Sound! #wawx

Boosted by jwz:
GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

He is SO fucking good at this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k

Boosted by jwz:
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

The author of the ‘backpacks are all bad and everything is worse on purpose’ site works at Palantir.