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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jollysea@chaos.social ("joël") wrote:

@fromjason I have your blog in my RSS reader, but I should read your posts on the original site, very good design!

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.to ("Marco") wrote:

@fromjason @pluralistic god damn you, Photog Phil!

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This puts all of Candace Owens' conspiracy theories in context.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/when-conspiracy-theorists-try-too-hard-to-find-a-conspiracy/

Candace Owens is surprised that snow doesn't melt at 30°F.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
APBBlue@thepit.social ("New Year, New Blue") wrote:

FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade #FuckAI

A white dishtowel with an embroidered panel. It features a row of coral flowers and some blue bunting. The message reads: "AI SHOULD DO DISHES."

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Ilhan Omar is a brave politician.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/a-resilient-minnesotan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEeVfA3Kzt4

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
jscholes@dragonscave.space ("James Scholes") wrote:

Read a book review on my timeline that didn't mention the title or author.

Went to reply in confusion because the book sounded interesting, and realised the details were in the content warning and I have those completely disabled in my client.

Please don't use content warnings like email subject lines.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Sometimes, you have to wait patiently for horrible people to kick the bucket.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/waiting-for-another-creepy-old-man-to-die/

Ken Ham

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Perseus was a distributed, message-passing operating system developed at the Computer Science department of Stanford University. It was designed to be portable "by virtue of its kernel-based structure and its Implementation in Pascal", as this Technical Report noted in 1983.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/Stanford%5FCS%5FTR%5FCollection%5F2025-12-12/PDF/1983/CS-TR-83-945.pdf

#pascal #os #retrocomputing

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
valhalla@social.gl-como.it ("Elena ``of Valhalla''") wrote:

The internet¹ is telling me that there is a hat pattern inspired by hats used to protest the nazi in Norway, with proceeds from the sale going to orgs that help people affected by ICE:

ravelry.com/patterns/library/m…
payhip.com/b/TqQL1

(I follow pallia's blog, I don't know anything about the author(s) of the pattern)

#knitting

¹ pallia.net/blog/ice-hat

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Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
axeleroy@toot.community ("Axel Leroy") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@db/115864670424577597

Ever since I saw that blog post, I was like "Hey, can I create an adblock filter to disable scroll fading?".

Since I had filters for common smooth-scrolling, I split them into their own list and added a few rules that disables the most common scroll fade libraries:

https://github.com/axeleroy/filters/blob/main/scrolling.txt

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

Is there no way to disable dragging a tab to a new window completely in Firefox or Firefox-based browsers (like Zen)? It keeps happening on regular clicks. Click on a tab and pop! it's in a new window.

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

At this rate, another ten newsletter "broadcasts" and I will have lost an entire year's worth of subscriber growth

Not because my attrition rate is unusually high, it's pretty normal, but because growth since September has flatlined

That's my own fault because my ongoing ambivalence about the software industry has fast been turning into an outright dislike, which isn't conducive to building up a dev audience.

OTOH, writing the newsletter has been more enjoyable. Just pays a lot less

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jwz wrote:

Stop wearing a watch. Time is a cop.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Follow me for more convenient life hacks!

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Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

A meme featuring Peter Parker from Spider-Man. In the top panel, he puts on blurry glasses to see logos for Disney+, Netflix, Paramount+, and Prime Video. In the bottom panel, wearing a pirate hat, he sees the logos clearly, but they have all been rebranded with the word "Torrent."

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

reading: "Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology"
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology

good stuff from @sturobson

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

#3dprinting pro tip:

You don't need to keep buying silica gel for your filament dryers!

Just drop a full packet once and you’ll be finding little orange beads in your workshop for the rest of your life. So easy!

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

is anyone else harassed daily by Apple abusing unblockable notifications? every day at 7pm 😩

it's not about security, they are actively withholding the iOS 18.7.3+ updates

iOS "Update to iOS 26.2" notification

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"What Lin and Cursor achieved was to show that an AI agent can generate millions of lines of code that’s lifted from other projects, and that don’t compile, let alone work."

(Original title: Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/

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Boosted by jwz:
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

@jwz well okay i'll do a meme

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Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

I see we're at the "you can't just download my NFT" stage of the AI grift

https://rknight.me/links/furious-ai-users-say-their-prompts-are-being-plagiarized/

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

blogged: Mozilla Slopaganda
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/28/mozilla-slopaganda/

— I read it so you don’t have to.

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Boosted by jwz:
swelljoe@mas.to ("Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉") wrote:

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/usili.bsky.social/post/3mdh5wp7dwk2w

Two frames: Bilbo Baggins, looking at a phone. Beneath that, a conversation with ChatGPT on a phone screen. Bilbo: "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself."

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

Swimming pool. Les Visions du chevalier Tondal, Ghent and Valenciennes ca. 1475. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 30, fol. 14v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Swimming pool. Les Visions du chevalier Tondal, Ghent and Valenciennes ca. 1475. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 30, fol. 14v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
claesdevreese ("Claes de Vreese ☑️") wrote:

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: https://dr.dk

Graph showing green energy production surpassing black

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

Mozilla's slopaganda: "We Choose a Different Economic Model"

Mozilla's financial statement (page 19): "Approximately 86% and 85% of Mozilla's revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively."

https://social.lol/@db/115968868593804930

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Boosted by jwz:
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

So in between the Melania thing and the X not being blocked from the App Store thing, Tim Cook is so not meeting this moment that he practically invented a time machine.

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jwz wrote:

Recent movies and TV.

Pluribus (2025): Holy crap is this great. Rhea Seehorn is a treasure. I've watched it twice all the way though and loved it both times. TRON Ares (2025): As expected, Jared Leto ruins everything. This was terrible. But it was not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2a

Screenshot

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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

ZILF 1.4 has been released! ❤️

“It’s scary, ugly, and hard to understand—and until recently, it was dead. But it’s back on its feet again, and you’re gonna love it.”

https://zilf.io