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jwz wrote:

I clicked on a link to someone dunking on Rob Schneider but I didn't see it because Blewsky told me I have to be logged in to see this post.

And nothing of value was lost.

jwz wrote:

Today in "Google broke email"

I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email.

Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At all. And they announced this change less than 60 days ago. (The announcement was in the basement, stairs, leopard, etc.)

What I want to accomplish is simple: ...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1C

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Part 1 of the Freebooters end-of-year quiz is up. Part 1: Wits and Wagers

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/vWm4cPEsW9HYgPaaSHEPRU

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jwz wrote:

@QasimRashid An interesting question here, that we will never get to know the answer to, is why did the plaintiffs accept such a low settlement? Was it because they thought they would lose, was it pure short-term venality, or was there some other threat or bribe?

Since the plaintiffs were "the Facebook shareholders" I assume this was always a "whoever wins, the rest of us lose" situation, but still.

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

We're coming close to the tail-end of the photo retrospective. This set is from when I first moved to Bristol in 2000. Shot on the cheapest used manual SLR and 50mm lens I could find. #photos #film #blackandwhite

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

We often say you can find anything on the internet nowadays, but that's not always the case.

I wondered how the "construction" of the new White House ballroom was progressing, but I can't really find up-to-date photos.

I read there's a schedule to start construction in April 2026. So is it just a pile of rubble?

Anyone know of someone in DC who regularly posts photo updates of progress?

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

we named our security company after the loser who lost because of his bad security

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development/

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Freebooters quiz 2025 special! Part 1

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/vWm4cPEsW9HYgPaaSHEPRU

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115803826226244090

I made sure to include English subtitles on this to make it more approachable for all of you non-Icelanders 🙂

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

Who gives a shit if Hank's napkin math suggests that corn consumes more water. What does water consumption in Iowa have to do with data centers in Mexico?

These companies want to spend a trillion on data center development and they're hiding their consumption data. Thats it. That's the story.

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

The way people are sharing the Hank Green water consumption video exposes a shitty reality of our discourse—some people aren't engaging as an act of solidarity with the communities fighting AI data centers, but to “win” the discourse, regardless of the point they think they're making.

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

Stutt myndband þar sem að teiknarinn og höfundurinn, Brynhildur Jenný, talar um teiknistílinn og aðferðafræðina sem hún notaði við gerð myndasögunnar Kötturinn og ég.

#bók #myndasaga

Fáanleg í verslunum Pennans: https://www.penninn.is/is/book/kotturinn-og-eg

Attachments:

• video: Stutt myndband sem segir frá teiknistílnum og aðferðafræðinni við gerð myndasögunnar Kötturinn og ég.

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

okay, Serverino is kinda cool.

https://github.com/trikko/serverino

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yossarian@infosec.exchange ("yossarian (1.3.6.1.4.1.55738)") wrote:

Some flexibility with Go’s sumdb

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/12/29/Some-flexibility-with-Go-s-sumdb

#security #go #cryptography

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Tried again with network Time Machine. Good: the first backup completed. Bad: the second one isn’t taking any less time, and in less than 24 hours, the disk image Time Machine created for storage is over 1TB—even though it’s only backing up 375G. This just seems super broken.

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Tutanota wrote:

Dear politicians,

Our wish for #2026: Stop using 'child safety' as an excuse for mass censorship and surveillance.

No one believes you.

And using children is just... sickening.

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

interesting… finally passed 1k “followers” on Mastodon, about 3 years after fully abandoning theBirdSite. what is different for me about this is it feels like most of them are actual ppl, most of my “reach” is real. sure, there is some spam & scam crap here too, *and* it is minuscule compared to my birdSite experience.

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heydonworks.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

📝 How To Dynamically Install Custom Elements A pattern I’ve been working on for a while. Load just the elements you are actually using. “Tree shaking” is trivial with HTML.heydonworks.com/article/dyna...

How To Dynamically Install Cus...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
frankel@mastodon.top ("Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪") wrote:

System design 101 (or even before): never use the email as the PK for a user account. What if the user needs to change their email?

Better make it a regular column with a UNIQUE constraint.

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

even after walking a couple of miles in the wind this morning, the fog is still thick in me peabrain… must be time for another cuppa rocket fuel

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

I may be snowed in, but at least I'm not swimming in the Irish Sea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/29/perspective-4/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

There's a media query for JS enabled/disabled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/scripting

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lina@vt.social ("Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!") wrote:

This is really cool! Full body tracking in a dedicated box. It's a ToF sensor (Kinect 2 style) with on-board ML processing. Same concept as using an iPhone for ARKit face tracking (not just a camera, but also all the smarts).

I always want streaming to be as friction-free as possible, so the idea of having to put on trackers never sat well with me... this looks like a great alternative! ✨️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-hD5800V-8

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Unironically naming your company after science fiction or fantasy villains is a choice.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development/

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joelanman@hachyderm.io ("Joe Lanman") wrote:

What an unprocessed photo looks like
https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw%5Fphoto/

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

Say it ain't so…black widows are in decline? But they're among the sweetest little spiders I know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/29/a-terrible-feud/

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HailsandAles@metalhead.club ("Chris Fletch :pentagram:") wrote:

Uncool of the year to sneak in one more Monday morning.

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sinvega@mas.to ("Sin Vega") wrote:

if you did fight club today those buildings at the end would be facebook, amazon, google, apple

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

It’s simultaneously annoying and unsurprising to see academics and researchers who argue that creating a digital mind is improbable or impossible being subjected to more criticism and held to a higher standard than those arguing that tech bros are creating a completely new form of sentient life

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

“Against AI - by Foz Meadows - rocks thrown at the void”

https://fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

> But AI is foundationally unethical in ways that go far beyond its creative theft, and which do not only concern the communities from whom that work was stolen.