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

The photos I was taking outdoors I. 2003-4 have a similar focus on the mundane although they’re also have a greater similarity to the kind of photos I take today. #photos #film #blackandwhite

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

Back in 2003-4, by which I was in a bit more practice shooting on film, I seem to have been a bit obsessed with documenting the mundane. #photos #film #blackandwhite

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

My new years resolution is to stream more on @owncast and do less with big tech. Follow me and Drew on @fblive to get notified of when we/I/he go(es) live.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
craiggrannell ("Craig Grannell") wrote:

Hard to disagree with anything Howard Oakley says here: Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/

Sad to see that last pic of an older macOS and see how far things have fallen. (And Howard didn’t even mention the absurd “hovering” buttons.)

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

This is outstanding work, DSD + slotting will open up new worlds to folks exploring these patterns:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/revisiting-html-streaming-for-modern-web-performance/

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

Lots of great stuff in this year's Perf Planet Advent/December series:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/

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

It's not enough that we end #ICE, if that's even ever possible. How do we care for the generations of traumatized children, who will grow up to be troubled teens, who will become the catalyst to another sweeping crime bill that locks them all up.

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

Sometimes, just watching what's happening on the social media, I stop and think that may be my biggest life's achievement was avoiding to become a tech bro believing in the "great replacement theory"… The bar is low.

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

Apple unveils new Apple TV title card and it’s very different:

"It has a new logo animation of the Apple TV logo, and the piano chord is gone, replaced by a jingle by Finneas, who’s mostly known as Billie Eilish’s brother and collaborator, and has his own solo career."

The title card was made using practical effects, glass and lighting techniques. As far from AI slop as you can get. https://www.macworld.com/article/2960801/apple-unveils-new-apple-tv-title-card-and-its-very-different.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
StingrayBadger@zirk.us ("Stingray's Badger Friend") wrote:

Good Law Project has setup up a system so you can find out if your local #NHS trusts have signed up to evil US tech giant #Palantir and email them to ask them to opt out

Do a good thing to #SaveTheNHS this evening and pop over here:
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: looping black and white animation, a snake-like curve moves between hex grid circles, with some accelerations

Boosted by rust@mas.to ("Rust tips"):
mattmcal@fosstodon.org wrote:

PSA to Rust programmers: padding bytes don't trigger niche optimization. Add a `bool` at the end off your struct to get it for free.

#rust #rustlang

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

Switched from em dashes to writing with en dashes with spaces a couple of years ago to help with some of the typesetting experiments I was doing, but am so tempted to switch back because of all of the ignorant assholes who think common writing ticks and habits are only used by fucking ChatGPT

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

also, this happened this year:

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

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

Thanks to everyone who joined us on stream. Follow @fblive to catch the next one.

I had a great time, I think I'm done streaming on Twitch. OwnCast is definitely where I prefer to be.

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

“Modern civilization has given ordinary human beings greater freedom, wealth, and dignity than any before it. It has empowered billions of people in all kinds of ways. If it collapses, and the new dark ages arrive, it will be because in our myopia, our internecine squabbles, and our petty rivalries, we lost sight of the fact that we are the heirs to the greatest tradition in history…”

— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
https://a.co/cwWOVos

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Everybody is looking forward to the next No Kings Day in the spring. The official date will be announced once we land this with the full No Kings coalition, but trust us that it’s coming. And we can’t wait, either. ❌👑

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

Playing some games with the Freebooters at https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

Should be no surprise considering bsky constantly protects nazis, the far right, and all flavors of bigotry at the expense of Palestinians and trans women.

Fortunately, their information already spread so far and wide that at least half of the Blood Tribe nazis lost their jobs following the mass doxx. Chris Pohlhaus, leader of BT, estimated financial losses at over $2 million lol. Happy holidays!

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

Apple Maps: get off at this exit to your right

Stay to your right
Stay to your right
Very good stay to your right
Stay to y-- TURN LEFT NOW TURN LEFT RIGHT THIS FUCKING INSTANT TURN LEFT TURN LEFT DEAR GOD TURN LEFT OR WE WILL ALL DIE

...

There's a hazard up ahead is it still there?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I do not enjoy being the kind of pedant who is annoyed that the "musical_note" emoji 🎵 actually shows TWO NOTES.

And yet, it is who I am.

Boosted by jwz:
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

You sort of have to admire just how aggressively Wang did not care about naming things

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

“How did the US lose its sheen? …the first blow was the Iraq War… Revelations of civilian casualties and torture at CIA black sites further undermined America’s reputation…Then came the erosion of US economic legitimacy with the 2008 financial crisis… The coup de grâce was the crisis in America’s political and moral legitimacy brought about by the presidency of Donald Trump.”

— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
https://a.co/eQm4FCC

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

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

I think the reason it’s so hard to garner empathy for the poor is because so many Americans believe they are a rags-to-richest success story, that they pulled themselves up by their boot straps. It’s a “poverty is in the eyes of the beholder” type situation.

But unless you come from generational poverty, you simply don’t know how much the system is designed to keep you there. If you haven’t experience that you just don’t know.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it almost completes, such that the account is transferred, but the data isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero recourse. In other words, Signal nukes your history from orbit on the old phone before validating that it actually successfully transferred to the new phone.

I am indescribably angry right now.

(The extra insurance you need, that I didn't have, was to enable general backups on the old phone first, and make sure that a backup completes on the old phone before initiating the transfer.)

Edit: kindly folks in my mentions are trying to explain that Signal wants to ensure that there is only ever one primary phone. The problem is that the risk of data loss due to the lack of confirmation of data transfer is well known enough to be in their troubleshooting guide (which, by the time you know you need it, is too late):

https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/115790449517648907

The user should be vigorously, repeatedly warned of the risk of data loss, right there in the transfer workflow, and strongly encouraged to make a backup prior to initiating the transfer.

Edit 2: In the old phone, all history was visibly absent, immediately after the account was transferred. But now, after reboot of the old phone ... all of my message history is there?! But the backup option is gone, so I can't create a local backup in order to try to restore it. But at least all the history is still on the old phone? But there appears to be way to move it.

#Signal

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

What fun is an API if it can’t respond as if it’s an Italian chef?

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

The political worship of Zohran
Mamdani worries me a bit. I don't want to be a thief of joy. Be happy! But know that he *will* disappoint us sooner or later.

Not in the way that Obama was disappointingly—learning a centrist was cosplaying a revolutionary.

But because it will take more than one democratic socialist elected to see change. Remember, it's not just the GOP that's against Mamdani. His own party turned their backs on him. He's out there alone. We fail if we make him "the one."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Merry Christmas to everybody, except that dude who works for Elastic, who decided to drop an unauthenticated exploit for MongoDB on Christmas Day, that leaks memory and automates harvesting secrets (e.g. database passwords)

CVE-2025-14847 aka MongoBleed

Exp: https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py

This one is incredibly widely internet facing and will very likely see mass exploitation and impactful incidents

Impacts every MongoDB version going back a decade.

Shodan dork: product:"MongoDB"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.

And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".

Which is fascinating, really.

I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.

At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.

Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.

#IT #Blogging