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

Sadly, the web improves at the rate the consciousness of wealthy, iPhone-totting techies is elevated. But that's not impossible, and it's one reason the work @owa is doing is so important.

If you want to unlock practical access to the better web most users *already* have, browser choice for iOS is a must, so get involved and/or donate:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/donate/

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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

Jesus fucking christ.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

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

Had missed this from Wikimedia; congrats to @krinkle and team:

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/?ref=sidebar

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somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

Is an example of some of the crap we have to go through to keep providing commercial, free, listener supported radio. How long is a time consuming, but it will cost us a lot of money in legal and accounting fees.

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gajim@fosstodon.org ("Gajim") wrote:

Gajim 2.4.1 has been released! 🎉

This release brings previews for GIFs and similar animation file formats 🎥, and many smaller changes and bug fixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2025-12-13-gajim-2.4.1-released/

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

The thing that's so infuriating about this is that we're only able to see how good the web could have been for the many at the rate Apple can be embarrassed into making it marginally better for the few.

The blinders that Cupertino put on progress, and that rich techies willingly wear, are shameful.

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

A conversation with an incredibly technical friend last night made it clear to me that the biggest change in computing of the last 15 years eludes the SV blob: most client devices are slow, low-end Androids with *incredible*, *up-to-date* browsers.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Good news! Washington State is requiring movie theater chains to make open captions available (at least one open-caption screening per week per theater, for any film with at least 5 total screenings in that theater).

https://secretseattle.co/open-caption-movies-washington-2026/

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

The other one: The Gift by Stephanie Davis, performed by Aselin Debison. Released in 2002, it’s a beautiful song with a beautiful message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaht41Wsyk

jwz wrote:

PRANIC LIFT 777.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0Z

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

A couple of holiday songs that (might) tug at your feelings. 💗

First up: Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. Released in 1980, it tells the story of a chance encounter Fogelberg had with an ex-girlfriend on Christmas Eve in 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsvZ8P1QNk

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fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orleans-is-watching-you-fuckers

jwz wrote:

I think the Blewsky bridges are a terrible idea and long-term harmful, but that aside, how can anyone stand to read them at all? The bridged quote-posts aren't quote-posts, don't include the text, and include a giant URL that you can't read without logging in over there.

(Yes yes, the food was terrible and the portions were so small.)

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Over the last few days, the Eastern and Southern US have had some very bad storms and disruptions of normal activities. I hope you all are safe.

As an emergency tip: if you run out of toilet paper, coffee filters can be used instead. However, it will make your coffee taste different.

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Man, I hope I never show up in a photo where everybody else’s face has been redacted for legal reasons.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Usually not at the same time, though, which feels salient

RE: https://www.threads.com/@janewiedlin/post/DSNrcN-gUke

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Aside:

As a kid, I would give people like Carville the old reverse "You are so well spoken." I'd drag the bit out for 10+ minutes.

👴🏻You are so well spoken!

👦🏿And *You* are so well spoken!

👴🏻Huh?

👦🏿Yes! Your speech! It's amazing! Each word, so clear! And your vocabulary is so good for a, umm for --

👴🏻English is my first language!

👦🏿Me too! But where did you learn to speak? Your sentence structure is phenomenal! The way you map ideas to speech is incredibly sophisticated for, um, your people!

👨🏼OK, we get it. That's enough. You've made your point.

👦🏿What point? Did I say something wrong?

👨🏼You're calling him racist.

👦🏿WHAT?!?! No! How did you get that from what I said? I didn't say the word racist once! You're jumping to conclusions! Not everything is racism. I'm just complimenting the man on his oratory skills and solid command of the English language! He talks like us!

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Movie piracy is bad. That's why I want to know the best sites to block so I live free of sin.

I used to block dopebox.to, but since it doesn't work the way I want, I no longer need to block it.

What other good sites are there that I should block or whatever?

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

My girlfriend is not a gravestone.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Message.casa ist jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar!

https://message.casa/de ist ein kostenloser E-Mail- und Instant-Messaging-Dienst, der sich auf Datenschutz konzentriert und auf den Prinzipien des Smolweb basiert: leicht, zielgerichtet und respektvoll gegenüber Ihrem digitalen Raum.

Ich veröffentliche regelmäßig Einladungscodes (die für die Erstellung eines Kontos erforderlich sind) sowie bereits registrierte Benutzer.

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adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Message.casa est aussi disponible en français !

https://message.casa/fr est un service gratuit d’email et de messagerie instantanée axé sur la confidentialité, construit sur les principes du smolweb : léger, intentionnel et respectueux de votre espace numérique.

Je publie régulièrement des codes d'invitation (nécessaire à la création de compte), ainsi que les utilisateurs déjà enregistrés.

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adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

¡Message.casa también está disponible en español!

https://message.casa/es es un servicio gratuito de correo electrónico y mensajería instantánea centrado en la privacidad, basado en los principios de la smolweb: ligero, intencional y respetuoso con tu espacio digital.

Publico regularmente códigos de invitación (necesarios para crear una cuenta), así como usuarios ya registrados.

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

What's going to kill YouTube for me is this: AI-narrated slideshows of AI-generated pictures with huge annoying karaoke subtitles in the middle of the screen.

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

Also, people love to reply with shitty comments about whatever you're linking to that mock or ridicule the writer or the subject and that's just fucking annoying.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Working theory: parents actively involved in raising young children are less likely to be enthusiastic about AI, since repeating the same set of instructions over and over only to have them forgotten, ignored, or abandoned partway through is already way too much of our lives.

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

And people make shit up about what I think about what I'm linking to even when I don't include any commentary whatsoever.

So, I do it less than I used to and even that's probably more than I should

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

People also don't read the linked post and comment based on the title or the preview thumbnail.

And if they click through they only read the first third.

And if they read it all the way through they somehow misunderstand it completely.

Then they come back and blame me for linking to it

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

As in, they understand when somebody links to a news outlet like The Guardian, but assume that anybody linking to a blog post or similar must have written it themselves. Otherwise why bother?

Making sure every link has enough context and preamble to make it clear that I'm not the author is tedious

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

A lot of it has been replaced by gossip which, to be fair, already dominated much online writing. Posts that do little more than repeating shit that's happening, might have happened, or might be about to happen.

There's also the issue where more and more people just don't get the concept of links

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

There's still about as much solid writing out there as there used to be, but much of what I enjoyed was writing where the work and the ideas described were interesting, even if the writing itself didn't have many charms.

Much of that seems to be gone because the work and the ideas seem to be gone