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

This is still super rough, but it should offer a decent idea of what I'm trying to do with DNS Kitchen's "easy mode". The goal is to configure DNS for common scenarios without having to subject people to traditional DNS UI (which can be confusing and intimidating). By focusing on specific situations and offering a "wizard"-like step-by-step process for collecting relevant data, we can try to make DNS a little less awkward for people. :chef_happy:

A screenshot of a work-in-progress page from DNS Kitchen, showing options for managing a domain's DNS with an "easy mode". The image has a header of "example.com", and then says "The DNS Kitchen Chef is here to help you. Let's get started!" Then there's an illustration of Chef with his puffy cheeks and white chef's hat, and to the right of that, the text "Ciao! What would you like to do with example.com?" Beneath that are four boxes, each with a different option: - Point it to an IP address - Mirror another domain - Use it with email - Prove ownership of it

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

European fascism was and has always been a response to the siren call of USA plantation #slaveocracy, #ManifestDestiny and post-Civil War #JimCrow. if capitalists have to pick between enriching themselves thru slavery or the labor of free citizens, they will go with slavery.

Karl Marx told us as much back in 1861:
https://libcom.org/library/american-civil-war-karl-marx

do you get why #BlackLivesMatter is the most #antifa shit you can say in USA?

#MAGA is the negrofication of the white middle classes.

deal with it.

text from Karl Marx - The American Civil War, as found at libcom.org: In the Northern states, where Negro slavery is in practice unworkable, the white working class would gradually be forced down to the level of helotry. This would fully accord with the loudly proclaimed principle that only certain races are capable of freedom, and as the actual labour is the lot of the Negro in the South, so in the North it is the lot of the German and the Irishman, or their direct descendants. The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery and the system of free labour. The struggle has broken out because the two systems can no longer live peacefully side by side on the North American continent. It can only be ended by the victory of one system or the other. If the border states, the disputed areas in which the two systems have hitherto contended for domination, are a thorn in the flesh of the South, there can, on the other hand, be no mistake that, in the course of the war up to now, they have constituted the chief weakness of the North.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

The only things that'll survive a nuclear apocalypse are roaches and #PHP

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I just got an idea for this year's #plushtodon that I'm very proud of but won't be able to share for months to not ruin the surprise. And of course something might prevent it from happening so no guarantees...

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

Anyway, here's the actual speech (which he did not link), with a machine-generated transcript on the right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXPTo381Co

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

Things Warren was wrong about include (but are not limited to):

- '21-'23 interest rates (and in fairness, lots of us were wrong about that, myself included)
- abiding faith in Americans not to vote in fascists again

Things she was right about include the desire of billionaires to avoid any social responsibility, the pernicious impact of capital on working people, the rot in today's SCOTUS, and the need for strong anti-trust regulation. Chiat acts like those are somehow disqualifying.

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

I regret to inform you that after a stretch of reasonability, Jonathan Chait is back on his bullshit:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/elizabeth-warren-democrats-billionaires/685615/?gift=VjLv3Dd1h8jJ03YjTtjfrTog6F4FvH3Nz2ztDuI1dPA&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

I'm one of many people testifying CON on HB 2112 (age verification for "adult content") at tomorrow's hearing here in Washington.

If you're against 2112 -- or age verification for "adult content" in general ... why? After I've testified, I'll follow up with email to the committee with people's perspectives.

And if you're a Washington state resident, it's easy to "sign in CON" to the hearing on HB 2112 to let legislators know you oppose age verification. Just select your position (CON), fill out the rest of the form, and click "Submit Registration"

https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=house&mId=33607&aId=167961&caId=27188&tId=3

#waleg

Eight large question marks, in various colors

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bengo wrote:

Friendly reminder #ActivityPub protocol development will go back behind permissioned closed doors (unless you pay w3c or are deemed an invited expert) at w3c in the near future. RIP 2018-2025 open ActivityPub governance in SWICG.

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

the data centre push:

"Pushing people’s retirement savings into AI-related stocks and/or data centre investments (the latter being a policy explicitly championed by Chrystia Freeland and Carney’s fellow former BoC Governor Stephen Poloz) further ties individual Canadians' financial well-being to the AI industry"

oof https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-castles.html

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
patatas@social.patatas.ca wrote:

I could’ve probably saved some time and just said “yep, that’s capitalism all right” but instead I sweated over this blog post that I’ve been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-castles.html

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@tofugolem

You know, I think this is kind of funny because they’re so disorganized, that people could literally sign up for ICE collect a paycheck and never respond to any orders to go anywhere.

It would be a shame if the website was overwhelmed by a lot of prank applications

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
transworld@masto.ai ("Transgender World") wrote:

Black trans woman is being targeted by the FBI

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgender/comments/1qcwm6y/black%5Ftrans%5Fwoman%5Fis%5Fbeing%5Ftargeted%5Fby%5Fthe%5Ffbi/

Read the comments!

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

confidential to queer people the TESCREAL bundle is not your friend it is comprised of fascists who want us dead

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
linkachus17@furry.engineer ("LinkyKatsumiVT") wrote:

Mornyan Fedi :neofox_comfy_mug_256:

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A former house.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #window #door

What is left of an abandoned house.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
someodd@fosstodon.org wrote:

Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.

Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.

💾 Binary: 1.5KB
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)

Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.

https://github.com/someodd/gasm

#assembly #gopher #lowlevel #linux #retrocomputing #foss

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Boosted by jwz:
corbet@social.kernel.org ("Jonathan Corbet") wrote:

So @lwn is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet. It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses, and that is affecting the responsiveness of the site, unfortunately.

There are many things I would like to do with my time. Defending LWN from AI shitheads is rather far from the top of that list. I *really* don't want to put obstacles between LWN and its readers, but it may come to that.

(Another grumpy day, sorry)

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

I’m hoping one of my former colleagues in the briefing room will ask the press secretary why the White House is again propagating phrasing of a white supremacist author who praises Hitler and traffics in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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Boosted by jwz:
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

There are two kinds of California Voters, people who hate Gavin and won't vote for him, and people who hate Gavin and vote him because he's the only game in town.

He does not have the juice. No podcast can save him.

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Boosted by jwz:
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

It should go without saying that Gavin Newsom does not have what it takes to fix the country, but he also absolutely does not have what it takes to win a national election.

Pandering to the far right only serves to legitimize the far right candidate he will inevitably have to run against.

He. Is. Absolutely. Not. The. Guy.

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Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

*endless screaming*

https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikimedia-announces-ai-partners-including-meta-and-microsoft-162834383.html

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Boosted by jwz:
jacobtlevy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jacob T. Levy") wrote:

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.


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Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Chuck Schumer again says that in 2026 Senate Dems will be focused on “affordability.” He is a disgrace as Senate minority leader. The Trump executive branch is occupying a U.S. city, rounding up people on the basis of their skin color, shooting at and killing citizens for peacefully protesting and observing. That’s the imperative focus.

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Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

A man, partially shadowed, is wearing a suit. With both fists clenched upward in frustration and head tilted back, mouth agape, he yells, "FUCK!"

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Boosted by jwz:
virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

It's name is Almond Basket.

Modeled in Blender by me, textured in Substance by Mark Shimer, one of our in house artists.

#StarTrek #Blender #VFX

Screen capture from Season 1 Episode 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, where inside a turboblift, The Doctor, Captain Ake and Commander Lura Thok have a conversation next to Almond Basket, an Exocomp  The Exocomps are sentient robots last seen as a species in Lower Decks but originally from Star Trek: The Next Generation.   This exocomp is Maroonish red with gold and black trim and glowing green accents and LEDs.

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jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.14 is out now, including iOS (soon) and Android. A whopping eighteen new savers this time! As I mentioned last month, I wrote a new XScreenSaver module that is API-compatible with Shadertoy, which means that I am now able to pull demos written that way into the XScreenSaver fold. These 18 savers are the first of that batch...
https://jwz.org/b/yk19

Screenshot

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

The headline is censored so let me uncensor it for you: JD Vance is a piece of shit

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/drew-magary-jd-vance-21293327.php

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lokeloski ("Loke_") wrote:

FOUND IT

tumblr post from magicmooshka on January 7: recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen Al for scriptwriting but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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

This captures something important that I've been struggling to articulate all year; these MFers went after universities and science funding because those institutions make claims to truth based on more than "the party says so."

Now we're at the logical conclusion:

https://youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo?si=CUcJgjg8w3V98LvJ