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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
unlofl@mstdn.social ("unlofl [Promoted Toot]") wrote:

I want some Ea-nāṣir shitposts, but all the ones I've seen recently are of incredibly poor quality!!!

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

I am engaged in trying to hire TWO roles, and BOTH of them are replacing me in very different modes, leaving me to do blessedly only one of the two engineering things I'm doing right now.

Uh. If you're in the US and either know Rust well and are into the backend service thing OR you are a manager who could effectively support the humans on a medium-sized broad-skillset platform team, you might want one of these two jobs. Finding managers who take the management skill seriously can be hard. :(

Inquire within.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

One of my oldest and best friends posted a hell of an account of life in Minneapolis right now.

This whole thing rings so true. “A series of snapshots,” she says — and every one of us here is accumulating our own heavy stack of such snapshots.

Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T31r4jeeX/

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

@pluralistic This is the same insight that those resisting cold-war authoritarian states brought to bear; modern authoritarians demand silence more than overt support. That's a choice Apple and Google are now making every day:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23

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

@pluralistic At root, this is about power structures. Apple and Google are now complicit in the authoritarian system, roped into it through incremental self-deceptions. A lust for illegitimate power led to state capture (corruption), and from there the logic of user abuse is a self-fulfilling.

As Samuel Bagg points out, this is *corruption*;

https://www.samuelbagg.com/book

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

I quote @pluralistic here because his work has helped us all understand how technically and ethically threadbare the app store justifications are. Now that they're silent in the face of widespread, above-the-fold abuse of women and girls, the jig is well and truly up. Tim and Sundar's next arguments before any self-respecting regulator are forfeit.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@caitp/115929601509266397

Maybe Americans who have already given up on their gym resolutions for the year could switch out their goals of doing reps with doing fucking rep calls

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Next week, Democrats can freeze out funding for ICE — but only if they work together as a unified opposition. That means we must flood Congress with calls to demand ICE Out For Good.

Contact your senators: http://indivisible.org/ice-out-senate?source=mastodon

And your representative: http://indivisible.org/ice-out-house?source=mastodon

Attachments:

• video: 720a83c260501a24.mp4

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

Lindsey Halligan headed to criminal contempt judgment. This opinion and order is from a Trump-appointed judge, giving her notice of referral to disciplinary proceedings if she does not stop using the title of U.S. Attorney. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311.23.0.pdf
In the rest of this thread, selected quotes from an opinion unlike any I have ever seen. 1/

Boosted by jwz:
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2 OH MY FUCKING GOD complete auth bypass in inetutils telnetd for over a decade and obviously nobody inside that decade should have been running a telnet daemon but wow

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fj ("Frédéric Jacobs") wrote:

What the #NerdReich of Silicon Valley VCs (Thiel, Praxis, Chamath ... ) don't understand is that not everyone lives in a world where everything is transactional.

Greenlanders don't share their values. Greenlanders can't be bought.

📺Full Interview: https://www.viory.video/en/videos/a3110%5F18012026

#MakeAmericaGoAway #Greenland #NuDetNuUK

Attachments:

• video: Interview with Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"

via Mike Bales

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

Using Obsidian as a VTT is pretty tops tbh

#Obsidian #TTRPG #StarForged

Attachments:

• gifv: Screen recording of the Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian, with a view of a star map with a solar system in it. Two planets are marked, and when the cursor hovers over their names, a little pop up comes up with more information, including an animated gif of the planet

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

I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/reminder-scammers-are-out-there-pretending-to-be-me-and-other-authors-as-well/

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

No please not shrimp Jesus

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I am currently at a Dagstuhl seminar (my first!), "Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon." Slides for my talk yesterday (not recorded, unfortunately):

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/software-co-design-motivations-and-reflections-with-respect-to-security

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

It got in to the WiFi oh my god

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

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when it comes to web performance, if you're measuring in seconds, you're admitting defeat.

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

Oh no what's happening

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

Wait you guys science has gone too far

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

Say what you will about America, but we have perfected the science of Zero Sugar soft drinks.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Every day, Republican Congresspeople wake up and are advised by staff which of his posts they haven’t seen.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

“Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Thing People Don’t Want boom could falter if people continue not to want it”

Who wants to be the one to explain markets to the head of a multi-trillion dollar company? Is he just used to people not wanting Windows and it selling anyway?

Boosted by jwz:
fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

We may have to stop selling our CBD products in November because Republicans and the booze lobby snuck a hemp ban into the law last year.

So let's have some fun until then.
https://milkbarn.farm/pages/loophole

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What @n1xnx says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:

- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)

- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?

- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.

- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)

- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.

So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

jwz wrote:

PRANIC LIFT 777.

Weyland-Yutani: "Building Better Cyberdecks"
https://jwz.org/b/yk2L

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

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

Iceland's foreign policy at the moment:

"If we stay very very still, maybe nobody will notice us."

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

Another short voice note from myself. Check out my series at https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

Attachments:

• audio: A short note from the road, where I share a little about how I make these clips.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

Back to basics.