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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Listen to "I Hate You" from CARROT: The Musical! https://youtu.be/x8fdY%5FBBWc0
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feed#Passkeys don't solve the password mess for my elderly relatives.
The "scan QR code" fallback that pops up sometimes is a dead-end. They've been told to click "Deny" whenever sites suddenly ask for permissions, so they block Bluetooth access too.
They don't know or don't remember how to scan a QR code, or are baffled why something for "viewing restaurant menus" is used to log in.
Sites use inconsistent terminology for "passkey/security key/try other method", even worse in non-English.
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DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world ("Darth Putin") wrote:
This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:
BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. It lets people keep track of their books, publish reviews and discover new titles. Find out more about BookWyrm at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
There's a list of servers you can sign up on at:
➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances
(The flagship is overcrowded, you might want to use a different server.)
You can import your data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre:
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davidnewman wrote:
Yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, around 7:30 am, masked ICE agents took a man near Wilbur Road and Marin Street in Thousand Oaks.
Image 1: Screen capture from VCDefensa video; images 2,3 courtesy @805undocufund.bsky.social
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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:
ICE snatching people on Thanksgiving here in our town, if you're wondering how things are going.
Mastodon FeedMy family tech support season has begun.
For elderly people, modern tech is brutal: websites keep breaking password managers (multi-step SSO forms, JS overload, domain changes). Native apps aren't any better.
"Forgot password?" links almost always bypass password managers. The PW manager ends up with an outdated password, breaking trust in the solution, and even gets accounts locked for failed login attempts.
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Vrocampo@wandering.shop ("Victor Fernando R. Ocampo") wrote:
This Holiday season please support your local booksellers instead of billionaires.
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austinkocher ("Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎") wrote:
A mass review of immigration cases from 19 countries is now underway. This is the Muslim Ban rebuilt through paperwork. When the government flags whole nationalities, real people with legal status get pushed closer to deportation.
Read: https://caliber.az/en/post/trump-orders-review-of-asylum-cases-green-cards-from-19-countries
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FourT4@mastodonapp.uk ("Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York") wrote:
First exhibit in the Royal Signals museum: a model of a 6-bit clacks.
The one at Blandford was part of an Admiralty chain between Plymouth and Whitehall, operating in the first half of the C19th and superseded by the electric telegraph. There was also a branch to Portsmouth.
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g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:
Amateur Radio (DATV)
An experiment using a digital TV mode has been carried out on the 10m band between Belgium and Greece, using a bandwidth of only 150kHz.
EI7GL reports on his blog page:
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/digital-amateur-tv-experiment-between.html
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so_treu@scholar.social ("RI DaSēr K") wrote:
Someday white anthropologists (among others) will pay for their crimes.
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bicmay@med-mastodon.com ("Bich Nguyen :verified:") wrote:
"As South Carolina tries to contain its measles outbreak, public health officials across the nation are concerned that the highly contagious virus is making a major comeback. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied more than 1,700 measles cases and 45 outbreaks in 2025. The largest started in Texas, where hundreds of people were infected and two children died."
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #misinformation #disinformation
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
WaPo - As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:
Oh, deer.
Early #caturday offering. #cat #CatsOfMastodon
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:
RE: https://social.lol/@adam/115628649162992170
Imagine being so hung up on petty details like "who did it first" that you misunderstand simple statements, and then you use those misunderstandings to fuel your claim that Wikipedia hallucinates more than ChatGPT does.
Sheesh.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
macdude22@oldbytes.space wrote:
Hi Fedi friends! I’m having a bit of a philosophical difference of opinion with my current employer (both technical and ethical) I am seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment in thread. I’d love to connect.
About me & what I’m looking for:
💼 I’m looking for System Administrator, Information Technology, or Solutions Engineer roles. I would be open to pivoting to Information Security roles.
🌎 I’m open to roles in Iowa, Wisconsin, remote or hybrid.
⭐ I’ve previously worked at The University of Iowa Health Care, Grinnell College. I have extensive experience with Apple platform administration and integration of Apple devices and services in heterogeneous environments.
#macadmins #appleinenterprise #systemadministration #jamf #opentowork
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rejinl@masto.nyc ("Rejin") wrote:
Hegseth and the henchmen who followed his orders to murder these people in international waters, better face consequences if this regime is ever overthrown.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115628553790727594
#USPol
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rahmstorf@fediscience.org ("Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf") wrote:
A sub-field of science looks at whether the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC has weakened. Direct measurements suggest yes but only started in 2004. So people look at temperature and salinity data.
A new study finds a robust slowdown fingerprint at 1000–2000 m depth.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02793-1
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is seriously Not Good
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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:
Running my NPM checks again today, I see eight remaining infected packages still circulating on the Microsoft owned platform.
Unlike nodejs package index https://socket.dev NPM does not show ANY security warnings on these package's pages.
It's pretty wild that these known compromised packages have been circulating for four days now with now response or action from Microsoft despite it being one of the largest security stories this month.
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Denise Wheeler") wrote:
Black Friday Reminder: The victim of a Republican war on immigrants was granted asylum by a Republican, got his hands on guns the Republicans make available, and shot two people carrying out illegal orders by a Republican. That is the real narrative.
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hadon ("NoBorg") wrote:
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MAKS23 ("MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦") wrote:
💥🛳️ According to preliminary information, the tanker Kairos, formerly Philikon, was damaged. It transports Russian oil to India and China.
Attachments:
- video: 1cf0f3fa816f1b26.mp4
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IveyJanette ("Ivey Janette McClelland") wrote:
Because Haiti is Black.
But whites from South Africa are welcome.
#blackmastodon
https://newsone.com/6645000/trump-admin-ending-immigration-protections-haitians/
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theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:
Today in I Really Love My Kids, I’m with my teenager at the Medieval Torture Museum
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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:
WOW. This was an outstanding episode of Veritasium on the Power Law probability distributions (i.e. probability distributions described by an *exponential* relationship between the variables). I never realized these types of probability distributions are so common, and that they behave in such similar ways to each other.
Even more bizarrely to me, there appear to be many systems in nature that *spontaneously* organize themselves in a way to exhibit Power Law probability distributions. In fact, I suspect that “black swan” events are possibly a symptom of mistakenly perceiving a Power Law distribution phenomenon as one exhibiting a Normal or even Log-Normal distribution.
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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:
“There are enough voters out there who can absolutely turn an election and blow up what they are trying to do.”
New from Edward Brown: A broad coalition in Tarrant County are fighting for the spirit of their community, after GOP redistricting galvanized community organizers into action. https://www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-county-redistricting-grassroots-pushback/
#Republicans #Democrats #activism #democracy #news #politics #USpol #NorthTexas #Texas
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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:
Featured story: Weeks after a transphobic attack, dozens of #trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming folks gathered on the “free side” of #Austin’s Barton Springs to swim, celebrate, and fearlessly take up space.
Kit @oconnell was there to witness this moment of queer joy and resilience... https://www.texasobserver.org/protect-trans-joy-barton-springs/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm not a gamer. Everyone is always shocked to hear that lol. But, I am thinking of maybe getting a steam account and buying something like CyberPunk.
I'll be using my MacBook M1 (I know I know) for now.
Any advice for a newbie? Like, to everything lol. #gamer