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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.

And what I learned in the process.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

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

NeatStats update:

🗺️ Maps are live!
📈 Sparklines are live!
⭐️ Updoots are live!

(And there’s a fun little easter egg with the Updoots, too.)

Live examples of everything on https://neatstats.net.

Once the API is complete and the dashboard views are ready, we should be able to open up registration. Stay tuned!

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
hikingdude ("Franz Graf") wrote:

Hey folks, when you come across a cool blog post, please
- link it in your blog if you have one
- Post a link here

I've found the best blogs from links here and also when an article referenced other blogs.

Keep in mind, the inter-NET needs links. Otherwise it's no net.

#blogging

jwz wrote:

I see it's that time of year again https://jwz.org/b/yjKA

Boosted by jwz:
SeamusPM@mazaska.social ("Séamus McGuire") wrote:

#Minneapolis #ICE #Minnesota #Strike

Boosted by jwz:
KristinHenry@artatomic.social wrote:

Today's protest, at San Francisco's Civic Center, felt different. I watched the SF Poster Syndicate print new posters and give them away for free. At a time, when my city appears to have given up on art and artists, the artists are still showing up and being amazing! They print the posters right there at the event!

https://sfpostersyndicate.com/

#NoKings #sfba #art

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

AF1 diverted back to Andrews en route to Davos after an electrical problem with cabin lights was identified after takeoff. Plan is to swap aircraft and give POTUS a $13 meal voucher valid for use in the terminal.

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

Just deleted a couple of posts. Not because I regret what I wrote, but because the idea of arguing with someone over the degree to which ICE is “bad” is unquestionably the stupidest use of my time right now.

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

In 2026 you can be someone who uses strong language to denounce ICE, or you can be someone who sticks up for them by making the argument that they’re not *that* bad.

“But words matter” — OK, why don’t you go talk to one of the innocent families who had their lives completely disrupted by this brutality. Have a nice conversation with their kid about how mommy and daddy were abducted, but it’s not as bad as what happened in Nazi Germany.

Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

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

This is the most “not all oppressive police forces” energy I’ve ever seen:

https://jkratz.micro.blog/2026/01/20/ive-been-made-aware-that/

And as usual, Jason is missing the point entirely. He thinks I’m engaged in some kind of pissing match over whose online community is better, when all I really want is for people to stop defending all of the horrible shit that’s going on around us. Surprised that a guy so focused on “nuance” can’t work that out for himself.

I would love to point to Micro.blog as an example of a caring community that prioritizes its members safety, instead of being the place where people would rather WELL, ACKSHUALLY about how bad ICE is. But it is what it is.

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

Well, good riddance

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-posts-job-opening-top-prosecutor-spot-doj-claims-lindsey-halliga-rcna254982

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
jdm_ ("Josh Bowman-Matthews") wrote:

Delightfully flummoxed by the @webhackfest registration which asks about childcare needs. I don't remember _ever_ seeing that offered by a tech event before, and it's a really nice surprise!

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

Everything is fine

(gift article)

https://wapo.st/45kMRJz

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

DO IT

https://cybernews.com/tech/europe-social-media-w/

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