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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Working on a bug fix for the Account Migration feature, once this is out you will be able to move TO or FROM any supported server (Pixelfed, Mastodon, Firefish)

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Help me pick the new @pixelfed default app logo!

Like == black background
Reblog == color background

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haritulsidas@masto.ai ("Hari Tulsidas :verified:") wrote:

Women were not passive gatherers, but active hunters in ancient times, according to a new study. The study challenges the myth that hunting was a male-dominated activity, and that women only collected plants and cared for children. The study also criticizes the gender stereotypes and biases that have influenced the interpretation of archaeological and ethnographic data. #women #hunting #archaeology https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-753954

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kcarruthers wrote:

This corn eating #cat is hilarious

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”  — HENRY ADAMS

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

8/ "2022 poll found that more than 60% of Republicans would support declaring America as “a Christian nation,” even though a majority also recognized this is unconstitutional. They just don’t care anymore. Jesus, and his gospel of the poor, is weak. The thrice-married Donald Trump who talks of smiting their enemies is strong, the authority figure they truly want to worship from the pews.

How did we even get here?"

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

4/ “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done,” Joan Meyer, who had worked in journalism since 1953 — those heady democracy days after World War II — told a reporter. She was too upset by the raid — which seemed a violation of existing law, not to mention First Amendment principles — to sleep or even eat. On Saturday afternoon, the nonagenarian Meyer — who’d been in good health — abruptly died, the latest casualty in a cold Civil War already ripping America apart."

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faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:

"What has remained unreported until now is that, prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion."

https://dankennedy.net/2023/08/13/kansas-newspaper-publishers-98-year-old-mother-dies-after-police-raid-her-home/

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

How satisfied are you with the state of the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll

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gwensnyder@mstdn.party ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

"Lost boys"

No. These are adult men who are making a conscious choice not only to engage in genocidal rhetoric, but to insert themselves into electoral politics to make that genocide a reality.

Stop infantilizing white men to excuse their violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/masculinity-right-young-men.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Seth Stern, advocacy director at Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of journalists and whistle-blowers, said federal law allowed the police to search journalists when the authorities have probable cause to believe the journalists had committed a crime unrelated to their journalism. That exception does not apply, however, in a case where the alleged crime is gathering the news, he said. When journalists are suspected of committing crimes as part of news gathering, the government’s option is to serve a subpoena, which can be challenged in court before it is enforced.

“You can’t say, ‘I’m allowed to raid the newsroom because I’m investigating a crime,’ if the crime you’re investigating is journalism,” he added.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

What the dystopia?

Virginia School Board attorneys argued that Abigail Zwerner - the 1st grade teacher shot in her classroom by a 6yo - is not entitled to more than worker’s compensation bc the shooting was “a workplace injury” & “hazard of the job.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/03/educators-outraged-teacher-shot-in-school-workplace-injury/

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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Congressman Jamie Raskin is going on the offensive

Democrats are releasing a report on all of the foreign money that the Trump family took during his term in office

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudi royal family; Ivanka received dozens of Chinese trademarks; the Trump family received tens of millions from property deals from foreign organizations

Every dollar will be documented.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The more I read, the more it felt like a Jordan Peele movie.

https://www.comicsands.com/black-images-racist-estate-sale-2662681327.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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Eamon1916@beige.party ("Rob ☘️🎲") wrote:

My life.

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• I came. I saw. I forgot what I was doing, retraced my steps and got distracted on my way back. I have no idea what's going on and now I have to pee. (remote)

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FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

#USNews picks of the day:

➡️ @ProPublica - Investigative journalism news site, first online outlet to win Pulitzer

➡️ @NewsDesk - US and world news curated by human beings

➡️ @TheConversationUS - US edition of non-profit news site where qualified experts write articles

➡️ @damemagazine - Women-led, reader-funded digital news magazine

➡️ @joshsternberg - Executive editor of US business & financial news site Morning Brew

1/5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

thread

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/110883206577088085

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Mastodon Infosec Exchange Friends :blobcatwave:​ :donor:​

If you are on the infosec.exchange instance, know that there is also a Matrix server you can join to chat live at: https://matrix.infosec.exchange/

We also have an end-to-end encrypted #Privacy topics room on there! Come chat with us! :awesome:​🔒✨

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FrogFlora@sunny.garden ("🐸frofl🌿") wrote:

Proof that lilies can double as #treefrog hotels. 4 counted on this one.

🌸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

#gardening #pseudacrisregilla #bloomscrolling #frogscrolling #frogflora #orientallily #wildlifegarden #frogs #garden #permaculture #PacificChorusFrog

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FrogFlora@sunny.garden ("🐸frofl🌿") wrote:

Goldenberry guardians. 🟠 🐸

Every peruvian gooseberry (aka: #goldenberry) bush in my garden has a #treefrog or three lounging within. Thankfully they're eating many of the destructive flea beetles, fruitflies, leafhoppers and slugs that could ruin the delectable crop. In return for their service they get shade, easy meals and protection from predators. A win win situation.

#pseudacrisregilla #pacifictreefrog #PhysalisPeruviana #frogflora #frogscrolling #OrganicPestControl #permaculture #PNW #gardening #wildlifegarden

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eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

Best tip to see if there's anything wrong with your code is to try and explain it to someone else*, nothing like trying to explain something to figure out where the gaps in your own knowledge are

* the someone else could just be whomever reads the comments

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paul@fedi.nlpagan.net ("Paul") wrote:

#linux #virus #lol

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• By Roman Sharkov San Downloaded a virus for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, didn't work. Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of /usr/local/bin the virus unpacked to /usr/bin for which the user malware doesn't have any write permissions, therefore the virus couldn't create a process file. Found patched . configure and .make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled Tem Cee The virus said it needs the library cmalw-lib-2.0. Turns out cmalw-lib-2.0 is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a .deb package from source. The virus finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs | discovered the virus assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-only. Opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There are 53 #Mastodon t-shirts left in stock. It would be cool if we could sell everything in a weekend. And I'd love to see pictures of folks wearing them once they arrive! 😀 #Merchtodon

https://freshstore.co/collections/mastodon

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• The new Mastodon t-shirt, 100% cotton. It is a black t-shirt with a large screen printed design on the front, featuring a cute elephant riding a paper airplane, with colorful planets behind it.

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mk30@tilde.zone wrote:

yall, everything about this story is hilarious:

1. driverless cars piled up in north beach, SF, blocking loads of traffic: "The cars sat motionless with parking lights flashing for 15 minutes, then woke up and moved on, witnesses said."
2. cruise (GM) blamed the outside lands music festival, sayig that the cell networks were overloaded & the cars couldn't function. (this is so pathetic)
3. literally, the day before this, the california public utilities commission allowed a huge expansion of driverless cars in SF
4. SF emergency services were begging the commission to NOT expand the number of driverless cars because they already impact their ability to do their jobs.
5. one of the commissioners who voted to expand the number of cars used to be the head lawyer for cruise. lol. LOL.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-franciscos-north-beach-streets-202029633.html

#SF #tech #woops #lol #transit #pathetic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

now this is peak Sillycone Valley

https://tilde.zone/@mk30/110883868640063465

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_katiesaurus_@mas.to wrote:

It would be the first library in the country to close because of a dispute over what books are on the shelves, according to the American Library Association.

“That is the end of the library as we know it,” said Jay Ball, who owns a local auto shop and chairs the library’s board of directors. “It’s insane, it’s just insane.”

Book battles are raging nationwide. A WA library could be nation’s first to close
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/book-battles-are-raging-nationwide-a-wa-library-could-be-nations-first-to-close/

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textfiles@digipres.club ("Jason Scott") wrote:

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jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Saw some flowers with colours so far outside the sRGB gamut it was not only impossible to photograph them, but just looking at them kind of hurt my eyes. Should probably spend less time staring at these screens….

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K4_713@nonsense.direct ("K4-713 :friendball:") wrote:

I've been converting all my houseplants to semi-hydroponic setups for a while now, which involves removing all soil and assuming total control over nutrients supplied in the water reservoir.

If you're semi-hydro-curious: Start with a spider plant, like this one. Spider plants are extremely difficult to kill, and they react super quickly and obviously to different nutrient mixes.

Pictured: My spider plant blooming, exactly one day after feeding it a bloom-inducing nutrient mix. Wild!

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trashrobot@kolektiva.social ("Trash Robot") wrote:

I've heard "the cloud" described as "other people's computers".

But I think those of us who are enemies of this system should re-frame this as "computers owned by billionaires".

I want people to see the nightmare face of Bezos leering out of the flames of Hell every time they hear the word "cloud" to describe something other than weather patterns.

"other people's computers" isn't the problem. The problem is that those "other people" are the dozen or so worst human beings on this planet.