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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Shoulda frog-marched him into the stockade right after this moment.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/09/missed-opportunity/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Usually, I like arthropods…but I have a strong antipathy towards those darned screaming cicadas.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/09/i-do-not-like-cicadas/
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Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Today’s running music: https://youtu.be/c1ZdOcIo490
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Stoked to announce that on the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel, the co-founders of the Oakland Ballers, a new baseball team formed to reclaim professional baseball in Oakland.
Join us as we learn what it's like to start something new under wild circumstances -- and the similarities and differences between tech startups and starting a baseball team. Monday, 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/tgmyE2NS?event=1227111016681443389
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("Dr. jonny phd") wrote:
so tired of hearing about the moon, like big deal I can stand in front of stuff too
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
with the 1 APR sign-up date, it is hard to tell if this is a spoof account... yet
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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:
Three girls are in the hospital tonight after being mauled by a “blue monster” while delivering Girl Scout cookies to the 300 block of Sesame Street.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@Tengrain ICYMI - The tweet that won the Internet:
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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:
The My Body, My Data Act would create privacy standards to prevent the GOP from exploiting our personal health data. We’re grateful for Rep. Jacobs’ leadership on this legislation: “Our vulnerable consumer data will be one of the best ways MAGA Republicans have to investigate and prosecute people seeking abortions.” https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a60296973/supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone-sara-jacobs/
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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:
Today's events stitched together from a series of JPGs courtesy of the GOES-EAST Weather Satellite.
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FalconMarkSix@tech.lgbt ("Mark A. {FalconMarkSix}") wrote:
PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.
If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it looks like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:
Go to your device Settings2. Press "Google"3. Press "Ads"
- While you're here, press the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
- Press "Ad Privacy"5. Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure all are labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot)
If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.
EDIT: There's another setting to review. In step 2, scroll to "Personalize using shared data". Turn everything off.
Pt. 2 in Replies
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- A screenshot of the Ad Topics "feature" that Google is now pushing out to Android phones. The following is what it says (there are two screenshots, this is 1 of 2): New ads privacy features now available Android now offers new privacy features that give you more choice over the ads you see. Android notes topics of interest based on apps you've used recently. Also, apps you use can determine what you like. Later, apps can ask for this information to show you personalized ads. You can choose which topics and apps are used to show you ads. To measure the performance of an ad, limited types of data are shared between apps. (remote)
- A screenshot of the Ad Topics "feature" that Google is now pushing out to Android phones. The following is what it says (there are two screenshots, this is 2 of 2): More about ads on Android More useful ads Apps can ask Android for information to help personalize the ads you see. • Android notes topics of interest based on the apps you've used recently. Apps you use can also determine what you like based on how you use them. For example, if you use an app that sells long-distance running shoes, the app might decide that you're interested in running marathons. Later, an app you use can ask for this information - either your ad topics or ads suggested by apps you've used. Android auto-deletes topics and app-suggested data regularly. You can also block specific topics and apps you don't want to make suggestions. Measuring how well an ad performs Apps you use can ask Android for information to help them measure the performance of their ads. Android lets apps collect limited types of data, such as the time of day an ad was shown to you. Learn more about how Android protects your data in our Privacy Policy. You can make changes in privacy settings. (remote)
- A screenshot of the Ad Privacy page where the options "Ad topics", "App-suggested ads", and "Ad measurement", are labelled "OFF". (remote)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I saw it too you guys. I definitely wasn't napping
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting... DNS changes do not propagate at the same rate within worldnic.com ( in this case: ns39 & ns40)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The more I learn about #BlueSky, the more I realize I was asking the wrong question. It's not "who owns BlueSky?"
BlueSky is just the app. BlueSky the company, or at least the specific legal entity owned by CEO Jay Graber, was commissioned to develop #ATProto and build a proof of concept platform on top of it.
So, the 13 million dollar question is— Who owns #ATProtocol? If that protocol is to run the #SocialWeb, this seems like a more relevant question.
Because it's not Bluesky PBLLC.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:
Professional child molesters have big opinions about how my existence "violates human dignity" - news at 11...
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e
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torproject ("The Tor Project") wrote:
There is an urgent need for a global stance against the use of technology for oppression. Our latest blog post delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices.
📰🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/surveillance-as-a-service-global-impact-of-israeli-defense-technologies-on-privacy-human-rights/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
taken today by a friend’s kid, near Hamburg NY
note the solar flare
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
sun't
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
The people in these photos are real. I was one of them. Israel is destroying the lives of people such as myself, today, in greater numbers and with greater cruelty. I was lucky and escaped, many have died and will continue to die, or otherwise be broken forever.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
This is exactly what happened to me in 2006, when I was 15, after Israel carpet-bombed south Beirut.
I remember that exact shape and color of the concrete, this exact aesthetic.
I climbed on top of the rubble and my mom was afraid I’d die from unexploded bombs.
I tried to recognize my neighborhood but couldn’t, and later realized I was actually standing on top of rubble very close to that my own building.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
In the next 2 years if #Meta doesn't announce a competing federated protocol to #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol, I'll eat my hat.
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SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:
You code in C? Like for backdoors?
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Solar eclipse alt-text:
MOON SUN
MOONSUN
MOONUN
MOONN
MOON
SMOON
SUMOON
SUNMOON
SUN MOON
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Put another way- I'm a user on #BlueSky that wants to join BlogSky, a hypothetical #ATProtocol-based blogging platform.
What are my steps?
Am I joining a new Relay?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
This is a cool tool if you are in the path of today's #eclipse. Pop in your zip code and it will tell you when the event will start, how much of the totality you will see, and how long it will last.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
#BlueSky question: There are three main architecture components— PDS, Relays, and App Views.
Under this structure, I, a user, could log into any App View I wanted, even if that App View used a different Relays and Lexicons from BlueSky, and I wouldn't have to "migrate" my account, correct?
If so, what would that login process look like? I assume there would be a sign up process where I'd have to provide any additional information required by the app?
Am I way off on this?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I have no friggin' clue why daGoogleplex complains about my service using IPv6 to send email but is fine with IPv4 #HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk
so I turned off IPv6 for the email service, what a stoopid "solution'
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
see also Rule 34: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Google is cracking down on its internal "Memegen" "message board".
So a few words of my own about this, having experienced and used Memegen myself during periods when I was working inside #Google. In my view, Memegen represents a powerful feedback mechanism between employees and execs. I was in fact enormously impressed when I first saw it, having not anticipated such an open discussion internally. I have been wondering to myself for quite some time now how long Google execs would permit this freewheeling exchange of ideas to continue given the various pressures the company is now under (much of which being the result, in my opinion, of execs' own unforced errors). And now it appears that the writing is on the wall -- the beginning of the end perhaps -- for the usefulness of this wonderful internal tool. Very sad to see. -L
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/technology/google-memegen-gaza-war.html
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I wrote a short follow-up post on the Glove80, after realizing I've been using it daily for six months now.
Not much new to add to the first impressions post, but a few new thoughts and realizations, plus a handful of "do you still like it?" emails prompted the update.