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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Y'all, they finally made a fast-ish Chromebook with a decent-looking screen, but they didn't tell anyone and you can't buy it direct 🤦
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
- man walks again after buying $100,000 exoskeleton
- a battery in the watch that controls it dies (presumably cheap to replace)
- company refuses
- right to repair is coming for exeskeletons
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
modern cave panther
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Rudy Giuliani is now permanently disbarred in DC
Happy Thursday 🇺🇸
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25175451-in-re-giuliani-21-bg-0423
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jgkoomey@mastodon.energy ("Jonathan Koomey") wrote:
Good read on polling problems. Human choices aren’t really predictable, but a lot of people cling to the false notion that if only they had more data, more graduate students, more funding, more coffee, or a more sophisticated model that it would become possible. Nope. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-25-polling-imperilment/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"On Monday night a white-haired, 78-year-old man clambered up onto stage and declared himself to be “cognitively very strong”, before then comparing himself to Winston Churchill, inventing a Shakespeare quote, and making an impassioned call for the return to television of a comedian who died nearly 20 years ago. The man wasn’t my dad after six pints of Boddingtons. It was Donald Trump, who could soon become the most powerful person in the world."
Adam Gabbatt, TheGuardian
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
Nice follow request from TotallyNotASpammer@open.registration.social
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- [A big ad account on mastodon.social, where anyone can sign up and create a garbage account.
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as my Dad used to say: there are times when sitting on the fence just means that they will lay the barbed wire through you.
I hope Walz has learned from that experience, & that Harris also learned from Obama's futile struggles to find compromise with Congresscritters who were never going to do so.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've never heard a storm in Minnesota described as "unsurvivable", but hey, Florida, you do you.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Be like Sphen and Magic. Don't be like Abraham and David.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute:
"“It enables dominant firms to extract rents from consumers and small businesses dependent on their services, and creates systemic harms when systems fail or malfunction due to the creation of single points of failure. Most concerningly, it expands the economic and political power of the firms that have access to compute, cementing the control of firms that already dominate ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/09/26/computational-power-and.html
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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:
I agree with every word of this.
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- Screenshot of a Tumblr post. The text reads lesbian-moon-gf 6d ago surviving the current age of internet means saying no to subscriptions and premiums for basic features. you must endure the inconvenience of not being able to use every server emoji in discord. you must build the patience to find alternatives like NewPipe so you can listen to music on youtube while your phone screen sleeps. do Not give these corporations your limited disposable income. tiktok not letting me view videos on my phone without downloading the app? i will outlast tiktok and the execs will be remembered as dull,disgusting capitalists. listen to me, listen to me. if you do not know how to pirate shows from hulu, learn. if you can't pirate it, it is not worth the money to rent it. please i'm on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet. (remote)
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GuerillaOntologist@social.coop ("Josh Davis") wrote:
When the percussionist is the band leader, there are going to be three drum solos in every song 😎
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I've so far asked the IACR Board of Directors three times whether they're planning to write a statement expressing sympathy to the mass murder that's happening in Lebanon, with over 600 deaths (including 50 children) in the past three days.
I haven't received a response, despite the IACR having published a statement expressing support with Israel less than two weeks after Hamas's attack last year.
The IACR was correct in issuing a statement condemning what happened in Israel last October, but has repeatedly refused issuing a similar statement about Gaza, settling only for a minor edit, and now is outright ignoring all requests for a similar statement about Lebanon, a country that never invaded Israel or took any hostages to begin with.
Some IACR members expressed interest in signing a "well-worded petition" regarding this matter.
I've written one here and will be sending it to the IACR Board of Directors in a few days. If you're interested in signing, please either reply to this tweet or send an email to n@nadim.email.
Petition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2HDOC0K_K9v1BoycIg4sCeJbBWHOdfSmBTyz38RrIc
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
petition to rename the 'dark web' to the 'spoopy internets'. 100,000 signatures and i will personally battle Bari Weiss in Tekken 4
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
LinkedIn is out here with some s-tier trolling, y'all.
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NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:
in this time of great trial for the internet ecosystem, we turn to the sacred texts for guidance
(memes, i'm talking about memes)
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Not WebFlow with the timely email lol
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chikorita157@sakurajima.moe ("chikorita157 🐰:unverified:") wrote:
The latest on Matt Mullenweg running WordPress into the ground by tinystepsforward (post viewable on Goblin Band)
autocrattic (more matt shenanigans, not tumblr this time)
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CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us ("Charlie McHenry") wrote:
So according to Zuck, #Meta is going to deploy its newly minted #AI to generate personalized images in our feeds on #Facebook and #Instagram. Uh-huh, it’s a thing people. But as Casey Newton pointedly observes: “…if Meta moves too quickly, pumping the feed full of cheap AI-generated content risks giving the company’s core products the feel of an abandoned amusement park.” #Brutal
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etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:
Insides and Outsides – “Sentient Sky”
Well-produced, atmospheric synthwave with plenty of drive and vibes to spare.
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deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org ("Sean Tilley") wrote:
Look, I’m going to be completely honest. Some aspects of today’s events, and some elements leading up to it, have given me bad vibes. I’m not trying to assasinate Evan’s character or make him look like a bad person, but I want to characterize some of the dynamic problems I’m seeing from coopting “The Social Web” as a term, and equating it, #Fediverse, and #ActivityPub as all one-and-the-same.
I might get flamed for sharing this, but I have to be honest about what I really think, and why I have some problems stomaching how things are happening.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
you don’t want “the old internet,” you want a space that hasn’t been colonized by capital
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mark *needs* VR/AR hardware to be the next phone to escape Apple's hardware prison.
And it just occurred to me that the Apple Vision Pro is Cupertino's first "concept car," a muscle-flex that shows consumers that Apple is capable of leading them into a post-smartphone world. And that any other hardware is second rate.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And there isn't an install or sync button from `chrome://webapks/`. What is going on, y'all?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… they don’t like us much, either.”
“Whyever not?” said Lord Selachii.
“Well, because during our history those we haven’t occupied we’ve tended to wage war on,” said Lord Vetinari. “For some reason the slaughter of thousands of people tends to stick in the memory.”
“Oh, history,” said Lord Selachii. “That’s all in the past!”
“A good place for history, agreed,” said the Patrician solemnly- from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And is prompted install broken? The only PWAs offering install in 128 after install + sync seem to be those that have custom `onbeforeinstallprompt` UI
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo Even with Chrome sync turned on, the only browser that can install real PWAs *still* doesn't offer one-tap restore. Why not?
/cc @owa
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo And so begins another round of "hunting for half my apps, then manually reinstalling them, because Android"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It is *wild* that, in 2024, PWAs do not restore correctly when setting up a new Android device.
@beverloo, is this *ever* going to get fixed?