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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Some Threads users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266096/instagram-threads-moderation-account-post-deleted-limited

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Wonder how many are outside on Pokémon Go? 🌬️⁠:pokeball:

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

of the things I love about Harris as a politician is that she says ‘I believe’ and ‘I think’ and so on, not the royal ‘we’ like so many others (not just The Fat Orange One, nor even just Republicans) https://youtu.be/6eZw3GzmPGc?si=7IOhIRbBXU0qMRPa

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Wowwww meditation app, you trying to get me killed? #HurricaneMilton

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• Pre-bedtime walk? i Check out Move soundscape for mindful movement

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

root@possum.city ("Ashley Graves") wrote:

domains should be free

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

antijingoist@hackers.town ("Abbie 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

WordPress is dead to me but this really drives it home

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843963052183433331.html

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)") wrote:

hacking the internet archive is an asshole move, up there with kicking puppies while shitting on the floor of the library

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

So I'm in #Florida. On the east side of the peninsula. The rain has been wild. Hoping we keep the lights on through it. 😅

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

As a big Maiden fan, I declare the HU did a killer job on this cover of The Trooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WrvFUZgHro

#metal

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The blogosphere and just tech voices on the web are so very libertarian slanted.

Is there one popular tech pundit making the rounds with a more leftist lens? Cory Doctrow possibly but I'm not sure he'd describe himself as a leftist.

Technology and the web are so inherently political and it feels like the left is completely absent from the discourse. Maybe I'm blanking?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

For the love of Alan Turing, can we please not use twitter (or any other 3rd party service, especially of the trashy kind) as our service status page?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Is Matt Mullenweg okay? #WordPress

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• Thread post from glenton.me: Are you serious? This WordPress vs WP Engine beef has gone way too far. What does it even mean? So, if WE hosts my website, I can't use WordPress.org Screen shot of Wordpress login page with a checkbox that reads : I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The end is in sight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/i-had-the-talk-with-my-chair/

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• Electric chair (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange wrote:

Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

yojimbo@hackers.town ("CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂") wrote:

I think this deserves a wider audience :-)

How about an official public submission to the #NZ government's current proposal to say "new oil and gas exploration is currently illegal but we love money more so we are going to get personally rich by letting them do what they want".

The submission came live from a city that was under a state of emergency at the time, due to flooding caused by climate change.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-10-2024/making-a-splash-is-this-the-most-impressive-select-committee-submission-ever

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:

What happens when companies pay to fund web platform features? The whole web community wins.

The latest from Igalia & Bloomberg: Inheritance changes for CSS selection styling
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/selection-styling

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

hah! my wife just texted detailed instructions for pre-heating the oven & placing the baking dish of veg which she has so carefully prepared… but sent them to someone else

;^}

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

baked up some “elephant garlic” (drizzled with olive oil & sprinkled with fresh-ground salt & pepper, then into a 350°F/177°C oven for 35-40 minutes), peeled off “skin”, spread on crackers…

as Tom Robbins has a character say: “There are two basic principles in the Universe, Yum and Yuck.” trust me, this one is Yum.

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

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

#AboutW3C

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @timbl 🎊

We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet.

(It is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0TfUBuIZkmQ )

Version without audio description:

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• 5123c0e118e37a80.mp4 (remote)

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

torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

I am not seeing enough support from men for Harris out there. I'm a cis, het, 50+ white guy with 2 kids and a mortgage. I support Harris not only because she is … I don't know … not a fascist, but also because she has the requisite experience, temperament and leadership qualities, and she has articulated a policy platform that I support: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ It's that simple.

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

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

"Consortium Members elect Board of Directors"
We are pleased to announce that W3C Consortium Members have elected the following seven people, listed in alphabetical order, to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors:
Koichi Moriyama
Chris Needham
Florian Rivoal
Eric Siow
Léonie Watson
Chris Wilson
Hongru (Judy) Zhu
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Meanwhile, at a site I visit daily

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• A popup message on archive.org when you load the homepage reads: Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP! (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This works right?

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• "What the fuck?" you say phlegmingly.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Is phlegmingly a word? I'm making it a word

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

But this is time for celebration.

I just launched a television network!

New Ellijay Television is live on cable, online, and on Roku.

We're powered by free software! We're creating creative commons media. We're improving public domain media.

We're broadcasting originally produced material and public domain videos. Most of our work is produced on recycled and upcycled equipment.

We're re-defining what it means to do Broadcast Television in the 20s.

The future is here, and it's a bunch of weird nerds in the north GA mountains.

We need your help! https://newellijay.tv/sponsor-us/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

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• The Twitter account @WordPress, replying to @WPEngine's lawsuit tweet, saying simply "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)
• The meme where a person puts a stick into the spokes of their own bicycle as they're riding it, causing them to crash to the ground. The person is labeled "Matt Mullenweg," the stick is also labeled "Matt Mullenweg," and after crashing, the person is saying, "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mcc wrote:

I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

Poll: should the new Social Web Foundation (SWF) be transparent about their funding?

@socialwebfdn recently launched with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, @Sarahp reported that SWF has "some backing" from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a "large grant" from the Ford Foundation. "In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support."

But there aren't any details about the funding , and the only grant from Ford Foundation to SWF's fiscal sponsor anybody's found so far is for $50K, which is a lot less than $1 million. So there's a lot of speculation -- and considering that Meta's involved, a lot of suspicion.

Transparency about funding could potentially be helpful here. If there is indeed a larger Ford Foundation grant, good to know, and what's it for? Also, maybe Meta's just chipping in a bit to get things off the ground. Even if Meta's contributing a lot more, far better to be up-front about it.

Then again, transparency about funding could also have its downsides. In a thread on SocialHub, SWF advisor @ben (who's worked in non-profits for a while) noted that there are quite a few reasons why making finances available in real-time (as opposed to the legally required annual Form 990) "may not be desirable - not least because it may impact ongoing fundraising from other groups." And it's certainly true that different non-profits take different approaches here, there isn't any one right answer in general.

So ... what do people think?

@fediversenews @fediverse

#fediverse #meta #fedipact #swf #poll

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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

also, accompanying AI-generated podcast is amusing

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• b4019e2677acc698.mp3 (remote)