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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:
Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community https://u.fsf.org/1dz
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Me when pixel art has been saved as a JPEG
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Threads is endless rage bait bullshit like how Facebook was when I left it.
TikTok is like an actual drug to my brain. I had a decent following there, and love a lot of my mutuals (they knew this was coming eventually) but I felt like I was wasting away on there.
So here we are. What's next? I'm not sure.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I deleted my TikTok and my threads today 😅
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:
Halloween buddies 🎃👻
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hikari@noyu.me ("hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky)") wrote:
what would happen if you took a list of all 128 General MIDI instruments, picked 8 at random, and forced a bunch of musicians to write songs using only those random instruments, and only the General MIDI feature set? well, we dared to find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RtmlQHNK8
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
debian@framapiaf.org ("Debian") wrote:
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian.
https://bits.debian.org/2024/10/ada-lovelace-day-2024-interview-with-some-women-in-debian.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Important announcement!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
color me amazed
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:
A Penny
I have a killer business idea. I'm just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I'm not going to ask; you can't say no. It really won't affect you. You probably won't even notice, and even if you do, again, it will not affect you. What's a penny? Nothing. It will benefit me though. Big time.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DDsD@eigenmagic.net ("David Olsen") wrote:
*chefs kiss*
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amyengineer@infosec.exchange ("Amy Renee") wrote:
Headed to #Educause this week for the first time! If you're there, say hi to the short ginger hanging around the FortiStuffs! 😊❤️
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thank you, Minnesota students, for saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
TIL: ExpressVPN developed their own VPN protocol called Lightway, meant to address what they see as shortcomings in WireGuard, and implemented it in Rust.
It's... interesting. Uses (D)TLS, has Rust bindings for WolfSSL as the underlying cryptographic primitives provider: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/comparing-wireguard-and-lightway-3-reasons-we-created-lightway/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
Hot take: if you play sound out of your phone around strangers in a public place, you should be shot. If that place is a public transit vehicle, you should be shot and pissed on.
(Why yes, I am in transit all day, thanks for asking)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:
for anyone who …
— can’t be with us in PDX for our final show this Thurs
— hasn’t been able to get to a show on our tour
— wants to see our performance of Good to Me ONE MORE TIME
… we have something FOR YOU:an ONLINE PERFORMANCE of our GOOD TO ME concert, video streaming exclusively on @radiofreefedi
Wednesday, October 23
1pm PDT | 8pm GMT | 2000 UTCthe link to stream is https://party.radiofreefedi.net/
if you’d like to support me & @hilljam w/ a ticket purchase, thank you: https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/products/845665-shannon-curtis-the-good-to-me-tour-rff-exclusive-online-concert
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway - POLITICO:
"He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/20/trump-overturn-2024-election-plan-00184103
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I find it decidedly delightful that I can cast a vote for Trump to go to prison *and* for Musk to have wasted tens of millions of dollars, all with one simple ballot selection.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
justinhendrix ("Justin Hendrix") wrote:
In the Google search trial, the court's reliance on evidence of how consumer behavior is shaped by what products and services are available by default marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of antitrust and behavioral economics, writes Zander Arnao: https://www.techpolicy.press/google-search-antitrust-ruling-is-a-triumph-for-behavioral-economics/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:
also the #1 thing I miss from Linux while using a Mac is strace and recently I found out about `fs_usage` that does part of what strace does and I was so happy
(I’ve also tried dtruss/dtrace etc and a couple of other things which I have failed to get to work, I'm not willing to turn off SIP)
for example here's me looking at what config files `fish` opens
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ethanjstark@hachyderm.io ("Ethan :verified_flashing:") wrote:
Fucking BANGER of an opener in @pluralistic 's latest newsletter:
The Secret IRS Files revealed the fact that many of America's oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy that he was able to claim to be among the working poor and receive a federal Child Tax Credit, a $4,000 gift from the American public to one of the richest men who ever lived
src
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Oh hey! I launched a newsletter on Buttondown. It's called WetDreamTomato.
Sign up. It's free. I love you. I'll give more details later, I'm tired of writing.
Here's the second issue:
https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/microsoft-co-founder-wants-you-aware-of-americas/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
M0CUV@mastodon.radio ("Matt Gumbley") wrote:
MTTIHC: Mean Time To “I Hate Computers”, a wellbeing metric used by technology professionals in order to see whether their daily frustration with computers is becoming problematic. Measured in seconds since the start of computer use, until the arising of the feeling that you should hurl the damned thing into the sea, and go and walk in the woods instead. Can also be applied to any modern technology, not just computers.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead of #thinktober I appear to be having a #thonktober.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead of endless arguments about code licenses, we should just stop making software useful to others. :thonking:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles against genocide") wrote:
Challenger, Columbia, and Therac-25 should be required reading for basically everyone.
Beyond the actual circumstances surrounding the Challenger explosion and the ensuing coverup, I strongly recommend Richard Feynman's "Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle" which talks about why unsafety was baked into the Shuttle from the very start.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
We have the @oxidecomputer team in town this week, so no Oxide and Friends today -- but @ahl and I will be back next week with our annual Books in the Box episode; check out the past Books in the Box episodes, and join us next week! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1297992461234212906
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stefangny Waltergheist") wrote:
Remember the first time you created that index.html, opened in the browser, and it felt like magic?
@bw wrote a free online ebook and I love the promise:
“I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.”
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Gonna go make all my encrypted stuff super secure by using the last two largest known Mersenne primes for my public key... :thonking:
