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jimbob@aus.social ("Bela Lugosi's Dad") wrote:
Exciting news of a victory from the front line
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Mastodon Feedinthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
The actual outcome of this election with •the whole US population• as the denominator:
22% voted for Harris
23% voted for Trump
<1% voted for other
26% eligible but did not vote*
28% not eligible to vote* (whether by choice or by voter suppression)
Numbers might shift a tiny bit as last votes are counted, but this is close to the final tally.
Just sit with that for one quality minute. Think about what stories people are telling about this election. Then think about what stories are true.
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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
PUERTO RICO IS A NATION
our culture and history are far older than the United States. we aren't culturally American, we have American citizenship.y'all didn't give a shit when Obama slammed a literal financial dictatorship on the island made up of Wall Street ghouls in suits.
you didn't give a shit when Clinton paid to close up all USA factories en La Isla to move them to China.
but now y'all want us to be a state to be the janitors & cleaning ladies of your fascist mess?
FUCK YOU.
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
A poll: how do you feel about the general idea of starter packs (or some equivalent) on fedi? (1/7)
Bluesky's "starter packs" make it easy to follow a bunch of accounts all at once. Anybody can create one or more starter packs, and they're used for a lot of different things; the Blacksky starter pack, for example, is great for newcomers from Black Twitter, and @newsmast'sFediSky starter pack is helpful for finding folks you might know from the fedivere.
But Bluesky's implementation has some major problems: people can be added to starter packs without their consent, aren't even notified when it happens, and it's not obvious how to opt out. And any mechanism like this potentially creates "rich get richer" dyanamics and risks magnifying existing biases -- guys tend to mostly add guys to starter packs, white people tend to mostly add white people to starter packs, etc. Still, despite the problems, they're very helpful for onboarding.
I've had discussions with multiple people working on ideas for fediverse starter packs or the equivalents, and similar questions keep cropping up. So I figured I'd do a series of polls to get feedback on what people think.
To start with, the basic question, how do you feel about the general idea of starter packs (or some equivalent) on fedi?
the Mastodon iOS app cuts off long text in the polls, so I'm including it here as well
- No, Bad idea for fedi, don't do it
- Maybe, depending on how it's implemented
- Yes, this is important functionality - get something out now, we can fix it later!
- Not sure
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
my favorite Polish bass player by a long shot, Kinga Głyk
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
On the whole, my experience was positive, but I'm not going to assume that's generally the case.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
In my youth, I apparently fell into the newspaper delivery exception without realizing it. I wasn't even paid a wage. I was assigned a route, and the policies were set by the newspaper. It felt like I worked for them, but I essentially bought the paper and was paid on whatever profit remained (some people were nice enough to give tips, especially around the holidays). It took me a while (callow youth that I was) to fully understand the situation.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I just learned about the subminimum wages that can be paid to people depending on their age.
No matter where you look in the federal code, there always seems to be a yikes lurking. And of course, the state by state efforts to weaken youth labor laws.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
iOS 18.1.1 and macOS 15.1.1, released today, fix actively exploited vulnerabilities in JavaScriptCore and WebKit: https://support.apple.com/en-us/121752
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joelanman@hachyderm.io ("Joe Lanman") wrote:
"Some of Thames Water’s essential systems are still run on forms of Lotus Notes software from the late 1980s and early 1990s that can no longer be updated"
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guaca@toot.cafe ("Estela Franco ⚡️") wrote:
I recently started @scottjehl’s Web Components course and wow! I was already familiar with Web Components, but it took me a while to just understand the basics. However, Scott explains it in a way that is simple, clear, and effective. Can't wait to keep learning from him!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“A lot of people in the center and on the left have for a long time sort of bemoaned Fox, but they haven’t done anything about it,”
the answer to FoxNews is not LeftieFoxNews, & the answer to misinformation and disinformation is not more information.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
We should pronounce VS Code as "Versus Code" because let's be honest, that's the job.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Men! You too can be objectified and simplified! We are apparently mustaches wearing ties.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/19/reminder-for-all-us-guys/
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jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:
@laurenshof has a good article on @fediversereport that I thought was very good on Bluesky/AT's decentralization https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-decentralisation-and-the-distribution-of-power/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
marching is not going to motivate masses of folks in the face of a clean victory by the forces of authoritarianism. the majority of American voters chose this, and we need to think about what to do next. marching is not enough, will once again not be effective.
we need to figure out the lessons of this moment… this is a time for reflection, not for simply marching to vague slogans in lashed-together temporary coalitions.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
New blog post https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-11-18-misguided.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can we just treat the Bible as a curious archive of ancient & medieval ideas, rather than as a source of wisdom? Please?
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neilmadden@infosec.exchange ("Neil Madden") wrote:
NIST saying they are going to forbid ECC by 2035 is like forbidding wind power because you think fusion is just around the corner. It is sensible to invest in post-quantum hybrids as a hedge, but deprecating ECC is daft when there is still so little certainty that quantum computing is achievable at all.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Not sure how I missed this: NIST is deprecating and then outright disallowing elliptic curve cryptography for key establishment as well as for digital signatures by 2035: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
How is BlueSky, today, more resilient to being purchased by a billionaire?
In what ways are AT Protocol open?
These are two questions that I cannot find direct answers to by the BlueSky team or evangelists, despite searching for them, and flat out asking.
I ask because both claims are major selling points of the BS experiment, and both have been repeated by journalists. But no one has thought to ask how?
What am I missing?
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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:
The Reverse Orpheus.
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- THE REVERSE ORPHEUS / Girl: We're all moving backwards Cat: People like to move backwards! / Girl: Maybe backwards is the only path we can see Cat: I am DEFINITELY not going to bump into anything / Girl: because "progress" was claimed by the tech industry to mean advances in consumer widgets instead of social movements / Girl: and we can all see what the last twenty years of big tech progress have given us / Girl: Access to more and more things that are crummier and crummier - attempts at connection routed through for-profit platforms choked with misleading ads and malicious lies - passions reduced to content - bad jobs made worse / Girl: but time doesn't move backwards / / Girl: We're still moving forward - we're just not facing it Cat: This is forward to me now (remote)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Trump is a petty, divisive troll. Let's hope it makes him the most ineffective president ever.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/19/the-president-is-a-troll/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
on my morning walk
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a powerful piece… sometimes sadness is needed before action
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minidebconf_tls@piaille.fr ("MiniDebConf Toulouse") wrote:
Thanks to @freexian for sponsoring MiniDebConf Toulouse
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rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:
During the mini debconf Toulouse, the #debusine team ran a very nice demo of a workflow that starts with a #debian source package, builds it on 4 architectures, runs lintian/autopkgtest/piuparts on all those architectures and then uploads the source package to Debian's incoming queue after having received the signature from the developer. Already available to all debian developers on debusine.debian.net!
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jecfish@indieweb.social ("Jecelyn Yeen 🐟") wrote:
2 neat features to improve network debugging in the Performance panel. #ChromeDevTools
💈 Hover to view critical network information upfront
🕵♀️ Click Cmd + F to searchLess context switching, better focus. @tunetheweb
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