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vees@epistolary.org ("Rob Carlson") wrote:
I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Snow, a squirrel, and invisible birds.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/it-really-did-snow/
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bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:
As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `` and ``.
You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.
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wj@ruby.social ("Will Jessop") wrote:
Goddamnit Apple https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
installed redis to handle SessionStore issues for my little seekrit service
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JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org ("Jan Miksovsky") wrote:
Looking for people to playtest a programming language for making websites https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-20-programming-language-playtest.html
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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
If you've never read Worse is Better or the history behind it, it's worth reading https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
tl;dr: Yeah you think your tech is better designed and it may be but the Zerg Rush strategy works for tech (but with long-running consequences)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry:
"Elaina St James, an adult content creator who promotes her work on Instagram, said she and other adult content creators are now directly competing with these AI rip-off accounts, many of which use photographs and videos stolen from adult content creators and Instagram models." https://www.404media.co/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry-3/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Winter in Minnesota means we should welcome all the little creatures who would die in the cold to join us in our houses.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/its-snowing-2/
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Joe Walsh born in Cleveland Ohio, 1947
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Duane Allman born in Nashville Tennessee, 1946
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945
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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:
A short play about "user metrics"
____________________________Bill, walking into Dog & Duck: "Where's John?"
"He drinks at O'Malley's now."
[Bill goes to O'Malley's]
Jane, walking into Dog & Duck: "Where's Bill and John?"
"They're at O'Malley's."
[Jane goes to O'Malleys]
O'Malley's: "I think they come here for our superior wine selection"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Am I allowed a feeling of doom and death now? I think we're all screwed.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/i-may-have-to-put-my-retirement-plans-on-hold/
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
You'd think that Signal paying million-dollar salaries on non-profit foundation money would mean that they'd be able to improve the state of Signal Desktop's security; but they can't even close PRs addressing things like battery drain on Android devices: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/13337
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
So many drawings of Ixodes scapularis…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/excellent-images-of-a-few-things/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sorry, I should not laugh at the poor little rich child. I am A Bad Person.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
LMAO
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preinheimer@phpc.social ("Paul Reinheimer") wrote:
The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Incredibly proud of the cryptography auditing work we did at @cure53 and Symbolic Software in 2024 and really hoping some of the reports get published early next year!
The most exciting year so far; it's really unfortunate that only the boring audits generally get published.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
ML-KEM’s reliance on a hefty secure hash function (SHA-3) is a real bummer. I wonder why this couldn’t be avoided/why a primitive without such a dependency wasn’t chosen.
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edithfrost@ravenation.club ("Edith Frost") wrote:
I’m still asleep & no glasses on but yeah! New album!!!! New video too! https://edithfrost.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
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edithfrost@ravenation.club ("Edith Frost") wrote:
I like to spell it pitchf’k, no reason, it’s just funnier. https://pitchfork.com/news/edith-frost-returns-with-first-album-in-20-years-shares-video-for-new-song-watch/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It occurs to me that institutions that are incapable of learning from experience are also incapable of heeding warnings from their employees. 🤔
Mastodon Feedjimbob@aus.social ("Bela Lugosi's Dad") wrote:
Exciting news of a victory from the front line
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
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
my favorite Polish bass player by a long shot, Kinga Głyk
