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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("ChatJERRYPT") wrote:
Hi all. Given the recent announcement from Meta about AI personas and allowed behavior, I am moving threads.net back to a limit, and will likely move them to a block in the future on infosec.exchange. I can’t ignore the reality that the changes they’re making are specifically intended to permit attacks on many of the people that call this place home. I won’t rule out that they walk the changes back, which is why I’m not jumping to sever the nearly 4000 mutual follow relationships between people on threads and here.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
Applauding decisions of moderators like @stux and @jerry to stand up for their communities. ✊
"The new Meta policy goes against much we stand for and we will not allow to let it spill over to the Fediverse"
https://mstdn.social/@stux/113793895110300721
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dan613@ottawa.place ("Dan Neuman") wrote:
We have all the tools needed to avoid the coming #ClimateCrisis. Don't let anyone tell you we can't or we shouldn't.
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- Text on image. Image is a surface mine, with wind turbines in the background. Text: All we need to safeguard our future is shift 2% of our wealth away from polluting the air into much cleaner energy. But the greedy and incompetent would rather sacrifice our children on the altar of their wallets. That's the Climate Crisis in a nutshell. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mho@social.heise.de ("Martin Holland") wrote:
After some German unions yesterday, more than 60 (!!) German universities left #X/#Twitter today. Some are already active on #Mastodon. They justified this with their commitment to fact-based communication and against antidemocratic forces. Values that promote diversity, freedom and science aren't present over there, they say. 👏🏻
#TwitterMigration #eXit #Xodus #ElonMusk #NoAfD #SocialMedia
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Brilliant from The Daily Show.
Then Mika says that it's important to be civil. OK, Mom. We'll be nice to the bigot, fascist, sexual assaulter, thief, and liar and go kiss his ass at Mar a Lago like you.
Then sure enough, she brings that up under the guise of civility.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
In 2022, Igalia helped establish WinterCG, which aimed to establish interoperability across server-side runtimes, as well as with the web. Now, this group moves to Ecma, becoming WinterTC, with our own @andreu as co-chair alongside Deno's @lcasdev
https://www.igalia.com/2025/01/10/WinterCG-becomes-Ecma's-WinterTC.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thanks for the tour, @CARROT … I hardly recognize the neighborhood anymore
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastogram@dindon.one ("Mastogram Official :approved:") wrote:
Mastogram 2.0 is here!
Based on the users' feedback, I’ve rolled out a new version packed with features to make crossposting smarter and more flexible:
Multiple Mastodon and Telegram Accounts. Connect and manage multiple Mastodon and Telegram accounts effortlessly. Arrange crossposting between them to expand your reach.
Smart Posting. Mastogram now intelligently understands the requirements of different servers. It can split long posts into smaller ones, allowing you to share more than four images and adhere to character limits.
LLM Integration. We've integrated Language Learning Model (LLM) prompts to process your content. Automatically translate your posts into specific languages, add summaries, generate tags, and more.
Customizable Content Flows. Set up personalized content flows between your accounts.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dansup ("dansup the creator") wrote:
pixelfed.com finally.
love you dot social, but it was always temp.
people expect easy to remember domains, and pixelfed.com couldn't be better for us.
(no plans to sunset pixelfed.social, but pixelfed.com will be our new flagship soon)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:
UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.
This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."
In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.
I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.
I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.
#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@kcarruthers [waves hello] good to see ya
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Grey clouds linger low,
Bare trees shiver in the cold,
Winter whispers gray.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CyReVolt ("Daniel aka CyReVolt 🐢") wrote:
Finite State Monster
Flying Spaghetti Machine
etc etc...those combos are much more fun :D
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“if there is not soon a large new infusion of aid from the United States, Ukraine will likely lose the war within the next 12 to 18 months. Ukraine will not lose in a nice, negotiated way, with vital territories sacrificed but an independent Ukraine kept alive, sovereign, and protected by Western security guarantees. It faces instead a complete defeat, a loss of sovereignty, and full Russian control.
This poses an immediate problem for Donald Trump. He promised…”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-war/681228/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Jan 9 (Reuters) - BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, said on Thursday it will leave the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the latest Wall Street firm to depart an environmentally focused investor group under pressure from Republican politicians.”
Mastodon Feedtubafullofflowers@www.librepunk.club ("Ada") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:
"Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement." https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Meanwhile, sales of the premium and ultra-premium devices that you carry as a developer still represent *much* less than half of the market by volume. That's how you can get Apple breaching $1K ASP while the worldwide average stays at 1/3 that: selling *six* >$250 phones for every iPhone 16 Pro.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:
🍃 I made a completely free website speed test tool!
You can use it to optimise your pages, no sign up required.
In each test:
- Performance metrics
- Lighthouse Audits
- Third Party script report
- Google Core Web Vitals DashboardNo money down, fast website 🏆
https://calibreapp.com/tools/website-speed-test
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just need to make this super clear: the worldwide Average Selling Price of a smartphone (new, unlocked, not including secondary sales) *has not been higher than the price of Apple's cheapest model* at almost any point in a decade.
Today's cheapest iPhone from Apple cost ~18% more than the global ASP:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For the Performance Inequality Gap series, I'm gathering new data points in charts that I'd only talked to in prose in previous years. One of those is the difference between the various market segements looks at by price, with the Flagships clocking the new, unlocked cost of the fastest chip in each line, while the lower-end lines capture the mid-tier and low-end segments from various manufacturers.
The blue line that has never bumped above $375? That's worldwide average selling price.
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- Each of the Flagship lines represents the new, unlocked price of the cheapest phone containing the fastest chip in each group. Meanwhile, the Budget and Low-End segments try to capture where the offerings in those ranges are from relatively consistent manufacturers over the years at ~$250 and ~$100, respectively. The blue line is the worldwide ASP, not including refurb or secondhand. As ever, the "i" in "iPhone" stands for "inequality". (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The thing folks at the low-end are mostly missing out on is performance, which is dominated by combined L1 + L2 + L3 + SLC on-package caches, with process-shrink-driven frequency scaling not far behind:
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- By Dec 2024, a fast-ish Android had finally shipped. (remote)
- Yes, you're reading that right. Apple *has* been trouncing everyone else in single-core performance for a decade by adding several multiples of everyone else's combined cache allocations for die space. Just an unbelievable drubbing. (remote)
- Cores and frequencies don't mean squat when it comes to mobile phones. The action is all in the amount of die space allocated to caches. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
In December 2024, Freexian collaborators were very busy contributing to Debian. These contributions cover tracker.debian.org updates, Salsa CI improvements, Coinstallable build-essential, Python 3.13 transition, Ruby 3.3 transition and more!
You can read all about it in our monthly report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2024/
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) for making this possible.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:
I'm curious how widely known these are.
Are you aware of these text editing behaviours?
- Double click to select a word.
- Double click and drag to select text a whole word at a time.
- Triple click to select a paragraph.Trivia: the first two were present in the original 1984 Macintosh.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Every smartphone in LA accidentally received a wildfire evacuation alert | TechCrunch:
"But on Thursday afternoon, a wildfire evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to the smartphone of every resident in Los Angeles County, a region with more than 9 million people."
Mastodon Feedfraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:
They'll boil the oceans for the promise of free labor. That's what's driving all the AI bullshit: a bunch of rich assholes who don't want to pay workers.
https://gizmodo.com/41-of-employers-worldwide-say-theyll-reduce-staff-by-2030-due-to-ai-2000548131
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:
Here's EFF's follow-up post https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free ... including
"It was our mistake to formulate our responses and expectations on what is essentially a marketing video for upcoming policy changes before any of those changes were reflected in their documentation."
No shit.
Jillian C. York said "sometimes people are exhausted and move too quickly and get things wrong" which is true, and I don't attribute any bad intent to her, but then again it's their (organizational) elitism that makes them feel like they have to comment ASAP without taking the time to let things develop a little, and their lack of effectiveness that nobody in the loop said "wait a second ... it's Mark F---ing Zuckerberg, he's almost certainly lying, and he's almost certainly not doing anything in good faith, maybe we should think about this a bit before hittiung publish?"
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Needle (iOS) is a music-based social media platform. I’ve been perusing the feed, discovering new music for the last few days and I like it. It’s cozy and simple to use.
Currently, the app reports no data collection and it looks like it’s an indie developer. 👍
Let’s be friends on there so I can subject you to my music taste. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/needle-music/id1539883285
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Mastodon Feedrmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:
Stop calling it Meta. It’s not fucking “meta.” Facebook in a rusty white panel van, parked outside a school with a sign that says FREE CANDY, is about the least “meta” thing that exists.