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existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.

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

the first part is true, but I am not so sure about the conclusion:

‘“Trump is the most relentless communicator in the history of politics, and he has the biggest platform,” Mr. Vietor said. “So the only way Democrats can begin to compete with that is by communicating constantly, everywhere, all the time.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/business/media/meidastouch-podcast-democrats.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.2k4.vqxr.K-OGqTUHMPeJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

@cstross @Daojoan @jwz

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There are JS ecosystem a-holes complaining about how browsers should be faster while they sling workloads so slow that they blithely saturate Turin CPUs, then pray that re-doing the same work ("hydration") will feel good on battery powered, in-order Android cores designed in 2012.

They literally do not understand how fast computers are *on either side of the pipe*.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

After Russia invaded Ukraine, I posted a similar message (lost due to post auto-deletion) about the sharp increase in anti-Russian sentiment that we were seeing on Mastodon. Nobody should be ostracized or harassed just because of where they live, *especially* if they’re living under a problematic regime.

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jwz wrote:

@cstross The new movie is trash, but I can't let a Captain America reference go by without linking to this incredible fanfic, "Steve Rogers: PR Disaster".
https://idiopath-fic-smile.tumblr.com/post/117149098318/steve-rogers-pr-disaster-gen-4k

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

And with this comes a small update to our Code of Conduct: https://home.omg.lol/info/code-of-conduct

Until now, we didn’t have “nationality” in the list of sample items in the first bullet point. Over the past few days I’ve seen some awful examples (on other instances) of people denigrating others solely based on where they live, and that’s not cool at all.

There is no question that our country is pretty messed up right now, but we’re not going to tolerate hate or harassment based on geography.

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

A video describing doing something I certainly never thought about before: "Four Dimensional Reverb".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLJHF-WjMes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
justthepod@tenforward.social ("How Much for Just the Podcast?") wrote:

Start every day by yelling "computer end program" just in case.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nev@bananachips.club wrote:

Gitea is 1) commercial and 2) based in the US, which I know many people are looking to avoid.

@Codeberg (https://codeberg.org) is a public server running Forgejo, which began as a Gitea fork: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/ It's where I have most of my stuff.

A few more public Forgejo servers: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#public-instances

There's also the venerable Sourcehut, whose UI makes me break into hives: https://sourcehut.org/

Want to self-host? @yunohost is dead easy to set up and has Gogs, Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab apps: https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog?search=git&category=dev

OK with Gitea/GitLab servers outside the US? @Framasoft has a public GitLab server. For cheap independent hosting, PikaPods has Gitea: https://www.pikapods.com/

There are SO many options if you are willing to give up the "everyone on the planet uses the same public Git server" model.

#git #github #gitlab #selfhosting #forgejo

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

New emoji available on social.lol: :flag_usa_distress:

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Send. More. Cops."

Omni Consumer Products, Delta City:
https://jwz.org/b/ykkA

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm sick to death of hearing about "scale" and "CoGS" from folks who demonstrably have no idea how fast computers are in 2025.

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elly@front-end.social ("Elly Loel") wrote:

The web on mobile

🔖 https://adactio.com/journal/21728
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/the-web-on-mobile/

#Browsers #Web #Mobile #Web Standards

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

TIL Cate Blanchett reprised her role as the funky dancer in yellow for a live audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL97CRvXr9Q

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

I'm not trying to be controversial, I just think Elon Musk should be publicly guillotined in a livestream on his own platform this is a reasonable, fair and moderate position

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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Busy day at Stonehenge as the stones are moved forward one hour.

jwz wrote:

Happy "that thing shouldn't even have a clock on it" day to all who celebrate.

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Not wrong.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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

"Those who seek the least clout are nearest to the gods." -- Socrates probably

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zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

On the Discord IPO plans:

Remember that the enshittification clock starts as soon as a company *considers* going public -- or taking another round of VC funding, even. Discord's monetization moves have not been huge so far, but I never thought they were aiming at modest self-sustainability.

Also, predicting economic outcomes is stupid right now anyway. Anything could happen, starting with the obvious oncoming massive recession and any number of obvious worse possibilities.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

"Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)" is perhaps Mike Masnick's most important TechDirt post -- which is saying something given how long he's been publishing this essential-reading blog.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

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thomasbosboom@infosec.exchange ("Thomas Bosboom ✅") wrote:

Guess it can't hurt to broadcast this once more: The NCSC, NIST and Microsoft all recommend organisations do not force regular password expiry.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/problems-forcing-regular-password-expiry

"Regular password expiry is a common requirement in many security policies. However, in the Password Guidance published in 2015, we explicitly advised against it. This article explains why we made this (for many) unexpected recommendation, and why we think it’s the right way forward."

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

switching all *my* clocks to Greenwich Nice Time

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Tucker Carlson explicitly acknowledges the purpose of political megadonations

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #SBF

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killyourfm@layer8.space ("Seasons of Jason") wrote:

Someone's taking pictures in San Francisco at an angle to make the streets look level. I feel simultaneously amused and triggered. (Seeing the cars level is what really fuels the illusion)

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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chartier@toot.cafe ("David Chartier") wrote:

A reprieve