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

friggin’ script kiddies are at it again

Silent screens flicker,
Whispers of a crash unknown,
New dawn, hope restored.

via https://arghstudios.com

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

(Probably because most of us are just trying to survive and catch some joy when we can.)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
helenchong@social.lol ("Helen Chong :prami_pride:") wrote:

I was nominated by @mbjones to participate in the blog questions challenge about my favourite decade or year:

https://blog.helenchong.omg.lol/en/posts/2025-03-15-favourite-decade-year-blog-challenge/

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

On top of that, we've all been coerced into carrying surveillance devices with us at all times. I have the dumbest possible phone I could find, and it is still too capable and allows powerful entities to easily know too much about me.

This post makes some good points about the current context:

https://m.ai6yr.org/@exador23/114163614903434736

But... We've never actually been far from this in my lifetime. These concerns don't seem to register for most of us.

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

I hope people get rid of their domestic surveillance devices disguised as a home assistant. But based on what I've seen of the people who have these, many people use it as a source of entertainment, especially for their kids. ("Alexa, play the space unicorn song!") But I suspect the ones I know never enabled the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option. So nothing has changed for them. They don't stay on top of the news regarding Amazon shenanigans:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

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heliographe_studio ("Héliographe") wrote:

https://AgBr.app, our black & white film emulator, ships with 11 emulations based on film emulsions old and new, carefully researched by https://Nuevo.Tokyo

We'll be updating the app with one new emulation per month throughout 2025. One time in-app purchase unlocks all of them.

bendingoutward wrote:

In an effort to make our REST API more approachable, I set out to make it artificially less performant today.

Ended up optimizing it by about 60% by accident.

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

how did it become the 90s again? what have I done to deserve this return to is-it-running purgatory again? I'm going to go eat worms... https://tenor.com/view/ds9-deep-space-9-star-trek-worms-dinner-gif-14856557203314151153?quality=lossless

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I knew this would be coming: Bryan Johnson is turning his artificial lifestyle into a brand he can sell to gullible rich people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/15/it-always-turns-into-a-grift-with-these-people/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

https://youtu.be/bq95nZBbNHI

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Become an irreplaceable 10x developer in 30 seconds flat

Why learn actual skills when you can just look impressive instead?

Introducing rust-stakeholder - a CLI tool that generates absolutely meaningless but impressive-looking terminal output to convince everyone you're a coding genius without writing a single line of useful code.

https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages listing the dozens of “Notable Graves” of Black, Hispanic and female veterans and their spouses. 🙄

https://wapo.st/4isEBv8

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exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

I’ve been getting the most adorable fan letters from kids who have enjoyed my Detective Beans book and the cutest part is they ALWAYS tell me their age and give out a random fact about themselves. It’s like an unspoken child-letter rule and I love it 🥹

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Expedition finds H5N1 in 13 bird and seal species on the Antarctic Peninsula 😬

https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-avian-flu-strain-spreading-rapidly-antarctica

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Burkhardt :usad:🇺🇦") wrote:

Ukraine raised over $360 million for defense through the United24 website in January and February, with 41% coming from the USA. That’s over $148 million. #StandWithUkraine

https://u24.gov.ua/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("Liz :usa_distress:") wrote:

I'm SO damn tired. Tired AI creeping into everything. Tired of switching programs/apps/software because of the tech oligarchy and shitty practices, TOS changes, and everything that lacks integrity. Tired of the state of this damn country. Tired of seeing my friends hurting because of it. Tired of always being on high alert. It's only halfway through March. :aggretsuko_rage:

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

I'll bet the toilets on the Goa'uld Ha'tak motherships weren't even stainless, they were probably stone. Those folks built to last.

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ryanboswell@sfba.social ("Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”

And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cramirez ("Christian Ramirez") wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, AOC is the leader of the democratic party.

She has my full support.

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

I am hardly young, and I too am enraged that Sen. Schumer has brought a wagging finger to a gunfight.

#JustSayNo

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/government-shutdown-spending-bill-schumer-democrats.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.4E4.AxDt.f1sDslhHLa9p&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

just had a very productive & professional interaction with “Trust & Safety” at OpenAI. their bot was mis-identifying the protections we use to ensure our users will *only* get back child-safe materials… as *requests* instead of *guardrails*

a simple email response to their automated warning resulted in a quick problem resolution by a real humanoid. this is A Good Thing +100

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AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt wrote:

"American Fried Rice"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

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bjoernstaerk@snabelen.no ("Bjørn Stærk") wrote:

@pluralistic an older example of the same thing: to be gay in the 1970s, in many countries you had to think you knew better than the health authorities, who believed this was an illness you should try to cure.

and then, a couple of years later, the same health authorities ask you to believe that there's a dangerous illness going around that somehow mysteriously requires gay people to limit their sex lives.

knowing which scientific claims to trust is _very hard_.

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juliehuz@mastodon.world ("Julie Hughes") wrote:

Here is the shameful list...

#uspol #uspolitics

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lambda@chaosfurs.social ("Lambda :neofox_flag_nb:") wrote:

idk that seems like a weird requirement

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niedlichenacktschnecke@kolektiva.social ("Niedliche Nacktschnecke") wrote:

@cstross there's a "i'm drinking goat milk because I can't get chimpanzee milk" to incel white supremacist pipeline

jwz wrote:

"Z is for Zombie: Learning to Spell with House of 1000 Corpses friends"

Rob Zombie out here leading his best life:
https://jwz.org/b/ykkZ

jwz wrote:

Lumon Industries WoeMeter.

A machine that measures Woe in a person, one of Kier Eagan's Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkX