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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

I try to stay away from politics when posting online, not because I am not terrified, but just because I am sure if you want it you can find it elsewhere.

But on-topic for me, that I haven't seen anyone mention, is the "one person in Nebraska" https://xkcd.com/2347/ factor for Signal.

We now know it's used by the highest levels of US government, but like many OSS projects, it has only a handful of contributors:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/graphs/contributors?from=3%2F1%2F2025

It seems an obvious target for another Jia Tan situation.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We're going to have winter in April, although the skies aren't showing it yet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/watch-the-skies-2/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

The only Ghibli I want to see on my feed is actual Ghibli.

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

Republicans really don't like Oregon's vote by mail. (I mean, let's face it, they don't like anything that allows people to participate who won't vote their way.)

https://www.koin.com/news/politics/new-bill-proposes-repealing-vote-by-mail-in-oregon-public-invited-to-testify/

It looks like the intent is to try to get voters to pass it, but I'm not an expert on these matters, and it shouldn't get anywhere near a ballot even if that is the case.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB210/Introduced

You can comment here:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SRULES/SB/210/0000-00-00-00-00?area=Measures

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dgerard@awful.systems ("David Gerard") wrote:

Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them

https://awful.systems/post/3801992

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

Republicanazi MAGA CHUD David Brock Smith has filed SB 210, which will destroy Oregon's 100% vote by mail system, replacing it with in-person voting an voter ID. This is a piece of the Republicanazi's decades-long attack on the voting franchise and attempts to destroy American democracy

Oregon has some of the highest voter turnout in the nation, specifically because of its vote by mail system. It is the best voting system of any I've experienced, giving voters ample time to consider the candidates and measures and make an informed decision -- it's no wonder that these fool hate it.

The hearing on this bill is at 1pm TODAY

You can write a statement in opposition to the bill here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SRULES/SB/210/0000-00-00-00-00?area=Measures

Here's the text: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB210/Introduced

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Hell is other networks. Today @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers to discuss an incident where our combination with particular networking equipment resulted in a pathological system -- and how it was debugged and resolved. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1356306084972986399

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:

This feels like an especially important story.

NewsGuard tested 10 major chatbots — including ChatGPT 4.o, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — and the bots repeated Russian propaganda 7% to 56% of the time. 1/4

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

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

if true, this report is disastrous for trust

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

@GottaLaff

OMG...this #NonSequitur from 25 years ago...

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2000/04/18

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

NEWS! Trump and Putin to seek couples counselling after rare public spat https://buff.ly/IaNwUK4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: Treasury employees union seeks a court judgment barring the #Trump administration from enforcing his order canceling collective bargaining agreements across the federal government https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279006/gov.uscourts.dcd.279006.1.0.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Georgetown University Law Center students are working to heighten their peers’ awareness of which firms have caved to Trump and which have stood firm. Upper level students are creating a resource for 1Ls interviewing for jobs. They sent me this ask for help⬇️. #LawFedi

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Video Clip: US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Use of Signal for War Plans

"They're sitting there telling the American people that 2+2=7 ... those were attack plans, those were war plans, that was classified information, everybody knows it. And the idea that they think they can get away with this level of gaslighting -- it just strikes at the foundation of democracy which is a set of truths we all have to operate off of."

[#MP4 videos can be downloaded and shared]

h/t Aaron Rupar via Threads

Attachments:

• video: 702b6aa2f607d053.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility, from VGAPride!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

I paid into social security my entire working life. I'm now receiving modest monthly benefits (on which, by the way, I pay taxes).
For the Republicans to threaten this and weaken or cripple #socialsecurity is an egregious assault on all Americans, including the 73 million now receiving benefits.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

It’s a ten minute walk from my place to the pub, and a forty-five minute walk from the pub back to my place.

The difference is staggering.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kaydenpat ("Patricia Kayden") wrote:

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "What makes an app feel “right” on the Mac?" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/app-feel-on-mac/

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Teen Vogue summarizes the Democratic party perfectly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/the-problem-with-the-democratic-party/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/happy-international-transgender-day-of-visibility/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

What a charmingly appropriate publication by the US Government!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/thank-the-oss/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
deborahelizabeth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Deborah Elizabeth Finn") wrote:

Fascist regimes work hard to evoke despair and helplessness in resistance movements. We don't have to let them. As is the case with armed resistance, nonviolent resistance requires courage and involves serious risks. However, fascist power is more precarious than it looks, and we can bring it down.

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

“There is much more to military strength than physicality and bravado. Ukraine, the much smaller representative of the so-called woke West, has turned much of Russia’s conventional arsenal into smoking ruins.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion/hegseth-signal-trump-putin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
corbet@social.kernel.org ("Jonathan Corbet") wrote:

Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".

After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.

But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

As an engineer working with computers I'm all too aware that software engineering isn't really engineering. Things just kinda work. Sometimes. Most of the time anyway.

But prompt engineering, oh man, lol lol lol lmao.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

My mango lassi is happy to see me

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:

Come on in! The water's.... fine?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

First novel I wrote was my second novel traditionally published, and the second novel I wrote was the first traditionally published.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@paigebwrites/post/DHviLszuaF4

jwz wrote:

Drunk Texts With Dr. Kingfish.
https://jwz.org/b/ykln