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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
playdate@panic.com ("Playdate") wrote:

A quick little note on how Playdate Catalog has done in the last two years: we're happy and proud to say we've paid out $1,043,186.85 to our amazing game developers. It delights and inspires us whenever we see someone make their first game for Playdate 💛

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

- My top suggestion: Become an election day poll worker! It's an important service and you'll learn a ton!

- This National Academies report is the best overall summary of election security which I'm aware, and despite being published in 2018 is still current: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy

- Here's a paper outlining the technical issues and solutions: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf

- I gave a talk at Columbia last year on the state of election security: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/distinguished-lectures/2024-Fall/Matt%5FBlaze.mp4

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Election security is back in the news, and it's easy to be taken in by confident but specious claims of "hacked elections". There *are* technical vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure, but fortunately so far there's no credible evidence they've been exploited to alter an election outcome. I know that's frustrating, but it's the reality we live in.

Want to learn more? Read on.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

Why did they vote to eliminate online and mail-in voter registration? Why did they choose to restrict access to the ballot instead of protecting it?

H.R. 22 would disproportionately impact married women who have changed their last names, naturalized citizens, military members, and tribal citizens. Similar laws in Kansas and Arizona have blocked thousands of eligible voters from registering. No Democrat should support this dangerous legislation.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was an opportunistic capture from a hotel balcony, made with a small camera and 90mm lens. I made several exposures, waiting for good light, which came out briefly for this one.

The wrong gear is definitely better than nothing, but still not as good as the right gear. This is a perfectly acceptable image, but I can't look at it without wishing I had used a view camera, a higher resolution sensor, and a slightly longer lens. But if I had insisted on that, I'd have no image at all.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Marina, San Diego, CA, 2012.

All the pixels, none of the docking fees, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/8270972060

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

Gonna tell kids these were ketchup and mustard dispensers

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://archive.is/TFiKP At a recent SF show Jello Biafra performed "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" after name-dropping Trump and Musk, then after getting back on stage from a crowd dive, said "and fuck [new SF mayor] Daniel Lurie too". The SF Chronicle's writeup of this initially quoted that, then pulled it, and appears to have made multiple tweaks to the wording and headline since. Not atypical for papers to do this just funny and sad that the mayor is getting such careful treatment here.

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyTD6L6z7w

Boosted by jwz:
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

I combined voronoi cells with a loop idea from Yugemaku

Attachments:

• gifv: looping animation with pushed voronoi cells in circular movement

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

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invalidname ("Chris Adamson") wrote:

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Attachments:

• video: Ambassador Spock responding to a demand under duress that he read a false statement written for him by Commander Sela. SPOCK: I will not read this or any other statement. SELA: If you do not, you will die. All of you will die. SPOCK: Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate. SELA: I hate Vulcans.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

Just one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...

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

The hype has reached crisis levels -- now government stewards of the environment are claiming that we don't need to protect species, because Colossal will just bring them back, despite the fact that Colossal has never resurrected an extinct species.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/oh-godno-dire-wolves-have-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tammy@webperf.social ("Tammy Everts") wrote:

This month's performance hero is a person after my own heart – someone who is passionate about building a secure, accessible, performant web for EVERYONE, and who always leads with a deep compassion for users. Let's all join in celebrating Alex Russell (@slightlyoff)!

https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/performance-hero-alex-russell/

#webperf #ux #javascript #js

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

Ah, looks like the markets remembered today who was still in the White House

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

@tomgauld.bsky.social on moving fast & breaking things...

#technology

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

Don't blame the technology of the cell phone for the abuse of that tech by capitalist corporations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/you-arent-bad-neither-is-your-phonebut-the-capitalists-who-abuse-it-are-evil/

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

So, Oregon Republicans tried to revitalize their party by making a wanna-be pedophile pastor with a string of failed businesses behind him the chairman of their party. I wonder how that will work out for them?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/first-hint-this-wasnt-going-to-work-out-hes-a-pastor/

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

I am compelled to spend the last few weeks of my genetics course discussing ethics, because so many people are mangling genetics for unsavory ends.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/a-wall-looms-before-me/

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

this is how dictators silence dissenting voices

https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-04-09/11-ur-students-alumni-stripped-of-visas-in-nationwide-crackdown

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Looks like traders woke up this morning and suddenly realized:

1. Trump only DELAYED some tariffs

2. Trump is still going after China

3. Trump is a fickle child with no plan to actually accomplish any of his ridiculous goals.

“Dow futures drop 600 points with stocks set to give back some of historic turnaround”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?%5F%5Fsource=iosappshare%7Corg.joinmastodon.app.ShareActionExtension

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

Just woke up to find out the president has revoked the security clearances of everyone at a cybersecurity company because Chris Krebs went to work there. Krebs was his director for the agency in charge of Cybersecurity & Election Security during his first term and refuted his claim the 2020 election was "stolen".

Revoking the clearance of every employee basically kills the company's ability to do government contracts, which is a major source of revenue for cybersecurity companies. The White House press release also restates the false claim that the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen".

The US is basically a fascist dictatorship at this point. One where the president goes after entire companies because a single person spoke out against his verifiably false claims. You'd have to be completely insane to travel here right now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon, Spain use water more efficiently.

That's the same Amazon that is using huge quantities of water for its data centers in Aragon, Spain

The same super-secretive Amazon that does its very best to hide its water usage figures from the public.

Welcome to the world of Big Tech: grifters, con artists and scammers. Mafia-life thugs who swear local governments to silence.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water

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

this is the sort of thing the regimes of Stalin & Hitler & all tyrants do:

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/submitatip

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

MAGA has a watchlist of professors.

Concerned about the climate? You might get reported by students as a climate alarmist!

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/submitatip

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

I was able to secure the last Gold tier Mastodon pledge! 🎉

About time, I owe so much to Mastodon and their iconic journey of decentralizing Twitter.

I don't think Bluesky, Pixelfed or Lemmy would exist without Mastodon. Their project gave us a blueprint for what's possible.

Kudos @Mastodon & @Gargron, you inspired a whole generation of dreamers like me. Standing on the shoulders of giants ❤️

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#fediverse #mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("EC DIGIT") wrote:

A big thank you to Niels and Birthe Lindenthal from @openproject for joining OSSpresso – the Commission's open source community event organised by @EC_OSPO .

They shared how they built a successful European #OpenSource business. Their software for project management, Open Project, now has more than 20 million downloads.

Thank you Niels and Birthe for your inspiring presentation! ❤️

No wonder we had record attendance!

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

opinions of Voxer?

https://www.voxer.com/

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

Dear Expertweb:

is there a free (cross-platform iOS & Android) cell app that does push-to-talk and is reasonably secure?