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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Google’s Play Store lost nearly half its apps https://www.theverge.com/news/658932/google-play-store-lost-half-apps

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Apple exec ‘outright lied’ during Epic trial https://www.theverge.com/news/659301/apple-executive-lied-under-oath-epic-alex-roman

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

#OSU’s Open Source Lab has a shortfall of funding ($250k) that if they don’t raise, means the lab will be shutdown. Federal grants are a cluster right now and big donors might come through but in the interim, if you can donate or appeal to your company to donate, plz do! #opensource #osl h/t @Mulderc https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Today in Elon Musk schadenfreude: he has officially moved out of the White House, and the Tesla board has opened a search for a successor CEO

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:

The Oregon State open source lab which provides hosting for hundred of open source projects, as well as research, resources, and support to countless other others is in trouble and we will shut down soon if they can’t find $250,000. Spread the word and donate https://give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug

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

I want to thank my dog for allowing me the joy of fishing a week-old dead rodent out of her chomping mouth, it really made the day complete, a not-to-be-missed experience for sure

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

I have cooked a terrific steak, and filled the house with so much smoke I am considering checking into a hotel for the night

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

dying alone
dying alone not that bad?
ai girlfriend
ai girlfriend near me
cheesecake door dash

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

My wife just had a birthday. I decided to get her something a little different for a gift.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/30/what-i-got-krissy-for-her-birthday/

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

Also: outlived Henry Kissinger.

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

First they came for the immigrants,

(To be continued.)

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

Interesting tidbit from her obit: She didn't find out that her war work had been declassified (25 years earlier) until she visited, as a tourist, the NSA museum in 1997 and saw Enigma machines on open display.

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

Julia Parsons, who worked on deciphering German Enigma traffic as a US Navy cryptologist in WW II, has died at the age of 104.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Dk8.P%5F-G.KhlNj7GIVjhR&smid=url-share

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

Some people have asked about my @omgdotlol account. They want to know what it is. Or simply why it is?

I’m not really sure how to respond It’s just fun and interesting. It feels like the small web. The “web 1.0” (which wasn’t even called that at the time) but with modern tools.

And @adam is good people. He cares about his products and the people using them.

Check it out. Maybe join us.
https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/markwyner

#OMG #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Internet #Community #Profile

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
evs@social.lol ("Evan") wrote:

I’ve been thinking a lot about this post from @thagomizer - https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html

It isn’t always right to try to educate. Sometimes it won’t land, sometimes you don’t have the energy, and sometimes it’s a lost cause…

And instead of slamming your head into a wall, just tell the offender “We don’t do that here.”

No right or wrong. No explanation or defense. Just “we don’t do that **here**” with the implied “if you want to stay here you don’t do that again”

Boosted by jwz:
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

liberal: omg how do we defeat Trumpism

socialist: *explains how*

liberal: that's not realistic, I meant without changing anything

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I'm sure I'll be fine.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

planning a train ride in a train with less than 10% average punctuality in the last 30 days according to zugfinder.net, AMA

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Climate scientists, every goddam day.

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

I'm almost done with this semester!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/30/winding-down/

Attachments:

• gifv: countdown clock

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Full Throttle, released on April 30, 1995. A cult classic little gem from the golden age of LucasArts point-and-click adventure games. Tim Schafer's first solo project, featuring biker gangs, storytelling and cutscenes that draw inspiration from the Mad Max films, a protagonist who gets wrongfully framed for murder, a distinct cinematic style, and a soundtrack by the Gone Jackals.

Ben, the main character, was voiced by Roy Conrad, while Mark Hamill voiced the game's villain. Despite its planned sequels never getting off the ground, and the title being relatively short, Full Throttle has more than managed to perfectly stand out on its own thanks to its humour, memorable story and characters, and its fresh new approach to the adventure game genre. Decades later, it still deserves all the love it's getting, and if you've never played it, the 2017 remaster is an excellent way to fix that.

#FullThrottle #OTD #AdventureGame #PointndClick #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #RetroGaming #RetroGames #LucasArts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mahryekuh@hachyderm.io ("Marijke Luttekes") wrote:

So you want to block threads.com and threads.net, but Mastodon UI is making it difficult?

Tip! Use Mastodon's Import function:

1. Create a file, any filename will do as long as it ends with `.csv`. For example: `blocked_domains.csv`.

2. Put these two lines in the file (without the backticks):

```
threads.com
threads.net
```

3. Save the file.

4. Go to the Mastodon import settings (`/settings/imports`).

5. In the form on this page, select import type "Domain blocking list".

6. In the form, select your newly created CSV file as the Data file.

7. In the form, select "Merge " instead of "Overwrite" (this should be the default value) as the import strategy.

8. Upload your file.

9. Profit!

#FediTips

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

You’ve probably seen email address delimiters in use before (e.g. name+whatever@gmail.com) or have used them yourself. Did you know that #omgdotlol uses them, too?

But in typical omg.lol fashion, we didn’t just stop at the plus sign. Use can use any of these characters to separate your address from an arbitrary string: '*+/=?^_`{|}~.

This means that these are all valid ways to email me:

- adam=dork@omg.lol
- adam?who?@omg.lol
- adam/dev/null@omg.lol
- adam{'wow'}@omg.lol

Try out your own! 😄

Boosted by jwz:
wokerati ("Wokerati") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

Peak 90s: Thronglets + LSD + Indigo2 IMPACT 😎

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@quinn I’ve never tried Fetanyl but I have tried morphine, and my understanding is that fentanyl targets the same use case. I don’t really think the analogy stands up:

• Morphine is cheap to produce.
• Morphine use reduces the amount of pain you experience.
• There are real-world use cases for morphine.
• Using morphine makes you want to use more morphine.

Boosted by jwz:
quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

People keep talking about AI and crypto coins as things that are popular and interesting. But Fentanyl is also popular and interesting, so y'all will need a better argument than that.

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

Boosted by jwz:
deane@contenttechtodon.org ("Deane Barker") wrote:

This guy isn't screwing around. https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Boosted by jwz:
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Woke n Broke