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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
janerationx@mas.to ("J 💫🏴‍☠️ 🦁") wrote:

Found this last night on #Reddit. Yup.

#Mastodon #SocialNetworking

I have been using Mastodon for a couple of years now, and while the privacy focus is part of the shift, the bigger shift is understanding that Twitter and Mastodon are not competitors. PixelFed and Instagram are not competitors. The old platforms are social media. They are entertainment platforms that nominally connect you to friends. But their actual customers are advertisers and entertainers (influencers?) The new federated platforms are social networking. They're community-owned and operated for the sole purpose of serving a community. They don't have customers, they have members. They are collaborative efforts run by individuals and not-for-profits.

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

It's been difficult to separate the new World Trade Center building from that terrible day in 2001, but we now have the benefit of just enough time that we can begin to discuss the tower as a piece of architecture and as part of the skyline, on its own terms.

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

It's generally simpler to capture tall skyscrapers like this from a distant vantage point; the classic photos of WTC are usually shot from Brooklyn or New Jersey. But here I wanted to show it as it's seen in the neighborhood. The foreground buildings look taller in the frame, but the (much taller) One WTC tower still stands out, given its uncrowded position in the skyline, as if its neighbors maintain a respectful distance.

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

This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens. A large image circle allows room for considerable movements, used here to swing to selectively focus on the WTC tower. A polarizer darkened the clear sky a bit, as well as taming some of the highlights reflected off the glass wall of the tower.

The shape of the new One WTC makes the light catch it differently throughout the day and in different weather. I made several exposures at different times before settling on this one.

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

One World Trade Center (and Neighbors), NYC, 2019.

All the pixels, none of the traffic, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49291055921

#photography

A distinctively shaped reflective skyscraper with a prominent broadcast mast on top, set apart in against the sky at left. Other buildings, in softer focus, crowd the frame at right.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

This part

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CAPETOK ("CAPETOX") wrote:

Este veterinario tiene un asistente canino que ayuda a los pacientes caninos enfermos a saber que todo estará bien. 😍🤩🥰
#Dogs #Dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Park life

#SanFrancisco #Photography #SutroTower

A photo of Sutro Tower on a rare clear day in San Francisco, from Alta Plaza park

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Replace The Batteries In Electric Sheep?

Electric Sheep Need A Firmware Update

Electric Sheep Discontinued By Manufacturer. Click Here To Install OpenSheep.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
transworld@masto.ai ("Transgender World") wrote:

Florida: In a stunning turn during the 2025 legislative session on Friday, not a single one of the proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills made it into law

https://gomag.com/article/against-all-odds-florida-queer-advocates-just-made-history/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:

Democratic Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman Says Trump White House Lying About Mayor Ras Baraka’s Arrest

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-congresswoman-bonnie-watson-coleman-says-trump-white-house-lying-about-mayor-ras-barakas-arrest/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catspammer ("cat spammer") wrote:

Norwegian Forest Cat

probably a Norwegian Forest Cat cat

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fireborn@dragonscave.space ("aaron") wrote:

QEMU is one of those pieces of software where, on the surface, it looks amazing. It emulates everything. It supports every architecture. You can boot a whole-ass operating system inside a YAML file on a toaster if you want.
But the moment you try to actually use it, it becomes immediately clear that QEMU was not written so much as it emerged, fully formed, from the darkest, deepest corner of an obsolete instruction set manual written in blood and Hungarian notation.
You want to do something simple like “boot an ISO”? Ha. Buckle the fuck up. You're about to write a command line 300 characters long, full of flags that mean nothing, do everything, or secretly contradict each other depending on the phase of the moon.
-enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 4 -m 4096 -nic user -device e1000 -drive file=wtf.img,format=raw,if=virtio,index=0 -boot d -cdrom arch.iso -vga std
That’s just the beginner tier. You want UEFI? You better find the exact OVMF blob hidden deep in some /usr/share/qemu/edk2/OVMF.fd directory that varies per distro and isn’t documented anywhere. Want secure boot? Fuck you. You’re on your own.
Need sound? No you don’t. QEMU’s audio stack is a cryptic abomination wrapped around ancient ALSA, PulseAudio, and maybe JACK if you invoke it while holding a sacrificial chicken. Half the time you get silence, the other half you get full-volume digital screaming because your sample rate was wrong by 1Hz and QEMU doesn't clamp that shit.
Want networking? Okay, now you’re really in trouble. Because QEMU supports ten different networking models and none of them are sane. There’s -nic user, which works but can’t access your LAN. There’s -netdev bridge, which requires root, two shell scripts, and a master's degree in Linux networking internals. And then there's -net tap, which may or may not work depending on what libvirt decided to vomit into /etc/qemu/bridge.conf three years ago.
You want USB passthrough? Cool. Here's how you do it:
1.
Run lsusb
2.
Pray
3.
Try -device usb-host,hostbus=3,hostport=2
4.
Watch the guest kernel panic
5.
Cry
And the documentation? HA. It’s not documentation—it’s a vague whisper of meaning. The man pages are 1,200 lines long and still manage to explain nothing. “Use -device” they say. What devices? What does virtio-scsi-pci mean? What is a ich9-usb-ehci1? No one knows. They’re not listed. They’re not described. The only way to find them is to run qemu-system-x86_64 -device help and scroll through pages of raw output, most of which are undocumented internal components that will cause instant death if you use them wrong.
QEMU is not a virtual machine manager. QEMU is a puzzle box built by cursed engineers, and your prize for solving it is maybe, maybe, getting a VM to boot without errors in the logs. Not cleanly. Not efficiently. Just... booted. That’s your win condition.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club ("azteclady") wrote:

Via WIRED's Aidan Moher: "Please, for the love of god, don’t start your new newsletter on Substack. There are so many better and cheaper alternatives who don’t run a business model of platforming the worst among us.

You can get a self-hosted Ghost newsletter up and running for <$10/month."

#SubstackHasANaziProblem #Substack #Ghost

ETA: linking to the original guide by Molly White (h/t Femme Malhereuse for the link)

https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

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

The pinkest I’ve seen in a while.

A photograph of a sunset, with a band of vivid pink along the horizon, fading with a smooth gradient to a gray above, with some wispy clouds at the top of the frame.

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

To all of the republicans who voted for a lying, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, rapist so they could lower their food bill: fuck you.

Last month we paid $52.99 for our dog food.

This month it costs $97.99.

#Economy #Tariffs #RepublicanVotersAreMorons

Screenshot of a bank transaction for PetSmart that shows a total of $52.99.
Photo of a bag of dog food with a price tag that shows $97.99.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
gabz@social.lol ("gabz :verified_pill_bottle2:") wrote:

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bulbagarden ("Bulbagarden") wrote:

Japanese manufacturer h concept releases new Ditto-shaped mold https://bulbagarden.net/threads/japanese-manufacturer-h-concept-releases-new-ditto-shaped-mold.306774/ #pokémon

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jjcelery@mastodon.ie ("JJ Celery") wrote:

*chuckles* 😂

(this is a layer 3 meme, I won't be providing an explanation)

A set of geometric shapes, circular, rectangular, triangular and others, like from a child's sorting toy are drawn in grayscale in front of a mountain side. A square entry hole can be seen cut deep into the mountain. All the shapes in unison exclaim "This is my hole, it was made for me!"

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

All cops are bastards.

Trying an MLK style "reformist" approach now is about as useful as cleaning up an asbestos infestation by getting all your friends to huff the fumes up with your own lungs and zero PPE.

We're at the phase with police killings where we've got stage 4 cancer and people are certain the problem is that we just need to inhale a little bit more asbestos.

#ACAB

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Boosted by jwz:
PaulWermer@sfba.social ("Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0") wrote:

Observing how the Waymo's behave in urban traffic, it strikes me that 3 or 4 creative cyclists could easily herd one of them. I wonder if any one has considered organizing Waymo Herding competitions (sort of like sheepdog trials, only with AVs and cyclists).

And of course bonus points if you gather more than to AVs together through a specific intersection.

@SafeStreetRebel ? #Biketooter

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

spent all day trying to find this song, which played on tiffany calver last night but didn't show up on the 1xtra website! production is :1000: on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHxzKIbwjgQ

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Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Billionaires are the Parasite Class"
Sticker spotted in Mobile, Alabama

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Love this.

PBS didn’t become woke. You grew up to be a bad person.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠
⁠
Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.”🧵
⁠
#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #mastoArt #astronomy

My linocut portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in a lace collar in front of the sun in oranges and black against the blackness of space. At the bottom of the print is the solar absorption spectrum (a rainbow style gradient of indigo at left through to red and black at the right with specific discrete thin black vertical lines at various places).

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

OK so I just got my vinyl copy of @inversephase ‘s Pretty Eight Machine and it’s not only great to listen to, but beautiful to behold!

https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine-se

Its so good that it’s inspired me to focus more energy on my own work on 8-bit micros.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lmorchard@masto.hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Rude: The Story of How Someone Knocked on the Front Door at My House

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
goofpunk@critters.gay wrote:

I now have snorlax.website redirecting to my website ​:eggbug_smile_hearts:​

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Boosted by jwz:
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

these are my two favorite graphs

actual installed photovoltaic capacity vs. World Energy Outlook predictions. every prediction is flat growth but installations are a hockey stick.
Itanium sales forecasts by year. every one of them is incredibly optimistic, but less so than the previous.