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

why is now everyone hyping that "Canada’s DevOps Platform" company product thingie? that's literally just a hosted Gitea, they just don't say that. and given how much they're trying to hide - or deliberately not mention - the fact that it's just Gitea, they strike me as the kind of company that also don't feel a need to contribute back. according to that company's website, it appears like the "company" also just a single dude, which is kinda the worst thing you could have from a business continuity POV.

that's all around pretty scummy and shady behavior. if Amazon would just set up a Gitea instance using some weird name like "Creative Code Collector" (promoted as Amazon C3 because that's what they love to do), we'd all be - rightfully - trashtalking them. why is this other thing being praised? it's still scummy behavior, it doesn't matter who does it.

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

I should own a bike again.

I sold mine when I moved to my current location, got married, needed cash yadda yadda... My needs for a bike are different now, but it'd feel good to have that option again.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

In more humane news, I'm having a good time working on this New-Adventures-era #Skeletor. With my actual hands. On paper. Like an old-fashioned human being. #drawing #ink #illustration

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

The whole techno-libertarian ideology seems to rely on the idea that if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist, therefore it's not a problem.

#Bluesky's moderation approach is inspired by a toddler's object permanence when playing peek-a-boo.

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

"David Bowie ran an ISP for eight years" is the good-universe version of "Hooters used to run an airline".

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/remembering-the-isp-that-david-bowie-ran-for-eight-years/

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

I looked into whether I could upgrade the CPU, but all the CPUs we could upgrade to are not supported by Windows 11. Bah...

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Kurtis_Clark ("Kurtis Clark") wrote:

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

An atheist video, tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/26/i-was-never-constructed-to-begin-with/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn8Pf0G-JlI

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

@NfNitLoop 100% agree!

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

The Era Of The Business Idiot:

"Society respects an MBA more than a plumber, even though the latter benefits society more — though I concede that both roles involve, on some level, shit, with the plumber unblocking it and the MBA spewing it. "

Lol. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

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schrotthaufen wrote:

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

@NfNitLoop Web Compatibility Interventions

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@denschub which "system addon"?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason "The best camera is the one you have with you", but for writing.

If you're out and about, or comfortable on the couch, and you pull out your phone to write down some thoughts when they come to you, that seems useful.

If stopping your process to move to a computer desk, or go to get a laptop, would break your train of thought or momentum, then why not stick with the phone?

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Sascha@bonn.social ("Sascha Foerster :bonndigital:") wrote:

Das @Mastodon Team arbeitet fleißig mit knappen Ressourcen an der Weiterentwicklung und hat schon einen tollen Weg zurückgelegt. Viele spannende Menschen sind hier bei @wikimediaDE, die alle auf den einen oder anderen Weg einen Beitrag leisten. #rp25 #rp25fedi #Mastodon

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

“Sam’s Scaling Rule:

If it can’t stay small, it won’t scale big.”

Truth

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drliles%5Fi-was-texting-with-am%C3%A9lie-koran-about-something-activity-7332811186159108097-VERU?utm%5Fmedium=ios%5Fapp&rcm=ACoAAAB7JkEBQCk8SY-mmP6rvpKfocI7TzIpqK4&utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fsend&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fvia

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

Is this bad

From: @paco
https://infosec.exchange/@paco/114509218709929701

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paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope #resist") wrote:

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-f00fs-of-old/

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

for some definitions of ‘efficiency’ https://www.reddit.com/r/FedEmployees/s/2JSHWZaVTK

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SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Four former Volkswagen executives have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the emissions-cheating scandal, a verdict that has significant implications for Europe’s auto market and diesel technology. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/four-vw-execs-found-guilty-in-trial-that-transformed-europes-auto-market/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

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

Made two new 88x31 buttons for https://url.town. One is dynamic and always shows the total URL population (you can see it on the bottom of the site); the other is for anyone who wants to plop it on a page to indicate that it’s listed on the site.

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headword@lingo.lol ("Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.") wrote:

@publicdomainrev Ah, so that is the realm of Eudedoména (εὐδεδομένα) – the muse of data storage.

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

Google’s AI Is Burying the Web Alive:

"In any case, the signals from Google — despite its unconvincing suggestions to the contrary — are clear: It’ll do anything to win the AI race. If that means burying the web, then so be it." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html

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

Captured with a Nikkor 90mm/4.5 lens on a Sinar P camera with a BetterLight 4x5 scanning digital back.

This is really more a study in lines than anything else. The simple, unadorned design of the derelict building invites interpreting and exploring abstract forms.

I believe this building, from Treasure Island's time as a naval base, is still standing, but the vegetation is winning.

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

Pipes, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

All the pixels, perfect fixer-upper, a https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2115767503

#photography

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Update to the don’t @ me stickers: it’s gone so well I’ve designed another sticker to include at no extra cost to you, dear sticker buyer.

w e b s i t e s 🪄

inspired by a @matthiasott toot.

👉 https://rknight.me/shop/dont-at-me

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

How do we apply #OpenWeb principles to the rest of the stack? Because decentralization doesn't mean shit if four companies own everything below the protocol layer.

#indieWeb #socialWeb #Fediverse

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

From the people who brought you Reply Guys…introducing Just Guys.

Dropbox buggy? Just host your own fileserver.

Rent too high? Just buy a house.

Feeling sad? Just go for a 5k.

Oppressed? Just stop complaining.

When every problem is a Jira ticket...

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one mind-blowing 100-out-of-100-risk-severity bug buried in miscutils.c

- There is a hermit monk in a cave in Czechia. Once every three years, he emerges with a new revision of the codebase. It is horrifying spaghetti logic that repulses the human soul, but no matter how long and how hard you look, you can't actually find anything wrong with it

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

if you ever thought you were anxious about your work, try sending a system addon background update to all firefox users. 😐

looking at real-time'ish telemetry data with the percentage of clients with the update installed never gets old.