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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink special @ Inkognita: Foxtrot Delta Taco -- Captain Morgan Spiced Rum, Grapefruit, simple syrup, & lime

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Sempf@infosec.exchange ("Bill") wrote:

Where @pluralistic writing for the @eff describes better than I ever could why I don't care for the Apple ecosystem and rarely recommend it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Hey Fediverse! Do I understand it right that "SA" in Creative Commons licenses is the same viral requirement as the one in GPL (and which is absent in MIT/BSD)?

Thank you!

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:

@pluralistic such a clause would, I believe, be illegal and unenforceable in the UK in a consumer contract, under the Consumer Rights Act 2015:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents

@neil ?

As we were in the EU at the time this law was enacted and thus necessarily in conformance with EU law, I would expect similar legislation to be in place in all EU countries, specifically including Germany.

In other words, I think this 'agreement' has no legal force.

IANAL etc.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Ash_Crow wrote:

@dheadshot @pluralistic @Gargron in Germany, "arbitration agreements with consumers are only considered valid if they are signed, and if the signed document does not bear any other content than the arbitration agreement", per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration%5Fclause

jwz wrote:

In the comment section of any article about bars, the probability of someone offering the helpful insight that "you should just get rid of tipping" approaches one.

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

Sorry I haven't been posting much this week, I've been here and it really kinda pulls focus from yelling on the Internet

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Both of these people will accurately state that AI has made them more productive and saved them time.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
franklinlopez@kolektiva.social ("Franklin López") wrote:

💥 WHEN THE INTERNET DIES: DIY COMMS SURVIVAL TOOLKIT

This thread blew the fuck up. So here’s a no-bullshit breakdown of all the projects and ideas y’all dropped, so it’s easier to digest than a 300-reply tech rave. But yo—don’t let the thread die. Keep sharing, building, prepping.

Some of my personal favs?
📦 Internet in a Box – Doesn’t fix comms but is clutch for info sharing when it all goes to hell.
📡 Cantenna – Because it's cheap, DIY, and let’s be real, it’s fucking funny.

🎛 INTERNET BLACKOUT SURVIVAL: DIY COMMS FOR WHEN SHIT GOES DARK
🔌 1. Mesh Networks
Local WiFi/radio nodes talk directly.

Tools: Meshtastic, People’s Open WiFi, Reticulum

Good for: cities, tight communities.

📡 2. Ham & Packet Radio
Long-distance, text/image data over radio.

Gear: Baofeng, Quansheng UV-K5

Apps: AndFLMsg, Rattlegram

Learn: IAF Radio Guide

🔐 3. Secure Scuttlebutt & Briar
Off-grid social media & messaging via USB/Bluetooth.

Sites: scuttlebutt.nz, briarproject.org

📦 4. Internet in a Box
Local, offline servers with Wikipedia, books, and more.

Site: internet-in-a-box.org

🧠 5. Reticulum Network Stack
Encrypted, multi-channel, async networking protocol.

Site: reticulum.network

🛰 6. Old-School Hacks
📻 AM/SW radios

📡 Long-range WiFi with cantennas

🗺 Paper maps, encyclopedias, zines

🐌 Sneakernet (USB drops, printouts)

🤝 7. Internet Resiliency Clubs
Community organizing for tech survival.

Start one: bowshock.nl/irc

⚠️ Challenges
Legal grey zones (encryption)

Tech literacy gaps

Infrastructure costs

Right-wing radio bros

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
surprisetalk ("taylor.town") wrote:

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

Yes, anxiety https://beep.town/@zion/114707556507021735

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
plut0nian@jorts.horse ("plutonian 2.0 🪲") wrote:

feels appropriate to post this today for this #WIPWednesday .... not done though

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

It's funny how little things can make your day. Like pouring a generous amount of salt into a cooking soup, completely eyeballing it for a whole pot, and then realizing you were exactly on point :-)

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On the heels of @bcantrill’s blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Robert Bogart joined us to discuss his own experiences with both, and the life lesson accrued along the way. https://youtu.be/3z%5FTQxe9jx4

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Yeah I'll have the uh.. EFI Shell with a diet coke

jwz wrote:

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

Yep, that did the trick! Take that, caches!

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

I’m guessing everyone sees a different population figure in the OpenGraph preview image due to local fediverse instance caches or whatever.

I suspect I can force a fetch of the latest by slapping a query string on the URL... https://url.town/?1750293566

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

Tuesday was a big day for #Mastodon

#Threads released its partitioned Fedi feed

Mastodon released its new #ToS

And v4.4

And an update to its 2025 strategy

All on the same day. What are the odds?

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

https://url.town/ just got its 400th URL! 🥳

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

When I worked with an attorney to draft the omg.lol terms of service, we spent some time discussing dispute resolution. I had zero interest in binding arbitration.

I went with a simple mediation agreement instead, where everyone still has a right to pursue legal action if things can’t be resolved through a neutral third party. It’s a simple and fair option, and I hope Mastodon gGmbH will consider it.

https://social.lol/@pluralistic@mamot.fr/114706885706684642

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

Someone just told me (via email) that it's "unbecoming for a professor" to use language like "bullshit".

Now that's some bullshit right there.

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

Infrastructure— servers, data centers, deep sea fiber optic cables, the cloud, GPUs, gigawatts and flux capacitors and— all becoming consolidated into the hands of a few giants.

Full-stack sovereignty. Preach.

From: @franklinlopez
https://kolektiva.social/@franklinlopez/114705462714586000

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

@superball @CivilityFan @BlueDot No skin off my nose.

Bullshit is bullshit. That's as "nice" as you're getting from me.

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

There is no faster way to get me to never visit your site again than to email me a reminder that I've abandoned my shopping cart. Extremely reliable way to scare me off.

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

@CivilityFan @BlueDot I DON'T CARE IF YOU FIND ME UNKIND. STOP REPEATING BULLSHIT.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
digitalsnow@social.lol ("Kerri :usad: :prami_pride_bi:") wrote:

So, um, I just finished writing my novel (!!!)

This thing started way back in 2013 when I was an MFA student at Lesley University. It’s gone through ups and downs, and while it still needs some pretty massive edits, I AM DONE.

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

I realize I'm probably pissing people off here, but actual reality matters.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

More on mastodon.social's new Terms of Service:

Here's a thread on the odious binding arbitration clause from @pluralistic -- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706885462760813

And, there's a bunch of discussion in the github issue at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086#issuecomment-2982642642

#mastodon

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

@CivilityFan @BlueDot Suggestion: Rather than reposting any old bullshit you read on the Internet, just don't.