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Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

#Escherism experiments 🙂

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• gifv: A black and white mosaic of triangular and rectangular spirals vanishing into infinity in the center. The spirals rotate and the whole thing continually zooms in in a perfect loop.

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

sometimes I like to use my magnetic stirrer to dissolve things just because it's fun to watch it go wheeeeeeee.

thanks for your attention

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

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

407 years ago, the first slaves arrived in Virginia. They were from Angola.

162 years ago, Lincoln declared that all enslsved people in Confederate territories were free.

160 years ago (to the day!), on #Juneteenth, the last enslaved people in the USA were freed.

61 years ago, racial discrimination and segregation were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act.

60 years ago, black Americans finally secured comprehensive electoral protections through the Voting Rights Act.

But:

- 12 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that states no longer require federal approval for new voting policies. Since then, more than 100 voter suppression laws have been passed across states with histories of discriminatory practices.

- For every dollar earned by a white person in the USA, a black person earns 87 cents.

- White Americans hold 84% of the country’s wealth, while black people hold just 3%.

- Institutional racism remains a serious problem, with black people facing disparities in education, housing, employment, healthcare, and in the criminal justice system.

- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, three good things that help *everyone*, are under constant attack.

Today is Juneteenth, and it’s a day to celebrate. But I hope all of my white friends can take a moment to consider that however far we think we’ve come with civil rights in this country, it hasn’t been far enough. Every day we see more examples of people in power actively working to undermine fairness and decency while driving increasingly larger wedges between ethnic groups. We have to be better than this. We must refuse to accept this. There is so much work to be done, by all of us.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
exiva@social.lol ("Travis La Marr") wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for wirelessly getting iPhone camera video over to OBS with audio input selection for wireless mic packs? We heart droidcam but the lack of audio selection is a bummer. (Tried both Bluetooth and connected DJI packs it always goes to internal mic). Vdo.ninja was close, but a bit laggy and not as high quality in our testing. I tried experimenting with Larix Broadcaster and SRT in OBS, which looks like it’d be perfect but was getting 3 sec of delay 😓

We run a few streams off laptops (I know I know. I’ve fought against it.) and they are absolutely cooking themselves to death in hot warehouse. Want to have just the iPhone connect to remote a broadcast machine.

#obs #streaming #liveStream #livestreaming

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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• gifv: 489fa9416a592e82.mp4

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.