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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jnkrtech@treehouse.systems wrote:

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"I have been cursed," the man said.

"With what?" the witch asked.

"That's the thing, the cute warlock shouted 'Curse you!' and I felt it hit."

"I see. I can't remove it, but I could give it direction."

"That's what I hoped. Can you make it 'No woman will want to marry you'?"

"Heh. Sure."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Trump’s Tax Scam makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the republic. To put that in perspective, here are the sizes of other federal law enforcement agencies:

Boosted by jwz:
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess

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

Daughter: this thing is not for creative people, it's just… for guys.

I see a gap in this child's parenting.

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, I've replaced my failing Airport Extreme with a UniFi Express 7, and I can't figure out how to enable inbound ssh to my Mac. I set up port forwarding but port 22 remains closed to the outside world. Settings / Routing / Port Forwarding says:
https://jwz.org/b/ykq0

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

> Bitchat is a messaging app that operates through Bluetooth mesh networks, allowing users to send messages without Wi-Fi or cell reception.

I never forgot #FireChat 😭 I wish someone else was making this but I'll take it I guess.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/jack-dorsey-working-on-bluetooth-messaging-app-bitchat/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
kdriscoll@aoir.social ("Kevin Driscoll 📳") wrote:

Reminder that Pocket is shutting down tomorrow (July 8). There is still time to export your data. Place a request and they'll email you a link to download your bookmarks as a CSV file (with timestamps!) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-your-pocket-list

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amy@spookygirl.boo ("amy tech (bones)") wrote:

Oh hey! Elements of Programming is now free because their publisher decided to stop printing them.

This is exciting and if you want to get an incredible introduction to type theory from first principles it's one of my more favorite texts on the subject. It does use C++ as it's reference language but you don't really need to know very much C++ in order to appreciate the text. IIRC it introduces what you need to know as it uses various features.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

In case you missed it, there is now a Fediverse alternative to Strava called Wanderer:

➡️ https://wanderer.to

There is a public server list at:

➡️ https://wanderer.to/servers

To sign up on a server, click on "Create Account", then "Login", then "Make One".

If you're running your own public Wanderer server you can add it to the list at https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer/discussions/361

Techy people can self-host using instructions at https://wanderer.to/run/installation

#FediTips #Fediverse #Strava #Komoot #Outdoors #Hiking

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The U.S. now plans to treat climate change, pandemics and other natural disasters the same way we treat gun violence.

Defund and ban any research on it, avoid common sense laws and resort to thoughts and prayers after every preventable loss of life.

A society in regression.

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

my Dad died 50 years ago today. RIP Maj. Jack Sonstein, I wish your country was in better shape.

jwz wrote:

If you have been wondering, "will fail2ban with ipset also fall over when the AI bots come a-knockin'?" the answer is "also yes".

Increase maxelem in action.d/iptables-ipset.conf

Expanding existing tables without wiping them is super easy, barely an inconvenience:

ipset save OLD_NAME > OUT
perl -pi -e 's/OLD_NAME/TMP/' OUT
perl -pi -e 's/65536/6553600/' OUT
ipset restore < OUT
ipset swap TMP OLD_NAME
ipset destroy TMP
rm OUT

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

People's Parties by Joni Mitchell

https://pandora.app.link/zhZtiZQJOUb

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

Old Shoes by Tom Waits on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/agKD1oxJOUb

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0346

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.12 is out now. This is another Unix-only release.

• DPMS works on Wayland, using either "wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1" or "kde-dpms".
• Fading should perform much better on both Wayland and X11.
• GNOME continues to be unsupported. *Oh dear. How sad. Nevermind.*
• Still no locking.

What I would like to know: ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqx

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
reconbot@toot.cafe ("Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta") wrote:

If you’re in New York and want to work for one of the best human focused group of software developers I’ve ever met, as a tech recruiter cares facilitator. Consider the recurse center. #FediHire

https://mastodon.social/@recursecenter/114779156469448861

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

It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0320

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I just got a warning on reddit for saying we should beat robots to death with their own arms.

An *automated* warning.

Bots defending bots.

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Next time you see a bunch of U-Haul Nazis:

- Have a local person call 9-1-1. Not the police line. 911. And only if you're local. You have to be in the jurisdiction for this to work.

- Report a crime in progress. "I'm watching a dozen or so masked armed men pile into the back of a moving van without seatbelts. I know this to be a crime and I feel unsafe."

- A cop will be dispatched to the scene to conduct an investigation. Nobody will go to jail over this. This is at best a misdemeanor.

- However the cops will still have to pile everybody out of the vehicle and ID them to issue seatbelt violations. That means body cam footage.

- Body cam footage that can be FOIA requested by antifascist investigators. That means drivers license photos, names, and addresses of Nazis.

- That means Nazis who lose their job, get kicked out of their mom's basement, etc. Many of these sick fucks only do what they do because they're operating under the assumption of anonymity. Take that assumption away.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Streaming was a good idea

When there was 1 or maybe 2 platforms where you could watch almost anything for under 20 bucks a month

Streaming is terrible now

A dozen platforms with media spread everywhere each charging 15 to 20 bucks a month

Like with many good ideas, they overplayed their hand and lost me

I am hosting my "own" media again :nkoShrug:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

C mistakes among the vulnerabilities present in #curl code

(C mistakes are vulnerabilities that were caused by a mistake that "probably would not have been possible" had we not been using C for curl. Manually assessed for each case.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Cynthia Olivera is a Canadian who’s been living in the US since she was 10 years old.

She’s now in ICE custody, after being grabbed at her green card interview.

The 45 year old wife and mother of 3 has been moved between detention facilities while her husband begs ICE to let her get on a plane to Canada.

They’re willing to pay. She’s willing to leave. But she can’t escape.

This is why we call them concentration camps.

There’s no due process. Some people go in and never come out.

Also worth noting her husband voted for Trump because he supported his mass deportation plans.

He didn’t think it would impact people “like them”. Only “others”.

This is why we fight for the rights of everyone.

We aren’t safe until everyone is safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/trump-voting-family-canadian-mother-detained-immigration-status

#uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #immigration

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

On the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast:

In this episode, author CORY DOCTOROW (@pluralistic) breaks down THE INTERNET CON: how platforms took over the web, & what it’ll take to take it back.

🎧 Listen now ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-internet-con

#podcast #FutureKnowledge #CoryDoctorow #TechPolicy #DigitalFreedom

Attachments:

• video: cc6692b075eaa4a8.mp4

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

My pal @bcantrill delivers a masterclass in sports ownership economics:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/29/the-end-game-for-john-fisher/

“[I]t’s hard to find the dumb money when you are, in fact, the dumb money.”

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

As long-promised, @ahl and I are going to revisit an adventure in data corruption from two years ago, one ultimately due to a (slight) difference of opinion about how the CPU should operate with respect to speculative TLB loads. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1391827824062496768

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

Just the three of us. #grickledoodle #contemplation #family #atlantic #novascotia #cartoon #art #drawing #love

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

oh oh

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• video: 492136fddf63c748.mp4