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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

Quick Look in Tahoe wants to preview your image in a very significant round rect — and so, when you preview a tiny little 32 × 32 square icon, it becomes round! 🫥

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Avitus@ioc.exchange ("👊🇺🇸🔥") wrote:

@evacide I've already removed Gemini via adb once. I'll do it again if it comes back after this forced opt-in.

I am not going to tell anyone that the Gemini app package is actually called com.google.android.apps.bard. I am also not advising anyone to follow these instructions:

1. Download and install ADB on your computer from the Android SDK Platform-Tools package

2. Enable Developer Options on your Android device:

3. Go to Settings > About phone > Software information

4. Tap "Build Number" seven times

5. Go to Settings > Developer options > USB debugging

6. Connect your Android device to your computer using a USB cable

7. Open Command Prompt or Terminal in the folder where ADB is installed

8. Verify the connection via command prompt or terminal by running the command: adb devices

9. Then run one of the two following commands:

adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard

Or

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.bard

10. Then verify the package has been removed by running: adb shell pm list packages | grep bard

jwz wrote:

I wonder what Blockchain Rasputin has been up to lately:

Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security. Security researcher Alex Radocea found that it's possible to impersonate someone else and trick a person's...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrA

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
checkervest@laserdisc.party ("a peculiarly ferocious shark") wrote:

Happy Wednesday from one of the little guys living on my patio!

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

Type of nipples I was thinking about at the moment I blurted that out:

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/pipe-nipples/standard-wall-stainless-steel-threaded-pipe-nipples-and-pipe-10/

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

Me: [getting a new idea while walking around the hardware store and blurting aloud] "I don't think I'll be needing those nipples after all!"

Fellow customer: [moving away while keeping an eye on me]

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

Just announced! Guixotic: a worker #Cooperative specializing in #GNU #Guix and #Guile #Scheme https://guixotic.coop/

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

The metadata for this image claims it was shot at f/16. That's wrong; it was more like f/2.5 or so. This was an artifact of the too-clever-by-half way Leica M cameras estimate the f stop. There's no mechanical link between the aperture ring and the camera body, so instead they estimate the f-stop with a separate light sensor that's compared with the brightness of the recorded image. This works reasonably well, except when you use an ND filter (as here), which confuses it to no end.

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

Captured with a small full-frame camera and 21mm lens. A three second exposure smoothed waves and surf.

This was an exercise in tone, perspective, and convergence. The four major boundaries of the scene converge (approximately) near the center of the frame, forming a flattened X.

I moved around and composed this both with and without the driftwood in foreground, which interrupts the composition but, I decided, is helpful to anchor the frame.

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

Pescadero, CA, 2014.

All the pixels, each made of a grain of sand, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

@onepict I too love the "Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" comic, and would add that https://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ has the beginning of the comic if anyone wants a taste of the style before buying a copy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Nak@infosec.exchange ("nak") wrote:

A book bar where you can slam a book shut on the bar after you're finished, shout, "Another!" and the barkeep will choose a new book from your TBR list based on what they think you will most enjoy in the moment like some kind of librarian sommelier. #Bookstodon #UnknownArtist

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2025.06.29 京都府立植物園
ワイルドガーデンからアルストロメリアとチョコレートコスモス。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules") wrote:

If this is what the Telegraph thinks of Bluesky I can't wait to see the foaming that'll ensue when they discover we exist

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ChrisHolladay ("FurballsNHairballs") wrote:

@w7voa
Good for him.
We all know Joe was getting old.
We didnt he would be as ill as he is, but that's his personal business now,not anyone else's.
If Republicans want to inventory someone's mental health ,they can start with that goddamn incompetent loser of a traitor in office now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A day after X’s resident AI chatbot went on an anti-semitic tirade calling itself “MechaHitler”, CEO Linda Yaccarino has resigned.

In her farewell post she thanked Elon Musk for entrusting her with the responsibility of protecting free speech and transforming X into the Everything App.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

lmao. lol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amandamakepeace@turtleisland.social ("Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ)") wrote:

Find me in the heart of the forest, chasing waterfalls… 🤍

#art #nature #landscape #MastoArt #drawing #artwork #ArtistsOnMastodon #artist #WaterfallWednesday

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

I went to a museum yesterday where one of the things I learned is that a particular monarch maintained a belief in the value of monarchy throughout their life... :thonking:

(I had a hard time keeping myself from bursting out laughing. I don't know why they bothered to put that on a placard.)

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

this does not bring me joy

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

the problem is, now the Right is “the Government”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
timberwraith wrote:

Oh, and sexual harassment and sexual assault of women by a number of the bigger names of New Atheism was NOT uncommon.

And when those guys were exposed as rapey abusers? They went hard right and found a new grift over there.

It's not like this pattern of hurt bigots and abusers leaving progressive and marginalized spaces and heading for the right is a new pattern. This seems to be a thing that bigots and abusers do.

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

I have a torn meniscus. I got it by lightly sitting in a chair one evening.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-mri-results-are-in/

Boosted by jwz:
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

The Four Horsemen of The Naming Soup Apocalypse are now complete.

(Spoiler: the fourth one is real - see thread)

*Edit: forgot an important Fifth Horseman, mentioned in the comments:

https://infosec.exchange/@cjust/114820379745453988

Boosted by jwz:
alexwinter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Alex Winter") wrote:

The pile-on Musk for his Nazi AI chatbot is deserved, but it's good to understand that AI-LLM's are predominantly fascist-machines, trained with their biases baked in. They may not be as overt as Grok, but they're all dangerously and inherently racist, sexist, classist, etc. We can reject them.

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

Found and fixed the issue with the mastodon-bird-ui themes, so we’re finally back to normal now. Sorry for the delay! (cc: @maique)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

“A study by the Transport Research Laboratory found that using in-car touchscreens can impair driver reaction times more than being over the legal alcohol limit or under the influence of cannabis.”

Asian automakers are leading the charge to bring back physical buttons in cars, and new EU rules will accelerate it.

https://www.ft.com/content/b46311ba-a5a1-4754-8d40-eaae475f01eb

#tech #cars #driving #auto

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

my dad was an urban developer and one of his biggest peeves was people building on wetlands. after abolition, our family ended up on one. he knew "catastrophic flooding" shouldn’t be an expected lifestyle.

then the fascist “Reagan Revolution” happened and the gringos drained wetlands & swamp for their cement empires.

https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/114823690848012345

most of the South is built on drained wetlands.

1920s USA had the Dust Bowl crisis. the 2020s are now for catasthrophic floods and wildfires.