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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Remember when Republicans used to blame everything on the Affordable Care Act? That’s what we need to do with Trump’s Tax Scam.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org ("Daniel Lakeland") wrote:

My wife and I are watching Love's Labors Lost at indieshakes.org Griffith Park Shakespeare.

Come watch, and donate, they do this every year.

https://givebutter.com/GPFSF2025

So far I haven't seen any Sheiks Indie or not.

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

tapdancing through my memory banks, and what do I find in a dusty archive full of bit-rot? Ye Olde IBM Java Word Cloud. here is "Hamlet"

a word cloud constructed from the full text of the play "Hamlet"

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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

It would be laughable that people of supposed integrity are still debating whether to leave XTwitter, but it's merely pathetic.

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jwz wrote:

Help me fix a a GTK bug.

In xscreensaver-settings, any time I select a different item in the list, I get a crash with: GLib: g_ptr_array_unref: assertion 'array' failed. This assertion fires late, with none of my code on the stack, so I have no idea...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrC

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

Get the marvelous MicroPro #Wordstar hand and touch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8J3CD5JuE
#retrocomputing

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

NEW by @lorenzofb: Jack Dorsey launched his new "secure" peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat this week. But now Dorsey says the app wasn't tested for security issues before its launch... and researchers are already finding bugs.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack-dorsey-says-his-secure-new-bitchat-app-has-not-been-tested-for-security/

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

Gonna watch The Matrix and make my first #11ty template 🤌🎉

A very exciting Wednesday night

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

I call this the "reverse Itanium"

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

An update on how well the International Energy Agency is doing at predicting solar generation growth.

(source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032125000449)

A chart showing the IEA's predictions of how much solar generation will be added against how much is actually added. They've been hopelessly wrong every year.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dinosaurgerms@furries.club ("dino! 🌈") wrote:

what if we kissed
in the Zaxxon BURN IN room

Picture of a giant room of Zaxxon arcade cabinets, each turned on and running the game in attract mode. A sign above the cabinets says "BURN IN" in big letters. This procedure (where the cabinets are left on for a long time) was done as part of the manufacturing process to ensure the cabinets would function reliably once distributed and placed in arcades.

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

another case of spontaneous human combustion

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jnkrtech@treehouse.systems wrote:

D&D alignment chart meme. “Free”, as in: Speech - lawful good And fair elections - neutral good Beer - chaotic good To play - lawful neutral Style - neutral Monads - chaotic neutral Parking - lawful evil Radicals - neutral evil Use-after - chaotic evil

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fen@zoner.work ("Fennel") wrote:

i always giggle a little at the gnome users who are like "why on earth would you ever need or want to minimize a window!?" and wonder to myself what their homes must look like

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

At this point I treat the news like improv comedy. Yes, and? Sure, why not? Bring in the murder hornets again!

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mjtsai ("Michael Tsai") wrote:

Downloading Xcode With a Passkey
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/09/downloading-xcode-with-a-passkey/ #mjtsaiblog

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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! 🫥

A screenshot. A very square icon is being QuickLooked in the Finder. In the QuickLook window, it is suddenly a round icon, because of the rounded corners of the preview.

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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

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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

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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!

My fingers gently holding a very tiny toad. It is about half the size of my pinky nail. This is one of the little guys I saved and raised as a tadpole!! Look how toad he is already!

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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/

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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]

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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

A beach on an overcast day. Small hill at right, water at left, a lone piece of driftwood in foreground.

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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

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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

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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

部分的に日が当たっている黄色のアルストロメリア。/ 2025.06.29 京都府立植物園・ワイルドガーデンから
光沢感のある茶色の花びらが印象的なチョコレートコスモス。/ 2025.06.29 京都府立植物園・ワイルドガーデンから

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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

A Telegraph headline "The left wing social media site that's become a digital insane asylum" with a picture of the Bluesky logo on a laptop and phone