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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#RIP Singer Connie Francis, best known for her 1962 hit “Pretty Little Baby” and the 1961 song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” has died at the age of 87, her manager confirmed.

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/401774?load=1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive. #Media https://werd.io/senate-votes-to-strip-1-1-billion-from-public-broadcasting-in-blow-to-pbs-and-npr/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Shameful

Via Kyle Griffin:

At 2:30 a.m., the Senate passed Trump's cancellation of $9 billion in federal funding for PBS, NPR and critical foreign aid programs.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with all Democrats against the bill.

The package now goes back to the House for final passage.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CheRosach@mastodonapp.uk wrote:

It is easier to film than to do something

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
donray@mastodon.online ("Don Ray") wrote:

#prairie #Iowa

Here’s my webpage about the Hillside Prairie. It’s a prairie planting (after decades of row-crop farming); but once I started managing it like a prairie, a natural process of restoration occurred, with other prairie natives showing up.
https://dray30yearfarm.webnode.page/hillside-prairie/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

If you run a large Mastodon instance, and have upgraded to 4.4, please turn on referer headers.

It is *so* important for the health of the Fediverse.

At the moment I have 4x the followers on Mastodon as I do on BlueSky - but my blog's stats don't show that. In fact, they show the opposite!

Yes, it is privacy preserving. Yes, it makes a difference to publishers. Yes, it will show how vibrant an ecosystem we have.

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

seekrit recording of MAGA budget mtg https://youtu.be/jSrPlf4GBHc?si=VkOZZnG6gZdocUAj

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

omg.lol is an inclusive community of people who love the web. If you’re black or brown, disabled, homeless, LGBTQ+, a senior citizen, or a member of *any* marginalized group (there are too many to name), you are welcome here. We’re a wonderful little group, but we’d be even more wonderful with *you*. :prami_hearts_red:

If you can’t afford a membership, that’s not a problem. Our generous community has you covered!

https://home.omg.lol/info/sponsorships

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I know Samsung's Bixby was always an also-ran, but after spending 5 years working on its documentation, I'm a little sad it's effectively dead. (No announcements, but the web site has remained unchanged since 2023.) It was ahead of its time in ways I don't think most people ever actually noticed.

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

No, Ken, Nathaniel Jeanson's bad science will not help you overturn Edwards v. Aguillard. A corrupt Supreme Court might do that for you anyway.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/lying-about-native-american-history-to-benefit-creationism/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Got my Jellyfin setup working last night. Really cool piece of software. Now I'm just tempted to get a home media server set up, rather than just running it off my PC.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social wrote:

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:neocat_floof_catmode:​​:cat_attack:​

Attachments:

• video: Nova is perched on top of a mattress standing vertically next to a wall. Luna is teasing her with her pigeon toy. Nova tries to paw at it and bite it, then randomly starts cleaning herself and also biting the mattress, then continues pawing at the toy. Alice tries to pet her, Nova tries to paw at her hand (but misses). After successfully pawing at the toy, she flips upside down to paw with both paws at once, then loses balance and jumps to the floor

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “We've got to stop sending files to each other”

Another day, another data breach.

the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.

ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach

Why are people still sending files to each other? I …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/weve-got-to-stop-sending-files-to-each-other/
⸻
#rant #skeuomorph #ux

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Using a stranger’s pre-sliced 3D model is peak trust.

Same energy as: "Yeah, I met this guy on Craigslist. He says it’s fine."

#3dprinting

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Humankind: advanced enough to land robots on Mars.
Also humankind: a bunch of idiots who need bottle caps fused to their bottles.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

Two astronauts over breakfast

1: I can’t find milk for my coffee

2: in space, no one can. Here, use cream

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

Stop Killing Frameworks and Languages, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://archive.fo/E4572

#programming #java #python #django #flutter

Boosted by jwz:
attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

How i turned a kid's toy from 1989 into a punch card driven computing platform:

https://youtu.be/XewX68F0JDg

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@box464 Some advice for the over-domained.

https://evanp.me/2024/11/16/how-to-register-just-enough-domains/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
PaperG@photog.social ("Lars Fiedler :darktable:") wrote:

@isagalaev
AgX is a tone mapper that origins from Blender
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/19026

There is an ongoing discussion at pixels.us
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/blender-agx-in-darktable-proof-of-concept/48697

capture sharpening is an enhancement to demosaicing the sensor data
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/18909
@darktable

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

Are you an alumnus of the 2007 California TTBR or Ohio EVEREST voting systems study who will be at DEFCON? Please get in touch!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vivi 💫") wrote:

You are working on schematics for the CADR lisp machine. It is 1979. The Web doesn't exist. You're free.

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
tedmielczarek ("Ted Mielczarek") wrote:

My favorite part about the Christopher Nolan-directed _Odyssey_ movie is finding out that Homer has an IMDB page: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0392955/

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

timeline cleanser

Attachments:

• video: 1f631f3b6ad14562.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au ("Ganga") wrote:

I have two signs on my desk. One large framed one that says "Do more of what makes you happy." A good reminder. I'll often look up, see it, and take a break, or 10 mins in the garden, or just breathe some fresh air. Take a lunch break. Read a poem. Ring a friend.

And a smaller one that says "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." It's from a different era, but do you know where that comes from?

There are other small maxims of mine that I try to live by too. Not always perfectly, but they are good guidelines.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I spent hours and hours trawling through the sites of some of the world's best web developers, and despite the horrors I regularly experience in my daily work in Big JavaScript Territory, what I saw left me hopeful:

https://infrequently.org/2025/07/links/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

The sentence "you can take two cross-origin windows and make them same-origin" has to be the most alarming sounding thing that then turns out to not be such a huge deal.

I mean, it's not like it's not a big deal; it's in the process of being deprecated for a reason! But it's by no means the huge security vulnerability it might seem when you first hear that out of context.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/domain

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

join us tomorrow #50501 #ROC

https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/807088/