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

Too often I hear people in a business context refer to productivity or efficiency when it's clear from their other actions they're actually talking about conformity and compliance.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
blue@bigshoulders.city ("Thorley Walters") wrote:

I love that the earliest written example we have of old Irish is a 9th century poem written in the margins of a book by a monk-scribe that is an ode to his cat

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of adult titles due to new strict rules from payment processors like MasterCard and Visa, following a campaign against harmful content. This move impacts a wide range of games, including award-winning titles, raising questions about content regulation in digital gaming. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/jul/29/why-did-adult-titles-disappear-from-steam-itch-pc-gaming-payment-processors #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

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

in the land of ‘an eye for an eye’, everyone ends up blind.

I have argued for more than a half century now that the US should stop military support to Israeli governments unwilling to seek a solution involving a Palestinian state. my arguments have fallen on deaf ears for more than a half century now.

I weep at what we have funded.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
s0@cathode.church ("s0 Traingirl Era") wrote:

I wrote a quick blog post about my Soldering Fume Extractor v4 finally.

It's a relatively cheap (~AU$120), compact, effective and quiet fume extractor, that uses cheap off-the-shelf filters.

Anyone who's interested in making one, check it out. If there's more interest I'll see about building a v4.5 with stronger 7mm ply.

https://blog.s0.is/blog/soldering-fume-extractor-v4

#tinkering #s0Projects

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Borders and Box Decorations Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS relating to the borders and decorations of boxes on the page.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-draft-css-borders-and-box-decorations-module-level-4/

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 Full Spectrum Conversion https://blog.m5e.de/post/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fs10-full-spectrum-conversion/

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 auf Vollspektrum umgebaut https://blog.wronnay.net/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fs10-auf-vollspektrum-umgebaut/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

What we know about the Midtown Manhattan gunman and how the shooting unfolded
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/us/nyc-midtown-shooting-shane-tamura-wwk-hnk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US News @us-news-CNN

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NiwlCraft@mastodon.art ("Honora NiwlCraft") wrote:

Google drive deleting random docs on the mere suspicion of containing bad words is predictable but still pretty fucking crazy.

https://artisticfreedomwatch.com/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
twitchrss.appspot.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 ChrisWere's Twitch video RSS") wrote:

Playing through Divinity: Original Sin

www.twitch.tv/videos/2524698878

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

Anyone from the UK wanna get in on this?

Petition to repeal the Online Safety Act
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManager#DISALLOW%5FFUN

Specifies if the user is not allowed to have fun. In some cases, the device owner may wish to prevent the user from experiencing amusement or joy while using the device. The default value is false.

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paulrickards wrote:

@rose_alibi @vxo @NanoRaptor @mediaarchaeologylab just rewind it first

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

When somebody is harmed by police or ICE or whatever thugs this awful wave of fascism unleashes on us, and when you hear that that person deserved it, or that the harm just sort of magically •happened• but nobody •did• it, ask:

“Says who? How do we know?”

“•Who• caused the harm? Does the language the police are using hide the actor?”

“Did that story come from anyone beside a cop?”

“Could they have made this up? Does it sound like all the other stories we now •know• they just made up?”

“Are the reporters who brought me this news asking •any• of these questions? Or do I have to do it all myself?”

Believe with caution.

/end

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mookie@racingbunny.com ("steve mookie kong") wrote:

Read today: “sometimes i watch people do their jobs and i'm like damn you might benefit from a little imposter syndrome actually”

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

All stickers are now on their way to everyone, and I’ve just sent an email to everyone who ordered some, too. If you didn’t get an email, let me know!

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

A good cook should appreciate a tasty bone broth…or bone fats.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/28/my-first-recipe-from-a-neandertal-cookbook/

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

Me and Drew got back into Divinity today, if anyone wants to check out the VOD it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cDMueyCdU

At the end we talk about whether we think we should be streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or OwnCast.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Please enjoy this cat loaf.

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

Off to the post office, with a box full of sticker mailings! :prami_happy:

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
ObsidianUrbex@photog.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

🎉 My photographs are featured in National Geographic!

NatGeo scoured my website, picking their favourites from my huge portfolio of beautiful #LostPlaces. They chose to feature places all from my home country of #England, amazing!

Thanks to #NationalGeographic for featuring my work, this is definitely a proud moment and a milestone for my journey as a #photographer.

The full feature now live, on their Dutch-language platform - https://www.nationalgeographic.nl/fotografie/a62133950/urbex-locaties-engeland

#Published #Photo #Explore #Photography

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@rust For anyone else wondering what the heck "mismatched lifetime syntaxes" means:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc%5Flint/lifetime%5Fsyntax/static.MISMATCHED%5FLIFETIME%5FSYNTAXES.html

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@ojala I appreciate sites that don't require cookies, or serve JavaScript popups. But if I'm clicking around somewhere unfamiliar, I can't rely on them not doing that. It's crazy to me how many browsers make opting out of such things difficult. Which is why I started writing a little browser that just *lacks* those features, and focuses on simple text rendering.

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

Much truth.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/28/anyone-feel-like-a-good-chant/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOrtAYk-RO8

rust@mas.to ("Rust tips") wrote:

The next release of #RustLang will start warning about "mismatched lifetime syntaxes".

You can already automatically fix many of these cases by applying an auto-fix for the `elided_lifetimes_in_paths` warning:

RUSTFLAGS="-Welided_lifetimes_in_paths" cargo fix --all --all-targets

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

The EU is making a very bad mistake here.

The EU is developing an app for age verification that can be used by many other applications as a legal way of ensuring that a user is at least 18 before accessing some protected content.

The problem is here:

The current release provides only basic functionality, with several key features to be introduced in future versions, including:

• App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation
• Additional issuance methods beyond the currently implemented eID based method.

What does it mean that it relies on the Google Play Integrity API?

Put simply, that:

• Any Android device not certified by Google will not be able to run the app. Do you use /e/OS (which is a European fork of Android btw), GrapheneOS, LineageOS or any other open-source fork of Android? Sorry, no age verification for you, which will mean that you’ll probably be locked out of many applications in the future. We often forget it, but, even though developed by Google, the core of Android (AOSP) is open-source and anyone can fork it. Google lately is already trying to attack that core hard enough to turn Android into a fully closed-source operating system exclusively controlled by them. The EU is just doing them a favour apparently.
• The Google Play Integrity API relies on keys and certificates exclusively owned by Google. Which means that if you use alternative privacy-aware frameworks to the Google Play Services (like microG) you won’t be able to do age verification. Google is already trying hard to force all vendors that install Android on their devices to get a certification from them only if they also pre-install Google apps and the Google Play Services (see the Android Certified program). The EU in the past opposed such plans because they clearly violate all the possible antitrust rules on the face of the earth. But, by piggybacking on mandatory Google Play Services for age verification, it seems that it’s just doing a U-turn and doing Google another favour.

In other words, EU representatives have (rightfully) talked a lot over the past years about digital sovereignty, technological independence from American tech giants and supporting open-source.

And then, when tasked to build an institutional app for age verification, what do they do?

Well, they entirely delegate the process to an American tech company that they pledged to decouple us from, and they play in their interests by putting another nail in the AOSP’s coffin.

Luckily the age verification app is still in alpha state and it’ll still take time to be deployed, and it’s also open-source.

So please, if you have a Github account, add a reaction or a comment to the issue opened by @SylvieLorxu on the project of the app to boost its visibility.

And if you have contacts with a EU representative don’t hesitate to write to them and express these implementation concerns.

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

Me: puts “do not disturb” sign on hotel room door, because I don’t want to be, you know, disturbed, during my Zoom meeting.

Hotel: What is this sign on the door? Probably left there by mistake! We better call the room to find out for sure.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
samuteki@ohay.ooo ("Sam") wrote:

Flint finally has clean drinking water.
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/flint-finishes-lead-pipe-replacement-historic-milestone

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

We're expanding our gallery space in August to set up a Thinking Machines: Connection Machine with an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Join as a BOOTSTRAP member to attend the preview and get a behind the scene peek at the CM2's HOST, a Symbolics 3670 LISP machine, as we restore and recover its *LISP (StarLISP) programming system.

https://icm.museum

https://toobnix.org/w/57vV3XjbcdEjNVqYGTzZJ4

#ai #HPC #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing