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Boosted by jwz:
olivvybee@anarres.family ("Liv 🐝") wrote:

This is getting ridiculous now

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
stevenf@merveilles.town ("Steven Frank") wrote:

It's not so much that Liquid Glass looks bad, which it does, but that without a doubt in my mind there were people in every department saying, look, maybe we shouldn't ship an OS where you can't read the text. And yet here we are anyway.

I know, the readability ship left the port a few versions ago -- my larger point: it's not the look that stings the most, but knowing that the expert people who understand and genuinely care about the human interaction problems have either already left or aren't being listened to.

Obviously this is an industry-wide plague, but it's most noticeable with Apple because, damn it, they used to be the best in the world at this and it's all so unnecessarily self-inflicted.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Woke up to find that a main gigabit feeder cable had failed. This took considerable time to diagnose. It took much longer to switch to a 100Mb backup circuit that I left in place when I installed the 1G, on the theory that it could indeed be a backup but would likely never be needed.

Now all these years later, bringing up that circuit had the feeling of the direct line between the two planets fighting a computer-directed "virtual war" in the original Star Trek episode "Taste of Armageddon". Yeah, there's a line, but it hasn't been used in centuries.

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

truth!

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@rlonstein/114937641332831396

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("yaml nitrate") wrote:

This is really neat: https://github.com/9001/copyparty

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

Ever changing. #grickledoodle #life #troll #bridge #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digiron-W (@ f/6.3) lens. Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS-5005 Camera (shifted vertically -22mm, pushing the limits of the lens). 16x9 crop.

This fire escape stairwell, retrofitted onto the back of Georgetown's Healy Hall, reminded me a bit of a Piet Mondrian painting. Hard afternoon shadows added to the abstract view.

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

Fire Escape, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, no need to escape from fire, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481107849/

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@hetzner Hey folks, having a bit of trouble reaching my server. The Hetzner control panel for it is stuck trying to set a new root password and everything is disabled so I can’t even shut the server down.

Opened a ticket yesterday but haven’t heard back yet. (Ticket #: 2025072803032261)

Would you be kind enough to look into it?

Thanks!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

Earlier: The ban on churches endorsing candidates is overwhelmingly supported by Americans. 77% of Americans surveyed oppose houses of worship endorsing political candidates and 67% say houses of worship should keep out of political matters altogether. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/

#religion #Trump #IRS #politics #USpol #economy #news

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

A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #LasVegas #RFKJr #Health #Aging #Medicine #Nevada

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Living with the permanent, legitimate fear that on any given day you could be slaughtered with an assault weapon isn’t freedom. It’s madness.

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

and here I thought Apollo was a fighter pilot

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

I'm about to turn into an accountant for a day. I hate it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/29/happy-day/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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.

Boosted by jwz:
paulrickards wrote:

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

Boosted by jwz:
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