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

Hey Fedi I'm in the market for a new #Linux terminal. What are you using/recommend and why?

I'm current on the vanilla xfce4 terminal and have been thinking about giving xterm a shot.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

📆 7-9 October 2025, London, UK 🇬🇧
W3C is pleased to call for participation in: IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) are convening a workshop to examine the technical and
architectural implications of different approaches to implementing
age-based restrictions on access to online content.

Paper submissions due by: 2025-08-08
More at:
https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/iab-w3c-workshop-on-age-based-restrictions-on-content-access/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

PBS and NPR have been defunded by law passed by Congress, not just an executive order. The government agency that funds them will wind down in a few weeks.

It’s crazy all of this was mapped out in Project 2025 and is being executed like clockwork. A well oiled machine of economic and intellectual sabotage.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-npr-pbs-federal-cuts-operations-end/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=848102914#

Boosted by jwz:
IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net ("Frost, glow wolf 🐺:therian:") wrote:

@NanoRaptor Ha... hahaha... I'm Tabs Georg.

Boosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Studies have found the most logical and fastest keyboard layout is not between key orders like qwerty and dvorak, but one that prioritises the size of keys depending on the frequency of those letters in the language being typed, regardless of the ordering.

This Apple keyboard has an English layout. More frequently used letters in english are larger and slightly taller, less used letters are smaller and lower, which conveniently prevents tyops.,

Boosted by jwz:
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

the LLM is not a learning aid, it is an absolute barrier to learning. it is not similar in kind to copy/pasting from stackoverflow or cliffs notes. it fully supplants the entire process of learning, and the person using the LLM never improves their understanding because the LLM cognitive workflow never engages with even the shape of the problem.

Boosted by jwz:
simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

A weird thing about #Slack on #Linux #X11: whenever it gains keyboard focus, it immediately reads the X11 clipboard, even if you didn't try to paste anything. I see no evidence that it _does_ anything with what it reads, but I know it reads it.

I found this out by accident, because I wrote a stunt X11 client which owns the clipboard for just long enough to paste _once_, and then terminates. The idea was to queue up three different pastes on the command line, and paste them in quick succession into fields of a form. Works very well, _unless_ I accidentally mouse over Slack on the way to the form I want to paste into – then my focus-follows-mouse activates it, and it consumes one of my clipboard strings!

I have no idea why, or whether it's on purpose. I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, by assuming until further evidence that it's some unforeseen emergent consequence of the huge wobbly tower of libraries and wrappers and browsers that the desktop Slack app is built on top of. But it's not great. Some password managers will put passwords in the clipboard!

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

@cy I don't think so. There's nothing stopping you from lying down under the hoop armrests/supports. It's a pretty standard NYC parks bench design dating back at least 75 years.

But thanks for shitting on my post with your petty moralizing. Much appreciated.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I love this

https://examplecat.com/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
grrlscientist ("GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦") wrote:

"#Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all."

-- John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher

#PredatoryCapitalism #economy #philosophy #politics #GreedyBastards #FascistAmeriKKKa #tyranny

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

The three biggest lies in food packaging - spreadable, easy peeler & pull tab to open

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

When you're young, you believe the worst thing that could happen to something you love is death. Then you realize that death is welcomed if the other option is having to witness that thing you loved turn into what #Twitter has become.

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

Looks like somebody's actually been working on one of the ideas I've had kicking around the back of my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mkn7KCbEek

Jealous! But not really. Glad to see other people are just as wei... uh... Um... What I mean is I'm glad to find like minded people. Yes... Yes. That's what I mean!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
helenchong@social.lol ("Helen Chong :prami_pride:") wrote:

🎥 Finally saw "The Way We Talk", a Hong Kong film about the deaf community, in the cinema. I had been interested in the film after hearing good things about it since late 2024, and I was not disappointed after finally watching it. The film went into great lengths in exploring the perspectives of different kinds of deaf or hard-of-hearing people, like those who prefer to use sign languages and those who prefer medical devices for hearing.

I was pleased to learn that "The Way We Talk" would be screened in Malaysian cinemas starting with July 31, so I decided to quickly seize the chance to see it in the cinema to support this film. If you get the chance to watch the film, I cannot recommend it enough.

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

London's "Thin House" looks as if it belongs in a Potemkin village or as a background facade on a Hollywood studio lot, but it's something of a Tardis, larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Created to make way for the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway (now the District and Circle lines) behind it, its triangular footprint gives it the illusion of being little more than a shallow rectangle when viewed from the street.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).

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

5 Thurloe Square ("The Thin House"), London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels that will fit at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54192985864

#photography

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jak2k No, sorry.

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

Dark Patterns 😡

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/fair-trading/dark-patterns

Boosted by jwz:
coolhand.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("luke") wrote:

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

jwz wrote:

Fucking Python.

I can't renew my LetsEncrypt certs on macOS 14.7.7 with certbot 4.1.1 from MacPorts, and it appears to be because Python 3.13 has lost the ability to load URLs. This works with 3.12 but 3.13 gets "Bad file descriptor":

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve ("https://letsencrypt.org", "/dev/null")

Any suggestions?

https://jwz.org/b/yksR

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

And yes there's a silly and modest easter egg in the PDF schedule.

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

It's a pretty night.

#photography

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

@mattblaze The #DEFCON content for Hacker Tracker is all up to date, and the #Meshtastic configuration guide as well.

Don't want to use HT? https://info.defcon.org is the web version.

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

Where you find one race condition, you're likely to find others... Unfortunately. :blobcatpensive:

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

Full schedule with talk descriptions, etc, should be up on Hacker Tracker soon.

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

We are pleased to announce the final* schedule of talks for the 2025 Symposium on Election Security at the DEF CON Voting Village, August 8-10, in quiet, sleepy Las Vegas.

Hope to see you there!

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV2025-schedule.pdf

* -subject to change

#VotingVillage #DEFCON33 #Elections

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

DEFCON has banned Eric Michaud. You need to be an exceptionally toxic sleazebag to get banned from DEFCON. There are literally only 4 other names on the list: John Draper, Jake Appelbaum, Morgan Marquis-Boire, and Chris Hadnagy. https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-transparency.html#:~:text=Jake%20Applebaum%20%282017%29%20%2D%20Banned,including%20enabling%20Morgan%20Marquis%2DBoire

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

I'll believe we've built "superintelligence" when any of my calendars can show me cross-timezone events *in which I transit across those timezones* in a reasonable way.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dotproto@toot.cafe ("Simeon.__proto__") wrote:

PSA for Firefox add-on developers

There's a phishing campaign that's using false urgency to trick developers into granting a 3rd party access to their AMO accounts. Stay safe out there!

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/08/01/warning-phishing-campaign-detected/