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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.

Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.

This is a major step forward for browser competition.

Full analysis here:

/1
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

A precautionary warning about the @doaaalbaz0 Mastodon account at https://mas.to/@doaaalbaz0 that claims to be a journalist in Gaza.

The account followed me and immediately sent a DM. It appears to have done so to others as I saw two failed DMs with exact same text. Talked to them here and gave them my Signal. Asked them on Signal if they could add their Mastodon account to their Instagram bio as a means of verification as we’ve just had another journalist impersonated here.

No reply and I got blocked here.

I’ve contacted +972 magazine who she has written for to see if they can get in touch and ask her. (She has an Instagram but I don’t so I can’t contact her there. If someone else can, please do, but please coordinate among yourselves in the replies before doing so so she doesn’t get a dozen messages but just one.)

In the meanwhile, please exercise caution.

Unlike the other account, this one doesn’t have a donation URL but might be asking for personal info, etc., in direct messages.

@palestine #Palestine #Gaza #FediCaution

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

i am slowly coming to understand that activism should be built on joy, community, and connection - not anger or fear.

anger and fear are very valid emotions to feel in the current political situation* but trying to build a movement out of them leads to burnout and brittle, polarized communities. joy and connection lead to individual flourishing and community resilience

* actually all emotions are always valid but these are especially common and understandable right now

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

The Macintosh PowerBook 150s was designed to be used by people with two eyes and two hands.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
tubemapper@mastodonapp.uk ("Tube Mapper - Luke Agbaimoni") wrote:

Little and large.

Taken at West Hampstead London Underground station

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
IndyRichard@mastodon.scot ("Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿") wrote:

Given that its a wee bit blowy out there with Storm Floris here is an appropriate sign on Edinburgh's High Street.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
andyjennings@aus.social ("Andrew Jennings") wrote:

it's a long time since i worked, so I am not an expert. But to me one of the biggest drains on productivity is the school drop off and pick up. That this has not rated a mention at the "productivity" summit tells me that it's not actually about that. #auspol

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
millerdl@mathstodon.xyz ("David Lawrence Miller") wrote:

STOP DOING DAY MEETINGS IN LONDON

- people were not meant to spend this long on the LNER
- YEARS OF GOING TO MEETINGS yet NO-REAL WORLD USE FOUND for the South East of England
- Wanted to interact with English people? We had a place for that: it was called St Andrews
- "Yes I would like a pint for SEVENTEEN POUNDS" - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

They have played us for absolute fools.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mcfly@milliways.social ("mc.fly") wrote:

The real reason for internet age verification. #meme

Does anyone know the original source?

Attachments:

• video: 38cfec12e6a10ae9.mp4

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

AWS Deleted all data despite redundancy, backup, dead man’s switch. This is why you need to keep all your data offline. The 3-2-1 backup rule is a good data protection strategy that states that you kee 3 copies of your data, storing them on 2 different types of storage media, and keeping 1 copy offsite under your bed or office. Don't trust your hosting company's backup service.

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

#cloud #aws #sysadmin #IT

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
GreenWitch@piaille.fr ("Green Witch") wrote:

Si tu trouves un sac à dos noir décathlon avec dedans une switch dans une pochette noire, des jeux de société (dont le sea salt and pepper, un uno flip, un gobit, un petit pois), une gourde noire, un casque anti bruit, une casquette et lunettes de soleil, un flacon d'airomir dans un RER A direction Cergy (je crois) tu peux me contacter en dm.

Il y a peut-être une étiquette avec mon nom et mon numéro de téléphone mais je n'en suis pas sûre.

Le repouet rend les enfants heureux.

#rerA #objetPerdu #merci

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

behold the "HTML bomb"

it's a defensive counterattack on AI web-scrapers that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

the bomb file *looks* like a tiny HTML page, but when scraped -- or even requested by a regular browser ...

... it unpacks into a huge-ass 10-gig HTML page ...

... which quickly crashes any browser or scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
mobydick@mastodon.art ("Moby Dick") wrote:

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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

What if you could quantify misery in a way that could forecast the consumer behavior phenomenon of the little treats meme?

If there was a correlation between Trump saying on the news things that made Americans anxious, and the amount of twenty dollar smoothies sold that day, you could create a misery index; a misery index of little treats.

And if you can quantify misery, then you could assist the driving engine of that consumer behavior. 

Good night. 

#littletreats

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, @shanselman gave a stirring TEDx talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG8W-0p6vg

The talk tacks into many of the themes that @ahl and I have discussed over the years,; on the next episode of Oxide an d Friends, Scott is going to join us to elaborate on the talk, and to reflect on the promises of tech -- both where it has delivered (not insignificant!) and where it has fallen short. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1402457889830080563

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

An "AI" as awful as its owner

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/grok-generates-fake-taylor-swift-nudes-without-being-asked/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lucas@post.lurk.org ("Lucas ✦") wrote:

#Macrowave, our native macOS & iOS app that makes it easy and fun to share system audio with friends to listen to music together will be available for everyone on August 7th.

https://apps.apple.com/app/macrowave/id6746954963?ct=mastodon

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

With apologies to XKCD.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TechDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Tech Desk") wrote:

Yesterday, Jim Acosta, formerly the CNN White House correspondent, "interviewed" Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Or, to be more accurate, he asked questions of an AI avatar of Oliver, with the permission of the late teenager's family, and then streamed it on Substack and YouTube. For her The Present Age newsletter, @parkermolloy.com breaks down the myriad problems with the "interview." "This wasn't journalism," she writes. "Whether it was his intention or not, this was Jim Acosta turning a murdered child into content."

https://flip.it/opvuf5

#Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USNews #JimAcosta #Journalism

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

Your reminder that RFK, jr would really rather prefer it if you'd just fuckin' die, already

https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-vaccines-mrna-pfizer-moderna-1fb5b9436f2957075064c18a6cbbe3c9?utm%5Fsource=onesignal&utm%5Fmedium=push&utm%5Fcampaign=2025-08-05-Breaking+News

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

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

New post: "It's the heat and the humidity; also, the fascism" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/heat-humidity/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mcp@lgbtqia.space ("Master Control Program") wrote:

Hello, users in the UK.

We have geoblocked media in the UK on our CDN because the “Online Safety Act” creates unacceptable levels of risk and requires us to violate our users’ privacy and safety.

We recommend that you, like our users in China or Russia, use a VPN.

Our condolences on the loss of freedom of opinion.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
micefearboggis@fediscience.org ("John Kennedy") wrote:

Nothing ever changes but the climate

Some initial notes on the DOE Critical Review of Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate

And a 🧵 of other responses I'm aware of (let me know if you know of others)

https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/nothing-every-changes-except-the-climate/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

A really brilliant summation of how got into this place.

Over everything
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/over-everything

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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

And it's fixed now! Still not sure what happened, but huge thanks to @nileane for sharing the magic "clobber" command that ultimately fixed it!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

There are more hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system!

(unknown origin...)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

Radio Propagation

Sporadic-E: strong FM from Chaine 3 Algeria on 87.6 MHz.

#radiopropagation
#amateurradio
#g7izu

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
george@a2mi.social ("George Hotelling") wrote:

We are excited to be expanding our classic game "Is it allergies or COVID?" with an exciting new third option "or wildfire smoke."

Have fun everybody, participation is mandatory!