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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
8ofpentacles@stoat.zone ("ash ✨🍃") wrote:

I SAID NO PICTURES YOU MOTHERF—

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
adam@iosdev.space ("Adam Overholtzer") wrote:

Pathetic. https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning

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

Becoming sufficiently frustrated with Mac mail clients that I’m considering trying to set up Emacs as a mail reader. (Which is a capital-P Project.)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

On the screen to my right, I just noticed what amounts to an advertisement for AI. Someone uploads their resume with the prompt, “Can you make a storybook for my 2- and 4-year-old daughters explaining my career in the style of a coloring book?”

I am not a parent, so maybe this is an unfair criticism, but this seems so utterly hollow. Maybe at those ages, children won’t differentiate between something created by their parent or generated by a prompt. Maybe they won’t even remember these moments. But that hollowing out of creativity doesn’t stop—it bleeds into everything else, especially as we get older, busier, and more consumed by the grind. Yet it’s exactly those bits of effort that are most transcendent and memorable.

When we replace the creativity we expose people to with a cheap, generative imitation, no matter how polished and clean, we teach them that creativity is simply another commodity, that the special spark that binds us together as human beings, as family, is nothing more than a throwaway prompt.

Perhaps I’m being overly judgmental—again, I’m not a parent—but making time to create something for your child, something using your own effort, your mind, your hands, and the bits of you that can’t be expressed in a simple command, those are the kind of “deliverables” that will hold value and foster enduring memories.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
marczz@framapiaf.org wrote:

@adele In 1992, for the first Linux I installed (kernel 0.96 then 0.99), the kernel needed 13 floppies; it was so long to download them, write them, and read them on the pc. And to wait for the first boot. Then the magic of the first prompt. Then we could FTP to get more software. This was the happy time of FTP and telnet. Each time to boot we needed to put again one by one these 13 floppies.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

"Embrace AI or get out"

Welcome to the out club.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dhuyvetter ("Dimitri Dhuyvetter") wrote:

On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/08/right-wing-israeli-settlers-annex-gaza/683776/

#gaza #gazagenocide #ethniccleansing #itamarbengvir #israel

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
orladediez@mastodon.ie ("Orla de Díez") wrote:

“The leaked #Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of [Unit 8200’s] sensitive data may now be sitting in [Microsoft] datacentres in the Netherlands and #Ireland.”

Which in turn, if I understand correctly, would suggest that Ireland stands implicated in the targeted killing of as many as 60,000 Gazans, "the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

#Gaza #Genocide

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
irishphoto@mastodon.ie ("Peter Cavanagh") wrote:

End Israeli Apartheid

Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks. The months-long blockade means medical equipment that could help amputees is running out. Alongside the devastated healthcare system, patients battle with deep psychological trauma. Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout spoke to young Palestinian amputees in Gaza City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kNTq-n7b0

#gaza #genocide #palestine
#israel #IsraelTerroristState

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

In a scene that repeats daily, the occupation continues to destroy and burn what remains of #gaza.

#STOPtheGENOCIDE #genocide #palestine @palestine @mutualaid

Attachments:

• video: Bombing of an area in the Gaza Strip

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

#SouthPark at it again lmao

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“When Neutrality Is a Constraint

Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?”

Yes.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/when-neutrality-is-a-constraint.php?mc%5Fcid=d8a3fd5a8d&mc%5Feid=dafb9b300d

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

What was the saying? "Ain't no muppets on a corndog" I think. It was a true phrase, the truest. Wish I could find it, and that lovely explanation, pls link

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Politico - The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple US states. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-00496916

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

“…have traditionally steered clear of them because they have a fiduciary duty to provide a menu of prudent, reasonably priced investments to plan participants.

To date, private equity and private credit options have been riskier, more expensive, less transparent and less liquid than publicly traded stock and bond funds.”

your retirement fund is about to become much riskier

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/business-and-tech-fie8hiijz/-/a-X4cEfAlZQvShn5EQFHlLnw%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

If you search "Trump" on Duck Duck Go the first auto suggestion is "Trump Epstein"

If you search "Trump" or even "Trump E" on Google, there's no mention of Epstein whatsoever.

One of these platforms is juicing its results.

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

Hey, China and Europe…next time there's a pandemic, can you provide your poor cousin American some vaccines? 'Cause we won't have any.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/the-lies-will-kill-us-all/

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Happy new Rust! 🎆🦀

Rust 1.89.0 has been released!

This release brings you inferrred args to const generics (e.g. array length: `[false, _]`), the new mismatched_lifetime_syntaxes lint, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero, File::{lock,unlock,etc.}, many x86 intrinsics, and much more! ✨

Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/Rust-1.89.0/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
icing@chaos.social ("Stefan Eissing") wrote:

Diffie and Hellman are names for special spoons.

You scramble eggs with your Diffie. The correct Hellman can unscramble the mess to get the eggs again. But there‘s more.

When you send me some prime eggs and a new Diffie, I‘ll also make a new Diffie and send that back to you. Now we can both use our new Hellman and the others Diffie to make a total mess of the eggs…but it will be the exact same mess for both of us. Which nobody else has.

Follow me for more limping analogies.😌

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

UEFI Secure Boot Signing with Debusine

How do you handle Secure Boot signing for Debian-based systems?

We've just published a detailed write-up on how Freexian uses Debusine to manage UEFI Secure Boot signing for Debian 10 ELTS.
If any part of your work touches Secure Boot, package signing, or reproducible infrastructure for Debian distributions, it’s a relevant read.

It covers:
* How signing workers are set up
* Secure Management of private keys
* Workflows to automate the tasks involved
* Future plans for extending the signing system and for better key protection

Read the post: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-secure-boot-signing/

If you're working on a Debian derivative and facing similar challenges, we’d love to hear from you: sales@freexian.com

#Debian #UEFI #SecureBoot #Debusine #Freexian #LinuxSecurity

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

There's that smell again. A potent mix of sugar-free energy drinks and unearned confidence. A longboard just rattled down the hallway. I overheard the term "vibe coding".

As the prophecy foretold, they have returned. The great cycle continues. The brogrammers are back to ensure my job security fixing their mess.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I'm out. https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Anas Al Sharif | A deep sense of fear grips the displaced families in Gaza, as the Israeli government threatens to seize what remains of the Strip after already taking control of more than 75% of it.

There are no safe places left.
No food, no water—famine is spreading rapidly.
This war on Gaza must end.
Please—let our voices be heard before we are silenced by the next airstrike.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #gazagenocide #genocide #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Channel 12 Hebrew reveals Israel's upcoming plan in #gaza
- A 5-month-long ground maneuver
- The operation will involve 6 military divisions
- The goal is to occupy every city in Gaza
- Pushing the population southward as a prelude to encouraging migration out of Gaza.
@mutualaid @palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dougroudouvari@electricrequiem.com wrote:

You know what to do with this sub-turd

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@bagder So utterly stupid and irrelevant to anyone actually serving hypertext documents not fucking badly engineered applications. This is going to be weaponized against us tho isn't it to burn down the things we love and use and try to replace them with Google 💩? 🤬

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

I still think the messaging of this is alarmist and quite frankly, lame. Recall how we also have had multiple bad implementation details in HTTP/2, some that aren't even really possible to fix there so some people recommend h3 instead. Which then has its own share of challenges.

They're all far from simple. They are all complicated.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

By January 2025, every single university in Gaza — as well as most of its libraries and archives — had been destroyed by Israeli aerial bombing, ground-based assaults, and a massive Israeli military campaign of bulldozing and blowing up infrastructure that had merely been damaged in previous attacks.

Those original documents, those climate-controlled storage units, those finding aids and reading rooms are gone.

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/gaza-history-scholasticide-genocide-academia

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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

We will remember the ones who committed this genocide.

We will remember the ones who supported it.

We will remember the ones who were silent.

We will remember.

And we will not forgive. https://kafeneio.social/@foufoutos/114986587270690196