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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:
Although you will see none of this in our pants shitting national media, the US is full of people doing this right now.
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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
I no longer do quantum computing consulting, so have this one for free: if someone tells you that quantum computing is five years away, or that quantum computing will give you "unlimited" anything, they're lying.
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aby@aus.social ("Aby--not fast, just furious") wrote:
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DrALJONES wrote:
Report: "Massive civilian flotilla set to sail for Gaza late August"
Dozens of boats carrying activists from 44 countries "will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history":
~organizer Haifa Mansouri
#GazaGenocideNotWar #USPol #EuroPol #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #BreakTheSeige @palestine .
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DrALJONES wrote:
Interview: The West’s principles fall apart over Palestine
Francois Burgat
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/centre-stage/
#palestine #westerncomplicity #BDS #GazaGenocide @palestine .
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8ofpentacles@stoat.zone ("ash ✨🍃") wrote:
I SAID NO PICTURES YOU MOTHERF—
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adam@iosdev.space ("Adam Overholtzer") wrote:
Pathetic. https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
Mastodon Feedchipotle@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.)
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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.
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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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
"Embrace AI or get out"
Welcome to the out club.
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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.
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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."
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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
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
In a scene that repeats daily, the occupation continues to destroy and burn what remains of #gaza.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
#SouthPark at it again lmao
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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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
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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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
Mastodon Feedrust@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/
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.😌
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anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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 protectionRead 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
Mastodon FeedThere'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.
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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
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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
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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