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

@NfNitLoop Hey Cody, sorry for the late reply; things have been a been hectic here recently.

Thanks so much for the heads up. It’s a placeholder site at the moment and it was apparently still running on Site.js (https://sitejs.org), which I deprecated and replaced with Kitten a while ago.

I’ve now got Kitten running on the server so it is up and running again.

Thanks again for letting me know :)

PS. If you experience any issues with Kitten, please do let me know. I’m currently working on improving the Markdown support in it quite substantially :)

Boosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Hello friends, I know I'm only indifferently active on this here elephant site, but I thought I'd throw out an offhand mention that the state of the world — and specifically the state of the extra-boned country I live in — is putting the financial vise on me of late. I have some things to sell on my personal internet and selling some of them would help if you should care to inspect the wares…

https://octophant.us/buy

Boosted by jwz:
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Well fuck. Reflect Orbital just filed for their first satellite with the FCC. https://www.reflectorbital.com/

I hate them even more than AST SpaceMobile. At least AST does something mildly useful, unlike Reflect Orbital, which is 100% a scam and will collide with a lot of junk in orbit.

Time to go rage-scream in the hay field. And then go to a meeting with astronomers to talk about what we can do to fight it.

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

My worst mistake in my pursuit for the perfect writing app was using Ulysses for two years. This MARKDOWN app uses proprietary file formats and denies you access to your files in iCloud.

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

I still have my Vesper writing app downloaded to my phone. I feel like there's a really cool, if not heartbreaking story, around the failure of this app.

Vesper launched just before the cloud took over everything, and before subscriptions were the default business model.

#techhistory

https://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper%5Fadieu

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

Would you believe a supermassive black hole was created by an egotistical deity just to brag to a planet of easily deluded apes? No? Then you're a bad Christian.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/the-arrogance-of-creationists-is-but-a-speck-in-the-face-of-reality/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s here! @falseknees

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

FYI the ebook of Old Man's War is going for $1.99 here in US/Canada at (most) ebook stores, for, I think, today. Get it! Cheap! And then buy all the rest of the series including the upcoming seventh installment, The Shattering Peace! The cats need tuna!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Heck yeah, a brand new release of @spritely Goblins! v0.16.0! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-16-0-released.html

Faster, by a LOT! 10-20x speedups for multiple core operations!

And, a brand new Unix Domain Sockets netlayer, so you can use Goblins + OCapN for local IPC!

Plus a ton of other stuff! Check it out!

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

@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads”
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads/

Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive — ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.

Watch the recording:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-398-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads.av1.webm

#Debusine #Debian

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dzwiedziu ("Dźwiedziu") wrote:

@petrillic

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

This performance was amazing, and conducting the audience like a chorus took me by surprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1LEYxFQ5Q

jwz wrote:

The stench of desperation on Feedly is getting positively necrotic.

"Oh yes, please give me a plausible-sounding almost-summary of things I am pretending to be interested in. You know. Technologies. Companies. Fast lane."

But it's a good reminder to download my data before they inevitably self-immolate.
https://jwz.org/b/ykss

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

New @the_freebooters video is out. We talk about i3 and the 'Online Safety Act'.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aRj8ot5FpRKMwgHLV5WY34

#Linux #OSA #Podcast

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3). Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).

Red Rock Canyon is just 45 minutes from the Las Vegas strip, but completely lacks slot machines, neon signs, B-list entertainment, chain restaurants, and other modern necessities.

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

Sandstone, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 2025.

All the pixels, no exposure to nature required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54702804473

#photography

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

I didn't know Transtifa, but I respect her work.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/what-happened-to-transtifa/

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

I am so grateful that I learned to type properly in grade school. I was undiagnosed #ADHD so it was hard to complete anything, really. But for some reason I stuck with typing until I got it.

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

More photos from the protest.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #PassTheOccupiedTerritoriesBill #SimonHarris #Bray #Ireland

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

Right now in Bray: protest outside Simon Harris’s office. “Free, free Palestine” “Pass the occupied territories bill”

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #PassTheOccupiedTerritoriesBill #SimonHarris #Bray #Ireland

Attachments:

• video: Video of protestors chanting “free, free Palestine!”

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

"Please, please validate my bigotry," begs Alan Dershowitz. "No," reply all the good people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/no-pierogis-for-mr-dershowitz/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffu5wIjbO7g

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
carson@social.lol ("Carson Brown") wrote:

Care of @adam I have some new fancy stickers!

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:

1300 to go by Saturday to keep our six families alive. You’ve pulled through so many times before. Please don’t make us have to tell them we can’t send anything this week (due to conversion fees we have to send at least this amount or it’s pointless).

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #freepalestine

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

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

We’re asking for help simply to stay alive. We’re trying to secure enough food for just one week, and we still need $205. If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine @mutualaid

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Oxide and Friends is back with a banger! We raised $100M in our series B, so @sdtuck and @bcantrill answered questions about the round, Oxide, and the future.

(not to bury the lede) also the OxF bingo card generator!

https://youtu.be/TMnTC1OhDs8

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

“Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.”

Give this brave young woman a medal for confronting a Zionist wearing an IDF t-shirt at their university while Israel and the IDF commit genocide in Palestine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5s%5FUwhZAYUA

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net ("jiub :v_enby: :v_trans: :v_est:") wrote:

it should be the opposite, the student wearing the IDF shirt should have been the one punished. it's the equivalent of wearing a kkk hood or swastika

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/EndIsraeliApartheid/statuses/114987916901441046

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

Florida State University banned a student from returning to campus after she verbally attacked a male student wearing a T-shirt with the words “Israel Defense Forces (IDF)” printed on it, saying, “F*** Israel. Free Palestine.”

US Attorney General Pam Bondi praised FSU President Richard McCullough's “leadership and prompt action.”

Bondi also confirmed that the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and a US Attorney are "looking into the matter".

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
eliza@chaos.social ("Elisa") wrote:

Good write-up of the #ukonlinesafetyact fallacy by Kate Sim (COSPR):

"The real and perhaps only winners of the Online Safety Act are not children, but tech companies."

https://novaramedia.com/2025/08/07/the-online-safety-act-has-nothing-to-do-with-child-safety-and-everything-to-do-with-censorship/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bifouba@kolektiva.social ("Bilal Barakat 🍉") wrote:

N.b., "banning trade with Israeli settlements" isn't even technically a sanction that requires any kind of decision, it's already a mandatory legal obligation on the EU in international law that it's simply refusing to implement.
https://todon.nl/@prolrage/114862296114764223