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

This is what a genocide denialist looks like.

Genocide denial is the last stage of genocide.

Phil, you’re complicit in genocide. And history is taking notes.

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“Hamada Ice Cream shop, which has not been open for weeks, recently posted a highlight reel of the pastries, cakes and drinks the cafe once served.

‘Me and 2 million Gazans are waiting for this moment Oh God, make things easy and these days pass safely, O Lord,’ reads the video’s Arabic caption.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/gaza-cafes-starvation-social-media

@palestine

#genocide #genocideDenial #complicity #fediGenocideDenial #israel #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine https://metalhead.club/@ram/114998719169809778

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
distrowatch ("DistroWatch") wrote:

This explains well why I'm always skeptical of developers/projects who push non-readable file formats: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/why-I-prefer-human-readable-file-formats.md

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
distrowatch ("DistroWatch") wrote:

Debian 13 is now available for download: https://distrowatch.com/12521

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

Another great post by the DebugBear folks covering more grizzled perf investigator wisdom (that most developers don't believe): HTTP-level prioritization will effect the order of requests in the dispatch queue, but after that it's a wild west. Most servers don't help you out!:

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/http-prioritization

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

/cc @tammy

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

Playing with SpeedCurve's RUM snippet, and it was surprising just how much smaller it became when I could rewrite it to assume a modern browser:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My biggest nightmare: soon AI-powered operating systems will auto-rename our files.

Final_Draft_v7.pdf becomes Another_Laughable_Attempt.pdf.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"f the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed."

Yes. That's the point.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

15 years later and my brain still has full HD footage of that one awkward social interaction... but I can't remember why I walked into the room 5 seconds ago.

Boosted by jwz:
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

computer end program

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

Remember a couple years back when all those #fediverse folks had NDA meetings with #meta? And few of them "reported" on what happened in the meeting.

It always stuck with me how bad they wanted us to know that the meta team is oblivious to the Fediverse and need them to explain it.

...okay.

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

accelerating pattern

https://www.arcticwwf.org/threats/climate-change/?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

smart

https://english.news.cn/20250728/c4ca5f817ce34f0ca993eaa2d756f361/c.html?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

this is going to completely change the infantry assault

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-deploys-armed-robot-wolv-18lMPjcHRaW0rfafjjmzIw

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

I also added this gorgeous poster from Sam Wallman "You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union"

https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

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

When it comes down to it, it's not going to be that difficult for the rest of the world not to buy American, and when that happens, there will be just one jackass to blame

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/canadians-stopped-buying-american-wine-1236961236/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

This is the most incredible headstone I have ever seen. Sad to have not known him with this kind of memorial!

Note the border inscription.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

this is very well timed. https://xkcd.com/3126/

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/behold-a-surreal-1933-animation-of-snow-white.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
debian@framapiaf.org ("Debian") wrote:

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

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

I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.

Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

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

The biggest difference between these pages is the inlining of JSON data for the `` component, but it's great to see fewer JS files being requested regardless:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250708%5FYiDcHQ%5F59%2C250809%5FYiDc5K%5F6VJ&thumbSize=200&ival=16.67&end=full

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

Had to work through a small bug in the @11ty@11ty.dev bundler[1]*, *but have it working, and even cajoled it into allowing programmatic additions from other short codes, which means shortcodes can both output markup as well as pulling in dependencies *only on the pages that need them*.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle/issues/37

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

This is pretty sweet:

jwz wrote:

A brief history of the FBI.

It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it. The purge comes on the heels of a "strategy session" about how to deal with the Epstein fallout that took...
https://jwz.org/b/yks0

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FediPact@cyberpunk.lol (":pona_plush: #FediPact :pona_plush:") wrote:

**LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
n_dimension@infosec.exchange ("Wulfy") wrote:

@barning @FediPact

Tagging @Linux an alleged meta employee who said exactly this weeks ago and was urged to whistleblow.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BLRemJr ("BL Remaley Jr") wrote:

lol 11...892025...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Right before doors open at #defcon in RF Village. Open source digital radio demonstrations from Open Research Institute.

@OpenResearchIns