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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Apple put the Mac Mini power button on the bottom of the device. You have to actually lift it up to turn it on.

Bold choice to hide the "on" switch the same way they've hidden their old design sense 🙄

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

oh yah @CARROT so very lucky we be 🤨

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• video: 923dbad80897bb7c.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
alexcox ("Alex Cox") wrote:

I really get a stick up my butt for guys who want to go back to a certain time when they think technology was better. I think a lot haven’t stopped to realize that they might feel that way not because of manipulative algorithms and the monopolization of the web (because yes that is bad and we should try to make it less bad!) but because their needs, wants, and sensibilities had previously been the default.

You can still make wonderful things: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6475023019

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

Journal: Style your underlines

Make your links beautiful and accessible.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22084

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jonaspelzer ("Jonas Pelzer") wrote:

Fellow freelance designers, if your design was copied (in a more-than-usual, unacceptable way) and the company didn’t reply to your emails, how would you deal with this?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs

... here it's running my LLM CLI utility https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/codespaces-llm/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Artist and model.

Wraparound cover in gouache for a small artbook I self-published years ago.

Back then Dan Dos Santos invited me to write a guest post for Muddy Colors so I shared my process for it. My process has changed a little since then but there might still be some useful info there: https://www.muddycolors.com/2018/04/rising-star-victoria-maderna/

#MastoArt #gouache #illustration

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
alexcox ("Alex Cox") wrote:

@keenan the other day I realized that the majority of people I follow on Mastodon who make me sad or annoy me are the type of people who only feel despair through a screen and don’t have to experience any of the real world consequences. I’m here because i like computers. This is something I would normally text you but whoever is FUMING at this is likely sitting in a nice desk at work or in a multi bedroom house in a home office.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I just firmly believe if we're going to make it through this, we can't mainline despair via the stupid glass bricks in our pockets.

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• video: c43204af164b71f2.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Yes. Emergencies give him extralegal power, while enemies give him political power. Manufactured fear fuels fascism.
By Jamelle Bouie: Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/trump-emergency-powers-washington.html?smid=tw-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Not a "comprehensive review," #BrokenTimes. Censorship. You refuse to use the words fascism and racism. As journalists can you at least recognize and label censorship?
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html?smid=tw-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

#WomenInSTEM

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

During this morning's #parksontheair #pota activation I'm throwing this 9v/200mAh #QRPp fishing lure into the ionospheric waters to see what I can reel in. #amateurradio #hamradio CW #morsecode
@#qrplabs #qcxmini

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bruno_j_navarro ("Bruno J. Navarro") wrote:

A Minnesota teenager filed a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant Tuesday, alleging a server followed her into the women’s restroom and demanded she “prove” she was a girl. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/minnesota-teen-says-server-forced-prove-gender-restaurant-bathroom-rcna224562

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hello from #ArcTanGent! Presumably the only day the free wifi is going to be operational.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
DaveWhittle ("David Whittle") wrote:

As human teams get bigger, they get less efficient. But these ants have found a solution
https://theconversation.com/as-human-teams-get-bigger-they-get-less-efficient-but-these-ants-have-found-a-solution-261677

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kbob@chaos.social ("Kernel Bob") wrote:

Today we got our dishwasher fixed under warranty. To diagnose it, the tech stuck a photosensor+magnet onto the front panel over the green status LED and started reading diagnostics. It turns out the status LED is actually a serial port*, and it's continually transmitting status.

I can think of so many gadgets that could and should use this trick...

*It's probably something other than regular serial -- a UART's TX would flicker. I don't know any details.

#HidingInPlainSight

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science ("Preston MacDougall") wrote:

The #MAGA #Kakistocracy has caused the steepest depreciation of the #UnitedStates dollar during the first 6 months of a Presidency in over 50 years!

If he had anticipated that, he could’ve reduced *imports* and spurred domestic #manufacturing WITHOUT sacrificing *exports*, such as #Kentucky Bourbon, by starting a #TradeWar with his slate of #TrumpTax #tariffs.

#Resist intelligently.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

The White House will vet Smithsonian Museums to fit Trump’s historical vision.

@WSJ reports: "Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association, said the White House’s effort was an affront to the historians and curators trained to ensure historical accuracy."

Gift link: https://flip.it/jI-PE%5F

#Smithsonian #Trump #History #Museum #USPolitics #News

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chad@mstdn.ca ("Chad :mstdn:") wrote:

DO NOT travel to the US.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal | The Guardian

#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

CAT scan

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
generalising@mastodon.flooey.org ("Andrew") wrote:

I got sucked into running the numbers on that "delete emails to save water" thing. Best estimates I can find are that live datacentre storage in the UK has a median water usage of ~80ml/GB/year. So a terabyte of cloud storage consumes 80 litres a year.

Network losses from leaks are on the order of 10-15,000 litres per person per year.

Glad we can see the culprit is definitely old forwarded cat photos.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AdventuresofRangerSarah ("Adventures of Ranger Sarah") wrote:

BARK Ranger Mocha leads Ranger Sarah up the Greer Gulch Loop Trail.
— at Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park.

#adventuresofrangersarah #hikingadventures #OutdoorAdventure #rangersarah #hike #hiking #hikinglife #Montana #stateparks #montanastateparks #nature

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
errantscience@mas.to ("ErrantScience") wrote:

In my defence sometimes I don't include the attachment with an email because I'm forgetful #Email #Comms

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

🇺🇦 Ukraine's 5 demands for an end to the war:

1. Durable ceasefire before any territorial talks – No concessions on borders; no withdrawal from Donbas.

2. Security guarantees – Path to NATO/EU, sustained Western military aid, no forced demilitarization.

3. Russian reparations – Pay hundreds of billions in damages using frozen Russian assets.

4. Return of abducted children & POWs – 20,000 children taken, thousands of prisoners still held.

5. No sanctions relief for Russia .

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

"Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people; used to control people instead of to free them; Time to change all that - we need a... People's Computer Company."

https://archive.org/details/1972-10-peoples-computer-company/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
aboutsignal ("Signal News & Tips") wrote:

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
tankgrrl@hachyderm.io ("💀 𝓕airchild 💀") wrote:

If you don't have headphones you do not play media on your device in public. That's the rule. Don't be an obnoxious dick.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
courtcan ("Court Cantrell prefers not to") wrote:

The goal of the companies who run AIs is to

1. get us all to use AI until the point where

2. we're dependent on AI, then

3. remove all access to AI and

4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,

5. which will periodically rise

6. while the service becomes worse and worse.

It'll be enshittification of enshittification.

enshittiception

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action