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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Thanks to a lovely suggestion by one of our members, you can now add a Language field to your omg.lol profile page! Just open the editor and add it in the same format as Occupation and Location (e.g. "| Language: FR, JP, EN")). Save and publish and you’re good to go!

This is also a great time to remind everyone that your omg.lol profile page contains h-card microformat properties by default. You can see the machine-readable output through a parser like this one: https://ruby.microformats.io/microformats?utf8=✓&url=https%3A%2F%2Fadam.omg.lol

🤓

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

Quick, how many domains do you currently own? I'm at a modest 15 domains. And that's after some serious pruning.

I use 4: 2 for website and email, 1 for just email, 1 for cloud stuff.

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

Captured with a Phase One IQ4-150 with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR Digaron-S. This is a very wide angle lens (the equivalent of about 16mm on a full frame 35mm camera) that makes Alcatraz seem particularly distant. A long exposure averaged out the waves and tufts of mist.

The San Francisco Bay likes to show off its weather. Karl the Fog moves fast. Everything can change very quickly.

I believe this was the last photo I made away from home before the pandemic reduced my travels.

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

San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island, 2020.

More pixels than are considered appropriate in polite company at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49460593833

#photography

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

This story is so offputting to me. Our surveillance state was born of bipartisan effort. There's no such thing as a pro-privacy politician.

We are being watched and listened to every waking moment of our lives. There hasn't been a privacy bill passed in decades.

Kamala Harris pretending to be afraid of Bluetooth headphones is political theater. Ma'am, YOU helped create this world. What the fuck are you talking about?

#democrats #privacy #KamalaHarris

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/kamala-harris-wired-headphones

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SensitiveSyl@pixelfed.social ("Anemone Nemorosa") wrote:

Good morning sleepyhead

Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) III/III. August 2025.

#bloomscrolling #flowers #wildlfowers #nativeplants #insects #macro #photography

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Cool AF Doc Brown") wrote:

TikTokers now need to talk about protests by referring to them as "music festivals" to avoid being censored.

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

@owa has weighed in, and like all thoughtful folks, does not take the "offer" seriously:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/can-perplexity-afford-to-fund-the-web/

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.