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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
raph@social.coop ("Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון") wrote:

Israeli apartheid, a model for other imperialist project

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-us-russia-considering-west-bank-style-future-for-ukraine-occupation/

#Israel #Palestine #Westbank #Ukraine

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

Report: That’s how Israel silences the world from holding them to account.

They say any Gaza journalist must be a ‘Hamas member’, just as anyone criticising Israel must be ‘antisemitic’.

If they had real evidence, they would put it out right away. They not doing that because they have no evidence.

~Irene Khan, UN Rapporteur

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-kills-palestinians-truce-talks-stall

#USPol #EuroPol #GazaGenocide #GazaJournalists #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity @palestine .

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

Analysis: "Trump’s War on Immigrants Is a Trojan Horse to Normalize Domestic Use of the Military"

The use of the military against immigrants in LA was defeated through community organising plus the potential of LA unions uniting with the movement.

If such resistance can be built across the US, uniting all interested sectors to fight the growing authoritarianism, "even the most powerful military in the world will have to retreat"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/trumps-war-on-immigrants-is-a-trojan-horse-to-normalize-domestic-use-of-the-military/

#USPol #Autocracy #Racism #Immigrants .

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

The plastic surgery was a vast improvement.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/14/found-a-stunning-portrait-of-stephen-miller/

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("algernon, the ruthless") wrote:

PSA to people who've been using gzip bombs to deter crawlers: I was wrong. It works.

At least to some extent: I started noticing recently that some of the disguising bots set accept-encoding: identity, likely to avoid those gzip bombs. I can't imagine any other reason to do so than to avoid the bombs, so: CONGRATS, genuinely!

You made them play catch up.

The good news is, this header is also a good indicator that they're bots, especially if they pretend to be Chrome (or send no user-agent string). Do with this information as you wish, but first: celebrate!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
irina@wandering.shop ("Irina") wrote:

Repost with alt text (thanks, @crk5!)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aeveltstra ("Ænðr E. Feldstraw") wrote:

https://cs.gmu.edu/~zeng/papers/2025-Security-OneFlip.pdf

#oneflip : one flip to rule them all.

The linked paper by students of George Mason University (Xiang Li et al (2025): "Rowhammer-Based Trojan Injection:
One Bit Flip Is Sufficient for Backdooring DNNs") descibes how flipping a single bit suffices to corrupt the output of high-precision a.i.-s based on deep neural networks.

Of course there are no mitigations: none of the creators imagined malice.

#cybersecurity #aisecurity

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

This is so cool, literally: DIY "cooling paint", that cools the surface it's painted on without using any energy, as long as it has a clear view of the sky. Even in direct sunlight it's a little cooler than the air around it, and it's much cooler at night. And you can make it with a blender and some ingredients from a grocery store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI

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

nobody seems to be focusing on what these folks are saying. working class Americans need to be heard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/democrats-working-class-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

well worth your time to read this and think about our future

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/douglas-wilson-evangelical-hegseth.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.eE8.tORa.4q5LYBOWDA9w&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The new integrated Markdown parser I’ve been implementing in Kitten has been kicking my ass for the past few weeks but I think I finally have it fully working and seamlessly so. Expect a new release this/next week that brings the parsing of Markdown pages (.page.md files) in your apps up to the standard of the recently-improved runtime Markdown parsing in Kitten HTML tagged-template strings (within `…` blocks).

The coolest thing is I was able to implement this without introducing any new syntax. In fact, I was able to simplify things so that you can now add arbitrary JavaScript to your Markdown pages within a multi-line script block in the YAML front matter (`script: |`) and use JavaScript string interpolation syntax in your Markdown (and, of course, Kitten components and conditionals, which, themselves, rely on string interpolation).

The only place where you have to deviate from standard Markdown in your Markdown pages is if you have JavaScript string interpolations or Kitten components/conditionals in code fences within your Markdown. In that case, you’ll have to escape them (e.g., `<\${Component} />`, `\<if \${something}>something\`, etc.). And, to be fair, the person most impacted by this is likely me as the Kitten documentation at https://kitten.small-web.org is written in Kitten so I had a lot of escaping to do. But for any other use case, it means that things should just work and work exactly as they do in JavaScript pages (page.js files).

Anyway, so this is going to be a breaking change so I thought I’d give you (the three of you playing with Kitten right now?) a heads up. Of course, I’ll be updating the documentation to reflect all this.

(Remember, Kitten is in pre-release and it’s the framework I’m building/using to create Catalyst – the Small Web hosting solution – and Yarn – a small web – peer to peer – personal site app. So Kitten isn’t the means, not the end. And, at least until the Version 1 API freeze, things can and will break. That said, there’s nothing stopping you from playing with it now and, to be fair, at this point, such breaking changes should become rarer and rarer).

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #Markdown #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS

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

🚨 Stop Chat Control! 🚨

The EU Council wants all your messages to be read by ominous AI. But government and military accounts will be exempt. Why? For security. 😤

Vote: October 14.
Key meeting: September 12.

📢 Act now! We've got two months to stop Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

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

Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.

(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)

#gaza #aid #mutualAid #Palestine #FreePalestine https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/114975078916845930

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

I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran (@NouranKhaledGh) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.

Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that if they’re ordered by Israel to evacuate again that they will not leave what little they have left. He told me “we will die here”.

Please don’t let Nouran, Yousef, and their family die.

We must keep protesting, keep pressuring our governments until they take definitive action to stop Israel’s genocide.

And also, please help Nouran and her family survive in the interim by donating to their campaign:

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Your donations help them buy food to eat as Israel continues to starve Gaza.

Even if you cannot help financially right now, please boost this to help spread the word.

Thank you!

@palestine

#Palestine #Gaza #aid #fediAid #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

We still have a hope that the world is thinking of us!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts 🇵🇸❤️

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

Good morning my friends,

Please help my family survive! Your help is our only hope in this hard time.

We didn't recieve any donations yesterday 😢 Please donate and share with your friends.

Kindly check the link in the bio to donate

#gaza #palestine

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

How long will death keep harvesting us, as if we were created to be the eternal fuel of sorrow? How long will this suffering grind our souls, and this oppression crush us without mercy or end?! How long will we be buried alive, devoured by hunger, and our pain forgotten as if we were nothing?
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #freepalestine #genocide

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

🔴 I still need $300 to feed my family this week 🔴

Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family.
We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine #gaza

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

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aboutsignal ("Signal News & Tips") wrote:

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Boosted by jwz:
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Only two more days until Alan Dershowitz is once again denied a pierogi at the Martha’s Vineyard farmer’s market

jwz wrote:

I am loving all of the wrong guesses in this thread and how plausible they are.

jwz wrote:

Rolling Stone demonstrating what journalism looks like: Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States by deploying armed troops to yet another major metropolitan area: The D.C. operation, launched two months after the start of his Los
https://jwz.org/b/yktS

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

nice https://reviews.freebsd.org/differential/changeset/?ref=1420532

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

Yes

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chef.joe.sasto/post/DNRjcrsOr3L

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

Captain Zilog!

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

Enrage Thiel, Musk, and Bezos: read Popper.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("beka valentine") wrote:

Gulliver's Travels perfectly describes the current attitudes towards LLMs that we find amongst their most ardent devotees. The Academy of Projectors in Lagado is said to have a device that generates texts:

"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts...