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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Chris learns Vim

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/a9sijmZ4GQMA1dk2B3QVDq

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

Drew teaches me how to use Vim in my latest video

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/a9sijmZ4GQMA1dk2B3QVDq

#vim #linux #foss #opensource

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
OscarCunningham@mathstodon.xyz ("Oscar Cunningham") wrote:

A working QR code in the style of Piet Mondrian. Inspired @divbyzero and @andrewt.

#Art #PietMondrian #QRCode

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
onthisday ("On This Day In History") wrote:

Today in 1920, 105 years ago: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

#OnThisDay

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

I was away at the Worldcon for several days, I have not watched the news in the interim, I assume it was all mostly bad, anyway here is a cat

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

What's making it difficult to suspend my belief is that I'm an hour into this film and the idealistic software developer protagonist with a background in FOSS hasn't lectured anyone on their choice of operating system yet

I can believe the word salad, I can quite obviously believe in tech megacorps being evil and mass surveillance, hell you could have them hire a giant rabbit, say it's an infosec specialist and I'm not even going to question it, but this is too far.

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

Alexandra Petri continues to be a national treasure

RE: https://www.threads.com/@petridish3s/post/DNggF0-Rvsu

jwz wrote:

I finally got around to adding XSLT styling to my blogs' RSS feeds, after the latest Google assholery. Let me know if it breaks anything.
https://jwz.org/b/yktk

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

"It's not a feature, it's a bug"

#nature #naturephotography #bugs #wildlife #wildlifephotography #insects

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

A Secret Web - Benjamin Hollon:
https://blog.clew.se/posts/secret-web/

An excellent overview!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mogul@hachyderm.io ("Bret Mogilefsky") wrote:

This is so cool! I thank the rabbits for their service.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250818102941.htm

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

Really missing Bernard Aboba today. Tell the co-workers you appreciate how great they are while you can, because life is short.

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

I don’t know what more to say. Don’t look away. Our governments must act right now to stop this genocide. https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/115050792327341929

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

The occupation tanks have surrounded us now!😭💔
@palestine #gaza #genocide #gazaunderattack

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

Please keep us in your prayers.
Today is a decisive day for the people of Gaza: either the war will stop, or there will be forced displacement and the destruction of what remains in northern Gaza.
@palestine #gaza #freepalestine

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

colleague: "hey, did I ask you to review this doc yet? "
me: [ opens link, reads ]
me: "nope, and I can tell because there's no names or dates on it"

https://infrequently.org/names-and-dates/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

TesseracT is simply unbeatable as the highlight of #ArcTanGent 2025 for me. They always put up such a great performance. The music, the choreography, the lights, the props, they were rightfully the culmination of the entire festival this year.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

I love this mural of Harriet Tubman by artist Michael Rosato

harriettubmanmural.com
#HarrietTubman

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
AlJazeera@flipboard.com ("Al Jazeera") wrote:

UK warns Sally Rooney after novelist pledges to fund Palestine Action
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/uk-warns-sally-rooney-after-novelist-pledges-to-fund-palestine-action?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-AlJazeera

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

Stanford researchers used an implantable brain-computer interface to decode the inner speech of patients with up to 74% accuracy. The study used a “mental password” to activate the decoding for privacy. (via thenewpaper.co)

(The potential for people with speech pathologies or impairments is enormous, but so is the risk posed by any security vulnerabilities. -- ed.)

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/08/15/a-brain-computer-chip-can-read-peoples-minds-with-up-to-74-accuracy

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anolandria ("Nol Malone ☭") wrote:

Until everyone starts out with the same resources, you don't get to tell me how hard you worked for what you have. 😒

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

#ChappellRoan is such a sharp song writer. She's so good.

#music

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

Surveillance tech CEO Dan Heinen says "It's not my job to play the ethics game" regarding the (ab)use of his product.

Right, and as the great Tom Lehrer sang: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

https://www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-geospy-an-ai-tool-that-can-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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

Not coming this afternoon :)

Just realised that I’m not handling nested interpolated values properly as I’m using a regular expression to simulate what JavaScript’s native tagged template feature does.

Instead, I have to write a simple parser.

If I had a penny for every time I started with regular expressions on this and then had to implement a proper parser afterwards… I’d have two pennies (the other time was for extracted nested tags. See a pattern? (I’m here all week.)

So, barring the discovery of other edge (or not-so edge) cases following further testing, I’m going to aim for middle of the week for the release of the new Markdown Pages feature.

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #KittenUpdate #SmallWeb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dec_hl ("SuperIlu") wrote:

I just cobbled a list of my favorite #MSDOS #RetroDev resources.

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOSDevelResources/blob/main/README.md

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba Revue (Flux Vertical Theatre): KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: Empress 1908 Gin, Soda, Splash of Bitters, Lime.

Attachments:

• gifv: 22d6495eb0a3e4cb.mp4

jwz wrote:

SFPD surveillance unit's close ties to crypto billionaire.

Omni Consumer Products, Delta City: Why am I the only one in the news media who seems a bit concerned that a crypto billionaire is housing the city's new high-tech police surveillance unit in...
https://jwz.org/b/ykti

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

Telegraph poles like these, with multiple "code lines", were once a common feature along American railroads. They are distinguishable from ordinary power or telephone lines by their multitude of cables, often occupying several crossarms. They typically carried a power bus plus individual lines for the signals along the route, with more efficient encodings used as technology improved.

They've been mostly supplanted by more modern SCADA systems that don't require so many individual wires.

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

Captured with a DSLR and 24mm shifting lens (vertically shifted just a bit) on a hot day in the Mojave desert.

This is a simple composition, characteristic of the early 20th century Precisionist school. There's little in the frame that isn't essential. The pylons, wires, and tracks all converge at a vanishing point at the edge of the frame, suggesting, but not showing, a more expansive network of wires, tracks, and, for better or worse, human dominance over nature.

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

Code Lines, Union Pacific Railroad, Harvard, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the voltage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4612902834

#photography