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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

This gave me a chuckle.

Image from Gboard Clipboard

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/21/israel-using-fire-belts-to-kill-divide-and-drive-out-palestinian-civilians-in-n-gaza/?utm%5Fsource=rss&utm%5Fmedium=rss&utm%5Fcampaign=israel-using-fire-belts-to-kill-divide-and-drive-out-palestinian-civilians-in-n-gaza

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

🔴I still need $221🔴

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

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
steveroyle@biologists.social ("Stephen Royle") wrote:

This poll made me laugh. Isn’t it amazing that not a single person (out of 1,386) clicked yes. Even in error.

A poll on mastodon that says: Do you think Microsoft understands consent? - Yes 0% • Remind me in 3 days 100% Poll Closed 1,386 Votes

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Harlander@writing.exchange ("Jeffrey Harlan") wrote:

I'm dying here. Just had a customer come in, asking where his drink was. We never got any mobile orders for him.

"I asked ChatGPT to order it for me and it said I could pick it up."

#smdh #FuckAI

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

I'm hanging out on Twitch with Drew
https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere

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Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
itnotes@snac.it-notes.dragas.net ("IT Notes") wrote:

Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #bhyve #community #data #fediverse #illumos #ownyourdata #server #social #web #zfs

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

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Mastodon wrote:

It was a big weekend for the Mastodon team at #FrOSCon in Germany.

If you're curious what we've been working on and what's coming up, as well as updates across the #Fediverse more broadly, @dave provided an update in his talk, "Taking a Fresh Look at the Fediverse".

Fun fact: David was also one of the founding organisers of FrOSCon!

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3346-taking%5Fa%5Ffresh%5Flook%5Fat%5Fthe%5Ffediverse

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

We tend to focus on the details of creationist arguments, but we miss the depth of the lunacy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/21/loon-sighting-confirmed/

common loon

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

Citing fringe cases of self-hosted, non-thieving, ethically-sourced LLMs and 'genAI' as a 50:50 counterpoint "but not all AI is bad" does not speak to the global scale and scope of this tech feudalist/imperialist project. It is community garden vs big agriculture scale of difference. It is all about power, capture, control.

Look too closely at the tool and you will not see the hand that holds it, nor that it is a weapon.

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

Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.

And genocide detail is complicity in genocide.

Blocked right back, asshole.

(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)

@palestine

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Linux Is Best @Linux@mstdn.ca 21/08/2025, 10:17 Replying to @aral BLOCKED. Real news doesn't take sides in war reporting. War is ugly. Awful things are done by all sides. A credible source shows the truth on every side, not just the one that fits a certain narrative. Take the conflict between Israel and Palestine, for example. It has lasted decades. If a news outlet always portrays one side as righteous and the other as evil — that's not real journalism. Both sides have committed atrocities, and real news should say that. BBC News does just that. Not surprising, they upset, both sides (Israel and Palestine). Do you know what I think about that? GOOD. It means they're doing their job.

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

Can all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.

Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.

Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.

And history is taking notes.

https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/115065538633675828

@palestine

#israel #germany #genocide #genocideDenial #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Matze Schmidt @matzeschmidt@masto.ai 49m Replying to @aral The #Hamas has been attacking Chan Yunis on August, 20 in the south of #Gaza. An ongoing war led by #Israel against the armed is to be expected although there been demonstrations against it. The Strip is in fact a prison in which the Harakat al-muqãwama al-islamiyya (Islamic Resistance) rules people. There is an urban warfare going on and no genocide. The genocide accusation is discussed for being a narrative by arab sides but is the modern form of creating a scapegoat. GREEN Badly sketched cartoon depicting “Fort Gaza Hamas City” with armed soldiers guarding the border by a group of people by a sign that reads JEWS ARE DEAD. Other signs read “zero Allah but alla” (sign labelled as green), maimed person labelled “blood red”

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

Not an assault. Genocide.

One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr7l0z9edo

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza

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

Good morning dear world

Morning feels very different here in Gaza

It is very hard time.

We wake up and know we survived again. From the start of the day, we must try to find the basic things we need to live like food and water, but we may not find them.

If you would like to donate for my family, kindly check the link in the bio :underheart: 🇵🇸

#gaza #palestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
c_dan4th@mstdn.social ("T. J. Bombadil") wrote:

@PastaThief Vibe coding is to real coding as Guitar Hero is to actually knowing how to play.

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

Amazing moment of realization captured.

r/vibecoding post titled, "What's the point of vibe coding if I stall have to pay a dev to fix it?" that reads, "what's the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i'm typing, like i'm in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it's just dead weight. i can't vibe my way through debugging, i can't ship anything that actually matters, and then i'm back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they're doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy"

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

Today's Poll 👇

How often do you use AI tools in your daily life?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Poll #Tech #FutureOfWork

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
MediaOnMastodon@toot.io wrote:

On #Mastodon there are now
412 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
122 instances.

231 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@ZarautzGuka (BAQ)
@globalvoices (ENG)
@ElSaltoDiario (SPA)
@linforme (FRA)
@thetyee (ENG)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

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Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Interested in how Debian LTS works and what’s ahead?

The recorded BoF session from #DebConf25 is now online!

The session had engaging discussions on having point-update “releases” for LTS with Debusine, packaging security updates for firmware-nonfree, ca-certificates, and work towards compliance with new regulations like the #CRA.

Watch the recording here: https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-670-debian-lts-bof.av1.webm

#debian #debianLTS #linuxsecurity #freexian

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
apps@toot.fedilab.app ("Fedilab Apps") wrote:

Yes, #Fedilab has some differences between its Google Play version and its #FDroid version.
There are mostly due to restrictions from Google.

In the Google app we had to remove:

- Donation links
- Register an account on Mastodon (as they don't want to understand that the app doesn't collect emails).
- Filter some search results with #Peertube to exclude "YouTube Downloader" videos

To Google users, keep in mind you can easily switch to FDroid, we would be happy to help if you have questions

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

This was a rather opportunistic capture with a Leica M240 camera, a 35mm lens, and a tabletop tripod on a windowsill, just before a late afternoon thunderstorm.

The light always does most of the work in photography. Sometimes it works especially hard.

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

Upper West Side, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, no co-op board approval required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14422880057

#photography

Skyline of the Upper West Side of NYC along lower Central Park West. A storm is brewing.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

this one weird trick to be one of the cool adults:

just be actually-interested in what the kid has to say and don't condescend to them

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

Tried to make a paella, for the first time*. It turned out so bad that my family didn't even try to soften the blow and told me it was inedible. Many things went wrong, but the main problem is that I never had a paella made by someone who knows how, so I only have a theoretical idea of what it's supposed to feel like.

*) Technically, I tried once before, but so long ago that I'm not even sure I did :-)

#cooking

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jwz wrote:

Poopin' Putin.

Putin's bodyguards collect his poop when he travels abroad and carry it back to Russia. Ex-BBC journalist Farida Rustamova backed up their claims, saying a source told her that this has been practised since Putin first assumed power in...
https://jwz.org/b/yktq

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

These people are assholes, and not particularly smart

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-border-wall-to-be-painted-black-to-stop-people-from-climbing-it/

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

A friend was talking about enjoying the work of some new (to her) artist and worrying about whether she'd eventually turn out to be a bigot.

I name this feeling: #CPTMDD

Complex Post-Traumatic Milkshake Duck Disorder.

(Though, is it really a disorder if it turns out there are a lot of milkshake ducks out there?)

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
divya@sunny.garden ("Dr. Divya 🍉 offline") wrote:

NO SUPPORT TODAY—five families in red zones in Gaza City!

Our giving circle centers on dignity and consent, and is meant to bring us together collectively and sustainably to offer reliable support for six families in Gaza—food, water, shelter.

Be a dependable hand in the dark. 3892/4835 by Saturday. https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza
@palestine @mutualaid

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
divya@sunny.garden ("Dr. Divya 🍉 offline") wrote:

I schedule these ahead of time, but as of Sunday, Akram, his five siblings, and their mom are packing & looking for where to displace. They need transportation, supplies, support for shelter.

Give / find their individual link here. 3772/4835 by Saturday. https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza
@palestine @mutualaid