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

🎶 One of these things is not like the other…🎶

Can you spot the difference kids?

https://defuse.ixd.ie

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #BigWeb #BigTech #LinkedIn #PersonalWebSite

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

I’m speaking at Defuse – Design For Use – at The Sugar Club in Dublin on November 10th at 7PM.

The theme is “Reclaiming Design: Taking Back Purpose in an Automated Age” and my talk’s titled “Think small.”

It’s first come, first served, so mark your calendars and show up early (and find me and say hi if you do!) :)

https://defuse.ixd.ie

#ThinkSmall #DefuseDublin #IXDA #IXDADublin #SmallTech #SmallWeb #events #Dublin #Ireland #tech #design #ethics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lyle@cville.online ("Lyle Solla-Yates") wrote:

https://www.whro.org/environment/2025-08-20/heres-how-and-why-dominion-energy-plans-to-raise-your-electric-bill “The company’s proposals would raise the average customer’s monthly bill by about 15%, or $21, within the next two years.” #Virginia #shortage #inflation #climate #energy #DominionEnergy #monopoly

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xankarn@mastodon.online ("Alexander Karn") wrote:

Full-text (PDF):

https://www.crmvet.org/info/genocide.htm

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

Finally finished David Kirkpatrick's deep dive on how much the Trump family is profiteering off his role as president. He calculates some $3.5 billion from "selling increasingly vaporous goods for ever more profit." Lots of foreign favor & now crypto snake oil. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number

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

This gave me a chuckle.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Amazing moment of realization captured.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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