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

Me and Rosie from a disused railway bridge.

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

We can expect these same masked thugs to swarm polling places on Election Day. This is one reason Trump wants to eliminate mail voting. https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115077373058583367

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Ghislaine Maxwell must have been sneezing a lot at the end of her interview because she kept saying “pardon me.”

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Hugh Joseph Ward
#pulp #pulpart

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

The answer is bleedingly obvious: forbid IABs and/or force native apps to use the system-provided browser-overlay systems -- SFSafariViewController and Android Custom Tabs -- where your choice in browser and customisations will be respected. But they don't.

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

...and it's the proprietary APIs from app stores that make it so hard to escape one ecosystem for another. The entire point of the exercise is to subvert interoperability, and to do *that*, it's necessary to keep the anchor apps happy. Which is why Apple and Google let FB spy on you via the web.

Apple isn't defending your privacy, it's trying to retreat just far enough into the hedges that it hopes you don't notice how it dangling FB and TikTok to take the fall.

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

Instead of taking you to your browser, FB's IABs loads pages in a knock-off browser which doesn't respect any your privacy preferences (nevermind a11y customisations, etc.).

Extensions? Gone. And because FB has code on every top site, that's enough.

FB's tracking is so pervasive in modern web pages that it doesn't need to exfiltrate data from the IAB to track you. It just needs to keep you away from your *real* browser, where it might not be able to join up clicks/taps.

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

All of this is facilitated by Apple and Google. It's their SDKs and policies that make this not only possible, but wildly profitable for FB (and TikTok, etc. etc.). Denying you browser choice keeps the big app vendors in the app store, which helps Apple and Google corral others into app stores.

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

I want you, a tech-literate person, to internalize one deep fact: Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone. How to be sure? IABs:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

Apple facilitates mass surveillance through native apps from Facebook, both directly from in-app activity, but much more insidiously, through "in-app browsers" that FB tacks onto every link you tap. And these things are *rank*.

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

IABs are, for FB's purposes, "ad-blocker blockers". Cheat codes for the enterprising panopticon proprietor. You installed a browser, then added an anti-tracking tool to it? And you click "do not track"?

Apple sold you up the river. And the mechanism is as simple as it is disgusting.

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

idiocy, wasteful idiocy

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-halts-work-on-orsted-off-J99k40B8TPKea%5FzqIIMZlg

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StefanEJones@dice.camp ("Stefan Edward Jones") wrote:

@jameshowell @glyph

1997. I-Con SF convention on the SUNY Stony Brook campus.

We put Vernor Vinge and grey eminence of SF Frederik Pohl on a panel about the Singularity.

Before it started, Pohl asked "What is hell is the Singularity?"

I filled him in.

Right there, in front of Vinge:

"What a load of crap. Here's what's going to happen. We're going to burn through our resources, ruin the environment, civilization will collapse, and the survivors will despise us."

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

♬️ STAR CRASH: CHROMA SEA + HOST BODIES at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Aug 23, 8:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/08-23d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starcrash #chromasea #hostbodies #nolashade #indieelectronic #downtempo #chillwave #technopop #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: 67234205d7a6fba9.mp4

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@criffer @jwz The reality of that outcome is a billionaire looking into their magic mirror, saying “mirror mirror on the wall, should I oppress and murder the poor” the mirror says “yes absolutely boss. You are so smart” and then they collapse onto a nearby fainting couch and say “oh no! Woe is me! My consciousness has been commandeered by a malevolent overmind!” before getting up and saying “oh well, nothing for it” before pulling the lever on their orphan-crushing machine

jwz wrote:

Huh, why is my / disk full?

Oh:
-rw-------. 1 root root 1104886787 Aug 23 12:29 /var/log/php-fpm/error.log

That's just 6 days worth of AI-scraping bots.

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

This photo was particularly influenced by two O'Keeffe paintings from her time in NYC, almost a century ago (during her Precisionist period). She lived (with Alfred Stieglitz) in the building at the left edge (the former Shelton Hotel).

See
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/manhattan-34289

and also
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2725/city-night-georgia-okeeffe

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

This image plays with the boundaries between realism and more abstract schools like Precisionism and Cubism. While it's a realistic image in the strict sense that it's a straight, basically unaltered photograph of buildings, it deliberately omits elements that might distract from the abstract lines and and shapes that make them up. The black sky (aided by the IR exposure) and harsh, almost threatening diagonal shadows add to the unreal feeling.

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

This was captured early afternoon on a clear day with a Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 (@ f/7.1) lens, Phase One IQ4 150 Achromatic Back (@ ISO 200) and Phase One XT camera (10mm vertical shift). 760nm IR filter, which effectively blackened the sky.

This is an abstract view of modern midtown skyscrapers, as perhaps Georgia O'Keeffe might have seen them. The composition is a nod to the Precisionist school of a century earlier, emphasizing the lines and essential geometry of the buildings.

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

Midtown, NYC, 2022.

Wastefully many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686

#photography

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

Webdevs crying about Google unilaterally deciding what to do with the Web platform is full of irony. You've been writing exclusively for Chrome, and using exclusively Chrome for more than a decade, ignoring all the "weird" browsers that would force you to code to actual standards, and now when a monoculture expectedly bites you in the ass, you're all like, "oh no, Google should listen to us!"

#webdev

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He is maxwellposing.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

for my train nerds: n-Wagen alert!

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• video: BR146 carrying a whole bunch of n-Wagens into the train station

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I had mostly talked myself into waiting for the M5 before buying a MacBook Pro, but then checked the Apple refurbished store and found the exact configuration I wanted. Still haven’t bought it, but… 😬

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lennby@laconic.social ("Lentil :fmb:") wrote:

@jepyang
always love that meme

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PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk ("Police State UK") wrote:

"#Starmer has created this crisis through systematic betrayal of every principle that brought him to power. He won #Labour leadership by promising unity, then purged the left. He pledged to maintain popular policies, then abandoned them for corporate-friendly alternatives. He claimed to represent change, then delivered more sophisticated management of decline."

#UKPol #YourParty

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killyourfm@layer8.space ("Seasons of Jason 🎒") wrote:

There's a really disturbing #Paypal #phishing scam happening right now. Obviously this reads like a typical phishing attempt (bad grammar, a malformed phone number to call, etc), but the official Paypal email wasn't spoofed. It came from PayPal's email infrastructure.

Examining the headers shows that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If you have a Paypal account, please exercise caution. Don't click links in these emails. Forward them to phishing@paypal.com.

Please boost for visibility.

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Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

@ErikJonker @geopolitics Russia has been at war with us all in Europe for quite some time, it's what those sad fucks do...

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

I did a new blog post listing the FOSS software I use on the desktop.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/desktop-apps-i-use/

#FOSS #Linux

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leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

AIPAC is attacking MTG for speaking out about Gaza—which she says is a genocide—by implying she’s leftist and not white:

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

Begging the Newsom fans to understand that the enemy of your enemy can in fact be your enemy too. He has not hidden that from you.