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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

I think software should be good

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

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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

Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

More pixels than are warranted at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4472088022

#photography

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Cookies

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

The one person in our world who needs to hear this will never read it, but you can—and you should. Every word! Hat tip: Mr. Andrew Hinton.

https://americabydesign.fail/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"Last week, Russia announced it will require that all new phones and tablets sold within its borders pre-install a messaging app called Max. Security experts who did technical analyses of Max’s software for Forbes said it’s a privacy nightmare.

While Russia’s interior ministry has claimed the app, made by Russian social media giant VK, is more secure than competitors, a cybersecurity researcher found that Max constantly monitored all user activity on the app with“excessive tracking.” The researcher, who completed the analysis with phone forensics tool Corellium, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals by Russian intelligence agencies.

“This app just gathers all the data and logs it. I don’t remember seeing that in any messenger app,” they said. “Max is not secure at all. There is no cryptography, unless it’s hidden very well, but I doubt that. It is insecure by design to serve its purpose: people surveillance.”

Max was launched in March, and appears to be limited to Russian and Belarussian phone numbers. Functionally it works similar to messaging apps like Telegram and Whatsapp, but it also has an AI chatbot called GigaChat 2.0 and the ability to book travel and make bank transfers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/08/26/kremlin-whatsapp-rival-is-designed-to-spy-on-users/

#Russia #CyberSecurity #Messaging #Privacy #LocationTracking #Spyware #Surveillance

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dalfen@mstdn.social ("ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊") wrote:

~Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against a man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent.~

“The grand jury's rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington (DC) and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors (ordinary citizens) refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent.” 👀

#USA

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

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) quipped: *"An 'app' is just a web-page skinned in enough IP to make it a crime to add an ad-blocker to it."*,[1] but the native rot goes deeper. Remember when FB rebuffed Apple's offer it couldn't refuse?[2]

Knock me over with a feather, the "privacy wars" were all for show:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/
[2]: https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-facebook-almost-worked-together%5Fid141910

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Do I want to start another thread about Webkit's implementation of -webkit-line-clamp being bonkers in the same day? Because the more I look the worse it gets...

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

I actually went outside. There are wonders there!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/27/i-ventured-into-the-junglei-mean-garden/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

St Jude 2025 https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025/

Me and @adam are back again hoping to raise $16k for St Jude.

We have stickers which will be revealed at $1500 and $3000 raised and lots more goodies coming all throughout September.

Donate here: https://stjude.omg.lol

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

Thank you all for your donations so far. It’s the middle of the week and we’re almost half way there.

Can we get this to $500 by the end of the week so Aseel can feed her family?

Please share.

💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

This percent syntax was never implemented in other browsers, and it was even removed from Chromium many years ago.

If you want something better, in the CSS Working Group we're working on letting you clamp by a height (line-clamp: auto; max-height: 300px), and hopefully this shouldn't take too long to ship in Chrome.

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

Financial Times | Norway’s oil fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israeli allegations

Divestment marks first time fund has sold out of a non-Israeli company because of role in Palestinian territories

#Norway ’s Council on Ethics said: ‘There is no doubt Caterpillar’s products are being used to commit extensive and systematic violations of international humanitarian law’

#Palestine #Israel #BDS

https://www.ft.com/content/31387962-398d-4809-950a-6353f9178728

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

The behavior I would have expected would be something like this: 0% means 1 line, 100% means the full number of lines, and everything is evenly spaced.

So clamping by floor(1 + (percentage / 100) * (numLines - 1)).

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

This is the smallest values that trigger clamping by that many lines, on a test with 5 lines. From what I can tell, it behaves like clamping by max(1, floor((percentage / 100) * (numLines + 1))) lines.

The numLines + 1 multiplier means you can clamp by the full number of lines (5 here) with 84%.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
piegar@mamot.fr ("Remy Piegar") wrote:

URGENT : Sanctionnez Israël MAINTENANT

Mariam Abu Dagga vient d'être tuée par les forces israéliennes à Gaza.

Elle rapportait la situation à l'hôpital Nasser ce matin lorsqu'un missile israélien a frappé, tuant déjà au moins un journaliste. Alors que des secouristes et d'autres journalistes y compris Mariam se précipitaient sur les lieux, un autre missile a frappé, tuant Mariam et au moins 19 autres personnes.

Dites à l'UE : cessez votre complicité dans le génocide.

https://action.eko.org/a/urgent-sanctionnez-israel-maintenant?rd=1&source=fwd&t=1

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I thought it could be a way to clamp based on a height, since percentages are used for heights elsewhere in CSS, and so it could be precedent for the work on clamping by height that I'm working on on Chromium.

Nope, it's a percentage of the total number of lines. And the way it works is wonky.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Did you know that Safari supports a percent value for -webkit-line-clamp?

I thought I'd look into it; maybe it could be precedent for a line-clamp-related discussion in the CSS Working Group

Turns out, not only didn't it do what I thought, but its implementation has an off-by-one error 😭

#css

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

@adam while it might be looking back with rose-tinted glasses, I feel like Jean did a good job of showcasing a diverse set of users when she was curating the feed. It’s something that requires a fair amount of commitment, I suspect.

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

“Discovery feeds” are inevitably problematic. There is always bias in curation, and vote-based systems are always manipulated.

Part of why I love Mastodon is that “discovery” is just a natural part of how things work here. Instances have their own public feeds, where you can easily follow people and interests (hashtags) to build out your own timeline. No curation or bias. Just a stream of activity for your own personal discovery, on your own terms.

#mastodon #discovery

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

The new growth industry: private prisons. Coming to a location near me soon!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/27/ice-is-digging-in-like-a-tick-i-see/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

🚨 breaking: live footage from inside the WHATWG war room!

Attachments:

• gifv: Arthur fist shaking intensifies (captioned "XSLT")

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

After a day with iOS 26 I’m disappointed to find that there are far fewer wild UX changes than I was expecting, and that it’s actually pretty usable.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sohkamyung@mstdn.io ("Soh Kam Yung") wrote:

Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine.

"This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)."

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

#Computers #Magazines #Byte #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sam_c@mstdn.social ("samjc") wrote:

So, micro.blog's "Discover" feed... 50 posts. 2 women. 2 reviews of this month's coffee subscription. At least 9 users with more than one post in the Discover feed (all dudes). Probably about a third of posts are travel/street/landscape photos. Many posts from well-known users who have been highly visible on the site for years. This is a hand-curated feed, and one of the only mechanisms to "discover" new people to follow.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

It's 1776 time again.

"I can do anything I want" are not the words of a President. They're the words of a deranged tyrant. We don't suffer kings in this nation. We fought a whole ass war over this once and we will do it again.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
IcooIey@mastodon.green wrote:

She is helping make the bed!

By helping, I mean not helping at all.

#CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vk3kri@mastodon.radio wrote:

Spent some time working on the 1950's Advance B4A5 Signal Generator. To be honest , there's not much to recommend it apart from that beautiful black crack finish. And that's why its still on the bench.
Replaced a bunch of resistors that had drifted high , the 6X5 rectifier popped while I was working on it - Cathode to Heater short.
The electoro was completely missing the +ve lead - probably since the mid '70s!
I gutted the can and put a modern electro inside.
#electronics #hamradio