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

🏁 The @robb × @omgdotlol Relay for St. Jude fundraiser is up and running! :prami_happy:

I have some links to share, but the most important link is this one, where you can give now to help St. Jude’s mission to end childhood cancer: http://stjude.omg.lol

Robb and I also both have pages up with some details:

➡️ https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025/
➡️ https://omglol.news/st-jude-2025

As always, I’m donating 50% of everything omg.lol earns to the fundraiser, now through 9/30. And also as always, there will be stickers! And, against all business advice I’ve received over the past year, I’m bringing back lifetime omg.lol addresses for a short time. More on that soon, as well as some other surprises.

And don’t forget that you can show your support for St. Jude by swapping your omg.lol profile page Footer Branding to the St. Jude logo!

It’s going to be a fun month (and hopefully a generous one, but definitely fun at the very least). Thanks for coming along with us as we try to make a dent in childhood cancer and support families who are going through the unthinkable. ❤️

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

@TerryHancock @slightlyoff I apologize if I'm not good enough at this, but you aren't the first person to suggest I'm using this badly.

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

@slightlyoff Why would anyone have a problem with fixing typos? If someone discovers I fixed a typo, that's not some kind of shameful "gotcha".

Yes, I fix typos. I also do laundry, perform minor repairs around the house, and put out the trash.

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

@mattblaze You're making me feel successively less bad about my post-update-update-update approach to killing typos and misspellings. If it's good enough for Matt-effing-Blaze...:

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

What’s the least worst non-Safari browser for the Mac? (Not that Safari is without issues, but they’re different kinds of issues.)

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

I used to say that the only reason I had a child was so I could have someone to remind me how old I was.

This was of course an exaggeration. A child is more than a memory chip.

That said, since she became an adult and left, I've no idea how old I am.

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

1. Lay off the National Park Service staff responsible for trash pickup and landscaping in DC federal parks.

2. Wait a couple months.

3. Call in National Guard to pick up trash and do landscaping in DC federal parks.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

Now that the President of the United States has sent the military to take over American cities and oppress civilians, I thought it would be fun to check in with the men who claimed to be terrified about this happening a decade ago when the president was Black. https://skepchick.org/2025/08/checking-in-on-jade-helm-conspiracy-theorists-10-years-later/

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