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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gunchleoc@mastodon.scot ("GunChleoc") wrote:

I am still getting posts in my timeline about people being unsure whether the mastodon "verification" scam is a genuine message.

I have just used the announcement function on my server to notify my user in addition to a post to hopefully reach and warn more users about these fakes.

#MastoAdmin

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

Drink Special @ House Music Pop-Up: Preexisting Condition -- House Vodka, Tropical Red Bull, and Orange Juice

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• gifv: 2488266ce9adf719.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Latin Night ( Reggaeton & Latin House): HERMIT KINGDOM: Casamigos Mezcal, Soda, Lime, Salt Rim.

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• gifv: 809d581aba61588a.mp4

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

🚀 Kiwix PWA 3.7.1 is out! Major improvements for your offline browsing experience:
✨ NEW: Full-text search now shows snippets with context around your search terms!
📱 Transform desktop Wikipedia ZIMs to mobile style on the fly

🔧 Fixed:
Collapsible Wikipedia sections work properly
Footnotes display correctly
RTL language support
Dark mode improvements

💻 Get it:

PWA: pwa.kiwix.org
MS Store: "Kiwix JS"
GitHub: github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-pwa/releases (Electron apps)

#kiwix #pwa #webapp #foss

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

Dealing with Google or Apple to publish an app on their stores seems to be a such a loss of energy, that I will never try to create an app for #iOS or #Android.
In my job, I've written a Progressive Web App (for professional usage of my customers), and it is a good way to avoid apps stores.

#PWA

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#Meta is gonna swoop in with the Compliance Cloud(tm).

Maybe we learn that open-sourcing the protocol layer isn't as decentralized as we thought it be.

Maybe we notice that #Threads looks more and more like a siphon than it does interpolation.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Nundrum@theatl.social wrote:

Saw this at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens today. Even amongst all the orchids it commanded attention. A sign around the corner revealed it to be a "bat flower".

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

Moebius did a series of ads for Maxwell House in the late 80s. This one is my favorite.

#Moebius #Art

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Weird that I can't think of this off the top of my head but... who on the fedi is based in the PNW and is an implementer of / contributor to Fediverse software?

(small projects fine! tinkerers too! technical role or not! just trying to consider who I might be able to wrangle together to talk about stuff because I feel professionally isolated sometimes)

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

I spent my Saturday evening covering a Van Morrison song (or perhaps more accurately, covering a Bryan Ferry cover of a Van Morrison song). Experience me in my baritone range!

youtu.be/7-YOHvbmAAg

http://youtu.be/7-YOHvbmAAg

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
marioguzman ("Mario Alberto Guzmán") wrote:

A while back, I reported feedback for FaceTime on macOS because the Settings window was so long and not resizable, some controls would be behind the Dock and were inaccessible.

I finally got a reply that it should be addressed now in #macOSTahoe... This was their solution.

Did Apple forget their own HIG for macOS app layouts? You might be saying, "but it is Catalyst." So. And? They make this technology, it should be perfect.

This isn't the Apple I remember. :( This is... sloppy at best.

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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@cratermoon The only realistic cartoon villains have ever been from Scooby Doo. https://jwz.org/b/yiws

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

I tried separating out this swarm of bold jumper spiderlings -- a lot of them escaped and are now living in my office.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/30/i-tried-sorting-out-spiders-they-were-not-cooperative/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXu54yLoRA

jwz wrote:

I guess today is going to be all about:

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, have unsolicited advice for you, since you are obviously brand new to this whole 'running a web site' thing."

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, feel the need to point out that the way Facebook is fucking you over is perfectly sensible, actually."

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

for the grill later tonight: pig ribs (pre-cooked in the Instant Pot) & homemade BBQ sauce.

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

went to a train museum today, and there was a trans couple carrying around blahajs and plush trains, clearly having the absolutely time of their lives. made my happy just from proximity, lol. :8bitheart:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm%5Fsource=bluesky&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=aud-dev&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned

#authors #books #AI

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Does anyone know where to get a tent in Khan Yunis that’s not a GHF aid point? Are MSF/Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross/Red Crescent or The Sameer Project or anyone else with us here with tents?
I need a tent for 8 people.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
b9AcE@todon.eu wrote:

"US denies visas to Palestinian Authority leaders for UN general assembly"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/us-denies-palestinian-authority-visa-general-assembly
Maybe USA is not the place to have the UN building anymore then.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

America and most of Europe pretend to support a two state solution while insisting on a peace process with impossible conditions in order to prevent such a thing from ever happening, and in the meantime, they allow and help Israel commit genocide so it will eventually be moot anyway.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Majden12@snowfan.masto.host ("Majden 🎨🕊👠") wrote:

Cuccioli 😍

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• gifv: e20d63caec563cce.mp4

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

@intransitivelie If you can, help share the campaigns of the folks who are raising funds on the fediverse to afford food so they don’t starve. It’s one thing I’ve found I’m able to do that makes a difference. If I had an army, I’d be on Israel’s borders right now but without one, we do what we can.

Here are two families I’m trying to support who I’ve spoken with via video on Signal:

@Aseelsehwel
@NouranKhaledGh

And @divya has six families in a group fundraiser that she’s supporting.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
intransitivelie@beige.party ("Trivial Einstein") wrote:

I don't talk a lot about Palestine because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say, honestly. Israel is continuing to commit genocide, we all know it, and no one is doing anything about it. I guess I could keep saying that, but I'm not sure what purpose it serves.

I feel powerless about a lot of things, but Palestine in particular.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
adachika192@hcommons.social ("AK") wrote:

Anti-Israel protesters block Israeli cycling team in major Vuelta a España race | The Times of Israel (2025-08-27)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-israeli-cycling-team-in-major-vuelta-a-espana-race/
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>> Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team at the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, forcing them to slow down in a race determined by differences of seconds.

>> The Israel-Premier Tech team was also targeted during the Tour de France.

>> On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription “Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel” in Catalan, flanked by Palestinian flags, before being removed by race officials.

>> Although riders were forced to slow down, no accidents were reported. The team had been assigned police protection prior to the race, according to the Hebrew outlet Ynet...

#VueltaAEspaña
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

jwz wrote:

Welp. I now have proof that Facebook is using the same outbound IP addresses for both A) scraping web sites for "AI" training and B) fetching images from my site when I use the official API to post to Instagram.

This means that I can either defend myself from injuriously voracious AI scrapers, or have a functional business Instagram account, but not both.

Not just the same subnets. The same IPs.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lafp@cornputer.org ("L. Pereira :blobbybara:") wrote:

Just blogged: bootstrapping a #Forth for art, a quick-and-dirty introduction to forth haikus and my implementation of it

https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html

jwz wrote:

The only mask ban I support.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs orders amid federal incursion threat: The mayor's executive order "urges" all federal law enforcement to follow Chicago police directives banning them from wearing masks on duty and requiring...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuf

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

DJT is clearly very ill -- teetering on the edge. I know we are all fervently hoping he listens to the medical advice of RFK, Jr., because that should quickly pull him over the line.

jwz wrote:

Cube (1997) is far more relevant to our 2025 shitshow than it has any right to be.

"This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan." ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykua

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

What I'm saying is, us fixing this country has nothing to do with Trump suddenly dying. We need progressive leadership and government working for the people to overcome the reasons for electing "strongmen" in the first place.