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

AI may have its place on the internet, but it sure as hell isn’t “first”.

The internet is for *people* first and foremost. I hate to think what things will be like if we lose sight of that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I wrote a paper that I am proud of:

"Modelling Scenarios for Carbon-aware Geographic Load Shifting of Compute Workloads"

It evaluates the scope for emission reductions of moving work between data centres in high-emission regions and low-emission regions.

tl;dr: the potential emission savings are no more than a few percent.

I have submitted it to a journal, it's under review but you can read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07043

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#FrugalComputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

My friend Bobby is getting out of prison (after 12 years!) in just under a month. Please toss him a few bucks to restart his life - https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus ("cannot resolve symbol "rat"") wrote:

Saying that mastodon is "losing" to twitter or has "failed" to break into the mainstream is like saying that kids playing basketball in the street are "losing" to pro hockey teams, or that a 5th grade chess club in Japan has "failed" to break into American pro baseball.

Buddy, these things are not remotely the same. Mastodon exists in an entirely separate universe from Twitter. Mastodon is an *explicit rejection* of mainstream social media. We can't lose because we were never playing.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's only called JSON if it comes from the Jéson region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling structured data.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:

Since someone reminded me of how it was 20 years ago, I might as well write about the continued failure of people to understand why they shouldn't stay on places like Twitter or Substack -- with reference to a place called "Tech Central Station" (I think, my memory may have failed) which existed from 2000-2005.

TCS paid bloggers and indie writers for stories. About very varied informative subjects. Why did they do this?

1/n

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

@davidculley

Hello! Thank you for reaching out to us; however, these accounts aren't independently limited. They're limited because right now there is a temporary limit on Mastodon Social while they combat a spam wave that has been on-and-off since mid July. We have posted about it here:

https://hachyderm.io/@hachyderm/115112335335007484

And Mastodon Social has posted about it on and off, including here:

https://mastodon.social/@staff/114922270018549808

We've received a few questions about the Mastodon Social limit over the course of the weekish they've been Limited due to the latest wave. To reiterate: the instance-wide limit is temporary, and as the wave dies down to manageable levels, we'll lift it.

Thanks!

CC

@aral
@mohshbair @Dr_Nadeen98
@joynewacc

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

I wonder how Nazi Germany handled climate issues during the Holocaust. Do you think it was widely discussed at the time? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115179873107637672

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

Dear @hachyderm, some Palestinian accounts like @mohshbair or @Dr_Nadeen98 are hidden from Hachyderm users to protect them from bots, but these accounts and probably some more aren't bots.

They're actual Palestians living in Gaza under genocide, and have been verified by multiple people who had video calls with them.

@aral and @joynewacc run a website https://gaza-verified.org that lists accounts you can definitely unhide from Hachyderm users. See the message above in the thread.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:

Irish man with valid visa kidnapped and kept in inhumane conditions for a month, had his subdermal piercings surgically removed while ICE agents laughed, barely fed or washed, crammed in like sardines with 100 men and 1 toilet...ultimately dumped in London.

This is Trump's USA. An evil place run by a sadistic, violent death cult.
Original: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/horrors-of-trump-detention-centre-lisburn-man-tells-his-story-after-arrest-for-looking-like-a-mexican/a1990029828.html
Archive: https://archive.ph/HLozC

Attachments:

• video: c83d25817e06ca9d.mp4

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

Some students don't want to learn. They just want professors to affirm their biases and bigotry. And in Texas, they get what they want.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/an-insufferable-student/

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

Human Rights Watch on that Turkey must drop the criminal and civil cases against the usurped executive board of the Istanbul Bar Association (=lawyers' org).

"The legal action targets the Istanbul Bar Association’s president, İbrahim Kaboğlu, and 10 executive board members, and stems from a public statement issued by the Bar on December 21, 2024, following the killing of two Kurdish journalists, Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, allegedly in a drone strike in northern Syria."
More: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/10/turkiye-drop-case-against-bar-association

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

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @joynewacc@mastodon.social This is a good initiative. It's one of the difficult moderation issues: you want to keep your users safe from scammers, but you don't want to make a mistake and block an actual person.

Of course Palestinians are welcome on mastodon.world. (Or any other of our instances)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡") wrote:

noted: have you seen what Bun are up to? Yikes... 💀

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/

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

The Gaza Verified guide is now also available in Arabic.

https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/

Machine translated but verified by @joynewacc

#Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #mastodon #GazaVerified #fediAid

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

Partial suspension means nothing. And european leaders will not vote even for that. https://masto.ai/@euractiv/115179660353055147

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Israeli forces have leveled another high-rise building in Gaza City, the seventh major tower targeted in recent days, as the assault continues amid plans to occupy the city and forcibly displace one million Palestinians.

Israel’s military attacked on Wednesday the Tayba II Tower in western Gaza City. It was the seventh major tower hit by Israeli forces in recent weeks, claiming it was used by Hamas.

https://qudsnen.co/israel-flattens-another-high-rise-in-gaza-city/

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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

Dear Mastodon instance admins,

Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.

If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @joynewacc and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.

Please have some humanity.

Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

#mastodon #fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #famine

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

🚨 My friend Nouran is in danger!

Nouran and her family are one of the almost one million people stuck in the area that Israel has said it is going to destroy imminently.

They need money to afford to move South.

Please help if you can and please share so others can.

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #fediAid https://mastodon.social/@NouranKhaledGh/115179763590317653

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

🚨🚨🚨

Just minutes ago, we were ordered to evacuate the entire Gaza City toward the south.

This is the moment we feared for a long time.

My body trembles with fear, as if I am feeling it for the first time.

Now we don't know where to go or what to do!

#gaza #palestine

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

My friends, I desperately need your help now!

We were ordered to evacuate to the south. We don't know what to do! If we decide to leave in the upcoming days, we need to secure transporation, buying tent and renting a land. The costs are unbearable. We can't cover them without your help.

Your contribution will help in saving our lives. Please donate and share

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

#gaza #palestine

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

If you see my words, please pray for us and keep us in your thoughts. We are now living the toughest time ever. I'm not able to write anything and no words can describe how I feel

#gaza #palestine

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

We're only getting out of this mess together. if you have some money you can share, please give to folk just looking to keep their family alive in a war zone.

Heck - some of them want to be dentists. The world could use more dentists; some you all have some *unique* teeth and I bet if you help them now, when they're set up proper? they'd help you with that weird tooth of yours 😀 .

You don't know me and I've never met the people on this list, but I've interacted with a few of them. Not only do I believe them, at the end of the day I'd rather think I was scammed by someone out of some money than think I turned my back on someone in harms way. Please help however you can.

And @Dr_Nadeen98 @NouranKhaledGh and @joynewacc @Aseelsehwel? I hope tomorrow is a better day.

https://gaza-verified.org/

Edit: adding in @Aseelsehwel to my tagged accounts; I had meant to add her but missed her name in error! I believe she was the first account I came across that really opened my eyes to the realities in Gaza. Without her posts I would probably not have understood how I could help. My apologies for not including her in my original post!

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

Please don't ignore my message!

We are very scared. I don't know how to decribe our situation. We might decide to leave to south in any moment and we need your urgent help. Leaving costs us unbearable amount of money. We can't cover this amount without your kind help.

Please help my family by donating via the link in the bio and please share with friends :underheart:

#gaza #palestine

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

@trumpet Is mastodon.social limiting her account?

See: https://mastodon.scot/@gunchleoc/115179677964366105

@staff are you guys limiting Lolo’s account? We’re trying to get in touch with her so we can have a video chat with her to verify her and this is not helping as @joynewacc is on your server and can’t follow her.

I‘d appreciate any help you can provide to resolve this.

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

Can anyone please let me know if Lolo’s account is limited on mas.to (and if so, why?)

We’re trying to get in touch with her to verify her and this is not helping.

If anyone knows anything please let me know.

Is the mas.to server a safe space for Palestinians suffering from Israel’s genocide and the resulting famine or should we be telling our friends in Palestine to create accounts elsewhere?

I’d really like to know. Any help is welcome.

CC @trumpet

#fediverse #masto #mastodon #Palestine #Gaza #israel #genocide #FreePalestine https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115179462780326687

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

[Live] Playing some Div with Drew, but this time, on YouTube!
https://youtube.com/live/h50jmuujzNo?feature=share

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ezhes_@mastodon.online ("Allison Husain") wrote:

/2 The trick behind this mitigation is to use the compiler to clamp all pointer offset operations in kernel code to a magnitude of less than 4GB. If you feel like grep-ing, the specific codegen for this clamp operation currently uses a special 0x2BAD poisoning pattern in the top 16 bits when the magnitude exceeds 4GB.

With some VA layout tricks to inject large 4GB unmapped gutters between major kernel VA regions, this has some delightful consequences.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

..This is one of the songs with the right BPM for me, so... :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXweFk8Ll8 (The anime is whack, but has it's moments. "Increase your cadence by 30 RPM!")

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Bike packing tour starts on Friday.. Time to update my MP3 player with motivational music, so I'll be like "Hime, hime!" :cathug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOiYKZ5-pIM

#YowamushiNoPedal #BikePacking #cycling #anime