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

Comedian in the Coal Mine

Laughter fills the air,
Words wrapped in silenced shadows,
Humor's light grows dim.

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Mastodon wrote:

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org ("GoToSocial") wrote:

Lads lads lads lads!

Here's the first release candidate for v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial! If you're feeling bold, you can try this release candidate and help us find any lingering bugs before we release v0.20.0 proper!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc1

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version.

The migrations in this release are quite long (can take several hours, even!), as we had to rethread the entire statuses table to handle the new way we cache status threads (and to improve timeline performance). Please plan downtime accordingly, and most importantly hang in there and don't be tempted to interrupt the migration process!

Please also pay particular attention to the metrics changes, as we've significantly changed the way that metrics exposure is configured, so you will likely have to adjust your setup if you use GtS Prometheus metrics. For more information on the new way of doing things, look through this document: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/

Release highlights

  • Big refactor of timeline code to use less memory and be (hopefully!) more responsive and less error prone.
  • Support for scheduled statuses!
  • Support for the focal point property on the frontend + over federation, so you can set focal point on your media and have it work properly!
  • Notifications when a status you've interacted with has been edited.
  • ListenBrainz widget on the frontend, so you can show off the music you've been listening to (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user%5Fguide/settings/#profile-fields)
  • Instance info panel in the settings, so that non-admins on the instance can see which domains are blocked and explicitly allowed, and the reason why.
  • Bunch of new themes for profile views!
  • Config option to expose emoji endpoints without authentication -- useful for compatibility with some clients. Default value still requires authentication.
  • Footnotes in markdown!
  • Configurable thumbnail dimensions.
  • Federation of avatar + header image descriptions is handled now, both in + out of GtS.
  • The new hidesToPublicFromUnauthedWeb and hidesCcPublicFromUnauthedWeb are federated in and out now, allowing your instance and other instances that support these properties to transmit + respect preferences for the visibility of posts to render on the unauthenticated (public) web view of threads.
  • Support for avif file format.
  • JSON logging format, for easier log ingestion.
  • Atom and JSON feed support for RSS (not just xml).
  • Reworked metrics format, more + better metrics, and an importable example grafana dashboard.
  • Domain permission subscription retractions are now handled properly.
  • Probably a lot more! See below!

Thanks for reading!

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

Since #Firefox seem to be blindly forcing AI into is browser, does anyone know of a Firefox-based browser that has explicitly come out against AI. Have Librewolf or Icecat made a statement that they'll try and remove.not include any embedded AI components?

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

9:05 and I'm throwing in the towel! :sweat_blob:

have a nice weekend :)

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Boosted by jwz:
lednaBM@stranger.social ("👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵") wrote:

Reminder...

Billionaires should not exist!

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

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

The New York Times SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1939 Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN, Feb. 3.

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parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
A scene takes place in a bar where many people are drinking.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Abe Simpson in a newspaper clipping shaking his fist at the Antifascist Action logo, headlined OLD MAN YELLS AT ANTIFA

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E02
🎥 Episode: Girls
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 13, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0173

Frame from the series Serial Experiments Lain

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thecorodon@wandering.shop ("The Corodon") wrote:

@babe

A Tumblr conversation. googledocsdyke: remember when you were 10 and you would hand out with your friends in other to Look At The Computer together like you you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave a-well-groomed-rat: How fucking old are you people? googledocsdyke: normal amount

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jwz wrote:

Tortoise.

It's on its back, baking in the hot sun, but you're not helping, Leon. Why is that?
https://jwz.org/b/ykva

Screenshot

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

A little wisdom for US media companies: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last."

From the famous antifa leader Winston Churchill in 1940, while in the middle of making plans to kill tens of thousands of fascists.

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

🙏 help me! am I doing CSS view transitions / animation wrong? or is this a Safari 26 regression bug? 💀

https://codepen.io/dbushell/full/bNEGRzo

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JimBliss@mastodon.ie ("Jim Bliss") wrote:

#Antifa

Photograph of U.S. soldiers on a landing craft approaching a beach on D-Day during World War 2.

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Holberg@mstdn.social ("Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸") wrote:

So, I guess SOUND OF MUSIC is now about an insufferably woke family.

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malwareminigun@infosec.exchange ("Billy O'Neal") wrote:

@whitequark

Whitequark's post in the passing notes meme format

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Disney Surrenders Hat") wrote:

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

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buffyleigh@mas.to ("buffy leigh (she/they)") wrote:

Radicalized by Andor to delete Disney.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Since many people are canceling their streaming services, I can recommend a new documentary series from NOVA PBS about the origin story of Homo sapiens. It includes several recent discoveries on the different human species, as well as the impact that climate change had on our evolution.

The first episode was aired yesterday and you can watch it for free thanks to public television 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjH71hmrGGQ

#Anthropology #ClimateChange #Culture #Documentary #Evolution #Science

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Boosted by jwz:
memory@blank.org ("Doctor Memory") wrote:

@Sonikku @jwz @pixel

We all stepped away from the light when we removed throbber animations from web browsers. RETVRN.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation

Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can't log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error: "Your credentials could not be verified". She's using the correct PIN code, so that surely isn't it. We opt

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

#Windows

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Schouten_B ("Bas Schouten") wrote:

@slightlyoff I used the BBC as an example in a talk about performance inequality a couple of years back, I did the math back then, and iirc, if a median income person in Chad on a median cost data plan read 5 articles a day, reading the BBC would cost them 3% of their income.

It's embarrassing.

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

Bye bye, Disney+

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Top 10 Ways the Rise of Authoritarian Fascism Effects Your Productivity at Work

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

ICYMI, this morning's opinion by Judge Kelly (a Trump appointee!) protecting Guatemalan children from deportation after the admin's justification "crumbled like a house of cards" is worth reading. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM OPINION Just before midnight on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, several Executive Branch agencies began to implement a plan to expel from the United States certain unaccompanied alien children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services and send them back to their home country of Guatemala. Those agencies told the children’s caretakers, who were hearing about the plan for the first time, to have them ready for pickup in as little as two hours. The children were roused from their beds in the middle of the night and driven to an airport, where some were loaded onto planes. Lawyers got wind of this hasty operation while it was unfolding and filed this lawsuit seeking emergency relief that Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The judge on emergency duty entered a temporary restraining order barring the agencies and their officials from removing or otherwise transporting the children from the United States. At a hearing later that day, counsel for Defendants explained why it was “fairly outrageous” for Plaintiffs to have sued: all Defendants wanted to do was reunify children with parents who had requested their return. But that explanation crumbled like a house of cards about a week later. There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return. To the contrary, the Guatemalan Attorney General reports that officials could not even track down parents for most of the children whom Defendants found eligible for their “reunificatio

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

anybody interested in a Comet invite?https://perplexity.ai/browser/claim/TA5RDHSF20

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

"This is the most exciting time in American maybe ever"

#Google #Meta #Microsoft

https://youtube.com/shorts/NLM0Zr1AgkI?si=%5Fn5dvkf1Ep9nR%5Fi3

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

I've been on a politics tear here the last couple of days so here are some nice flowers as a palate cleanser

They're yellow and read and I should have looked up what kind of flowers they were before posting but I didn't and that's on me