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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Goodbye, paywall | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/goodbye-paywall/

> tl;dr: a paywall is really antithetical to my solarpunk anarchist values, so I’m making most of my members-only stuff free and public.

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

so is it safe to `npm update` yet or are we just not anymore?

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notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social ("swtyndall.notwhatwethink") wrote:

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Boop the snoot

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Ryvyn!

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

ICYMI, @owa keeps receipts:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."

-- Cupertino

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law

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saucerlost wrote:

#antifa #antifascism

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

It's a bit of a surprise to me, but there are still tickets available for performance.now(), the most important web performance conference of the year:

https://perfnow.nl/

I'm booking my travel, and hope to see you in Amsterdam next month!

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

So, how is your evening going? Mine's going all right, I have to say.

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

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Iris@scholar.social ("Iris van Rooij 💭") wrote:

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Software as a Service permits anti-design because it has none of the attributes that make good products earn the space they take up in the world.

It takes up no space in a store, in your home, and on your computer.

7/x

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eLYxVYjV4

Audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/1190f134/anti-design

1/x

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. The malicious crates have been removed.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Update #822 from FalconSAT-8 (Q CLEARANCE)

1. Office of Boomboxes
2. Cybertruck Foam

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

Did you know these butterflies have needle-sharp claws?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/caught-one/

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Someone needs to explain to Rep. Ted Lieu in small, simple words that a vote to honor a Nazi is the opposite of a vote “to condemn political violence.” Dipshit.

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

The Ruby community has a DHH problem: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

#ruby #rails

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devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

This Trump–Epstein statue popped up in DC today. 🤯😅

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adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

Heh, Peter Fleischer, former Chief of Privacy for Google, gets spicy:

"Legally, a non-EU company can only claim the benefits of the one stop shop if the decisions regarding data processing in Europe are made there. "

https://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-irish-backdoor.html

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flipper@mastodonapp.uk ("Flipper 🐬") wrote:

@pluralistic I feel sorry for billionaires. These are people who will never write a poem, who will never pay taxes, and who probably have someone help them when they go to the toilet.

Perhaps RFK should concentrate on finding the cause of billionairism, instead of whatever bullshit he's up to today.

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henryseg@mathstodon.xyz ("Henry Segerman") wrote:

New dice from The Dice Lab (me and Robert Fathauer), which may (?) be useful if you regularly write equations. https://youtube.com/shorts/fgMoxEAZtoA

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
jeromyokc@okla.social ("Jeromy") wrote:

i've started a new blog about my ham radio adventures. I just can't get on the Discord train as much as I want for sharing content so I'll just stick to what I like. My latest post is about visiting my hometown ham fest in Enid, OK.

I won a TYT TH-9800! Very fun

https://kj5fte.radio/attending-the-2025-enid-ham-fest/

#hamradio #hamfest #oklahoma #arrl #allstarlink

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @dap joined
@bcantrill and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".

Also:
- a spirited discussion of leadership and management
- the consumption of Play-Doh as a reflection of values (basically)
- a mid-episode earthquake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrgp4WXnA5Y

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The print edition of The Intelligence Illusion is available for order: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-print-edition-of-the-intelligence-illusion/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

"The print edition of The Intelligence Illusion is available for order"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-print-edition-of-the-intelligence-illusion/

It's been a long road to get here. Will write more about it over the next few days, but first I need to nap and rest a bit 🙂

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

It's truly incredible how few of the redditors that feel comfortable commenting on browsers, security, and computers in general understand how any of those things work.