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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

*stares in empathy and relatability*

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

hmmmm... if the prices of gold-oriented funds are any indicator, it looks like investors have been hedging against a stock bubble bursting ever since Herr Trump got back into office

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

IceWM - on Debian Linux - desktop tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUAjV3YIoEE

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

I don't talk enough about the incredible work that St. Jude does for children with cancer and their families. I think I take it for granted that people already know, but maybe not everyone does.

Sometimes it's not about the cure, because right now, not all cancers can be cured. Sometimes it's just about having more days.

If you have a couple of minutes, pull up https://atp.fm/657 and skip to 7:22. Listen to Thomas's story. 😢

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

We're down to a handful of days in the St. Jude fundraiser that @robb and I are doing, and just shy of $4,000 to meet our goal of $50K raised total since we began doing this in 2023!

I've been donating half of everything omg.lol earns all month and will keep going through Tuesday. Also between now and Tuesday, you can use coupon code STJUDE at checkout to save 25% on your omg.lol address purchases or renewals!

And you can give directly here for stickers! https://stjude.omg.lol ❤️

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

I wasn't expecting this, but using the #Linux CLI #Mastodon tool Toot, is a really nice way to catch up on my Fedi feeds.

It also seems really scriptable, so maybe I can find some interesting things to do with that.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Matching hats not included! #Plushtodon

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

The failure of the tech press to think critically about what Apple says is an ongoing scandal. You don't have to like "the other guys" or think they're better to acknowledge that horse-race coverage makes us all dumber:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
0laura@mastodon.de wrote:

liberals will be lined up against the wall and still make smug comments pointing out how trump totally owned himself by admitting that hes technically pro fascism by banning antifa.

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wackJackle@norden.social ("Weltzeitgeist") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth, by @l03s
https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin
#permacomputing #uxn

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

For anyone in the UK wanting to sign the .gov petition against compulsory ID cards.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

BRITS: This parliamentary petition is rapidly closing in on a million supporters. Please consider signing it:

"Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards."

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

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

I'm not against a UK digital ID system but technically it needs to navigate around blockchain, "AI", US companies, whatever Tony Blair is scheming today, mass surveillance, and not ostracising the homeless further.

We're getting "Login with Facebook", aren't we?

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

a week until Ghost of Yōtei and then Silksong is in the bin!

(post credits content be damned!)

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

Wrote this up. It makes me so, so tired to see the tech press fumble the basics day in, day out. I wish the @404mediaco crew had space to cover this. The Verge *et. al* are dropping the ball badly:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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

Dispatch #99991 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Demonic Causeway
2. Webcam Outhouse
3. Hopeless Astrobiologists

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

Of course it was Sameer doing the dirty deed. Can't have an actually secure, high-performance OS out there making Android look bad, can we?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/google%5Fandroid%5Fchromeos/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

This month in Servo…

📐🖼️ inline SVG rendering
↔️🖋️ OpenType variable fonts
🃏🎛️ CSS.registerProperty()
🔣🤖 TextEncoderStream
🫗⏳ Iterator map(), filter(), flatMap()

https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

Attachments:

• gifv: servoshell nightly showcasing variable fonts, with variable weight (`wght`) values smoothly increasing and decreasing

Boosted by jwz:
Dee@fedi.underscore.world ("Dee :heart_nb:") wrote:

this probably feels good when you’re a printer

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

Togedemaru doesn’t care for pumpkin spice lattes, but candy corn? Heck yeah.

#pokemon #togedemaru #togedemaBOO #halloween

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Google lawyers navigating European anti-monopoly laws: oh noes, too complex! can't innovate! reset plz?

Google lawyers navigating European tax laws: Double Irish with Dutch Sandwitch.

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

@owa So things happened. Almost all of them were embarrassing, but because our tech press is so abjectly...well...abject, Apple might get away with continued scofflaw nonsense:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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

I spent some time critiquing the tech press for stenography in their coverage re: the DMA, and I didn't have to look any further than El Verge to find a truly despicable bit of it:

https://www.theverge.com/news/785515/apple-eu-dma-complaint-interoperability-feature-delays

Did they reach out to consumer groups? Developer groups like @owa ? Sure doesn't look like it. But they did repeat Apple's hot trash about how much time they're having to spend to [ check notes ] obey the law.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

"Regulating #AI hastens the #Antichrist, says #Palantir’s Peter #Thiel

#Tech #billionaire claims in a lecture about #religion that the #devil promises #peace and #safety by strangling #technological #progress with #regulation"

Oh fuck you you fucking wackjob

But of course, he has vast power, we do not

While we struggle with terrible conflicts today, this asshole sets up the next, more horrible one

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

:thonking:

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

If you're using the phrase "builder" in lieu of "engineer", you're signaling lowered aspirations for quality, usability, and responsiveness. And you know what? I'm inclined to take you at your word(s).

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

What Apple is trying to pull in the EU is as embarrassing for Cupertino as it is for the EU and the tech press that have credulously repeated Apple's talking points. The only good news is that the EU declined to unilaterally disarm:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
a1ba@suya.place ("41402-nyan") wrote: