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justjanne@decentralised.chat ("justJanne") wrote:

@pojntfx that's why this sticker exists :)

SVG: https://github.com/justjanne/stickers/blob/main/designs/ssl%20added%20and%20removed%20here.svg

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pojntfx ("Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅") wrote:

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Found a feral cursor today in Łódź.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Federal government funding runs out on Tuesday night. This means it’s important to remind our Democratic senators that we expect them to hold their ground — not roll over like last time. Urge your Democratic senators to HOLD THE LINE against any GOP funding deal that hands Trump a blank check: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/funding-fight-democratic-senator/?source=mastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Not the droid you're looking for. (Buy my new book at gricklemart.com) #grickledoodle #horror #starwars #thering #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving."

Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves.

In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Hope to see some #pdx friends at the Health Care for All Oregon Portland chapter meeting in a park this afternoon https://health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-september-chapter-meeting-and-social

I have pink hair and a navy dress printed with bright dinosaur heads, i am findable and memorable!

(I know there are a lot of other important and awesome things happening today, and if you are going to any of those i hope you have a good time, stay safe, and tell us all about it later)

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

“Bullsh*t Writing - by John Warner”

https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/bullsht-writing

Solid and practical piece on what writing is for

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In life: "You need to be independent, don't rely on anyone!"

In dev: npm install left-pad

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

strongly agree

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/the-us-government-is-facing-a-crisis-of-legitimacy

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Oh wow, some of the Supremes were also involved in Bush v. Gore.

"The lawyers who pressed this theory included Roberts, Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, all of whom now sit on the supreme court."

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW you find out Sam Alito and John Roberts were both hired to work against the VRA.

"The Reagan administration hired a young Samuel Alito after he professed interest in apportionment, or how legislatures draw districts. The administration also hired a young John Roberts who helped the administration’s (unsuccessful) effort to oppose renewing and expanding the VRA."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/28/supreme-court-louisiana-v-callais

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

“The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.

With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/us-mass-resignation-federal-workers

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SRDas@mastodon.online wrote:

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#DasCDMX

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

This GitHub repo archives a discontinued repository of CP/M software created between 1979 and 1984, MIT-MC (later moved to SIMTEL20). It comprises free and shareware code and other files.

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984

#cpm #retrocomputing

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Sure, these are challenging times but remember when Apple removed the headphone jack from iPhones?

We'll be fine, we are more resilient than we give ourselves credit for.

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

Americans have a weird obsession with our flag. It's a bit embarrassing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/28/an-american-sickness/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blue_fenix@hachyderm.io ("Chris Pelatari") wrote:

@SherBeareth she’s been photogenic from the jump:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

1. US soldiers murdered 135 mostly women & children Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee as they surrendered after forced displacement, i.e. genocide

2. Amazing how we can't pay reparations because no one alive today was enslaved, but we can honor the dead white supremacists who committed war crimes.

Trump is honoring literal white supremacists. This is fascism.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HxxxKxxx@det.social ("Harald Klinke") wrote:

Warum halluzinieren Sprachmodelle?

Nicht weil sie „kaputt“ sind – sondern weil ihr Training sie dafür belohnt, plausible Antworten zu geben, auch wenn sie unsicher sind.

Schon im Pretraining entstehen Fehler: seltene Fakten können nicht zuverlässig gelernt werden.
Im Post-Training wird „Raten statt IDK“ durch Benchmarks belohnt – Modelle sind „gute Testteilnehmer“, aber keine Wahrheitsmaschinen.
#DigitaleSouveränität #KIInfrastruktur #TrustworthyAI
PDF https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4aaa5/why-language-models-hallucinate.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

daily Chinese news headline: Scientists grow the world’s first functional human spine replacement from a single drop of blood

daily American news headline: White House declares that sunburns are caused by bees

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@mwl "Scenery Gorn" sounds like a pitch for a reboot of Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" series?

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

as predicted by Soundgarden on the ancient discs 🙏

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

“That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus”

https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story

> The Secret Service is lying to the press. They know it’s just a normal criminal SIM farm and are hyping it into some sort of national security or espionage threat.

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

“The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym | Alfie Kohn”

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/

> research to date fails to demonstrate the value, let alone necessity, of succumbing to corporate hype and opening our classrooms to AI tools.

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

🪡 published my Silksong review and thoughts on gaming difficulty and accessibility!

It's an RSS-only thing:
https://dbushell.com/subscribe/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
apilsetas wrote:

by Marco Wilm

#photograpy

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

When I wrote a piece last week on Apple's brazen attempts to undermine the rule of law by framing regulators for (not even) doing their jobs, this was the sort of rot I was on about:

https://on.ft.com/4nqfMCI

The background piece:

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