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

this is great: Can you use GDPR to Circumvent BlueSky's Adult Content Blocks?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/can-you-use-gdpr-to-circumvent-blueskys-adult-content-blocks/

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

Jey McCreight is ever an activist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/so-thats-what-jey-mccreight-has-been-up-to/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

🚨 We are in the last few days to get your hands on these exclusive stickers from @ruminate and @adam. Five stickers for $20 AND you get to help cure childhood cancer so you should do it even if you hate stickers as much as everyone hates cancer.

$20, five stickers! By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings! https://stjude.omg.lol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wchr ("Wolfie Christl") wrote:

"Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase from companies working in the digital marketing and advertising industries ... Phones in the data could be tracked back to specific residential addresses after entering high-security prisons, military bases, and Leinster House, as well as sensitive locations like health clinics"

Another media investigation into commercial mobile/app location data in Ireland:
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0918/1534034-data-for-sale/

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

And there's a good chance of another volcanic eruption soon. Looks like this might be an interesting news week here in Iceland

https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-29-magma-accumulation-under-svartsengi-at-possible-threshold-454599

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

Odds are that the announcement from the Play executives was written by the Cohn & Wolfe Iceland PR firm. They’ve had them on retainer since before Play flew its first flight.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
fdroidorg@floss.social ("F-Droid") wrote:

Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again.

We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!

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

Iceland Express -> Wow Air -> Play. Roughly the same group of people running the same “strategy” of selling tickets at a massive loss to generate numbers that excite a gullible stock market. They’re certain to try again.

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

I'm really loving the #Linux CLI email program Aerc. I do find it quite odd that in the composer, it's enforced hard breaks at 72 characters. I know this is a traditional thing from older days of email, but I wish there was a way to switch that off. Does anyone in the Fedi know if that's possible?

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

The English language news story on Play’s bankruptcy

https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-29-play-goes-bankrupt-all-flights-cancelled-operations-cease-454621

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

My dad’s been waiting for this to happen all year because they’ve never been run with the expectation of ever having a sustainable business so this was inevitable. I expected this to happen next year, but was off by a few months

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

“Play hættir starfsemi - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-09-29-play-haettir-starfsemi-454615

So Iceland's sleaziest airline (Play), founded on the ruins of Iceland's previous sleaziest airline (Wow), by mostly the same management, and run mostly as what looks like an investment con, has immediately ceased operations. Loads of people are going to get screwed on this one, including most of Iceland's pension funds

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
openmw@mastodon.gamedev.place ("OpenMW") wrote:

There are now release candidates for #OpenMW 0.50.0.

https://openmw.org/2025/openmw-0-50-0-is-now-in-rc-phase/

#gaming #foss #opensource #game #engine

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
actualtorgo@threads.net ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Good news from Moldova today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo 🇪🇺

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

Ok, with this and some other tweaks (faster CSS selectors, bundling image-prep script in `rAF`via `MutationObserver,` etc.), pretty happy with the outcome, even with this post pulling in a chonky pair of scripts for charts (which I need to make `IntersectionObserver`-based):

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250928%5FYiDc8Z%5F2N8-l:sept%2027,250929%5FZiDcE2%5F2A4-l:sept%2028&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=visual

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻"):
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

📝 Some misc. thoughts of dependency management and what not.

Software is just a giant witch’s brew lol

dependencies:
eye-of-newt: ^1.4.0
tongue-of-dog: ^2.7.0

scripts:
build: "double double tooling and trouble"
deploy: "fire burn and cauldron bubble"

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/run-software-on-software-youve-never-run/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Ditch DocuSign! Use DocuSeal. It is a free, open source secure, and efficient tool to handle all your documents. Simply create PDF forms that anyone can fill and sign online using easy, mobile optimized tool and much more. Give it a try https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal

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

Interestingly, because the Netlify Image CDN now supports AVIF and I adopted it a few months ago, the window for observing these previews only seems to show up on emulated 2G links on first view, or very image-heavy pages:

https://docs.netlify.com/build/image-cdn/overview/

Good times!

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

This differs from the original, which did not adjust gamma and set different values for sharpening. There are also some "fudge" constants in the post-colour-space conversions that I don't fully understand, but I was able to get the same output for Lean's test images, so happy enough with it for now.

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

Specifically, this is what we end up with for the sharp conversions to get the sample image:

```js
let previewBuffer = await sf.gamma(2)
.resize(3, 2, { fit: "fill" })
.sharpen({ sigma: 0.5 })
.removeAlpha()
.toFormat("raw", { bitdepth: 8 })
.toBuffer();
```

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

The other unsettling thing is that the `colorthief` library the approach uses is *very* slow. Going to need to either figure out a different quantization strategy, start parallelizing (first port of call), or both.

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

Just pushed a version of these badass CSS-only image previews to my blog:

https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Biggest upside is cleaner markup. Also gave me the excuse to defer raster of below-the-fold images entirely with `content-visibility`.

A few tricky things getting it good enough to replace the AVIF-based placeholders I was using before:

- colourspace conversion functions Lean uses aren't accurate; need to copy specific files
- the algorithm for the sample images changed since publication

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

Kidz Bop is getting wild!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

I love the concept art here of a piloted, reusable main booster for the space shuttle: https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-ambitious-space-shuttle-concept-was-a-post-apollo-pipe-dream-we-never-got

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

How Jensen Huang is Using Nvidia Cash to Rule the AI Economy — The Information:

"Nvidia’s investments have become so large and broad—often consisting of multiple companies in data centers, model making and other categories—that it’s starting to turn into something like AI’s government." https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jensen-huang-using-nvidia-cash-rule-ai-economy

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

Don't tell Gail but I actually murdered her one of those times. IN PORTLAND.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DPKbWn3Ekna

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

I assume a fair bit of people don’t know I make fonts. Even if you don’t have a need for fonts, I recommend checking out the website I made for my type foundry, Crown. A lot of work went into this website to make it a great showcase for the work Ender and I are doing together.

🔗 https://crowntype.com/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

New blog post about “ikigai” as it pertains to me and why it took me so long to get here.

https://blog.webb.page/2025-09-28-ikigai.txt

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Alright here’s my hot take on AI. *hides under desk*

https://blakewatson.com/journal/understanding-not-slop-is-whats-interesting-about-llms/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aud@fire.asta.lgbt ("Asta [AMP]") wrote:

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social DNC stans: "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO"

NYC: chooses a socialist lite candidate as the DNC nominee

DNC: "... ooooooooooh... uhhhhh..."