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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
concretedog wrote:

Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/10/source-issue-3-out-now-open-hardware.html #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired off a stream of laser-encoded data across 218 million miles. And Earth caught it. The test, part of the Deep Space Optical Communications project, used California telescopes to aim and decode the faint beams, after earlier feats like streaming ultra-HD video from 19 million miles. With 65 test passes complete, the system points to a future where Mars missions swap radio crackle for broadband bursts of light. NotebookCheck https://www.notebookcheck.net/NASA-successfully-sends-and-receives-data-encoded-with-lasers-from-218-million-miles-away.1119661.0.html

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

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’:

"Google said apps that have user generated content must also conduct content moderation."

Painfully obvious who has complete control over the means of communication.

#ICE https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/

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

"my blog post is not a commentary on the substance of whatever it was"

Of course. But it was *stunning* commentary on your level of ignorance.

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

I’ve had to deal with so much shit from people (mostly his friends, lol) who think that I’ve just bad-mouthed this guy for a year or so because I’m a meanie or because of some kind of business/competitive angle. But no, I’ve only ever been trying to shine a light on the fact that he is clueless, and having clueless people in charge of social spaces is dangerous. https://www.manton.org/2025/10/03/apparently-there-was-some-drama.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
powderpaint@glitch.social wrote:

🍂ITS FINALLY HERE 🍂

our post-punk inspired banger 'Wait' is pay-what-you-want on bandcamp

it's bandcamp friday today and artists get full share of proceeds, so grab it now 🙏🏼✨

https://powderpaint.bandcamp.com/track/wait

we hope you love it as much as we do

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
NumenSkog@mastodon.art ("🎃 Numen Skog - Spooky bird 🎃") wrote:

Just a brush test (i've like zero spoons this week so help with alt text is appreciated)

#art #sketch #digitalsketchbook #procreate #portrait #artistworkout #MastoArt #fediart #DigitalArt #ALT4you

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tubetime ("ToOoOb👻Time") wrote:

hmm i guess technically this is an alligator clip because it has the wider jaw

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

“Beyond credibility | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/beyond-credibility

> That is, faced with the horror of women’s experience, Freud rejected the evidence in front of him. Rather than believe the women he had collaborated with, and so be forced to revise his image of the respectable men in his midst, he chose to maintain that respectability by refusing the validity of his own observations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Maayan Sophia Weisstub's updated version of The Great Wave of Kanagawa 🌊

#Art

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yetzt@yetzt.me wrote:

turns out, spiderman lightsabers are the thing to have as a six year old in brandenburg.

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

Bubble's gonna burst!

OpenAI generated US$4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.

The artificial intelligence firm reported a net loss of US$13.5 billion during the same period, with more than half attributed to the remeasurement of convertible interest rights.

Research and development expenses were its largest cost, totaling US$6.7 billion in the first half.

(OpenAI current valuation: $500Bn.)

https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Video: AOC says Democrats are ‘tremendously united’ in effort to end government shutdown | 4:09

https://youtu.be/jWlYGKXe1zM?si=Q62VTN1Ka1Y5Tc9S

"They are getting walloped in these negotiations because they have no plan for the people... we're fighting to make sure that people's health care premiums can remain as low as possible after $1 trillion cuts to our healthcare system... that's what we're trying to make sure we are protecting the people from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWlYGKXe1zM

cc: @renewedresistance

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

from briefing.com

“The key takeaway from the report is that it carries some stagflation messaging for the nation's largest business sector[services]: no growth, contracting employment, and higher inflation.”

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

My whole life I was told that if we ever forced corporations to stop exploiting the poor that those corporations would go overseas.

It turns out that the US Government does actually have the power to compel corporations to do things, because every Fortune 500 CEO has happily bent over for Trump.

#Apple #ICE

https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a walk up Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
debian_ar@rebel.ar ("Debian Argentina") wrote:

🎉 ¡Ya tenemos logo ganador para la #DebConf26!

El logo elegido es “DebConfest” de Romina Molina 🖌️, licenciado bajo CC BY-SA 4.0.

Top 3:
1️⃣ DebConfest – Romina Molina
2️⃣ El sol y el puente – Ana Carolina Autalán
3️⃣ El puente, la brisa y el Ceibo – Ana Carolina Autalán

👉 Logo y propuestas

#Debian #DebianAr #DebConf26 #SoftwareLibre #Artwork

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

omg https://www.catawiki.com/en/a/1150289-eames-by-eames-a-design-legacy?utm%5Fsource=Klaviyo&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Campaign%20Oct%202%2C%202025%20at%202%3A08%20PM&utm%5Fcontent=campaign&%5Fkx=xRTjXEIt%5Fq5pWOYf%5FL4OKoX2WVM8thdDitBjwSs%5FyFI.VDJbyw

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

Shocked, shocked I am to discover hypocrisy within this political movement

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/jack-posobiec-voter-fraud-pizzagate-maga.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"We get it; the clock is ticking. That's why we're burning through vital, vanishing natural resources to work out why all the vital natural resources are vanishing so quickly..."

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

Stripe's international rollout seems to have slowed down to a crawl. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they'd rather promote their Atlas service for incorporating in the states than support more countries.

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

Lemon Squeezy is clearly heading towards abandonware after the Stripe acquisition

Got an email from them to update my tax information, which honestly isn't that unusual of a request when a company changes hands, but any attempt to click to the payout/tax section of the app results in an internal server error

I'd migrated away from LS a while back, but was planning on keeping it ready as a backup, but that's looking less and less likely

(Regular Stripe does not accept Icelandic businesses)

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

YESS! 😎 Sonic 1 now runs on IRIX 🥳

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

“"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages

> If we think about the AI as a wage depression tool rather than a productivity increasing tool, then I think the idea that we should get our hopes up [for the AI boom to end] because all these studies say productivity isn’t actually increasing is a bit premature.

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

Nobody loves a coward

https://share.google/cOhUlqyTMkG5MRoau

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

.@404mediaco : no mention of web apps as an alternative
Bloomberg: same
Reuters: ditto
BI: you were expecting...what, exactly?...from BI?
The Verge: [ drooling sounds ]
NYT: [ copies The Verge's homework ]
Engadget: [ copies less prestigious outlet's homework ]
BBC: lolsob, but in British accent
Bloomberg: same slop, but at Bloomberg because you're at a terminal, I guess?

Cooked. Totally, absolutely, Tim levels of cooked.

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

Would a web app be fully censorship resistant? No. But it wouldn't be a single point of failure like this.

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

The tech press are 100% cooked. I double dog dare you to find any mention in any of the stories covering this that point out it there is an alternative to the App Store:

https://www.techmeme.com/251002/p40#a251002p40

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

Apropos of nothing, but maybe monopolies on software distribution are, like, bad? And a threat to the legitimate exercise of civic rights?

Anyway, make web apps and support @owa