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

Muting this thread because it broke containment and I can’t keep up. Talk amongst yourselves.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Ported an old Scala app to #Rust , now running it as a #lambda, wrote about it

https://beachape.com/blog/2025/10/04/porting-instabeach-to-rust-a-10-year-old-play-app-goes-serverless/

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

My latest: Discord said late on Friday that hackers stole users' government-issued IDs (passports and driver's licenses) from one of its customer support databases.

I wrote a few words about the risks of age verification laws, and why collecting people's government IDs is bad for security and privacy.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/discord-says-users-government-ids-used-for-age-checks-stolen-by-hackers/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

You’d think switching between Mac and Windows daily wouldn't be an issue because I'm using Emacs, but the Meta key—by default, Option/Alt—is a physically different key on each OS. Argh! I'm giving up and making the left Command key the Meta key on the Mac. (Right command key stays command.)

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

Testosterone-addled boys hyped up on comic books and video games are in charge of the country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/04/the-country-is-being-run-by-snot-nosed-immature-teen-aged-man-children/

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

The first resort of fascists is always cruelty -- and they execute it so clumsily. Tearing naked children away from their mothers is just stupid. You are the baddies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/04/the-battle-of-chicago-has-begun/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
paparatti@phire.place ("🍅📚 natalie ✒️🌱") wrote:

Just so everyone knows: Seattle Public Schools is holding vaccine clinics for the general public every weekend, plus some weekdays, from now until the beginning of November. Covid AND flu. You do not have to have a kid attending SPS, you do not have to live in Seattle, or even King County, you just have to want to be vaccinated and have insurance or $. I'm getting mine next weekend!

https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/health-services/vaccine-clinics/

#seattle #PNW #health

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

There will be some people who read this thread, clutch their pearls, and exclaim how wrong I am about Manton.

I’m tired of those people’s willful ignorance, and the way they inevitably prioritize their support for one man over the need to build and promote genuinely inclusive spaces. Especially right now, more than ever.

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

Manton says he’s tired of being “attacked” (as if pointing out his embarrassing conduct qualifies as an attack on anything other than his own ego). But do you know what *I’m* tired of? I’m tired of people in positions of leadership and influence carelessly hurting others through their ignorance. I’m tired of watching my trans friends suffer through a rise in fascism and seeing those who could be using their influence to help only further twisting the knife.

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

Yesterday, in the face of active turmoil surrounding the Bluesky CEO’s disgusting treatment of trans people on her platform, Manton Reece (owner of Micro.blog) posted a message praising that very CEO and her “strong principles and vision.”

Even after multiple people pointed out how terrible and insensitive of a take that was, and even after the day passed, his post remains exactly as he wrote it. No retraction, no clarification.

He’s telling you exactly what he means.

https://www.manton.org/2025/10/03/apparently-there-was-some-drama.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Sunset at Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

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

Most people in tech: “This is probably the biggest tech bubble of the century, popping on top of the worst tech job market of the century, all hosted by the shittiest, most authoritarian, garbage US admin in modern history, but I’m sure it won’t affect me personally.”

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

Been calling “AI” a financial bubble for three years now (1. “this is gonna be a bubble”, 2. “This is a bubble but hasn’t peaked yet”, 3. “This is fucking huge, what’s wrong with you all?!”) and it’s nice to see mainstream rhetoric finally shift, even if most of tech is still in some denial

Boosted by jwz:
dale_price@mastodon.online ("Dale Price") wrote:

Everyone in the fediverse whenever there’s #bluesky drama

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apilsetas wrote:

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

#photograpy

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

TIL that if you are a US citizen who was born in an aircraft traveling over international waters, your passport will forever list your place of birth as "In The Air". That seems pretty badass.

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)") wrote:

the screenshot of the ceo of #bluesky #blueskysocial saying "we didn't do blocks because they're hard" is a straight-up admission to not being serious about solving the nazi problem. sorry, you cannot recover from this by ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN FOR A JACK-DORSEY-RELATED VENTURE, implementing blocks as an afterthought. bluesky is irrecoverably fucked.

EDIT TO ADD: per https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110278426748225990

the bit they left out is that the person this was in aid of was Matt Yglesias who had a flock of trans posters tell him to fuck off, then fuck off some more

they didn't care about [harassment] until it was Matt Y

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

“The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says - MarketWatch”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c

I keep seeing people flat out state that this bubble popping won't have meaningful consequences outside of tech.

Meanwhile it’s the biggest bubble of the century in a severely weakened economy , poor regulatory environment, and a global community in near collapse

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

Bluesky: We're cloning Hellsite.

Users: Haha. Just the good bits ri-

Bluesky: Shut the fuck up and pay me.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
xoagray@tiggi.es ("Xoa Gray") wrote:

As soon as all this age verification bullshit started I said this would happen.

It was basically a given, but I still hate being right again.

https://mastodon.social/@verge/115312951607370829

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

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that my posts aren't seen by everyone.

On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that I have to ask questions because search is less-than perfect.

On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that in order to host on your own domain you have to spin up infrastructure or work with someone who can.

On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that there are entirely closed-off networks inaccessible from the outside.

These are features. Jank is a feature. Embrace it.

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

Storm Amy has a Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%5FAmy

which I found doomscrolling because the storm cancelled my local park run 😡

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@AmyZenunim my current theory is that (a) bsky is worried about money (remember that it's 2 yrs and they have 0 revenue) and (b) someone is dangling a fashtech funding offer in front of her

on 15 oct, an unworkable new TOS comes in and I predict a mass cull of the users they hate

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
JustGrist@disabled.social ("A feral Cass (they/them)") wrote:

I remember David Gerard--who has a good handle on the neoreactionary tech dipshits--saying like two fucking years ago that the bluesky ceo hangs out with nazis, so none of the shit I'm reading about bluesky today is really a surprise.

It's almost like you should listen to people who know what they're talking about before the shit they predict actually happens.

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

This is wild.

I, quite easily, migrated from Bluesky to one of Blacksky's PDSes: https://cryptoanarchy.network.

Rad af.

I used https://tektite.cc and all it took was ~10 minutes? Less?

The CEO of Bluesky WANTS you to go elsewhere so...do it. It's so easy.

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

@manton So let me get this straight: you dropped into my mentions, posted a complete lie about me, accused me of spreading other lies (without elaboration or evidence), and now you’re deleting that post (which incidentally isn’t even deleted from Mastodon because your ActvityPub implementation remains deeply flawed), and you just want to pretend it never happened?

Add in the fact that the thing you accused me of lying about—the receipt of a cease and desist notice earlier this year—was the most stressful thing I’ve experienced in a very long time. And you just casually declared that I made it up? Can you maybe take a moment to consider how that might make someone feel? (And look up DARVO while you’re at it.)

And now after the damage is done, you just want to hit the undo button?

This doesn’t sit well with me. At all. I share a fair amount of criticism toward you, for sure, but it’s all based on your own writings and actions. You don’t have to like it, though it remains my right to post it. But I have never once said an untrue thing about you. I’ve said unflattering things, but none were lies. Not once. But today you decided to cross that line yourself when you made an entirety untrue statement about me. And it *really* doesn’t sit well with me.

If you don’t want people to question your integrity, maybe you shouldn’t conduct yourself in a manner that puts your integrity in doubt. Like lying about people.

Let me make this perfectly clear: sharing an opinion about something you’ve said or done is not an “attack”. Pointing out how gross it is that you’d give a written high-five to a jerk CEO is not “coming at you”. Drop the victim framing and grow up. If you don’t like what someone is saying about you, ignore it, or respond to the underlying central point. Don’t just lash out by spreading lies and then write about how no one should ever subject you to criticism because they don’t know what you’re going through.

I’m genuinely sorry to hear about your mother. Best wishes for a speedy and strong recovery.

Boosted by jwz:
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

Meanwhile on Mastodon: “actually it’s GNU/Waffles”

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

"Google is just as bad!" is telling on yourself.

To use Popper's framing, it's pure, uncut *"who should rule?"* brain. And that's not our problem now. Our problem is how to get away from concentrated, easily-subverted power structures.

And that doesn't involve horse-race thinking; it involves alternatives that are not singly owned. Alternatives like the web and PWAs.