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

It’s all JS for now, so you can copy and edit the on the page and play with it if you want. I might make a PHP version that caches and serves content instead of relying on live Mastodon API requests.

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

Following up on my post yesterday about Mastodon as a microblog, here’s some working code showing how you can still be a stereotypical blogger who obsesses over their website template/theme while enjoying the simplicity of a Mastodon-powered back-end.

https://neatnik.net/blog/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

my wife found this online somewhere recently, and I don't think I've agreed this hard with anything in a long time

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
juergen_hubert@mementomori.social ("Jürgen Hubert") wrote:

With the recent influx of newcomers from #Bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #Fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and most important step is a cultural change - we need to be _aware_ of how harassment operates, _especially_ if we are not its target. Thus, everyone around here - admins most of all, but really everyone - needs to drill the following into their brains:

If you are not a member of a marginalized group, you are unlikely to ever see much of the #harassment they are experiencing. Heck, you might not even be able to recognize it as such! Thus, if members of said group talk about their experiences with harassment on the Fediverse, _take them at their word_ instead of reacting with disbelief or demands for explanation and elaboration.

It is this frequent reaction disbelief that has done more than anything else to harm the reputation of the Fediverse. Because let's face it, we are still a space that is overwhelmingly white and European/North American. If we want to change that - and it is my fervent belief that we should - then we need to take the lived experiences of others seriously.

Once we have accepted that we need to expand our understanding of how harassment on the Fediverse occurs, _then_ we can work out what tools are needed to improve the situation. Because I too often see the reaction:

"If someone experiences harassment on a large scale, they are not using the tools of the Fediverse correctly to prevent this."

This is blaming the victims of harassment for the problem, and not the Fediverse as a whole. And then we will have the same trainwreck as before, and the Fediverse will remain the same hobbyist's collective rather than the serious challenge to commercial social media platforms it should be if we ever want to stop the world's plunge into #fascism .

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

#Trump loyalist and #CIA Deputy Director Has Replaced the Agency’s Top Legal Official With… Himself

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/michael-ellis-cia-trump.html

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

this is a really interesting finding

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-scientists-reverse-alzheimer-mice-nanoparticles.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

Folks who want to see JPEG-XL supported in more browsers, what is it about the format that attracts you to its use on the web compared to currently supported formats?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

Buying popcorn for when I get to watch Apple trying to not allow Ladybird browser in the EU because REASONS.

🍿

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bovaz@misskey.social wrote:

@fromjason@mastodon.social I think I agree.
They don't want to have to rely on quality, whether they deliver it or not, and actual people recommending them to their communities. they want an automated system to game, so that they may pretend to have reliable numbers to show sponsors and advertisers.

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

“Gold, often seen as a haven during times of turmoil, is on course for its best year since 1979, when prices surged over 100 percent during a period of high inflation, a depreciating dollar and a geopolitical crisis in the Middle East.

There are uncomfortable echoes of that past surge today”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/business/gold-price-us-economy.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.rk8.fqwP.hmLO2wXgvFNA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Boosted by rust@mas.to ("Rust tips"):
ianthetechie@fosstodon.org ("Ian Wagner") wrote:

New on the blog: const assertions.

https://ianwwagner.com/const-assertions.html

#rust #rustlang

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

Liquid Glass is not an aberration. It’s continuation of everything Apple has been getting wrong about UI for more than a decade.

Apple was never perfect, but they used to get things right more often than anyone else, and right or wrong they sweated over the details.

Now Apple is average at best, and they’re lazy (these two characteristics are not unrelated). You might say that Apple is lazy despite endless profit, but I would say that Apple is lazy due to endless profit.

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

Me every day now

RE: https://www.threads.com/@%5Felizabethmay/post/DPgOwGQDGnC

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

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

Anyone thinking "AI" can imitate the genius of Robin Williams misunderstands his genius, and, possibly, misunderstands humans.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-recreations-gross-1236541633/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

The 'Fork Off' Test

One of the big reasons decentralization matters is the 'fork off' test that #Bluesky CEO Jay Graber memorialized in her 'No Caesars' marketing blitz (https://observer.com/2025/03/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wants-world-without-caesars/). Simply stated, what's the mobility within the network should any one member be lost, become evil or otherwise corrupted?

Can you really move?

Now, Bob Riccie's @ricci 'Are We Decentralized Yet?' (https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/) quantifies centralization using sophisticated data analysis and analytics.

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

very important right now

Attachments:

• video: Unnecessary zoom wiht dramatic music: Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, a third person I can't remember, and then the dramatic gopher

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

Nouvelle saison de ☕ Café Guix, les rencontres en ligne pour discuter de #Guix pour la #RechercheReproductible et le #HPC, que l’on débute ou qu’on soit déjà à fond. 👇

https://hpc.guix.info/events/2025-2026/café-guix/

Premier épisode le 14 octobre !

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

“Why is Bob the barbarian carrying a frying pan?”
“Oh, that is the material component for his spell. “
“Barbarians don’t get spells!”
“Tell him that! He goes around hitting people in the face with it while yelling “cast iron!””

#ttrpg #dadjokes

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fog over Silver How.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

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

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
fingolas@journa.host ("Martin Holland") wrote:

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #SocialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

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

blogged: Email: The Final Form

https://dbushell.com/2025/10/07/email-the-final-form/

getting real tired of spam!

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I gotta admit, I am loving how little of the conversation is just "BlueSky bad! Mastodon good! 🤡" and how much of it is "BlueSky is not ideal for Black users, but let's be for real, neither is Mastodon. We don't have control over BlueSky, but we do have some agency with Mastodon. How can we make Mastodon better? Where are we with improving the issues that make this place unwelcoming for Black users? Clearly, more Black users chose BlueSky than Mastodon. Have we addressed the reasons why?" ♥️🥹

Seriously, I count ~5 conversations in the improvement framing direction. I love to see it! Shame on me for having lower expectations.

I'm unapologetically backing improvements across ActivityPub and ATProto. I back Hachyderm/Mastodon and BlackSky. You can just back both teams! Nothing in the rules says you can't do that!

Boosted by jwz:
noneuclideandreamer@mathstodon.xyz ("Non-Euclidean Dreamer") wrote:

Double Slit Experiment...

Watch an intricate interference pattern unfold: https://youtu.be/ekZ7lZ2HnLA

#mastoart

Attachments:

• gifv: A wavefront coming from left, hitting a barrier it mirrors from, canceling out. But there's first one, then two slots through which the wave leaks to the right to create an interference pattern.

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

Today in "you're prompting it wrong", the giant plagiarism machines are struggling with MCP, so bros are wrapping MCP in an API.

So it's now an API to call MCP to call an API 🤯

https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

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

“Our individual and collective narrative in some literal sense is what makes up the world in which we live, and what makes us ourselves. There is no shortcut that takes us past needing to judge each other’s actions in that shared world. The civility pitched by the hucksters and carnival barkers of the so-called center only ever emboldens and authorizes those with the power and the privilege to punch down with the approval that comes with impunity.”

https://bix.blog/posts/2025-10-06-the-gates-of-shame-and-spite/

Boosted by jwz:
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

Apple removed ICE tracking apps. Way to protect democracy, Tim Cook.

#Apple #TimCook #Cowards #Traitors #USPol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eb@social.coop ("Evan B🥥ehs") wrote:

This will crash the global economy

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

Re: Smart Glasses

Last year, I tried—and failed spectacularly because I'm not a mathematician—to come up with an equation to determine how many Americans would need to wear smart glasses in order to effectively surveil all (most) Americans.

Lots of assumptions packed in:
- always on camera
- average time outside
- average unique people in eyesight each outing etc etc

Is it 20%? 10% 5??? 1?????

Is the equation possible?

#Math #Meta #smartglasses