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

strongly agree

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115335749965471232

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
earleyedition@aus.social ("Dave Earley") wrote:

The NYC Bar Association is accusing the President of the United States of the murder of at least 20 civilians by ordering US military strikes against private vessels in international waters. "They were illegal summary executions – murders." https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/unlawful-attacks-on-venezuelan-vessels/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Five arrested after alleged assassination attempt on Ecuador President Noboa
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/americas/ecuador-president-noboa-assassination-attempt-latam-intl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

We are at: A country singer, Zach Bryan, who just played the largest ticketed concert in the US, wrote an anti ICE raid protest song.

https://abcnews.go.com/culture/story/zach-bryan-controversy-new-music-ice-raids-immigration/?id=126288648

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

activitypub: fucking exists, cheap, clunky but works

atproto: what if we redesign the whole thing from first principles and it's super complicated and costs a bundle to run and it's been two years and it still doesn't fucking work and also we keep a centralised kill switch, but here's our white papers on how it's superior to the solution that fucking exists

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

I wonder how well those Digital IDs are going to work during a mass blackout or telecom breakdown....hmmmmmm

#DigitalID #collapse

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

The prospect of fashy RubyGems.org/Ruby Central getting displaced by a literal coop with a .coop domain name ( https://gem.coop ) is beyond entertaining for me. I am so excited. LFG

#ruby #RubyGems #RubyCentral #GemCoop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

IN WHICH ONE AUTHOR tried to file a claim in the Anthropic copyright case, failed, got frustrated, then blogged about it while still pretty hot under the collar.

(it’s me; i’m author)

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-right-to-copy/

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

Your reminder that RFK Jr. isn't even qualified enough to be called a quack

(gift link)

https://wapo.st/3VTALll

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

this made me larf

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/business/ai-chatbot-prompts-resumes.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.rk8.DuLA.BLYpuS4wExKo&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jwz wrote:

The sad part about rewatching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is that Judge Doom's plan came true anyway: Disneyland paved over Toon Town. Parked a Star Destroyer right on top of it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwM

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Breaking: Arduino has been acquired by Qualcomm. I'm expecting the next board to come with 5G, AI, Dolby Atmos, and a subscription plan to blink an LED.

#ArduNoNo 🤣

https://www.arduino.cc/qualcomm

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

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones:

"TOSV also signed a similar contract with ICE in September 2024 for $818,000, showing that the relationship between the agency and the company predates the Trump administration. "

#ICE was always fascist and their existence is a bi-partisan effort. Say it with me. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

jwz wrote:

Did we ever get an answer to the question, "What time is love?" Because I feel like "I wanna see you sweat" is just a deflection.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwJ

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

WA state: if you're interested in making universal healthcare reality, Whole Washington is looking for volunteers https://wholewashington.org/apply/

If you want to help but don't have time or willpower required for volunteering (like me), consider donating. We need all the help!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Blue hour at Skelwith Bridge.

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

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

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

Okay, I have all but confirmed that the mysterious "layout constraint" error that started happening in my app after upgrading to Tahoe is a SwiftUI bug: the layout engine gets freaked out by an HSplitView in the detail of a NavigationSplitView. (No, YOU have too many splits.) #SwiftUI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
PrivacyDigest@mas.to wrote:

Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived | #Internet #Archive Blogs

This October, the #InternetArchive will celebrate an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the #WaybackMachine.

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with #libraries & partners around the world to build a shared digital #library of humanity’s online #history: capturing websites large and small—from breaking news to forgotten personal pages
#wayback

https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Everything Is Becoming a Bank. “Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy.” https://jacobin.com/2025/10/bankification-financialization-debt-interest-credit/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Daring to ask the real questions, like what if a goblin was tall

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Even if Germany opposes Chat Control on October 14th, this is still only a blocking minority. If your country is still undecided or is supporting Chat Control, keep the pressure on! 💪🇪🇺

👉 Use this tool to contact your MEPs: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

📰 Contact your local media

🗣️ Keep talking about it on social media!

Let's change this blocking minority into a blocking majority! ✊🔒

#ChatControl #Privacy #EUpol #HumanRights #Democracy

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

I think it's all but a certainty that in our lifetimes we see a politically viable candidate who runs on outlawing local computation.

All it takes is one t*rrorist attack that uses AI; one photo of a brown guy next to a group of daisy chained Mac Minis, for the US media to run wild with the narrative— should everyday Americans have powerful computers with local computation?

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

We talk a lot about the #centralized vs #decentralized dichotomy, but what's much more consequential is local vs #cloud computing.

It's #Nvidia (and #Amazon, #Meta, #Microsoft, #Google ) vs #Apple.

Not saying Tim Cook is the good guy, but if we never got Apple custom silicon, we'd all be on thin clients that couldn't compute a meal tip without the cloud.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

Annie Lowrey, wife of Ezra Klein, gets an Atlantic Cuomo-apologist hit piece (with a scary illustration) against Zohran Mamdani, and is against ranked choice voting.

"Liberals" like this are why Trump wins. They'll throw "vote blue no matter who" and even democracy under the bus to prevent progressives from winning.

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

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY #retrocomputing folks

You know that retro ISP thing me and like, 20 others have been working on for LITERALLY A YEAR?

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net (CGHMN) is now IN OPEN BETA!

Bring out your Windows, your Macs, your UNIX boxes and let's get them networked and running services and games like it's 1999 again!

https://signup.cghmn.org/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:

One of the things that came up in a recent Embedded.fm is what are the non-AI uses for the AI accelerators appearing on some microcontrollers.

Linear algebra but how what kind and how can I put my algorithms in if they aren't neural nets?

Anyone know about this?

Boosted by jwz:
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling") wrote:

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.