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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

I prefer that there are no frequency variations on my electrical service. I am also not a fan of an over voltage condition.

Luckily we have the modern discovery of DC, also known as Direct Current.

By utilizing batteries we can insure frequency stability. In fact it’s so stable it doesn’t even have a frequency.

For more helpful tips be sure to subscribe. I also post cat pictures.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

jwz wrote:

Having asked for a self-hosted document store and task tracker, I have learned that my choices range from:

• Here's a thin veneer over git, have fun explaining to your restaurant staff how to use "git-construct-ref --tickle-rebase-subtree".

• New Glimmer is a Dropbox clone, realtime video chat, mail server, calendar, address book, Excel, call center, some "AI" crap, a floor wax, AND a dessert topping! You can install it as an entire VM, or by piping curl through sh.

Nothing in between exists.

Boosted by jwz:
Mastodon wrote:

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

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

Fuck it, we blog.

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

My crow friends are allowing me to be closer to them. My peanuts are the talk of the town, apparently. I counted ten in the field and around my patio.

#Photography

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I hate that Prime Day has become so commercialized.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

stages of going viral on the fediverse:
1. friends and mutuals boost something you posted
2. people you're aware of and cool with boost it
3. complete strangers boost it
4. chatty strangers boost and reply, generally pleasant but a couple annoying remarks
5. post has officially Escaped Containment, boosts and replies coming from corners of fedi you didn't know existed
6. the worst most abrasive cranks on the entire network emerge from sewer drains to leave random nasty shit in your thread

Boosted by jwz:
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying they must allow opt-out and removal will read the actual post, which features both blanket opt-out and individual removal.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@slightlyoff people who only learned how to build web apps with frameworks, when they learn how to build web apps with the web

Attachments:

• video: A very young and very sad looking baby has some new glasses put on his face by his parents and, after a few seconds looking around in absolute wonder, breaks into a beaming smile of joy

Boosted by jwz:
paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:

At the rate things are going, I expect an "Apple provides government with list of users who downloaded ICEBlock app" headline in a few more weeks. I’m feeling embarrassed for them.

Boosted by jwz:
karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Karl Bode") wrote:

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
twifkak@mas.to wrote:

@slightlyoff To me, that's the weirdest part to watch play out. In my experience, the argument that React is better DX than other options is easily falsifiable by spending even a few hours with another framework.

And in my experience, the argument that its DX shines once your app is large is belied by even a few hours trying to make a change to almost any preexisting React codebase.

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

This BBC Radio 4 three-part doc on fascism as a continuous, and continuously opposed, thread in British life is very good and worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sbdx

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

Every time I watch a team of hard-working folks burn months on a React upgrade, I'm reminded of how thoroughly the JS-Industrial-Complex gaslit us.

You know who hasn't slogged through constant breaking change migrations? Web Components developers. New runtimes drop *every month*...and it's *fine*.

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

Apple knows how to take people to court. Ask anyone involved with browser choice or right-to-repair. It rolled over for DHS and gave Dear Leader a golden turd because it *wants things*; namely to protect the avenues of control over APIs (the App Store monopoly) that it taxes so heavily. And if lending that control to authoritarians for a bit is the price, so be it.

It's all part of the playbook, which is anti-democratic in practice, if not theory:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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

Ask: what did Apple *want* in return for bending the knee?

Answer: the end of the rule of law in Europe, and with it, an example for others.

Shot:

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

Chaser:

https://www.politico.eu/article/von-der-leyen-stands-by-the-eus-tech-rules-amid-trumps-threats/

https://on.ft.com/4q2f2FC

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

now more than ever

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lokigwyn@vintagepropagand.art ("Loki Gwynbleidd 😷🏴🎨") wrote:

No Border except Terriers !

New blue, vintage, cute and anti border linocut!

Available as homemade prints, Redbubble prints and free/open price downloads.
👉 All links https://social.lokipropagand.art/#DernierePubli

🐶

#FediArt #Vintage #Linocut #Dogs #Cute #NoBorders

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

The reality that Apple is actively anti-web is obscured somewhat by an influential set of aging web commentators who remember when it wasn't, and enjoy the privileges of living in the wealth bubble more than they care about junior devs and the web ecosystem they benefited from so much.

To the extent that they are failing to demand better browsers on their phones, that's a scandal:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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

Yeah, I’m a hard-hitting tech publication that speaks truth to power and also paywalls everything . Here are the 15 best Amazon Prime Day Deals you can still get:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
Foxboron@chaos.social ("Morten Linderud") wrote:

Lol, #framework decided to sponsor Hyprland as well?

Did they swallow the entire #DHH pill?

Beyond disappointing.

https://xcancel.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1975925109647987101

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

This you, Kristi?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

This is not normal, this is fascism. Never let it become normal.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Feds banned all unmanned aircraft/drones in Chicago claiming "National Security" reasons. Apparently started October 1st, when they first started attempting to intimidate the city. #aviation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space wrote:

Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!

Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.

Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!

P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.

#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

I went to Gosh comics today and painted the window. Just in time for the release and launch party for Physics For Cats. Come along and get a book signed tomorrow (Thursday) 7-9pm! pic 1. In progress (from inside) pic 2. The complete window, just waiting for the books.goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

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

the alleged "war zone" at the Portland I.C.E. facility last night

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneyvaughn.bsky.social/post/3m2npddylmc2w

Attachments:

• gifv: A furry dance party in the streets, not a war zone... liars will lie

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@vxdb/115338982793901975

I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @vxdb to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.