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

@baldur reading about links to Open AI in the comments 😭

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

@db Yeah, same.

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

@baldur yikes, I saw that "Creative Freedom Is Coming" and it filled me with dread

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

“Questions swirl over Affinity's future as Canva teases an announcement: Digital Photography Review”

https://www.dpreview.com/news/2744582289/affinity-photo-apps-pulled-from-sale-big-changes-announced-canva-purchase

I only boot my desktop into Windows around once a week to use one of three apps: CaptureOne, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher. If this means what I think it means, then two of those are about to get discontinued

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html

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

An experiment in Professor Oak’s lab has gone terribly wrong.

#pokemon #togedemaru #togedemaBOO #halloween

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
wednesday@mastodon.art ("Wednesday Dessauer") wrote:

#Inktober2025 #Day10 #Sweep #Halloween #Inktober

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
lurnoise@mastodon.art ("Lur Noise") wrote:

El próximo número de @loop_gr tratará sobre religión y folclore, y vendrá acompañado de un devocionario para el cual tuve el placer de ilustrar la portada.

Espero que esta Rennala os anime a echar unas moneditas al crowdfunding para este nuevo bucle de la revista <3

https://vkm.is/loop5

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fog over Rydal water.

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

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

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

“Banking on It”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/banking-on-it/

> Ideas – ideas that challenge the status quo of capitalism, sure, but really, any sort of new or critical thinking at all – are a threat

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

🐧 I wrote a thing: What is a Linux?

https://dbushell.com/2025/10/10/what-is-a-linux/

I'm disappearing for the weekend. I'll be disappointed if there is no suitably pedantic feedback when I return!

Boosted by jwz:
drmike ("Michael Fenichel") wrote:

"Friend" vs A.I.

Sample 2/2 - More to come

#Fenfotos #StreetPhotography #NYC
#friend #AI #photography #empathy

Boosted by jwz:
parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Sex & Nudity:
There is no sex or nudity.

Boosted by jwz:
prehnra ("Robert Prehn") wrote:

What's interesting about "big tents" is that I've never seen their advocates try to stretch them as far to the left as they do to the right. It's never like "we're sending free laptops to this Maoist insurrectionary group because they have really interesting ideas." It's always about stretching the tent to fit the people advocating for fascism.

Boosted by jwz:
adamsaidsomething ("Adam") wrote:

@davidgerard

atproto or the hyperloop of social media

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

leaf blowers should be illegal

or at least licensed with a test like bro you're just blowing leaves in circles

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

No I don't know what's happening in this video either ... I feel there is a drama or story yet to unfold 📽️

Attachments:

• video: A strange video of duckling with their mum. Except there's a pigeon and a squirrel photo bombing it

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
jscholes@dragonscave.space ("James Scholes") wrote:

Reminder that it doesn't matter which Mastodon server you join, as long as you:

Don't join one that's too big;

Don't join one that's too small;

Don't join one using server software your client doesn't support;

Don't join any of the hundreds of servers that are widely blocked by admins;

Don't want to move servers more than once in some cooldown period; and

Don't care about leaving your posts behind when you move.

Other than that, it's a completely inconsequential choice and totally like choosing an email provider.

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

@pluralistic This ends up in a bad place because the law is based on precedent and, across time and space, has historically been interpreted in pro-authoritarian ways, even in nominal democracies (see also: libertarian butt-hurt about 30s supreme court corrections).

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

@pluralistic The law, as you and I have known it until now, has worked on the principle that to win a case, one must provide evidence.

In Apple (and Google and FB)'s villain eras, this is *inconvenient*. It's why they now shrink from the idea of engagement with the law and demand to set policy above and beyond any democratic accountability.

Is it corrupt? Not necessarily.

Has it been corrupted? 100%.

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

I have a piece on the boil that builds on @pluralistic's trenchant analysis of Apple's "rogue capitalism"[1], but even before we get to that, it's important to understand the damage Apple's money is doing to the legal profession in formerly-liberal jurisdictions. As with Oil and Tobacco interests, Apple pays top-dollar for lawyers and astro-turfers [2] who will repeat fiction for cash. This is now Cupertino's primary export.

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/rogue-capitalism/
[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-19/apple-flexes-muscle-as-quiet-power-behind-app-developer-group

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
slashdot@mastodon.cloud ("Slashdot :verified:") wrote:

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' Released https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/2054218/ubuntu-2510-questing-quokka-released?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
yon@sakurajima.moe ("四") wrote:

Tomorrow (for me) Friday, I challenge everyone to write one positive post about something. But don’t do it for me, do it for yourself.

That’s all.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps:

I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop.

Framework's whole *thing*, their competitive advantage, was being better. For the most part, that came from upholding political values like repairability and OSS, but still.

They just blew up their entire competitive advantage.

jwz wrote:

I'm playing around with NextCloud and the first thing I would like to do is make it use my in-house, bespoke auth system. It seems like the user_saml plugin might be the thing to mess with, since it uses the words "Authentication via Environment Variable" but I have no idea what it means by that.

Ideally I'd have it just run a shell command for authentication, the way Qmail / Dovecot "passdb driver = checkpassword" works, since I already have that working for IMAP...
https://jwz.org/b/ykwT

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before! :blobcatyes:

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿") wrote:

Mary Pop Poppins is superb on a warm spring Friday arvo. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=u0DXpeV6IKc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DXpeV6IKc #NewSeattleScene #HornFunk #StankyGuitar #TheTrueLoves

jwz wrote:

SOMA Nature Walk Challenge:

Find a single billboard that is not "AI" middleware targeting CFOs.

Difficulty level: extreme.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwR

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

Cognitive decline seems to be going around these days.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/09/looks-like-we-wont-have-ol-jordan-to-kick-around-anymore/

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

@slightlyoff I like that when you click "Improve reliability of Notification API" its just a laundry list of iOS bugs/missing features. yeah that one is going to the top for me.