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

The EU's DMA came into force more than a year ago, but we still don't have real browser choice on iOS because Apple is blocking it. Thankfully, @owa is pulling no punches: "Apple is obstructionist."

Hopefully other regulators clock what's happening and treat Apple's hostility towards interoperability and democratic oversight for what it is:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-at-the-eu-parliament-dma-working-group/

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

Everybody knows Akron Floor Dogs are Ohio's best regional cuisine, beating Cincinnati Chili by several miles

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DPlXIp0kY4L

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

The CMA's designation is obviously correct, and Google should know better than to trot out tired, barely veiled, entirely unserious threats:

https://www.ft.com/content/8cc9b094-698d-41d8-8399-b10dc3e57e70

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cb@social.lol ("Christopher Burton 🇺🇦") wrote:

There will be people who tell you that what you're doing or not doing won't make a difference. Ignore these people. They are complicit in their apathy. #resist

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

Look, I didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize either but you won't see me whining about it

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

‘After Ms. Noem’s visit to Portland, Mr. Johnson appeared live on Newsmax from inside the cordoned-off ICE building. He described the building as being in downtown Portland and said that the windows were blacked out and covered with tarps because “Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities.”

Police have not reported any incidents of sniper fire, and the ICE building sits about two miles from downtown Portland.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/right-wing-influencers-portland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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.