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

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones:

"The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The app, which requires no system permissions, can then effectively read data that any other installed app displays on the screen."

Tying our phone numbers to every account we make eas ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/10/13/hackers-can-steal-fa-codes.html

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me@jaehanley.social ("Jae") wrote:

We need more Democrats to speak plainly about the issues trans people, specifically, and I’m both glad and not surprised that Zoharn Mamdani is doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvVSpN0BXg

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

Ah. Apparently, the magic trick is using "gnome-tweaks" to fix Emacs' font rendering, because Linux's font rendering is still driven by whatever library the application is compiled against. That's, you know, not the best, but okay. (The fonts are comparatively huge, too?)

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ZorzStudios/115369181567344164

Hell yeah. I love when AI exposes the subtle idiosyncrasies of American racism. We immediately know which dog breeds will be white humans, and which will be Black. Excited for the 404 write-up

#ChatGPT

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

#Fleabag's writing was so good it almost made me want to quit writing, but at the same time inspired me to write more.

#writing

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

My buddy lost his job to AI. It was his job to chug thousands of gallons of water at a data center

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cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

📝 Analyzing the domains (and sites) of an authoritarian regime #Development #Webdev #Nextjs #Politics #Cloudflare #USPol

If you've ever wondered what domains the US federal government has registered, there's a rather exhaustive list over in the dotgov-data repository on GitHub, which is maintained by CISA. You can see the raw CSV here. They don't include the registration date, but you can derive that from...

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/analyzing-the-domains-and-sites-of-an-authoritarian-regime

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smbsy@mastodon.art ("Smbsy") wrote:

Last week there was a harvestman guarding the gate. This week its a nursery web spider.

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Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

ICMP is the Insane Clown Messaging Protocol

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gr8day@mindly.social ("Gr8day") wrote:

"Booty" and "butt" are synonyms.
"Call" and "dial" are synonyms.
But, a "booty call" and a "butt dial" mean two VERY different things.

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autkin@fosstodon.org ("Andriy Utkin") wrote:

A product of sufficiently large amount of unseen labour is indistinguishable from magic.

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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-discover-the-optimal-way-to-optimize-20251013/

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

Look, you might think frontend is fine and going well, but today I found a 1.1MB PNG (that could have been a 40K AVIF) in the critical path of an important app.

Embedded in an SVG as a `data:` URL.

Shipped as a React component.

Brb, going to lie down and cry forever.

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

After a bit of flailing around, I've got a Dart/Flutter toolchain working quasi-gracefully with Emacs. It's a long way from here to seeing if I can reproduce what I did so far in SwiftUI, but it seems like a worthwhile experiment.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

A reminder that John Oliver and his equally brilliant staff are doing IMO the best political/economic video commentary, based on superb reporting and presentation.

This week is about the Bari Weiss and the sad state of Big Journalism/Media:

https://youtu.be/gieTx%5FP6INQ

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Thread (ten posts) making a convincing case for Ukraine winning the war in the next 3-6 months due to an accelerating Russian collapse, caused by … well, that'd be a spoiler.

Go read.

This, happening within months of the AI bubble bursting and taking down the US stock market, is going to make 2025 the pivotal year of the decade. (Forget Trump, he's a side-show.)
https://wargamers.social/@oldladyplays/115365508400226222

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NeoNacho wrote:

I'm not sure the reaction to Benioff is appropriate yet. The guy has called for a hostile invasion of our city, he wants to see San Franciscans dead in the streets.

In a functioning society, any property he owns should be seized by the city and he should never be allowed within city limits again.

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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/13/parking-signs/

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brentsimmons@indieweb.social ("Brent Simmons") wrote:

There is no CEO of RSS.

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hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

The finale of Space Virgins is finally released:

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/4A7Nq6ndFx2RPYMK3WGYLe

#Video #PeerTube #Chat

@ChrisWere @uoou and myself finally got together to ramble our way into a finale of this iteration of our show. As always it is mostly us talking nonsense but, hopefully, entertainingly.

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Source: https://weatherfactory.biz/turn-this-opportunity-yes/

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

I swear this image encapsulates the vibe of every Alexis Kennedy game I've ever seen.

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

As a Puerto Rican I just want to say fuck Christopher Columbus.

#ColumbusDay

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

This is so well observed; the self-healing parade of excuses that get deployed around serially failed approaches has a cause, and Rob's on the case:

https://eisenbergeffect.medium.com/default-isnt-design-24df33272abb

/via @aluhrs

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

While Linux font rendering is mostly decent, I’m gathering it still happens on a “per whatever this app was compiled against” basis. Emacs’s font rendering on KDE is absolutely *awful* compared to both macOS and Windows, which is ironic given how free-software-or-die Emacs is attitudinally.

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

This is going to be a great tribute for someone who is so missed

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jimboggia/post/DPwjxlrkZiM

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

Good job, everyone

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

The whole "Taylor Swift having lightning in her jewelry means she's a secret Nazi" thing sounds suspiciously like the 2025 version of "KISS stands for 'Knights in Satan's Service'" to me

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

reading: "Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve"

https://css-tricks.com/masonry-watching-a-css-feature-evolve/

— and got a jump scare seeing my blog post under "Further reading", it's way too spicy! :sweat_blob:

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

Once again I am denied the Nobel Prize in Economics despite my groundbreaking work in purchasing musical instruments in excess of my ability to play them, surely one day the world will stand up and notice