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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

China-U.S. trade war and political turmoil in Japan weigh on Tokyo stocks, with benchmark index down 2.58% as traders return from long weekend. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/14/markets/stocks-after-coalition/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #business #markets #tse #nikkei #stocks #ldp #komeito #diet #sanaetakaichi

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

The most common forum used today seems to be Discourse. Blogs are WordPress. And retail is Shopify or WooCommerce (which is just another flavour of horrible and dysfunctional).

What have we done to deserve this?

(Don't answer that, I've read history books.)

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

Me when I have to wade into a Discourse theme to fix an issue for somebody: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. No documentation to speak of. Hyper complex. Why is anybody using this?"

Me when working on Wordpress: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. Why is anybody using this?"

Same with Shopify or pretty much any given established web project that's commonly used.

It genuinely feels like pretty much everything in tech, popular web software especially, is just unusably awful.

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

deleting Biome toolchain + plugins, what a piece of trash!

I've given it multiple chances all year. I didn't think July's experience could be worse https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-07-17T12:36Z/

but it refuses to work *at all* this week. Good riddance!

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

https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26295

wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

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

I will be marching in the No Kings rally on Saturday, not because I'm paid, but because I care about my kids' future.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/the-things-we-do-for-our-kids/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Primary source for the WIRED satellite story. Truly incredible work.

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’ voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks. This data can be passively observed by anyone with a few hundred dollars of consumer-grade hardware. There are thousands of geostationary satellite transponders globally, and data from a single transponder may be visible from an area as large as 40% of the surface of the earth.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
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.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Freexian’s September 2025 Debian contributions report covers a variety of interesting work.

Find the full report here - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-09-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

You can read about #C23 and old Debian Printing software, work done to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap using *-for-host and more!

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#debian #freexian

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Mabelz@misskey.bubbletea.dev wrote:

this house in Istanbul contains architectural layers from four distinct historical eras, spanning nearly 1,800 years.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
floppy@mastodon.me.uk ("James Smith 💾") wrote:

Very impressed that the UK Green Party have now passed 100k members, after a 50% increase in the last few weeks. That's now more than the Lib Dems, and probably getting close to the Conservatives (though they don't publish their numbers).

Seems that actually standing up against the far right, rather than pandering to them, is pretty popular!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/migration-britain-superpower-labour-green-party

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
djc@hachyderm.io ("Dirkjan Ochtman") wrote:

Any #rust suggestions on how to get build-std to work with sanitizers?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/147394

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

storing an image Blob:

Service worker cache: failed ❌
OPFS: failed ❌
localStorage: hacky
IndexedDB: success ✅

This is entirely Tauri's fault (well... my fault for trying to wrap a PWA in a native app - maybe there is a lesson here?)

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
dletorey@front-end.social ("Dave Letorey") wrote:

And it is finally here - #JavaScriptForEveryone by @Wilto and hosted on @piccalilli

> If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated with JavaScript, believe me, the problem isn’t you.

Get it now if you haven't already (£60 off today)
https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
sjvn wrote:

No! Stop! It's not too late! Yargh!

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Remind me to never again try to book flights through the KLM website without first making sure that all of the connecting flights are KLM. Apparently I can't book additional luggage to the trip, or even check in online, just because the first flight is Transavia...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

(In time travel sci-fi)

"With my future tech, it is trivial for me to hack this primitive system, ha-ha!"

(In reality)

"No, the data is on a 5" floppy disc. There is absolutely no way to read it anymore."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay wrote:

Reduced Instruction Set Computing, Reused Instruction Set Computing, Recycled Instruction Set Computing

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Happiness blooms in the quiet distance between what is and what we hoped would be.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
agreenberg@infosec.exchange ("Andy Greenberg") wrote:

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: 🧵👇https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard

Attachments:

• gifv: 7e5ed25054672e9e.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN https://share.google/uIRafctiNRUyg5kKt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ArenaCops@infosec.exchange ("Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌") wrote:

Dressed for war, masked banditry & terrorizing Chicago's civilians:

Following the example of Putin's empire of fascism lawless Stephen Miller's & Trump's equally lawless ICE terror squads again unleash violence on peaceful Chicagoans.
"...
In a viral video posted Saturday by Joshua Reed Eakle, an executive director at Project Liberal Action, four law enforcement vehicles swarmed a car on a suburban Chicago street.
An agent pulled the driver from her car as she pleaded with officers that she was only 15 years old.
The arresting officer then threw her to the ground and appeared to put his knee on her neck as he restrained her hands behind her back.
Block Club Chicago reported the arrest took place in Hoffman Estates.
..."
https://newrepublic.com/post/201684/donald-trump-ice-terrorizing-chicago

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Good for NPR.

“From NPR Editor in Chief Thomas Evans:

NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists. We will not sign the Administration's restrictive policy that asks reporters to undermine their commitment of providing trustworthy, independent journalism to the American public.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g-s1-93291/a-statement-from-npr-on-the-pentagons-press-policy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gluejar@tilde.zone ("Eric Hellman") wrote:

Personal Note: As of today, I am officially "Acting Executive Director" of Project Gutenberg. PG's President and CEO, Greg Newby, is very ill and does not have the energy to do all the things that keep Project Gutenberg running. This is a big responsibility for me and it's going to be a lot of work. Please keep Greg and his wife Ilana in your hearts.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

There are two things Sig Sauer wants US taxpayers to understand. The first is that there are no problems with their new M7 rifle. And the second is that they’ve fixed it

https://www.twz.com/land/sig-sauers-m7-rifle-for-the-army-is-now-lighter-after-controversy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

"You can ssh into your watch using RNDIS over USB to configure Wi-Fi"

Things a Perfectly Normal Human would say.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
slop@fuckaas.space ("slop enjoyer") wrote:

the movie hackers tricked me into believing exchanging top secret floppy disks via skateboard was a much bigger part of adult life

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

Our event monitors will keep you safe at No Kings SF, and you can too! Remember: Ignore agitators. Keep it moving. Stay together. Make lots of noise! We'll see you at Embarcadero Plaza on Saturday. We're gathering at 1:30 PM and marching at 2 PM sharp.

https://buff.ly/fFjTpsa
#NoKings #NoKings2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This week's theme is ugly doors. Specifically, ugly doors on ugly walls.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #window #concrete #rust