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

The inevitability of anger

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/

This week's post is on the AI Bubble, how social media shapes what we say and how we respond to it, and the inevitability of a reckoning.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I want tech that helps humans.
Not tech that exploits humans.

#Tech

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

I made a tour of an obscure window system called Bellcore MGR, made by the Bell Core Research and bearing a strong resemblance to Plan 9's 8.5.

The tour also comes with a short overview of the $HOME MOVIE film authoring tool from 1990. There are many screenshots, a 40-minute long video with Mozart and Liszt, and a hard disk image for 86box.

Like, share, boost, comment <3

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr/

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

I just discovered the disx interactive disassembler and it is so good I can't sit still. Extremely highly recommended if you need to reverse old machine code. http://xi6.com/projects/disx/ #retrocomputing

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I bought a roll of white cardboard to use as a background for product photos in preparation for launching the new #Plushtodon, but naturally, I also used it to update the photos for the previous model. (A few of them still remain on our US shop!)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
daniel@gultsch.social ("Daniel Gultsch") wrote:

Not everyone can or should self-host, but there is a lot of middle ground between self-hosting and putting everything on #AWS.

Federated protocols like #XMPP, #ActivityPub, and #SMTP give you choice.

#Fediverse #Jabber

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Interesting to see how Amazon Ring is slowly rolling out enabling footage from your doorbell camera to be requested by law enforcement (police, ICE and animal control?). The feature is officially “starting with lost pets” to get people used to the idea.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

We're currently working on devtools for view transitions in Firefox, but in the meantime, here's a little-known option that helps…

Attachments:

• video: 99ad611821da5e6f.mp4

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

please be another useEffect blunder it would be so funny 🙏

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

Vertebrates are on the menu at Cafe Steatoda.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/20/big-game-hunters/

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

So, thanks to climate change, it looks like Iceland now has a mosquito population

Add this to the news the other day about ticks arriving as well 😕

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-10-20-moskitoflugur-komnar-til-islands-456599

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Thought for the day:

MBA graduates are the Commissars of Capitalism.

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

In Trump's drug war, prisoners may be too much of a legal headache, experts say - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-drug-war-prisoners-may-be-too-much-legal-headache-experts-say-2025-10-20/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USB's 5mbit/s data signal causes 2.4Ghz radio interference.

If you have a USB dongle for #Bluetooth or Wireless mouse that has awful range or intermittently lags, connect it via a short USB extension cable.

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf

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

Setting up my i3 Desktop to bring up an analogue clock on keypress. We chatted about it on #Freebooters latest podcast:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v

#Linux #i3

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
mms@bsd.cafe ("God Emperor of Mastodon") wrote:

Which #xmpp #jabber server are you using?

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
DeufLeMoelleux@masto.bike ("Deuf le Magnifique") wrote:

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

For anyone who's into #GameOfThrones and/or #DunkAndEgg, me and some friends did a little #PeerTube podcast on the trailer:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/3wXD7kvvtHvmWMsup54N27

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

You mean to say, he posted a video of himself shitting on Americans

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/trump-no-kings-post-jet-protesters

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

“Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call””

https://www.stereogum.com/2326398/garbages-shirley-manson-speaks-out-against-music-industry-economics-this-is-an-alarm-call/news/

> They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.

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

Microsoft sends an email about Copilot straight into the Outlook junk folder 🤡

I've configured nothing this is a brand new 365 account

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

oh dear, did your "serverless" server go down?

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

#Development #Guidelines
The hotel WiFi problem · Ensuring JavaScript resilience in hostile environments https://ilo.im/167pd4

_____
#Resiliency #WebApps #Networks #WiFi #VPN #HTTP #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

Disney is churning out Darth Vader™ content faster than the people who maintain his wiki entry can take it in

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Anakin%5FSkywalker

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

You’ve tried Inbox Zero, but have you tried Inbox 404?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

Looks like Indiana University gave students more of a media lesson than anticipated:

https://apnews.com/article/indiana-daily-student-ids-censorship-homecoming-6d8f4948c93fb0faaa57ff25b8efb8f9

https://www.purdueexponent.org/city%5Fstate/features/indiana-daily-student-censorship-newspapers-editorial/article%5F4cfd4bc6-f5a8-45f5-8091-dd9fc9f9da97.html

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
jesuislibre@mamot.fr ("Bruno Adelé") wrote:

J'ai développé godown 🚀

Le problème : vérifier que mes docs Markdown soient correctes avant de pusher mes commits.

Sans installer 50 dépendances, simple, éfficace. Un seul fichier à télécharger :)

Pour les DevOps qui veulent juste que ça marche 👨‍💻

https://github.com/badele/godown

#DevOps #Markdown

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

Herr Trump understands this:

“some basic truths still held sway, chief among them being: lie and bluster through two news cycles, and you’re home free. The headlines fed like a shark—constantly, but always on the move—and the further afield the scraps you tossed them, the more distant they became.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/f9k56nl

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
GeePawHill wrote:

These two statements are not contradictory, and I wish folks would stop treating them as if they were.

1. *Every* *single* *act* of resistance helps.
2. *No* *single* *act* of resistance will fix this.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Setting up i3, Chris's new life with Vim, and can you really sell multi-pack cans separately?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v