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

The newsletter is also getting a few more email bounces than usual as well

I guess that consolidating the distributed network that is the internet down to a small handful of providers is working well for us, right? 😅

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

Looks like the AWS outage means some sites hosted on Netlify, like mine, are having loading problems for some people in some regions (the details are sketchy at the moment)

These sites are, in theory, static file sites that could be loaded straight off a content delivery network.

I clearly need to ramp up my plan for getting off Netlify and US-based hosting. 😐

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

Okay last one. Isn't this perfect for #autumn ??? #thrifting

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

The series "Mussolini - Son of the Century" from last year is a remarkable one in many ways, but the soundtrack by Tom Rowlands (one half of the Chemical Brothers) is simply outstanding.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:

Then: The Internet is designed to route around failure.

Now: The Internet is five companies and one of them is broken.

#aws #programming #networking

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

I'm a sucker for J Crew because I have yuppie tendencies

#thrifting

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

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

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

Foggy autumn photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

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

Small but so pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/20/if-you-were-wondering-how-big-these-juveniles-are/

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

No but for real

#thrifting

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

I'm the king of #thrifting nice collar shirts.

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

Foggy autumn photos
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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?

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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