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

We already know how to inhibit bias in hiring at our universities. Greg Abbott is doing the opposite.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/22/fire-greg-abbott-for-pushing-right-wing-ideologies-instead-of-education/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Andii@mas.to ("Andii אַנדִֽי") wrote:

@yoginho @pluralistic
This bit is worth repeating:
"Any government thinking about the future of geopolitics in an era of Trump's mad king fascism should be thinking about how to flash those tractors – and phones, and games consoles, and medical implants, and ventilators – with free and open software that is under its owner's control. The problem is that every country in the world has signed up to America's ban on jailbreaking."

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Andii@mas.to ("Andii אַנדִֽי") wrote:

@pluralistic
#PostAmericanInternet is a hashtag worth circulating.
"A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
#FOSS #politics

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Shore at Tarn Hows.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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

In general, any time you find yourself asking "why does this group of workers in this or that country keep striking, they're already getting a fairer deal than many others?" you're missing a key reason why equitable pay and fair treatment happens in the first place.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
simondh@social.lol ("Simon :uss_enterprise: :prami:") wrote:

Hobokense Polders

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

Every time there is a planned Women's Strike here in Iceland (see: https://kvennaar.is/english/), the commentary runs along predictably offensive lines

"Women stop working and nothing happens to the economy. Shows you how useless they are, hur hur hur".

No, things pretty much grind to a halt

"Why do women in the Nordic countries strike? These societies are probably the most equal in the world? They must be demanding special treatment"

You're missing a key element of cause and effect there buddy

jwz wrote:

"Sure, I'll watch a movie about some rich dipshits getting eaten by coyotes."

The coyotes are "AI" generated.

We can't even have nice trash.

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

I don’t know what it says about me, but I think using Hey for a newsletter is more of a red flag than substack. You can sort of understand why desperate creatives would grasp at substack’s promises, but Hey offers nothing but association with white nationalist hypocrites who don’t follow their own advice on management

(Also, their shit is vastly overrated)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
taraprice@zirk.us ("Tara Price") wrote:

Dear business owners large and small,

Post your upcoming events, specials, sales, calendar, news, etc. on your actual WEBSITE.

Telling your potential customers they can find it on some billionaire-owned social media platform is like telling them to fuck off.

Unless someone actually has an account with those platforms, they can NOT see your posts. Not even if it's set to "public". Yes, really.

This is literally what your website is for. FFS please use it. 🐸

#FuckMeta

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Making the video about it turned out to be almost as hard as the original hike, but the video covering my San Francisco Bay circumnavigation is finally up!

https://youtu.be/1MUSqkcd7n8

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

ai.robots.txt has surpassed 100 entries 💀

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt

Happy Wednesday btw!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

💜 I like purples 💜

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

After having been out of job for a little over a year, I tried to do something productive related to software engineering. I did *something* but got bored in half an hour and called it a day. It's going to take a while to get back up to speed :-)

What I'm saying is, practice matters.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

They handed out MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs at the Republican National Convention last year.

BELIEVE PEOPLE WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE.

https://www.amny.com/news/ice-agents-chinatown-raid-10212025/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

If they truly believed their policies were popular, they wouldn’t try so hard to win by gerrymandering the maps everywhere.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I've been collecting photos of all the billboards and ad spaces here in SF, that are currently 99% AI features. What should I do with them? I feel like there's probably an average of the bubble ads image, maybe? The visual & text variety in them is v v low.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jmc Ah, so you did, yes.

The Illumos tar appears to be a direct textual descendant of the V7 code, which shouldn't be a surprise, I guess. I'm amused to see the legacy of the signedness checksum bug in here. 🙂

There's, uh, kind of a lot of sprintf in here. Several of the V7 tar self-stomp bugs were sprintf related. It'd be interesting to check the bounds conditions on these.

(Since for reasons I've never understood the Illumos code is hard to find in search engines, tar is here for anyone following along: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/cmd/tar/tar.c )

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

This evening I'm on an odd historical sojourn into the history of the tar format (thanks, @th, for inadvertently nerd-sniping me).

The problem is, this involves reading old C code, because SeLf DoCuMeNtInG or whatever. And I can't not see ghosts in C code anymore.

Anyway, guess how many things enshrined in later standards (like POSIX) are a product of what appear to be coding mistakes, including buffer overruns and use of uninitialized stack memory, in the V7 Unix tar implementation?

As an industry, we've _never_ been able to hold this tool (C) correctly.

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

this is a delightful thread 🍿

https://hachyderm.io/@cliffle/115415059671486164

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bmacDonald94@hostux.social ("Mr. Bill") wrote:

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Terry Pratchett

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejenniwren.teamlh.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jennifer C") wrote:

1/2 ICE thugs pointed a gun at a pregnant U.S. citizen, with her little boy in the back seat, because she dared to film them on a public street. “Are you gonna shoot a pregnant woman?” she cries. “ You just put a gun on me!" And the agent spits back, "It's your fault I did that." Her fault.😡

Attachments:

• video: 70961226e5f3601f.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

CNN - President Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
poorpossum@kolektiva.social ("Poor 'Possum") wrote:

Just... I didn't expect the symbolism to always feel this heavy-handed. We keep saying over and over again, if this was written or scripted as fiction it would never get out of the editing phase for being so unrealistically on the nose.

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

While people are dying of cancer because Trump gutted the budget for research, Trump is asking taxpayers to give him a quarter of a billion dollars in compensation for the federal investigations into all of his law breaking during his previous admin. You read that right. He wants you and me to him because the government investigated the crime essentially everyone agrees he committed (and at times he has openly admitted).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copystar@social.coop ("Mita") wrote:

This article is my everything.

"From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data" by by Kara Long and Erin Yunes, code4lib Journal, Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18535

"In this article, we describe a novel use of the note-taking software Obsidian as a method for users without formal training in metadata creation to develop culturally relevant data literacies across two digital archiving projects."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Every website is legally required to ask about cookies now, which has successfully made everyone click "accept all" without reading anything. Privacy restored

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

To recap the billionaire class war on working people:
•$100M on Trump golf trips
•$172M for jets for ICE Barbie
•$230M in DOJ payments to Trump
•$250M for a vanity ballroom no one asked for
•$40 BILLION to Argentina while our farmers suffer
•$117 BILLION in annual tax cuts to the super wealthy 1%
•$170 BILLION ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo

Meanwhile, this is a real actual headline in 2025 America under Trump:
•Trump admin warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps