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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

A web browser is supposed to enable people to browse the web. Atlas is something else, built for an entirely different objective, that also just happens to let people view web pages too.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Up to this point, I’ve been blocking AI bots that function as scrapers or agentic assistants. But now it looks like it’s time to block an actual web browser (Atlas, to be clear) because the line between “browser” and “billionaire-enriching content ingestion tool” is being blurred into oblivion before our eyes.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115419472139725665

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

Me and Drew and going live with some Divinity: Original Sin

https://youtube.com/live/VZy%5F%5FPaG76U

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

Not sure I have point here other than the fact that y'all need to take care out there as things look shaky even in the places that aren't fending off fascist politics

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

Just the production loss at this one aluminium smelter could increase the Iceland's trade deficit by 30-40% on its own. This is happening during a period where the global stock markets are at severe risk of "correction", globalisation is falling apart (tariffs!), and tourism is looking shaky with the Play Air bankruptcy and decline in Anglophone visitors

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

We already know that near future is likely to be "interesting" economically in the same way that 2008 was interesting, but small countries with homogeneous economies like Iceland are likely to be extra interesting because failure at a single company has an outsized impact

Case in point:

https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-22-production-partially-halted-at-nordural-aluminium-plant-456830

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Another war relic from Öskjuhlíð, which the British Army referred to as Howitzer Hill.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

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

This is one of the pits the British blasted out of the hillside. The rocks excavated were used to construct runways at the nearby airbase, while the pits were used to hide fuel tanks.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #decay #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roOoOsevelt 👻🎃") wrote:

I'm sorry but if William Shatner has taught me anything about Mastodon it's that celebrities are incapable of using it

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

Is it Time to Regulate React?
https://dbushell.com/2025/10/23/react-regulation/

— it's time for an intervention at least!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
erin@tired.umbreon.online ("erin 💫") wrote:

based on a recent experience

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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

please can we stop calling it the 'Epstein Ballroom' that is very disrespectful to the people who have donated to it - for their sake let us at least call it by its proper name, the "Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, T-Mobile, Google, Blackstone, YouTube, Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin present the Epstein Ballroom".

Thank you.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

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zwol@masto.hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:

hey
hey you with the text-heavy website
c'mere i wanna tell you something
closer
good now listen carefully
[at the top of my lungs] THE BODY COPY SHOULD BE SET NO SMALLER THAN 12-POINT TYPE AND THE TEXT BLOCK SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN FIFTY EMS WIDE

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
lalonsander@chaos.social ("Lalon Sander") wrote:

An additional tax on millionaires in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state. The money is being used to fund bridge repairs, literacy programs and public transport.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTA2MTU2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNjY2MzY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNDhKTFVHT1lNVEQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQTlFODU5Q0VDRUE0MkZFQjY4MEIwRjU4NjVERDU4QiJ9.rfT9%5FEtHho8RjecXjGrhX7WYDnQjqcU-tJ7zylXZWeY

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

BTW if you're trying to figure out why Trump loves Milei so much, here it is in one little Fox News headline [from 2 years ago]

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3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

I know demiurges who use subtlety and they're all cowards.

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record") wrote:

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Federal immigration agents could be deployed to the Bay Area as early as Thursday. Consulting with attorneys and immigration advocates, Mission Local has compiled a list of know-your-rights tips for people in San Francisco. This is part of a series of resource guides we’ve run on immigration enforcement. Read the others below: “How can you mobilize for immigrant rights in S.F.?

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/immigration-agents-are-coming-how-to-protect-yourself/

jwz wrote:

Exterminate all rational AI scrapers, redux redux.

Nine months ago I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to poison LLM scrapers.

Today, it comprises 69% of URLs served.

Normally it feeds junk after a few seconds delay, but in "high-load mode" it bans IPs. That mode starts when the free-worker count is low, and ends when it has been calm for 15 min.

This month it has been in high-load mode 50% of the time.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwy

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

Western hemlock. Western hemlock is the official tree of the State of Washington. It's different from fir and spruce by its soft needles.

#darktable

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

A Minnesotan should know better than to wait until the last minute to prepare for winter.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/22/i-waited-too-long-to-prepare-for-winter/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
charfish ("Charles B") wrote:

@simontatham Peter Guttman's paper "Do Users Verify SSH Keys?" has one of the best abstracts I've ever seen.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gutmann.pdf

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assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

Truly makes you think

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I wrote about Bluesky’s moderation tensions and the White House’s threats and the critical need for open networks that can do broad connection and also care for communities at Tech Policy Press:

https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/newby.html

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Epic score!

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Smart beds leave sleepers hot and bothered during AWS outage
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position ..."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/smart-beds-leave-sleepers-hot-and-bothered-during-aws-outage/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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stevefaeembra@mapstodon.space wrote:

Flight down Glencoe, done in a 80s/90s Sci Fi movie style.

Contours done in #QGIS , using data from Ordnance Survey Open ZoomStack

Used a trick to do hidden faces removal 1/2 :)

#Blender

Attachments:

• gifv: Flight down Glencoe in 3d. The hillside is shown as glowing neon contour lines, in a sci-fi movie style. The flight heads from east to west, banking a couple of times to turn corners.

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mattsheffield ("Matthew Sheffield") wrote:

I think I'm going to stop boosting all Bluesky bridged accounts.

The authors want the audience of the fediverse but don't want to engage. That seems disrespectful to fedi posters.

I get that we all have only so much time. Still, a Bluesky-bridged account is a zombie account in my opinion. Why boost it?