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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

The Internet Is Cool Actually https://rknight.me/blog/the-internet-is-cool-actually/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
tonymottaz@social.lol ("Tony Mottaz") wrote:

New server, new #introduction !

Hey 👋 I'm Tony. Professionally, I am a front-end web developer. Outside of that, my interests include being a dad (I have a ~4-month-old), husband (2 years), web technology, music (specifically teaching and writing for marching band and drumline), fall weather, philosophical conversations, books, photography, and TV, in roughly that order.

I'm excited to join the community here at omg.lol!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Is anybody here using #SquirrelMail as webmail?

It is a PHP webmail without javascript.

I would like to have your feedback

https://github.com/RealityRipple/squirrelmail

#smolweb

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

The expected, if demoralizing, result, I think, but a novel technique. Interesting to see if this holds up.

(Edit: It will not, see below...)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17829

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

Two of my favorite logos: Sinclair Oil, and Yamato Transport.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

There appears to be an issue with social.lol’s upstream image object storage provider (DigitalOcean Spaces), resulting in errors when trying to attach media to posts. Nothing about it on the DigitalOcean status page yet, but other instances are reporting similar issues. Keeping an eye on it, and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Collaboration or privacy: pick one" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/collaboration-privacy/

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

Remember when the founder of the #SocialWebFoundation was encouraging people to use #WhatsApp over #Signal? Because his boss owns #WhatsApp?

#ICE can compel #Meta to hand over lots of user metadata because Meta also uses metadata to spy on users, as a way to circumvent the encryption.

Conversely, Signal does everything in its power to minimize the amount of metadata it collects.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The result of the photo shoot with the new #Plushtodon in preparation for their launch at the end of November. See the @Mastodon blog for details.

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

This is how they Make America Great Again?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/23/the-era-of-destruction/

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

the thing about genAI tells is it's not about the obvious mistakes. it's the font and line art and colour palette on local shops' halloween posters. it's the general nightmarish body horror of right wingers' video clips. it's reading a blog post and realising it's just not conveying any information

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

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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]

Boosted by jwz:
3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

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

Boosted by jwz:
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.