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

hungry kids? who cares?

“The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP, flowing into November. That program helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries.”

https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-government-shutdown-snap-trump-democrats-8a52a63b26a707ea676962226b090bb1

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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage

https://apnews.com/article/lax-airport-flights-delays-shutdown-b2e0c13f3241e415784c3118fc8f0c9d

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This part.

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.

Now it will eventually be all of us.
All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.

Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.

But it will not make us safer, on the contrary.
Don't believe their authoritarian lies.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nezchan@wandering.shop ("The Book of Kels") wrote:

I am going to set this #knitting project on fire.

Knitting is not a craft. It is an ancient form of torture for the sin of wanting nice socks. A sin unforgivable, deserving only pain.

#beginner #frustration

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"No attempt was made to preserve elements of the East Wing of the White House, including portions that date back to Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency in 1805. The rubble from Trump’s desecration of perhaps the most important building in the world has been carted off to a nearby public golf course."

~ Simon Rosenberg

What was the east wing is now to be used to create mounds on a golf course.

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-the-importance-of-voting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CStamp ("Carolyn") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 Being stuck in airports is a crappy way to spend time.

"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary ground stop for flights departing to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday morning."

Caused by shortage of air traffic controllers, so at least he's safe on the ground.

And this is sad: "Duffy noted a rise in controllers calling in sick, citing financial concerns and job stress, with 22 staffing triggers recorded recently."

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/flights-lax-international-airport-air-traffic-b2852553.html

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

But don't worry - they'll have a health care plan in two weeks!

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Soweitsogut@troet.cafe ("Schauinsland") wrote:

BREAKING: #Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter #Magyar is demolishing #Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protesters flooding streets openly defying Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin demanding an end to authoritarianism.

Mainstream media barely touching this story - the world must see it.

https://substack.com/@reallyamerican/note/c-170140076?

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"But Earth Day events had been planned for more than a year and had organizational support from labor unions, hundreds of universities and thousands of public schools, some state and local governments, and even a few companies. This year’s ‘No Kings’ protests, pulled together in these past few months, were the most significant mass events in the lifetimes of most of today’s Americans."

#NoKings #NewYorkTimes
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Seven million people show up, but don’t make the front page.

Last weekend, the largest collection of public gatherings in modern US history took place, across all 50 states.

Only once in all of American history have more people turned out in demonstrations on a single day. That was on April 22, 1970, as part of the original Earth Day movement."

~ James Fallows

#NoKings #NewYorkTimes
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/putting-the-public-back-in-public

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jrychter ("Jan Rychter") wrote:

A while ago I bought several Apple wireless charger pads (Qi/Magsafe). But I didn't buy them directly from Apple. After rather surprising issues (one broke, one makes noises while charging, some do not charge AirPods, etc) I finally decided to open one up.

They are fakes. Unbelievably convincing fakes. With perfect packaging.

Here are quick pictures of the fake USB plug and mainboard, and what the originals should look like.

From now on, I'm only ever buying Apple stuff directly from Apple.

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Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

Fall walk around the reservoir. High contrast. Nice light.

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javensbukan@mstdn.ca wrote:

👏 Stop. Going. To. The. US. 👏

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-photograph-border-9.6953627

#boycottusa

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N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

Quick #amateurradio #hamradio CW #morsecode #pota #parksontheair activation with repaired @qrplabs #qrp #qrpradio #qcxmini 20 meter transceiver. Got 11 contacts coast to coast in17 minutes. Shazam

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

Flying on Space-A looks like an interesting, no-frills way to travel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/26/my-grandson-is-flying-to-south-korea/

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ErosBlog@kinkycats.org ("ErosBlog Bacchus") wrote:

@fromjason It was the original kindle -- and, three replacements later, I have to discipline it by keeping it permanently in Airplane mode so it doesn't do things I don't want.

There have been half a dozen things developed more recently that I WANT, but that big tech won't sell me without unwanted surveillance cruft tacked on. For example, real time blood sugar monitoring. Likewise personal EKG machines.

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

Someone knows how to do Hallowe'en right.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/26/put-to-shame/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Look, I've given RSC a hard time — for at least 3 years it featured viral client-side dependency ambush, it generally makes code harder to factor and reason about, and doesn't add anything useful to the toolbox except to make RPCs slower — but JFC, this takes the bloody cake:

https://marma.dev/articles/2025/when-perfect-code-fails

jwz wrote:

I had a great idea for December Cyberdelia, which was to do a screening of the Star Wars Holiday Special, the whole thing, commercials and all, because even people who have "seen" it probably haven't made it to the end, and definitely not while drunk in a nightclub. But then someone wisely pointed out:
...
https://jwz.org/b/ykw9

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I added some of my more recent photos to my portfolio, in case you missed them when I shared them on here. Best viewed on a large screen.

https://eugenrochko.com/

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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

I was just looking at my webserver logs while sipping coffee (as one does) and I noticed that one of my websites was receiving requests for a js file which I had prototyped but never actually deployed.

The script tag is present in the page, but it's commented out. I investigated, and it seems that scrapers see that tag and are trying to grab it even though it's completely non-functional. I guess they just want every bit of code they can find to help train an LLM.

This seems like a promising pattern for catching scrapers that pretend to be normal browsers.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
altomare@oldbytes.space ("Altomare") wrote:

Some neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.

From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)

#retrocomputing #dec

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

the way so many outlets write about "AI" is so incredibly irresponsible. they'll take a story about a study that showed a majority of people in a field say it's making everything worse with no upside and then still spin it like "this is controversial! but it's here to stay. it's already happened. and the c-suite loves it" like you clowns writing this drivel are class traitors, think for a second about what you are doing here and ask if you're really going to be spared for acting like their pet.

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cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Many Unix tar programs leak uninitialized data into unused portions of the file. This is not unusual for C programs (unfortunately). The leaked data is usually just repetition of earlier files, so it wasn't obviously useful for anything.

Until I noticed that optimizations to tar programs tended to change _which_ earlier data was leaked.

Turns out, you can use this behavior to fingerprint the tar implementation pretty precisely in some cases.

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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

New LEGO set just dropped

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Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Sometimes people just want to be able to complain about Windows or iOS without being told about Linux.

Maybe it’s a work computer and it’s not their choice. Maybe they’re not a computer toucher and do not have confidence touching computers. Maybe they were perfectly happy using these OSs before some stupid new feature was introduced. Maybe they’re tired or stressed or have no time.

If the obvious reply to the post is “use Linux”, as a rule, do not post that. You are not adding anything.

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

Capitalism doesn't make products anymore, just tracking devices with the indicator light taped over, and the hero's journey plot printed on its packaging. 

#AI #Google #Meta

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

daKid and hubby are headed back to Toronto after a short but sweet visit with us this weekend. I miss her, and I must remember we will see each other a lot more now than when they were living in Nashville.

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abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Here’s a figure from an upcoming article about optimizing Synchronization Words in radio signals.

Another solid contribution to open source digital radio from your friends at @OpenResearchIns 🙂

Article will discuss Barker codes, concatenated Barker codes, maximum length sequences and truncations, Zadoff-Chu sequences, metrics of sync words, and how we chose the sync words for Opulent Voice. See the draft article in ORI's next newsletter.

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