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Boosted by jwz:
outie@slime.global ("van damme diagram van") wrote:

randomly reminded of the time xscreensaver's Pac-Man module gave me Pac-Man's Existential Nightmare

cc @jwz

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

blogged: Better Alt Text
https://dbushell.com/2025/11/01/better-alt-text/

ignore the date 🤦‍♂️ and the feature is Chrome-only 🤦‍♂️ but otherwise it's good! 😃

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

A new guide to CSS best practices for a better #SmolWeb

SmolWeb CSS Grading Specification

https://smolweb.org/css-grading.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

"Over the past three decades, journalistic practices have steadily been devalued. That many, if not most, of you consider them to be useless purity signalling only serves authoritarians and oligarchs. It serves those who don’t like their power to be scrutinised or criticised...

Turns out, if you want to act like a journalist, write like a journalist, and fight the fights of a journalist, not practicing journalism can get you into trouble."

@baldur 🔥

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/use-the-tools-of-the-job-youve-chosen/

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

I saw this code yesterday and thought: I don't need that, I'm a pro! ...used it this morning to find and fix a bug 😅

https://bsky.app/profile/jamie.build/post/3m4e3cgr3d22d

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

The Ten Helpful Suggestions Of John Mastodon

1: Fill out your profile. It doesn’t have to include personal information, but it should give some indication about your vibe.

2: Pin an Introduction toot and use the #Introduction hashtag. Include some of your interests so like-minded people can find you.

3: Use hashtags. Hashtags not only make your toots more findable, but it also allows others to filter out toots on subjects that they would prefer to avoid. Use camelCase or PascalCase in hashtags. This will make it more readable for sighted users, and also help users that use screen readers. You can also follow a hashtag. Try following #Audrey.

4: Add AltText to your images. There are many blind Mastodon users. Providing AltText to your images makes them accessible, but also gives you an opportunity to give additional context. AltText is very important to much of the community, so much so that some will refuse to boost/share an image without it.

5: Use content warnings (CW) liberally, and combine with hashtags in the toot body. While a CW will hide the content, an accompanying hashtag will allow people to filter out that content entirely. For instance, a NSFW post should have NSFW in the content warning as well as a #NSFW hashtag in the body, because hashtags don’t work in the CW.

6: Follow liberally. Mastodon provides plenty of ways to curate your timeline, but first you need to follow people. Remember, if you decide that someone you followed posts content that isn’t for you, you can unfollow them, or set filters to hide the posts you don’t want to see. Try following @dgar now!

7: Support your instance. Toss a coin to your admin and moderators for all the work they do.

8: Be respectful. Polite and respectful discussion of supremely sensitive topics take place every day on Mastodon. There is no place for bigotry here. Trolls and bad actors are usually dealt with swiftly.

9: Be mindful of your privacy and security. Do not post sensitive or personally identifying information about yourself or anyone else, even in a DM or PM.

10: Participate! Boost posts you like. Boosting is how toots spread on Mastodon, so boost liberally. It makes you an active participant in what content is seen. You may see people say “You are the algorithm”.
Bookmark interesting stuff for later. Have fun! Meet interesting people! Listen to new music! Get involved in interesting discussions!
Share memes and toot bad jokes! Share your knowledge, stories, and art! Connect with people and make the world a better place!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
peertube@framapiaf.org ("PeerTube") wrote:

Guess what! Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first #PeerTube commit! 🥳🎂

It's hard to believe that a project started by a student is now used by so many people and organizations around the world… 🤯

Thank you so much for your support over the years! 🥰

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

MS is having DNS issues. So the Dutch railways are having issues. Critical national infrastructure should not be on cloud systems owned by foreign companies. This is resiliency 101.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

“But the shitposters, man. No one expected it would be the shitposters that saved us.”

-Interview from a future history

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Support our work at Pivot to AI — send $5 to keep the stories and videos coming. Buy a shirt!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/29/support-our-work-at-pivot-to-ai-send-5-to-keep-the-stories-and-videos-coming-buy-a-shirt/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft was gloating about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xbox

After all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months, massively:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-365-gets-massive-45-percent-price-hike-and-its-all-to-do-with-ai-tools
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/upcoming-changes-office-365-g1-price-increase-effective-march-2025/4385970

Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave. :blobcatpeek:

Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work! :blobcatcoffee:

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage

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

I swear Theo re-uploads the same video every month lol.

"this is the coolest thing ever!" — *AI repeatedly fails* — "I swear it worked before!" — *hours debugging* — "it was user error!" — *AI fails again...*

my career is safe for another month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtfpTGJmHQ

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control.

They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back.

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime’s attacks on dissent are escalating. Trump’s goal is to silence opposition through fear, but the American people will never submit to his corrupt rule. The best way to protect our rights is by continuing to exercise them. https://newrepublic.com/post/202438/donald-trump-department-justice-indicts-congress-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-ice

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

"Gargoyles serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society." - Snow Crash (1992)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

Back in July, Sidney Reed was recording law enforcement in Washington, D.C., when she was arrested and charged with assaulting law enforcement, because an FBI agent got scratched during the arrest. But it didn't quite work out the way the authorities anticipated. Three times, prosecutors failed to secure an indictment on the federal assault charge, which carries a potential eight-year sentence. Then they switched to charging Reid with a misdemeanor. She pleaded not guilty, went to trial, and was acquitted, with one of her public defenders telling the jury: “You should be livid that the government brought this case.” Here's more from Adam Klasfeld of @allrisenews.

https://flip.it/mACghy

#USNews #USLaw #WashingtonDC #TrumpAdministration #JeaninePirro #JudgeJeanine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Diligence Jones") wrote:

Love his energy. He said 'there is nothing I want there.'

The US is becoming a stinky fart cloud.

#uspol

US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka https://share.google/eInzXzNn7awKeHLl9

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

And it's not just Cursor... rival agentic coding IDE Windsurf announced their own custom RL-trained fast coding model today as well!

Here are notes and a pelican on Windsurf's new SWE-1.5 model https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/swe-15/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
denisedwheeler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Denise Wheeler") wrote:

"Dear FBI Employees: I'm sorry the government isn't funded, so you won't be getting a paycheck. Luckily, that doesn't stop Real American Freestyle Wrestling. So I flew the FBI jet to State College PA, hung out with my chick, and then flew to Nashville where she lives." -Ka$h On your dime.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chrisfarnham@mastodon.roundpond.net ("Chris (W1YTQ)") wrote:

Calling CQ with my recently built Cricket crystal radio. Anyone wanna complete a QSO with this sexy rig?

#HamRadio #maker #AmateurRadio

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

"The whole of the West is sliding to fascism and bigotry"

Well, hold up a bit:

"Centrist D66 wins Dutch election, knocking far-right #PVV to second, exit poll shows"

See what happens when people show up and #vote?

https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/29/centrist-d66-wins-dutch-election-knocking-far-right-pvv-second-exit-poll-shows

#Wilders #Netherlands #Nederland #Elections #GeertWilders

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:

The bird feeders have been empty for a while. I finally got around to getting them so washed, dried, and refilled. I was wondering how long it would take for the birds to realize - what if they didn't come back! Maybe the neighbors have better food!
Well, pfft, I wasn't even back in the house before the first sparrows showed up 😂
In no time, they were joined by three Blue Jays, half a dozen or so Mourning Doves, a Hairy Woodpecker, and - a first at my feeder! - a Red-bellied Woodpecker.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kr1st@mastodon.radio ("Alex KR1ST/PA1ST") wrote:

I have no idea where my wife found this book, but it's a fun little read while spinning the dial hunting down some pirate radio signals. The book is from 1970.

You can check out this book online, courtesy of Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications;

https://archive.org/details/abcsofshortwavel00lenb/mode/1up

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwvy4w875vo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
radleybalko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Radley Balko") wrote:

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

Shock Video Shows ICE Agent As...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
orrickle@sfba.social ("Orrock LXXXVI XLVII") wrote:

Okay everyone. Open enrollment (for those of you living in civilized countries with universal health insurance this is the one time of the year, the month of November, when health insurance can be purchased or sold) is a few days away and a person we know who works for the Berkeley Unified School District and has a union-negotiated contract just found out their health care insurance for their family of three will rise 30% to 1450 per month. Welcome to #trumpworld

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This week, the #Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work.

So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

What a sweet kitty! 😭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osK6dQncdAc

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

🤣

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
saelo@chaos.social ("Samuel Groß") wrote:

We derestricted https://crbug.com/382005099 today which might just be my favorite bug of the last few years: bad interaction between WebAudio changing the CPU's handling of floats and V8 not expecting that. See https://crbug.com/382005099#comment19 for a PoC exploit. Also affected other browsers