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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

dns is the dane of my existence

hahahaha good pun ... okay, I'll see myself out

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

Anything’s a UFO if your phone camera is shitty enough

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

ActivityPumpkin

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

People are starting to discover the Scary Movie franchise. And I just want to submit my favorite line in the whole series.

The image does not justice. Regina Hall’s delivery is so damn funny.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Dunk and Egg trailer breakdown - Podcast

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/3wXD7kvvtHvmWMsup54N27

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

currently building a #hugo theme respecting #smolweb concept.
I need it for future message.casa website.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that susceptibility to authoritarian, fascist and/or populist rhetoric isn't determined by 'intelligence', or education.

There are plenty of university-educated assholes out there who, despite being perfectly capable of reaching the logical conclusion based on the data available, reject that truth because it is inconvenient to them and their underlying convictions.

That is how a hate preacher with a Hungarian wife campaigns on closing the borders and a 'This is YOUR land' slogan, a Turkish refugee who came to this country as a child tries to outcompete him as the leader of the VVD, framing the party she once worked for as 'the radical left', and a gay man with an Argentine partner decided to move to the right for this campaign, and start waving Dutch flags at a time when they are very much a symbol of nationalist fervour, and hate.

People aren't being snookered into this. It is not because people aren't being 'heard'. It is a CHOICE, plain and simple, and one they keep making, over and over.

#NLpol

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Happy 10th Birthday PeerTube!

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d3MRwLA3qX4baAckTwqpZo

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

That cease fire didn't hold up very well.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/30/cancel-that-nobel-peace-prize/

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

Everyone around me trying to get me to use AI

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

I am in live chat with two different insurance companies at the same time, because they both have me listed as an active customer, which is making it impossible for me to schedule a doctor's appointment. American healthcare, woo!

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

Rain taps on the glass,
Updates hum in quiet rooms,
Autumn’s calm embrace.

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

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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/