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Boosted by jwz:
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

Hi, I'm Silicon Valley- you probably recognize me from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'

Boosted by jwz:
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Gonna need a framed litho of this.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.

(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

What do you get when you cross cargo cult software engineering with security theater?

SECURITY MIME. 🤹

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

It was amazing to see everyone at perfnow.nl last week, but a particular highlight was getting a chance to visit @KrijnHoetmer's hope-inspiring frontend class. Stickers were exchanged!

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

The tree in my front yard is unusually bright this year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/05/golden-fall/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

That's not what he promised earlier, but fine

RE: https://www.threads.com/@syedburhanrizvi16/post/DQrjUaCjWLG

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
KrijnHoetmer ("Krijn Hoetmer") wrote:

React sucks. FDND socks. #PerfNow

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timonsku ("Timon 🛠") wrote:

The IEC has this really neat webpage for exploring electrical plug type usage around the world

https://www.iec.ch/world-plugs

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
pishpoche ("PishPoche") wrote:

Whoups, on dirait que j'ai un blog ! Exciting times 😃
https://pishpoche.pollux.casa/gemlog/

Merci @adele

#geminicapsule #gemlog #smolweb

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Well, this sure is embarrassing for The Greatest Nation On Earth

https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app

https://www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-launches-face-scanning-app-for-local-cops-to-do-immigration-enforcement/

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

It only took a year for the morning and evening coyote pup yelping on Bernal to become a distinct marker of place, and a strong indicator that I'm home, whatever the jetlag says.

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

Sometimes, a tangle of legs is hard to sort out.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/05/how-many-legs-does-a-spider-have/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The Democrats had a great night last night, meanwhile here's today big news from the GOP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/05/longest-government-shutdown-trump-us-history/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Achievement unlocked: caused Hacker News to have a 150+ comment argument about a TikTok joke (while I was asleep) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820872

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I can't even reboot the switch without pulling it out of the wall and unscrewing wires. WTF. I'm going back to 20th-century light switches.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've installed #Aqara "smart" switch, and it turned out to be useless: it doesn't work when my wifi is down.
The whole point of a physical switch was to have a backup for the flaky connectivity, but nope. Aqara switch locks up and stops responding, just like the rest of the not-actually-smart devices ;(

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Over on my own site I have some thoughts on last night's election news: Mamdani, Prop 50, the general good night for Democrats, and how I -- single-handedly! -- assured the win of now-NJ governor-elect Mikie Sherrill.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/05/thoughts-from-an-off-off-year-election-2025

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
greenelects.world@bsky.brid.gy ("Green Elects") wrote:

🚨 The Green Party announce that two London councillors, Guy Lambert (Brentford West ward) and Kath Whittam (Rotherhithe ward), have defected from Labour to the Green Party. 🔴➡️🟢

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

just use a 1.35 MB JavaScript / WASM polyfill 🤡

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
xChaos@f.cz ("Chao-c'") wrote:

#meme #media #science

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

I see “AI spurred the creation of massive amounts of power generation and so does tremendous good even if it fails” is the new party line from the “it’s not a bubble or a broken tech if I personally benefit” crowd

No mention of the fact that it’s mostly coal, gas, or turbines or that the nuclear stuff is either sci-fi or propping up outdated plants that should have been wound down

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Dear open registration servers, each day so far this week, I've opened my Mastodon client, only to see slurs, swastikas, and death threat videos of "me" being hanged.

This is the Nazi bar problem. They're standing on the curb and your doors are wide open. Sure, you're kicking them out after they walk in and punch a few customers, but is that really how you want your bar to be known? As the place that apologizes *after* the Nazi assaults you?

With the current US election results rolling in, it looks like we're in for another predictable wave of butthurt GravySeals aching to own the libs in a sad attempt to bring meaning to their poor little wannabe white power lives.

It's time to close registrations and step up moderation to protect the communities you helped grow.

Racism is chasing Black folx off Fedi.
Queerphobia is chasing LGBTQ+ folx off Fedi.
Sexism is chasing women off Fedi.

Do you want another incel white boys club like Twitter? Because inaction is how you get there.

#FediAdmin, #FediMods, don't be a #NaziBar.

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

Been trying out Typst for a project, after repeated suggestions from people, and it seems to work quite nicely. Faster and better PDF results than the open source CSS PDF typesetters, but also easier to use than LaTeX. Converting the HTML output to epub using pandoc is still an ongoing exploration, though.

https://typst.app

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
iBlame@kolektiva.social ("Duchess of Umbrage") wrote:

Random screenshot from my photo library, 2020

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

I wouldn't overstate the importance of yesterday's US elections, but at least it looks like the electorate is sending a message to the establishment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/05/cocking-a-snook-at-republicans/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Vibe coding subreddits have major MLM vibes.

“I’m a retired teacher from Iowa. I wanna make an app. I’ve thrown $200 at it and it still doesn’t work.”

“Keep throwing money at it, it’ll work eventually!”

(I totally get experienced programmers saying “today I can’t be arsed, one shot me a quick Python script”—they have the knowledge and experience to know whether the result is acceptable and to fix the bugs. Vibe coding for a non-technical crowd looks like a really shady scam.)

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