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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

One person with a laptop can now do what took a company 20 years ago. Unfortunately, that one person is launching 47 mediocre SaaS products and a crypto scam.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Pretoria is trying to repatriate 17 South Africans misled into “seemingly mercenary activities” in eastern Ukraine

It didn’t say which side they joined — but per its own warning on job scams in Russia, it’s highly unlikely they fought for Ukraine.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/07/south-africa-investigates-how-17-citizens-were-deceived-into-joining-russias-war-in-ukraine/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu ("Thomas Brand") wrote:

@thehomespundays me too.

(Probably the most 90’s thing you will see today.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu ("Thomas Brand") wrote:

Mac OS 8 was the first and last release of Mac OS that was released on a 8-track cartridge.

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

whatever can go wrong will eventually do so. whatever can be misunderstood will be. plan for it.

https://mastodon.social/@inautilo/115505726373009032

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inautilo ("Inautilo") wrote:

“Designing for edge cases isn’t a chore; it’s an investment in the integrity of your work. For those of us who care about craft, that’s where the real mastery shows.” — Praveen Juge

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#Design #Skills #Mastery #Creativity #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Quotes

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

M ake
A merica
H eave
A gain

https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115504034718277494

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bicmay@med-mastodon.com ("Bich Nguyen :verified:") wrote:

"American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows, even as inspections reveal alarming conditions at some manufacturers."

https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda

#PublicHealth #food #FoodSafety #FoodInspections #FDA #HHS #USpol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Besides the 10% reduction in airline traffic, the FAA has restricted commercial space launches and reentries to the hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time.

We presume that means reentries that reach the ground. In the US? Does it apply to SpaceX reentries which sometimes reach the ground?

A memo posted by Sec Duffy on X says space launches are prohibited between 11 am and 3 pm UTC, i.e., permitted between 10 am and 6 am EST? Incompetents!

@sundogplanets
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-faa-administrator-bryan-bedford-outline-series
3/n

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

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

Siouxsie Wiles needs your help!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/07/support-a-scientist/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

My conviction that most LLM coding tooling is aimed at avoiding learning rather than enabling it just keeps getting stronger. Today I'm looking at debugging tools for LLM generated code and you'll never guess what everything I'm finding uses, why it's more LLMs of course. 🤡

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

For sale: strong opinions; never published: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/strong-opinions-never-published/

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

For sale: strong opinions; never published

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/strong-opinions-never-published/

In lieu of saying something constructive

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

I'm relaunching a 12 year old project on Monday 👀

the domain still gets so much traffic I figured it'd be best to push visitors towards new ideas

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
gajim@fosstodon.org ("Gajim") wrote:

Gajim 2.4.0 has been released! 🎉

This release brings read markers in group chats 👀 , improved file transfers 📂, more details for your account 🥸, and many smaller changes and bug fixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2025-11-04-gajim-2.4.0-released/

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

POV you're a professional web developer who knows their stuff

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

“Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass”

https://shapeof.com/archives/2025/11/acorn%5F8.3%5Fwith%5Fliquid%5Fglass.html

When I was on the Mac, Acorn was my go-to for image work. Affinity's shift to free and Apple's purchase of Pixelmator can’t be good for them so if you're a Mac user check it out.

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

Because the software industry doesn’t really monitor usability, defects, or anything resembling “quality”, there’s a non-zero risk that once the bubble pops most of them will just swap out shitty expensive US LLMs for shitty-but-cheaper Chinese LLMs and carry on regardless, because they’ll still believe it’s the future

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

Firefox profile bug seems to be fixed! At least here.

this one: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115390223553512410
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115389323307561229

I'm currently on 144.0.2 .deb version. I accidentally restarted FF in non-safe mode. And everything is fine now.

(didn't notice until i realised I had uBO back \o/ )

How's it going for everyone else?

tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=1997364
a few reports on other bugs that it's fixed in 144.0.2
> I believe the patch for bug 1996113 in Firefox 145 should prevent windows from breaking, but we're not yet sure about the root cause of the problem and whether there will be other impacts.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

repo now public, ready for usage, judgement and contributions https://github.com/argyleink/css-color-component

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

workin on a web component: ``

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

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
venelles ("Venelles") wrote:

@adele ah, ok, thanks! https://gopher.fr is fixed and validated.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
quietmarc@kolektiva.social ("Marc "A Very Spooky" Godin") wrote:

We're losing warm water coral reefs and that's a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, on a scale we can't understand. It's like a million dodos, maybe a billion dodos. Not individuals, species. Those reefs are not only beautiful, they are a wealth of genetic diversity, they are homes to countless beings, they are an entire ecosystem whose loss we can pin to *us* and I don't think that's being appreciated by enough of us.

I don't believe the people making the decisions understand the scale of losing an entire biome, and how interconnected everything really is.

The last couple of days lots of reputable Canadian news sources have discussed the merits and pitfalls of his policy as if none of those people live on the same planet as all of us.

How many more wildfire evacuations, smoke-clogged summers, flash floods, droughts, bad harvests, will be enough? Because we haven't tasted what's coming yet.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("(((Cindy Weinstein)))") wrote:

I'm struggling to understand the perpetual framing of the shutdown as a question of whether Democrats will "cave" or not. Why isn't the media asking if the Republicans will "cave," "especially when "caving" means giving people the subsidies that will allow them to access Obamacare, that will allow them to live or die?

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud ("ɹ uɐpƎ˥ƎʞS :antifascism:") wrote:

Remind your MAGA relatives when their plane is delayed at Thanksgiving it's because Trump flew on Epstein's.

#EpsteinShutdown

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tylerayoung@fosstodon.org ("Tyler A. Young 🧑🏻‍💻⚗️") wrote:

Who do you know who wants to come work full time on #ElixirLang OSS tooling? (Boosts appreciated!)

https://jump.ai/careers?ashby%5Fjid=3908f4eb-aed5-4d8f-bcab-99c11d4d72ad

#ElixirJobs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com ("Democracy Dies in Dumbass") wrote:

If Subway doesn't come out with the "Felony Footlong" I don't know who the fuck is doing their marketing...

I don't care what's on that sandwich, I'm buying it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115503500644413381

"Hundreds of CBP agents are arrested every year for a range of criminal activity and misconduct, including corruption. In fact, CBP agents are arrested for corruption at a per-capita rate that exceeds any other federal agency. Corruption is so pervasive, that the FBI launched a campaign to address it at the border. Reports also show that the agency was directed to change the definition of corruption to minimize the appearance of cases."