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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

AI companies have managed to persuade the EU they need to cut GDPR up. https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ember@blobfox.coffee ("Ember :catplant:​") wrote:

@elilla

If the changes were proposed by a maintainer, another maintainer will do the review. This policy is strictly followed, even for small changes.

wow, so they're straight up lying in a very easily proven way (this PR) (or do they think it doesn't count because "the LLM proposed it, not the prompter of the LLM"??)

also that pr for "we only use slop for bug fixes or UI" password history being correctly imported is a pretty important thing i would think

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada travesti") wrote:

I want a girlfriend who stands by me the way #keepassXC team stands by the use of bullshit generators to develop a password manager
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hmig@front-end.social ("Heather Migliorisi") wrote:

Finally got a chance to read @sundress's thoughtful post outlining the "Why" behind the state of accessibility on the web and it is spot on! If you haven't already, please give it a read: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/.

#a11y #accessibility

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

A friendly guide to front-end date pickers!
https://pikaday.dbushell.com

— and a work in progress, if you know of other patterns let me know :)

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

blogged: Reimagine the Date Picker
https://dbushell.com/2025/11/10/pikaday/

redirecting an old project domain to modern ideas :)

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

> All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

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

(this is not the website I alluded to last week, that will be launched later!)

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

coming in with no chill this morning!

https://xslt.rip

best website I've ever made 💀

XSLT.RIP screenshot with the domain bookended by candles and a grim reaper presiding over "Killed by Google" in flaming text

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Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

"Are you so arrogant that you think your posts are worth reading?"

Yes. Actually, I think that's a pretty good minimum threshold for anyone posting something.

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Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

"what was it like living through the 2020s, grandpa?"

print headline: "Democrats Scale Back Demands, To No Avail"

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Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”

That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.

Call: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-democratic-senators-keep-holding-line-shutdown-fight/?source=mastodon

Email: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/funding-fight-democratic-senator/?source=mastodon

Ezra Levin on Bluesky: “I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.  It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.”

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Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E10
🎥 Episode: Love
🎬 Directed by: Masahiko Murata
📅 Release Date: September 7, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0726

Frame from the series Serial Experiments Lain

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:

Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Shaheen, Kaine, Fetterman, Durbin, Rosen

Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
neilsardesai ("Neil Sardesai") wrote:

Always nice to have options

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Surprisingly useful device for #WiFi debugging: robot vacuum.

Roomba, Dreame (and probably others) make a map of WiFi signal strength.

Floorplan with signal strength heatmap with sub-1m accuracy

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? +10dBm bad.

Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This is another case where smart gadgets are dumb. Apple's HomePod was in charge of picking the channel for the Thread network, and it picked a channel incompatible with the WiFi network it was connected to! No Intelligence in this Apple.
I've wasted days pulling my hair out, trying to understand why everything I did to improve the network coverage only made the network more flaky.

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

WiFi and #Thread/ #Zigbee networks use overlapping ~2.4Ghz frequencies, and interfere with each other.

I've learned it the hard way. My old gadgets kept losing WiFi connection, so I bought the biggest baddest WiFi router. It made everything way worse!

The router kept picking an "unused" WiFi channel 1, which was the same freq as Thread channel 11 that my HomeKit hub picked for its network. Stronger WiFi kept collapsing my Thread network, and knocked even more devices offline.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

The Democratic party is doing what it always does. Shame on them anyways

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tewha@appdot.net ("🇨🇦 Steve") wrote:

When a billionaire dies their senators should be buried with them.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

hi I’m a millennial and for large purchases i have to go open my laptop rather than use my smartphone

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
diegoe wrote:

free software without progressive politics is just free labor

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's been a few days now. What is something you like about the latest #Mastodon 4.5 release?

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

PeerTube video: What's Drew's REAL religion? Religion, power, and the paradox of belief
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8iodxUKcRPcum7TVX8F9FD

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.

Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.

I was reminded of this behavior just now.

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

New blog post: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy

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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ SILENT MASS at DNA Lounge tonight: Sun Nov 9, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/11-09d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #silentmass #thetunnel #øraison #oraison #echodeath #gothic #postpunk #darkwave #shoegaze #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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

Another photo from the cemetery today. Dr. Milner was 26 years old at the time of her death. She was one of only 12 women who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1924. She died from streptococcic meningitis after an infection in her hand that she received during surgery at Children’s Hospital San Fransisco.

A headstone located in Cave Hill cemetery, in Louisville, KY. It’s inscribed: DOCTOR VIRGINIA HELM R. MILNER ONLY CHILD OF DOCTOR WM. LOWRY MILNER AND LENA RICHARDSON MILNER WHO GRADUATED FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT JUNE 1924 RESIDENT PHYSICIAN OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 1925-1926, WHERE SHE SACRIFICED HER BRILLIANT YOUNG LIFE IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY, JAN. 15.1926

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBerlin%5FWall

May we build more bridges as we tear down the remaining walls. ✊

#BerlinWall #IronCurtain #BridgesNotWalls #OTD #OnThisDay