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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

And so now here are the things that aren't getting investigated while Trump & Miller chase their racist fantasies. Child predators, terrorists and human traffickers can't believe their good fortune.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

“Government doesn’t work”

That’s because you fuckin’ broke it, ya shitgibbon.

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

We're lucky the fascists are incompetent but we can't keep relying on that forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/comey-justice-department-misconduct.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.108.mVSe.HYd4%5FhoUmbGk&smid=url-share

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

... did the people who now post "mozilla could have offered managed fediverse server hosting" or the likes forgot that, back then when it was announced that mozilla.social would be open to external users, a not-insignificant portion of "fediverse" users actively shat on mozilla, because "it hurts decentralization" and "mozilla just wants your data"?!?!

like, sure, criticize all you want, but maybe we could stop with this gold-medal-worthy olympic goal-post-moving?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.

Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.

I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.

"Just a ghost. That's a relief."

"What else..."

"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories #BookSellers

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
clarkesworld@mastodon.online ("Clarkesworld") wrote:

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
mwillsey@discuss.systems ("Max Willsey") wrote:

A bit late for this, but might as well:

**I am recruiting PhD students this year**

I am looking for students with strengths in some subset of compilers, databases, e-graphs, SMT solvers, theorem proving, and logic programming. You definitely don't have to have mastery of all those things (I don't!), but there's a lot of fun work to do in the intersection.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm trying to convert my mom to @Vivaldi browser, but it keeps failing. Latest episode:

"Vivaldi is useless. I can't book train tickets on Wikipedia!!"

*Somehow* my mom switched the default search engine to Wikipedia.

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

Once again, good riddance

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jswatz%5Ftx/post/DRKtKByEdIC

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

True story: I once spent an afternoon scrolling through someone's Facebook account to find out when he had acquired each of his cats because he had named successive releases of a software package he maintained after the damn things in the order in which they joined his family and I needed to know whether Pickles came before Chocolate or vice versa.

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

Happy to be! That said, I do give some thought to what I should be saying and when, and if what I am saying just acts to center myself in someone else's struggle, or otherwise is more performative than sincere. Not everyone agrees with my decisions and choices, and that's fine. At the end of the day, I am (and everyone is) allowed to decide when it's best to speak and how, and otherwise how best to offer support to causes one believes in.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@blackcatkai/post/DRKwhOykS%5FE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Dhmspector ("Dave Spector") wrote:

As I said… a bunch of drama queens. Whiny, little, drama queens.

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

Two years later, it really feels like the #Threads interpolation was just one big A/B test to see what it would take for federated users to hop the fence and join #Meta

Every incremental "improvement" favors Meta.

#fediverse #Mosseri

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kubikpixel@chaos.social ("𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕") wrote:

Browser-Fingerprinting via Favicon

Supercookie uses favicons to assign a unique identifier to website visitors.
Unlike traditional tracking methods, this ID can be stored almost persistently and cannot be easily cleared by the user.

🍪 https://supercookie.me

#cookies #fingerprint #browser #web #favicon #privacy #noscript #javascript #browser #webbrowser #js

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

Gail and I have a bitter and endless blood feud but we agree on this point

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DRKnBOlDxdu

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

RE: https://social.lol/@robb/115566094626347239

EchoFeed is pure RSS magic. If you publish a feed and want to automate putting that content pretty much anywhere else online (with fancy custom post templates and variables!), EchoFeed is what you’re looking for. And as a bonus, Robb is the nicest person you’ll ever meet.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A little while ago, we had a terrific discussion with Jerry Neumann on Oxide and Friends, vowing to have him return with his co-author Elizabeth Zalman to discuss their book, "Founder vs. Investor."

Today, Jerry and Liz join @ahl , @sdtuck and me, along with Oxide investor Seth Winterroth, to get into some of the untold stories of founders and investors.

Join us today, at a special East Coast and Europe friendly time: noon Pacific, 3p Eastern:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1432803835243401370

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

🚨 stand back everyone I'm doing a echofeed business toot 🚨

$20 for a year instead of $25 is what's known in the business world as "a discount" and it can be yours using the code BF25 until the end of this month

https://echofeed.app
https://hub.7622.me/@echofeed/statuses/01KA9BSTG5XDEE05XGT3Z65VSS

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
jawnsy ("Jonathan Yu") wrote:

This talk presents a taxonomy of systems complexity, along two dimensions (Simple vs Complex, Emergent vs Engineered):

1. Constructed: Engineered, Complex
2. Rebellious: Emergent, Simple
3. Accreted: Emergent, Complex
4. Revolutionary: Engineered, Simple

It includes a lot of thoughtful discussion about Fred Brooks' concepts of essential and accidental complexity.

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/the-complexity-of-simplicity

Video: https://youtu.be/Cum5uN2634o by @bcantrill

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

🍿 reading: "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web-2/

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

It is time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨️

Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀

Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/launching-the-2025-state-of-rust-survey/

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

This arrived and I read it. HTBOWNIO is wise and funny and a reminder that you don't have to be perfect in imperfect times (which is always). I hope Jenny Lawson never gets tired of being an actual national treasure. @thebloggess

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

my ISP rebuilt their dashboard in Nuxt 🫠

thankfully I pay for 1 GB

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

Dems have a non-socialist mandate from their corporate sponsors. Republicans are fucking up the economy.

They're both sort of hoping that the #EpsteinFiles are enough to pacify us.

We're about to see what happens when the empire is all circuses and no bread.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

We've been watching Rings of Power and I know I'm fairly late to this party but I just want to congratulate everyone involved for their ability to repeatedly say "Celebrimbor" with a straight face. What professionalism 👏 👏

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

stages of an Apple software feature:

1. wow that demo looks amazing
2. I see the limitations, but it's still cool
3. is this supposed to work?
4. disabled

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

It may not be the biggest of print runs but I’m still proud of it. Now the work really begins. 🙂

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

This thread is amazing https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115415782377064702

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business.

Make it colourful and cool looking like something that someone would want to click. I'm not going to put it over content or move stuff around just as someone's moving their finger to tap on something or any of that bullshit, I'm not going to TRICK people into clicking it accidentally, so if you want anyone to click on it then it has to be Actually Enticing. Put it in https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php and tell your webring.

EDIT: expand this thread for examples of good ads, cool/interesting replies and some of the most incredibly niche websites you've ever seen

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

Learning about the breed of sheep that has evolved to eat only kelp and can no longer abide the grass of its ancestors. Perhaps one day it will return to the sea as a cousin to the seal and the dolphin

[
[![The sheep have evolved a somewhat different physiology from other sheep, due to their unusual diet: their digestive system has adapted to extract the sugars in seaweeds more efficiently. 22] A 2005 study at the University of Liverpool found that they have a greater susceptibility to copper toxicity, when compared with a more traditional breed such as the Cambridge. 145) This is because seaweed has a chemical which inhibits the absorption of copper, so the sheep have to absorb copper more efficiently to obtain the required amount. 122] The levels of copper found in typical sheep feed, including grass, are toxic for this breed. [31][46] Studies at the Universities of Liverpool and Minnesota suggest that they can extract four times more copper from their diet than more traditional breeds. 451[47]]6