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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:

RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369

Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #Mozilla projects.

#aislop

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
bloke_zero@ravenation.club wrote:

Absolutely loving this by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I thought I’d like it for the horror stories about the #facebook management but the writing and pacing is great!

I saw her speaking briefly at a thing with @pluralistic at The Barbican in London where she couldn’t say much because of a non disparagement clause in her Facebook contract!

If you want to know why spaces like this are so important read the book! Her description of #davos suddenly makes the world make a terrible kind of sense

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tsupasat@infosec.exchange ("Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓") wrote:

One of the lucky career breaks I've had was writing the ACM TechNews and ACM SIGDA email news summaries from 2000-2005. It paid terribly, and I had to be at work at 6:30 a.m. but I learned a whole lot.

Anyway, I just saw that the ACM's magazine, The Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) is now open and free! As in, there's nothing behind a paywall any longer, including archived articles. The ACM's entire Digital Library will be open in January 2026. Really, really cool!

And so to celebrate, here's an opinion piece from the CACM's October edition from @pluralistic about why tech workers who hate enshittification need to unionize.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork-is-open-source

#InteractiveFiction #Zork

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

despite my "AI" policy, I do test these things occasionally (off the books) ...and either I'm prompting it wrong — "prompt engineering" is akin to blowing on lucky dice at the craps table — or my standards (self-respect) are too high for this garbage

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

#gotosocial instance upgraded to version 0.20.2 !

so easy

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.2

Boosted by jwz:
jilleduffy wrote:

I'm still a little miffed that when an actual worldwide pandemic came, the bunker people didn't go into their bunkers

Instead they demanded haircuts and tickets to the cinema

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

let he who be without sin cast the first stone

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

procrastination by searching domains is not healthy

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

happy Friday! 🤗

the progress() function looks tasty!
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-letter-spacing/

side note: never trusted letter-spacing, OS & screen density make font rendering unpredictable at smaller sizes

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington was likely unlawful in the latest setback to the president’s military mobilizations in Democrat-led cities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/21/world/politics/trump-washington-troop-illegal-judge/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

‘He Is Out of Control’: MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets Mediaite https://twp.ai/E6DkhL

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

The "Border" Patrol is monitoring all American drivers (not just immigrants), everywhere in the country (not just at the borders), and detaining anyone whose driving patterns they think are "suspicious."

As I've said before, they are becoming a national police force – and because border agents operate under looser due process rules than other law enforcement, they're not giving anyone their normal rights, citizen and non-citizen alike.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

@catsalad
Old and busted: John Carpenter’s Vampires of Mars
New hotness: Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of Jupiter

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
freequaybuoy ("James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺") wrote:

@catsalad Because Jupiter is a gas giant, its indigenous wolf population maintain buoyancy and control their altitude by means of a gaseous sack evolved from their bellies, which can be inflated through excessive inhalation and deflated by doggy farts, simultaneously providing rapid propulsion, though they can also spin their tails like a propellor for more leisurely circumambulation, making for a truly outrageous werewolf problem indeed.

Source: NASA

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

very cool!

"The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production."

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115585413690855037

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#CarrieFisher #QI

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

my current script for counting storyteller service requests after a system restart:

cat /var/log/storyteller/storytellerLog.txt | grep Req | wc -l | cowthink

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Radical stickers seen around Melbourne.
We've got a bunch of copies of these and numerous other designs. If you're interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out:
https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com

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

Hey members of the military, if the president tells you to murder senators and representatives, that would be an illegal order, just, you know, in case this is something that comes up at any point in the future

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I'm really, really waiting for when Starbucks Inc., will cave in and negotiate with the unions. Because going to Starbucks is a family tradition, and we haven't been there since the strike started. I want my croissant :-)

#starbucks #unions

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

I'm so old I remember when Black Friday was actually one day

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Interop, drop by drop https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/

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

Still thinking about those two Hank Green AI-doomsday videos. Why the fuck hasn't anyone called him out on it? Am I gonna have to do it?

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

One of our quaint local customs is a parade in the dark in freezing cold weather just before Thanksgiving.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/20/i-was-only-there-for-santa/

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

I'm off to sleep but some of the responses to this make me think the whole "reading comprehension has collapsed because anglophone countries have been teaching reading the wrong way since the 90s" discourse may have been onto something.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oracle@phantomthieves.net ("digital stars 💾⭐") wrote:

you’re trying to run VRChat on Linux. I’m running Linux in VRChat. we are not the same.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
EshuMarneedi ("Eshu Marneedi") wrote:

I wrote this one fast because I have things to do that do not involve analyzing two companies fighting with each other.

This Android AirDrop thing isn’t going to last, but I thought about how it will end. Will it turn into a PR battle? Legal? Or will Google and Apple’s interdependence force them to fess up?

https://eshumarneedi.com/2025/11/20/google-somehow-reverseengineers-airdrop-and.html

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

fooking idjits… idjits in charge, and idjit contractors.

apparently, that video is of Mexican troops who are *removing* the signs the idjit “contractors” emplaced:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-petes-war-goons-accidentally-invade-mexico/

Whiskey Pet’s goon squad can’t even read a damned map

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

Watching British guys eat soul food really scratches a part of my brain. These guys make good content.

https://youtu.be/ppRzJYgG3xc