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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Real life targeted ads are diabolical
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Wrote about what kept me busy for the past few weeks, gratuitously overanalyzing grocery shopping.
https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/11/23/pet-project-restart/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
got that? swastikas & nooses are just fine to this administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/coast-guard-hate-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Mastodon Feed@henrisimons encoding_rs needs some maintainer attention
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“By rewarding Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine based on his obsession with making it part of Mother Russia, the U.S. will be putting the whole European Union under Putin’s thumb. Trump’s message to our allies will be clear: Don’t provoke Putin, because as long as I am commander in chief, the United States will pay no price and we will bear no burden in the defense of your freedom.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Savannah, I’m here. Made great time. Stopped to pee only once. I have the whole day to get into trouble.
First stop, the coffee shop across from the Savannah Theatre. Hope to get some writing done while I munch on this blueberry scone. All of this is my happy place—vibes, sweets, prose, I love it. https://galleryespresso.com/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
So Safari on the iPad randomly and unpredictably reorders all its tabs and I can’t figure out when or why it does it. It’s incredibly annoying
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Not every nurse is Ratched.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/23/republicans-must-hate-nurses/
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DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world ("Darth Putin") wrote:
OTD in 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died from complications of saying Vladimir Putin is a corrupt peadophile ☕️ 🍣
One of the witnesses at the inquest later 'committed suicide by stabbing himself several times'
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JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:
UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an incredible resource for studying the spread of tech as well
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tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Just Tom...") wrote:
"All roads lead to Rome"? - well, according to this, they didn't even in the heyday of the Roman Empire... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z
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UniversalCompendium wrote:
An entire family of falcons watches from their house, keeping tabs on all who pass by.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen%5Fimages/ucg/1animals/falcons-family-photography.htm
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It is generally not a good idea, career-wise, to refuse illegal orders. It’s a better idea to find a way around them... But sometimes you don’t have a choice… a superior officer told me to stop signing up members of my platoon who had families for food stamps. It was legal for soldiers to receive food stamps. They qualified because of their very low pay, which put many of them below the federal poverty line. I refused that order”
https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/the-bill-of-rights-for-soldiers
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AAronL1968@shakedown.social ("AAron Leckinger") wrote:
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-officials-meeting-with-russian-miami-spurs-questions-about-latest-ukraine-2025-11-22/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
brazen
“Paul Ingrassia, told senior DHS officials to return electronic devices seized from the Tate brothers when they arrived in the U.S. in February. Ingrassia made clear the request was coming from the White House…
The Tates are facing sex trafficking accusations in three countries. Ingrassia, who has served as White House Liaison to DHS and to the Department of Justice, was part of a legal team that represented the pair before he joined the White House.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-ingrassia-probe-andrew-tate-investigation
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
everything about our in-migration system is broken at this point
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Not leaving soon enough, MTG.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/23/mtg-jumping-ship/
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Okay, but you know that just makes it worse, right?
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
(This is part of why I’ve been writing less. Mostly I’m just sitting back and hoping things won’t be as bad as I think they might get.)
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Trump's economic policies have made the US dollar more vulnerable and the overall finance system more opaque.
The US federal infrastructure is weak, limiting its capability at containing the damage.
The zeal many governments have for "AI" means they're likely to delay taking action at critical moments in the immediate aftermath of a bubble pop.
There's a non-zero chance we might be heading into a perfect storm of an economic crisis.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Desire to Pop”
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/
> I love the abstraction of the “AI” bubble popping. But the very probably effects haunt me.
Been having similar concerns. Except I think things are genuinely worse than most expect. The usual suspects are clearly trying to position LLMs as something being sabotaged by the bubble not its cause and the overall prospects are pretty dire …
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Idly remembering the time I recommended “Just Enough Research” where I worked, a book so good I keep buying it again and again, and the only chapter my coworkers read was the one on how to do a minimally harmful survey, because they were dead-set on doing a survey, no matter what
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Did you sign the #Starbucks #union pledge? It's easy, and it increments the counter. Businesses eventually react to numbers.
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Matthew Facciani") wrote:
There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jetsilver@ohai.social wrote:
@brian @isagalaev The strike is indefinite.
Honk if you drive past a picket line!
https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-workers-united-union-red-cup-rebellion-strike-picket
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
@pluralistic I found it!
schismogenesis:
> That's when you decide how you feel about an issue based on who supports it.
Love that word.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
@pluralistic hey there what's that term you use for when someone thinks an argument or observation is defacto false because it comes from a different political party? I had it bookmarked and can't for the life of me find it.
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vinoth@infosec.exchange ("Vinoth (Mobile security)") wrote:
I am disappointed that IACR is framing the root cause as an "unfortunate human mistake," effectively throwing a distinguished member of the community under the bus.
This is a system design issue. No critical system should have a 3-of-3 quorum requirement.
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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:
This post is an example of why no one listens to #FreeBSD advocates. They start by not understanding a Linux thing, and then claim a totally unrelated FreeBSD thing was there first and is better.
The soft reboot thing in RedHat is about providing an immutable base image (FreeBSD does not do this) and then a lightweight way of restarting userspace to use it.
The thing you link to is the reroot feature of FreeBSD, which was a copy of a Linux feature. Linux has had pivot root for a long time, the thing that is added is an administration layer that uses this functionality for a quick update path, integrated with the normal update flow. This does not exist on FreeBSD.
Similarly, FreeBSD has had jails for ages. Linux has also had shared-kernel virtualisation for almost as long. OpenVZ shipped five years after Jails (and before Jails had things like isolation for SysV IPC and so were actually useful for isolating workloads like Postgres). The value of Docker / OCI containers is not that you can create an isolated environment, it’s that it has a distribution model built on immutable layers and an orchestration model that lets you cleanly separate persistent data (volumes) from the software that runs on them so you can upgrade by simply rebuilding the image and then destroying and recreating the container. And FreeBSD now, finally, has an alternative to OCI containers on Linux: OCI containers on FreeBSD.
If you spent half the effort understanding why people like and use some of these features on Linux as you do telling people that barely related features on FreeBSD are better, then you might actually do some useful advocacy. As it is, you just reinforce all of the negative stereotypes the Linux users have about FreeBSD.