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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerikson@awful.systems wrote:

Neal Stephenson comes out strong and funny against GenAI here:

…substack.com/…/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

“Hypothesis 1: it was written by a clanker”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115587958313504337

Reminder that StopTheMadness Pro is on sale now!

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

“Black Friday deals 2025 - Piccalilli”

https://piccalil.li/links/black-friday-deals-2025/?ref=main-rss-feed

Lots of web dev and related deals available today

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

Nature journals have fallen into disrepute, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/28/dont-trust-anything-from-the-anhui-vocational-college-of-press-and-publishing/

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

The EU has supported me, @pixelfed and @loops more than my own country!

I’m forever grateful to @nlnet, our patrons, kickstarter backers, open collective and liberapay donors for funding us and helping sustain active development for all our projects.

It isn’t easy or cheap to build, run and maintain a dozen fediverse projects, but your support has really helped.

Thank you.

Your support is needed more than ever as we build a better TikTok ❤️

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: https://weaintbuyingit.com/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

"Like more extreme forms of religious fanaticism, the discourse of political populism is rife with incendiary appeal. It is a language of action and empowerment, and it tends to oppose secular liberalism, which it views as weak and corrosive.

One does not need to dig very deep to find historical examples. In The Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini states: 'The right to national independence [arises] from an active, self-conscious, political will expressing itself in action and ready to prove its rights.'

Similar passages can be found in Hitler’s Mein Kampf: 'He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.'

Eighty years from the end of World War II, we know what such invocations look like when they are followed to their natural conclusions."

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment https://theconversation.com/100-years-on-t-s-eliots-the-hollow-men-is-a-poem-for-our-populist-moment-269487

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

The US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center, the new command hub for Gaza, is in Israel, not in Gaza.

There, officials from dozens of countries are housed in an Israeli settlement built on the ruins of a Palestinian village.

The CMCC's surveillance & control programs are being built in collaboration with Israel turning "the promise of peace into yet another instrument of control."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/26/it-is-israel-not-gaza-that-needs-stabilisation

#USPol #GazaGenocide #Europol #Racism #USImperialism #CMCC #Palestine @palestine .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
talia_christine@beige.party ("TC💖") wrote:

These are the voyages of the Starship Enter-pies. Happy Thanksgiving! 🖖

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

✏️ Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? https://hidde.blog/filtered-open-web/

new blog post… I remembered @baldur's many warnings over recent years and tried put them into the 'open web'/LLMs context.

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

"Your parcel has been delivered." — you've got some nerve UPS, I just walked three miles in heavy rain to find where you abandoned it 😐

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

For this Black Friday I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP

I'm also going to be discontinuing two of those ebooks – I am Uncluttered (Yellow) and Bad Writing – after the sale to focus on the books I think are likelier to have an audience over the next couple of years

"I am Uncluttered (Yellow)" will still be available in print albeit less prominently on my site than before.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Huge yikes.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.

Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.

There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

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

Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard could it be?"

As it turned out, remarkably easy. (Though, it helps that someone already wrote a guide for it: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam )

Pretty sure it's a YMMV situation, but my milage was pretty good.

#FEX_Emu

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

DId you know that Sam Neill owns -- and *runs* -- a sheep ranch? He loves it, and writes his contracts so that he does not have to shoot during lambing or shearing times. He sometimes jokes that the only reason he became an actor was to have enough money to raise sheep. :)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

World's smallest violin needed, again:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/openai-loses-key-discovery-battle-why-deleted-library-of-pirated-books-1236436363/

"OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits" —if found guilty of 'wilful" infringement OpenAI could be on the hook for up to $150,000 per work. (And circumstances don't look great for them—they appear to have destroyed lists of the copyrighted works they'd trained GPT on.)

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

Free as in a labour class so ignorant of history that it welcomes its own being freely exploited.

https://phire.place/@phire/115624919643042702

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

"The top-line takeaway is chilling: sites that are explicitly designed as SPAs, and which have intentionally opted in to metrics measurement around soft-navigations are seeing one (1) soft-navigation for every full page load on average."

Amazing research and analysis as always from @slightlyoff https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
arpit@indieweb.social ("Arpit") wrote:

I’m really determined to change that, which is why I just bought Scott Riley’s course, Mindful Design. @piccalilli is running a Black Friday sale on all their courses, including Mindful Design, and I can wholeheartedly recommend them.

- https://piccalil.li/mindful-design

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

The entire “Asynchronous JavaScript” module of JavaScript for Everyone is now free

This module has so far been one of the most useful to people taking JavaScript for Everyone, so we made it free so you can get an idea of how good Mat is at teaching JavaScript. Maybe it’ll convince you to get the whole course 👀

https://piccalil.li/links/the-entire-asynchronous-javascript-module-of-javascript-for-everyone-is-now-free/

jwz wrote:

# ßh -V
OpenSSH_10.2p1, OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025

https://jwz.org/b/ykx0

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The risks I take are calculated, I just suck at math.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/115622706069488954

Those of you who are not web devs (good choice) may not quite appreciate what this means.
You know how websites are loads slower now, and don't work without JavaScript? Well, one of the big (dubious) arguments made in favour of this transition was that you download a bunch more code first, but then it'll make everything faster once you're there. It's front loading.
What @slightlyoff has shown is that this is not relevant, because people don't stay on the sites long enough to get the benefit.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

It’s vaguely unsettling that as annoyed as I am with Apple’s ethics of late, I stick with Safari in no small part because every other browser maker is apparently in a competition to Milkshake Duck themselves harder and faster

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

I had to delete my post about the Kagi CEO after a spate of DM replies from some pretty intensely pissed off Kagi apologists. Holy shit, some people take their search engines way too seriously.

So I’ll just say this: choose your tools carefully. Take the time to understand who and what you’re supporting, and whether you’re OK with what they stand for (or against).

(Or don’t. I’m not your boss.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

⁨Me shortly after midnight, in bed: I think I can hear a wallaby moving about outside.

Me checking the camera: This!⁩

It’s swamp wallaby (Wallaby bicolour). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp%5Fwallaby

Full video at https://drive.google.com/file/d/17fUCdvEOlp4p2xjolnKNCXEmxUAuD0gD/view?usp=sharing.

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

If a tech CEO/founder maintains a presence on X/Twitter, that’s generally not a great sign.

If they post regularly, that’s a really bad sign.

If their account is dormant and they claim they’re “just holding their username”, they have attachment issues.

If they’re active there and claim to be “indie” or “small web” affiliated, they are full of shit.

If they use Grok unabashedly, they’re voluntarily aligned with pure evil.

Edit: I have just been informed that there are certain types of accounts where X won’t let people delete them at all. Wild! Obviously someone with that type of account may not be there by choice. 🙃

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing

https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

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

It's terrifying how ABC, CNN, etc all sound like Diet Fox News now.

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

My traditional #thanksgiving run is on the books this year as well. I don't think I ever missed it after I started #running in earnest some 10+ years ago.