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macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:
iPhone 17 Lineup Drives Smartphone Growth in China https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/iphone-17-drives-smartphone-growth-in-china/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
Worth reading today:
“How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Jean-Baptiste Lully born, Florence, 1632 (Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today ion History: Albania declares independence from Ottoman Empire, 1912
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Joe Ossanna dies, 1977
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:
Business Insider reports that Oura is planning to expand its Oura wearable rings beyond health tracking to allow for payments, authentication, and more.
Well, Capitan Buzzkill (me) here wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• As such, Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Friedrich Engels born, 1820
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
In this house, "The Holidays" consists of the period from when the last bite of pie is eaten at Thanksgiving to whenever it is Krissy decides to take down the Christmas tree, which is usually January 2nd but sometimes a day or two later. Regardless the holidays have a hard out at January 6, aka the 12th Day of Christmas. After that it's just Yuletide Malingering.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:
I've been a big fan (and user) of @zachleat's glyphhanger for years.
But the last update was 4-5 years ago, so... it was time to port (some of it) to Rust:
https://github.com/fasterthanlime/fontcull
(subset your fonts, y'all!)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
@ia feature suggestion: option in settings for when you duplicate a file to give it a version number instead of "copy".
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115587958313504337
Reminder that StopTheMadness Pro is on sale now!
Mastodon Feedbaldur@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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Nature journals have fallen into disrepute, I guess.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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 ❤️
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
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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 .
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
talia_christine@beige.party ("TC💖") wrote:
These are the voyages of the Starship Enter-pies. Happy Thanksgiving! 🖖
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon Feeddb@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 😐
Mastodon Feedbaldur@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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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. :)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
World's smallest violin needed, again:
"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.)
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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/
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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 👀