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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

I refuse

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

New post: "Emacs and Shortcuts" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/emacs-and-shortcuts/

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

I promise I won’t turn into an Emacs-only blogger, but my tech life seems to be going through a sea change currently, with Emacs being part of it. I’m working on stuff to say about other things, though, tech and otherwise.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
cass@social.lol ("Cassie") wrote:

fuck microsoft; i'm now using omg.lol's forgejo instance to build and deploy my site to nearlyfreespeech

https://cassie.ink/friendship-ended-with-github/

Boosted by jwz:
internetsdairy@mastodon.art wrote:

@TheBreadmonkey I don't think elves go to the toilet (see The Silmarillion for confirmation). Dwarves is a festival portaloo situation but in a cave. I reckon hobbits would have a Victorian pull-chain situation but with a flush too weak to cope with the results of their diet

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
links@lmorchard.com ("lmorchard's links") wrote:

Welcome to Quartz 4

"Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites. Thousands of students, developers, and teachers are already using Quartz to publish personal notes, websites, and digital gardens to the web."

https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

#digitalgarden #markdown #notes #obsidian #ssg #webdev

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
venelles ("Philip Wittamore") wrote:

@lfa

Playing around, I've invented the even-smoller web

https://spike.nagatha.fr

It's nginx in directory mode with fancyindex.

#smolweb

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

New app selection criteria:
- If there’s a PWA, use it.
- If a platform-specific API is required, use a native app that respects your privacy.
- If neither are options, don’t use it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Pikestreet@ohai.social ("Trickpaw") wrote:

What now

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

from the new logging facility:

47.129.238.22:57974 - 2025-Dec-07 19:53:17.2682445Z "GET /.git/config HTTP/1.1" 404 26

yeah, and screw you too, 47.129.238.22

I wanna probe ppl like this back... but with a pitchfork

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

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

How MAGA celebrates the birth of their Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ. It makes me proud to be an atheist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/07/merry-maga-xmas/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/04rjbfyW4v8

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

The prettiest ancient grub I ever did see.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/07/wanna-see-a-beautiful-fossil/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"A lame-duck president who said he’d make life better for MAGA starting on 'day one' but has made life worse for MAGA by month 10.

He doesn’t even believe in lowering prices. He calls the affordability crisis a 'con' job."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

"We're defending your freedom 400 kilometers east of Warsaw. While you avoid calling this a war, we are dying in your stead."

Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:

"We are the only buffer between Europe's cozy 'Russia is weak' theory and reality. When it breaks, your generals will call Article 5 'a political decision.' Your soldiers will refuse to fight. It's your war too. You've just outsourced the dying." https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/its-your-war-youve-just-outsourced-the-dying/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kravietz@agora.echelon.pl ("kravietz 🦇") wrote:

European Twitter exploded following yesterday’s rants by US and Russian hardliners calling to “abolish EU”.

Lots of voices like “we need European social media!!”

And I said, “actually, you know what, we kind of have one for years…” 😆

Some people started complaining “but nobody uses Mastodon” and I once again had no choice but to explain that if “nobody uses” then how come I’ve got 3k+ followers here and engaging in truly interesting discussions not less often than there😁

There’s two data points where Fediverse can be indeed seen as less attractive than US cortisol aggregators:

• number of engagements, but granted that up to 60-70% of these on Twitter are generated by bots who cares? Maybe media advertising agencies do, but I don’t.
• presence of public persons - this is where Fediverse actually loses, because it’s a network that grows between them and can’t be “invited”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yacodes ("Aleksandr Yakunichev") wrote:

#Plushtodon has arrived to help me get through the upcoming work week!

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

yes! finally figured out how to tell vibe.d how to log the IP of low-level TLS-error attackers. now I can use fail2ban and do a decent job of blocking their [expletives deleted] addresses.

Attachments:

• gifv: baby fist pump

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

I hope I’ll be able to finalise tests on https://message.casa/ this evening/night : main services are ok (postfix, dovecot, rspamd, snappy&nocc webmails, prosody) but anonymous registration method with invite codes needs to be overtested to avoid malicious accounts

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

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

Latest Freebooters podcast: Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us

https://freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3

Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more....

#Freebooters

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
LesleyPhillipsArt@toot.wales ("Lesley Phillips art") wrote:

Conwy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fuzztech@infosec.exchange ("Nick Selby :donor:") wrote:

When I was four and in surgery, and afraid, my parents wrote a letter to Fred Rogers who immediately wrote back with a signed picture and a personal note, telling me that everyone gets afraid sometimes and it would be OK. I lost the photo and letter when my storage locker was burglarized in 1996, but the message stayed with me. I love this post. https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger/115277597918055096

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro ("Daughter of Discord") wrote:

Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.

He prayed and read the Bible every day.

He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.

He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.

He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.

While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.

He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.

Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.

Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.

No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.

We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.

He never asked us to be Christian with him.

He only asked us to be his neighbor.

So...

If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.

It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.

It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.

It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".

Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.

-- Patchie Dee

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

finally, after diving deep into the docs, I *think* I've finally found a way to trap the IP addresses of attackers going after my service and logging in a way fail2ban can cope with. I *think* I have...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Not adding Hitler’s birthday?

“National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday”

https://apnews.com/article/national-parks-free-trump-birthday-juneteenth-mlk-225b10728a9df22d54407ecaec1e5e5f

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ben@kwiecien.us ("Benjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸") wrote:

If AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, it seems to be that this is a powerful loophole to those who are against copyright.