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Boosted by jwz:
rtyler@hacky.town ("R Tyler Croy 🦀") wrote:

Building a website in 2005: "here are a list of tips to help crawlers index your website"

2025: 'here are a list of tips to help avoid crawlers indexing your website"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Repposted with Alt Text (because Women need Alt Text too)

#Misogyny #Patriarchy #Feminism #Incels #Manosphere

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.” #PranatiModumudi https://pranmod01.github.io/posts/2025/11/anthro-ai/

ht @glenweyl

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
2legged@mastodon.ie ("Claire McNab") wrote:

BREAKING: Liz Truss wins #FIFA Prize for Economics.

#Satire

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gglockner@social.seattle.wa.us ("Greg Glockner") wrote:

I was saying something like this a few days ago: XKCD: “Website Task Flowchart”. https://xkcd.com/3175/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

In which period was the music you listen to recorded and/or released? Choose all that apply.

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

There is no sound sadder than the meow of my little monsters when they have been told that the two pounds of halibut I am cooking is not for them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

I see the “EVs are worse than gasoline cars because extra tire wear is more microplastics” folks are out again.

Never mind that around 90% of tire wear is commercial trucking, or that the worst case wear (which is over triple what you’d get using the *recommended* tires) means leas than one extra set of tires on average over the entire life of the car.

The willingness people have to parrot petrol propaganda is frustrating.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AJ_andrew69 ("Andrew J Spaulding") wrote:

Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
https://share.newsbreak.com/g893ojw4

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.

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