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Mastodon wrote:

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

Mastodon wrote:

Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0dqq7o

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

look don't worry about the poop, it's optional, you can pick it out if you don't like it

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An old fashioned office chair.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust

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

“They’re buying more GPUs than there is data centre capacity or available power! They must be warehousing unused GPUs!”

Or the GPUs have a much shorter service life on average than claimed, so they constantly have to replace failed units, which is both more plausible and worse news for the industry

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

Two new invite codes for https://message.casa

stoop-careless-3962

licking-outfit-6553

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

All out of ideas? Buy Time Warner. Buying Time Warner never fails. You definitely won't regret spending 30 or 40 billion on Time Warner

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

Still really genuinely angry at how much the passkey rollout has fucked up the flows for anyone using a security key.

Fuck forcing people to set pins on hardware tokens. Fuck defaulting to allowing a hardware token to log in without the password. Fuck making every mobile device you own a first class token and making login attempt spam a thing again.

I get that passwords are broken. I don't have a problem with the idea behind passkeys as such for less-technical users (although fuck vendor lock-in and non-portable credentials), but do not fuck over technical users trying to protect critical systems by breaking their workflows or destroying basic security primitives.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"

it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--LfHdshco

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

well I guess that fun is over, unless there is a new bypass script?

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

EMAIL WRAPPED 2025

This year, you received too fucking much email!

Number of emails that found you well: zero

Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero

Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person answering your email: all of the times

Your favorite email was: none of them

Next year, you are considering: are there any countries where email is illegal, and what are their immigration laws?

Boosted by jwz:
dphiffer@social.coop ("Dan Phiffer") wrote:

My union doesn't have a presence on the Fedi, so please excuse the 🦋 screengrabs.
https://bsky.app/profile/propublicaguild.org/post/3m7j5xrhw5227

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Living without (cable) internet because of tonight's storm.

#wawx

jwz wrote:

Today in Email Hegemony.

Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the DNA Lounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.

73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else

https://jwz.org/b/yk0O

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Yikes 🔥

Here's to Hope!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
charleskeener.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Charles Keener") wrote:

www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/he...

Pentagon Awards $620M Contract...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Trump backtracks on releasing video of 2nd strike on alleged drug boat
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/world/video/ac360kthdrugboat?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Florida governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization
https://apnews.com/article/florida-desantis-muslim-group-terrorist-label-7113c982c43fed198cef9eaf85b23679?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

I just love how consistent conservatives are.

#ConservativeHypocrisy #memes #CharlieKirk #StephenKing #CancelCulture

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

Excellent

Federal judge throws out #Trump order blocking development of #wind #energy

A federal judge on Monday struck down Trump’s executive order blocking #WindEnergy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of #WindFarms on federal #lands & #waters was “arbitrary & capricious” & violates US #law.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #energy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba?utm%5Fsource=onesignal&utm%5Fmedium=push&utm%5Fcampaign=2025-12-08-Wind+energy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
twwombat@dice.camp ("T.W.Wombat (aka Jim White)") wrote:

So I'm officially 8 months jobless as of today.

Looking for a senior database architect/engineer role with pipeline/interface experience, if you know anyone looking. I'm a generalist hunting in a specialized world.

Alternately, I can edit your TTRPG manuscript or crowdfunding page for a nominal fee.

Thanks in advance!

#Jobs

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reminder that I and musician Matthew Ryan wrote a Christmas song together, which Matthew then sang. It's melancholy and hopeful at the same time. If you've never heard it, enjoy, and if you're hearing it again, enjoy once more.

https://youtu.be/0ujFBJKbVLw

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

VLC stands for Very Large Cone

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mcc wrote:

It's really awkward the person you have to sue is the government for censoring your software through Apple and not Apple for creating a situation where the government can censor your software. Apple is more powerful, and less accountable, than a government. https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115684595581297105

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

One of these things is not like the other...

You can tell someone sketchy is in Bernie's ear, but they haven't been able to completely control what he puts out about AI.

#BernieSanders #Democrats

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

Addendum: if you were specifically thinking "I'm getting a Raspberry Pi to run Home Assistant," stop that nonsense at once and buy a https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ instead.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I would be remiss to not show this graph when mentioning quicksand

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

my favorite "nothing to see here" log entry (for which read "probe") today so far:

172.82.67.155:45724 - 2025-Dec-08 23:51:18.85958Z "GET /wp-login.php?action=register HTTP/1.1" 404 26

die wordpress die die die
we ain't got no schtinking wordpress here, nor ph fooking p

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@collinsworth This also resonated with me:

"I like using my brain [and] the process of ideating, building, and creatively solving a problem."

Agreed! And I like helping my coworkers use their brains. When I'm reviewing code, I often think "Why would they write it like this?" If I can't find the reason, I'll ask. Sometimes there's a good reason for us to capture in comments. Other times, it's code that can be improved.

"Because AI did it" is a code thought-terminating cliché. 😞

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

My value is not the number of lines of code I generate, but the thoughtfulness with which I apply my experience.

"Ah, you said X, but do you mean X, X', or X''? Those distinctions matter because…"

"In this case it would be simpler AND more flexible to generalize to…"

Do employers value the difference?

Will they learn to, before their codebase is so full of vibecode that they need to hire a code exorcist? 🤷