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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

Starting a Multi-Park Day Right: Lake James State Park (US-2739) with VA3EKR

https://qrper.com/2025/12/starting-a-multi-park-day-right-lake-james-state-park-us-2739-with-va3ekr/?swcfpc=1

Thumbnail image shows the Elecraft K1 on a picnic table at Lake James State Park. Reads: "Logging 1`8 in 14 QRP with the CHA LEFS 4010. K4SWL"

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

I'm tired, y'all. For now,✌️
https://substack.com/@fromjasonxyz

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

“History reminds us that each of us will be judged... and ultimately judge ourselves, to the extent we contribute, as Bobby Kennedy said, to the life of our cities, our state, our nation, and the world we are trying to build.”

- Gov. Gavin Newsom

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

The Dictator-Wannabe-in-Chief is a moron

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/trump-tina-peters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

"Chris Minns, the premier of the state of New South Wales, praised the actions of a bystander who was shown in social media footage tackling one of the gunmen from behind and wresting control of his firearm. He said the man likely saved the lives of many people.

Commissioner Lanyon said the shooter who was killed had been previously known to the police.

… targeted an event hosted by the Chabad organization at the beach to observe the Hanukkah holiday."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/world/sydney-bondi-beach-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

The gaslighting...lmao. Is this a thinktank response? Now when brown people call out the lack of diversity, the goal is to just gas light them into thinking that the Fediverse is diverse? Jesus Henry Christ.

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

This is why it's important to have diversity. It's the retaliation to calling out white supremacy. It's the subtle threats, the even subtler racially charged language.

Racism isn't just a guy in a white robe. It's the person with a gun who doesn't even know it's in their hand.

No one feels safe talking about racism in a room full of white people, even if they are self described progressives.

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

It's the 5 stages of grief in these comment sections, with most people stuck at Denial, Anger, and Bargaining.

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

Pro tip: if you're going to debate me on the existence of systemic racism and how to tackle it, maybe don't throw a bunch of book quotes and sources at me.

It heavily implies that despite being well-read, you've gone out of your way *not* to read anything authored by a Black or brown person. And I can only think of one other well-read group who does that. 🙃

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

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

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

@sylvie we are aware of this and this will, of course, be removed/disabled. The sole reason it is till in there is because it slipped through, so to speak. It says "LibreWolf" in the message because, indeed, Firefox' name gets automatically replaced with "LibreWolf" as part of the build process, so that happened there, too.

Sorry for the confusion to y'all. But rest assured: we definitely haven't suddenly "switched sides" - we still absolutely don't want "generative AI" related stuff in LW.

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

Many of the replies to the above post are solid examples of why people who are seeking alternatives to traditional social media still bounce off Mastodon: you all have a tendency to behave like assholes.

Nobody wants a lecture on switching to Linux, ever, or to be told how using the services they’ve been sold makes them a fool, and wasting that lecture on somebody who is already on Linux and already uses iCloud as little as possible just makes you a dick

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

When you try to install a software on FreeBSD, using the official "install.sh" way but it tries to write binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin

Toy Story meme: Linuxisms, Linuxisms everywhere

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

“I find myself worrying most that when we hand our children phones we steal their boredom from them. As a result, we are raising a generation of writers who will never start writing, artists who will never start doodling, chefs who will never make a mess of the kitchen, athletes who will never kick a ball against a wall, musicians who will never pick up their aunt’s guitar and start strumming.” Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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

I feel that, during this holiday season, it is important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising wealthy people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees a fair wage.

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

What on earth…. Apparently Rust on Lambda was experimental until ~a month ago

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-serverless-applications-with-rust-on-aws-lambda/

Didn’t know that when I wrote
https://mastodon.social/@lloydmeta/115316480682496651

I usually try to avoid that stuff these days…

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Boosted by jwz:
NoahLoren13 ("Noah Loren") wrote:

Subtoot:

Godzilla about AI.

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

I've been really weighing the pros and cons of just being on the #Fediverse and not corporate social media.

I like to write about tech and social justice. But I'm discovering it's probably easier to write about the dangers of big tech to a non-techie audience on BlueSky or Substack than it is to convince a Mastodonian that systemic oppression exists. The former also just far more delightful

The absence of POCs here is just so heavy sometimes. It makes me question what am I actually supporting?

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

If someone says it's your job as a person with privilege to dismantle systems of oppression, instead of panicking and getting defensive, you can do one or both things

1. You can just say "I don't know how to do that." Seriously. I think so much of these lame ass comments are because people panic and get defensive. And instead of just being honest, they try to intellectualize their way out of the anxiety.

2. Literally go google "black activist authors" or "queer activist authors" and learn.

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

Just the other day I was thinking how much the presence of POC are missed on this platform. And then I scroll the comments of a post talking about systemic oppression and I'm reminded why #Mastodon is 99% white.

How is it that so many of you are expert coders but haven't read a single book by an activist? How is it that you haven't accidentally come across even a quote to spark curiosity?

This is especially concerning for Americans. We're facing fascism and still at "I don't see color"

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

After `apt upgrade; shutdown -r` I've never heard again from lib.rs server.
I've restored a fresh one from a backup, but it's going to be wonky for a while due to cold caches and rebuilding of search index.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

It's white people's responsibility to stop racism.

It's men's responsibility to stop sexism.

It's cis people's responsibility to stop transphobia.

It's straight people's responsibility to stop homophobia.

It's able people's responsibility to stop ableism.

It's always the responsibility of the people in a position of privilege to stop the oppression they are benefiting from.

If you are part of a privileged group, in one way or another, get to it.

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

This anti-vax, anti-science bullshit is going to kill a lot of babies before it's through

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/parents-refusing-vitamin-k-shots-newborns-study-finds-rcna247580

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

Every year I rewatch the Matrix trilogy, forgetting how truly awful the third movie is, thus disappointing myself all over again.

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

OH MY GOD EVERY GEN-XERS WORST NIGHTMARE HAS FINALLY COME TRUE

https://wapo.st/4oRglWg

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:

Don’t fear, it turned out well enough. We had lots of professional advice — though mostly we had to figure it out.

But if I’d known 28y ago how afraid he was, and how that flipped to anger, aggression, and meltdowns, it would have been easier.

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

#DogsOfMastodon

Lil black dog wearing a purple and blue neckerchief lying on a green comforter

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Sadly, the web improves at the rate the consciousness of wealthy, iPhone-totting techies is elevated. But that's not impossible, and it's one reason the work @owa is doing is so important.

If you want to unlock practical access to the better web most users *already* have, browser choice for iOS is a must, so get involved and/or donate:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/donate/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

Jesus fucking christ.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/