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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Have been using some new open-source developer tools. One of them (which I would very much like to use) has a terrible bug when allocating memory which causes it to go instantly from working normally to gobbling up all system memory until I am forced to reboot. On a system with 36GB RAM.

After some googling, it looks like macOS has no way to limit the memory usage of a process (outside of launchd). So I can't protect my machine from crashing while trying to reproduce and debug the issue. 😞

jwz wrote:

Just pushed out updates to four of my apps because of an update to the updater and it's turtles all the way down.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0y

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

Theater Kids not down with fascism

https://playbill.com/article/american-college-theatre-festival-suspends-affiliation-with-kennedy-center-festival-will-continue-on-its-own

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Bonne semaine les BG

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

Attachments:

• gifv: c684035405ca581b.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
b@convo.casa ("b҉") wrote:

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/21/nx-s1-5651294/rick-steves-saves-homeless-seattle-area-hygiene-center

He describes his decision as a response to what he sees as a failure of public priorities, not a model to be relied upon.

"If we don't have [$2.25 million] for a whole county to give homeless people a shower and a place to get out of the rain and a place to wash their clothes, what kind of society are we?" Steves said.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: A video showing a fictitious conversation between a person and ChatGPT.

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

Bari Weiss is to news what I am to professional football: Someone who does not belong on the field

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DSksnE3Dpeg

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
truthaddictvt@masto.ai ("Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

I enjoy this place these days, but it took awhile to get there, and it doesn't really provide the same thing Twitter or Bluesky do. You have to be a pretty specific venn diagram of dork to get the most out of this place

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truthaddictvt@masto.ai ("Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115763803172947099

There's a lot I find annoying about Mastodon, but one thing I do like is how different the vibe is. You're not going to be seen by thousands of people, which people on the other sites see as a detriment (and yeah posting here does often feel to me like tacking a flyer on a community notice board that no one really passes by), but there also tends to be less of an element of performance in posting here, and more sincerity, because you're mainly talking to a handful of people you actually know

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Mass surveillance is gross. "AI-enhanced" mass surveillance is even worse, and Flock Safety (funded by Horowitz's a16z & Y Combinator) is exceptionally scummy, insecure, incompetent, and lying about it:

https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?t=442

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

These two photos, were taken here in Iceland during a trip to the remains of the WW2 era naval base in Hvalfjörður. The wall belonged to a military hospital #photos #iceland #photography

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

What I do love about #Mastodon and the greater #Fediverse, by the way, are the personalities. There *is* a culture here.

Other microblogging sites have a sort of algorithmic supremacy going on where you trade personality for a ticket to the internet celebrity lottery. No individualism. You pick your niche from a set deck and you play the FYP slots.

Meanwhile, everyday I run into someone who's like "hey I'm star-cake. I'm a queer carrot farmer. I collect Soviet-era camera lenses." Amazing.

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

Wired, TechCrunch, The Verge, Mashable, these American tech blogs sound very old fashioned to me with their never-ending hype cycles, and corporate worship coverage. They've completely lost touch of what Americans want.

Yet nothing is here to replace them. 404 media is doing a great job at investigative reporting. But that's not quite a replacement of consumer tech coverage.

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

Brain Gear Is the Hot New Wearable | WIRED:

"Now there’s a new breed of wearables—built for your head. Instead of tracking your step count, heart rate, and skin temperature, these devices are designed to read your brain waves."

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-wearables/

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

I possess a junk drawer that is a nostalgia trap I will never be able to purge.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/22/nostalgia-night/

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

This is so funny. Does anyone know anything about the original artist so I can go support them and not this slop version

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sampo@pleroma.soykaf.com wrote:

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

this is one of those days when I wish you would hurry up

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

Continuing with my Montréal era, here are three photos from Parc Jarry, spring, summer, and autumn. The photo of the bloodied gull is one of my personal favourites. The gull had tried to snack on a duckling and all of the duck mamas ganged up and it was lucky to get away with its life #montreal #photos #photography

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

I’ve reached my Montréal years in my impromptu photography retrospective (2016-2019). 2019 was the year where, for a variety of reasons, I knew I wasn’t going to be living there for much longer. These are mostly from Parc Jarry and the Jean Talon market. #montreal #photos #photography

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

Also, side-eyeing the people in the industry who DON’T feel betrayed and are treating the tech industry’s overt assault on labour and creative industries as just another day at the job.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115745770152711683

For some fucking reason, what most here on Mastodon took away from this blog post, where I describe how my own words about sporadic blogs and feeds turned to ash is that they should go and boost the year-old blog post that turned to ash, ignoring the fact that it is now a curse, not a feelgood happy-post

Wtf people?

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

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

Basically my career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry dropped all pretence and switched to just overtly looting, manipulating, and gouging.

Being a bit angry about it is probably quite reasonable

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

If you don't want to take sides in the fight against bigotry then you've joined the fight on the side of the fucking bigots

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/vance-republicans-trump-antisemitism.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.-k8.e9j2.RNd%5FrxY109%5FW&smid=url-share

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

In November, Debian LTS contributors released 33 Debian LTS Advisories, fixing 219 CVEs across multiple packages. Notable updates included security fixes for bind9, unbound, pdfminer, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and the Linux 6.1 kernel.

In addition, the LTS team also contributed security updates to latest Debian releases and carried out significant work to revamp the LTS team documentation.

Read the full report here:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-11/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits

#freexian #debianLTS #debian #linux #bind9 #unbound #thunderbird

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

You know, I'm still a bit mad about the picture they put on my Wikipedia article. Back at FOSDEM 2023, some guy walks up to me, asks if he can take a picture. I've been taking selfies with folks all day so I say yes. People are happy to meet me and I don't mind. He takes the picture and leaves. Then months later I find out that blurry, low light, bad hair, bad composition picture is how I will be remembered in the world's most popular encyclopedia.

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twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.

That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert (100% AI free)") wrote:

When Twitter collapsed, it was great to see the flood of friends, game devs and other come to Mastodon. Over the next 9 months a lot of them vanished to Threads, BlueSky or just left. I want to thank all people who are still on Mastodon and make it a wonderful place. You know who you are.