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jwz wrote:

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

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

It has to be obvious to everyone by now that Trump is a mentally ill child, and it is well past time to evict him from office.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/19/trump-doesnt-get-a-consolation-prize/

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jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

@quillmatiq I agree about that, and I'm all for telling people about fedi's advantages. I'm not making an argument against bridging in general, just a meta point about this specific argument in favor of bridging isn't a strong one.

Our debate is only over whether doing that from a bridged fedi account is in general an effective approach. Advocates of federating with Threads repeatedly claimed that the ability to do this would increase usage here ... but in the aggregate, it hasn't. Even though it's not a controlled experiment, it's a very strong data point.

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trwnh ("infinite love ⴳ") wrote:

@jdp23 @fancysandwiches @quillmatiq also, there are better strategies for getting people to move. you can make a separate bluesky account to advocate directly. you can host your own site and link to it elsewhere. why create free value which disincentivizes anyone from ever making a change? "why go to where the content is, when the content will come to me?"

people want better experiences and good people. bridging/federation/syndication isn't universally positive. reach can be bad if it harms you

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jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

Yeah , this argument was tested with Threads and it didn’t work. “We don’t engage with fascists” is potentially a compelling position to people who don’t want to engage with fascists. “We’re engaging with a fascist server to tell people we’re better because we don’t engage with fascists” is not - and it throws away what’s potentially one of the stronger arguments for fedi

@fancysandwiches @quillmatiq

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fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

@quillmatiq this is such an absurd take. No one on Blue Sky actually wants a person from Mastodon (or elsewhere) to come preach to them about why Blue Sky is bad and why their platform of choice is better. Not a single person will be convinced this way. Stop encouraging people to be debate bros.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to opt out of federating with Blue Sky, stop acting like it's a moral obligation.

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SwanseaBayNews@toot.wales ("Swansea Bay News") wrote:

New Welsh movement aims to reclaim the social web with ‘pethau bychain’ digital campaign

A Welsh‑built social network is launching a new movement to reclaim the internet from global tech giants, urging people across Wales to take back control of how they connect online.

https://swanseabaynews.com/new-welsh-movement-aims-to-reclaim-the-social-web-with-pethau-bychain-digital-campaign/

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PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

#Winter #FruitTrees #Pruning Apprentice Workshop. At #WellandCommunityOrchard 😀

#LifecyclesProjectSociety #FruitTrees #CommunityOrchard #Nonprofit

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JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Make People Happy*
Caveat Frog

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Based on this metric my personal opinion is that OpenSSL is the way it is because (waves hands), not because of the NSA

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

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cocoaphony ("Rob Napier") wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

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

It's funny, I made fromjason.xyz to 1. Get away from corporate platforms. And 2. To write more. Writing was my 2023 resolution.

I think me from three years ago would be super happy that me today writes every morning without fail. And he would also be confused as to why I have like fifteen essays in the chamber and not published.

2026 is about publishing my work even if I don't think it's "perfect". So far so good! I have two essays out of my drafts and into my notebook.

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jk ("josef") wrote:

every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111759677741315727

Happy "Most Dangerous Negro" day to all who celebrate!

If you survey US people and ask them if MLK Jr's assassin worked alone, or was part of a conspiracy:

* 66% of white Americans say conspiracy.
* 100% of Black Americans say conspiracy.

100%. Everyone.

Because *some* white Americans know about the group that Bill Sullivan ran, but almost all Black Americans know about it. 🤷🏿‍♂️

It's possible to study "US History" in an American school, get an A in the class, and have never even heard COINTELPRO. Because the term is not even part of the official US history curriculum.🤡

This in a country that claims to care so much about "free speech."

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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

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Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk ("Steven Heywood") wrote:

Fun fact.

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phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115922510414596115

If you’ve never read one of Jason’s essays, you’re missing out.

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phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason Every single part of this. Yes.

> We'll see a mainstream politician and/or tech elite call for outlawing local computing. This is big tech's end goal—position AI (LLM, agentic, or whatever buzzword of the time) as critical infrastructure needed to run our software, leverage fear tactics into regulatory capture, then, the long game is to work towards a cloud-tethered world where local compute is a thing of the past. Thin clients with a hefty egress invoice each month. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (GAMM) will become the Comcast of computational power.

The artificial scarcity of DRAM and skyrocketing hardware prices are serving this goal too; especially since this whole thing is Scam Altman’s doing. I was being facetious when I first started saying that we are seeing the end of affordable, powerful home computing, but I fear that this is becoming truer every day.

Web-based document editing, cloud file storage, and media streaming have made this the case for a number of years already for the vast majority of people’s use cases. The advent and (alarmingly quick and quiet) acceptance of usable, cloud-based game streaming is a terrifying sign of what’s to come. Why would you spend $1200+ on a gaming PC when you can stream one from the cloud for just a few bucks per month? AI is just the natural progression of this, particularly the forced usage and fear-mongering.

The “cloud-native” craze may be turning around, but I think we’re are so used to cloud-based tools that we won’t know what we’ve lost until it’s truly too late.

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mhoye wrote:

I mean, take a look at this:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/gpio-madness/#comments

(sorry @jwz)

All the suggestions are things you can try that make the problem go away. There's no "this is the issue, here is why it occurs and what you can do about it."

There's no comprehension.

Someone who doesn't read is no better off than somebody who can't. So how is a person who doesn't want to understand a problem before making suggestions any more useful than a machine that can't understand anything before making suggestions?

jwz wrote:

UPDATE: I have now been informed *NINE TIMES* that HDID dongles exist by people who don't read the replies before commenting with the first thing that popped into their head, don't have an answer to my actual question, but think they know how to Google.

I am blocking every single one of you.

Don't be that guy.

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

Side-side note: I am working *hard* to make sure the photos I'm posting are not AI versions with Yoda in them lmao.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41363156

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

Been working on my website content quite a bit lately. Smol web so much nicer than big-tech nonsense.

https://chriswere.wales/

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

Side note: It is fascinating to read about the solidarity between Black Panthers and the Young Lords (a largely Puerto Rican civil rights “gang.”)

It's clear why this type of solidarity often ends with its leaders becoming martyrs.

https://digitalchicagohistory.org/exhibits/show/young-lords/young-lords-and-black-panthers

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

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) denounces state-sponsored segregation, but its themes of injustice, and our tendency to favor decorum over justice, fits well within our challenges today.

It's bitter-sweet to have had someone so capable of articulating what injustice looks like and how to fight it. Sweet because it's still relevant today. Bitter because it's still relevant today.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles%5FGen/Letter%5FBirmingham.html

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was all the things the center-left despises.

Yet, centrists love to co-opt dead radicals and transform them into God-like pacifists. I honestly don't know how they circle that square when King's messaging is so well documented.

All I know is Dr. King would be ostracized and vilified by Democrats if he were alive today.

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Wow this is going to be useful to debug past AI sessions 🔍

🧠 **memex** — Transcript search TUI for Claude & Codex sessions.

⚡ Supports BM25 + optional embeddings, hybrid search and resuming past chats.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/nicosuave/memex

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #search #ai #llm #devtools #productivity

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

The Other America:

> [A] riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

Dr King was an agitator.

https://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/

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

The Three Evils:

> Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

Dr. King was anti-capitalist.

Edit, added link to speech: https://www.blackagendareport.com/speech-three-evils-society-martin-luther-king-jr-1967

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

Icelandic ravens stay in the countryside during the summer, but are urban in the winter. The cemetery in Gufunes, for example, usually has a bunch of them hanging around midwinter. Here in the south they tend to alternate between towns and in recent years usually arrive in Hveragerði in or around January.