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jwz wrote:

<< facepalm >>

"Unfortunately, I don't know how to contact the xscreensaver upstream (couldn't find a public repository for this program), so I'm reporting this here. Perhaps the Debian package maintainer can help forward this upstream?"

This is the world we live in now, people.

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

At any rate, it helped to have a little meter running in my mind.

It also helped me not to think about my time on corporate social in absolute terms.

I think a lot of folks think about the enormous task and adjustments needed to delete these accounts and it's too much.

But reducing the meter? Now it's about attrition. It's about what can I do to keep that meter lower than it was yesterday? Maybe I move a group chat. Or I read some of the essay in my bookmarks tonight instead of scrolling.

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cazabon@mindly.social ("C.") wrote:

@mhoye @jwz

jwz gets worse than this on a regular basis. It's not just suggestions from people who don't understand the problem and can't be bothered to learn - he gets stuff where they're not even making their *own* useless suggestion.

The number of times he's posted a specific technical problem, only for Joe Rando to post some nonsensical (or at least non-obvious) long reply of what he should do, and then when asked to explain it says "I don't know what it means, I asked Claude and this was its response".

I don't even get how anyone's mental state can result in that approximating "helpful". I mean, "I don't understand the question you've been working on for days or weeks, so I pasted it into a search engine that had a confabulation module installed, it generated a statistically plausible set of words in response with no understanding of the problem and no connection to reality, and I copied and pasted that as a reply".

Dude, you're not helping. You're the opposite of helping. You're distracting and wasting time while accomplishing less than nothing.

I wouldn't believe (mostly) these people are out there if jwz didn't have them on display for the world to see.

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

Privacy is too abstract of a concern and is a poor motivator for springing people into action.

What helped me reduce my time on corporate social media, and then eventually deleting it, was assigning a value to my time spent scrolling.

Every time I saw an ad, I thought— that's another dollar I just gave Zuck.

Of course the going rate for 1 ad impression is far less, but consider what that ad represents—stock price, lobbying, data centers, power, influence. Maybe a dollar is about right.

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

This is what computing feels like.

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AlicesAstroInfo@mastodon.cloud wrote:

Activity is dropping off dramatically as the darkness falls here on the West Coast. I don't think there's supposed to be a second peak on this storm, but keep an eye out and listen to the space weather experts.

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thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea wants [redacted]") wrote:

@fromjason Yes. I had a disagreement with someone on here back when Tyre Nichols was murdered; about needing to see the video footage to determine, idk, if it made sense for extrajudicial execution by gang (the police) violence?

Nobody's talking like that with Renee Good. She's not unworthy-of-life until proved worthy; She already always worthy and we're outraged right off the back at the loss of life before we have "all the facts."

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

"Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives"

https://hard-drive.net/stormtroopers-who-killed-tatooine-farmers-feared-for-their-lives/

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Is accepting money from customers trying to enclose and take ownership over all human knowledge consistent with the project of making human knowledge freely accessible? Does accepting a customer of that form create a financial incentive to work against Wikipedia's own immediately stated principles?

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

Receiving an email from someone who read your blog and just wanted to say hey 😭>>>>>>>

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thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea wants [redacted]") wrote:

Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good - Your "Ah-ha" Moment is Nauseating

https://substack.com/inbox/post/184958514?r=6xdhop&triedRedirect=true

#ReneeGood

I think a lot of (maybe most?) whites #OnHere should read this.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
OpenMediaOrg wrote:

Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too.

A word here on:
1. why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms;
2. why we're making this decision today;
3. where else you can find us.

https://openmedia.org/article/item/were-leaving-x

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

I've been arguing for a long time that a primary reason these tools seem attractive is that Google/IAB/etc. enshittified the regular web so badly that a low-quality JPEG became attractive:

https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/115877369194217136

/cc @mwichary

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Small hypothesis: I bet people like AI chat interfaces in some part because they are “clean” – simple text, easy to process, consistent visuals, no ads, no pop-ups, etc.

To use a cliche example: Even if it wasn’t in any way “smarter,” it’d still be nicer to ask ChatGPT for a recipe than go to a webpage to read that recipe. Its interface is a natural “reader mode.”

But… that’s not going to last.

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AlicesAstroInfo@mastodon.cloud wrote:

Really high aurora alert starting *now*, we'll see if it lasts until dark here.
My collected links: https://alicesastroinfo.com/2015/09/aurora-viewing-from-seattle-basic-tips/
Image is tonight's aurora viewline prediction from NOAA SWPC.

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

35 bookmarks in just a few days collecting passively. 😅

https://raindrop.io/fromjason/ice-65512649

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

I get a thrill out of the cardinals in my bushes. IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TOO

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cassolotl@eldritch.cafe ("Cassian [main]") wrote:

My top tip for getting into Mastodon is:

1. Make a post that says "hi, I'm interested in..." followed by like 10 hashtags about your interests.

2. Click and follow all the hashtags in your post.

3. People will boost your post and it'll go further because of the hashtags, due to the nature of the fediverse. Follow all the people who boost you; you can unfollow later if it's too many people.

Diagram source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon%5Ftimelines.png

#Mastodon #MastoMeta #forkiverse #introduction #introductions

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

The Jolla Phone Proved We’ve Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along:

"You flip it. Click. You’re off the grid. Done. No app can override it. No sneaky software update can turn it back on while you sleep. No three letter government agency can backdoor their way around it. It’s like unplugging a lamp. When the circuit breaks, the power stops. Period."

What a clever way to take advantage of the button fad. I’m ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/19/the-jolla-phone-proved-weve.html

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blackfinalboi@blackqueer.life ("tj (i make it to the end) 😷") wrote:

#Introductions

im tj. (they/them). black autistic nonbinary person. i love all kinds of media (esp. theatre/musicals, cartoons, BOOKS) and im trying to always vacation in fictional universes.

im unemployed atm bc my job fired me for being disabled. if you wanna help me while i get my degree and general support while im job searching, im $wenotfreeyet on cashapp or you can find my kofi linked.

im just trying to do good and do gay and i am so tired all the time.

when you request, please message with your stance on palestine, your stance on anti-blackness, and why you wanna follow.

i dont consent to any posts from this account being collected, screen captured and/or scraped.

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Firesphere@cloudisland.nz ("Simon 🐮:spot:") wrote:

#Jolla has a new phone, and it's magnificient it seems. I'm intrigued. It runs #Linux.
And I want it!
https://techglimmer.io/jolla-phone-2026-review-kill-switch-privacy-review/#Jolla
(via @pluralistic )

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." https://www.404media.co/project-matador-datacenter-amarillo-texas/

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Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

Any estimate on when it might arrive?

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Built between 1943 and 1945, this was used, among other things, as a potato storage. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

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

Stop electing fascists, yes, but also, stop electing fucking cowards

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rooniecomics@comics.town ("Roonie the Rabbit") wrote:

I wish my work would accept this reason. | More comics: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/cozy

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

Narrator: but he did, in fact, do it.

Maybe I'll use it to to post resources and stuff.

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

"Do not buy a domain for a project that's not even on your radar of projects waiting to be on your radar. Don't do it."

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

Texting with a friend in the Twin Cities and they just went "Have to go, I hear helicopters," which reminds me that now is an excellent time to say fuck ICE and fuck this fascist administration

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

I can't wait till this replaces us... we are fucked 😂