Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

Crunchy Lives!

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/humor/jargon/A/ad-hockery.html#crunchly73-10-31

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

In 2026, if you're an experienced tech commentator, I simply cannot fathom how you can give an app developer the benefit of the doubt for exclusively using X as their platform of choice.

There is one single accurate assumption that you can make about those people: they don't mind hanging out with nazis.

That's it.

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

since a random change in administrators at RIT seems to have killed off the account I used there to archive things, I have reposted "The Hacker Jargon File" on my account at https://www.well.com/~jeffs/humor/jargon/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Someone sponsored a pile of copies of 1984 at our local indie bookstore so they could give them away for free.

They were gone in less than 3 hours.

I found out this morning that another anonymous person donated $500 to restock the supply.

I assumed anyone who wanted to read 1984 would have done so by now, but clearly that's not the case.

Good news for the community, good news for the bookstore, just plain good.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ike@social.coop wrote:

That got me thinking: could you use this to re-program genAI agents? Turns out: hell yes.
https://ike.io/open-a-folder-all-your-agents-are-mine/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

@slightlyoff it’s all nonsense — one of the most blocked analytics URLs on my devices was embedded in Apple’s books app. I built a PWA to read ePubs instead. https://follow.coryd.dev/@cory/115941664863348895

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

Every app store justification is an admission:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/apple-says-ec-is-using-political-delay-tactics-on-app-changes-to-impose-fines

See also:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Tesla didn't remove the Robotaxi 'safety monitor' – it just moved them to a trailing car
https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robotaxi-safety-monitor-it-just-moved-them-to-a-trailing-car/

And yet it's working: the stock went up again.

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

The University of Minnesota is pretending neutrality about the statewide protest tomorrow. Screw that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/the-least-we-can-do-do-better-university-of-minnesota/

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.

The House had a clear opportunity today to impose meaningful restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol, and it failed.

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

Of course Trump's Board of Peace logo is AI slop. Very few nonsensical things have ever made more sense than this.

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

While ICE is killing innocent people, teargassing babies and pastors, and kidnapping our neighbors to ship them off to foreign torture prisons, seven House Democrats just voted with the GOP to give the regime’s secret police even more funding.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I love this thought from @gruber, writing about how Democrats need to stop acting incrementally (if at all): “The only way to counter ‘move fast and break things’ is to move fast and fix things.”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jeridansky@sfba.social ("Jeri Dansky") wrote:

Just called my representative to plead that he vote against funding DHS, given all the atrocities we've seen from ICE, and the staffer taking my call said he did indeed plan to vote against the bill providing such funding.

If you're in the US and haven't made such a call, you might want to do it *now* before the votes happen.

#uspol #DHS #ICE #Congress

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I have connived my way into using a Mac for tech writing again at work, so I am going to try swapping Emacs’s meta key back to left Option from Command, letting Command behave like a Mac Command key again. (I couldn’t do the equivalent on Windows before.)

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

actual bumper sticker I just saw:

If you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair

and you know what, that's legit

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Companies react to SF possibly reviving the Overpaid Executive Tax:

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

House Rep. Rosa DeLauro (from CT) says:

❝I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. …[But]… The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the US Coast Guard will be adversely affected….❞

And I am saying stop ICE if you have to ••shut down every airport in the country•• to do it.

That is the message I want Congress to hear. That serious. This is Trump starting a civil war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill

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

RXKNephew got banned from DistroKid:

A John Fetterman diss track song has been banned from all streaming accounts, and now DistroKid.

"RXKNephew received a message from DistroKid explaining that he’d been banned from the platform without the ability to appeal the ruling. The automated message cited “editorial discretion.”" https://theneedledrop.com/news/rxknephew-got-banned-from-distrokid/

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

re: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863

from "The Hacker's Dictionary":

"HCF /H-C-F/ n.

Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several... machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes... The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up."

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

“If I tell you my favorite hobby is lighting puppies on fire, you have every reason to be perplexed and ask follow-up questions. But why would you assume, based merely on that, that I enjoy being cruel to animals?”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("New Ben trailer drops tomorrow") wrote:

Please do not tell people to 'just think more positive'. That is not a sound strategy.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

Anyone know any PoC pixel artists looking for work?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)") wrote:

Men will create a secret police force that kidnaps toddlers and destroys a functioning democracy that threats to desrabilize the entire Western world rather than go to therapy.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Just you, your terminal and your passwords... 🔐

🗝️ **veiled** — A local-first TUI password manager

⚡ Encrypted local vault, zero cloud, modern encryption & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/shibu0x/veiled

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #security #passwords #cryptography #privacy #cli

Attachments:

• gifv: b74b5ca886857b4f.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kateiacy@planetearth.social ("Flying Donny for Democracy") wrote:

ICE Out for Good has an easy way to write to 5 corporations demanding that they take action to rein in ICE. It's just below the paragraph on attending or organizing an event.
https://iceoutforgood.org/?link%5Fid=1&can%5Fid=36ab80cafcad5afe2dcb5a32097271a0#nationwide

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I don’t mind LLM-powered coding assistance, but the more Visual Studio Code rebrands itself as The Copilot Editor™ the happier I am to have switched to Emacs.

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

I always thought the saying was “don’t look a *gimp* horse in the mouth,” meaning you shouldn’t stand in front of a horse with a leg injury because he’s probably grumpy and will kick you. Lmao. I’m 44 years old.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31

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

Regulators can take many lessons from the Grok/Twitter undressing scandal, but one of the most important is that Apple and Google are gaslighting when they claim store monopolies are necessary to protect us. Nothing could be further from the truth:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/