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

The TikTok-to-Rednote migration is fascinating. I can appreciate the sentiment—move to another Chinese-owned platform to stick it to the US government. However, longterm, I think it’s a bad move. What’s the alternative? Loops? Eh. A big migration can mean more power and influence to the platform owner. Anyway, it’s interesting. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/nx-s1-5260232/tiktoks-brief-ban-sent-users-to-rednote-another-chinese-owned-video-sharing-app

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osm_tech@en.osm.town ("OpenStreetMap Ops Team") wrote:

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

ok look its true ai has some bad uses but it also has some terrible uses so whos to say

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Today in the CSS face-to-face meeting we're discussing line-clamp, which is something I've been working on fixing for years.

The meeting is in Apple's offices in Cupertino, California, so I'm not attending in person because fuck traveling to the US.

This is gonna be my camera feed though:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt wrote:

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

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

Exploring Ethereum transactions from the terminal 🔥

⛓️ **mevlog** — A TUI for browsing and analyzing EVM chains

💯 Search transactions, filter by events or tokens, inspect gas costs & trace EVM execution.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/pawurb/mevlog-rs

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #ethereum #evm #blockchain #web3 #devtools

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

what do you choose?

A (dogging)
B (shrooms)

https://stateof.mozilla.org/stakes/

utterly bizarre slopaganda from Mozilla...

"DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS" — must be referring to Firefox's new AI features

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Winter Jo :neocat_comfy: :v_enby: ❄️") wrote:

:neocat_laptop_owo:

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

When I went to cancel my Disney bundle subscription, they offered me a reduced rate for three months to stay.

Then, they just straight up lied and charged me the full amount. I swear to god everything is a scam. Ah well, gonna cancel for real this time.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
doodlemancy@kind.social wrote:

made a fun and silly template based on the fake box covers i've made for my games. you can even print this one out and put it in a real case! https://ko-fi.com/s/85d079ba75

(my example covers are fake but the games are real: https://doodlemancy.itch.io)

#indiedev #indiegame

jwz wrote:

The Dildo Distribution Delegation.

"I'm going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents." The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, "No. Not like this."...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2Y

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day to those who celebrate.

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

huh that’s weird

OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/openai-president-greg-brockman-trump-super-pac

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louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

To everyone who works at Apple: are you seeing this shit where Tim Cook continues to support the Trump administration? How do you reconcile that with your employment?

Apple values you as an employee or they wouldn’t pay you so much. Use that little bit of leverage to be upset about it. Tim Cook has an email address. You can email him directly. Worst case is that you lose your job. But if you actually lose your job over this, isn’t that indicative of it being not a great place to work right now?

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LGUG2Z@hachyderm.io ("Jeezy") wrote:

The usual suspects said that this would fail

Once again, they were wrong

https://lgug2z.com/articles/i-started-identifying-corporate-devices-in-my-software/

#software #licensing #mdm #windows #macos #opensource #postopensource

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 27 Jan 1945 the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland that was used by the Nazis to murder 1.3 million people, most of whom were Jewish https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12510/liberation-of-auschwitz

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”

please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)

note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

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

Sock it to'em: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/27/sock-it-toem.html

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

What are we always racing to? ...

(I have an answer for that, but I'm deliberately leaving it out.)

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

A dear friend wears mismatched socks, which, once upon a time, was *unthinkable* to me. Turns out, it's sorta liberating. You can wear a striped sock with a plain white sock. No one can take that away from you.

I'm fighting against the variety 3-packs: the forced obsolescence of red, white, and blue stripes.

Big Sock won't coerce me into buying more socks because I lost one sock (or they stole?)

I'm a rebel. I'm a sock radical. ✊🏼

(I'm procrastinating on my work)

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/115966748145817371

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!

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

How do I know this? Because in each of those instances, trying to go fast failed over and over, and it all took much longer than desired and cost more than expected, and yet we continued until done. What if we had recognized that upfront?

In each of these instances, the people pushing speed at all costs were not the engineers or scientists. I'm not saying they're immune to such thinking, but the people doing the work in these cases recognized excessive speed as unnecessary and detrimental.

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

It occurs to me that slop machines and their sloperators are another manifestation of something I've seen repeatedly in my life in business. The idea that speed is paramount, and if it can't be done fast, then it's not worth doing. And each time I've seen that, it's been in situations where slowing down would actually be better. It doesn't mean you don't work with urgency, but it does mean you work at an appropriate pace.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
djmcgoven@queer.cool ("JΛMIΞ :ms_wolf:") wrote:

They made games expensive. They got surprised people started buying cheaper games. Now their AAA titles don't meet their financial goals. So they horde all the GPUs for AI, and make it harder for gamers to stay in the market. Now CEOs are hinting that they want gaming in a subscription cloud service.

I hate society. Truly.

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aiyion@infosec.exchange wrote:

OHB is currently looking for Rust developers.
They build satellites and controlsoftware for it.

I’ve visited them last autumn and both Detlev and Martin appeared very friendly.
Definitely worth to reach out, even if it’s LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/detlev-sch%C3%BCmann-4863b5141%5Frust-in-satellite-control-software-scsw-share-7421972994962661377-wAr2

Not only if you know someone looking for rust in space: feel free to boost the post to your followers.

#rust #rustlang #fedihire_de #FediHire

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

"On Thursday, Jan 22 a group of about a dozen Vermont community elders entered the atrium of White Cap Office Park in Williston VT, home of ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center.

For the next 3.5 hours, they sat together in silence, pausing every 90 seconds to read the name of someone killed in ICE custody, followed by a loud whistle blast.

Around 3:15 the Williston Police announced they had determined that the protestors were not breaking the law."

https://www.facebook.com/molly.grover.9655/posts/pfbid0XibZVUutTykLLWGphYGk25z1MG7eRs3UVfm4U2vPowtdH388s3XyiQ8HTCBtJVtSl

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

The mobile app stores demand we believe that they *must* be trusted exclusively to protect us, to the exclusion of a powerful open web:

https://www.theverge.com/news/868614/nudify-apps-ttp-report-google-apple-app-stores?view%5Ftoken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IlVsREJZWHdXOFoiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODY4NjE0L251ZGlmeS1hcHBzLXR0cC1yZXBvcnQtZ29vZ2xlLWFwcGxlLWFwcC1zdG9yZXMiLCJleHAiOjE3Njk5NzAwNTgsImlhdCI6MTc2OTUzODA1OH0.uSVbunb5TN%5FU%5F3391Iuc6IohVTH7xuBYKeBfnP4IEJQ&utm%5Fmedium=gift-link

The only thing they're protecting is profits:

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:

We had a fruitful discussion about mail hosting options on the users list, so I documented it here:

https://korg.docs.kernel.org/email-hosting.html

Might be useful to others.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com ("Laura Kalbag") wrote:

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

https://accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

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

I find thinking of Trump and his ilk as "neo-royalists" helpful in coming to some understanding of the psycho-social dynamics at work now.