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

Nice unarmed ship there. Would be a shame if some coward sunk it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/06/a-new-level-of-cowardice/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

There's this attitude on the left from people who believe they're the "good" kind of protestors. And that if they follow all the rules and be polite that they're exempt from state retaliation.

I saw a post here weeks ago that defended RSVPing to protests, saying "we should put our names on every list we can," and it's like no. No you shouldn't. If you believe that then you have a deep misunderstanding of our situation. Cops aren't carving out exceptions for the hall monitors of the resistance.

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

it is incredibly validating to me that prominent foss people who for decades embodied and reinforced the false idea that "all that matters is code" are now predictably falling into the LLM slop fad because, surprise fucking surprise, they never gave a single shit about people and simply rode the movement to have a space where they could whitewash their morality-unencumbered nonsense.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

And forget Proton for a minute, as despicable as their actions are.

The FBI is using a 3 year old incident that ultimately led to the murder of a protester, as grounds for collecting private data from someone who's only connection to that incident is that they also oppose Cop City.

This is why I wince whenever I see photos of protesters posted to social media, or people RSVPing to protests. Our government considers you domestic terrorists no matter how much you "follow the rules".

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

Mythic Beasts seems like a decent option, anyone have experience with them?

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

I could use the wisdom of the Fedi. What are the best, but also affordable, places to manage your domains. Looking to move off Gandi, and Namecheap is being a bit rubbish.

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rbairwell@mastodon.org.uk ("Richard Bairwell") wrote:

@M0CUV Something like https://vole.wtf/doctype/ from @mattround ?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

It took a ton of work but we got our city to end the contract with #Flock, one of the creepiest and most dishonest #surveillance companies, on Wednesday!

If you're working on something of this sort, you can DM if you need more info.

One of the biggest obstacles was the threat of actually good programs being de-funded because of the way Hochul/ NYS bundles mass surveillance with other programs in grant allocations.

This threat ended up not being real, but it almost torpedoed the whole thing last minute.

https://ithacavoice.org/2026/03/city-ends-use-of-ai-powered-license-plate-cameras/

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Here's the schedule with what you can look forward to!

typst ("Typst") wrote:

The first talk of our meetup is live now: In the keynote, we tell-all about our journey from scrappy upstarts to a professional open source project.

New uploads every weekday (Mo-Fri) at 17:00 UTC on YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss the 10 talks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQXL6vRrJs

#Typst

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Correction on one point: APD did claim an officer was shot. That officer was never identified nor the story corroborated.

There was a video circulating at the time of officers near the murder claiming it was friendly fire. And still, no gun powder found on victim's hands.

Also, I made an edit to reflect Tortuguita's correct pronouns (they/them).

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-public-safety-training-cop-city-friendly-fire-allegations-shooting-response

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void_turtle@kolektiva.social ("Void Turtle") wrote:

@fromjason 1) tortugita used they/them pronouns 2) a cop definitely was shot, not sure where you got the idea that the cops didn't claim this. Whether it was friendly fire from the cops or self defense from an attempted kidnapping on the part of tortugita is unknown. I for one honor tortugita's memory, even if they didn't shoot that pig

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valis2030 wrote:

@fromjason

"[T]hey're all just Republicans in All Birds."

Preach! 😂

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

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.

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neatnik@tv.neatnik.net ("Neatnik TV") wrote:

Neatnik is live!

Pokémon Pokopia lunchtime stream!

#web #programming #chat #fun

https://tv.neatnik.net

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• gifv: Live stream preview

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://blog.lauramichet.com/thoughts-about-interfaces-acting-like-people it's honestly not hard to imagine a world where people are legally forbidden from selling software or hardware that refers to itself in the first person or is referred to as a person by any supporting materials (eg marketing), and where the intent embodied in such software is always explicitly attributed to the human beings who produce it and set its policies. i don't think that would fix everything but it'd help. that's a moderate position IMO.

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

I took this shot of Rev Jackson in 1988. May he Rest in Power 🙏

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

I have a black belt in FAFO

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rasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:

It's Bandcamp Friday! All my music is free!

(I mean, it's always free, but it's also Bandcamp Friday so go pay for music from other artists who need the money.)

https://peteprodoehl.bandcamp.com/

#music #bandcampFriday #bandcamp

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I feel like in the last couple media interviews I’ve done after stepping down as CEO I’ve done a much better job communicating the vision and importance of the fediverse than I’ve ever done before, which is ironic but maybe logical? Brain work better when less pressure?

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116183082587170757

Bowie ❤️

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

All places named with a lot of vowels must be tropical paradises. Don't disillusion me, Ohio.

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

My wife & I are traveling today and tomorrow. I think I tricked her: she thought I said "Oahu" but I actually said "Iowa". Close enough, right?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/06/this-feels-weird/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

And of fucking course @protonprivacy's politics are the centrist-y republican bullshit that plagues the tech community.

Goes to show: Whether they pretend to support Openness or Privacy, they're all just Republicans in All Birds. They don't believe in their website's marketing language.

h/t @valis2030

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

Here's how you can easily test keyboard layouts 🔥

⌨️ **TerminalVirtualKeyboard** — Customizable TUI keyboard

💯 Real-time input with configurable layouts using the TVKL format

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Arcelyth/TerminalVirtualKeyboard

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #keyboard #cli

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• gifv: aa0b697609ad1954.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The more I think about it the more disturbing @protonprivacy's justification for handing over credit card data becomes.

By their reasoning, anyone who speaks out against our government is default suspicious and associated with crimes that may or may not have even happened.

Encrypt whatever you want, but if this is Proton's politics, then their tools are completely unsafe for anyone who dare question the US government.

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

I don't hate this

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5770792-no-headphones-united-flight/amp/#amp%5Ftf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17728105774083&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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laurenshof@indieweb.social ("Laurens Hof") wrote:

sure this is all very bad for activitypub but this is truly amazing content

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Stop Cop City story is filled with bone-chilling state overreach.

APD and GBI tried (and failed) to charge an activist group with RICO. A SWAT team raided an activist's home, and arrested 3 on charges of money laundering.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

There's a recording of cops admitting to "going after their money." The activist group in question raises bail money for protesters. APD wanted to disrupt protesters' ability to legally defend themselves.

https://youtu.be/8vPX38M1y7g

@protonprivacy