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

I'm okay with this TACO Tuesday

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bridget@gts.sharitt.com ("Bridget") wrote:

I’m unconvinced that nuking Iran will solve the ethics in gaming journalism issue

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"

It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.

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occult@ominous.net wrote:

This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.

No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
toastedlynx@meow.social ("Toasted Lynx") wrote:

Have a cheeky paw photo

Photo with help from @KalTheDingo

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
BasiliskXVIII@kind.social ("Legally Distinct Basilisk") wrote:

The thing about social media is that it allows bad wordplay to be seen by everyone. It's constantly being observed. A "pun-opticon" if you will.

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CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

@soatok I WONDER WHY

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I feel SEEN

https://kind.social/@BasiliskXVIII/116364543600845350

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paragon@phpc.social ("Paragon Initiative Enterprises") wrote:

We're excited to finally make #postquantum #cryptography possible in the #PHP ecosystem

https://paragonie.com/blog/2026/04/post-quantum-cryptography-for-php-community

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i do not even and i'm not telling you why for your own sanity but i did feel a need to say so.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jon aah that explains it. I keep trying vertical tabs. My sceeen is often so much wider than it is long that it seems like it would be a great use of screen space. But it felt so *wrong*. And now that you mention it, I think it’s because that list of tabs keeps pulling my attention to it, even though it has nothing to do with the page I’m on.

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schratze@todon.nl wrote:

waking up in your thirties

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

It's been a while, so I thought I might make a #PeerTube video for you all.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d8fZ2CeJebpr1N5yAAETC6

#gaming #vlog

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

1/ Today, we filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over @ProPublica management’s unilateral implementation of an AI policy without first bargaining with our union. Of note, the policy provides no job protections to our members.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Added some features to #SmolFedi v1.0.5 :

Bookmarks list

Direct messages list

Followers/Following list for a profile

Removed too recent emojis, not compatible with #dillo

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paragon@phpc.social ("Paragon Initiative Enterprises") wrote:

For folks that cannot install extensions (or just don't have a Rust toolchain setup):

https://github.com/paragonie/pqcrypto%5Fcompat

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paragon@phpc.social ("Paragon Initiative Enterprises") wrote:

The PHP extension (written in Rust):

https://github.com/paragonie/ext-pqcrypto

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paragon@phpc.social ("Paragon Initiative Enterprises") wrote:

We're excited to finally make #postquantum #cryptography possible in the #PHP ecosystem

https://paragonie.com/blog/2026/04/post-quantum-cryptography-for-php-community

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checkmite@indieweb.social ("Jake K") wrote:

@johnzajac @stanley The demotion of ethics is really astounding. Ethical considerations used to be proscriptive. In medicine or science if an experiment or trial could not be run ethically, it *could not be run*. Full stop.

Techbros have seemingly turned ethical issues into just a part of a larger calculus; merely a negative weight that can be outweighed by strong-enough upsides. "Sure, lack of informed consent isn't *ideal* but think of the data we would collect."

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

@stanley

I always described this urge to debate *everything* as sitting down with the person who kidnapped your kids and civilly discussing, over coffee perhaps, the relative merits of child rape.

Like, no, I'm not going to be open to conversing about whether or not your need to have an LLM stroke you when you're lonely at night is worth burning the planet to a crisp.

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chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

My dear @robin is running a fundraiser for transition-related medical expenses that we'd really prefer to not have to defer.

Current goal is the cost of the very specific health insurance we need to maintain. That alone would be an amazing result.

DEETS: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-robin-take-flight

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Could use a "Somehow the Pee Tape returned" right about now.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
hongminhee@hollo.social ("洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:") wrote:

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.

I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.

The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.

A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.

When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

😬

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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

Vertical browser tab counterpoint to this headline/article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/907998/google-chrome-vertical-tabs

Web content is consumed top down. If you want to increase the cognitive load of a web page, add more columns. The same is true when you move tabs into a column next to a web page. You've now made the tabs compete with the page for attention, rather than making the web page the sole focal point. It's why I've never been able to use browsers that use persistent sidebars, and likely never will.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

#News

Iran has launched huge cyberattacks against the US, just hours before Donald Trump's deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ends or face complete destruction. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that actors affiliated with Tehran have been "conducting exploitation activity" targeting certain devices.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
laprice@beige.party ("Load average") wrote:

OK #eugene we're doing this.

25th Amendment Emergency Rally

1 to 5pm 04/07/2026

United States Federal Building
7th and Pearl

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

No.

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

New, from me: Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/russia-hacked-routers-to-steal-microsoft-office-tokens/