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

i am sure getting tired of seeing shocked face on youtube video cards

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

the obscure OpenBSD operating system

hmm, is that fair?

yeah, it probably is.

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

Trunk & Tidbits for March is out - our monthly engineering news, featuring current releases, the profiles redesign, Collections, additional FEPs implemented - lots of work in motion.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/trunk-tidbits-march-2026/

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

bro, you're a toaster

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

how bad are the individual ads themselves? well they say 'taboola' on them, so...

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

i do browse the bbc on my desktop but obvs this is somewhat better set up for not showing me all those ads so i hadn't quite noticed just how obnoxious it had gotten.

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

if you ever wonder whether the bbc is reputable, you should go look at the website they serve people outside of the uk.

i do not normally use my phone to browse the bbc, but i clicked a link on it just now and holy shit i cannot believe how often they insert ads. literally in some cases after 1 sentence of text, so you can get literally a sentence surrounded by half page ads.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

And the rest, the shit systems that aren't core infrastructure, are packed with KNOWN vulnerabilities.

Much of the web is an all you can eat software exploit buffet. People should be much more worried about malicious people finding ways to automate the application of known exploits than about systems finding hard-to-exploit vulnerabilities in otherwise hardened software.

(Also don't use Windows for anything that needs to be safe. Just my 2 kroner.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The whole "my magic genie can break open any software in the world" thing is so suspect

And now it has media types imagining it can not only find vulnerabilities, but vibe code a workable exploit, cut through multiple layers of security and then hop onto an air gapped system to take down modern society.

I know most software is shit, but the infrastructure systems modern society relies on are, for the most part, designed with the assumption that they have undiscovered vulnerabilities

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

CodePen to illustrate cascade layer madness!

https://codepen.io/editor/dbushell/pen/019d76b2-dcc6-7244-a269-d8308838179e

they shouldn't let me build websites

https://social.lol/@db/116379611097483187

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

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/cascade-layers#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20multiple%20layers%2C%20the%20first%20layer

this can result in bizarre behaviour were some properties in a block apply, others don't

you know what, just don't use !important

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

just noticed a typo in one of my URLs and i'm devastated

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AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social ("Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2:") wrote:

One thing to remember on confederate surrender day is that after the war many thousands of elite rebel officers and government officials had their citizenship restored and their lands left unconfiscated. They worked their way back into public life -- white zillionaire class solidarity is a powerful thing --- and then, once the 1877 Hayes-Tilden compromise shut down any hope of radically reconstructing the South, these newly redeemed rebels fully reclaimed their ruling class status.

They served as state governors, federal representatives and senators, state legislators, judges from local magistrates all the way up to the US supreme court and everything in between, university presidents, cabinet members, and on and on and on. Former Confederate States Army captain Cameron Thom even served as mayor of Los Angeles.[1]

These men, perpetrators and beneficiaries of American chattel slavery, the most horrific crime in US if not world history, not only escaped all consequences but spent decades in powerful positions. They were able to shape American government, law, and culture to their own ends, ends which they now fully shared with the capitalist elite they'd been at war with just a few years earlier.

We still suffer from the effects of this. The racist laws, the violent cops that enforce them, the prisons, the 13th amendment slavery, etc., the former Confederate elite had a hand in making all of it. The fact that modern US police evolved from slave patrols isn't just a rhetorical flourish. Both were created to solve the same problems, in many cases created by the same people.

So yeah, it's fun to talk and joke about April 9 and stuff, but Appomatox wasn't the end of capitalism, only the end of a squabble between capitalists over the most sustainable way to exploit their victims. By 1877 the elites had settled their differences and buried their hatchets and were working in harmony once again. And the rest of us are still paying for it.

[1] See the book Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. This book is a self-published piece of revisionist lost cause bullshit, but it has useful and independently checkable lists of what former confederate elites got up to postbellum.

#ConfederateSurrender #CivilWar #Reconstruction #Slavery #HayesTilden #LosAngeles #Capitalism

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

“The Hill” asks “Why are so many Americans starting to sympathize with villains?” What they don’t understand is that we’re finally starting to see Americans *not* sympathize with villains, when those villains are economically exploitative!

Why are so many Americans supporting Luigi Mangione? Because the man he’s accused of killing was CEO of a company that murders 60,000 or more people **per year** in the name of increased profit.

Claim denial that leads to death is murder. Period.

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.

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

not just a ticket with my info, full on account

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

so i emailed joindns4.eu about a bad DNS response for one of my domains (i don't even use them myself)

they automatically created an account with my personal data on a 3rd party CRM

not every EU of them 🤨

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kasdeya@cryptid.cafe wrote:

I think I’m noticing a trend with English words:

• “cool” used to mean “a bit cold” but now it mostly means “good”
• “awesome” used to mean “inspiring awe” but now it mostly means “good”
• “fantastic” used to mean “fantastical” but now it mostly means “good”
• “incredible” used to mean “unbelievable” but now it mostly means “good”
• “amazing” used to mean “inspiring amazement” but now it mostly means “good”

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

blogged: No-stack web development

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/10/no-stack-web-development/

— a little heavy-handed but i say better to build up from nothing than immediately lock-in to fragile foundations

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LaserMistress@mstdn.social ("⚡🔌ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy♾️") wrote:

Hey nerds 😎

I'm fundraising for my incredibly cool femme/queer electronics camp that's holding on by bloodied teeth this year. Find it in my bio.

BUT ALSO we take supplies. Specific stuff. We need:

-Wire cutters (not nippers!). We clean rust

-Nice-ish Raspberry Pis, mini computers, larger external hard drives and accessories. We teach about Kiwix, cyberdecks and more

-Meshtastic hardware

-Art PCBs (best by femmes/queers) for our pop-up museum

-Lockpick gun and practice padlocks

DM me.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
santi@gone.lema.org ("Santiago, né ? :amiga: 👾") wrote:

Installed @adele ‘s #smolfedi in a local VM on #proxmox.

Seen here from #netsurf inside #RiscOS on a :rpi: Pi 3 and I have a fully funcional Fediverse client :-)

#NOJS #smolweb #RetroFutureComputing

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

The Idaho State Legislature can go fuck itself

https://www.wonkette.com/p/idaho-banned-pride-flags-boise-complied?triedRedirect=true

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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

Monteiro over at Bluesky “A violent reminder that Gilly & Billy pins are back in stock and look great on your jean jacket, backpack, or lapel if you’re running for office.”

https://www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-amp-billy-enamel-pin-fpbpz-y2d7t

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rusty__shackleford ("Rusty Shackleford") wrote:

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

A random phrase from an LLM, but accidentally a poignant one:

"I didn't steal it. I curated it."

Now I'm afraid I won't be able to understand "curated" in any other sense :-)

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cR0w@infosec.exchange ("cR0w :gayint: :ifin: :brdKnife:") wrote:

@Sempf @darkuncle

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carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

Very happy with wonderful opinion from the 3rd Circuit. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/another-court-rules-copyright-cant-stop-people-reading-and-speaking-law Philadelphia incorporated by reference the ICC code, in it's entirety, which in turn incorporated by reference 10 ASTM standards in their entirety. Incorporation by law is recursive.

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

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156

I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.

Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.

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

Fun fact: Brian May and I are neighbors, in that our respective minor planets have numbers very close to each other. Hello, neighbor!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@brian%5Fmay032/post/DW51FGvCHIL

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

DuckDuckGo has a handy feature called "bangs," where you can turn anything you type into your browser's address bar into a search of a specific site just by tacking on a special code associated with that site starting with an exclamation mark. This saves you a lot of clicking around.

You just have to be careful to use the right bang code. !mw, for instance, will pipe your search through the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which is useful all the time. But if your finger slips and you type !me, your search will be piped through the Mass Effect fan wiki