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

also this is the second one today where they unexpectedly landed at a nasa site?!

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

watching more airline disasters. some of them are amazing, like everything goes wrong and then they pull off one of the best landings of their career.

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Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz ("Paul Taylor") wrote:

I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.

As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.

I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.

But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.

I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.

mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.

They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.

The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.

Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.

Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.

Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.

The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.

What can we do about this?

At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.

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rupert@mastodon.nz ("Rupert V/") wrote:

@cmconseils

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zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

Super Typhoon #Sinlaku is ripping across the Pacific Ocean right now with winds of 285 km/h (180 mph) and a sub-900 pressure of 896 mb 👀

The Northern Mariana Islands and Guam need to be on high alert for this one.

Attachments:

• gifv: Satellite imagery

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

Tisza is projected to win 135 seats in the country's 199-seat parliament, the two-thirds majority needed to repeal the constitutional changes pushed through by to turn Hungary into an “illiberal democracy”

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

it takes like 30 seconds or so, but it feels like your whole life

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

“Trump ally Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary elections after 16 years as PM”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-ally-viktor-orb%C3%A1n-concedes-defeat-in-hungary-elections-after-16-years-as-pm/ar-AA20IO9s?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

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waffles@social.seattle.wa.us ("Waffles") wrote:

lol I love this city

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

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

the socialist marxist communist woke rag known as the bbc has discovered pronouns that went extinct https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us

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atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

"slop works to find vulnerabilities!!" they say

well, first, it doesn't, actually, work, they cherry picked some cool examples to oneshot some dweeb

and second, lead acetate works to sweeten wine. hth

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ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social ("Justified Ancient of Moomin") wrote:

CTA has a banger new billboard ad - via https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.bsky.social/post/3mj6j6krzm22c

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

Lord I see what you have done for others and I want that for myself

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html

jwz wrote:

Operation Dildo Blitz.

Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50+ Arrests: Demonstrators shouted "Eat a dick!" and "Fuck ICE!" as they pelted the vehicles with dildos. Activist Russell Ellis, who posted video of the demonstration on Instagram, said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6G

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

I was upside down with my head deep in the black depths of a compost bin to take this picture, so I don't want to hear any complaints about it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/12/down-down-in-the-dark/

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116393395133158085

air karen, is that you?

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

well done hungary, you can have a slightly less fucked country, as a treat

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

[new technology that makes my job a little easier but makes every other job on the planet worse] wow this is great!!

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116089628488517165

🔮🧙🏿‍♂️Blackstradamus remains undefeated!

Y'all don't like what I say. I get it. I don't like what I say either.

I don't say it because I want it to be true. I say it because it is true.

51% of US white folk see the ICE raids and the detention centers and Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and say good job!

Stop lying to yourselves and saying things like, "They didn't know that Trump would do this!🤡"

Or "They don't know what's happening!🤡"

Or "They're only normies! They are like newborn babes, without knowledge of what is happening in their names!🤡"

None of that is true.

They know. They approve.

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

in the year two thousand and minus five

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The peril of laziness lost

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Kissinger, arms wide, mining Haiphong harbor

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lumi@snug.moe ("🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱") wrote:

@forgejo now has a policy completely banning genai contributions! 🎉

give the project some well-deserved love!

forgejo.org/2026-03-monthly-report/#ai-agreement

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celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

Proposal to replace "my brother in Christ" with "my comrade in the coming revolution".

Pros:
* Assumes the best in people
* Gender neutral
* Does not enshrine Christian hegemony
* Counterrevolutionaries, liberals, and status quo defenders can have a little minor irritation as a treat

Cons:
None

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

okay that story was wild. windscreen shatters and captain is partially sucked out of the plane. cabin crew have to try and grab his legs to hold him in from being pulled fully out.

captain survives, is back on duty in 5 months.

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SamantazFox@infosec.exchange ("Samantaz Fox") wrote:

@soatok The dad jokes are the cherry on top of the cryptography cake ^^