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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

A favorite

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

You know what's wild? If a piece of software isn't in your native language, it's now relatively easy to just maintain a fork that is, ongoing.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

📢 A growing coalition for digital memory rights!

🌍 At @internetarchiveeurope, new signatories @HMML & the After Violence Project have joined the “Statement on Digital Rights,” supporting a global push to ensure memory institutions can:
Collect
Preserve
Provide controlled access
Cooperate

From preserving manuscripts worldwide to documenting communities impacted by violence, they highlight why protecting digital memory matters now more than ever.

🔗⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/10/digital-preservationists-at-the-after-violence-project-and-hmml-lend-their-voices-to-the-our-future-memory-campaign/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
athorn@better.boston ("Alexandra Thorn") wrote:

I just had a good phone conversation with a staffer at Massachusetts Senator Pat Jehlen's office, and she affirmed that all the advocacy against age verification is being heard. #Massachusetts residents, if you have bandwidth, please keep pushing on this.

You can look up your state senator here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

#MAPol #MAPoli #surveillance #privacy #AgeVerification

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

I’m finding expectations of increased productivity to be impossible even with supposed “AI superpowers”

Yes, LLMs can rapidly process words and turn them into to summaries and tasks

But it doesn’t make the context switching between multiple tasks easier, we aren’t designed to process so much.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

New, by me: Adobe has fixed a bug in its flagship PDF readers that hackers have been abusing for at least four months to break into people's Windows and macOS computers and steal data.

A security researcher who discovered the hacks said it works by tricking victims into opening a malicious PDF.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-security-bug-that-hackers-have-exploited-for-months/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
hazelweakly@hachyderm.io ("Hazel Weakly") wrote:

If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include:

- ecological awe
- intellectual humility
- respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems
- cross functional communication
- resilience engineering
- marketing and sales

(“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
edwardk@infosec.exchange ("ekiledjian") wrote:

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up user data from cloud storage folders like OneDrive and Dropbox, and also .git folders, despite previously promising to back up all data. This change, implemented without direct user notification, means Backblaze is no longer fulfilling its core function of comprehensive data backup, eroding user trust.
https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The advantage of UI redesigns no one is talking about: lost users will be clicking on more things as they try to find what they are looking for, sending your traffic analytics through the ROOF

#ProductManagement #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment

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

Wow, an authoritarian leader dedicated to corruption and destroying democratic norms funding an organization dedicated to corruption and destroying democratic norms, who would've thought such a thing was possible

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hungary-leader-reveals-victor-orb-151540991.html

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

one has to wonder whether eventually, if Altman or some other guy like him gets popped, they're all just going to say "ok ok fine! the skynet stuff was all bullshit! we played it up to make our products sound cooler! please don't kill any more of us."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Alternately, "Ionos" or "Dynadot"?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

How do folks feel about "Regery" as a registrar? I've been pretty happy moving from Gandi (due to extortionate pricing) to Porkbun, but unfortunately I have some annoying TLDs that are not broadly supported and this seems like this is by far the cheapest. But it bugs me that I've never heard of them.

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

okay, the wind seems to have tangled that endfed up in a tree... about mid-way down the wire, there is a big bend now. this suxs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Do not trust any messages claiming to be from the Mastodon Security Team. If the Mastodon Security Team wants you, they will come through your door guns blazing

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

time to fire up the rah-dee-oh and shout over the waves to my friends

(translation: tuning up for our usual weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

RE: https://sunny.garden/@Her%5FDoing/116402880933274008

Fascinating, I am a space nerd and didn't know any of this

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
justinmikulka.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Justin Mikulka") wrote:

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Em...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

OK, heads up about reading quantum news: if you see anything by Q-CTRL, close the tab, ignore, do not consider it in any way. Do not give them attention, do not spend your time debunking or criticizing or hyping or sharing. Block the domain and walk away.

Trust me.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cassidy@blaede.family ("Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:") wrote:

Open source peeps: I want to see good examples of “get involved” or community pages for inspiration. Show me some of your favorites! 👀

#OpenSource #community

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

@slightlyoff it's just the Guardian badly reporting on NESO's summer outlook. Exposing low electricity prices to consumers is good.

https://www.neso.energy/document/380251/download

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

A very good fresh raspberry margarita: muddle five raspberries in a shaker. Add 2 oz blanco tequila, 3/4 oz agave nectar or rich simple syrup, 3/4 oz fresh lime juice, and ice. Shake. Double-strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.

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

Bring back dollar theaters.

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

weird how 'tech bro' is almost an anagram of 'tech bore'

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vozercozer@vozer.cafe ("vozer :vozerBow:") wrote:

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

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

"expected to be a season of record renewable energy, and [...] could be the first summer the [UK] grid runs entirely on zero-carbon electricity"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/uk-households-power-renewables-soar

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

Oh, honey. He never cared about any of them, ever. Everybody knew it but them.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/politics/republicans-2026-trump-problem

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@cosocial.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

But is that pragmatic?

Pope Leo XIV Warns: Democracy Risks Collapse Without Moral Foundations
https://www.gaudiumpress.ca/pope-leo-xiv-warns-democracy-risks-collapse-without-moral-foundations/

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

With #SmolFedi 1.2.0 it is possible to use OOB copy/paste login mode for old browsers.

compatibility with #dillo

Dillo blocks cookies by default, which prevents sessions from persisting. Allow cookies for your SmolFedi domain:

echo "yourdomain.example ACCEPT" >> ~/.dillo/cookiesrc

Replace yourdomain.example with the hostname of your SmolFedi instance. Restart Dillo after editing the file.

For instances that cannot be reached directly from the Dillo machine (e.g. when the old computer has no modern TLS support), use the copy/paste mode on the login page: check the box, copy the authorization URL shown, open it in a capable browser to get a code, then paste the code back in Dillo.