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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EA5JMW@mastodon.radio ("Alberto - EA5JMW") wrote:

We are looking for #HamRadio operators from around the world to organize a #Pride Award this June, with special callsigns from as much entities as we can.

Last couple of years it was me with #EH5LGBT, and we want to push it into a full on award! If you want to help and participate in some way, contact me!

#LGBT #Queer

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@pivic/116410555201283867

i wish i were happy about this #Ticketmaster decision but along with this illegal monopoly came the wiping out of small and medium sized concert and performance halls, clubs and bars all across USA.

capitalists used Ticketmaster to bankrupt whole local and regional arts, music and theater economies. those economies are not coming back any time soon.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social ("Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor") wrote:

Catholic Charities does outstanding work. My South Jersey synagogue has partnered with the Camden chapter many times. To suddenly cancel Miami's funding in what can only be viewed as a petty, retaliatory act is disgraceful.

#Trump #PopeLeo

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Elodie_lyra@lgbtqia.space ("Elodie chaos 🐉🐝🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

From the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook;

“The targeting of trans people - and specifically trans youth and trans women in sports - is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation. Understanding it as policy produces the wrong response. Understanding it as strategy produces the right one.

Jason Stanley, in How Fascism Works, identifies the targeting of vulnerable minorities as a core mechanism of authoritarian consolidation. The function is not primarily to harm the targeted group, though that harm is real and intentional. The primary function is to test the solidarity of potential opposition coalitions, to find and exploit the fracture lines, and to establish a precedent: that some members of the coalition can be sacrificed when the political cost of defending them is judged too high.

Every successful authoritarian project has done this. The question it is always asking of the opposition is: is there anyone in your coalition you will abandon to protect the rest? Because if the answer is yes, we know exactly how to proceed. We find that person. We make defending them as costly as possible. And we watch the rest of the coalition either hold together or fracture. If they fracture, we learn where the next fracture line is, and we push there.

The targeting of trans people is not the end of this strategy. It is the test. And what the test is measuring, in real time, is whether LGBTQ organizations, progressive coalitions, and pro-democracy movements will sacrifice their most vulnerable members when the pressure is sufficient.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

Some decent progress today on my Wasm Component package manager! I managed to extract the metadata from components and started rendering it out.

This builds on some of the metadata work I did last year, adding a set of conventional custom sections to wasm-tools for things like license info, author data, and revisions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
petewalkden@mastodon.scot ("Pete Walkden") wrote:

Brown Hare

Lolloping down a country road towards me.

From a holiday in North Norfolk recently.

#brownhare #hare #photography #wildlife #norfolk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
phos@infosec.exchange ("Phos") wrote:

The #OpenEDM is an open source desktop #WireEDM machine and pulse generator we are developing.

more detials:
https://github.com/OpenEDM

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

@glyph One must imagine Sisyphus hitting his KPIs.

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

they should make jelly/jello that's as bouncy as the repulsion gel in portal 2

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the apple watch activity rings are like “what if sisyphus’s rock had a cool app, with like, animations and stuff”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

If not scam why scam shaped

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ryan C. Gordon") wrote:

The SDL organization has an official position on LLMs and generative AI now: don't use it.

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/15350

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

What remains of the Agda team has decided that the personal convenience of people like Andreas Abel and Ulf Norell is more important than the safety of marginalised people the world over.

They phrase this as "not finding consensus" in an attempt to keep some respectability for their decision to endorse the lead product of tech giants that are, at best, a single step removed from the Department of Warcrimes (if you think of Palantir as separate from the DoD, which. Lmfao). Do not grant them this kindness.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

“The Trump administration has reached a settlement with the American Library Association and a union of cultural workers, bringing to an end its yearlong effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/arts/library-agency-trump-settlement.html

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

BOOM: Ticketmaster GUILTY of Monopolization
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-ticketmaster-guilty-of-monopolization?publication%5Fid=11524&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&r=wabr&utm%5Fmedium=email

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

@davidgerard psst, here's the thread that kicked it all off github.com/agda/agda/pull/8456

why yes of course they're throwing a queer contributor under the bus because they love the fash jackboot.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
scott@social.linux.pizza wrote:

@masspirates I just spoke to the majority leader's office. They disagree with the age verification language in the house amendments and told me there would have to be a long committee process to resolve the language. They seemed to share the perspective that age verification is a bad idea for data privacy and other reasons.

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

maybe @davidgerard would like to cover the fash bootlicking in the proof assistant space? there sure is a lot of it going on.

more reason for idris not to consider itself a proof assistant, i guess

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.

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

RE: https://types.pl/@amy/116410578096025767

agda offers the unique opportunity to lick fash boot, totally unlike all the other theorem provers who love the fash boot.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
legoktm@wikis.world ("Kunal Mehta") wrote:

I would've been shocked if a *jury* didn't find #Ticketmaster guilty

https://apnews.com/article/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-trial-f0ffdd20dd4f64e8b4bb9d97134b826f

Kudos to the (lowercase) united States for sticking with the case after the (uppercase) United States tried to corruptly cut a deal.

Now it's time for remedies!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@zkat Bad manners for sure.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
CoMaps@floss.social ("CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive") wrote:

We have recently received a trust score by 9.6 out of 10 from "European & Open Source Alternatives", a website that wants to help people find trustworthy alternatives to Big Tech.

With that stellar rating, we are currently the top-rated alternative in the Maps category, side-by-side with our friends from #OpenStreetMap ❤️

Check out how that score was calculated for us, and other map alternatives here: https://european-alternatives.cloud/en/browse?category=maps

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
benpate ("Ben Pate 🤘🏻") wrote:

The beauty of the Fediverse, to me, is our rich diversity of experiences, abilities, and needs.

Everyone brings something unique of themselves into this place, and everyone needs something different from it.

That is a strength, not a weakness. Many come here with expectations that are different from mine ~ on any number of topics: AI, encryption, money, and more.

None of us are “wrong“.. we all just need different things from this place.

And that is beautiful.

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

Zebra jumper, with nameless dead Diptera.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/hunting-season-has-begun/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:

A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/livenation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-antitrust-trial-rcna273714
http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p39#a260415p39

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

ominous "something happened here"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
darth@silversword.online ("Linux Renaissance 🇭🇷") wrote:

For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.

You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
keepandroidopen@techhub.social ("Keep Android Open") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@muntashir/116372607911622394

Google's assault on F-Droid has begun. They are permitting malicious actors to claim other people's apps and take them over. As we've warned, this is going to destroy F-Droid and independent app distribution around the world. Speak out and help stop them at https://keepandroidopen.org. #keepandroidOpen