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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

“The NDS built and now operates four public federal websites: ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov and trumpaccounts.gov. All four ran commercial visitor-tracking software, configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install, and none carry the public filings federal privacy law requires under laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002.”

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

The publisher Springer claims it can only discuss why it retracted some of Planck's papers with... Planck!

But until they hold a seance, they are happy to sell you completely redacted versions: blank pages for $39.95 or more each.

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted?utm%5Fcampaign=News

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

These photos of this goldcrest also show the impact of processing. Two have more heavy-handed processing. Two have more "naturalistic" processing, mostly exposure and saturation. None of these are strictly speaking more "correct" they just have different connotations #bird #birds #iceland #nature

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

Goldcrests are the smallest and shiest birds we have here in Iceland. I managed to spot some movement, couldn't see clearly even when zoomed in, but after cropping in on the extreme zoom, lo and behold, a goldcrest. #bird #birds #iceland #nature

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doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape:") wrote:

I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.

I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.

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rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt ("Rachel Barker") wrote:

@catsalad There's a super promising drug for treating sleeping sickness which got formally approved a few months ago. In trials, it cured almost all cases with a single dose, which is incredible considering the disease is almost always fatal if untreated!

(shout out to where I learnt this from: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116307874367742368 )

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derekheld@infosec.exchange wrote:

@catsalad the HPV vaccine’s effectiveness for preventing cancer in women is now showing up in mortality data. It’s expected we’ll also see HPV-caused cancers in men also drop in the coming years as well.

We’ve created a cancer vaccine, and it works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I wonder if there's a way to get a refund from Mullvad for unused credit.

Apropos of nothing in particular, of course

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"You have tampered in the Gods' domain!" the god shouted.

"Well, maybe, but you gods tamper in the human domain all the time!"

"That's... That's different!"

"How?"

"We are Gods! It's what we do!"

"And we are human. Likewise."

"I..." The god sighed. "Fair. But keep it quiet, okay?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I did a decluttering!

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

“A.A. Milne on The Writer's Lot - by Joel Morris - Gralefrit”

https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/aa-milne-on-the-writers-lot

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

tty1 didn't work, but ttyS0 did :)

and now i have popped a shell on my washing machine

i have no clue what, if anything, this gets me though

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

I’m genuinely tired of how often I run into the “you’ve made too many requests” error after a single click on a domain. Your shitty SPA is DOSing your own server and for that you’re blocking me?

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

the most important thing that people with any technical expertise or spare labor hours could do for the fedi is write patches for masto that allow for self-signed, mobile accounts, and the ability to losslessly migrate away from mastodon and between instances.

all love to the masto dev team, but only by making it much much easier to move around and try different thing can we take pressure off them and make it possible to have stuff like properly consent-respecting supra-instance systems. until we do that, pretty much every cool thing you might want to do has to fit within a very narrow box, so why not work on the foundational problems first?

sort of a subtoot.

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swachter@toot.boston wrote:

Apparently my ongoing evolution into full crone includes dropping bangers like "it's reprehensible that a bunch of men stole everything we ever wrote and want to sell it back to you" and "aren't you scared that the most unethical people who ever lived know so much about you" and "we eat three billionaires and the rest fall into line" on unsuspecting grad students who are trying to tell me that AI can be used for good

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is not doing great right now") wrote:

I've said before that I do not consent to my work, including the words I write and share here, being made available via ATProto. That's notably distinct from permission, legal right or privilege, or other more formal concepts — I mean "consent" here in the more interpersonal sense of "you should feel bad if you did this knowing I asked people to not."

I made that statement because Bluesky has implicitly taken the position that ATProto is an ingestion protocol for their Attie product.

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

risks with relays on the fediverse, a thread

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quephird@tech.lgbt ("var body: some View") wrote:

Ok, I’ve seen this before and I guffaw loudly every single time.

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ColetteDiskette@retro.pizza ("ColetteDiskette 💾🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

You're not being helpful if you're responding to people's questions with a copy/paste of what an LLM says to their question.

If they consent to their question being put into an LLM, they would've already done it themselves. Stop.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Reviewers noted that while Vim for Gameboy featured one of the deepest command systems on the platform, its soundtrack consisted primarily prolonged silence punctuated with occasional terrifying beeps.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Flatpak is cool or whatever but GoboLinux is the future

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The range of strap tightnesses are riduculous. Why would 50% of the range be something you can't even fit your hand in. The strap continues to be the most baffling part of this instrument to me

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

really the act of playing accordion for me is getting high on the vanillin blown out of this ancient box

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emilyenough@pix.lgbt ("Emily 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This highway seems incredibly transphobic.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i still think some of the fingerings in the sheet music are just to fuck with me. it says to use the thumb on the D and the 4th finger on the Fmaj chord... and that would be fine to do if your hand was flat and parallel to the keys, but your hand is actually wrapped around from the side and so it's physically impossible for me to even get my thumb up there

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I went to a local trans org picnic today in giant state park, but I showed up super late and basically only had time to join the hike.

I left my keys in the truck and figured I could use the phone to unlock it when I was ready to go, but my phone didn’t have signal down in the valley parking lot and since I got the cheaper model it can’t do a PaaK bluetooth connection. So I had climb the trailhead a quarter mile again to get cell signal to unlock the truck.

But I was too cleaver by half, because I was hot and sweaty I figured “why not start it too to get the air running?”. When I got all the way back down to the truck I realized that remote start re-locks the doors. So I had to climb the trail to unlock it again.

Also, I’m 0 for 1 on using Satellite for Messages. I spent 10 minutes with my phone pointed at the sky in a clearing by the truck trying to ask my wife to unlock it with the ford app from where she was, but the short text message never made it through in that 10 minutes.

Thankfully the car itself was able to get cell signal to receive the message down in the valley. I guess it’s got a better antenna setup than my phone.

Also the battle between humidity and hair products, humidity won.

(photo slightly edited using apple cleanup tool to remove wrinkles from my forehead)

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i need to get some stickers to find notes a hands distance from C though. this book recommends melting candle wax on the buttons but idk about that

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

still very much a beginner, but i am starting to get a bit of intuition with the stradella bass and i love it. i'm learning to play Satie's Gymnopedie 1, and it's so satisfying how the first turning point changes from alternating G/Bb, D/F#m, then it goes F#/F#m, B/Bm, E/Em, E/G, and that's just a series of note/chord pairs that are a straight up line and then into just a second consistent hand position. the accordion rules. the circle of fifths rules

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote: