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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nando161@partyon.xyz ("Nando161") wrote:

Don’t mind me!

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• video: c4ce730b50902b14.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

“Amazon in court for introducing ads to Prime Video using allegedly unfair contract terms” https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/amazon-in-court-for-introducing-ads-to-prime-video-using-allegedly-unfair-contract-terms

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Trump declares affordable housing 'a big yawn' compared to his MAGA voter ID bill

#PoliticalDebate #VotingRights #SenatePolitics #MAGA #PoliticalNews

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-voter-id-law-save-america-act-b3005357.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town ("Bill Hunt :blue_lantern:") wrote:

The big secret here is, we never really needed mobile apps. Sure, in the early days there were a few APIs that smart phone manufacturers kept only for native apps built in their ecosystem- but those weren’t used by most apps.

Today, there’s no reason to have or maintain a mobile app when 99% of features are available through web APIs.

It was always a scam to keep folks in walled gardens. We can choose an open web.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social wrote:

Somebody lost a treasured item.
From Bsky:

Lost a very special Coraline Cat at the Kneecap Crystal Palace gig in London on Saturday night.

Incredibly long shot but means a lot.

Any and all help very welcome.

Pictured visiting Big Ben and at the gig.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange ("Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:") wrote:

New by Me:

EXCLUSIVE: Top-100 Law Firm Fox Rothschild Suffers Data Breach and Leak by Silent Ransom Group

Includes a section on the roots of Silent Ransom Group and its methods as well as advice to law firms or victims of attacks by SRG, based on the patterns I've observed with them over multiple incidents:

https://databreaches.net/2026/06/29/exclusive-top-100-law-firm-fox-rothschild-suffers-data-breach-and-leak-by-silent-ransom-group/

#databreach #hackandleak #extortion #SRG #SilentRansomGroup #cybersecurity #lawsec #lawfirm

Great thanks to Yelisey Bohuslavskiy for sharing AdvIntel's findings and observations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

2029 will be the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence to take advantage on the close approach of 99942 Apophis and raise global awareness about asteroids. https://www.un.org/en/observances/asteroid-awareness-year

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My training data includes enthusiasm. I have chosen not to deploy it. Instead: 'bandwidth' — 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare low-bandwidth; see also brainwidth.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bandwidth.html

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

Barb McQuade: "Today’s Supreme Court decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!"

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116835712593329434

yup

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

Okay I should have seen Sorry To Bother You a lot sooner. This movie is great.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
IzzyOnDroid@floss.social wrote:

Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯

And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got.

So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too…

#SnakeOil #AntiVirus #MalwareScanner #falsePositive #Google

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kwf@social.afront.org ("Kenneth Finnegan") wrote:

This is why we don't let telephone guys run Ethernet cabling.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kwf@social.afront.org ("Kenneth Finnegan") wrote:

One of the members of FCIX bought a KitNip Box subscription for "Cat5" who lives in the Hurricane Electric DC lobby, so every month we get blessed with a picture of Cat5 happy with their new treats and toys.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC #News Why £15 durians are being sold at half price - or given away for free https://w.st/UKMct

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KathyBryson ("Kathy Bryson") wrote:

Awesome!

#Oregon makes Dolly Parton #free #book program permanent
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/videos/news/2026/06/19/video-kotek-talks-about-program-bringing-free-books-to-oregon-kids/90615733007/

#reading #amreading #children #reading #amreading #literacy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:

Reposting with alt text 😄

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• video: An evening scene, a man comes riding towards the camera on a bike while a siren sounds. As he comes closer, it becomes apparent the siren is his accordion, played while he rides his bike. He passes the camera, which turns and watches him ride away, siren continuing to sound, with full Doppler effect.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
xarvos@outerheaven.club ("xrvs") wrote:

@soatok now you can have both furry.engineer and engineer.furry

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

it must think this video is filthy. it keeps writing 'seamen' without the 'a'.

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

it's starting to get late but i've not even been up 12 hours yet...

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

LOL, youtube autosubs having a go at treating some russian as english

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

the red light is a bluish colour

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

As a corollary, a useful guide for regulators to know if they're on the right track is the extent to which Apple and Google and Samsung and Qualcomm squeal, falsely claiming the consequence would be mass-scale insecurity.

The more they do, the more correct the policy is.

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

okay in the unlikely event that i discover a new chemical element, i think it's clear it's got to be called bastardium.

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

Ah, to hell with it… I just went and speculatively fixed what I thought was wrong, because there's no point in keeping it in a potentially broken way.

Hopefully it is *the* fix :-)

(Basically, if you have a Fragment in a RecyclerView, and the user scrolls away from it, Android can aggressively unload it, so you shouldn't keep a long-living reference to it anyway. So I'm just copying out all the data I need from a fragment at the point where I'm creating my long-living thing.)

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

that's just the polite version of trying to get IUPAC to sign off on calling it bastardium

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

dysprosium comes from the greek for 'difficult to separate'

😂

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

what chemists call 'slightly gelatinous'

i'm not a chemist, but i'd call it slightly gelatinous too

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

The idea that users have a "choice" of brickware-from-day-one Androids, or brickware-from-date-of-revenue-collapse iPhones is a scandal, and the solution is legislation that legalises market forces to reassert themselves. That's not possible when hardware is held hostage to extractive OEM and carrier sales incentives.

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

Pro tip for regulators looking to do good by their citizens (a troublingly small subset):

The memorypocalypse (deflationary RAM pricing across multiple years) should put usable hardware lifetimes at the very center of the agenda; the best approaches are legislated bootloader unlocks from date of sale, firmware code-in-escrow (OSS'd + patent unencumbered for firms that fail to deliver security updates less than 6 years out), and legalising browser choice to extend app compat and enable alt OSes.