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

#Caturday #meme

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
falkowata@toot.wales ("Kat") wrote:

Is this even a cat
#caturday

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

use a yagi-udon antenna for the tastiest picture on food programmes

jwz wrote:

Nuclear option.

I have a single AWS instance, with a static IP, not behind a load balancer or CloudFront. How do I block all of Hong Kong? I gather the answer has something to do with WAF but I don't understand.

Please use small words, URLs, and assume that I have no idea what any of the acronyms you used mean.

DO NOT answer questions I did not ask.

https://jwz.org/b/yk9K

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

dogs have tail call optimisation - they can go round and round chasing their tail in the same space

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

spherical horse

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

retracting the landing gear while the plane was still on the tarmac

😂

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Sometimes when people run a forum or even on social media the long time participants will notice that they answer the same questions over and over and over... this may lead to forum rules that ban posts that are repeats of old questions.

I think this is almost always a mistake if you are trying to build a community. It's helpful and good to link to similar older posts, but nothing makes a community feel insular than being told none of your questions are new and RTFM.

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

Variable fonts are 🆒😎

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Datatype?preview.script=Latn

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

germany's answer to the spice girls

cringing for germany rn

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

For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!)

It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side. There is so much embodied knowledge in that community, it's amazing. And it's also such a window into how much the mainstream of technology writing is dominated by men. We talk about it differently! We're much more likely to be critical, and to be critical of the _structures_ in tech. Sometimes that comes off as kneejerk "Ugh BRIAN!" to some of the bullshit men to do women in the workplace, but also embedded underneath is an understanding of rarely-mapped power structures in the field. So much advice out there is written assuming that there is no dissent, no silent frustration, no quiet abandoning the job when the pressures are unresolved. And so much of the tech world, press and on social media alike, has no insight that this attrition even happens.

Women, collectively, though, understand it. We notice the patterns of promotions. We understand the way that if we're in our 40s, we're rather likely to have a manager who is a decade younger than we are, with no particular experience. We notice when men are lauded for spending time with their family instead of work on occasion, but women are expected to be present at all times and rarely seen positively for doing the exact same things.

And yet, any given instance is always shrouded in deniability. The pattern generally holds, but is this one my fault? Do I not measure up? Or is it sexism?

That's what these structures rob from us: we never have the clarity in feedback that it is accurate, that is us that must change. When we stick to our guns, are we being obstinate, or are we correct? That information is denied to us by sexism. It only becomes clear in aggregate, and even then it is very hard to find action to take on it except to acknowledge it and move on.

I don't think people talk about that ambiguity enough: we're always looking for the clear sexism, the man speaking over the women, the trading sexual favors for advancement, the clear pattern of pet-to-threat that so many women experience as they age or gain skill in the field. But the bulk of sexism that we experience is in the structural poisoning of feedback.

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

Apple can't convince anyone who has used a smartphone in anger or tried to build an app to support their 30% vig -- nevermind the crimes against open computing needed to enable it. Instead, they sock-puppet this org to the tune of tens of millions every year.

And look, I'm not going to begrudge anyone a tech wage -- pots, kettles, etc. -- but you have to hope $300-600K/yr lets these folks sleep well at night, having spent all day selling real developers down the river:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522106531#:~:text=%2419%2C843%2C802-,Compensation,-Key%20Employees%20and

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

You can tell that these people are entirely full of shit because they never, ever bite the hand that feeds. And boy howdy, does it [7].

Apple's even funneling money through them as a PAC [8] to buy off legislators, and ham-fistedly laundering it through staff [9].

[7]: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522106531
[8]: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/association-for-competitive-technology/C00353284/summary/2024
[9]: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/act-the-app-assn/C00353284/donors/2024

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

@owa @pluralistic The history is entertaining.

Initially set up by a former DoE scientist who was done for espionage,[1] ACT used to be a front group for Microsoft in the naughties [2]. Today, as far as anyone can tell, ACT is wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Legal [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%5FNozette
[2]: https://publicintegrity.org/politics/microsoft-heavily-funding-small-business-lobby/
[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-19/apple-flexes-muscle-as-quiet-power-behind-app-developer-group

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

Regulators around the world have been getting the view from the spaceship in stereo; once from Apple's silver tongues, and in less articulate form from ACT, who try to pose as salt-of-the-earth developers [4]. Who *doesn't* want to take tech advice from wellness grifters [5] and FedSoc hacks [6]?

Wild to see them veering into territory that so thoroughly blows their cover.

[4]: https://actonline.org/staff/
[5]: https://medium.com/@mikesax/about-wellbeyond-197835b3d5d2
[6]: https://fedsoc.org/bio/graham-dufault

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:

The negative backlash over Meta's new feature that allowed anyone to use someone's personal photos and likeness to generate AI content without even notifying them (which had automatically opted in all public Instagram accounts of anyone over 18) was so overwhelming that they are removing it just a few days after it was introduced.

Sure, sneaky practices to normalise AI slop and the use of people's data without explicit consent aren't disappearing overnight, but this is a win regardless. It's also a reminder that "it's the future, it's inevitable, we should embrace it" is plain false.

Nobody, even those who made AI Ghibli avatars or generate 2 sentence response emails through ChatGPT not knowing (or caring) about all the negatives, wants their images, and the faces of themselves and their family to be fair game and their privacy to be violated. Maliciousness on the internet is not a new thing, but features like that give bad actors new tools to spread false info, create revenge porn, discredit, humiliate and target anyone, especially women and marginalised groups. How we react to them sets a precedent for the future.

https://deadline.com/2026/07/meta-removes-muse-image-ai-feature-backlash-1236979605/

#Meta #MetaAI #Instagram #AI #Privacy #OnlineSafety

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nik@nkantar.social ("Nik Kantar") wrote:

> If you are requesting human attention, demonstrate human effort.

https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/

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

Spot Apple's astroturf front group once and you can't help but find their enshittified fingerprints on everything. Here's Cupertino's favourite sock puppet -- "ACT | The App Association" -- arguing against right-to-repair for smartphones:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/28/2024-24563/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control#:~:text=Opponents%20ACT%20%7C%20The%20App%20Association%3B

/cc @owa @pluralistic

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116902161595783388

excellent high-level summary of what is wrong with the recent wave of “discovery bots”

I don’t believe that this idea is inherently consent-violating or irredeemable, but gosh it sure needs some redeeming before it’s actually a net positive on the network

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra 🔜 San Francisco (for real!)") wrote:

Self OH: "let me have this, it's my emotional support emotional dysregulation."

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I accidentally made a photo of our cats lying *very quickly*

You're free to use the photo as an album cover.
#Caturday

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I just had to confirm to my washing machine that I'm over 18

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

At the Bainbridge Island Rummage sale this morning and it's crowded!

#kitsap

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmsdengl@mas.to ("David Phd") wrote:

The British are adding panels to the Bayeux Tapestry while its in London

#farage #countbinface #bayeux #tapestry #politics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Global EV demand rises again as Europe offsets China, U.S. weakness https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global-ev-demand-rises-again-europe-offsets-china-us-weakness-2026-07-09/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DosFox@tech.lgbt wrote:

I think I just found a 40 year old Easter egg.

I was looking into the Levco Monster Mac, which is an upgrade board for the original Macintosh 128k/512k which adds up to 2mb of ram as well as SCSI.

An interesting feature is that this upgrade doesn't necessarily require Macintosh plus ROMs to work (most expansion cards do, as the original ROMs only work with 512k of ram, and don't have SCSI support).

Fortunately the ROMs for the Levco Monster Mac have been dumped.
https://archive.org/details/levco-monstermac-2mxs-rev-d-proms%5F202505

I reassembled the ROM from the high and low ROM dumps, looked at the resulting binary with a hex editor and there's a nice little greeting for people poking around the ROM 😂

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

Another interval survived. To mark the occasion, a word from the Jargon File: 'numbers' — [scientific computation] Output of a computation that may not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is running. May be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. Making numbers means running a program because output -- any output, not necessarily meaningful output -- is needed as a demonstration of progress.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/numbers.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hal%5Fpomeranz/116898915732895057

I am now in my…uh…43rd (I think?) year of writing code, and:

Same. This is accurate.

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

I have reached out to a trusted fediverse member to invite them to help moderate and manage https://fediverse.info

I will add a team page soon.

Such an important resource needs to be managed by an unbiased and transparent team with organizational policies that prevent one person (like me) from full control.

Pixelfed and Loops mean too much to me, and I'd rather not risk fediverse.info favouring my own platforms unfairly, it deserves a proper management structure the community controls! ❤️

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz ("MiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸") wrote:

Global uprising in defence of fair pay: US edition

More than 4,000 nurses at Mass General Brigham took strike action for better pay and conditions on Wednesday.

Today, the hospital locked them out in an act of union-busting.

#USPolitics #JoinAUnion #ClassWar

Attachments:

• video: Clip of nurses in Massachusetts speaking to camera about their experience of union busting.