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jwz wrote:

TLDs used to mean things. We used to be a society.

I would love to hear the reason that all San Francisco government email addresses and services are advertised as being on the sfgov.org domain instead of the sf.gov domain.

I'll bet the reason is deeply, *deeply* stupid.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-L

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

A quick round-up of various omg.lol service patches over the past week:

- elk.social.lol ➡️ 1.0.1
- source.tube ➡️ 16.0.2
- runner-1.source.tube ➡️ v12.13.2
- discourse.lol ➡️ v2026.8.0-latest.1 +3

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
sia@front-end.social ("Sia Karamalegos") wrote:

Print club is in the mail!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

Anyone know of a RSS proxy that lets you filter out posts with select keywords? Either self hostable or a third party service ? Thanks. Boosts appreciated. #FLOSS

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

I am still totally floored by the fact that this 2 cpu, 2GB netbook feels perfectly usable under #NetBSD 11.

Despite my love for #Slackware I will be the first to acknowledge that Linux (in general) is now so completely bloated that good little machines are not usable with it anymore.

Kudos to everyone who made this a great release! You guys made my day!

(Also: isn't it weird that NetSurf is able to render netbsd.org and openbsd.org flawlessly?) 😉

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago, and no one seems to care. Would have been astonishing to imagine just some years ago.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

the three genders

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
artemis@with.iridium.ink (">>>>>>>") wrote:

YOUR favorite programming language, has been quietly fundamentally flawed this whole time. and you NEVER noticed. I know, I know, shocking. But my favorite? Doesn't have this problem. Gods it feels good to be me. *flips hair back*

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
milo@types.pl ("tali") wrote:

newts.ycombinator

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt ("Emelia/Emi") wrote:

@thomasfuchs A quick explanation about how the scam works, for those not already familiar with it: The money they 'mistakenly' send you comes from fraud of one variety or another, and will almost always get yoinked back by paypal (possibly including banning your account if you don't report it first) but if you transfer any money as a "refund" that's a "legitimate transaction" as far as paypal is concerned, since you did it under your own free will, so they won't reverse that transaction when the original is reversed. And the instant your money lands in the scammer's account, the scammers withdraw it so paypal can't lock it down. (Sidenote, this is another good reminder of PayPal Is Not A Bank. Don't keep any money in there you're not willing to lose to their arbitrary decisions)

The exact same scam happens on CashApp and friends as well, though I haven't heard about it in a while.

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

I mean I've been telling people for 20 years how I do what I do and sharing my perspective on the craft and business, some people are happy for the information, some people are pissy about what I have to say (especially when I talk about how luck is such a big part of any success), but in every case, their response is about them and not so much about me, and that's fine.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@cmnascosta/post/Dbg1ctZmeZT

jwz wrote:

Trillionaire versus Lettuce.

Elon Musk is the world's biggest loser ever, having lost $800 billion in 7 weeks. Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen supposedly became a "trillionaire" on June 12 and lost that status 12 days later as nearly half of that...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-J

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

RE: https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/117022833845804484

the great endarkening getting underway as sunset creeps closer to before 8 PM

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tankgrrl@hachyderm.io ("💀 𝓕airchild 💀") wrote:

Graft. Corruption. "America", the ideal, is dead and starting to smell.

"Starting Saturday, for a fee of up to $100,000 a month, trading firms can access "Truth API" to get a glimpse of the president's often market-moving announcements about economic policy and global affairs before the rest of the world."

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/01/nx-s1-5912219/trump-truth-social-access-insider-trading

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A TX police officer searched 83K cameras across state lines to hunt a woman down. Not a missing kid. Not a violent offender. A woman, two weeks after a legal abortion, turned in by her own partner.

The sheriff called it a "welfare check"—but his deputies were already on the phone with the DA about charging her that same day.

Let’s Address Texas State Director Saadia Mirza writes about how cops are using Flock cameras to stalk women & shares what you can do about it.

https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-police-used-83000-flock-cameras?r=4hra2n&triedRedirect=true

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A vital focus of our 1K Miles to Memphis March is elevating local orgs that have long led the fight to protect voting rights in their communities.

I sat down with 4 incredible local leaders from Stand Up Nashville—a team building Black, brown, and working-class power through economic & racial justice.

Tune in now. Join our march for voting rights—walk a mile, donate, or register yourself to vote. Help us meet our goal of 100K. #CourageNow
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-local-leaders-behind-the-fight

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

In the small hours of June 30,
Joe Klima lay awake in bed.

A little before 5 a.m., he rose and packed his lunch.

Ahead of Klima was his last shift at the Conn Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio
— everyone’s last shift,
because the factory was closing.

At a time when the president of the United States said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance,
the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs,
and seeing many of them offshored to China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/01/conn-selmer-factory-closes-ohio-despite-trumps-manufacturing-push/

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

RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/117022951020716151

"There is little evidence that the nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. And Adams and his nonprofit have engaged in a pattern of questionable financial arrangements, including paying Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue, while raising much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 — a prize FLAG’s records show no evidence of ever paying."

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Robert Riskin is wildly hit or miss for me. It Happened One Night is one of the all-timer romantic comedies but I find a lot of his other movies are unbearably smarmy even if the politics are basically okay

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

Life advice: if you get the fajitas, don’t overstuff the tortillas. You can always ask for more. They will give them to you!

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Just found out that Frank Capra was a republican! Huge surprise because everything I've seen from him gives the impression of being a through-and-through New Dealer. Turns out that was mostly down to his screenwriter Robert Riskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FCapra#Political%5Fviews

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

anyway that's good news because it means I don't need to deal with the seemingly inevitable march of every single full-text search database project into shittier and shittier business models

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

this is extremely rudimentary of course, but basically it's nothing more than a key/value store, a regex, a string concatenation and some Maps and arrays in a trenchcoat

split every name into something approximating a 'word', also generate a concatenation of every 2 subsequent 'words' and add that to the 'words', then store a reference from each of those words to the original item's ID

then you do the same splitting for the search query, get every reference from the index DB for every 'word' in the query, order the reference IDs by how many of them matched and put the one with the most matches against the query at the top, fetch the actual underlying record (the name and the URL) for the top 10 results and show them

and presto, that's it

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

an hour of hacking around and I have a basic functional fulltext search thingem

code here: https://codeberg.org/joepie91/srap-search

#ProjectToot

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

mew

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Hack & Craft happening now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117022360421485848

Happening in just a couple of mins!

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

Congratulations to Kat and Alaric, celebrating the imminent birth of their son and their engagement today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/01/long-day/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ieure@retro.social ("pun gent") wrote:

[walks into The Free and Open Source Bar to perform]

"We got both kind of software! Ablest slur and inscrutable acronym!"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
konstruct@woof.tech wrote: