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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

The dishwasher limped along for another year with repairs but finally gave up the ghost early this month. It made it almost 15 years, it was time, haha.

New one cracks itself open when it's finished, instead of waiting for me to notice it and open it to finish drying. This means dishes now take approximately four hours, rather than two to three business days. Sometimes automation is good actually.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Putting a picture of a fascist on your project home page: not political

People complaining that you put a picture of a fascist on your project home page: extremely political. How dare you drag politics into this

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Been working on theming my website again. Lemmi know what you think.

https://chriswere.wales

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

The pillow guy has formally and officially and finally lost the Minnesota primary. He has not conceded, so look forward to more whining forever and ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/28/its-over-mike/

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

okay, I’ll take that SWR across the 6m #AmateurRadio band, and, with RFI choke and a 4:1 current balun inline, that match from coax to feedpoint is close enough to 50Ω to make me happy. with those analyzer readings, I’ll call this full wavelength square loop #antenna a success.

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

Some sites have been adding llms.txt to websites as a way to instruct how to index content. Unshockingly, this has turned into a prompt injection vector. And interestingly, it looks like many major companies' websites' have been found to be compromised with malicious instructions https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/

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

That's my daily dose of doom done

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

Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.

Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.

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

great line from ‘Adults’: “It’s not our fault we got the internet when we were our most horny and stupid”

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

Dolly Parton for the People

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/dolly-parton-for-the-people

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Work from home is just good for the soul.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
milja@social.netdynamics.eu ("MiljaH") wrote:

@lunareclipse
The Hague ICC judges thing was because VISA and MasterCard are from USA, even if the card is from a European bank. USA can shut them down from European consumers without our banks doing anything.

@cwebber @MaddieM4

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
uriel@x.keinpfusch.net ("Uriel Fanelli") wrote:

Link is gone. Domain wise.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

Before you leave to enjoy what for many of us will be a long weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including

--Nearly 130 companies warn the window is closing to defend against AI cyberattacks,
--Judge blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist,
--Chinese routers ship with multiple backdoors,
--Hackers weaponize Cursor to breach seven firms,
--North Korean IT impostors refine their act,
--Prompt injection hijacks Claude Code’s Auto Mode,
--Old bugs still dominate exploited flaws,
--NSA wants access to every AI model,
--PaperCut attacks prompt emergency patch,
--Pokémon X hack hawks bogus memecoin,
--Socure raises $156M and buys Fravity,
--AI fears send cybersecurity stocks soaring,
--OpenAI’s rogue-AI postmortem checks the boxes,
--Flock helps Florida deputy stalk his ex,
--Georgia cop uses Flock to track his ex
https://www.metacurity.com/nearly-130-companies-warn-the-window-is-closing-to-defend-against-ai-cyberattacks/

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

cleaning that first harvested habanero to use in the sauce for the ribs I am slow-cooking… my cough gives me hope that squirrel who ran off with a green one in it’s mouth yesterday will burn burn burn… and then warn all the others away from my peppers

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz ("Ewen McNeill") wrote:

TIL that Gumroad (a previously popular indie creator store front) has gone all in on AI everything (apparently even editing the look of your storefront now requires arguing with an AI agent) 😱

(Consensus is this is the choice of the CEO that started about a year ago.)

If you bought things via Gumroad in the past, you might want to make sure you have downloaded everything to a safe place.

https://gumroad.com/gumclaw

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NO PROB. WE ARE GETTING THE ABBACUS OUT.

Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a8a7f4020b1
F: #ff2fac41097

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
letoams@defcon.social ("Paul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117172702770260949

Accurate - speaking from experience

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

look i'm not afraid of shipping slop to production, i just don't want to have to keep both pieces.

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

What would it take for you to feel comfortable shipping code to production without reading it?

A lobotomy?

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

If you want to use GCS without adding a metric fucktonne of extra dependencies to your Go project: https://github.com/git-pkgs/gcs

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

‘Trump now stands at 13% “strongly approve” in the most recent Reuters-Ipsos Poll. His “strongly disapprove” rating is at 49%. His total approval is at 33%, while disapproval is at 65%. Those in the “somewhat approve” category include low propensity soft voters especially inclined to skip midterm elections. And this poll was taken before his declaration of trade war against Canada.’

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

that gat, orange, weak old man sure does love parading converts in public

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/28/scott-jennings-new-trump-press-secretary?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

“There can be no absolute rule without an absolute ruler; no absolute ruler without absolute submission; no absolute submission without the expression of absolute love. His sadness at its fading gives way to anger, paranoia and greater acts of retribution. He equates the fear he instills as a form of love. Trump accepts subservience, from whatever motive, as affection or its closest equivalent. He cares nothing about sincerity, so it’s all in the show. The less love displayed, the more fear required. Yet there is no rebound, but only deeper rejection.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/28/trump-midterm-campaign-devotion?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

@firepoet @ravetracer_22 @datarama I've noticed this effect too, although as someone out of work for a while it's not always easy to tell how much this happens outside of what I can see happening on the Internet

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
deborahh@cosocial.ca ("Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦") wrote:

"Thermal drone footage we captured last week showed the partly completed DataOne facility in Vineland was operating at least 45 of the site's 62 generators at the time.

… It's … slated to provide AI computing power to Microsoft …

Located roughly a mile from two schools, the tractor-trailer-size generators emit substantial amounts of health-harming air pollution linked to asthma, heart attacks and even premature death.

None have permits."

Via @c_9 https://mstdn.ca/@c%5F9/117172621567138445

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

The Guardian:

‘Senators Ron Wyden, Amy Klobuchar and Martin Heinrich expressed “serious concern” over reports that Boren used his federal government position in July to remove firefighting personnel and resources from active fires elsewhere to tackle a fire near his private ranch in Idaho.’

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gwenthefops@transfem.social ("Gwen the system :neofox_floof:") wrote:

hey folks! for my followers/mutuals, the headmates are branching off for their own accounts

there's @gwenthefops@booping.synth.download which is the fox (I feel like it was the main fronter until we figured out plurality)
and there's @artemisthewolp@thegayagenda.fans , the wolf, who is more on the artistic side, and the other consistent headmate

Not really sure what we're gonna use this account for. Neither of us really feel like it's right to continue using the account... or maybe there's a third headmate hiding somewhere, who knows.....

Anyway, yeah, follow those manually, cause we aren't going to use the migration feature

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
plexus@toot.cat ("Arne Brasseur") wrote:

It's a depressing and distressing time for people who have built their career in software development. Today, what gives you hope? Who's doing good stuff, and finding an audience?

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

I'm glad to be so disconnected from the news that the only way I find out about Trump's inane antics is by reading vague posts on Fedi