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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

If I had a nickel for every time some website claims to be "verifying my device", I'd probably have an extra $30 in pocket each month.

Anyway, you'd think there'd be a place I could go to verify my device once or something. :thonking:

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

RE: https://packmates.org/@noxypaws/117273558633555680

I was an auditory neuroscientist for 7 years of my life and not once did anyone show me the wolf that coordinates hunts with pure tones

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

Okay, signed up to a bunch of freshers events. Hopefully will find good people through them

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

@glyph Now hang on. Everyone forgets what happened before First Contact, but maybe the only way ad astra is per aspera.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the choice of "a colorful, swirling version of the reailty-rewriting fog from the cosmic horror novella _The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag_" as the effect to show the "extend" area sure is A Choice though, I honestly endorse this aesthetic given what it's doing.

oh oops um spoiler alert for an 84-year-old science fiction story, you should have read it by now I guess

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"extend" and "reframe" in Photos both look truly hideous. probably I wouldn't notice if someone else used them a little bit but as soon as I try it on any photo I have, I can notice all the uncanny-valley details it squishes into the edges of the frame

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Whew. 13 hours later, and finally mediaanalysisd has calmed down and is no longer burning 100% CPU on every efficiency core.

Otherwise everything feels pretty normal? Once "Writing Tools" are banished, all the other objectionable features are in places where they are not easy to accidentally click on, and they're all super slow and janky so even if I do invoke them it's unlikely I won't notice

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@FknHannu/117275420554185475

Normalize not letting people wallow with the slopbots when they're grieving. Normalize getting your friends the help they need when you see them falling into this pit of desperation or loneliness.

Normalize not normalizing whatever the hell this is.

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

It looks like it's finally the right time for my "Agent Dogfucker" series of FBI thriller novels

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iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Miya Ironami 🌸") wrote:

Just do things and see if you get in trouble

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

mastodon really needs to make "whose replies are you in right now" more visible in the UI. I suspect that the lack of a sense of *place* in social media is a big reason why people unintentionally participate in dog-piling and harassment; posting a reply, which should be viewed as being a guest in someone's mentions, is presented almost exactly the same as top-level posting, which should be viewed as standing on your own private stage

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low
(SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe
— neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn,
when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago.

What they’re picking up instead is electronic leakage from SpaceX satellites.

-- Not the broadband beams Starlink intentionally transmits.

-- The accidental static bleeding from onboard hardware, coupling through satellite structures and radiating across frequencies nobody authorized.

A Curtin University team using the Engineering Development Array 2
— a prototype SKA-Low station in Australia
— analyzed approximately 76 million radio images over 29 days.

The results, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, are uncomfortable reading.

Researchers catalogued 112,534 individual radio emissions from 1,806 unique Starlink satellites across 73–235 MHz,
the exact frequency range SKA-Low needs.

Some satellites emit periodic 13-kHz tones at roughly 137 MHz every 100 seconds.

These aren’t scheduled downlinks that operators can plan around. They’re unpredictable hardware leakage
— and researchers cannot subtract a signal they cannot model.

Current ITU regulations ignore unintended satellite hardware leakage, leaving astronomers without legal protection.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/starlinks-signal-leakage-is-threatening-radio-astronomys-most-critical-frequencies

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

Finally added a /uses page to my website. https://www.neatnik.net/uses

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

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/15/its-happened/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

This weekend I took the kiddo to a thrift store and snagged a CD from 2006 I didn't have thinking to myself, "Oh sweet. That's a recent release I missed." It wasn't until I got home and started to rip it that I did the math. 🤯

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jepyang@wandering.shop ("gay 420") wrote:

just so we’re clear, this is actually for historical accuracy reasons

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BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ("Rabbit Cohen") wrote:

@EinsPossum I don't have it all on hand, but this goes into it some. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120961783

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

#Vivaldi protip: They got #uBlock (the original one, not the Lite version) working again! (I found out because I hadn't uninstalled the extension, so was quite pleased to find it in my extensions tray....).

Big kudos to the devs for doing this, by the way.

There's one teensy, tiny problem. Google may have slightly deleted all of the V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store. So you can't find it on there anymore which is super annoying.

What you can do is install it manually via Developer Mode. gorhill provides some instructions here. This won't auto-update so I recommend keeping an eye out for updates.

:boost_requested:​

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mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:

I dislike almost everything in this timeline. Let’s try to be something in this timeline that we love.

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

Salmon Creek beach, N of Bodega Bay

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TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

parallel universe Wikipedia

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Some random man just walked into our house, up a floor, to tell our electrician to move his van. What the fuck.

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takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2026.09.05 御所南エリア
民家の軒先からバラ。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

What were the motivations of people doing the original work anyway? Better compression? (which is about the only application I have been able to come up with that doesn't immediately make my skin crawl)

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🍏 I question Apple's foresight: is the next phone going to be called the Duo 2? Then maybe Trio?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Oh goodness. A sequel to the Norwegian Enshittificator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SPV4GZp-U

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One last note about yesterday's Supreme Court decision on vote-by-mail. Much online attention is focused on the outrageousness of Alito/Thomas' dissent (and it's indeed outrageously off the mark). But nothing about their dissent is particularly surprising. They ALWAYS do this lately, siding with the administration, facts and law be damned.

But they lost. Much more significant is the fact that the other seven justices disagreed with them and upheld the injunction.

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theintercept@journa.host ("The Intercept") wrote:

Why would three multibillionaire tech CEOs all come together to agree that the technologies their companies are developing might be too dangerous? One thing is clear: Talk of existential risk is a highly convenient way to not address the already known harms produced by AI technologies overseen by fascist billionaires like Musk and Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/14/ai-doom-apocalypse-risk/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I think giving people easy access to technology that makes it trivial to clone voices or likenesses is irresponsible at best.

Yes, the technology exists now, but you don't have to give your assistance to every random person that wants to use it. And I really have a hard time imagining any worthwhile or legitimate use for it.