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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

I gave my carpenter ants some cork bark for “enrichment” This is what it looks like after two years of them chewing on it. Bark is soft so I thought they’d shred it but instead they made some kind of sculpture.

Another view of interesting craggy shapes made by ants.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

I'm so unbelievably thrilled to see a new generation of people picking up the mantle of torrenting in the pursuit of preserving the basic information of our culture. People who have never scraped a site or packed a dataset picking up wget and a torrent client and going like "that's it? I can do […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

My sign kept blowing over in the wind so i went The Incredible Machine mode

A sign hopefully stabilized by two water jugs held together by a rubber belt. It is some wile e coyote shit

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implr @implr.social.hackerspace.pl.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

fish dfs fish dfs

screenshot of https://x.com/meatballtimes/status/1907651201354666453? :
fucking insane. some fish use electrical signals to navigate; if two fish on the same frequency encounter each other, they automatically switch frequencies to avoid "signal jamming" each other. exactly like how your wifi router does at home. wow.

<screenshot of wikipedia page for Jamming avoidance response>

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/04/2025

I wrote a bunch of words trying to explain how economically incomprehensible the tariff stuff is. It explains how a 5th grader understands basic econ better than Trump and his economic advisors. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...

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Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic

There’s a fundamental problem with Donald Trump’s new trade policy: it fails a test that actual 5th graders can pass. I know this because I tried explaining his “Liberation Day&#8…

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

I still get parents and teachers being like, “I referred this utter slacker who doesn’t give a shit to community college cyber programs” and want to kind of die

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

Hello friends. The dreaded and long awaiting blog on WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE CYBERSECURITY JOBS MARKET has arrived. tisiphone.net/2025/04/01/lesley-wha… I'm sorry.

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⚜️Δρakakiς🍁 @drakakis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65, NYT reports | Val Kilmer | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/0… OMG! Much too young! (my age). Still at the top of his game ... RIP ... and my fondest memories will remain "Kiss […]

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Roma Komarov @kizu.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

Not a joke: CSSWG has resolved to start working on fit-to-width text in css-fonts-5! github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/… #CSS #Typography

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Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor: @timb.me.uk · 01/04/2025

Looking at www.qualys.com/2025/three-bypasses-…: $ aa-exec -p trinity -- unshare -U -r -m /bin/bash # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nogroup) (It's time to learn about namespaces =)) #linux, #threatintel

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Alexander Knochel @quantensalat.astrodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

Finally a use of AI I get get behind! #hamradio

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Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor: @timb.me.uk · 31/03/2025

Manipulating issues via commits has an interesting side effect, especially if you're working multi-origin. Closed a ticket on one repo and it closed the ticket elsewhere when I sync'd the two repos. Current status: Wondering what terrible things I can do.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

If someone asks you to explain a joke I think you should just explain it and be nice. It should be more socially acceptable to ask for a joke to be explained and people who groan and shout "now it's ruined" need to stop. In fact, some jokes become more funny when they are carefully explained […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day! (My cartoon for @theguardian.com books)

Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums

Panel 1: Moby Dick
"Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her.

Panel 2: Casino Royale.
"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother."
says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one."

Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings.
"You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron."
says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

Thanks @signalapp, very cool :]

An edited screenshot of a Signal update log on the iOS App Store showing “Hidden 'invite random journalist' button moved to avoid accidental taps”

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

It makes it even more funny that some people are using "Ghibli Style" AI images as their profiles. It's less noticeable in still images, but having seen what this stuff looks like when it's moving it's like they have a dead body as their profile pic. And for some reason they can't see it […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

The utter insanity of complaining posts on Brian Krebs' blog or Hacker News are too political while there are 100% political and massive cuts to cybersecurity programs, staffing, and budgets, complete reorganization and political destruction of threat intel sharing programs, and ongoing major […]

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Matthew Dockrey @attoparsec.clacks.link.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2025

This is sick as hell and deserves more attention: youtu.be/47jlny15IEc I don't think I've ever seen that done before, which means everyone making futuristic credit sequences in the 1970s missed a *major* trick! Also, what a great tool for understanding signal processing.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2025

I remember going to a Japanese restaurant when I first moved to NYC 20 years ago. Growing up in the midwest to me Japanese food was very exciting. (And this was 20 years ago too) Anyway, it was a very cold winter day and they had just opened and only two guys were there and neither spoke […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2025

Even though the math was wrong these noodles were excellent. If you've never had cold soba with soup base here is how: Boil the noodles, rinse and serve cold with thin sliced fresh green onions. Pour the "soup base" over them in a shallow dish. The soup base gathers a haze from the noodles […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/03/2025

If you are not in my IRC channel (#glyph on libera.chat) you may not be familiar with the topic of that channel, which contains this quote from me: "I’m also relentlessly, almost pathologically committed to long-term execution of every dumb idea I’ve ever had" Some people think this is a […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

Video game pet cat always blocks my path causing me to miss-click and pet her. Video game cat has caused me thousands of in-game dollars as I pass out trying to get past her rather than sleeping. My Review: "The dev is a genius. The realism is staggering. Never have I felt so immersed or so […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping […]

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

New Greens ad just dropped for the upcoming federal election. Straightforward, should sway a few voters I hope. youtu.be/j9-U4LjUqIM #auspol #Greens

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו @hnygd.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

For all those looking for messengers that are not controlled by organisations located in countries that are not or no longer democratic: Check out the completely open source #DeltaChat that also is completely independent of any centralised infrastructure. The project tries to be very […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025

“Wotcha got on for the weekend?” “Going to watch Battle Bacteria live” “YaWhatnow?” “Remember battle bots?” “Feh, remote controlled power tools, not proper robots” “Yeah, fair point. Anyway, it was only a matter of time. Lab A engineers bacteria that eat microplastics, Lab B engineers a […]

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