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Transfem Non-binary Aro Bi | Progressive Left Game, software & web dev from Romania. Interested in science, politics, humanities and more. Against all forms of […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ techhub.social/@alextecplayz, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 10h
@didzisrudmanis.bsky.social sleeper agent account activated to upsell an OF? Blocked.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 18h
@leavex @thatgiga simplest uBlock Origin rule to filter out the Nazis: x.com##* add it in 'My filters' tab, on a new line, and then access the site. thank me later 🙂
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 18h
I tried out GPT-9900 "Totality" RTX Pro Ultra-Thinking 1024B and it exploited my brain, ran Minecraft in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on it, and locked me in a VM or something, it "restored" my access to Mastodon, plz help Trust me bro please believe me GPT-9900 "Totality" RTX Pro […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026
[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 02/10/2026
I wonder if there's a 'market' for selling website templates (11ty, Jekyll, maybe other SSGs too) that are specifically JS-less client-side (e.g. portfolio websites, personal blogs, etc.). like, specifically NOT wordpress, blogspot, expressly no AI, etc., would that be an up-and-coming niche? […]
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 02/10/2026
the same pricks were hiring suckers willing to provide them with entire codebases of production-grade game projects a little while ago. lol, lmao even.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 02/10/2026
www.micro1.ai, an AI training lab is hiring people (contract-based), and they give you $140 if you send them 30 selfies / personal photos from the last 5 years, and 10 short clips. $140, that's how much your facial data costs to these fuckers that will train AI on it.
a job posting for AI Facial Data Collection Contributor – Remote, where they list the salary as 1000 EUR/month, even though they explicitly say that they give you $140, and only after you give them those photos and videos.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
any artist who primarily uses generative "AI" to make their art is a poser. any artist who cannot fathom giving up the use of a technology that came out like three years ago in their art practice is a fucking sell-out. there simply is not enough material wealth in art to justify such naked laziness.
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kcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]
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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect @bottosson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Made some progress on windows for my relaxing building game Island Architect! Placing windows now makes actual holes in the building! Will also make it possible to vary the window style, add details and more! Also glass roofs for greenhouses. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiegamedev
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 26/09/2026
I'm wondering if phone manufacturers have long ago lost the plot when it comes to storage use after shooting videos with phone cameras? Because I have just converted 12.4 GBs of 1152p30 videos from my mother's Galaxy A22 to 720p30 (granted, it's 720p but it's good enough!), and the total […]
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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
our MNT Station mini campaign has concluded, a big thank you to everyone who participated! www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mn…
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MNT Station
A modular, open hardware desktop computer and server
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
🇪🇺🚨 Next Tuesday, a dirty deal on #ChatControl 2.0 looms, allowing PERMANENT mass scanning of our private chats (so-called #SearchPlans). 😱 Speak up and email your MEPs NOW to stop this: ℹ️ chatcontrol.wtf ✍️ fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national…
Screenshot of an info page (chatcontrol.eu) warning about “Chat Control 2.0.” A highlighted line says a potentially final and decisive trilogue takes place on Tuesday, 29 September. It warns EU governments want “search plans” to scan “parts of a service” (e.g., all group chats or all EU users), effectively mass scanning of private chats. It cites that the Council’s own Legal Service warned this could be “general and indiscriminate” and likely illegal. It also warns about keeping the “voluntary” Chat Control 1.0 as a loophole, mentioning high false positives and cases affecting minors.
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Nura @postmarketos.org · 25/09/2026
And the first postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference has started! Don't worry if you couldn't make it to the event physically, we're streaming it online at streaming.media.ccc.de/pmosc/5053-2. You can ask questions to the speakers on Matrix at #conference:postmarketos.org and IRC at […]
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 23/09/2026
Oh fuck me... The last spike (at nearly 6AM GMT time) is 45.138.12.30, a Lithuanian botnet, all 525 requests at that time. The other spikes I had already blocked yesterday. It's a continuous cat-and-mouse game with this bullshit, botnets, CN IPs and […] [Original post on techhub.social]
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penny @hexmani.ac · 22/09/2026
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 21/09/2026
and with that, 67 accounts deleted. I only have 170-ish accounts now. Jesus...
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 21/09/2026
LMAO, the G2A account deletion confirmation link uses localhost instead of id.g2a.com.
G2A.COM 	World's Largest Marketplace for Digital Entertainment

Hello!
One more step before you leave G2A.COM - please confirm you want to delete your account: 
Confirm button

Remember: your account will be deleted after 14 days on condition that you won't sign in to G2A.COM during that time.
If you didn't send the request to delete the account, just ignore this email.

Best wishes,
G2A Team

the confirm button has a link starting with http://localhost/ instead of https://id.g2a.com/
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 20/09/2026
Oh you are shitting me You can't even see Amazon reviews anymore without an account.
the Amazon customer reviews section of a product, but there are no reviews visible, only the rating, and a notice that I should sign in if I want to read  customer reviews.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 19/09/2026
LFG Oradea number 1 with 5820 points! #tramem honestly kinda wish Cluj-Napoca would also join this competition, it's pretty fun.
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Joakim Melin @joacim.mastodon.melin.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 18/09/2026
the lion doesn't concern himself with top/bottom or dom/sub dynamics, the lion enjoys it regardless.
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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automatti…
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 18/09/2026
@Sarahp motherfucker...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 17/09/2026
@krutonium amogus irl impostor sus :amogus:
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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 16/09/2026
this shit is awesome and i don't wanna risk some sort of bullshit international terrorism charges so i won't do anything this info and i am absolutely not encouraging anyone to do anything with this information but i think it is very important information to have
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 16/09/2026
gotta love useful idiots (or well, more specifically meat puppets) using AI slop to draft up a stupid issue on Google's Issue Tracker to harden Android's kernel to the point of disallowing root apps completely... "[Feature Request] Zero-Trust Execution Architecture & Hardware-Level Root […]
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 15/09/2026
And on a bigger rant about CVs and job applications, I had to complete an English test to assess my skills (on Google Docs of all places, of course 🙄) for a company I had already worked for last year. One of my gripes isn't necessarily re-testing my English skills, but the last question was […]
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 15/09/2026
@Gurre worse, because I don't think this is crypto.com, just some other site named CryptoCom, because it tells me that if I didn't request this, I would have to *CALL THEM*. Are you fuckin kidding me, what the fuck do you mean I'd have to call you if I didn't […] [Original post on techhub.social]
CryptoCom: Your one time passcode is [Redacted]. If this was not requested by you, contact us on (Romanian phone number)
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 15/09/2026
I LOVE HAVING MY PHONE NUMBER HARVESTED BY SCAMMERS TO SIGN ME UP FOR SHIT, WHEN I UPLOAD MY CV!! the first one is a sign up for CryptoCom, second is someone trying to log in to my Revolut account.
a cropped screenshot of two sms messages, one trying to sign me up for CryptoCom, another to log in to Revolut
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 15/09/2026
there were rumours for some time, but now it's official, Half-Life: Alyx was ported to ARM64/aarch64 so it can run on the Steam Frame natively store.steampowered.com/news/app/546…
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Half-Life: Alyx - Half-Life: Alyx Updated for Steam Frame - Steam News
This is a major update that adds support for Steam Frame standalone gameplay.
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IntoTheBlue @taraba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
« The #EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. » #Floch #camera #surveillance #police www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 14/09/2026
no dice. back in August someone managed to open an app with Lepton on a NVIDIA Jetson devkit x.com/ActinisHQ/status/208365783660…
Actinis @ActinisHQ

Well, it's not possible to run it "as-is", but we managed to run it on the Jetson Orin Nano DevKit. Geekbench doesn't work yet, though (it refuses to start the CPU benchmark)
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 14/09/2026
I have already hit a snag lol 😔 I had to comment out line 23 in the script because setpgid could not be found, it's seemingly not the bash built-in setpgid. commenting that out... $ ./lepton start /home/alextec/Library/Games/SteamFlatpak/Lepton/liblepton/utils.sh: line 85: steamvr: command not […]
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 14/09/2026
hmm... how to run it...
/home/alextec/Library/Games/SteamFlatpak/Lepton/liblepton/utils.sh: line 85: steamvr: command not found
Usage: ./fauxdroid verb

Valid verbs with options:
  start [context]
  shell [context]
  attach [context]
  kill [context]
  kill_all
  cleanup [context]
  cleanup_all
  logcat [context]
  install_app [context]
  perfetto [context]
  ps
  list_containers
  bootchart [context]
  collect_logs [context]
  help
  unreal_vr_test
  sysbake
  extract [context]
  start_early_debug [context]
  gdb_server [context]
  lldb_server [context]
  gdb_attach [context]
  kill_gdb_server [context]
  kill_lldb_server [context]

Where [context] is the name of a Lepton instance (listed by 'lepton ps')
Example workflow

First, in one terminal window, start a Lepton dev container:

    ./fauxdroid start

If no context name is given, it defaults to 'dev'.
You can customize this by passing a second argument as a context name.
This even allows you to start multiple dev containers at once:Where [context] is the name of a Lepton instance (listed by 'lepton ps')
Example workflow

First, in one terminal window, start a Lepton dev container:

    ./fauxdroid start

If no context name is given, it defaults to 'dev'.
You can customize this by passing a second argument as a context name.
This even allows you to start multiple dev containers at once:

    ./fauxdroid start dev2

Next, list the currently running containers, along with their container IP addresses, and the port forward for adb:
You can use this port number (usually 5555) to connect via adb connect column:5555

    ./fauxdroid ps

To get a shell on one of these containers, attach to it:

    ./fauxdroid attach dev

To install an app onto one of these containers:

    ./fauxdroid install_app dev /path/to/game.apk

Note that you can enable renderdoc support by adding '--renderdoc' to the end of the above.
To kill the containers, either kill them by name or use kill_all:

    ./fauxdroid kill_all

To wipe out all baked state (typically unnecessary) use cleanup_all:

    ./fauxdroid cleanup_all
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 14/09/2026
The README.md file, the Lepton repo is not public yet, I don't know if we'll even see it, but Lepton itself is MIT-licensed, while the AOSP image which is composed of AOSP code, Waydroid device and hardware configurations, and Boringdroid, is GPL-3.0
# Introduction

**Lepton** is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Android to run on the Linux operating system.  **Most users should use Lepton provided by the Steam Client itself.**

**Lepton** has made some design decisions that set it apart from other Android containerization projects:
  * **Lepton** runs as a non-root user without requiring any rootful setup or helpers.
  * Every process inside **Lepton** is running as the same non-root user.  There is no enforced isolation between apps, each app instead should run within its own Android container.
  * **Lepton** disables various Android services that are not required to run games possibly breaking compatibility with some applications.
  * **Lepton** is not designed for general Android use, instead opting to keep the bare minimum functionality required to launch into games.
  * **Lepton** caches various pieces of state to accelerate Android userspace boot time.
  * **Lepton** is intended to help game developers bring their VR Android games to the Steam Frame.  Other usecases are possible, but were not the focus of development and may lack polish.

**Lepton** also includes a variety of features designed to help game developers bring their VR Android games to **Steam**:
  * **Lepton** mounts various libraries from the host OS:
    * Graphics drivers (mesa, zink, etc...)
    * Steam/Steamworks libraries
    * Vulkan layers (foveated rendering injector, renderpass optimizer)
  * **Lepton** supports integration with various debuggers (`strace`, `gdb`, `lldb`, `renderdoc`, etc...) and profilers (`perfetto`).
  * **Lepton** hides the flatscreen window by default, but can show it if necessary for development

**Lepton** incorporates patches and components from the Waydroid, halium and hybris projects in the building of the Android container root filesystem.
The Android root filesystem is therefore released under a GPL-3.0 license (see [LICENSE.AOSP.image](LICENSE.AOSP.image), while the compatibility tool itself is released under the MIT license, (see [LICENSE.lepton](LICENSE.lepton)).

# Repository layout

This repository is split between two pieces:

* `image`: This builds an Android root filesystem.  This root filesystem is the container image within which games are launched.

* `compat_tool`: This is the containerization tool that Steam invokes to launch a game within the image built previously. You can find more information about it in it's [readme](compat_tool/README.md)The Lepton AOSP image uses source code from the following opensource projects with their own licenses:

* Android Opensource Project: https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/licenses
* Waydroid device and hardware configurations:
    - https://github.com/waydroid/android_vendor_waydroid/tree/lineage-18.1/LICENSES
    - https://github.com/waydroid/android_hardware_waydroid http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    - https://github.com/waydroid/android_device_waydroid_waydroid/tree/lineage-18.1 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Boringdroid: https://github.com/boringdroid/boringdroid/blob/master/LICENSE

The AOSP image, as a product of the combination of these opensource projects, is released under a GPL-3.0 license.Copyright (c) 2025, Valve Corporation
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or
other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
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DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
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ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 14/09/2026
Steam's Lepton Android on Linux compatibility layer can now be downloaded from the Steam client, I wonder if it works...
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 12/09/2026
and if you might be asking, how big is the map? yes. the map is big. 2911x2911 big. one clue to how I did this (I don't want to ruin the surprise in part 3) is with UI nodes 😉
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AlexTECPlayz @alextecplayz.com · 12/09/2026
bit of a late #ScreenshotSaturday but here's a sneak peek to stuff I have been working on #PRISONIA since my Part 2 blog 👀 - customizable elevator floors and walls - the manager mode bar can be dragged to any portion of the screen - tilemap shadows using 2D […] [Original post on techhub.social]
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Rose @rosewsgf.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
This take feels a bit like coping, but as someone who is still on an old PC, I'm all for it. Give me more games that I can run comfortably! […]
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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
RE: social.lol/@brennan/117253142951102… I want people to understand, more than anything, that they can create something like this themselves. I took the hard work of others and merely compiled it. I spent a couple hours writing some CSS styles and Markdown that I turned into HTML […]
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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Cancer-striken Joe Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorials - Irish Star www.irishstar.com/news/politics/can…
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Cancer-striken Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorial
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden were compared as both attended seperate September 11 memorial ceremornies, with many pointing out Trump's closed eyes
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses
A bin with some ad busting layover stuck to it. Under the ray ban and Meta logo it reads "smart glasses amnesty bin" next to a pictogram of a person throwing the glasses into a bin. 

Further text reads: Wearing hidden camera glasses massively increases the likelihood of people thinking you're a nonce

DROP THEM IN AND WALK AWAY WITH WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR DIGNITY
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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Decided to make a dedicated page for this. stopomarchy.neocities.org
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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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born2chill @b2c.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Hello follow admins, since there's this spam account sign-up wave going around I wanted to mention the little tool we built again: git.fediverse.foundation/ff_pub/fed… The spam sign-ups don't seem to ever complete the signup email validation process. That's not visible in […]
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Stephen Sekula @steve.mastodon.cooleysekula.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Dear Fediverse, The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or SuperCDMS, experiment is bridged into the #fediverse from Bluesky. They’ve suddenly become very active again today, and I promised when this happened I would advertise them to the […] [Original post on mastodon.cooleysekula.net]
The SuperCDMS experiment after completing construction and heading into operations in 2026.
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