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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Gender: Colleen @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social · 12h

Another absolute doozy: The ridiculous sexist attitude towards the series being an action/adventure? No, depicting the same amount of action that was in the original SHOUJO MANGA would not somehow make it a shonen? Women can write action sequences too which is evident in the WORK YOU'RE ADAPTING?

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Gender: Colleen @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social · 12h

i know some people on here don't use twitter anymore but I would highly recommend reading the absolutely DISASTROUS interviews coming from the production staff of From Far Away... they clearly don't fucking care about this series one bit and just thought they could get away with coasting on an IP

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Now if glibc could remove non-UTF-8 behaviors that are obsolete but can still be triggered by mistake. (To get an idea of major distro reality: Ubuntu is young enough to have always defaulted to UTF-8, Red Hat switched in 2002 and Debian, unreasonably late, in 2007.)

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Ironic how the term "trickle down" is now mostly used to describe how the increase in price of certain goods causes inflation across the prices of a much broader set.

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Princess Viola @princessviola.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

HOLY SHIT DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE IS FINALLY FREE #macross

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Highly motivated to seek folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliance on FreeBSD 2.2.x, resold by ISPs in the US, Europe, and Asia (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A live Whistle InterJet, next to a Whistle-branded coffee cup. About the size of a large toaster, it features a green LCD screen and a blue rubbery keypad. The LED in the upper left is orange because the unit is running on its own internal UPS battery.

The case of a unit is open, showing a vertical mainboard with two 32 MB SIMMs, a 486 covered by a heat sink, and a transcend 8 GB IDE flash. The main board is plugged into a horizontal backplane on the bottom.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The good folks at #Gentoo are looking for new infrastructure sponsors. They're mostly looking for rack-space, power and connectivity and they'll provide the hardware. Preferably outside the US, but not necessarily. www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infr…

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

One interesting detail I noticed is that the animators chose to have no shading on the characters, only lines and flat colors. It makes the aesthetic reminiscent of '70s and '80s animation from the likes of Don Bluth, Ralph Bakshi and John Halas. I think it's a deliberate choice given the fairy […]

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Kai @gnarly-parker.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

🐜⚔️🏇🏼 "Not Now, Giant Mutant Ant Apocalypse" was released at the @deadline_demoparty Oldschool Graphics competition (2nd place) #Amiga #Demoscene #PixelArt

Fantasy pixel art piece showing an armored horseman facing two giant ants in the mountains while two other persons on foot try to escape the monsters.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This reminded me that behind a piece of art there is always intention, the human desire to communicate something and doing so in a deliberate way. There are a hundred surreal, melanconic metaphors in this song, but the most important, the one that hits like a punch as the song ends, requires you […]

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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

How to use dithered brushes in GIMP (and have it behave like it would in traditional monochrome drawing programs) triapul.cz/automa/gimp_dither #gimp #tutorial #monochrome @GIMP

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Gender: Colleen @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sources saying Noriko gets hit by a truck instead of exploded by a bomb in the From Far Away anime.... They're censoring every old shoujo that are getting anime like crazy and people wonder why new shoujo can go as hard anymore

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This is a good reminder that if you buy a used CPU (or entire computer) one of the things you should be doing right away is wiping the TPM. For CPUs it's because of the rise of so-called firmware TPMs on board and it's usually always safe to do so, given you're essentially making a new build […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I've had the fortune of never interacting with the Harry Potter books but there was a thing that always stumped me about them. I knew very little of what they were about, but I knew they took place in a boarding school and I couldn't see why that would be interesting. My grandmother went to a […]

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I find the metaphor of AI as the first dose of cocaine you get for free to get you hooked on unconvincing. It would be more accurate if the stuff was cut with dishwasher powder, the pusher had to go to a loan shark to buy it, the narcos were selling below price for some unfathomable reason and […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

There are no trains from Schiphol to Amsterdam Centraal today, a lot of tourists are going to get lost

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post that mentioned malicious incompetence (which I can't find anymore :( ) and the concept resonated a lot with me. I think I have a good example in what is happening in my home country as we speak. Italy has a far-right government that has done its utmost to stem […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The extraordinary Randell Jesup gave me one of the original stickers which were supposed to go on Commodore Amiga 1080 monitors before the company decided to use the rainbow check-mark logo instead, so these were left unused. This has instantly become one of my most […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Gender: Colleen @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW did you know there's an entire manga magazine dedicated to feminism?? AND it's inclusive?! youtu.be/if6D9dSPZaw

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Don't you fear you'll be left behind? No, fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there […]

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/09/2026

Firefly Wedding is a shojo romance that takes cuffing season literally aftermath.site/firefly-weddin...

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Paul @plwt.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It is a big day for #Firefox with the release of Firefox 157. I have been involved in a small part of this update for quite a few months now and I am really pleased it is available for more people to use. This update brings some subtle interface changes as well as bringing back compact mode and […]

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

man, ten years ago, millennials used to be so good at killing industries. can’t we get together and do one more, for old times sake?

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[Foxconn workers' suicides, poetry] I had heard the story of Xu Lizhi and the other Foxconn workers who took their lifes but I did not know that he had left some poems behind. I won't mince words, this stuff is just as beautiful as it's heartbreaking, shows how our objects of everyday use are […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

If you think we have it bad with repairs of electronics and whatnot here's a quote, from a Ukrainian soldier, in a warzone, about a US-made artillery piece: “However, by the time you actually receive a part—say, a sensor—the gun might have been sitting idle for six months. And you can’t try to […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I would like to say that what I hate the most about the AI bubble is the environmental impact of it. Or the immorality and banditry that underpins the training process of LLMs. Or the social impact. Or even that a significant portion of the people involved in it are crooks and fascists. But no […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I'm really keen on trying "Ambrosia Sky" and this article by John Walker (of TPS fame) just made me even more interested. Outside of the gameplay elements I can feel echoes of "In Other Waters" in terms of story, which is another indie game I enjoyed a lot […]

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nia (cia asset) @nia.is.fckn.gay · 28/09/2026

I'm officially lead of the rust library team! i don't have anything corny to say about it I'm just viciously proud of myself rust-lang.org/governance/t...

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Library team

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Mabus [Comms Open] @mabus808.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spice Beholder. Known to lead powerful drug cartels in desert regions. #sketch-a-day #art #graphite #beholder #DnD #RPG #fantasy #CreatureDesign #dune #spice #SandWorm

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

As my daughter (12) is now almost as tall as I am, I realized that I really miss carrying my children ina sling, or on my shoulders. It was such a short time.

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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Creatures: John Carpenter's #comic #creatures #mobilek

Brank tests his own blood. It's ok

Brank: "This confirms I am human. Now..."

Brank tests Kit's blood. It's ok.

Brank and Kit are about to test Tony's blood.

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Perilous bike ride today

2 signs by the side of a road: one reads “pets must be on a leash “ and the other one “caution tarantula crossing”

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Given how people treat LLMs as the second coming one wonders why they still call it inference and not deference

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I've seen very little reporting around Google cutting the recovery window for deleted images from 60 days to 30 days, and it makes you wonder. Why would a company with Google's resources do that? Maybe they need to desperately cut costs because they're spending $490 million a day on AI and […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

From the article: «The technology giant sent the project’s developer, a unit of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a notice citing force majeure, according to people familiar with the situation. Rather than trying to walk away as the site’s main tenant, Oracle is attempting to put off payments should the […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

One of the best comments in some of the code I maintain: /* Please don't use this. If you have to use this, you know who you are. */

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Riding bikes is - by itself - an extremely safe activity. It's the cars that are dangerous.

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