iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I missed this when it came out, maybe you did too. xkcd.com/3290

XKCD, text and explanation here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3290:_Trade

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Derick Rethans @derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

A very well camouflaged Little Owl. It's in a hole in a church tower, in a tiny village in North Norfolk. #photography #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse #NaturePhotography

In a wall made up of lichen encrusted stone blocks is a hole. In the hole is a black and white speckled bird with a bright yellow eye looking towards the right.

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 10/09/2026

Just an ordinary hand

Photo of Apple's keynote where they show the iPhone Duo held in one hand in its folded and its unfolded form. The right hand would never be able to hold it as shown, so below is an edit of what the hand would have to look like.

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

#women is a tab @ #bsidesfrankfurt - actually, a good thing!?! still funny that it has to be a tab.

screencap of the bsidesfrankfurt page showing "women" as a tab

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 29/08/2026

this isn’t to sing the praises of LLMs, far from it. just to say that the US frontiers are going to crash hard soon because they have no hope of making back all the money they borrowed and spent, even if they did somehow manage to capture the entire market. and even reining in their costs isn’t […]

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Just like one shouldn’t trust their privacy to a man literally called sugar mountain (Zuckerberg) one should think twice about trusting ash burner (Aschenbrenner) with their money. #germanlanguage www.ft.com/content/340bf9e7-0e67-4d…

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Back on a late #DBahn #dbahnsinn train, #trawelling at the speed of “spät“ 🥲 At least we‘re getting there though 🍀. #DB is improving!?!

Young DB train cartoon screaming AAaaaaa!

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Dusted off my #pebblewatch from 12 years ago!! Works again with the new pebble watch 2.0 app and ecosystem. What a wonderful device!

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Those are attack drones. From 404’s fear-and-loathing-in-Cannes coverage of the world’s largest advertising meetup, which features drinking rosé on yachts. A mind-boggling and entertainingly cynical read […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Drones over a beach say "AI" in vaguely menacing colors.

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Does anyone have a good lead on a (mostly/usable) #free #rss #reader app or website?

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part time xyla @xyla.zip · 25/06/2026

germans: “uuuuuhhh, we don’t really have proper high-speed rail!!!!” also germans:

At Freilassinger Bahnhof

Cargo train breaks the sound barrier
06.08.2018 | As of 09.01.2021, 18:57

Federal Police Freilassing/Press release

[a photo of a cargo train breaking a noise wall]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Are *you* "In The Weights"?¹ intheweights.com ¹If you are, it's not a good thing IMO. Worst. Timeline. Ever.

**Alt Text Description:**

A retro, pixel-art style digital card on a dark blue-purple background, resembling an old 8-bit video game screen.

At the top, in large blocky white pixel text: **"BOB RUDIS"**. Below that, in smaller white pixel text: **"CYBERSECURITY DATA SCIENTIST AND R AU..."** (truncated, likely "AUTHOR"). Centered beneath is yellow pixel text reading: **"> 764 STRENGTH · TOP 4% <"**.

Below a small gap, a section header reads **"GPT-5.5 SAYS"**, followed by a paragraph in gray pixel text: **"BOB RUDIS IS A CYBERSECURITY RESEARCHER, DATA SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, AND R PROGRAMMER KNOWN FOR SECURITY DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION."**

Next is a list of AI model names in white pixel text on the left, each paired with a horizontal colored bar on the right that appears to represent a strength or confidence score:

- **GPT-5.5** — white bar, nearly full
- **GPT-5.4 MINI** — bright yellow/lime green bar, full
- **CLAUDE OPUS 4.8** — coral/salmon bar, about 85% full
- **CLAUDE HAIKU 4.5** — yellow-green bar, about 70% full
- **GROK 4.20** — dark gray bar, about 65% full
- **GEMINI 3.1 LITE** — light blue bar, full
- **KIMI K2 0905** — teal-green bar, about 80% full
- **DEEPSEEK V4** — blue bar, full
- **LLAMA 3.3 70B** — very dark bar, almost black/empty-looking
- **LLAMA 3.2 1B** — very dark bar, almost black/empty-looking
- **GLM 4.7 FLASH** — pink bar, full
- **MISTRAL 3.2 24B** — orange/amber bar, about 75% full
- **QWEN3 8B** — purple bar, about 60% full

At the bottom, a slightly lighter blue-purple banner contains white pixel text: **"IN THE WEIGHTS .COM"**.

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Andy Piper @andypiper.org · 17/06/2026

I'm appalled to see the European Commission apparently embracing closed source, commercial, ID and age verification mandatory, social media today - in the very face of the technology sovereignty and online freedoms debates. I think they've just thrown away the greatest opportunity to be the […]

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Wait… these things are bi… directional!?! 😅

Photo of an ICE train with a rainbow pride stripe.

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Damn #Berrys , the new #avocados the real reason for American financial ruin!

A Washington Post article about Americans not being to afford berries.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Met Gala VIP toilet, installed outside the Met Museum in New York. A $100,000 ticket gets you fashion, glamour, and apparently the full Amazon worker experience. 💋

Satirical protest installation outside the Met Museum in New York for the 2026 Met Gala. A fake red-and-white “Met Gala VIP toilet” sign, styled like official museum signage, says it was installed in honor of Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos and tells attendees it is “good enough for his staff.” Below the sign, a white basket is filled with empty plastic water bottles, referencing reports and lawsuits about Amazon workers and delivery drivers urinating in bottles because of workplace pressure and lack of bathroom access. The piece targets Bezos’s role as Met Gala sponsor and honorary co-chair, turning the $100,000-a-ticket event into a sharp joke about wealth, celebrity, labor conditions, and who gets treated as disposable.

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CyberFlâneur @john380.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

Kobo new lease on life with replacement battery. #reuse #kobo

Photo of a kobo ereader opened to show replacement battery.

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