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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Fash" is such a usefully flexible word for those who want to do violence to their political enemies

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also could they please take every penny spent having an AI book your hotel and spend it on folding laundry?

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Dan Piponi @dpiponi.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Is there a word for continuing to watch a TV show just to see how bad it can get? Like Dark Matter.

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don't understand what I'm supposed to get from religion. I already have morals.

Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Why is it so hard to download a frickin zone file? C'mon now! It's my domain! #DNS #registrarsupport

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don't understand what I'm supposed to get from religion. I already have morals.

Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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"On Tuesday, the IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered an investigation of the [documentary] film [NAZA] to be carried out. Reportedly, the IDF will be seeking the assistance of the security agency Shin Bet in their inquiries, and legal action may be taken against the film-makers." #Gordon […]

Richard Michael Blaber @rmblaber1956.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

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www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/o…. #FarRight #politicians really don't like #Press #freedom, do they, except when the Press say things they agree with. It's the same with #freespeech - it's always freedom of #speech for the […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No clue how the system, which already struggles with getting enough reviewers, is gonna handle this. www.anthropic.com/research/cla... Or, rather, I suspect I do know, which is everyone secretly (or not?) having ai do their reviews.

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

community.signalusers.org/t/develop… "Self-evident" lol. Fuck this anti-choice bullshit. And the fact that the thread is locked is just 🙄. I really hate these extremist mindsets that insist that something can only be one or the other. Why not both? Why not allow for both […]

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There needs to be a secure, free, private, and — by default — easy to use OS for the desktop.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Any chance you'd want your animals to come to my place and poop for a while?"

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The problem with toxicity as an 'antidote' to stupidity is that it 'works' even when the user is stupid themselves.

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I hate that word 'verification'. It doesn't mean what it ought to, and perhaps used to. Now it means a kind of badge of... idk... honour or something, rather than a badge that says you are who you say you are. (Screenshot is from freefold.social "Ghost […] [Original post on noc.social]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I'm on the hunt for someone who is not a 'computer person', and has fairly average reading skills, as a co-author or subeditor for the Disintermedia blog; disintermedia.net.nz My goal for Disintermedia has always been to explain digital rights issues, and rights-respecting software […]

Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

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Boosts mean I want to bring people's attention to the boosted, not necessarily that I agree with it.

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

A few weeks back I was wailing and gnashing my teeth, about all the perfectly functional hardware that will go to e-waste in Aotearoa because of the 3G turnoff. In response, someone (can't remember who, sorry!) was schooling me on all the reasons why it's impractical to re-purpose obsolete […]

Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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I have a suggestion about inviting people to speak at tech conferences. It's particularly focused on people who sometimes get described as "problematic". I don't mean self-identified white supremacists (like DHH), or people's whose behaviour is unambiguously abusive. I mean all the edge cases […]

Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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For a while now I've been using 'hard right' and 'far right' to distinguish between corporatists and other market extremists, on the one hand, and crypto-fascists and open fascists on the other. But the more I think about it, the more the phrase 'far right' seems to miss the point. The problem […]

Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

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Why is everyone more negative on the "freedom platforms"?

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Ok, that's enough computer for now

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chromewebstore.google.com/detail/a+… Why tf does this extension need to know my email address!!!!!!!??????????

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Why is the font size consistently too small on #Mastodon no matter what I do?

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I'm trying to increase the font size on my computer. Is this what it feels like to be old?

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I hate code linters. I don't want my code to be checked to conform to a particular style unless I'm trying to be super anonymous. Idk why they're so common.

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I'm actually technically a furry, except my fursona happens to be Homo sapiens.

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Finally, corpos are starting to see sense.

"It doesn't talk to your phone. It just washes clothes, really well"
[more marketing]

LAMONA
Quality without complexity.

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nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Agender I think (taking the whole #gender identity thing seriously for a moment), a lot of apparently "cis het" people are actually this. It probably depends on politics and/or religion. Many of those who subscribe to Abrahamic faiths tend to believe in strong […]

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RE: noc.social/@light/117338312812986634 Personally, I don't find software freedom as put forward by free software advocates such as @rms particularly useful at this point in my life. My programming skills are far below the level at which I could fork and maintain any of the software […]

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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 25/09/2026

There’s a new way to break #RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/th… #cybersecurity #encryption

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Light @light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I propose that the amount of information entropy encoded in one word in the @eff large wordlist shall be called "1 eff", equal to approx. 12.9 bits. Thus, a standard diceware passphrase using that wordlist contains about 6 or 7 effs of entropy. #cryptography #informationtheory

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RE: noc.social/@light/117327727704661080 I wonder if you could or someone has already made a Freenet-based virtual relay for Nostr, like hyper-nostr (Pear/Hypercore/Dat)

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> Is it slander if it's true? It is if you don't explain why you think it's true.

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Consequences. Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants | Israel | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/… #ILpol #Palestine #Israel

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