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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

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Just had a 5:30pm surprise CBC interview about leap seconds: www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/science/leap… I didn't really have much of an opinion on leap seconds until I talked through it with the journalist. But wow, leap seconds are such a bad idea! What a […]

Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

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Cis women, If you have some sort of "Women's Group", or even just a circle of women who go and get lunch together, intentionally and explicitly invite trans women. A lot of us are reluctant about proactively inviting ourselves to places that we might encounter TERFs.

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René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rene-mobile.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

My LG TV has finally been shame-banned to be on the IoT VLAN instead of the normal LAN. It meant some additional (now very specific) firewall rules, although my #OPNsense UDP Broadcast Relay config already takes care of mDNS/Chromecast/etc. It is now also explicitly banned from bypassing my […]

Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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One Irish team football player showing he has ethics, by refusing to play Israel. Ireland really should not be legitimising the Isreal genocidal state. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/202… […]

Ted @desfontain.es · 25/09/2026

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RE: hachyderm.io/@tedted/11732611961325… Congratulations to the two people who guessed "something else". The right answer is MinInt64, or -9223372036854775808, because why wouldn't you cast the largest possible floating-point value into the smallest possible integer one?

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Important heads up - tomorrow Saturday is the 2026 European Tram Driver Championships! I also appreciate participation by the European city of Melbourne, Australia. An introduction by The Tim Traveller www.youtube.com/watch?v=226D_11DS_8 and I think you can watch it tomorrow via […]

Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

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The prompt was "how I explain my job to my family". My first version "well, you're both solid state physicists, you know what a lattice is, just add 765 dimensions to the stuff you've worked on" was sadly rejected.

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[Article: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable] “According to the analysis, anyone walking through the city with the glasses would have to inform passers-by verbally in advance or even wear high-visibility vests with inscriptions to comply with the rulings of the European Court of […]

Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

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“Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty, spoke in support of people in Gaza and the West Bank while performing at the MetLife Stadium earlier this month. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Messina Touring Group, promoter of the US leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, confirmed that Macklemore […]

Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

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After a long time considering it, I finally got Audiobookshelf installed, and it’s working very nicely. So far no major annoyances, and it has not yet prompted me to enable useless AI features. Yesterday I also got one of my kids set up with an explicit subset of my audiobooks which was easy […]

Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

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Do you like Satisfactory? Do you like Noita? Have I got a game for you! This is Sandustry, a side scrolling factory sim with Noita style voxel physics. Ridiculously fun game, although I hit the end of the text tree after about 22 hours. The game is still in […] [Original post on twipped.social]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

flares, ranked from worst to best: 1. cloudflare(...) 2. fibromyalgia flareup(...)

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/08/2026

Sad that the successor project to Vim — a project which loudly encouraged its users to donate to a charity to help AIDS victims in Uganda — has become an advocate for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Just including the DHH endorsement could have been a mistake, but this seems quite explicit […]

Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

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> At the heart of the machine is a powerful magnet that floats freely in a vacuum chamber, held in place by another magnet above it. It levitates in order to confine the plasma around it, meaning no support structures interfere with the super-heated gas. Neat! […]

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

since that “aliexpress is disconnecting your bluetooth headphones” story seems to be spreading more widely: the only new here is that aliexpress has a big in their browser fingerprinting code. What they’re doing here is (1) the same shit literally every large website is doing these days […]

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Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/11712809151… I am once again begging people to stop sharing xitter posts on fedi and bsky. You are expanding the platform's influence.

Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

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After leading the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce – the group trying to improve trust & safety of the protocol – for two years, I've decided to step down as lead, and also exit the Social Web Community Group entirely. (I remain in the Social Web Working Group as an Invited Expert, but I'm […]

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I could now disable my old hacky custom backup automation in Home Assistant and just have it daily back up to a network share and automatically clean up old backups. I did have to resort to Wireshark to debug NFS, but I can live with that :-) (and the NFS problem turned out to be entirely self […]

René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rene-mobile.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

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I just watched the #BlackHat #OpenAI #HuggingFace talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY) and have ... mixed feelings, to be polite about it: 1. I didn't hear a "we messed up and are sorry about our mistakes", but this was another marketing talk dressed up to look like an innocent […]

Jonathan Perkin @jperkin.federate.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

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Ok, what's changed very recently in Mastodon land? Suddenly my instance is constantly filling up with stupid amounts of data in system/cache/media_attachments. My daily cron jobs to clean up appear to no longer be enough. Previously it was very static, with almost always around 20GB free […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Kids these days don't know that erasers used to be so bad. When I was little, pencils had these pink rubber erasers that were a pleasing color but absolutely terrible at their job. They'd just leave a huge smear, they'd disintegrate quickly and get pink shreds everywhere, they'd turn rock hard […]

daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

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Anyone using HTTP/2 server push with libcurl? If you use this feature in libcurl, please let us know. It is being deprecated all over, including in specs, browsers and servers and I believe the time has come for us to drop it from libcurl in the future as well. So I'm curious to know if anyone […]

Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

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[Warning: serious phone/system architecture nerdery ahead…] Yesterday, I briefly mentioned "adjunct processors" for phone switches without saying much about what they are or how they came about. It's an interesting history, and I think it goes back to the 2ESS. (ESS, in AT&T-speak, is […]

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026

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1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"

The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.

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Kay Elúvian @kayeluvian.the.voiceover.bar.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I'm not even remotely sorry.

A photograph of actor Matt Damon looking into the camera at an official event, wearing a blue jacket, white button shirt, and blue tie with white dots. The photo has been copied to appear twice. The one on the left is unaltered and labelled 'Matt Damon'. The one on the right has been altered to look shiny and reflective, with the caption reading 'Gloss Damon'.

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Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I think I figured out why @ivory keeps claiming posts are deleted when I try to interact with them. They have all been posts over a year old. My instance is set to purge any foreign posts more than a year old. I think @Mastodon is reporting these posts as removed from its cache, and Ivory is […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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I wish it worked

4 frame comic. an adult in a brown sweater tells Stephie : you're calling people transphobic to silence them! She replies, over three frames : It's funny you say that because in my experience, literally no transphobe in existence has-- EVER -- shut up.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD project is up on CrowdSupply! subscribe to get updates and show your interested in the project, we're very excited to bring it to life :D www.crowdsupply.com/fully-automated…

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Glasgow Interface Explorer revD

The new and improved open source multitool for digital electronics

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@veronica/116942579… This reminded me of my university network project where we had a use after free (probably) bug, so in the end we ended up just disabling the free call for the project. Since we had huge amounts of RAM (32 MB as I recall) that wasn’t a big […]

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️ @theevilskeleton.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

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New article, although this one is a controversial one based on the situation of GNOME Calendar and Linux Mint. I present to you: How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers? tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-… #FOSS […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea… I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and […]

Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

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Live your life in such a way that this meme doesn't immediately come to mind when you die.

Grim Reaper using a claw machine meme, captioned 'Ann Widdecombe? Nice'

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

I don't get why anybody is listening to Jacob Applebaum. My cat has about the same expertise in cryptography, and has never been credibly accused of sexual abuse. She's also a lot cuter.

Photo of a donut with an opening showing the pitch black interior. The void has eyes

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

“…majority of platform users were automatically opted in” Whenever a journalist uses “opted in” instead of the many better alternatives, a kitten looses it favorite toy for a day*! * Well known fact!

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Lol. LMFAO, even. Men literally count the number of times a woman uses the word "literally" in order to avoid going to ther^H^H^H looking at the content of a blog post. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/0…

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[TLS] Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-08 (Ends 2026-07-08)

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I strongly dislike the privacy aspect of red-light cameras, but the amount of Dublin drivers who pass red lights is completely out of control, so I think it's worth the tradeoff. For context, I walk for around 60 minutes every workday in Dublin, and I don't think there has been a day without […]