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I used to be on #GooglePlus I have never been on Twitter Now I am here.. Since turning on publicly searchable posts, my posts now (mostly) delete after 2 weeks […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@xdydx on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 8h
We’re All in the Same Boat – Artwork — by Banksy in Lowestoft, UK 🇬🇧 streetartutopia.com/2025/04/20/stre… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
We’re All in the Same Boat – Artwork by Banksy in Lowestoft, UK
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
In a hilarious development I never saw coming, I think that some of my astrophotography is going to be published in the Wall Street Journal?!
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
This is the kind of behaviour X enables and amplifies. It says a lot about the values of those who engage in it. But what does it say about our democratically elected representatives who continue legitimising this platform because they don't want to lose their followers? What values are they […]
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10h
It's hard for healthy people to imagine what this is like...I spent about 2 years almost 100% bedbound and it is hell. Showered about once every 10 days because that's all that my energy budget allowed. Some people in this severely ill state experience partial spontaneous recovery but some […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9h
I heard a young man in a poorly lit back alley ask a young woman “do you want to feed ducks for two weeks, and get paid for it?” This is the first time a young man’s proposition has ever caught my attention.
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16h
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom. Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)
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Glyph @glyph.im · 8h
I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's […]
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Jesus Christ, AI vulnerabilit reports. It's just too much. Too much of everything. Exploit descriptions are too many words. Proofs of Concept are too many options, too much code, doing too much. Analysis output is too verbose, too many sentences, too much "this is why it matters". Sure, it […]
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment Week 5: Program Startup How does a program start? "Uhm... you write 'main()' and that's it!" Not so fast! The C startup routine needs to set up the environment and moves arguments etc. into the right registers for main to be called, which then […]
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Gegen Rechts Bunt statt Braun @gr-bsb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Faktencheck: Kein rechter Fake-Account-Rückgang nach Yandex-Angriff ift.tt/JiF24b1 #Volksverpetzer #GRBsB
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Faktencheck: Kein rechter Fake-Account-Rückgang nach Yandex-Angriff
Die Ukraine hat russische Yandex-Server zerstört, aber rechte Fake-Accounts sind deswegen leider nicht verstummt. Grafiken, die das zeigen sollen sind KI-generiert mit Fantasie-Daten oder werden falsch interpretiert. Da haben wir uns zu früh gefreut. Aber das kann trotzdem eine wichtige Erkenntnis für uns sein:
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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
today @theawesomerandomness hand-picked&placed rev 3 of the MNT Quasar module with the so far elusive CQ8750S processor. and this time, it turned on successfully and booted into the vendor's stock android console :D i was able to confirm in sysfs that it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
mnt quasar rev d-3 with the second engineering sample of thundercomm thunderx c8750 soldered
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Today is FORTRAN’s 70th birthday; its reference manual “appeared in a glossy cover, handsomely printed, with the date October 15, 1956.” softwarepreservation.computerhistor… (The actual software wasn’t released till the following year) No longer […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works. None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Our giant paper is out about the Large inclination Distant Object (LiDO) Survey! arxiv.org/pdf/2610.19865 This was a stunning amount of work and took us several years (including a visit to my farm by 2 of the other co-PIs where we alternated between patting goats, keeping our children […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026
It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
"PwnEscape" is the KVM escape for which rumors made the rounds a few days ago. Getting CVE-2026-99999 assigned is 👨🏻‍🍳💋. pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape Kernel patch for this part (because it sounds like there's multiple) […]
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Death by Lambda @xdydx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I never knew.. #lush #Gaza www.lush.com/uk/en/a/gaza
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Ulrich Kelber @ulrichkelber.bonn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Der Bundesverkehrsminister will also die Förderung des Kaufs von eBussen für den ÖPNV um rund 300 Millionen Euro kürzen. Mein Vorschlag für die Haushaltsberatungen im Bundestag: Kürzung ablehnen, dafür einen der 18,41 Cent Steuerprivileg von Diesel (ggü. Benzin) pro Liter als ersten Schritt […]
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Thijs Lucas @thijs-lucas.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Investitionen ins Radnetz sind Investitionen in die Sicherheit, Wirtschaft und Freiheit. Radnetze sind kein Selbstzweck.
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Michael @michaelcarnell.com · 15/10/2026
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over EU cloud sovereignty plans. Sounds like the big boys are getting worried. Good! #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #EU #Privacy #Security #TechBros #EU
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US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans
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Myk @notsle.kzoo.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I've added a filter to account creation to stop 200+/day account spam we get. Uses Rails initializer to intercept and check the account with regex before allowing it to proceed. The regex can be set in env.production, defaults include "Automated protocol deliverability probe" and "developer […]
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Death by Lambda @xdydx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
That was a much better read than I expected and I urge you to spend the time required. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/20…
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18 again: I returned to my life in 1990. Who – and what – would I find there?
I doused myself in Poison perfume and made the trip back to my childhood home, friends and college. What could I learn by re-immersing myself in a world that brimmed with hope and potential?
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Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Tiefkühltruhen gehackt, Tiefkühltruhe im 6stelligen Betrag vernichtet. Wer war schuld und wer ist verantwortlich? Vorab: der Hersteller hat keine sichere Softwareentwicklung bei dieser #Fernwartung von OT an den Tag gelegt. Passwörter wie aktuelles Datum für […] [Original post on chaos.social]
Screenshot vom Danfoss Interface für dir Fernwartung
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Howl The Wizard @howl--the--wizard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine trying to convince the pope of all people that you have matched his boss and have functionally minted a new soul. Not only did you show up to try to get him to agree to that but you also wanted to get him to sign off on that take to sell software to business idiots. Just wtf all around.
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Exoplanets @exoplanets.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Name: WASP-33 b A giant planet composed mainly of gas. Distance from Earth: 398 light-years Year discovered: 2010 Discovered by: SuperWASP Planet radius: 17.856 x Earth Planet mass: 665 Earths Orbital period: 1.22 day(s) Equilibrium temperature: 2782° K […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A computer-generated representation of the WASP-33 b exoplanet.
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weather @weather.masto.es.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
El Niño se intensifica y podría ser uno de los más intensos registrados www.meteorologiaenred.com/el-nino-s…
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El Niño se intensifica y podría marcar récords climáticos
El Niño se refuerza y podría ser histórico: consulta sus efectos en lluvias, sequías, temperaturas y salud.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It was never extreme for trans people to want to be treated like human beings in whatever spaces we entered. It did not go too far, and no amount of historical revisionism will make the simple request for equal access to safety in public spaces unreasonable.
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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
My old ThinkPad T480 is back in daily use, running FreeBSD 15.1. :freebsd: Xfce, 5 GHz Wi-Fi, hardware video decoding in Firefox and Chromium (checked in the decoder, not just a capabilities page), a webcam that survived a 45-minute Zoom call, a Bluetooth speaker via virtual_oss, and SSH and […]
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
#Trump seeks to strip Congressional Rep for #Minnesota Ilhan Omar of her US Citizenship “Agents took Omar’s passport, mobile phone, personal computers and notebooks, according to people familiar with the search, the newspaper said. Omar arrived in the US in 1995 after living in a refugee camp […]
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Kraken @analytics.social.vir.group.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
🔴 DroneAttack | 9/10 🇺🇦 Massive drone launch across Ukraine - threat to Kyiv, Slavutych, Vasylkiv Simultaneous movement of strike drones reported toward Kyiv, Vasylkiv and Slavutych (Kyiv region), plus Dubrovytsia (Rivne), Kolky (Volyn), Dunaiivtsi (Khmelnytskyi), Sharhorod (Vinnytsia) […]
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Hagen Domaška @hagendomaschke.dresden.network.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Realität einer anderthalbsprachigen Gegend. Wenig Verständnis der einen für die anderen. Oder wollte ein gewitzter deutscher Amtsmann uns mit dem neuen Buchstaben "ǎ" bereichern? Den gab es bis 1946 im Bulgarischen und heute noch im Chinesischen, wenn […] [Original post on dresden.network]
Ortsausgangsschild von Tři Hwězdy/Dreistern. Angekündigt wird in 1 km Nowe Błohašecy, leider falsch geschrieben.
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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
„Schwarzer Donnerstag“ wegen Sorgen über KI-Ausgaben: Asiens Börsen abgesackt Die jüngste Kurskorrektur hat vor allem Südkorea getroffen, dort ist die Rede von einem „Schwarzen Donnerstag“. Samsung und SK Hynix trifft es besonders stark […]
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Death by Lambda @xdydx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
#Berlin ist nicht Fußfreundlich.. Und #BerlinMesse erst recht nicht!
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I'm sitting in one of the fullest European Parliament hearings I've ever seen: it's about the infamous proposed Cloud and #AI Development Act #CADA and it's a huge "we need to build build build #datacentres", #gigafactories and farring #unicorns. And I'm like 😭 Let's see if I get speaking time. :)
Photo of full European parliament room with politicians sittings on the panel.
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment Week 6: Memory Layout of a Process In this video lecture, we are trying to get a visual understanding of what a process looks like in memory. We create a program that prints out the addresses of different elements […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
A Przewalski’s horse has been born in the wild in Kazakhstan for the first time in around 200 years. The foal is an encouraging milestone in efforts to return this once-extinct-in-the-wild species to the landscapes where it once roamed. 🐴🌿 Read more […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Well I guess I'm getting an early start on #NewSkillNovember by studying for an exam that, unfortunately, borrows a terrible idea from the Americans: a test to prove I'm really Dutch by answering a bunch of inane trivia questions that many native Dutch people would get wrong or vehemently […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026
I'm exhausted, most of all, by talking to programmers who have an absolutely unshakeable ideological commitment to the idea that none of our tools could possibly hurt us, that programming is an easy job with no dangers, simply because it involves a lot of sitting down and thinking quietly, that […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
It sounds like something truly terrible is happening to these goats. The truly terrible thing that's happening? I am not walking fast enough toward them with the evening grain bucket. Poor poor goats.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Lady in the Wall — by Martín Ron in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 A massive portrait of a woman in a hat and bracelets stretches across an exposed brick wall. This stunning mural perfectly fuses striking realism with clever architectural framing. #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Lady in the Wall by Martín Ron in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
It would be great if some of these 150 citizens raised a fundamental question: why are our democratically elected institutions so dependent on communication platforms controlled by unelected tech billionaires? Who controls the infrastructure of political communication also holds considerable […]
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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
There’s no sovereignty in a world where the US can simply call for a server that didn’t violate any law in the Netherlands to be switched off, and that server immediately goes off. America is a terrorist State. And we don’t deal with terrorists.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2… Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
There's been a lot of disruptions and changes around the house lately. Well, the cat is putting their paw down and going to aggressively sleep about this nonsense.
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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I remember playing Poohsticks with my brother, on a bridge over the spruit next to Alberton City. Such memories! It's Wiktionary's Word of the Day today: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Poohsticks?u… #WordOfTheDay #English
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Poohsticks - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Dear Frontier Model Vulnerability Afficionados, I know you're excited your military-grade bot spat out so many CRITICAL findings, but dropping hundreds of 0-days across dozens of software components on your vulnerability management team is, in the end, a literal DoS. See also: the German word […]
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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB @awettesfaiesus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
„Äthiopien: Wie Desinformation in sozialen Netzwerken die Realität des Krieges verwischt.“ Ein interessanter Artikel. Wie so oft gibt es gute Reportagen vom Kontinenten in den französischen Medien […]
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