A techbro desperate for cash is detained for 13 hours after leaving a non-functioning, vibe-coded anti-fraud device in a Swiss hotel lobby during the Davos conf
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After leaving a prototype unattended at the World Economic Forum, Sebastian Heyneman was held by Swiss authorities for 13 hours.Rya Jetha (The San Francisco Standard)
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
Bekam der Ex-CDU-MdB Axel Fischer Bestechungsgeld aus Aserbaidschan? Das musste das Münchner Oberlandesgericht klären - und hat nun ein Urteil gesprochen.Legal Tribune Online
#TwinCities Workers #Strike Against #ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.
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As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with #Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.
As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)
Anyone know how often Friendica fetches RSS feeds ? Is this frequency configurable ?
I'm seeing some big delays.
Thanks.
TIL if you revert a commit which starts with the text "Revert" git will rename the commit to "Reapply" instead of "Revert Revert"
Please don't ask me how I learned this.
someone might also find it helpful to know there are some other magic things like "!fixup" or "!squash"
Super useful if you're working across multiple branches and are rebasing them a lot!
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115940759…
I previously framed the resistance against copyright as a tragedy in three parts, from anti-copyright to free software and copyleft to free culture and the so-called creative commons. But this fourth act is tragicomic. AI as Détournement.
AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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Never use a cheap designer
WORK, it says work
It’s not a real song.
I just made it up.
#Dgar Now listening to:
Making It Up
~ Dgar
my 2TB Samsung didn't really have any issues until I hit about a petabyte of writes
Data Units Read: 3,231,094,901 [1.65 PB]
Data Units Written: 2,113,621,732 [1.08 PB]
I don't know if it sucks, I just know there were no bangers that make me want to hear a specific track again. I can't even name a single track from it right now.
It was definitely TOOL. But that's just not enough.
Microsoft sure is saying the quiet part out loud.
Amplify this, Satya. 🖕
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2026 will mark the end of DSL and traditional home phone service across the United States. In a significant step toward modernizing its telecommunications infrastructure, AT&T has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) las…Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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Company gets bought, which is followed by layoffs? I'm shocked, shocked! That has never happened before.
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Layoffs at Vimeo after acquisition by Bending Spoons Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.4 billion last fall. Now a second wave of layoffs is coming. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Layoffs-at-Vimeo-after-acquisition-by-Bending-Spoons-11152120.heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)
Meet GNOME at FOSDEM 2026!
Come and visit our booth, talk with contributors, get some swag! See you there in almost one week!
You can find the booth in building K level 2.
From austinpolitics.net/the-state-o…:
"I remember a couple years ago talking to a local businessman about Project Connect. 'If it doesn't go to the airport, what's the point?' he asked.
This is the kind of comment that would probably prompt vigorous nods of approval at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon but would make heads explode at a gathering of transit experts.
The idea that the purpose of public transit is to facilitate air travel is a more absurd version of the notion, popular among Sunbelt elites, that the point of public transit is to facilitate car travel by reducing car traffic.
(For the same reason that expanding highways doesn't reduce traffic, nor will public transit. The point of transit is not to make it easier to drive, it is to offer an alternative to driving.)"
Exactly.
And should the train go to the airport?Jack Craver (The Austin Politics Newsletter)
Hello, we've just done a bugfix release of #GoToSocial v0.20.3, codename "Most Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈😈😈"!
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This release contains some bugfixes for annoying little API issues, updates to robots.txt to forbid more so-called "ai" (🤢) crawlers, and a bugfix for polite interaction requests that will be useful when v0.21.0 comes out in a couple weeks.
If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0, v0.20.1, or v0.20.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.
If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!
If you are currently on a snapshot / nightly build, stay on the snapshot / nightly build, as it's already ahead of this release.
Thanks for reading!
Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**. It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.Codeberg.org
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https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internetTrump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system...YouTube
@hub They literally acknowledged that they had people with Nazi views on the platform and refused to deplatform them. I really don't know how much more correct that analogy could possibly be.
What pisses me off quite regularly about where we are is that we did not get here overnight. We are here now because of the stubborn refusal of a large number of people to say "that's not OK, we're not going to accept that, and I don't give a flying fuck how loud you cry about it."
If people had ostracized the Tea Party bastards years ago, we wouldn't be here.
If Trump had been sidelined years ago, we wouldn't be here.
If Gamergate and 4chan hadn't been tolerated... we wouldn't be here.
We used to be able to contain this shit. Remember David Duke? The Republican party used to at least refuse to endorse outright bald, naked racism.
Sorry. You caught me in a ranty mode.
oh I know. A few years ago it was like "we pay nazis writer". And in 2025 they even send a promotion mailing with swastica and everything.
But then look at Governments worldwide continue to post on the CSAM generator formerly know as Twitter. They didn't stop when its owner made the salute. Now they are saying there is nothing they can do about the CSAM. (litterally that what our Govt said, posting on said platform)
Obviously having a banker as a PM lead to not understanding science... (or just ignoring it)
It's Poilièvre with better speeches.
This text on resistance in Minneapolis reminds me so much of @pluralistic 's book "Little Brother". It shows that groups need not be powerless victims, even when facing evil.
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#Minneapolis #democracy #FuckICE #nokings
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…skywriter.blue
"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Come for the quote, stay for the text.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…skywriter.blue
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in reply to Peter Lord • • •It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.
It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.
The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.
Peter Lord
in reply to Matthew Exon • • •Ah, I see, many thanks.
I just found adjustPollFrequency() in the source which adjusts the feed "rating" based on the number of recent posts.
The feed I was looking at has a rating of 8 (polling once a day) but other feeds I have lower ratings (more frequently polled). Thats consistent with what I see.
Thanks again.