Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.
In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.
But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…
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whoa.
This story made me discover the site aicodinghorrors.com/
One genuine question: how does this person / dev team not have automatic backups of the database on another server (that the rogue AI can’t access)?
AI Coding Horrors is a growing collection of real-world disasters caused by AI-assisted coding tools like sky-high bills, leaked secrets, broken apps,..AICodingHorrors
New Certified Open Source Hardware!
BrailleRAP has the UID FR000027.
BrailleRAP is:
Open source DIY Braille Embosser
Find it in the directory!
certification.oshwa.org/fr0000…
Following on from a breakthrough human trial that reprogrammed the immune system to overpower an aggressive brain tumor, scientists have now used the same mRNA tech to attack any cancer. It could make chemotherapy, surgery and radiation redundant.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
A console screen reader for macOS and Linux. Contribute to tspivey/tdsr development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Make no mistake, Stephen Miller is flying the Trump plane. His influence now rivals that of any cabinet official. Important portrait below of an unwell man obsessed with power and infected with hate.
1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base.
It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen.
This episode is also related to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok going into a "MechaHitler" rant.
Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders can't control it 🧵
plus.flux.community/p/epstein-…
What happens when you really believe that reality is liberally biased?Matthew Sheffield (Flux)
Political scientist J. Eric Oliver on how ‘intuitionism’ is rebelling against ‘rationalism’Matthew Sheffield (Flux)
The family of a green card holder “was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say.”
When this is all over—and I have to believe it will be over one day—there need to be trials.
@Seirdy I've just read in the #envs:envs.net matrix room, that some services will be shut down in the next few days/weeks, like the Mastodon/ActivityPub server and the matrix server, due to high server costs.
Is that true? Would be sad, because I really liked pleroma.envs.net... :(
If you don't know the universal hand signal for help, please check this out. I just learned myself, years after it was created. It could save a life. The fingers folding over the thumb is to represent being trapped. Please boost for everyone
#UniversalHandSignalForHelp
#Help
I don't know if anybody noticed #ZeroFS yet, but it seems there is a completely user space-implementation of #NFS and #blockstorage on top of #S3 #objectstorage: github.com/Barre/zerofs
Including a demo running #ZFS on top of it which essentially allows geo-redundant ZFS volumes: asciinema.org/a/728234 & github.com/Barre/zerofs?tab=re…
I don't see no #FreeBSD port yet, but if that really works it would be absolutely awesome.
Documentation Download Orbit Player User Guide– Documentation in Doc, PDF and HTML formatsOrbit Research
I was asked a completely reasonable question today: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels? The framing of this is basicallyJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
stole your meme, yadda yadda cuz GLUE PEOPLE is who we once called ELDERS.
a hallmark of #fascism is the belief #history is a thing that lives outside of us; and that, thru violent means, only the “winners” write and impose as The Truth.
but History isn’t a thing.
history exists in being, living, doing.
books, archives, GIT repos are great, but give us a false sense of security. when “life happens”, we need Elders to wing solutions.
there is no institutional memory, only Elders.
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…Techdirt
Montreal transit: ARTM awards $146M contract to replace OPUS system
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/ar…
Because what we need is more bloat and privacy infringing tech, and e-waste instead of better transit.
This from the same that still don't want to provide a contract to their workers.
The Montreal regional transit authority has awarded a $146-million contract to a U.K. company to modernize the ticketing system across the metropolis.Joe Lofaro (CTVNews)
Skipped doctors to save money. Health is hurting. Would help so much to make it to a few appts.
For direct gifts, note "medical":
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Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄
Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?
There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
(Not UK? Please spread the word!)
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
Ah cool, Archlinux had another oopsie-whoopsie that was only communicated on the mailing lists.
They found malware on the AUR. Reminder that anyone can put stuff on the AUR and when an AUR client offers to let you inspect the package build scripts, it's because it's no one's job to make sure the package is safe.
"But people tell me to install stuff off the AUR all the time and I'm no dev that can understand these scripts" -- Yup! This is one of Arch's primary problems. It's why they make it non-trivial to bootstrap into getting stuff off AUR to begin with, but that's not enough when 98% of Arch users need something off it.
Weh.
"The current health and economic burden of long COVID may already exceed that of other chronic diseases and will continue to grow each year as more and more COVID-19 cases occur."
Tuta Mail has received some nice improvements this week! 🎉
✅ Time overview for event invitation
✅ Labels organized alphabetically
✅ Change primary email address
Plus, check our new video on how to set up aliases in Tuta & how these can improve your security: 👉 youtu.be/TEuNph5pBO4
Stay ANONYMOUS and CONCEAL YOUR IDENTITY with Tuta Mail's email aliases. Plus alias addresses in Tuta are quick and easy to set up! In this video we show you...YouTube
Six-hour bombardment of strategic hub in Dnipropetrovsk region came as airstrikes killed one person in Odesaapple.news
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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Next session: Thursday 17th July 2025, 7pm BST. Andre Louis composes the theme for our next season of podcasts.Jay Pocknell (Sound Without Sight)
I was tasked with creating music for the Sound Without Sight Podcast in one hour in front of a live audience.The plan: Take requests from those in attendance...YouTube
… why someone saw the Bluesky post and wanted to warn Harriett. I fully understand how Harriett could feel shocked that it looked like I was talking about her on another platform.Mastodon
I would like to urge my followers to strongly avoid #TRMNL.
TRMNL calls itself "unbrickable" and Open Source, telling you you can host your own server and that basically everything is fully supported: web.archive.org/web/2025071818…. This is not true. The only thing a local server can do is send images to the device and *proxy from their proprietary server*: web.archive.org/web/2025071806….
To add insult to injury, TRMNL is trying to refuse me a refund, in gross violation of EU law.
I can't help but feel I must be missing something obvious. On https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos, the system talks about BOYS that allows it be be run with zero external dependencies. However, I...TheLastProject (GitHub)
The XIAO ESP32C3-powered 7.5-inch E Ink® Display is a compact, energy-efficient solution for showcasing Home Assistant data.wiki.seeedstudio.com
Kierkmas, merry-ish
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