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Charly Kühnast @charlykuehnast.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Ich werde jetzt die Familie bewaffeln.

#waffel

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"Policy differences," they say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex2l58en4o

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Kann mir wer erklären, warum die deutsche Post, einen ausgedruckten Adresskleber auf einem Paket mit einem handgeschriebenen überklebt, den man kaum lesen kann?

Hat das etwas mit der viel besagten deutschen Effizienz zu tun? 🤔 🤦‍♂️

#deutschland #effizienzgehtanders

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Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | #WeAreNatenom @xtaran.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Wieso gibt es Emojis eigentlich nicht auch in Kursiv ("*gucktschräg*"), Bold ("und zwar so richtig") oder Condensed ("schmallippig")?

Von Combining Modifiers für Emojis mal ganz abgesehen: https://xkcd.com/1813/ 😉

#emoji #fonts

Vomiting Emoji

xkcd.com

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Today in tools I didn't know I need: nncp

nncp is to uucp what is ssh to telnet: a modern encrypted system with strong authentication.

https://www.complete.org/nncp/

#linux #unix #networking

NNCP

What is NNCP? NNCP lets you securely send files, or request remote execution, between systems. It uses asynchronous communication, so the source and destination need never be online simultaneously. NNCP can route requests via intermediate devices – other NNCP nodes, USB sticks, tapes, radios, phones, cloud services, whatever – leading to a network that is highly resilient and flexible. NNCP makes it much easier to communicate with devices that lack Internet connectivity, or have poor Internet.

www.complete.org

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Google has been evil a long time now. Here they're trying to destroy side loading on Android devices.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years1, F-Droid has provided a safe and securehaven for Android users around the world to find and install free and opensource apps. When con...

f-droid.org

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

The "CloudFlare: SSL Added and Removed Here :-)" picture from https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_removed_here

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 11d

640kbit/s ought to be enough for anybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ259Jx8MQY

Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Some things look simple, but are quite ingenious and optimized. Like a stapler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQZWPDaVavk

Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 11d

PSA: If you need to communicate with people who use outdated units because SI units are "confusing", then use attoparsec for length. With 30.85677581 mm it is close to one of the units they are used to, so it should be easy for them to understand.

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Today in #linguistgoneforeign:
The Gender-Revealing Obsession 🧐

Did you know what new strips are published on the blog before they make it to social media? Subscribe and don't miss any comics! 💌

#comics
#gender
#worldobservations

Illustration with two panels. At the top, the word “SOCIETY:” is written. Below, a cartoon character with a white lab coat points at a presentation board showing two naked figures whose genitals are pixelated. The speech bubble says: “You must cover your genitals at all times because we shouldn’t be thinking about other people’s genitals.” In the next panel, the heading says “ALSO SOCIETY:”. The same character is shown again, snapping their fingers with a “SNAP” sound effect, now pointing to a presentation board showing two clothed figures: one in blue, one in pink with a bow. The speech bubble says: “But cover them with clothes that represent your genitals because I get very uncomfortable when I can’t tell what genitals people have.” Watermark: Linguist Gone Foreign©.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 18d

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nuke
#smbc

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Happy DDoS-a-Versary to me. Today's Mirai-based botnet attacks are now launching attacks that are 20x the size of that first big Mirai attack.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/

Not long after I published that story, the Mirai botmasters turned up the […]

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 18d

“ "In the first century in Israel, Christianity was a community of believers. Then Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome and became an institution. Then it moved to Europe and became a culture. And then it moved to America and became a business." --Richard […]

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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Because I ran into it, again:

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Yes, it was a web form. Again.

#computer #programming

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

www.kalzumeus.com

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20d

- Us fountain pen fans are so into collecting inks, it's easy to forget that the average person only stocks a few Iroshizukus and Emerald of Chivor.

- And Diamine Quartz Black, of course.

- Of course.

With original xkcd attached, because assuming […]

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The text of the post handwritten in Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku and Diamine Quartz Black, with the ink bottles next to the text.

xkcd comic:
Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.

And quartz, of course.

Of course.

(Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.)

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Kris @isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21d

# Design is how it works

Meine Systemsprache ist Englisch.
Der Account ist auf Deutsch gestellt.

accounts.apple.com so:

Screenshot einer Benutzeroberfläche mit der Überschrift "Persoonlijke gegevens" (Niederländisch für "Persönliche Daten").

Darunter steht der Hinweis: "Je persoonlijke informatie beheren, waaronder de telefoonnummers en e-mailadressen waarop je bereikbaar bent." (Du kannst deine persönlichen Informationen verwalten, darunter Telefonnummern und E-Mail-Adressen, unter denen du erreichbar bist).

Vier weiße Karten mit Symbolen und Text sind sichtbar: Links oben "Naam: Kristian Koehntopp" mit einem blauen Personensymbol.

Rechts oben "Geboortedatum: ..." mit einem blauen Kalendersymbol.

Links unten "Land/regio: Duitsland" mit einem blauen Globussymbol.

Rechts unten "Taal: Deutsch - Duits" mit einem blauen Buchsymbol.

Der Hintergrund ist hellgrau, das Layout schlicht und aufgeräumt.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

🆕 blog! “How big a solar battery do I need to store *all* my home's electricity?”

I have a modest set of solar panels on an entirely ordinary house in suburban London.

On average they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year. Obviously, we can't use […]

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Alexia @alexia.shrimp.starlightnet.work.ap.brid.gy · 26d

the security industry is a machine that turns
`THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND`

into
`YOU ARE PART OF A SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK, SHAME ON YOU`

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 24d

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

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Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist @drmaddkap.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

The MMR vaccine is perfectly safe. Measles is not.

MMR vaccine- studied for more than 50 years. Less than 1 in 1,000,000 chance of allergic reaction. No chance of death or permanent injury. NO evidence of increased risk of autism.

Measles- 1 in 5 will die without hospitalization. 1 in 500 will […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 26d

The Groyper Wars

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Are we all seeing how we are being manipulated?

#ukpol #ukpolitics #fasicsm #fascists #tommyrobinson #StephenYaxleyLennon #whitehall #transpride #lgbtqia #london

Clir Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social - 3h

So the far-right scrape together tens of thousands of people and they
get a live blog on most news services, more than 100,000 people turn up
for Trans Pride in London and itis barely even registered. The media
aren't just reporting a reality, they are constructing it.

02 on lv) oa

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Jahred Bruno @wxdtv.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

lol

https://archive.is/1t1rm

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Brian Kilmeade makes a great strudel!

#firekilmeade #foxnews #USpol

@NickyFrank30

My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels
made a great strudel” and I never knew what it
meant until after he died my grandmother explained
some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda
Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her
strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the
Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it
was an example of the media sanitizing evil people
and he would use the phrase when someone asked
him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and
focus on the good.

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