tinsmith™
@toodsmith.bsky.social
Aspiring writer, professional troubleshooter, armchair philosopher.
Current read: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Current read: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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IT’S FINALLY FRIDAY
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
IT’S FINALLY FRIDAY
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Data breaches affect everyone, and this year we saw plenty of them, ranging from the novel to the predictable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches
Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my information in a data breach this year? and more How
www.eff.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Data breaches affect everyone, and this year we saw plenty of them, ranging from the novel to the predictable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
At some point, my algorithm is going to learn I want to get into #modularsynth and my wallet is going to be so, so fucked.
December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
At some point, my algorithm is going to learn I want to get into #modularsynth and my wallet is going to be so, so fucked.
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We're doing fun, practical things with @comixaction.com to make a difference. Please do sign up for the newsletter to see what's up, NYC! buttondown.com/comixaction
December 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We're doing fun, practical things with @comixaction.com to make a difference. Please do sign up for the newsletter to see what's up, NYC! buttondown.com/comixaction
Tis the season for hot cocoa and if you love it as much as I do, you make your own. I've tried tons of #recipes, but each year I come back to @altonbrown.bsky.social's and it hits every damned time. Glad to see he's on Bluesky!
altonbrown.com/recipes/hot-...
altonbrown.com/recipes/hot-...
Hot Cocoa Mix From Scratch Recipe | Alton Brown
Toasted milk powder adds a rich malt flavor to Alton Brown's homemade hot cocoa mix, while cayenne pepper adds a warming kick.
altonbrown.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tis the season for hot cocoa and if you love it as much as I do, you make your own. I've tried tons of #recipes, but each year I come back to @altonbrown.bsky.social's and it hits every damned time. Glad to see he's on Bluesky!
altonbrown.com/recipes/hot-...
altonbrown.com/recipes/hot-...
Explain yourself, poser!
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Explain yourself, poser!
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With this year's new member t-shirt, we wanted to envision a world where we get things right--one where technology enables you to be your whole self online. This future is possible with your support: eff.org/power-up
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
With this year's new member t-shirt, we wanted to envision a world where we get things right--one where technology enables you to be your whole self online. This future is possible with your support: eff.org/power-up
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The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science
By Martha Rossiter
medium.com/s/the-matild...
More about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda....
#books #womeninStem
By Martha Rossiter
medium.com/s/the-matild...
More about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda....
#books #womeninStem
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science
By Martha Rossiter
medium.com/s/the-matild...
More about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda....
#books #womeninStem
By Martha Rossiter
medium.com/s/the-matild...
More about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda....
#books #womeninStem
If you can't fight, support the ones that can.
Winning the War on Human Rights and defeating fascists starts with giving agency and personal information back to the people.
Winning the War on Human Rights and defeating fascists starts with giving agency and personal information back to the people.
When you donate to EFF during Power Up week, you're
⬆️ Doubling your impact (every dollar is automatically matched!)
👕 Getting our latest member gear
📢 Helping support the fight for privacy and free speech
eff.org/power-up
⬆️ Doubling your impact (every dollar is automatically matched!)
👕 Getting our latest member gear
📢 Helping support the fight for privacy and free speech
eff.org/power-up
Double Your Impact on Privacy & Free Speech
Right now, your donation to EFF gets an automatic 2X match! Don't let tyrants co-opt tech.
supporters.eff.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If you can't fight, support the ones that can.
Winning the War on Human Rights and defeating fascists starts with giving agency and personal information back to the people.
Winning the War on Human Rights and defeating fascists starts with giving agency and personal information back to the people.
Why can't Google focus its AI efforts on Maps to:
1. Give me the route that is the most stress-free drive, not necessarily the fastest
2. Detect when I'm in an area I'm familiar with and just kinda shut up til I reach the area I'm not familiar with
1. Give me the route that is the most stress-free drive, not necessarily the fastest
2. Detect when I'm in an area I'm familiar with and just kinda shut up til I reach the area I'm not familiar with
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Why can't Google focus its AI efforts on Maps to:
1. Give me the route that is the most stress-free drive, not necessarily the fastest
2. Detect when I'm in an area I'm familiar with and just kinda shut up til I reach the area I'm not familiar with
1. Give me the route that is the most stress-free drive, not necessarily the fastest
2. Detect when I'm in an area I'm familiar with and just kinda shut up til I reach the area I'm not familiar with
I'm gonna try again this year. I won't likely finish. I never have! But I learn something new *every single time* I fail.
The first #AdventOfCode 2025 puzzle comes out in about five hours! What's your plan? What language(s?!) are you using? What's your IDE of choice and why is it Vim? Do you have a comfy chair? Did you check out the beta release of Lua 5.5? How much sleep have you gotten? Drinking enough water? 🌟 ❤️ 🎄
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I'm gonna try again this year. I won't likely finish. I never have! But I learn something new *every single time* I fail.
Really lovely character creation by this artist! I find myself wanting to write stories in their world. Wow!
The Horrobell!
This creepy quarterjack rides a haunted bell through the night skies, dinging a dreadful dirge that shatters through the souls of any unlucky enough to listen! The sinister silver hammer sings out supernatural serenades signaling that its the time for terror!
#0625
This creepy quarterjack rides a haunted bell through the night skies, dinging a dreadful dirge that shatters through the souls of any unlucky enough to listen! The sinister silver hammer sings out supernatural serenades signaling that its the time for terror!
#0625
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Really lovely character creation by this artist! I find myself wanting to write stories in their world. Wow!
I'm super annoyed that Americans keep putting people in charge of things they don't understand.
It's time y'all started getting a lot madder about this shit or we're gonna wake up one day having to teach our kids how to just accept this Orwellian future because we let it become an inevitibility.
It's time y'all started getting a lot madder about this shit or we're gonna wake up one day having to teach our kids how to just accept this Orwellian future because we let it become an inevitibility.
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm super annoyed that Americans keep putting people in charge of things they don't understand.
It's time y'all started getting a lot madder about this shit or we're gonna wake up one day having to teach our kids how to just accept this Orwellian future because we let it become an inevitibility.
It's time y'all started getting a lot madder about this shit or we're gonna wake up one day having to teach our kids how to just accept this Orwellian future because we let it become an inevitibility.
100%. They've already cut corners in the presentation. There's no reason to believe they didn't cut corners with their research.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
100%. They've already cut corners in the presentation. There's no reason to believe they didn't cut corners with their research.
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Thank you to all the journalists and whistleblowers who bravely speak out against threats to our digital rights.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thank you to all the journalists and whistleblowers who bravely speak out against threats to our digital rights.
Weird fallout from turning off the "smart" sorting options on my wife's gmail; now that everything dumps into a single inbox folder, she can see just how many things have been sending marketing emails (and thus also selling her email). It is absolutely staggering.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Weird fallout from turning off the "smart" sorting options on my wife's gmail; now that everything dumps into a single inbox folder, she can see just how many things have been sending marketing emails (and thus also selling her email). It is absolutely staggering.
Sick of Google's constant enshittification and growth-at-all-costs mindset? Want email privacy back?
Switch to Proton.me They offer Mail, a VPN, Calendar and Drive. I made the switch years ago and have been happier for it, so I'm just watching this Gemini bullshit blow by.
Switch to Proton.me They offer Mail, a VPN, Calendar and Drive. I made the switch years ago and have been happier for it, so I'm just watching this Gemini bullshit blow by.
Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
Proton.me
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Sick of Google's constant enshittification and growth-at-all-costs mindset? Want email privacy back?
Switch to Proton.me They offer Mail, a VPN, Calendar and Drive. I made the switch years ago and have been happier for it, so I'm just watching this Gemini bullshit blow by.
Switch to Proton.me They offer Mail, a VPN, Calendar and Drive. I made the switch years ago and have been happier for it, so I'm just watching this Gemini bullshit blow by.
Even the most secure communications are only as good as the group member with the lowest understanding of the privacy options and how certain actions are unwitting opt-ins for comprimise.
If you want to enable WhatsApp’s “Advanced Chat Privacy” in group chats, you might also want to lock down the permissions of that chat first. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
What WhatsApp’s “Advanced Chat Privacy” Really Does
In April, WhatsApp launched its “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature, which, once enabled, disables using certain AI features in chats and prevents conversations from being exported. Since its launch, an
www.eff.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Even the most secure communications are only as good as the group member with the lowest understanding of the privacy options and how certain actions are unwitting opt-ins for comprimise.
Hey #booksky! Give me your favorite grimdark recommendations, excluding the supremely talented Joe Abercrombie, R Scott Bakker and NK Jemisin (only because I have already enjoyed a lot of their work).
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hey #booksky! Give me your favorite grimdark recommendations, excluding the supremely talented Joe Abercrombie, R Scott Bakker and NK Jemisin (only because I have already enjoyed a lot of their work).
This looks rad!
Hey! It is out now for all to play! itch.io/jam/dosember... — please also check out the other DOStember Game Jam entries :)
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This looks rad!
So, this is my second go-round at using Bluesky and just like the first time, my feed has been overrun with gorgeous #mushroom photos after only, like, two days.
Which is completely fine.
Which is completely fine.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
So, this is my second go-round at using Bluesky and just like the first time, my feed has been overrun with gorgeous #mushroom photos after only, like, two days.
Which is completely fine.
Which is completely fine.
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Name and shame the most despicable defiers of the public’s Right to Know! Nominations for this year’s Foilies are now open! www.muckrock.com/news/archiv...
It’s time to name and shame: Let us know 2025’s worst transparency offenders with a Foilies nomination!
Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, the Foilies “honor” the institutions and individuals most determined to keep the public in the dark.
www.muckrock.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Name and shame the most despicable defiers of the public’s Right to Know! Nominations for this year’s Foilies are now open! www.muckrock.com/news/archiv...
Found a box of these in the back of a storage closet at work. Fellow #floppydisk fans, I have you covered!
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Found a box of these in the back of a storage closet at work. Fellow #floppydisk fans, I have you covered!
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing
Fun Fact: Poptarts are in the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö, Sweden.
They also used to be my daily lunch in high school since I was alotted $3USD (1990's dollars) for daily lunch money by mom. They were $0.50 in the vending machine, I'd get two packs, leaving me $10 cash by the end of the week.
They also used to be my daily lunch in high school since I was alotted $3USD (1990's dollars) for daily lunch money by mom. They were $0.50 in the vending machine, I'd get two packs, leaving me $10 cash by the end of the week.
BREAKING: We’re getting six (!) edible mascots at this year’s @poptartsbowl.com!
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fun Fact: Poptarts are in the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö, Sweden.
They also used to be my daily lunch in high school since I was alotted $3USD (1990's dollars) for daily lunch money by mom. They were $0.50 in the vending machine, I'd get two packs, leaving me $10 cash by the end of the week.
They also used to be my daily lunch in high school since I was alotted $3USD (1990's dollars) for daily lunch money by mom. They were $0.50 in the vending machine, I'd get two packs, leaving me $10 cash by the end of the week.