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David-T
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Anti fascist. Duh.

I mostly boost things, sometimes reply, and rarely make my own toots.

Interests include tech, politics and cat pictures.

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://tech.lgbt/@yadt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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You can say what you want about the Luddites, but at least they went out and *smashed* the machines that were taking their jobs instead of, like, giving the people who were using those machines a good scolding
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Firework ban latest: extremely loud bang followed by extremely loud screaming followed by extremely loud Dutch yelling that translates to "you were supposed to throw it" and now there's ambulance sirens.
December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A uniquely British problem.
December 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Saw this on Tumblr & thought it deserved a wider audience
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🏳️‍⚧️
#trans
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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current status of dinner - #waymo drove off with 3 bags of ingredients in the trunk before I could hit the open trunk button. Turns out they can’t drive car back, they can at best return car to depot so now driving across San Francisco to retrieve groceries […]

[Original post on sfba.social]
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this […]
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mamot.fr
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A quotation from **Bill Watterson**

> CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists, why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it? And if he _doesn’t_ exist, what’s the meaning of […]

[Original post on friendica.world]
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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the entire field of linguistics is an elaborate prank

#linguistics
December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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“This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail.” https://www.citybeat.com/news/update-cincinnati-ice-leader-charged-federally-booked-into-butler-county-jail/
Samuel Saxon, the Cincinnati-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leader accused of strangling a woman he lived with, now faces a federal charge in addition to state charges and has been transferred to the Butler County Jail, according to jail records. Federal court records show Saxon has been charged with one count of making a false statement or representation to an agency or officer of the United States. It is not immediately clear what false statement Saxon is accused of making or which federal agency is involved. He was booked into the Butler County Jail on Thursday, where ICE detainees in southwest Ohio are held under a contract with the federal government. The jail also houses federal prisoners under a separate agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service. “This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail,” said Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance. Saxon had been held in the Hamilton County Jail on a $400,000 bond following his arrest earlier this month but was released Thursday on a writ and transferred into federal custody without posting bond, jail officials previously told _CityBeat_. The ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations supervisor is scheduled to appear Dec. 22 in Hamilton County Court on charges of felonious assault, strangulation and domestic violence. Saxon, 47, was arrested Dec. 5 after police were called to a Corryville apartment, where he is accused of strangling a woman he lives with. Court records state officers observed visible bruising on the woman’s neck and that witness statements alleged Saxon placed her in a chokehold. Prosecutors said in court that police had responded to the apartment roughly 22 times in the previous year and a half. Saxon has pleaded not guilty to the state charges. _CityBeat_ has reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security for additional information about the federal charge. ### _Related_ #### Do you have a news tip? SEND A NEWS TIP #### Subscribe to our Mailing List! Sign up. We hope you like us, but if you don't, you can unsubscribe by following the links in the email, or by dropping us a note at [email protected]. * CityBeat Daily * Promotions and Deals * Things to Do in Cincinnati * CityEats * Weekly Top Stories * CityBeat Press Club Sign up _By clicking “Sign up” above, you consent to allow us to contact you via email, and store your information using our third-party service provider. To see more information about how your information is stored and privacy protected, visit ourpolicies page_. ## Featured Local Savings
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December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.

"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx […]

[Original post on mograph.social]
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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New blog post: Journeys in Hosting 1/x - Precomputed SSH Host Keys
https://dataplane.org/jtk/blog/2025/09/hosting-stories-1/

#hosting #ssh
John Kristoff - Journeys in Hosting 1/x - Precomputed SSH Host Keys
dataplane.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
itsfoss.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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“The FCC is not an independent agency,” its chairman, Brendan Carr, responds to a question from Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) who notes that the commission’s website says it is independent.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Mozilla has a new CEO which:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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It has been zero (0) days since my trying to use my Google Titan security key with Google Chrome to access Google Meet has locked me out of a therapy call because the "device is not supported'.

As a security nerd I really, really want to be on board with extensive 2FA and passkeys, but as an […]
Original post on woof.group
woof.group
December 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Wish you were here?
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM