Beej

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SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:SnowyCA@vivaldi.net
2025-07-19

🚨 ⚠️ There are scams circulating on Fedi--I encountered one today.
This one has been suspended but I'm leaving it up as an example of what to watch for.

🚨 ⚠️ 🚨 ⚠️
MASTODON SCAM ALERT

Do Not Follow the instructions in the post👇

#Mastodon #Fediverse

A fake account pretending to be mastodon support:   Do NOT follow it's instructions to scan a code:

Urgent Notification! ⚡️
Hello from the Mastodon moderation team! 👋 To prevent your account from being blocked, please scan the QR code for verification. 🕵️‍♂️
🟢 Scan the code below:
We can't wait to see you back on the platform! 🌟
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2025-07-19

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

disconnect.blog/p/getting-off-

#tech #politics #digitalsovereignty #alttech #donaldtrump

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Matthew Millermattdm@hachyderm.io
2025-07-18

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. [...]

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller (March 1970, _New York_ magazine)

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2025-07-17

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

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2025-07-17

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!)

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2025-07-17

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

r/technology 

Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W...
4.3k upvotes + 442 comments

| recently heard about a teacher who instead of
trying to circumvent students using ai, which is
impossible, she made assignments by going "ask
ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and
then research how and why it's wrong".
Not only did the students discover that chatGPT
is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead
them to realize that they should not use it as a
primary source.
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Ask Aubry 🦝Ask_aubry@mas.to
2025-07-17

Kudos Lisa

r/EmotionalCrafts u/Aromatic_Degree2276. 9h

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My neighbor Lisa has officially won the award for most ridiculous garden supervisor.Every evening around six, she puts on that hotdog costume and heads out to inspect her lettuce with her cat trailing behind. I thought it was just a one-time thing when I first spotted her through my kitchen window. Maybe a costume left over from Halloween, maybe she lost a bet with her grandkids. But no, this is apparently her daily routine now. The cat seems completely unbothered by the whole situation, just follows along like this is totally normal while Lisa waters her seedlings in full hotdog regalia. The costume came from someone, according to Lisa. She was looking for something to make her evening garden time more fun after her husband passed last year. The gardening helps with the loneliness, she told me, but wearing a hotdog suit just makes everything a little brighter. What kills me is how seriously she takes her garden supervision duties. Lisa will spend twenty minutes out there in that ridiculous outfit, talking to her plants about which tomatoes are coming along nicely or
2025-07-15

@mayintoronto @mcc If I have to use a GPT tool to access info on taxes that I owe, I can only see one upside - with some devious prompt injection, I’m gonna start getting some suspiciously large refunds.

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gender stratocassteraronia@tech.lgbt
2025-07-15

still not exactly sure what country 🏳️‍⚧️ is, but it seems to border an ocean given the importance their culture places on marine wildlife

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2025-07-14

This is fun. Google Gemini’s “Summarize email” function is vulnerable to invisible prompt injection utilized to deceive users, including with fake security alerts.

#infosec #cybersecurity #blueteam

0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemi

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2025-07-14

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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kottke.orgkottke
2025-07-12

Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out. “The glowing, translucent Commodore 64 isn’t a software emulator — it’s the first official C64 in over 30 years, with a few new tricks.” You can preorder now & cancel before shipping for a full refund. commodore.net/

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2025-07-12

you probably know about the cinematic technique of "day for night", but have you heard of the also very common "toronto for some other place"

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⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

Screenshot of the scam message, it says "Your account is currently suspended for verification purposes, action required, please proceed with the verification using the link below." followed by a link to a dubious website. This image has been overlaid with a red X and the caption "Fake, do not click!"
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2025-07-11

Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab

thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/11/Del

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updated the dependencies for this Flutter project which meant that Firebase got bumped, which bumped the iOS plugin it brings in, which requires a newer version of Swift to compile, which requires a newer version of XCode to install, which means I need to upgrade MacOS

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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark
2025-07-11

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Sims who are marked as pregnant in The Sims 4 are more limited than some gamers may think. Once a character is pregnant, they can’t Woo-Hoo anymore, they won’t age, they can’t take a pregnancy test (?) and they also can’t blow out the candles on their birthday cake because of the aforementioned not-ageing thing.
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mccmcc
2025-07-11

"EA’s latest The Sims 4 patch is making everyone pregnant, including the men and the chaste .. the pregnancy bug is spreading throughout the game, and no one is safe."

videogamer.com/news/eas-latest

2025-07-09

@MLeeLunsford Happy Borthday!

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