@josh Delta looks fascinating!

@snow @aetios @koakuma Yeah and magic can be cursed, so on my machines there's no suid on it and instead it's tcb shadow where users directly own their shadow entry.

-rw------- 1 haelwenn shadow 135 Jan 26 2025 /etc/tcb/haelwenn/shadow

Damn I remember that Nicole thing, feels like its almost ancient lore at this point.

iPhone is the winner of new battery test, topping all Androids https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/11/iphone-is-the-winner-of-new-battery-test-topping-all-androids/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@indivisibleteam @IndivisibleElGranada

Some of those truant Democratic lawmakers said they were stuck in “bumper-to-bumper” traffic on their way back from a new member reception held by the Elect Democratic Women PAC. https://newrepublic.com/post/217861/full-list-11-democrats-missed-hegseth-impeachment-vote-where-they-were-instead

Efforts boosted by the appointment of Britain’s former highest-ranking police officer: #Palantir wins a major new contract worth £10m https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-11-10/revealed-palantir-employing-cressida-dick-as-paid-adviser

We know… we were there.

They do ask for funding from time to time, though. It’s definitely not cost-less running a big website.

I find the pepper shakers in most cruets don't deliver enough pepper. So I bought one of those sugar pourers used in cafes and filled it up with lots of ground white pepper. It's amazing but seems to piss off my husband. Not a pepper lover.

Voters didn’t elect Democrats by historic margins just to go back to business as usual. Senate Democrats need to listen to the American people and turn the page on status quo politics.

Demand an open and transparent process for selecting new Senate leadership: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-democrats-no-schumer-coronation/?source=mastodon

heutzutage müsste man eigentlich friteurin sagen

I got an email from @blaft a few days ago (that I will respond to shortly) but it reminded me that it's been a while since I gave them a shoutout.

Blaft publishes English translations of fiction from India, including this collection of Gujarati pulp fiction which I really enjoyed.

https://www.hemlockbazaar.com/product/the-blaft-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction/

You can get ebooks from them directly, and we have at least some copies of most of their titles shipping from the US on our website.

Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?

This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.

New releases THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF and THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION are available worldwide in print and ebook formats.

Support our authors, editors, translators, and artists by buying direct from our site or from your fave indie bookstore!

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

Good morning.
Asher is on morning shift, watching over Mom. A warm, quiet morning ❤️

#CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryday #CatLovers #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatContent #FediCats #AssistantCaregiver #CatHelper

Pooja Saxena's "India Street Lettering" is out in the mail to Kickstarter backers!

(If you ordered extras like bookmarks & postcards, please be patient--those are taking a bit longer to pack! 😅)

Order yours online! Or come to our Delhi launch @ The Bookshop Inc, Feb 1!

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/india-street-lettering

@woozle The African-American Congressmen of Reconstruction era, they probably got lots of threats

The AI itself needs to be resisted, and, hopefully (in its current form) destroyed. But the AI isn't what got our field to this point, where the oppressive clutter of Computer Stuff is so pervasive and so exhausting that we would be willing to do anything, even surrender our own ability to *think*, just to be rid of it, just to be able to address the actual problem at hand. There is a crisis of tool complexity that we just *need* to find a way to address.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.