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• Post #2172529

  I seem to remember there was a Preference setting in Masto to disable DMs but I can’t find it now, is there a way to do that? @vmstan@vmst.io

• Post #2136868

  Just discovered that the Elgato Stream Deck app constantly sends and receives data even with auto-update disabled. I have no network widgets enabled on the Stream Deck. And by constantly I mean continuously, I can’t even comprehend what it thinks it is doing 😡 Just added a rule in https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html to block that noise. #streamdeck #DataProtection

• Post #1420932

  Roboflop 🤖 #china #robotics #halfmarathon

• Post #1039592

  https://prospect.org/2026/04/08/mass-protest-where-are-the-kids/ > One of my students at Brandeis, very much a progressive, told me that “No Kings doesn’t have a clear political message,” and displays “the weakness of the Democratic Party in effectively opposing Trump.” Feels like oligarchy has already accomplished its goals, they have made the next generation into sheep that the wolves will herd and cull as desired. The old are easily dealt with, all they have to do is wait.

• Post #1039591

  https://www.macobserver.com/news/ios-26-4-1-fixes-icloud-sync-bug-that-broke-app-data-updates/ >completely broke CloudKit Apple QA really firing on all cylinders the past year. #macos @apple #sqa

• Post #1039589

  An elite hacker should create an exploit that installs the previous version of Vivaldi on the computers of every techbro ever and force it to be the default browser.

• Post #1034981

  @vmstan@vmst.io We want cats tho’

• Post #950199

  @gsuberland@chaos.social @lianna@micro.webgarden.click @chirpbirb@meow.social ‘literally Hitler’

• Post #841726

  @jalefkowit@vmst.io It’s mobile-first though which is most important, and blogging on your phone inherently sucks so it’s fine I guess, is anybody still using Tumblr why did we buy that again

• Post #830498

  @elizabethtasker@mastodon.online 🍵🌊

• Post #825944

  @vmstan@vmst.io Jesus was virtualized??

• Post #763031

  @elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Is it cable or fiber? (Or something else?).

• Post #703694

  @jwz@mastodon.social Plaintiffs should have been assessed Afroman’s legal bills and 7 lemon pound cakes.

• Post #692064

  https://apnews.com/article/united-states-venezuela-score-wbc-6aee920fd528b59a752e6e2beb7bcb7b Venezuela 3 - 2 USA There has to be some karmic payback here lol. Congratulations to Venezuela! #wbc2026 #Sports

• Post #692048

  @elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Still haven’t taken to their new domain I see,

• Post #651876

  https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-of-the-tastiest-vegetables-are >kale and broccoli are the same plant 🤔

• Post #574697

  @User47@vmst.io Essentially performative, the percentage of anyone trying this is negligible and training data will be sanitized for obvious garbage before being used. And the models are already highly capable, you’re not going to make a model stupid with some Markov nonsense pages. I think vocal pushback by a lot of people is a lot more effective at trying to take a stand against the overuse of AI.

• Post #561742

  Warm rainy day and the first sign of Spring 🌸 #spring

• Post #549389

  @elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Feel like it should にゃん when you get too close to it :ablobcatbongo:

• Post #532625

  @Vox@flipboard.com @all-stories-Vox A high stakes Texas primary exposed Democratic voters to two candidates both of which showed more guts than anyone in current party leadership.

• Post #497892

  @julian As someone who’s been on Fedi a lot longer than you I feel confident in saying that this is a terrible take. The cranks and HOA are a distinct minority and get pushback all the time. I find it extremely tiresome to have posts like this continuing to push this narrative of ‘Fedi sucks’ because it’s cheap engagement 😑

• Post #426810

  @jbowen@mast.hpc.social >not just reading the OTA traffic in Wireshark You get used to it, I don’t even see the code, just “blonde… brunette… redhead…”

• Post #409911

  @Wyatt_H_Knott@vermont.masto.host @mttaggart@infosec.exchange We have though? Look at the annual profit for Alphabet some time. “Greed is good”, etc.

• Post #378205

  @404mediaco@mastodon.social When the construct laughed, it came through as something else, not laughter, but a stab of cold down Case’s spine. “Do me a favor, boy.” “What’s that, Dix?” “This scam of yours, when it’s over, you erase this goddam thing.”

• Post #364856

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661 >This would be a hell of a hot power bank. It uses about as much power as my oven. So probably more like inside a huge cooling device outside the house. Or integrated into the heating system of the house. >(Still compelling!) This is your brain on AI hype. #aibros #ai #hackernews

• Post #322373

  @dangoodin@infosec.exchange https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-paper.pdf "At present there’s no practical method for a user to verify the public key they’re encrypting data to belongs to their intended recipient. As a consequence it would be possible for a malicious or compromised 1Password server to provide dishonest public keys to the user, and run a successful attack. Under such an attack, it would be possible for the 1Password server to acquire vault encryption...

• Post #322372

  So… “your data is safe even if the server is breached” and also “nothing can prevent data compromise if an attacker controls the server”. Subtle difference, I guess - maybe your vault is uncrackable if the data leaks/is stolen, but the actual worst case threat model is where an attacker has backdoored your infrastructure. (2/3)

• Post #295473

  It is the Year of Our Lord 2026 and we are still reviewing vinyl turntables. https://www.engadget.com/audio/best-record-player-120000239.html

• Post #281200

  I’ve come to realize as an “unc” that there is a whole generation for which “the Internet” is Reddit, TikTok, and Discord. None of these people will move off of Discord, just like the Reddit revolt, at the end of the day the platforms locked down control once they were already too entrenched to be dislodged. It’s supremely annoying to me since there are a lot of projects that are Discord-primary for support 😕

• Post #237651

  @verge@mastodon.social Just another grift to vacuum up donor-class cash. The cynicism of the Democratic Party insiders is bottomless and very lucrative for all involved.