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Hank G ☑️ @hankg
While talking to a person on my last day in Lisbon we had some back and forth on some expressions. I learned “pau” is wood versus “pão” which means bread and sounds similiar. Then we got into use of “adoro” instead of “amo” to say “I love bread”. I am still confused, but less so now, on when to add the “-me” ending. So I asked, if would I say, “Adoro-me pão” but I don’t get the nasal sound strong enough. He laughed and said, “No. You just said, ‘I love my dick.’” LOL. That could come in handy in some situations though :). I found it education and humorous anyway. #language #Portuguese
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Fireside Fedi @firesidefedi

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @NorcalGma2@sfba.social

Retired rural grandma, caregiver, and dog mom to a sweet lab named Summer.Love to bake and gift to friends and family. Happy in my garden. Living a quiet life on the north coast of California. Mean comments aren't necessary or welcome. Please be kind.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 09 March 2026 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

Calendar: freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @NorcalGma2@sfba.social. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @NorcalGma2@sfba.social Norcal Gma 2 - Retired rural grandma, caregiver, and dog mom to a sweet lab named Summer.Love to bake and gift to friends and family. Happy in my garden. Living a quiet life on the north coast of California. Mean comments aren't necessary or welcome. Please be kind. 09 March 2026 AT 14:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE
A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @NorcalGma2@sfba.social. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @NorcalGma2@sfba.social Norcal Gma 2 - Retired rural grandma, caregiver, and dog mom to a sweet lab named Summer.Love to bake and gift to friends and family. Happy in my garden. Living a quiet life on the north coast of California. Mean comments aren't necessary or welcome. Please be kind. 09 March 2026 AT 14:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE
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Nora Reed kiln @nora

"ai" ruined like 75% of having fun on the computer and these fucking dipshits are determined to piss on the remaining quarter

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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann

De Odido-hack treft miljoenen Nederlanders. Het gaat niet langer alleen over Odido en klant, maar ook over overheid en burger. Het gaat over onze veiligheid. Zeker voor mensen in kwetsbare posities waarvan niet alleen contactgegevens zijn gelekt , maar ook gegevens waardoor extra gevaar dreigt: digitaledollemina.nl/odido

Dit kabinet moet meer doen voor slachtoffers. De cybertelefoon moet zsm worden opgericht. Een loket waar iedereen telefonisch & online terecht kan voor info en vragen! #odido

Filmpje in de plenaire zaal van de Tweede Kamer met op de achtergrond de iconische blauwe stoelen met de witte logo’s van de Tweede Kamer. Je ziet mij in close-up met een beige glimmende blouse. M’n haren los. Ik sta achter een zwarte microfoon. Ik vraag de minister om zsm een telefonisch loket in te richten voor alle alle slachtoffers van de Odido-hack.
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Dirk @inanedirk

Easy build, not very robust. That's to be expected, though. It's a thing to put on a shelf, not to play with.
Considering that, the mechanism it has is quite neat. There's a crank front and center, that both turns the model along the green circle thing you can see in the image, and / or extends and turns the middle passenger bit, mimicking the centrifuge mechanism the ship has in the book.

#Lego #ProjectHailMary #AndyWeir

Fully assembled Lego model on a brown table. It consists of a black tilted base that holds a mostly white spaceship. The ship has three massive tanks / engines, and two massive solar panels to the sides. The base has two minis standing on it. A human in a red space suit on the left, and a brown, round, five armed / legged creature on the right.
Fully assembled Lego model on a brown table. It consists of a black tilted base that holds a mostly white spaceship. The ship has three massive tanks / engines, and two massive solar panels to the sides. The base has two minis standing on it. A human in a red space suit on the left, and a brown, round, five armed / legged creature on the right.
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Holos Social @HolosSocial

What if every phone could contribute to the #Fediverse, not just consume it?

Short-form video means heavy server-side transcoding for every clip. But your phone can handle it. Re-encode, resize, thumbnails, all done locally. Then push to your own #S3 or #Nextcloud.

No transcoding server. Just simple storage.

We can decentralize the compute, not just the network.

We're working on it

#HolosSocial

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vga256 @vga256

look, we all need another inkjet in the house like we need e.coli in our jello

but who could resist this tiny portable canon colour bubblejet 70.

i am finally realizing a dream that began when i saw it in Future Shop's printer aisle in 1995 for some outrageous price that my mother said "Absolutely not" to in a close and shut case.

$7 later, i now have my first perfectly cromulent colour printer. it even came with six 30 year old ink carts. the ink cart holder is a nice touch.

i had to do it. this was absolutely headed to e-waste if i hadn't rescued it. didn't think thing have a battery expansion unit you could buy separately?

#retrocomputing

A very small, portable, canon bubble jet printer goes through its calibration routine and readies the print head to be loaded with cartridges. I then open a small cylindrical container that houses the ink cartridges and cartridge holder. The printer than goes through its shutdown routine.
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Maggie Chapman @maggiechapman

#ItsOKtoAsk!

When you understand what's going on with your health, you can make better decisions around your care and treatment.

👇 For more info on questions to ask at your next appointment see link below.

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When it comes to your healthcare, it's OK to ask questions...
When it comes to your healthcare, it's OK to ask questions...
It's OK to ask... What are the benefits of this treatment?
It's OK to ask... What are the benefits of this treatment?
It's OK to ask... any alternative treatments I can try?
It's OK to ask... any alternative treatments I can try?
It's OK to ask... What if I do nothing?
It's OK to ask... What if I do nothing?
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Halla Rempt @halla

Gouache from the HEMA -- Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij -- from the eighties, reactived just now. I think it was a present from my parents when I was twelve or so, and found it just now in a cupboard and tested out the colors. One color cup has disappeared.

Photo of a drawing desk. In the middle is a piece of Bristol board with color swatches. Left are two trays of twelve cups a tray of gouache paint. Right is the lid of the painting box, with the text "Plakkaatverf. 24 colors.1 tube of covering white.1 brush". The cover is transparent for the rest. North of the paper with color swatches are a mess of pencils, west are two big covering French (but US-made...) aquarel brushes, east are bottles of India ink.
Photo of a drawing desk. In the middle is a piece of Bristol board with color swatches. Left are two trays of twelve cups a tray of gouache paint. Right is the lid of the painting box, with the text "Plakkaatverf. 24 colors.1 tube of covering white.1 brush". The cover is transparent for the rest. North of the paper with color swatches are a mess of pencils, west are two big covering French (but US-made...) aquarel brushes, east are bottles of India ink.
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Frank @frank

I'm happy to see new canadian social media like https://ehnow.ca/ and https://hey.cafe #canada

But so far, I still think #activitypub #mastodon and the #fediverse are the superior options.

Mostly because it's #decentralized and #federated

But most non-tech (normal) people don't understand those concepts.

They don't wanna deal with the fediverse because the learning curve is too high and they simply don't understand.

They just want something simple and that works.

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JP Mens @jpmens

A toot of mine was retooted by rob pike.

G’night girls and boys, I sure will have sweet dreams.

Edit to add for those not in the know: think Taylor Swift but UNIX.

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Simon Repp @freebliss

My track selection from today's @fadimat #faircamp radio show:

"Offline" from ultramorbidi.net/0010/ by @Ultramorbidi

"Repair the darkness" from https://monarkie.music/repair-the-darkness/ by @monarkie

"When does it end" from 2025.demo-fest.org/mx-hearteye by Mx. Hearteyes

"Sans oriflamme" from bstn.nohost.me/faircamp/vosegu by GOUFFRE @bstn

"Ψες είδα στο όνειρό μου" from the "Les Cartes Postales Chanteés" podcast cartespostaleschantees.rako.sp by @manonpatate

Thanks, Danke et Merci to everyone for the lovely music <3 The full track list with all tracks (plus the english version for re-listening) will be published soon by @fadimat

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Ridley @ridley

Hi, I'm Ridley!

I think a lot about building healthier online communities. I'm interested in distributed computing, consent-focused design, privacy, and object capability programming.

I am currently working on a Dart-based implementation of ocapn.org which I hope will make it easier to create distributed and federated applications.

I am very grateful to have @nlnet sponsoring some of this work.

#introduction

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Screwtapello @Screwtapello

In the late 1990s, Pangea Software was a leading developer of Mac-exclusive games. Apple commissioned them to write demonstration code for the first release of the Quickdraw 3D graphics API, and their subsequent games Nanosaur, Bugdom, and Cro-Mag Rally were bundled with various generations of Apple's iMac and iBook computers.

Nearly 30 years later, Pangea kindly released the source to these games under a Creative Commons license, and Iliyas Jorio has been porting them to modern platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux) to keep the games alive.

jorio.itch.io/

#macintosh #retrogaming

A screenshot of the game Nanoraptor, showing a dinosaur wearing a jetpack and running around a chunky late-90s 3D environment.
A screenshot of the game Nanoraptor, showing a dinosaur wearing a jetpack and running around a chunky late-90s 3D environment.
A screenshot from the game Bugdom, showing a blue-green cartoonish bug (six arms, two legs with cute sneakers) wandering on sandy ground, with a forest of giant grass blades in the background.
A screenshot from the game Bugdom, showing a blue-green cartoonish bug (six arms, two legs with cute sneakers) wandering on sandy ground, with a forest of giant grass blades in the background.
A screenshot of the game Cro-Mag Rally, showing a cave-man in a racing car made from a log and primitive stone wheels.
A screenshot of the game Cro-Mag Rally, showing a cave-man in a racing car made from a log and primitive stone wheels.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷krulorange @jwildeboer

Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children. Thank you for your cooperation.

Admiral Akbar meme with „age verification, it’s a trap“
Admiral Akbar meme with „age verification, it’s a trap“
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Craig S. Kaplan @csk

In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full.

A short video displaying a P5.js sketch in operation. The sketch appears to show the classic XKCD comic #2347, "Dependency" (a tower of blocks representing "all modern digital infrastructure", with a single narrow block near the bottom labelled "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003"). A mouse pointer appears and clicks on the narrow support block. The blocks come to life, evidently controlled by a rigid-body physics simulation, and the whole tower quickly collapses, just as we would expect it to do.
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machi @macaronus

Hi there, let me introduce myself.
I'm machi, Japanese, 27 years old this year.
My English is not good and I use a translator to see here.
#Demigirl, #Quoiromantic, #Asexual.
Demigirl, but I hope you don't treat me like a girl.
I have a male partner and that's how I manage to stop my parents from interfering.
The Japanese community is suffocating and I came here to see the world.
My hobbies are drawing illustrations, writing novels, RPGs, and I also play board games sometimes.
I love manga, novels, and anime.
I'd be happy if you could make friends with me.

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mathew @mathew

The orphan-crushing machine is just a tool. You can also use it to mulch puppies and purée kittens.

Why are you angry? You can use it for harmless tasks like making mashed potatoes. You eat mashed potatoes don't you? Yes, admittedly it leaks machine oil into the potatoes, but they're working on that. It leaks so much less oil than it did when you tried it three months ago. In a year from now it's going to be a Michelin-starred chef.

Well, that’s typical, gatekeeping by telling people they should have to learn to cook. You don’t think people who can’t cook deserve good food?

So what if the machine is powered by slave labor? That's innovation. You're just scared you're going to be one of them. Besides, it's inevitable. Nobody is going to crush orphans by hand any more. You're going to get left behind.

Oh, well there you go with your ridiculous purity culture again.

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k3ym𖺀 @k3ym0

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

  • Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
  • A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
  • Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
  • Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

  • proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
  • uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
  • Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
  • Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

  • play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
  • Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance