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Deebster

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Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.

  • Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

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  • Odd that piefed.social gets counted as a "Mastodon-ish" server instead of being counted with the Lemmy stats.

  • TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethereal patterns not visible to the human eye.

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  • The second paragraph of that source states it was a helium balloon. Also, the BBC article only describes it as helium.

  • ah yes

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  • Blahaj approves of this meme

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • Where that user is Claude? I think that's the only username in my blocklist.

  • Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root

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  • The Register started as the register.co.uk, so route and root would be homophones, but it seems that this author is American. Still, as a Brit I get to read it the fun(ner) way.

  • 8647 Is a Prime Number

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  • zirkonit explained on HN:

    Necessary context for someone probably being more detached from US politics:

    Former FBI Director James Comey — fired by Trump in 2017 and one of his most prominent critics ever since — was indicted this week by Trump's Justice Department for allegedly threatening the president's life through a May 2025 Instagram photo of seashells arranged to spell "8647" (a protest slogan where "86" is slang for "get rid of" and "47" refers to Trump as the 47th president), which Comey says he intended as political commentary, not a call to violence.

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    A developer in our team sent me a full presentation without using a slides tool.

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  • I've never used either so I looked them up; https://htmldecks.com/blog/slidev-vs-revealjs-2025.html says

    Reveal.js is a JavaScript framework where you write HTML. It gives you maximum control, works without a build step (for simple decks), and has a decade of battle-testing. It's the jQuery of presentation frameworks — not trendy, but reliable.

    Slidev is a Vite-powered tool where you write Markdown. It gives you a modern developer experience with hot reload, Vue component support, and opinionated defaults that get you to a finished deck faster. It's the Vite of presentation tools — fast, modern, delightful.

    Anyone have any first-hand opinions?

  • Absolute Cinema 🤌🤌

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  • U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market

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  • Polymarket taking over from the War Thunder forums as the top source of leaks?

  • xkcd #3236: Border Message

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  • Its not all its cracked up to be; it attract's pendant's like you would'nt believe.

  • Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations

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  • The title here is just the one from the article. Lots of comms insist on that (too much faff to check if this one does since I'm on a phone).

  • Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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  • Ah yes, the click of death. Given that, this but in the article made me laugh:

    There was also the PocketZip format, initially called Clik!

    I guess Iomega quickly changed the name on that one.

  • Cal.com Goes Closed Source: Why AI Security Is Forcing Our Decision

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  • They do give a clue as to a reason/excuse why not in the article:

    Each [AI security] platform surfaces different vulnerabilities, making it difficult to establish a single, reliable source of truth for what is actually secure.

    Also, they come up with so many false positives that it's a huge job to check over the reports for something usable.

  • Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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  • Isn't picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.

    Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.

  • What's something that is more difficult than it seems?

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  • Playing the harmonica.

    Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn't squeak - unless you're doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don't get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).

    I'm very bad at the harmonica.

  • Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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  • We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.

    This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They've clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:

    We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.

    This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.

  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • Another problem is that system requires agreeing on what a week is, and there's disagreement over whether Sunday starts or ends the week.

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  • I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.

    Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.

    Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother's pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.

  • The best Janeway cosplay I've ever seen

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  • I'm rewatching Voyager atm and you get whiplash from how inconsistently they write her character.