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dashrb

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The official -rb. Interested in #soccer, #futbol, #nfl, and politics because everyone deserves equal rights. #blm

Was previously [email protected], for over two years, until it vanished one day in early 2025.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

Hey people, I've got a UI question.

When I mouse over to a small UI element (e.g. the "Add content warning" button in the Mastodon post composing form) and then move my hand minutely to left-click it, the cursor often jiggles off of the target. This also happens if I remove my hand from the trackpad, mouse or trackball preparatory to clicking.

Is there a UI setting or add-on that addresses this? It's driven me crazy for years and I can't be the only one.

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@pluralistic have you tried using a different mouse, just temporarily, to see if it’s actually the mouse hardware that behaves poorly when stopping, then moving slightly?

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@pluralistic oh and for what it’s worth (which is nearly nothing, TBH), I personally use a fairly heavy “gaming” mouse from logitech, because (I think) it keeps me from moving the mouse itself when I try to click the buttons.

I guess the theory is, when you’re using a sniper rifle and you click to shoot, you don’t want the mouse moving slightly and this miss the shot.

@verge@mastodon.social avatar verge , to random

Trump claims he’ll make data centers pay for their own power supply https://www.theverge.com/science/884191/ai-data-center-energy-state-of-the-union-trump

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@verge didn’t musk put a bunch of highly polluting gas turbines in a Tennessee facility, poisoning the environment for those who live nearby?

That’s what I cringed at when trump said this shit: unregulated pollution-making equipment in rural and poor communities.

@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar RememberUsAlways , to random

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-Eu_oq5_QTESQ_GglQIuZ3A%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

FedEx or UPS your mail since the US government can't insure your vote or payments for the US government.

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@RememberUsAlways @deadinside no, but it’s a SERVICE, not a company. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. If privatized, prices go way up, and guaranteed delivery to every rural address is eliminated as being unprofitable. See rural broadband: ignored by ISPs as too much cost for too few customers.

The entire point of govt is to collect tax money in order to provide services to citizens, not to make a profit. The govt should NEVER be run like a business.

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@RememberUsAlways @deadinside interesting perspective about BLM, I don’t know hardly anything about them.

The IRS’ job is to collect taxes for the entire federal government, right? Seems obvious that they collect more than they spend. By themselves—though the government spends more than it takes in.

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@RememberUsAlways @deadinside We definitely agree that sabotage via executive order is undesirable. We may not agree on how to fix it. And that’s ok.

To me one of the disappointments of this admin is that the executive branch repeatedly usurps power from Congress, unconstitutionally canceling or sabotaging their authority; and congress LETS IT.

Whether USPS is protected by law, or privatized, how do we prevent sabotage? Private companies cave too. 😢

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115819402267996681

This is the greatest thread I’ve ever read!

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Added a "home teleport" that is unlocked once you visit the wizard in Polaris

Also added a small little tavern for travelers to take a rest

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4163200/Endless_Darkness/

Teleport that can be used from anywhere in-game. And a small little tavern with some NPCs and a power up

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@stux “moviegoers generally don’t care about the credits so let’s remove them from the film”.

I feel like it’s respectful of other people’s work (ie the Unreal engineers) to give them their credit where it’s due.

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@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Microsoft Flight Simulator becomes a Sony flight simulator on PS5 this December
What's next, Sonic games on Nintendo consoles? Oh, wait...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/microsoft-flight-simulator-becomes-a-sony-flight-simulator-on-ps5-this-december/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica

“DON’T LET ME GO, GABE!!!”

Oh, sorry, I was triggered by the pictured scene.

@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar RememberUsAlways , to random

It's not rocket science.

There is nothing left to fund!
It's all been gutted.

Shut it down 👎
!

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@RememberUsAlways there are courts. Immigration courts. Courts that keep hundreds of kids from being flown overseas on a Sunday afternoon, without any due process. Courts that certify an entire class of refugees as protected, and must be returned to the US. These are people that would have been tortured, and/or killed.

During a “shutdown” the executive branch gets to decide who is “mission critical” and thus keeps working (ICE), and who is not critical and is furloughed (courts).

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@RememberUsAlways it may well be the right answer, sadly. Perhaps more of America will wake TF up, when they see their friends and neighbors being disappeared off the streets. Too many people are okay with this fascist administration.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it
Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpt-made-up-a-product-feature-out-of-thin-air-so-this-company-created-it/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica seems like OpenAI shouldn’t be able to claim any copyright ownership.

But if the product gets popular and makes money, will they?

Seriously, we all know the answer to this already.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill regains momentum in the Senate

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-84/

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@molly0xfff done! You’re the greatest!

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Within 6 days new bills will arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send

I've been cleaning and trying to reduce costs so hopefully it will have a little impact

We still could use all the help we can get in paying the bills for our services

Please, if you can and want, help me out with these bills

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

Boosts would also be a help❤️

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@stux done. Thank you for all you do. Many of us in the fascist country appreciate you! Meow meow.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

For the past several months, about 2-5 emails per day have arrived from people bitching about being banned from an illegal movie and network streaming service. I soon learned that all of this service's various domain names include my email address as the point of contact. So when people invariably get banned for spamming the chat box on this unlicensed tv streaming service, they bitch to me and plead to be let back on the service.

Last month I yelled at their Twitter account, which yelled back that they don't run the site blah blah. Just for background: I dislike spam and spammers so much that I wrote a whole book about them. And at this point I was getting so annoyed by the constant wayward emails that I started researching the accounts and things promoting these PPV networks. For a while there I was like, No Mercy! Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?!? I was even beginning to form a plan to auto-respond to these annoying messages with a vague promise to reinstate them if they could show proof of a donation to a local shelter or something.

But then I thought, instead of going nuclear on these guys what if I just asked nicely? Sometimes asking nicely is the best way forward.

@ Mark Zuckerberg > TW" Helo EYE 11:09AM in case you want to verify it's me: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-11.08.13 AM.png I'm reaching out because for some time now your websites have used my email address as an official contact. And as a result | am getting many messages that are intended for you I'm sure that this was meant as a joke. But I'm asking nicely for you to stop doing this. Mark Zuckerberg 1110 AM To be honest | completely forget | did this. | will remove it as soon as possible. EYE 11am Thank you " Mark Zuckerberg 1.11 AM This did not load for me but no one else would inform me about the problem, however | will remove it now. What to replace it with Mr Krebs? People who contact me are annoying Me: 1:13AM Yes, I'm aware. Preferably an email that doesn't belong to someone else, but for now anything other than mine would be nice. Mark Zuckerberg Okey

@ Mark Zuckerberg > TW" Helo EYE 11:09AM in case you want to verify it's me: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-11.08.13 AM.png I'm reaching out because for some time now your websites have used my email address as an official contact. And as a result | am getting many messages that are intended for you I'm sure that this was meant as a joke. But I'm asking nicely for you to stop doing this. Mark Zuckerberg 1110 AM To be honest | completely forget | did this. | will remove it as soon as possible. EYE 11am Thank you " Mark Zuckerberg 1.11 AM This did not load for me but no one else would inform me about the problem, however | will remove it now. What to replace it with Mr Krebs? People who contact me are annoying Me: 1:13AM Yes, I'm aware. Preferably an email that doesn't belong to someone else, but for now anything other than mine would be nice. Mark Zuckerberg Okey
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@briankrebs @birdpoof bonus reason why I use a separate email address for every company / usage.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Gotta say.. Laura Loomer is pretty fcking scary alright

Perhaps good material for the next IT movie.. 🤡

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@stux for a second I thought, what was the first IT movie, Office Space? Then I saw the clown emoji. Oh, IT. Sometimes I’m so dumb. lol

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Seems about right? :blobcatgiggle:

US styled grassmower
A grassmower prop inside my game Amurica

A grassmower prop inside my game Amurica
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@stux for an urban glow, add the LED lights beneath the body for a street glow.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

About time!

AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo

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@stux let’s not forget Elon musk supporting those bastards.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

It's almost as if they will only pick people for US government positions who are the least qualified

Picking dummies so when shit hits the fan, it's easier to pin on them

Wanna hear a bad joke?
The US government

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@stux qualifications are irrelevant. What matters is absolute loyalty. When you go on a massive crime spree, you need your peeps to be absolutely loyal no matter what.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Phishing attacks that defeat MFA are easier than ever. So what are we to do?
Why multifactor authentication based on one-time-passwords and push notifications fail.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/phishing-attacks-that-defeat-mfa-are-easier-than-ever-so-what-are-we-to-do/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica best part of the article is the brief explanation of how passkeys thwart the man-in-the-middle attacks. (Cryptography using your client machine and the proper domain, meaning that an evil middle man will fail, mathematically).

Other casual explanations have merely stated that passkeys are like passwords but safer.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random
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@georgetakei that’s worse than George Costanza!

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@georgetakei OMG they threw in the hawk tua as a bonus.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random
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@arstechnica Terri Hatcher FTW

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

In Europe we don’t need massive cars

Olivier Richters in a mini micro car

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@stux that’s the dude who played Paulie in Reacher?

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

All server, media and email bills have been paid 😌❤️

Unfort there is not much left so if you would like to buy me a coffee you can do so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

Thank you all for being so amazing :blobsnuggle: 💕

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@stux done, thank you!

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Starting at 1, infants can form memories, but they don’t last until later
It looks like humans actively suppress our earliest memories.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/infants-can-form-memories-starting-at-1-but-they-dont-last-until-later/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica so your first few years are like your last few years… now, where did i put my glasses?