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She/her. Mapacha linuxera, friki, gamer, yonki de los libros, trekkie, whovian, otaku a tiempo parcial, social justice nightblade.

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@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now :blobcatgiggle:

It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!

You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!

is really amazing :mastodon:

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@stux is it possible to run a masto/other fedi thing instance with no domain, just a local ip address?

@killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , to random

Windows 11 is an ad delivery platform disguised as an operating system.

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@killyourfm tbh Windows has been like that since Windows 98 Gold.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”
"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/army-general-says-hes-using-ai-to-improve-decision-making/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica so they'll end up bombing Peru or Chile.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random
A sign, in green, stating WELCOME with triangle and exclamation mark. Below is the text which reads as follows: This place is a blessing and part of a system of blessings cherish it deeply! Sending this blessing was meaningful to us. We considered ourselves a joyful community. This place is a place of honor many cherished deeds are celebrated here everything valued thrives here. What is here was nurturing and delightful to us. This blessing is a message of hope. The hope is in a special location it radiates outward from a center the center of hope is here of a unique shape and size and beneath us. The hope is ever-present, in your time, as it was in ours. The hope is for the spirit, and it can heal. The form of the hope is a flow of light. The hope is shared freely when you lovingly engage with this place physically. This place is best embraced and cared for.
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@NanoRaptor shit, now I need to mod the initial area of Uru: Ages beyond Myst to add this sign :_

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?

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@NanoRaptor probably a coffee bean grinder from early 1900s from my great grandmother.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Experimental Google app brings web and local search to your Windows PC
Google's experimental app is an upgrade over Microsoft's Windows search.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/experimental-google-app-brings-web-and-local-search-to-your-windows-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica We already had Google Desktop 15 years ago... and I doubt this thing is an improvement.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Firefox is rapidly becoming a one-stop destination app for every thing I don't want Firefox to be doing https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115152464864842429

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@mcc @psilocervine I miss when it did, the live bookmark thing was neat :(

@transworld@masto.ai avatar transworld , to random

UK transphobe Graham Linehan has been arrested on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his posts on X.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07p7v2nn8mo

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@transworld how extreme he must be for the police of the terf island to have to step in and tell him to chill (again)

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year
If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/googles-ai-model-just-nailed-the-forecast-for-the-strongest-atlantic-storm-this-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica google's AI model is partly responsible of that storm

@transworld@masto.ai avatar transworld , to random

Nancy Pelosi says she’s working at ‘national level’ to restore gender-affirming care for trans kids

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/08/nancy-pelosi-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth/

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@transworld With the same enthusiasm she worked to counter the republican attacks on both transgender rights and reproductive rights while her party was in the government?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

What I don't understand is why major Linux distros with deep pockets (IBM/Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, etc.) don't design, or help technically or financially maintain, major apps for photo editing, office suites, and video editing, and make them compatible with existing apps like Adobe or MS-Office. This would not only boost the FOSS ecosystem, but major government contracts could be given to them, and the public would benefit from it. Tax payers money should go to FLOSS and not to tech bros

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@nixCraft well some have tried. Libreoffice started as Novell's fork of OpenOffice because Sun refused to allow patches coming from outside of Sun employees. So Novell's fork could open docx in 2.4 while the official one couldn't until 3.x (and Novell's 2.4 had better compatibility).

IBM also dabbled with their own OpenOffice fork but IIRC they didn't plan on sharing any code (mostly UI improvements) until they were abandoning it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Lol, I honestly don't even want to talk about the Epstein case; but the media is being outrageous about this. Again, I cannot stress this enough:

Jeff Epstein really was a rich pedo running a teen sex slave ring for other rich pedos and he was extremely close with some of the most powerful people on Earth, including President Trump.

Those are just the facts. Whatever you want to make of those facts is called "the Opinion Section" but pretending NONE of this is real is damaging your credibility

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@AnarchoNinaWrites wasn't also one of the core ideas behind qanon something about the elites being secret pedophiles and covering each other, and that Trump was the only one willing to uncover the whole thing?

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux can't unsee the sale logo...

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

There's probably some way to just easily embed a running game boy rom into an html page, right

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@mcc I know there are some gb games in itch.io that playable directly from there, no idea which emulator are they using.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Like, someone just sent me a link to a video, and it's honestly not that great of a video, just a lady explaining that men ain't getting poon because modern "masculinity" is a cookie cutter project, etc

But I just want to show you the kind of comments and what these "men we have failed" are thinking, so you can understand what I mean by "wait, why are we chasing this vote again? Wouldn't these guys just be regular nazis if they WERE getting mad pussy regardless?"

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@AnarchoNinaWrites reminds me too much of Jordan Peterson when he said most of today's problems came with the women's right to vote and work, that we should just have waited until the market conditions gave these rights to us eventually instead of demanding it too soon.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , (edited ) to random

do you still use the same username you used back in the 2000s?

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@aeva I was [-|MaRTa|-] for a long time, I said I was a TIE Advanced pilot.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Folks, you're out of your mind if you the unilateral attack angle is going to make a lick of difference. Yes, Congress is supposed to get final say, but also absolutely fucking nothing is going to happen to Trump for breaking that part of the law because THEY ALL WANT THIS.

There were literally like 38 people willing to sponsor a bill giving the authorization to Congress expressly for THIS attack - there are like 538 members of Congress. Nobody is impeaching him for what they WANT TO DO ANYWAY

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@AnarchoNinaWrites @GhostOnTheHalfShell I mean he has already been impeached twice and it meant nothing.

@steamreleasebot@mastodon.rip avatar steamreleasebot Bot , to random

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    @steamreleasebot "Our game utilizes neural networks for creating visually stunning and immersive environments. AI technology is employed in the production pipeline to assist in rendering backgrounds and character designs, ensuring a unique and high-quality artistic style. While AI aids in the creative process, all generated content is carefully reviewed, refined, and finalized by our team of professional artists to meet the highest standards of originality and quality."

    And they have the audacity to charge €16 for the blandest ai shit.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Don’t threaten us with a good time!

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    @georgetakei tbh that sounds more like a call for democrats to calm down and don't protest or resist, by making them believe voting even matters anymore so it's just matter of waiting.

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    @Secret_Music@crazypeople.online avatar Secret_Music Yes. Luz would be exactly this nerdy.

    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza avatar cygnathreadbare , to random Spanish

    Me encanta esto de ver medidas anunciadas como progresistas que en realidad son PERO COMO, QUE NO ERA YA ASI? como lo de subir el IVA a los pisos turísticos al 21%.

    @SteamDB@infosec.exchange avatar SteamDB Bot , to random

    The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio.

    You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.

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    @SteamDB so if you never used SMS for 2FA in Steam you aren't affected I guess? (and even if you are, disassociating all logged in devices and logging in should be enough to kill any possible token associated with that code)

    @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io avatar Impossible_PhD , to random

    I've caught 25% of my students in a single course section cheating with GenAI this semester. One even appealed it, arguing that "other professors allowed it."

    The whole value of writing instruction is in the struggle and growth of the process.

    Without that, my whole profession just closes up shop.

    And by the way--in that class? I've had strong suspicions on about another 25% of students. It just wasn't blatant enough to catch them.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

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    @Impossible_PhD @StormyDragon reminds me of when smartwatches and bands started getting popular and people tried and they even found a pulse on (very much not alive) steaks and glasses of water.

    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

    Serious questions someone should look into.

    1. How much of the Enterprise warp core energy is using to train AI models?
    2. Does the Enterprise have a privacy policy?
    3. Does the Enterprise computer listen into conversation without the "computer" wake word?
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    @grumpygamer How many mods are people installing in Skyrim: Holodeck Edition?

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Has Trump’s I.C.E. become the Gestapo? Is a trade war with China imminent? With questions like these, cutting through the noise and getting straight to the facts is more important than ever. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-picture-april-16

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    @georgetakei always has been.jpg. Also substack? FFS. That's literally funding nazis while claiming to fight them...

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    @Sciaphobia@lemm.ee avatar Sciaphobia @LolaCat@lemmy.ca avatar LolaCat maybe the ears? in the original show (The Owl House) the inhabitants of the magical dimension have pointy ears.

    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza avatar cygnathreadbare , to random Spanish

    Es increible la de consecuencias que ha tenido el que un admin prohibiera el hentai en su foro hace 24 años.

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

    Equality is non-negotiable 🔵🔴🟢

    Today is . We stand together to protect and promote the human rights of Roma.

    Diversity is our strength. Let’s end antigypsyism for good.

    Text-based artwork repeating the phrase "Roma rights are human rights" in various colors and opacities. The phrase appears 18 times, gradually changing from light blue at the top to red in the middle and green at the bottom, symbolizing the Roma flag colors. In the bottom right corner is a small European Union flag in black and white.
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    @EUCommission I hope you protect them better than you did when France started deporting them and you did nothing at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Roma_migrants_from_France

    @servo@floss.social avatar servo , to random

    Servo is considering:

    • allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions

    • allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months

    These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, but we want your feedback. More details:

    https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/36379

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    @servo thanks for killing all my interest on servo before having a functional release and getting attached to it, I guess.

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    @vkc i mean, even windows pros will mock you for using cmd instead of powershell (even if cmd is perfect and more than enough for the task).

    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza avatar cygnathreadbare , to random Spanish

    Es curioso lo del capitalismo, si en cualquier sector de pronto se descubriera que una tecnología profundamente ineficiente se puede hacer con 100 veces menos recursos sería una revolución, pero si es en lo que están invirtiendo como si no hubiera un mañana, es una crisis.

    El sistema económico más eficiente y eso.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    With Mark Zuckerberg changing Meta's content moderation policy to curry favor with Donald Trump, Jay Kuo asks "Is Facebook about to become X 2.0?" Find out tomorrow in The Big Picture. And, yesterday, Todd Beeton explored how Trump has attempted to rewrite the narrative of January 6. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-picture-january-8

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    @georgetakei alwayshasbeen.jpg

    @eff@mastodon.social avatar eff , to random

    We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-metas-announcement-revisions-its-content-moderation-processes

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    @eniko @eff well they also sided with kiwifarms comparing actions against it to censorship... that (and their pro-crypto stance) made me stop donating to them.

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    @berniethewordsmith @eniko @eff they went with the slippery slope argument, if we allow a service provider to deplatform actual nazis who have actually led people to their deaths what will be next? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/internet-not-facebook-why-infrastructure-providers-should-stay-out-content

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    Vivaldi Sync is back online!

    Vivaldi Sync is back online after a database issue. No data was compromised. Reset your encryption password via the popup or in Settings → Sync. Thank you for your patience and support!
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    @Vivaldi so, uh... does this mean all previously synced data is lost?

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?

    NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

    NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.
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    @molly0xfff the dude also played severall Call of Duty titles but I guess Activision pays for ads sometimes and even if thehy didn't that's sanctioned american military propaganda and doesn't count as violence for the headlines. Let's go blaming the thing EVEN YOUR CHILDREN!!1! are playing.

    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza avatar cygnathreadbare , to random Spanish

    LLORAN2. Que acabo de leer que la mochila que dejó tirada el revisor de pólizas en la huida solo tenía una chaqueta Tommy Hilfiger y dinero del Monopoly xDDDDD https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-latest-manhunt-nationwide-police-learn/story?id=116551771

    @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

    I’m really trying hard to not dunk on here, but this sort of thing just needs calling out.

    Because, with the greatest respect, what the fuck is this.

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    @gamingonlinux The year of Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, Metaphor ReFantazio, Persona 3: Reload, Black Myth: Wukong, Stellar Blade, Crow Country, Dragon Age Veilguard, Echoes of Wisdom, Pacific Drive, just the ones I remembered right now: absolute rubbish, of course.
    (I don't even like like half of the ones I named, but i'd never call them bad games at all).

    @transworld@masto.ai avatar transworld , to random
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    @transworld and her answer seems to be "if I try to fight for this my party will not follow, this fight is already lost, who cares anymore"

    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza avatar cygnathreadbare , to random Spanish

    Lo de las newsletters de americanos dandose golpes en el pecho por haber dejado el bar nazi anteayer por la tarde pero posteando la newsletter en substack es una cosa eh.

    @transworld@masto.ai avatar transworld , to random

    Everything We Know About The Allegedly Shelved “Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur” Episode

    https://animesuperhero.com/everything-we-know-about-the-allegedly-shelved-moon-girl-and-devil-dinosaur-episode/

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    @transworld Allegedly? some of the staff are talking about it, other Disney staff are talking about it (Emmy Cicierega, Dana Terrace, Matt Braly)...

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    "People are using the word enshittification for all sorts of things beyond its original meaning!"

    Hi, welcome to planet earth, you must be new here. Let me explain to you the organic way in which human language evolves...

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    @eniko okay but I can't stand people using "lag" for any kind of delay, or spam for any kind of unwanted/unexpected long text. These words have very specific meanings :/

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    the mood on bluesky seems to be shifting from "its just like old twitter! so nice and cozy" to "ugh why does this feel like the toxic twitter of recent memory again all of a sudden" and it's directly correlated with the number of people who are moving from twitter to bsky

    glad we don't really seem to be having that problem here

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    @eniko "it's just like old twitter" is accurate. It's just lots of people don't remember how shitty it was already.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    Sega delisting a whole bunch of their back catalogue games from Steam huh? Dang. Shame there's no other trivially easy way to play games from their old consoles 🙄

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    @eniko they are delisting Jet Set Radio too so I guess there is no excuse anymore not to emulate JSR Future.

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    EU officials side with Musk, find that X is not as important as Facebook, TikTok

    X invoked tanking ad revenue to remove threat of DMA gatekeeper designation.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/eu-officials-side-with-musk-find-that-x-is-not-as-important-as-facebook-tiktok/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica "your site fell so much into irrelevance that DMA doesn't apply to you anymore" isn't what i'd call siding with him.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    when support from MS for windows 10 stops, will you switch to windows 11 or stay on 10?

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    @eniko i'm using dual boot Mint and Win10 ltsc 2021 (that has support until 2032) and plan to keep this for the moment. When I can afford a new pc where Proton runs well i'll ditch Windows probably.

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to Social Web Foundation

    Happy to be a launch partner of the Social Web Foundation ( Social Web Foundation ). Excited to see other organizations being built to push the fediverse forward!

    evanprodromou : Launch of Social Web Foundation in Social Web Foundation

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    @Gargron Social Web Foundation excuse me, but why does fedi need an entrepierner product director, or a product director at all?

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

    All the way from Osaka 🇯🇵, the World 2025 mascot Myaku-Myaku has safely landed in Brussels! 🇧🇪 🇪🇺

    Born from the unification of cells and water, Myaku-Myaku symbolises the hope that human DNA, knowledge, and culture can be transmitted like a continuous “pulse” through generations.

    The EXPO seeks to address today’s challenges through interactive and immersive experiences.

    We will be there too, with a pavilion dedicated to the EU.

    We promise, a sneak peek is coming up!

    An official World Expo 2025 mascot waving in front of the Berlaymont building in Brussels with EU flags in the background. The character’s torso is blue with a red head, globular ring with multiple eyeballs and a smiling mouth in the middle, giving it a playful and friendly appearance. It has two arms and two legs and somewhat resembles a human.
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    @EUCommission oh wow, a biblically accurate mascot.