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☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

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@mbanck @credativde Wow that is amazing, this rarely happens! Congratulations, I'm sure there's an interesting story there, hope we get to hear it one day!

Elder Martins eldermartins@floss.social

Developers are using "tarpits" to combat AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt. Tools like Nepenthes and Iocaine trap crawlers in infinite loops, wasting their resources.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

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@kuulman Both are! And it's humerous because in the old days, The Chromium-BSU game used to be installed via the chromium package. So lots of people who wanted to install the browser ended up with the game. So the game got renamed to chromium-bsu and chromium browser to chromium... but now we have a similar situation with epiphany and epiphany browser, and the game is probably installed more by accident than on purpose (no offense to the game!)

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Oops I did it again (if you know, you know)
Picture of Epiphany game icon next to epiphany web browser (gnome-web) icon. The Epiphany game is often installed by accident when the Epiphany web browser was intended.

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@OdyX @jz I don't know yet, I might have to go find some nice cave to live in.

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@jz Well, goodbye Firefox it's been a good run.

MeredithW meredithw@wandering.shop

TerpTheatre @TerpTheatre Event Organizer: We're sorry, there won't be interpreters at the event where you are presenting about Deaf things, sign language, and interpreting. Me: No problem, I'll present in ASL without interpretation. Hearing people will have to get by. EO: Ummm ... TerpTheatre @TerpTheatre - I presented for 25 minutes, and opened with a couple of slides in written English that explained the situation. Told them to stay, so that they could “learn a lesson they didn't come here for." They all did.

kcarruthers kcarruthers@infosec.exchange

And this is how it starts. Wonder when they will close the borders for women & gays and start the re-education camps for the intellectuals?

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648

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I'm so old and every now and again I'm still shocked at how yet another song from my childhood was just another cover version.

Did you know that Just another Manic Monday was originally a Prince song and then covered by the Bangles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPX-uI7ivM

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"Mark Zuckerberg: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past"

Wow, not even 90 seconds in and they used a bunch of descriptions for Zuck that I've never even used. That takes some skill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5QoRpaRjY

Variety variety_feed@mastodon.social

Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,’ Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in SAG Awards Speech

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jane-fonda-sag-awards-speech-woke-empathy-1236312986/

Dave Mac Farlane driusan@doomscroller.social

The system cannot.

An electric sign that is clearly broken which reads: "C:\ cmd.exe /K D:\\init\\t The system cannot"

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@danirabbit although, exact same is true about proprietary software, so it's not a unique attribute of open source software but of software in general?

Tuta Tutanota@mastodon.social

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

just launched a new era of tracking. Digital .

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a nightmare much worse than : 👇

https://tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerprinting-worse-than-cookies

Man holding up a stop sign in front of screen with Google analytics.

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@juliank CVEs would definitely be worse!

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Today I read 129 CVs. I think that's a record for me.

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@withaveeay that condensed milk flavour one is like crack cocaine for me. If I buy it, I'll finish the whole box.

Zac West zacwest@nsinteger.com

Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.

Starting February 26, 2025, the "Download & Transfer via USB" option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the "Deliver or Remove from Device" option. Learn more about managing downloads

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@xjuan Thanks! The packaging has a few issues, I'll make a new upload to fix that within the next few days! But yeah great piece of software, very happy to have it in Debian!

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@dzu I haven't tried bb under wayland yet, and just switched over to Wayland full time myself a few weeks ago, but I'll check it out. aa upstream has indicated that he's interested in getting aquanted with that very old codebase so I'm hoping that we can get some of the long-standing bugs fixed... without introducing too many worse ones :)

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