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Rich text editing on Discourse! I think that having to write Markdown directly has been one of the biggest real impediments for existing forums to move to Discourse, as I see it. I prefer writing raw Markdown, but most "normal" people would prefer a rich text editor. So happy to see this happening!
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Test our new composer on Meta!
We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse.Discourse Meta
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, including $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers.
#Tucson #Arizona
Today I updated Spamhammer to get rid of Fediverse Chick once and for all.
I do so wish Mastodon had moderation tools, like, *anything* really, that would make this drastic step unnecessary. Alas, here we are.
Edit: Oops, the link. github.com/freeradical-dot-zon…
GitHub - freeradical-dot-zone/spamhammer: DIY spam blocking the brute force way
DIY spam blocking the brute force way. Contribute to freeradical-dot-zone/spamhammer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Attached: 1 image Are Senate Dems finding their backbone? Christ, I hope so https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029 #USPolvmst·io
Do not believe it.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…
The Kabuki Cave
As you could see from my comments here and some occasional comments on Bluesky, I felt pretty confident for most of the day that Senate Dems were in the process…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Just sent off my freedom of information request to get all the private data about myself that #DOGE has accessed. You can do it too, thanks to some quick #activism by Maryland representative Jamie Raskin.
"We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety." Amen, stamp.
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests - Jamie Raskin for Congress
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.Jamie Raskin for Congress
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13 March 1924 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Najman, was born in Radom.
In #Auschwitz from 21 July 1942.
No. 50301
He perished in the camp on 11 August 1942.
I wonder if there is a correlation between the people so marked for early death and a particular Nazi guard or kapo on duty at their selection to enter the camps. Who punched defenseless people so brutally.
Friendship ended with Firefox: Floorp is my friend now
I had meant to try out Floorp ages back but never got around to it so now after the Mozilla situation is as good a time as any, is it a good Firefox based br...YouTube
Floorp is what I recommend to people, who insist on sticking with Firefox.
As you pointed out, the obvious, if Firefox goes, so will all these many Firefox clones, because none of them have expressed interest in hard-forking Firefox, and going independent.
But, Floorp has two advantages.
1) They do not break things. LibreWolf, will break something (often), then blame Firefox. Which only further hurts, Firefox, which in turn only hurts, LibreWolf. -- It is a snake eating its tail. I think the 1x Floorp broke something, they patched it right away, and they owned up to their issue. They did not try to pass the blame, as LibreWolf does.
2) Floorp is very similar to Vivaldi Browser. If Firefox, goes, it would be nice not to have a big learning curve, if you need to switch browsers. If you've learned Floorp, you've more or less learned, Vivaldi, in many ways.
These are two things, I believe can help users in the long run.
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@Linux floorp is a nice browser, if somewhat needing a lot of tweaks. I use it as part of my isolated browsing system
Librewolf is my main personal browser and it hasn't really broken anything for me. I don't use it for streaming services or anything requiring DRM
There is 1 site that is buggy (canva) in librewolf (i use floorp for that) but everything else is fine so I don't know what people who have big problems with it are trying to do other than using DRM services
EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5326354/trump-epa-environmental-rules-rollback-deregulation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
Weird #3dPrinting question I've been thinking about.
Would the left side print faster? (Assume that both discs in the photo below are the same diameter and height.)
My assumption is that it would. The print head could accelerate during the chunky segments but the right side would be constantly changing directions, so no acceleration.
If it would be measurably faster, I'm not sure. I need to do some testing, but it's interesting to go against years of optimization in the other direction.
@chrishuck right. I think I’ve met this problem.
When you have two different geometries joining with different with a different number of facets you get some pretty strange problems. The corners can’t quite align. In a 3d print? Not a problem. I can see in industrial applications it could be a big ass problem if it wasn’t just an artifact of an image quality setting.
(I actually like the look of lower facets in some more shiny filaments like this example)
Fortunately, it’s just a graphical artifact. When it happens, I usually just turn up the quality setting from the default until it looks right. We’re not talking complex geometry here, usually just cylinders.
I never really thought about it on the printing side because I’ve been using STEP files for so long in slicers and also running my G-code through ArcWelder to produce true circular moves. It could definitely be a problem otherwise!
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Writing Thu 13 Mar Leonardo Furore and Diamine Bliss
Todays tools
Leonardo Furore <1.1> + Diamine Bliss
#edc #fountainpen #fountainpens #penoftheday #dailypen #LeonardoFurore #Leonardo #Diamine #DiamineBliss
A few more shots taken in-between sessions at the #FediverseHouse on Monday.
#Leica #Photography #SXSW
PLEASE SHARE: Great opportunity for people starting out. Free Desk space or Free Workshop space for 6 months.
It’s time to launch the process for the next round of Boost Membership. This would be the cohort that will have their membership from April 2025 – September 2025.
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As it turns out, 56k modem technology wasn't quite as analog as the standards that came before.
Lewin Day explains.
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Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didn’t Know We Had
If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screec…Hackaday
Google has added Loss of Pulse detection to the Pixel Watch 3.
Maya Posch explains the functionality and the methods by which Google hopes to avoid false positives.
hackaday.com/2025/03/12/pixel-…
Pixel Watch 3’s Loss Of Pulse Detection: The Algorithms That Tell Someone Is Dying
More and more of the ‘smart’ gadgets like watches and phones that we carry around with us these days come with features that we’d not care to ever need. Since these are devices th…Hackaday
There is no #cloud, only other peoples' computers. As @pluralistic says "It’s funny because it’s true and the 'other people' in this case are rapacious, vertically integrated monopolies."
Now you can bypass the cloud w/ @privacysafe temporary encrypted files 👇
psafe.ly/TszQng
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So I should trust it because you say so? Who trusts you?
Because, from where I stand, you're just another Internet rando.
Please try to see it from my viewpoint and then find a way to make the trust you demand from me something that is verifiable by me. Perhaps a trusted-by-me third party can speak for you? (I trust @pluralistic, for example.)
Trust is not easily earned and should not be easily given.
(BTW: I still won't click on a link shortener, even so.)
@jackwilliambell Sure, I can't force you to trust me. When did I try to do that?
A URL to a web server I run is a URL to a web server I run. Whether it is a 301 redirect or not, or what length it is, has nothing to do with privacy or trust. An HTTP request is an HTTP request and can be logged by the server.
Here are two direct links to apps I hope people will trust enough to use, but if that is not you, that is okay 😀
"I have no idea what I'm talking about" level question:
So last week I found out how polls work in ActivityPub
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
And… this is interesting. What does this say about the level of anonymity of votes in Mastodon polls? I always assumed at least some of the instance admins would be able to deanonymize votes, but if votes are somehow analagous to statuses does that imply random users could snoop who voted how…?
Multiple-choice polls should allow no-votes · Issue #34041 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Mastodon allows multiple-choice polls; e.g., selecting more than one choice is allowed. However, these polls reject an attempt to vote for 0 of the options. In many types of poll, that may be...GitHub
No. Evan's comment describes the inter-server protocol. Other users have no way of accessing these individual votes, on the voting server nor the poll server. Admins with database access can plainly read individual votes on either of the two servers.
PieFed came up with an interesting system last year that scrambles user IDs for votes to anonymize them, so the voting user's server would still know their specific votes, but the poll server would not. This has not yet been added to Mastodon.
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So this is almost like Matrix where any room participant can read individual poll answers, even historical ones after a user changes their mind (except here it’s gatekept to only admins, but a random user can just run a single-user instance and become admin)
I feel like somewhere should be a disclaimer that poll answers aren’t really as private as they would seem. Similarly for blocks (Moshidon does say the blocked user sees that they’re blocked but most servers actually hide this)
This is correct. @kimapr If you run a Mastodon server, you have access to (1) all votes for all polls started on your server, and (2) votes by people from your server on polls hosted elsewhere.
I didn't have room for it in my original reply, but it's worth clarifying that there's nothing except a social contract stopping an ActivityPub server from publishing all votes it knows. The whole "private voting" idea in PieFed started because mBin was publishing votes: piefed.social/post/205362
EPROM-based Enigma Machine
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EPROM-based Enigma Machine
The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who in…Hackaday
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A medieval Bishop's ring from more than 800 years ago goes to auction
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5326044/bishop-ring-metal-detector-auction-rare?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” he said, then taking a swipe at the vaccine. “The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people it wanes.” 🤦♂️
Source: archive.md/IWQFv
Can we please NOT give nazis megaphones? I mean, ~probably~ most of your followers know those are lies, but rather than quoting him directly in a way that might get amplified to people who don't know better, even just sticking in someone's head subconsciously, report on what they lied about:
"RFK called for everyone to get measles, citing a lie that getting it provides lifetime immunity and that the vaccine does not. In reality, getting measles destroy's the immune system's memory of past infections, rendering one susceptible to other deadly diseases."
NIH cuts funding for vaccine hesitancy research and and may target mRNA research too
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325863/nih-trump-vaccine-hesitancy-mrna-research?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Russia today controls less of Ukraine than they did three years ago. Russia today controls less of Russia than they did three years ago.
Russia is not winning this war.
Ooooooh! Cory Doctorow is planning a trip to NZ, with a Wellington event on May 3 or 4! I really enjoy all of his writing, so it will be great to hear him again!
From: @pluralistic
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Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/06/picks-and-shovels-tour/ #Pluralistic 1/Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
– Taylor Swift
Dear Canadians,
I have learned that you can make the federal government mail you tax forms for free.
canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/se…
I have asked for English AND French. I wonder if this counts as malicious compliance.
Get a T1 income tax package - Canada.ca
Each package includes the tax information, the return, related schedules such as schedule 1, provincial and territorial information and related forms.2024 income tax package,www.canada.ca
I'm finally beginning to do my taxes.
So far I've learned that you can only claim medical expenses if you have at least $4275 of income.
Okay, I completed and mailed my taxes today, perhaps just in time for another Canada Post strike.
I included a note for the feds about how I’m doing it on paper this year because way too many “approved” services store Canadians’ personal tax info in the US. (I also circled in red ink the bad translation job on their envelope.)
I had to mail two separate larger-than-normal envelopes, so I slapped two “permanent” stamps on each one and am hoping that works out to $1.94 or whatever the current in-store postage amount is.
Will both packages arrive? Maybe. Are my numbers correct? Maybe. Are my principles and supporting documents correct? I’m confident in my case.
The notorious crime organization known as Habitat for Humanity is going DOWN
newrepublic.com/post/192660/tr…
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.The New Republic
8bitdo Ultimate 2C Wireless for PC & Switch Review - 8bitdo's Budget Controller
Buy one on Amazon: https://lon.tv/6rzeo (compensated affiliate link) - 8bitdo's budget controller got an update with their new 2C controller. These are avail...YouTube
So, that is why they are closed on Sundays!
(I only know this from others. Never been to one, never will go to one)
The last time we shrank the federal workforce : Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/1237991516/planet-money-doge-government-size-rego?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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FTC Asks Judge to Delay Amazon Prime Trial, Citing 'Severe' DOGE Cuts
The FTC accuses Amazon of duping people into signing up for Prime. But it's hard to prepare for a trial when Elon Musk fires your attorneys and support staff.Michael Kan (PCMag)
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