Concerned Bartender Takes Away Pete Hegseth’s Security Clearance
ARLINGTON, VA—Expressing unease with his customer’s obvious level of inebriation, local bartender Benny Waller confirmed Friday that he had been forced to take away Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s security clearance.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Reptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian
CLEVELAND—Interrupting the man mere seconds after he removed a Japanese clouded salamander from its cage, local 6-year-old Matthew Cronin ruthlessly heckled a reptile handler at a birthday party for showing an amphibian, sources reported Friday.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
You can’t tell me these people are doing this for free. Bullshit, they are getting paid. By who?
Elon’s trolls… The full list as of now…
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.ProPublica
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Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:
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Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.Mastodon Blog
I made this my dating site profile.
“This could be us.”
Me: *puts up curtains so the dogs don't loiter by the all-glass balcony door, barking at everything that moves*
The dogs:
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@🌸 lily 🏳️⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win Thank you, I am well aware of that. I am a developer. What I was trying to explain to you is that as @φ @win mentioned they could see the changes that the schemes caused to the tags, and you could not. So they are obviously using a client that uses a webview. So the css propagates. You are likely not using a client that uses a webview, or the webview in your client supplies its own css.
This is not uncommon at all.
Now, as I mentioned, of course the transport does not use css. That is not were the view is established or maintained.
Now anything that I view from other sources on my view will only be rendered against my theme. Though this obviously was not the case for the akkoma client being used by the person that asked me why the tags looked like that. The only thing that makes the tags look like that is the css files in the scheme I added.
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curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://kitsunes.club/notes/a1fcn3gzv6 | jq{
"content": "<p>dododo</p>",
"_misskey_content": "dododo",
"source": {
"content": "dododo",
"mediaType": "text/x.misskeymarkdown"
}
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text/x.misskeymarkdown thing2. how can you run that? don't you need authorised fetch?
i think we're just misunderstanding each other. i thought we were talking about css files on your server that style the posts.
On the other hand you could use a gtkview, or the Qt equivalent, that would parse the html and css
you wouldn't need to. there's no point loading the entire frontend just to parse a post when you can use the api
The other thing that gets me is that if it was a friendica the gtkview idea could make sense though why would a akkoma client be using the friendica api?
it's not, it's using its own api. it could be that akkoma's html sanitiser just left the html that your server federated pretty much as is, whereas misskey's did something more drastic to it (i haven't seen you use post formatting, i'm not sure what it would do in that case)
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@🌸 lily 🏳️⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win Well over my weekend (which is Saturday to next Tuesday) I will be looking more at the code base and api. If I find anything interesting I will bounce it off you ;).
Take Care!
@🌸 lily 🏳️⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win I just got off a 12 hour shift that I have a 1 hour (one way) commute to. So forgive me if I am doing a horrible job of explaining what I mean. I am exhausted, so I am going to get some rack.
Take Care!
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Every time I log into Fedi, I see another post with a guide called something like "Activist's Guide to Smartphones" or "Phone Security Guide for Protesters," and every single one of these assumes that the threat model is the kind of police force that exists under liberal democracy where the law will afford significant protections to protesters. The world is changing, and these guides not only fail to address the threat of an actively hostile fascistic anti-democratic occupying force (I refer here to the police), but such guides generally are limited to "what" and "how" but miss the more critical "why."
If you believe that you are facing fascism (or even something close to it), can I please please please convince you to read something written by anarchists who have faced serious repression and are trying to convey just how much phones can lead to the imprisonment of you and your friends for even things that are allegedly "legal."
opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloa…
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Happy Valentines Day to everyone on Fedi. I want you to know that I love you all in a deeply weird and sexy way. Let's get married and run away together and live on an island and feed each other coconuts. Or hide in an abandoned library and read long lost moss-covered books to one another. I hope you are better than TERRIFIC today and am beaming you all the very best. You can't avoid it I'm afraid. It'll find you and it's going to get you. Hurrah!
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Hahaha. Shelly you know it's meant figuratively and always gives me a little laugh to say stuff like that. But I am full of love and light for everyone here and I would whisk you all (AND JONATHAN) away to live in paradise if I could. Given the wealth of some of those guys we hear so much about I would create a real actual Fediverse. An archipelago - perhaps the Hawaiian Archipelago - of 137 'instances', with a complex series of bridges built between them depending on who they choose to federate with. And we'd all live happily ever after, free from the shackles of capitalism and the horrors of humanity. Hooray!
my solution to every problem is to just switch to linux
computer too slow? switch to linux
networking not working? switch to linux
unable to find driver for HP deskjet printer? switch to linux
bleeding? switch to linux
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56-Year-Old Roblox User Groomed By 68-Year-Old Roblox User
FAIRHOPE, AL—Exploiting the popular online game platform for his own perverse ends, local Roblox user Rodney McKinney, 68, was accused of grooming 56-year-old Roblox user Walter Rhodes, sources confirmed Wednesday. “For the past several months, Mr.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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We spoke to the relatives of three immigrants transferred to Guantanamo, who said they’ve been left in the dark about their loved ones.
“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”
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#News #Immigration #Guantanamo #Trump #Family #Immigrants
Trump Is Unfairly Detaining Immigrants at Guantanamo as Terrorists, Families Say
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified nearly a dozen immigrants who have been flown to Guantanamo Bay. Government officials have refused to release the names of detainees or provide details about the crimes that landed them in detention.ProPublica
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STIs: Myth Vs. Fact
Sexually transmitted infections, also known as STIs or STDs, affect millions of Americans every year. The Onion debunks the many misconceptions people have about STIs. MYTH: STI tests are inconvenient.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Hello Everyone
Hi,
My name is Ken Gahagan. I'm #newhere.
I am retired and extremely frustrated at the current state of political affairs in the #USA. I know there are many currently motivated to leave commercial social media and as part of my #resistance I have set up this #friendica site as a place for FB expats to call home. (I'm still configuring the friendica site so it isn't quite ready for new users yet - check back soon)
I am #gay, #married, and I love my two dogs.
You can find out more about me by following my two Substacks -
Thoughts From the Edge and Ken Talks Tech.
If you have needs or questions related to this site you can email me at ken@unicorns.social or admin@unicorns.social
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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Kudos to the Northwestern University Libraries for training people to take part in the #DataRescueProject. Other #libraries should follow suit.
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#DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
NU hosts training to preserve disappearing federal data
To the average person, “data recovery” might sound like something best left to hackers in basements or thriller movies.campus (The Daily Northwestern)
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Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zent…
From Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine (#NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Germany #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Wegen Trump: Zentralbibliothek Medizin baut Alternative zu US-Datenbank auf
Ein deutsches Informationszentrum will eine Alternative zur PubMed-Datenbank in den USA entwickeln, um die Informationsversorgung in der Biomedizin zu sichern.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine
WASHINGTON—Contradicting the long-held belief that they would just go off and destroy anyone who tried to mess with them, a Department of Health and Human Services report published Thursday revealed that U.S.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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I am the author of more than 85 books and I swear I will never buy another DRM-protected ebook again. If I can't OWN what I buy, I don't want to buy it.
I am sick and tired of books I buy being tied up in an app that requires me to run the gauntlet of ads for other books before I am able to open the book I paid for and want to read. And worries about books being deleted or updated or otherwise altered AFTER I HAVE PAID FOR THEM. They are MINE. I should be able to open them wherever I want to.
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@Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️ I feel your pain. Though theft put OReilly's DRM Free program out of business. Which is unfortunate. I can see the issues from both sides.
I am not bombarded by ads when I use Web Based Kindle or my phone/ tablet version. I am wondering what client you are using that bombards you with ads?
note: My OS is Gnu/Linux so there is not a native Kindle client.
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Man Allows All Cookies So Website Won’t Be Mad At Him
BOSTON—Saying he was more than willing to go along with the request to avoid conflict, local internet user Dan Filmeyer reportedly clicked a box to allow all cookies Thursday so the website he was browsing wouldn’t be mad at him.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Wooden Spoon Only Thing In Man’s Life That Not Giving Him Cancer
SPARTA, OH—Setting itself apart as a uniquely innocuous object, a wooden spoon is the only thing in local man Patrick Davies’ life that is not currently giving him cancer, sources confirmed Thursday.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Instance is Setup and Tuned
Okay, Rogue Project Friendica is setup and tuned as well as I can with no user base. At this point I will just wait to see if I get some users and see how the server behaves.
libpng has been throwing some warnings though that is typical with a library that handles so many files created from other resources, that are not 100% compliant to the standard. So far it has not caused an issue. I will be keeping an eye on it. 😁
All things are temporary. Even the things we wish we could keep.
Suffering comes from not acknowledging this and by desiring otherwise.
The wise person does not wait for better times. Instead they make the best of the times they are in.
Calm your mind in these troubled times. Seek solace in friendship and peace in the little moments in between.
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Your heart and mind may be in the right place. But if you use the odious X/Twitter or Substack as a platform for your publishing you are supporting the bad guys.
Ditto, indirectly, if you subscribe to and/or pay for content there.
These are lines I won't cross.
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We stand in solidarity with our friends at @Codeberg. No project should have to deal with this kind of abuse and we applaud their efforts to tackle it and protect their community. If you share our desire for truly free software and infrastructure that doesn't harvest your data, and have to the means to, consider heading to donate.codeberg.org. Community funding is the best way to ensure that projects like Codeberg can continue to succeed and be independent.
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We stay strong against hate and hatred — Codeberg News
Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces,...blog.codeberg.org
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I feel like the people getting mad at map apps for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico for them are getting mad at the wrong thing. It's like when people would get mad at me about Python 3 during the 2->3 transition. It was actually never about me or Python 3, but about the person's manager not letting them migrate.
I get why people are mad about the rename, but get mad at the person who made the rename official for America geography and not the people following the US standard.
the POTUS has no right nor jurisdiction to change geographical names. if US Congress wanted to change the name, it would have to enter into diplomatic negotiations with Mexico and all the countries bordering the gulf. that means, entering negotiations with the Organización de Estados Americanos and ultimately the United Nations.
so, Google didn’t have to comply with the whims of a wannabe dictator.
it is absolutely right for people to attack Google for supporting this coup
@Brett Cannon There is no reason to treat this as a dichotomy. It is completely okay to be upset at both the POTUS and the organizations that followed his whim. There was nothing authoritatively requiring them to change the name on their services.
note: There are still those clinging to Python2 even after EOL, so some of them may have been the victim of an authority not letting them migrate though some of them just wanted to be contrary.
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Dunkin’ Pastries Included In Massive Recall
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled about 2 million baked goods sold nationwide, including some doughnuts and coffee rolls purchased at Dunkin’, due to concerns the products might be contaminated with listeria. What do you think?The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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in reply to Mastodon Engineering • • •I'd rather we have something like the ability to share a post but with a pointer to a reply. So it looks like a QP but only to your followers. To everyone else, it is a reply. And this means it stays attached but subservient to the OP.
I'd also like to see all replies rankable ala reddit. This would give us something like Community Notes, where the top responses are show up right under the OP. And the worst stuff for popular posts would be easily ignored.
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Unknown parent • • •I assume you'd still be able to link to a post, it just wouldn't show up like a QP. You'd still be able to do what you do now when QPs don't exist on mastodon.