A few more shots taken in-between sessions at the #FediverseHouse on Monday.
#Leica #Photography #SXSW
My latest gaming review dives into the chaotic kitchen of Cook Serve Delicious 2, where rebuilding your restaurant empire requires the reflexes of a ninja and the patience of a saint. From perfectly timed pretzel flips to inexplicably cleaning toilets mid-service, this game serves stress with a side of satisfaction.
#GameReview #IndieGames #CookServeDelicious 2tonwaffle.com/cook-serve-deli…
Cook Serve Delicious 2: A Frantic Culinary Adventure That Will Leave You Hungry for More
In Cook Serve Delicious 2, you'll rebuild a restaurant empire through frantic food prep. Balance cooking timers, customer demands, and bizarre side tasks in this chaotic yet addictive culinary simulator that will test your reflexes and stress to…Josh Bailey (The 2TonWaffle)
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Apple M3 Ultra thrashes Ryzen 9 9950X and Core Ultra 9 285K in Cinebench 2024 CPU test by as much 30%
The M3 Ultra is an extremely powerful SoC that boasts a massive 32-core CPU. Despite being launched only recently, multiple benchmarks have surfaced on the internet, with Cinebench 2024 suggesting a susbtantial 25% to 30% lead over highest-end x86 sy…Sambit Saha (Notebookcheck)
My #TeslaTakedown comments to #CalSTRS board this morning:
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CalSTRS board meeting is 2-day event. There's another chance for public comment 1:30 pm Thursday, 3/13, in person or by phone:
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CalPERS board meets Mon.-Wed, 3/19-3/21:
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Be there and be heard!
CalSTRS Teachers' Retirement Board Meeting - March 12, 2025
Agenda: https://www.calstrs.com/2025-03-12-board-meeting-march-2025Investment CommitteeItem 1 - Approval of AgendaItem 2 - Opportunties for Statements from t...YouTube
Let’s hope so 🤞🏼
Via Prof. Angus Johnston:
"Our caucus is unified," says Schumer.
Team Fight has won the CR battle in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Semafor:
Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path"
"Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR #DemocratsInArray
6/ More from Josh:
ADDITIONAL POINT: I've now heard this independently from enough sources that I think it's true. A big driver of the Yes faction in the Senate Ds is the idea that a shutdown will slow down the court cases. When first heard this a couple days ago I thought youv'e got to be friggin' kidding. REALLY?
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.
hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56…
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
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- Fixed an issue where a cookie size limit caused problems with website cookie management when using the CookieStore API. This could cause login and other state-related issues. (Bug 1950565)
- Fixed an issue where Control/Command+L did not focus the address bar in new windows. (Bug 1947723)
RE: chaos.social/@librewolf/114151…
LibreWolf (@librewolf@chaos.social)
#LibreWolf v136.0.1-1 is now available. https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/136.0.1-1 No major changes from LibreWolf's end. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0.1/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.chaos.social
#Teachers and #academicmastodon :
Does anyone have a good substitute recommendation for using live google docs in the classroom, something that is privacy-conscious?
I often use a live #Google Doc, and sometimes a spreadsheet, having students work on tasks as a class.
Getting away from Google, Microsoft, etc. is the goal here but also preserving student #privacy. Even better if no login is required at all.
Aside from something like an Etherpad, most of the options seem to lead back to the big companies. Firing up my own #Etherpad instance might be an end goal but I won't get to that until summer...
Any suggestions? Please feel free to boost.
They have lots of free alternatives for commercial sites.
De-google-ify Internet - Main Page
The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting themdegooglisons-internet.org
Statement by Minister Ien, Head of the Delegation of Canada, to UNCSW 69th Session
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Statement by Minister Ien, Head of the Delegation of Canada, to UNCSW 69th Session
Thirty years ago, something amazing happened - the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out an ambitious roadmap for achieving the equal rights of all women and girls.Women and Gender Equality Canada (Government of Canada)
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
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Orbit Speak User Guide Downloads
Orbit Speak User Guide v0.11 (DOC) – Manual in Doc Format (Released on 07-Feb-2025) Orbit Speak User Guide v0.11 (PDF) – Manual in PDFOrbit Research
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I continue to feel separated in every meaningful way from people who think this is okay. I’m not sure being their neighbor or their fellow citizen is an achievable or desirable goal.
Texas HB 3817 makes it a felony to be trans. Click link to say "NO!" to the Texas legislature. 
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10億円の賠償金、国が対応を 地下鉄サリン事件遺族らが要望書 news.livedoor.com/article/deta…
10億円の賠償金、国が対応を 地下鉄サリン事件遺族らが要望書 - ライブドアニュース
鈴木法相（中央左）に要望書を提出する、地下鉄サリン事件で夫を亡くした高橋シズヱさん（同右）＝12日午後、法務省オウム真理教による地下鉄サリン事件の遺族らが12日、鈴木馨祐法相と田野尻猛公安調査庁長官に面共同通信 (livedoor News)
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
Cory Doctorow reshared this.
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 😀
Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore 'Frog and Peach'
The Ball is back for 2012!Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/secretpoliceman for exclusive comedy, behind the scenes gossip and prizes that money can't buy...YouTube
"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
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