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The image depicts a stylized character sitting on a large, serpentine dragon. The character is dressed in ornate armor and traditional attire, featuring a white top with gold accents, a red sash, and black boots with gold detailing. The character holds a sword in their right hand and wears multiple pieces of jewelry, including necklaces and bracelets. The dragon, with a silver body and red and orange flames, has a golden head with horns and a green ring in its nose. The dragon's tail is wrapped around the character's legs, and its body is adorned with flowing ribbons in teal and red. The background is a solid dark color, emphasizing the character and the dragon.

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I really donโ€™t like cross-posting from the bird site but this was too goodโ€ฆ

Pete Hegseth in 2016 re: Hilary Clinton email server fiasco:

โ€œHow damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?โ€ #uspol #signal #security

x.com/MattGertz/status/1904238โ€ฆ



Collaboration with @fredy, whose Italian postal bike needed a replacement cotter pin for holding one of of the cranks on. The local bike shop didn't have any, so i ground a flat taper into a taper pin. It worked!
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Emily Velasco
@Muellers_Kabinett You can still buy cotter pins on ebay


I know, I know, Avengers: Infinity War is so old itโ€™s practically retro but itโ€™s where Iโ€™m at in the universe. Oh my goodness that was epic, just a little confused how the next Ant Man and Captain Marvel follow on in the timeline.
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Robee? Na! ๐ŸŒˆ
@gary_bbgames No worries, thankfully sounds a small one.
@Gary
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Robee? Na! ๐ŸŒˆ
@gary_bbgames It's okay, I've had way worse. A key plot moment in the first season of 24, a death in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the fact that most people die in End Game!
@Gary


Good to know CIA Director John Ratcliffe is fully onboard with the coup. Guess he's been a good sleeper cell for four years.

I have trouble seeing how this ends without violence. The courts better deputize some people with weapons while there's still a court system.

Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
nbcnews.com/politics/congress/โ€ฆ

#GOPCoup #JohnRatcliffe #RemoveThemAll #USPol





A hacker has managed to phish Troy Hunt, the creator of HaveIBeenPwned.com, tricking the security expert into clicking a malicious email while he was jetlagged. pcmag.com/news/creator-of-haveโ€ฆ




Breaking News: It gets worse, The Pentagon sent out a clear warning one week before the group chat disaster that Russian spies hacked their chats already by โ€œtargeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.โ€

A department-wide email went out last week warning everyone in the DOD that a vulnerability was detected in the Signal messaging app, which Hegseth, along with several other administration officials, including JD Vance, used to discuss bombing Houthi targets in Yemen.

The DOD email stated: โ€œRussian professional hacking groups are employing the โ€˜linked devicesโ€™ features to spy on encrypted conversations,โ€ and noted that Google identified Russian hacking groups โ€œtargeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.โ€

newrepublic.com/post/193145/trโ€ฆ

#SignalGate





Hey @pixelfed,

Are the API endpoints used in the official #Pixelfed app documented somewhere or we missed something?

We try our best to provide good Pixelfed support in #Fedilab. It would be easier if API information are easily accessible. That would help other third-party apps too. There are some information available in beta-preview.pixelfed.io and docs.pixelfed.org, but it seems not complete

in reply to pixelfed

Most recent and current issues we're having with Pixelfed are,
- Posting DMs doesn't work
- Login issues with 2FA enabled accounts

We are also using MastoAPI. The official Pixelfed app doesn't have these problems, so we assumed there has to be some differences.



New Privacy Guides article โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน๐Ÿ”’
by me:

Privacy isn't a trivial matter,

Privacy means safety.

Even if all reasons are valid to protect someone's data, for millions of people around the world, data privacy is critical to ensure physical safety.

Be prepared however, this comes with a content warning: This article contains mention of sexual assault, violence, and death.

privacyguides.org/articles/202โ€ฆ

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #HumanRights





Itโ€™s hard to determine if a person is a real national security threat based on their online presence, EFFโ€™s Saira Hussain told Documented. โ€œBut when you add AI into the mixโ€ฆthat makes it even more likely that youโ€™re going to end up making mistakes.โ€ documentedny.com/2025/03/25/dhโ€ฆ


OpenAI's new multi-modal image output, added to
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/โ€ฆ


Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/billโ€ฆ

#news #tech #technology #science #engineering #fusion



I found out today the Saturn had a dating sim where all the romanceable characters are diegetically six inches tall and why am I only just finding out about this mobygames.com/game/70946/6-incโ€ฆ






#TuneTuesday #TrainingMontage

This one is easy. I save pullups for the end of the workout because I hate them. This song gets me through it every time.

Poison Idea - Discontent (metallic punk)
youtube.com/watch?v=eLwFSp1U6Lโ€ฆ

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#Spain #fediverso #meteo #espana #FediMeteo #openmeteo @A Coruรฑa - FediMeteo @Murcia - FediMeteo @Barcelona - FediMeteo @Valencia - FediMeteo @Madrid - FediMeteo @Santiago de Compostela - FediMeteo @Albacete - FediMeteo @Alcalรก de Henares - FediMeteo @Alcorcรณn - FediMeteo @Alicante - FediMeteo @Almerรญa - FediMeteo @รvila - FediMeteo @Badajoz - FediMeteo @Badalona - FediMeteo @Bilbao - FediMeteo @Burgos - FediMeteo @Cรกceres - FediMeteo @Cadiz - FediMeteo @Cartagena - FediMeteo @Castellรณn de la Plana - FediMeteo @Ceuta - FediMeteo @Ciudad_real - FediMeteo @Cรณrdoba - FediMeteo @Cuenca - FediMeteo @Dรฉnia - FediMeteo @Eixample - FediMeteo @Elche - FediMeteo @Fuenlabrada - FediMeteo @Getafe - FediMeteo @Gijรณn - FediMeteo @Granada - FediMeteo @Guadalajara - FediMeteo @Huelva - FediMeteo @Jaรฉn - FediMeteo @Jerez - FediMeteo @L'Hospitalet de Llobregat - FediMeteo @Langreo - FediMeteo @Las_palmas - FediMeteo @Leรณn - FediMeteo @Lleida - FediMeteo @Logroรฑo - FediMeteo @Lugo - FediMeteo @Mรกlaga - FediMeteo @Melilla - FediMeteo @Mรณstoles - FediMeteo @Ourense - FediMeteo @Oviedo - FediMeteo @Palma de Mallorca - FediMeteo @Pamplona - FediMeteo @Sabadell - FediMeteo @San Cristรณbal de la Laguna - FediMeteo @Santa Cruz de Tenerife - FediMeteo @Santander - FediMeteo @Segovia - FediMeteo @Sevilla - FediMeteo @Tarragona - FediMeteo @Terrassa - FediMeteo @Toledo - FediMeteo @Valladolid - FediMeteo @Vigo - FediMeteo @Vitoria-Gasteiz - FediMeteo @Zamora - FediMeteo @Zaragoza - FediMeteo


Days before the public learned about the 'war plans' Signal chat, the Pentagon sent a department-wide email warning that Russian hackers are exploiting Signal's 'linked devices' feature to hack users. pcmag.com/news/russian-hackersโ€ฆ


Here are my notes on putting the brand new Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces - I'm very impressed: it did extremely well on image recognition, audio transcription and returning accurate bounding boxes for creatures in a complex photograph, plus it rendered a pretty solid SVG of a pelican on a bicycle
simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/โ€ฆ
in reply to Simon Willison

I know that wasn't the point of your post, but I *love* --schema --schema-multi with the DSLs. I'm absolutely going to be using this all the time now.
in reply to Anirvan Chatterjee

@anirvan I'm planning an expansion to that which let's you define arrays and nested objects with it too


#tunetuesday with #TrainingMontage ...

Well, i don't train. But If i do, it would be something like this.

Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer

youtu.be/er416Ad3R1g?si=IrKLC1โ€ฆ

#synthwave



Hard at work on our latest projectโ€ฆ with a little โ€˜helpโ€™ from the office assistant. Her main contribution? Leaving chew toys on the laptop. ๐Ÿพ #DogLife #MakerLife #raspberryPi #dog #dogs


hideo kojima (2000) archive.org/details/official-uโ€ฆ



New: Fediverse Report 109

This week, an essay about #Bluesky's proposal for setting user preferences on their accounts. This allows people to indicate how they want their data to be handled off-protocol. I wrote about how the #fediverse can improve on this, using its strengths of many different communities, each with its own culture and values.

Also:
- Next week is the digital conference @fediforum
- A research dataset to compare Threads and Mastodon users

Read at: fediversereport.com/fediverse-โ€ฆ

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron yeah, but that does not cover everything. Especially such more interesting cases as the mastodon threads research dataset that was just released.

Regardless, the essay is about who sets the default values, and that this decision should be delegated to server admins, and not made by software platforms such as mastodon itself

in reply to Connected Places

Mastodon asks the user after sign-up what their preference is. And of course different platforms can handle this differently, e.g. if Threads has no expectations of being able to participate without appearing in discovery feeds, they would default to true.


Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this college course buff.ly/jEUFqkB


in reply to Koen Hufkens, PhD

sounded familiar, here's the dishwasher with subscription programs (German, sorry) srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-eโ€ฆ



I confess that the back of the workshop is starting to look like the roof of a Soviet embassy these days.
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