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micro lizardposting
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
—
Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
I keep writing mean posts about Pete Buttigieg and then deleting them
Temporary housing units the “caravans are the only real short-term solution for us to survive the winter.
Yet thousands upon thousands of ready caravans, designated for Gaza, are sitting on the Egyptian side of the border, and the occupation has refused to allow a single one in not during the ceasefire and not at any other time
This is the only solution in winter, but unfortunately it's unavailable.
I hope to find someone to help me rent a house; I'm tired of living in tents during the winter
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
I'm gonna be honest here: banning VPNs is not the solution. People who want to find content like porn will get it one way or another. It is going to harm legitimate users who use VPNs for security reasons, like on public WiFi or for getting inside a corporate network. I can't log into any of our servers/cloud w/o a VPN. All remote employees use a VPN. We replicate data between 2 data centers using a VPN
난교하는 꿈 꿨다
Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924483
아는게 기초 카테고리뿐인데 할수있는 연구란게 있나
Meta has banned us from their monetization program for a comic where our Grim Reaper reassures a kid they won't die until they're very old, and the kid – processing this information with the flawless logic of someone whose prefrontal cortex is yet to develop – leaps off and shouts "Awesome! I'm gonna try heroin!"
The comic contains the word "heroin," which is a drug. We're aware. The joke is obviously not promoting drugs, but Meta's enforcement bots – which seem perfectly content to let right-wing hate speech flourish like mold in a dorm fridge – have decided otherwise. So we recommend that you subscribe to our newsletter before the bot overlords complete their inevitable takeover and we lose each other forever in the algorithmic void.
Meta has banned us from their monetization program for a comic where our Grim Reaper reassures a kid they won't die until they're very old, and the kid – processing this information with the flawless logic of someone whose prefrontal cortex is yet to develop – leaps off and shouts "Awesome! I'm gonna try heroin!"
grebedoc now has a 88x31 button, courtesy of 
@miyuko https://grebedoc.dev/#88x31
Sexually suggestive
この…へんたい！ 銀鏡イオリ ブルアカ
#makevember 15: I can't claim that this is an original design idea, but I must've seen it on Mastodon maybe a year ago. Combine two inexpensive drawing compasses into a pair of multimeter probes that can be used one-handed while holding something else in the other hand
起きちゃったかも
Genuinely insane remote included with my LED matrix panel
ずっとPCとにらめっこしてたけどトイレに行きたい
Hot take: llm "guardrails" are worthless and will always be ineffective; they are a throwback to a premodern model of security as a list of prohibitions against actions instead of a more modern, holistic approach where the system as a whole is structured such that impermissible operations fail as a consequence of the system architecture.
The core mechanism of llm systems relies on the random elision and remixing of inputs; all such guardrail systems exist within this milieu, and are thus - architecturally, according to how llms work as a baseline - subject to that same elision; therefore, you can never be assured that a given guardrail directive will be present in the context window for the llm at the time of processing.
I personally think this is blindingly obvious, but I do understand why people who are bought into the tech might not understand that any attempt to 'instruct' an llm as to 'alignment' is going to be subject to an erosion of those 'protections' as an inherent part of the function of the machine.
Bluntly, if you don't want the llm to "do" a thing, you must make that thing impossible for the llm to do. Do not give it access to your filesystem; do not give it access to your production infrastructure; do not give it access to your children; do not give it access to anything unsupervised whatsoever.
And do not use an llm for any system where determinacy of operation is even slightly important, for that matter.
Tiny Mastodon Tip to Hide Topics 🫣 
If you get tired of seeing some
topics in your Mastodon feeds,
Know that you can use "Filters"
to help you save your spoons.
HOW TO ❓
From the desktop web interface:
1. Go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu.
2. Click on "Filters" on the left-side menu.
3. At the top-right, click on the "Add new filter" button.
4. Give a name to your filter in the "Title" field at the top, for example "US Politics". This Title will be displayed instead of the post and you will have the option to click on the Title to reveal a filtered post in your feeds 👀
5. Select the options you prefer. I recommend selecting "Hide with a warning" at first. That way, you will see if your Filter works and get the option described above to see it ⚠️ 
6. In "KEYWORDS", add the hashtags, words, names, or expressions you wish to hide for this topic. Select "Whole word" on the right.
7. Click on "Add keyword" at the bottom to add as many hashtags, names, or words that you wish for a same topic 
8. Click on "Save new filter".
9. Magic! 🥄✨
Bonus Tip! To help everyone's filters work, on Mastodon it's good to use uncensored names and hashtags in your posts. That way, people will be able to filter it out if they wish 💚
Swiss surveillance could become worse than US
If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must:
🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request
Swiss Bundesrat is still discussing this draft bill, decision will likely be made in 2026.
Let's fight for #privacy! 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan
Wow, nice ! 👍
Thunderbird 145 Adds Microsoft Exchange Support + More - OMG! Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/thunderbird-145-microsoft-exchange-support-ews
Now that the US under Trump has lost the position as leader of the free world, who do you think will take over?
The second largest country in NATO is Turkey (population 85 million), but I am not listing this country, because very few countries listen to Erdogan.
Instead I am listing three large NATO members, which play a key role in NATO today, as well as the EU institution itself.
Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols
Link: https://blog.helix.ml/p/technical-deep-dive-on-streaming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825121
Sometimes you find the words of the prophets
I have officially been a harpist for 29 years. It still brings me joy even if I should probably play more/better to show for it lol.
脇攣って絶望の目覚め
Normal people: buy houses.
Me: spends life trying to buy movie and TV rights to video games.
In 2009 I failed to get the Fallout TV show rights (RIP), right now I'm trying to get The Elder Scrolls.
i guess i'm getting an ASN and some IPv6 PI space
I have officially been a harpist for 29 years. It still brings me joy even if I should probably play more/better to show for it lol.
Temporary housing units the “caravans are the only real short-term solution for us to survive the winter.
Yet thousands upon thousands of ready caravans, designated for Gaza, are sitting on the Egyptian side of the border, and the occupation has refused to allow a single one in not during the ceasefire and not at any other time
This is the only solution in winter, but unfortunately it's unavailable.
I hope to find someone to help me rent a house; I'm tired of living in tents during the winter
風邪なおしたらビニールレインコートマイクロ金ビキニ着た女にホースで水かける仕事したい
#Exercitium: Elemento común en la menor posición. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2014/11/24-elemento_comun_en_menor_posicion/ #Haskell #ProgramaciónFuncional #Matemáticas
タバコが不味い
はやく風邪治さねば
The Engineering Behind Valve’s new VR Headset
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/15/the-engineering-behind-valves-new-vr-headset/
My most frequent git annoyance: I get a nice patch cued up with git add -p, edited hunks, the works. Then I accidentally blow away my index using `git commit -a` instead of `git commit`. Is there any way to recover the staged patch? This is surprisingly hard to google.
Masonry layout is coming, but it's got a new name
by 
@kevinpowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yikbSQ6tvlE
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tootik v0.19.9
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet.
tootik allows people to participate in the fediverse using their Gemini, Gopher or Finger client of choice and makes the fediverse lighter, more private and more accessible. tootik's interface strips content to bare essentials (like text and links), puts the users in control of the content they see and tries to "slow down" the fediverse to make it more compatible with the slower pace of the small internet.
It's a single executable that handles both the federation (using ActivityPub) and the frontend (using Gemini) aspects, while sqlite takes care of persistency. It should be lightweight and efficient enough to host a small community even on a cheap server, and hopefully, be easy to hack on.
tootik implements only a small subset of ActivityPub, and probably doesn't really conform to the spec.
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/releases/tag/v0.19.9
#Gemini #Gopher #Guppy #Fediverse #ActivityPub
The biggest mistake in Speed (1994) is the title. If you check on IMDB you will find that it had a director, Jan de Bont. Any speed with a defined direction should be called Velocity. One more example where Hollywood plays fast and loose with the laws of physics
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Updated version of Debian Linux 13.2 has been released. You can simply run the `apt` command to get all upgrades. Those who frequently install updates using `apt` won't have to update many packages, and most such updates are included in the point release.
f(x,y) = ((-(~(x + y))) + (((y - 23) % (-x)) + ((-y) & (y * 16)))) % 3
Extent: 128x128 (scaled x4)
"Onebit" colouring scheme.
jnkrtech
GENKI
just small circles 🕊
