https://www.patreon.com/posts/144274170

New post on what's gone on moderation-wise at mastodon.art these past ~2 weeks.

We've had around 80 reports, blocked eight instances, dealt with antisemitism, ableism, transphobia, racism, and the new Mastodon Executive Director hailing a known racist, transmisic, abusive harasser as a 'personal hero' (https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/115570124702312185), so that's great.

You can help with our server costs here: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108225550945652134 . Any extra we get goes to our mods

Sigh. GenX gets overlooked even in memes.

hey on that thing where you can jailbreak a chatbot using poetry - has anyone else done this? all I'm seeing is reposts of the paper about the funny trick, are there any reproductions?

#Humor #Satire #Thanksgiving #Turkeys #Bribes #trump #alt

Borowitz Report 11/11/25 SATIRE
TRUMP REFUSES TO PARDON TURKEY AFTER IT FAILS TO BRIBE HIM (SATIRE)

If you're interested in security tooling, proficient in Python, and want to do work that supports software for the public good, The Apache Software Foundation is hiring! Fully remote, contractor position.

https://tooling.apache.org/job-posting.html

Teaching teachers how to use @Luanti : world edit, terraform and blockexchange

#Luanti

Finally went through the Firefox config to disable the AI features.
ALL of them were set to *true* except for 'browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled'. I never consented to any use of AI. So much for 'opt-in'. Thanks for nothing, Firefox.

#Firefox #FuckAI

@catsalad @futurebird Lucy was not keen on Maddie when Maddie first arrived. But it was in the “bark! bark! bark! You are a strange live thing in my territory! Get out! bark! bark! bark!” kind of way. Maddie pretty much ignored Lucy until Lucy acclimated—which took a couple of months. Now we have cute photos of them snuggling together.

Maddie initiates play occasionally. And she does it with canine signaling—front crouched down, butt up, tail waving. I suspect she learned this from Lucy. Maddie was very young and feral when we got her, so I don’t think she got much in the way of feline role models.

chatcontrol

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #eu #chatcontrol #openbsd

New platypus just dropped

We had a really important conversation on the Find Out Pod last week about what it means to be a true ally to the Trans community.

And why it's incredibly important to listen to the community if you're going to advocate for them.

Would love your thoughts on how we can be better allies to the Trans community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDo33XgNqpA
#transgender

We had a really important conversation on the Find Out Pod last week about what it means to be a true ally to the Trans community.

And why it's incredibly important to listen to the community if you're going to advocate for them.

Would love your thoughts on how we can be better allies to the Trans community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDo33XgNqpA
#transgender

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel/115599160952274592

Here's the thing about this, if MS can override or ignore Group Policy settings for Copilot, it can do so for anything else and that seems bad.
It seems bad, because it is bad.
Further proof MS can not be trusted.
I say this as a long time Windows user and admin, going back even before my MCSE+I in NT4.

Last week I had the honour of being installed as the Rector of @dundeeuni. I spoke about the value of education to society. I was also pleased to engage with activists in Aberdeen and campaigners for sex workers' rights.

Toot v26.0 has been released!

https://toot.to/

This long-awaited update brings a UI refresh for iOS 26, and support for quote toots. Also, even device on older iOS versions get some of the UI improvements. There are many other smaller improvements and bug fixes as well, such as better support for filters. There might even be new mystery features?

A big thanks to everyone who helped out to beta test this release. Thanks to them, it is far more stable than it would have otherwise been!