San Francisco, please vote no on D, E, and F. This mayor and his billionaire buddies already think they're above the law when it comes to public records requests, let's not give them even more power.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/01/daniel-lurie-text-messages-emails-public-records/ #sfpol

Indeed

@Unixbigot self-hosted Bitwarden, i.e. VaultWarden.

@quinta

plus the 1st term... which makes it even worse.

JUST SCHEDULED FLU & COVID VACCINES 4 THIS *RIDICULUS* HUMAN BODY EYE INHABIT

THATS RITE

2026/2027 COVID VACCINE IS NOW AVAILABLE

Encountered one of the best emails I've ever seen

#IMadeThis is a great hash tag to follow on here. You see so many amazing things and sometime you think "hey maybe I could do something like that... probably not as well... but? why not?"

That is the kind of thought that makes you slowly grow powerful and unstoppable in many many unexpected ways.

"I could do that."

Yes! You could!

I want to share my new favorite pottery tool with you all.

It is a real life porcupine needle! a great tool to get into those hard to reach spots for smoothing and compressing clay, it also has porcupine magic added to it!

#ceramic #clay #pottery #art #porcupine #handmade

@aerror Huh, I actually did for some reason, even though I was above the threshold. Though this has been going on for some days, and turning it off didn't change anything.

Breaking, exclusive and spicy, from me:

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#databreach #privacy #id #breach #fbi

@ellis

GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/01/1943244/gopro-says-its-moving-into-data-centers-as-part-of-a-285-million-merger?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

@eff you can also join the EFF and become a shameless booster for AI with the same tired arguments that other boosters use and all! Why haven’t y’all shared this article on your socials yet?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-courts-dont-rewrite-copyright-over-ai-hype

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117197677242218132

Companies were never your allies. I hope that is clear now.

I'm looking for Linux distro recs for an old PC and Fedi feels like the absolute best place for this lol

I've come into possession of my grandmother's old laptop, which in turn is my dad's old laptop, which broke and had its insides kinda fucked up

It's a 2010 ASUS N61J, not that it really matters cause about 10 years ago my dad managed to fry it while doing BIOS upgrade and the shop he took it to couldn't find the right parts so instead of the i7 this thing now has an i3 M350

It also has an Nvidia GeForce GT 325M, 6GB of RAM, and from my messing around in Windows 7 it's actually still a fully functional PC

So naturally, I wanna put Linux on it >:3

I want something that can, like, run on this thing, which shouldn't be That hard, but the main thing is the GPU stuff, I really want something that can support the dGPU and be able to switch to the Intel one if needed too. But it's really old and I know Linux has Issues with old Nvidia cards, and the older it is the worse it gets 💀

@randahl Dammit, Randahl, I followed you ages ago because you're clever and funny and have a funky hairstyle--and only now do I discover that you are also smart and insightful and I'm going to have to read your posts more closely.

In German, they don't say "thank you very much," they say "a villion dank's"

And that's beautiful

@adamgreenfield @blogdiva Not to be too much of a downer, but it looks like this site might currently be too new to be too useful. The idea seems to be that people submit and vote on the "standard" tools, and once a particular tool gets 10 net upvotes in a category, it gets recognized as "standard".

Zero tools are recognized.

Each category does seem to have a number of tools that are proposed, and the ones I've seen certainly aren't the worst choices, but bear this site with a grain of salt: these aren't the "industry standards", but they're "what a couple people think the industry standards are".

Hopefully, this site will take off and become a real repository of broad expertise.

The 3 Buddhist steps to repairing a relationship https://t.co/AE9oznWvuJ