Mastodawn

An FYI to folk booking tickets online: if you notice price jumps between the first time you look and when you are ready to book, delete cache and empty cookies. The airline deleted their post a short time later because someone was being too helpful.

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Dominic Hopton Apr 26

Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.

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#catsofmastodon #caturday

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Lisa 🦔 [Copy Moon Joy]1d ago

Another volume-up for squeaks 🥹.

She was hunting for finger nipples 😅
#Baturday #BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry

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Que 1d ago

An academic dishonesty charge is serious, call the bluff. Sit them down in front of the principle. Do it over and over and over.

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As a parent, I wouldn’t be wasting my time brute forcing AI systems. I’d be spending that time effecting change. Make the teacher flag my kid for cheating, call them to account. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…

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SwiftOnSecurity 2d ago

Damn. Ding ding ding ding. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXw3DgiKWg1/

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Viss 4d ago

right now, every single remote code vuln that will lead to command injection or rce will make this #copyfail thing a very very big deal.

so all those qa servers and staging servers and test boxes you think nobody gives a shit about that are just flapping out there in the public, not being logged, not in the siem, not getting alerted on, not getting patched?

all those are gonna catch the "oops attackers overwrote sshd to steal creds" disease.

or cryptominers. or proxies.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 5d ago

Everyone who spins up a server, develops an app, or otherwise hosts others’ speech in the Open Social Web has skin in the game when it comes to defending Section 230. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-social-web-needs-section-230-survive #fediverse #section230 #opensocialweb

The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive

The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshitified corporate giants. But while these incumbents can overcome multimillion-dollar lawsuits, the small host revolution could be picked off one by one without the protections offered by Section 230.

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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116443273420179996

I would rather read your spelling errors than glazed AI slop.