Flipboard.social is now running the latest Mastodon 4.3 release. @Gargron and team have taken the experience to a whole new level of usefulness, usability and control.

I especially like that journalists can now link their articles directly to their fediverse profile. As X continues to disdain journalists, Mastodon is helping to support their work.

Check out all the details here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

me: *screaming into the abyss*

the abyss: who gave you this number

The cat just went over to the HomePod mini on my desk, meowed at it, and Siri said "sure here is some music for you" and the cat perched on the window sill listening to Garbage and Elliott Smith.

I just want to know how long this has been going on.

Active shooter at UNLV in Las Vegas

Many injured, 3 + dead

UNLV state that the shooter has been contained but there are reports of a possible second shooter

So far in 2023:
40,053 gun deaths
630 mass shootings
1,578 children under 18 killed by gun violence

…hey. It’s the guns

🦅🇺🇸

Youtube's tantrum escalates.

Forced to concede that they cannot outpace ad blocking extensions, parent company Google artificially limits the rate of extension updates in Chrome.

No justification for the user experience is given, and in fact this makes chrome users more vulnerable to attacks injected via ads.

#tech #news #enshittification

https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates/