Mastodawn

Source: "Internet" 🫣

Edit: Apparently, the original images are due to Allie Brosh at https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ . Still don't know who added the text.

NeoFox 6d ago

PSA: there's a new spam campaign hitting fedi, this one claims to be raising money for insulin and usually has a banner saying "black lives matter" or another progressive slogan.

You can recognize it in the usual ways:
1. Brand-new accounts doing nothing but ask for money.
2. Cold-messaging strangers with personal requests for a boost or donation.
3. Identical or near-identical accounts appearing all over fedi, primarily on open-registration instances.

If you see these accounts or get pinged by them, don't panic! Just report the profile and let your moderators handle it. The image below is an example of what to look out for.

Update: the spammers have adjusted their format a bit, see these posts for details:
- https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/114744923583539270
- https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/114745221813651432

Update 2: This particular round of spam also has a new trick, which is immediately blocking remote instance staff after they create an account. Fortunately, this does not prevent them from being reported! Just continue to report as usual, and moderators can view the content through their report UI (on Mastodon / Akkoma) or by switching accounts (on Misskey / Sharkey).

#PSA #Spam #Scam #FediSpam #MastoSpam #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

NeoFox Jun 25

Em, Shrimp Borg

Jun 25

Just a reminder:
You can do the thing. You don’t need permission. You don't need to "level up your skill". You can just do it.

NeoFox Jun 25

Maddy

🏳️‍⚧️ - Proud plant parent 🪴Jun 25

I do not like middle-click paste

I would not like it in my browser
I would not like it in my terminal
I would not like it here or there
I would not like it anywhere

I do not like it, [various Linux distributions]
I do not like middle-click paste

NeoFox Jun 25

wyatt Apr 29

WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

NeoFox Jun 25

catboots Jun 24

mewwww! #makeaterriblecomicday2025

Trump administration may sell deep-sea mining leases at startup’s urging https://tcrn.ch/4jb4FuJ

Trump administration may sell deep-sea mining leases at startup’s urging | TechCrunch

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.

TechCrunch

NeoFox May 21

The Verge May 21

Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search https://www.theverge.com/news/671711/google-ai-overviews-search-publisher-data-choice

Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search

Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results because it’s ‘evolving into a space for monetisation.’

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