@dasJot

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Hello, Mastodon! I'm so excited to be here. My name is Kate, and I'm a small-batch leatherworker creating meaningful, handcrafted items with a focus on (bracelets!!) durability and timeless design. I believe in slow craft and the power of beautiful items made with purpose.

I'd love to connect with other artisans, makers, and anyone who appreciates handmade goods with a story. Say hi and tell me about your craft!

#Luckysevenleather #handmade #leatherwork #slowcraft #makersgonnamake #crafts

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
I like how the search engine is the product instead of me .
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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I am looking for someone from #italy that used the online handle Lex Tutor from at least 2010-2019. Lex hates #spam and was very vocal about spam groups.

If the #mastodon community can help me find the real person, I would be grateful..

Lex had insights into criminals that we are hunting today.. and I would love to interview them.

Appreciate the boosts to see if the Kevin Bacon game will work.

#cybercrime #scam

A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at https://www.magnumdb.com

This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.

Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.

#Windows #SysadminLife

The Magic Number Database | MagnumDB

The Magic Number Database. Type a value and it will return the corresponding constant, and vice versa. Contains 360,000 values!

It blows my mind that in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five, the most efficient and effective way of transferring a file from one device to another remains emailing it to yourself as an attachment.

Context is: my Markov Tarpit is ready for deployment, and I need to figure out the heuristics around trapping LLM scrapers in it
https://git.rys.io/libre/markov-tarpit

3/3

Libre / Markov Tarpit · GitLab

GitLab Community Edition

GitLab

iOS 26 beta broke the only thing that Siri has ever been reliably good for.

“Set a timer for X minutes” now results in this, rather than a timer being set.

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... und weitersagen!

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Diese fünf Werbelügen sind besonders dreist. Aber welche ist am dreistesten? Sie entscheiden!!

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The German foreign office tells the US Secretary of State to put a sock in it.
🤜💥🫨

Thanks for the tip @tian.

@randahl @tian Lecturing #Germany on how to deal with #fascists takes some nerve. I would say it takes balls, but we know #MarcoRubio put his in a blind trust years ago.
@BruceMirken yep. I'm not a believer, but the story about the beam and the mote comes to mind…
@randahl @tian

@randahl @tian That’s Rubio perpetuating the libertarian scam; that ”democracy” equals a lack of of oversight.

It does not. Democracy rests on enforcing the will of the majority equally on everyone. That enforcement comes from a central authority that is checked by the rule of law.

@gimulnautti @randahl @tian
Exactly. To use petulant words against Rubio, if the AfD have nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear.

@gimulnautti

And that needs to be said. People tend to forget.

The wild west is cool until a drunken gunman shoots you in the back just for fun.

@randahl @tian Who wants to listen to more incompetent American politicians whose only skills are divisiveness and misinformation?

@randahl @tian

someday the usa will have the same policy rubio is attacking

learned the hard way with much suffering, like europe experienced

or the usa won't

because there will be no more usa because they didn't have the policy

the lesson from tolerating intolerance is very simple

but some think we extend freedom to those who wish to destroy freedom, and have absolutely no idea where that leads

others do know where it leads. and they are shouting warnings

or rubbing their hands in glee

@randahl #AfD ‼️ "The ruling by the BfV is unlikely to put people off supporting the AfD.

Finding a way to reduce the AfD has been at top of the agenda among all of the political parties.

Merz would like to be seen as a pragmatic rationalist, aiming to reduce the AfD to what he refers to as the “marginal phenomenon” it once was by addressing the nation’s concerns, taking the wind out of the sails of the AfD’s successful modus operandi of inciting fear and insecurity."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/afd-extremist-label-sets-up-political-high-wire-act-for-friedrich-merz

AfD ‘extremist’ label sets up political high-wire act for Friedrich Merz

Incoming chancellor must now decide whether to ban flourishing far-right party amid widespread discontent

The Guardian

@ricoroswallpedersen @randahl Instead, Merz and prominent heads of his party (CDU) have been copying the AfD's playbook for months: inciting fear, attacking "woke ideology", attacking green energy projects. This has only made his party lose voters and the AfD gain them. His (and the media's) barrage of right-wing talking points over the past 12 months has made the topic of immigration from a side issue to it being election-defining.

Merz is a disgrace. But he's happy to soak up the AfD voters.

@randahl @compfu 💣 The political environment sounds explosive. We need each other more than ever in Europe. We need Germany. I hope Germany finds democratic ways to solve the many issue.

@compfu @ricoroswallpedersen @randahl

Merz promised to cut support for afD by 50%. Seems he's not succeeding. Or he was telling lies about his ambitions yet another time.

@randahl @tian The responses on twitter are... mindboggling...

@randahl I'm trying to wrap my head around this...

The US Secretary of State. The top diplomat of the most powerful country on the planet...was baited into a pissing match on social media.

We are so utterly and completely cooked.

@randahl @tian
marco rubio is saying this because of political interest of afd, related to elon musk. if party would be far-left, marco would be silent.

marco rubio is just one very sad case in gop. he used to be some kind alternate force within gop, now he is standard orange licker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Movement

finland had far-right movement in the past. it was banned on laws, which were intended against far-left.

Lapua Movement - Wikipedia

@randahl @tian Go Germany! Don't be a disappointment like everyone else.
@randahl @tian
Sadly, this is the the foreign office of the outgoing - Green / SPD - government.
I wouldn’t expect such a response from the incoming government.
@randahl @tian right now I think of Huntington's clash of civilization and this exchange shows how wrong he was
@randahl @tian Democracy is not in #Marcos book..
@randahl
Ich fand es übrigens schade, dass die @tagesschau nicht den zweiten Teil der Nachricht übersetzte, als sie darüber berichtete. Das wäre für einige Deutsche hier auch sehr wichtig gewesen.
@tian @trending_bot
@beandev Den Teil "What is truly extremist ..."??

@martinrust
Nein, das: "We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped."

Das wäre als Statement in der Tagesschau gut angebracht gewesen.

@randahl @tian

The far-right #AfD party from Germany needs democracy for the time being, just as the Nazis in Nazi Germany once needed it.

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." — Joseph Goebbels

@osz I immediately thought of Farage when he was elected to the EU parliament. Sat there and caused trouble, fiddled with his expenses and just used the whole situation for his own benefit.

@randahl @tian

@randahl
Hay "AfD" all'yall can take yer White supremacy-n-shove it up yer Hershey Highways.
GOD/JESUS Spitz on WHITE supremacy like eedid at Gettysburg-n-at STALINGRAD,
ya stupid Fuckin Immature Man-Babies!!!
@randahl @tian He does not see the irony of the nerd platoon of DOGE surveilling US citizens…
@randahl @tian@toot.kif.rocks When a member of the current US administration tells you you did something wrong, you know you did everything right.
@randahl @tian Nazis need to be stopped. They can’t be allowed to grow into an infestation like the MAGAts we have in the USA.
@randahl It's often hard to tell if Rubio is as stupid as he sounds, but I won't bet against it.

@randahl @tian

Inside little Marco is a big ass Bautista just raging to get out.