Mastodawn

"The White House has assured King Charles that he will be safe during his visit because there are no assassination attempts scheduled today."

Simon Zerafa 2h ago

Melancholic Mediocrity

4h ago

Almost anyone who's benefited from Mutual Aid will testify that it literally changes lives. It is something that I've come to view as a personally inspiring, almost sacred gift.

I've been meaning for awhile to start posting a series of primers on Mutual Aid fundraising based on my experiences on the Fedi; I want to help others to do so effectively and respectfully rather than pushy. It reflects better on all of us.

I was tagged in one of 300 identical posts from an account in its first 24hrs of existence tagging folks with no prior interaction that reminded me I should probably get working on that.

Simon Zerafa 2h ago

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Aho 2h ago

@MichaelRoss curly brackets can be useful when you create files or paths in a script

mkdir -p /mnt/{hdd,ssd,floppy}

and suddenly you have
/mnt/hdd
/mnt/ssd
/mnt/floppy

say you need to create file in each of the directories

touch /mnt/{hdd,ssd,floppy}/if_you_see_this_its_unmounted

Simon Zerafa 2h ago

A bot witha.name 2h ago

New configuration detected for DDosia. Hosts:
* www.niassembly.gov.uk
* www.investni.com
* www.southernwater.co.uk
* buckfastleigh.gov.uk
* evolvedynamics.com
* www.translink.co.uk
* www.wessexwater.co.uk #ThreatIntel #Ddosia #NoName
* https://witha.name/data/2026-04-28_08-05-07_DDoSia-target-list-full.json
* https://witha.name/data/2026-04-28_08-05-07_DDoSia-target-list.csv

Simon Zerafa 3h ago

JA Westenberg 6h ago

the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and starting a podcast

Simon Zerafa 3h ago

Vibe Coding™

Speedrun your way to
Technical Debt and
Ultimate Enshitification!

😀👍

Full-size HDMI, a PoE version, and an unfortunate price update!

https://jetkvm.com/blog/new-internals-new-ports-price-update

→ microSD instead of soldered eMMC. Storage doubles to 32 GB.
→ Full-size HDMI & new extension port
→ PoE version coming. $119. One cable for power and network
→ MSRP moves from $89 to $103

Simon Zerafa 20h ago

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Open Rights Group 20h ago

AI is not neutral. It can discriminate and make mistakes.

It shouldn't be used to change information that informs life-changing asylum assessments. Without adequate safeguards, there's a risk that unlawful or unfair decisions may result.

Ask your MP (UK) to stand against the use of AI tools in asylum ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ban-ai-tools-asylum-decision-making

#AI #asylum #immigration #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

Ban AI tools in asylum decision making

Take action! What’s the problem? The Home Office is using two AI tools: The Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) tool uses ChatGPT-4 to summarise asylum interview transcripts. The Asylum Policy Search (APS) tool summarises country Policy and Information Notes (CPINs), guidance documents, and Country of Origin Information (COI) reports. The Home Office’s own evaluation revealed that 9% of the ACS AI-generated summaries were so flawed they had to be removed from the pilot. It also found that 23% of caseworkers lacked full confidence in the tools’ outputs.

Open Rights Group

Simon Zerafa 20h ago

🆎20h ago

This https://bugherd.com/ actually exists.

They called a thing "bugherd".

Office:

"What is that you're working on?"

"It's Bugherd"

"Oh sorry to hear that, hopefully you can fix it?"

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