Dusk to Don :raccoon:

dad. musician. 
software engineer for fun and sustenance

#AntiCapitalism 
#Synth
 #USPol 
#Parenting 
#WebDev
 #UX 
#Humor

 https://beige.party at heart. 

#Fedi23

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2026-04-17 10:57:20 UTC

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(Context: #USPol )
Q: What does a Democrat hate more than a Republican?
A: Anything that threatens the two party system that keeps both parties in power (and in money)

2026-04-14 16:00:23 UTC

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Interesting take / prediction, thx for sharing!
> Want E2EE? Use PGP/GPG and do it yourself.
This bit doesn't fly with me; E2EE is For The People. :actie:
My sense is that "just roll your own" ignores the accessibility gap; that the DIY approach may be too complex for others.
(Admittedly not speaking from experience; I'm a #Signal user which is quite user-friendly)

2026-03-24 02:37:23 UTC

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Beautiful!
Love all your posts, @npub15w9…2huq !
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2026-03-18 16:47:15 UTC

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Inspired by your excellent post!
https://github.com/nicofff/plumbing_rs
(I'm not the author of this repo, but someone I shared your article with built this)

2026-02-17 07:25:05 UTC

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More prescient by the day:
❝If you're a non-binary in your early 20s, buy an entire pallet of old X230
ThinkPads
Go into debt if you have to
This is not satire. You can get 1,900lbs of ThinkPad for $500
And if you buy it right it will hold its value if not appreciate❞
#meme #memes
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2026-02-16 13:56:40 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116079436848872126
Another fantastic read from @npub1fdr…lvhs
❝They conclude that there's a community-member's "trilemma": a set of three priorities that can never be fully satisfied by any group. The trilemma consists of users' need to find:
a) A community of like-minded people;
b) Useful information; and
c) The largest possible audience.❞
#note1lwq…z7tc

2026-02-07 05:06:00 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022875122371139
Many, myself included, have only a dim sense of the absurd and impossible set of hoops immigrants to the US are expected to jump through immigrating “the right way”
Corey shares the experience of him and his family.
Great article.
#note16n0…6crv

2026-02-02 14:44:22 UTC

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Well said. Demand our journalists write headlines with “percentage of gross/net profits” or, like you use, “days/hours to recoup”
Raw “amount paid” is largely meaningless at the scale at which these companies operate

2025-12-05 02:44:10 UTC

1/2 Very much enjoying the Bechdel Cast LIVE on the topic of the Star Wars prequels.
Here is EVERY TIME WOMEN INTERACT in the Star Wars prequels (it’s 2.5 minutes long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-O0_OPQQ4  
Live podcast recording, CW, includes Obi Wan + Darth Maul erotic fan fiction 😆
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-bechdel-cast-30089535/episode/star-wars-the-prequels-episodes-i-310850323/  
And here, dear reader, is Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’s ex-wife, describing her reaction to The Phantom Menace (I learned of this from the podcast): 
❝George is, in his heart and soul, a good guy and a talented filmmaker. I wish he would’ve kept directing [other kinds of] movies. But when I went to see Episode I — I had a friend who worked at ILM, who took me as a guest to a preview — I cried. I cried because I didn’t think it was very good. And I thought he had such a rich vein to mine, a rich palette to tell stories with. He had all those characters. I thought it was weird that the story was about this little boy who looked like he was six years old, but then later on he’s supposed to get with this princess who looked like she was twenty years old. There were things I didn’t like about the casting, and things I didn’t like about the story…it was a lot of eye candy.  ❞
#StarWars #bechdelTest

2025-09-04 01:48:18 UTC

Hey, do you remember that time when we lost the battle for net neutrality in the U.S.?
WELP, the fuckfaces over at Spectrum, my ISP, just started throttling my instance.
Unusable without a VPN; just comin’ in as a trickle
Downloading example 8MB .mp4 from todon . eu via curl.
With VPN:
Speed: 1.8MB/s
Time: 4.8 seconds
Without VPN:
Speed: 22kB/s
Time: 6.5 minutes
#netNeutrality #mastodon #todon

2025-08-29 17:45:14 UTC

:disability_flag: :neorat_disabled:
My disabled spouse is currently energized around building a local mutual aide app, with a focus on disabled folk (iOS & Android)
[boosts appreciated! 🙏 ]
(I would be the lead dev)
Before I dive into a project like this, I like to double-check that there aren’t already solutions out there that work.
Know of anything that would work?
Any advice?
Ping me if you wanna help build it 😁
It’d be a single-server private social network, otherwise I’d look into using ActivityPub. :activitypub:
Here’s the draft of the specs / user stories:
Role: everyone
I can create a profile and a Care Manual by answering prompts
I can post and view calendar events
I can upload a photo to my profile
I can view a newsfeed of support requests and offers
I can like, repost, and comment on a support request / support offering
Role: person seeking support
I can post a request for support
Role: person who wants to offer support
I can view another person‘s profile on how they would like to receive support aka their Care Manual
I can post an offering of support
#mutualAid #disabled #disability #dev #iOS

2025-07-31 01:54:12 UTC

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Me, to my Signal message thread with some friends:
"Omg, I no longer have to wonder how to explain mastodon to people"
❝I'm incredibly unpopular on a decentralized microblogging network❞
(with thanks to @npub1xcd…yvjh for this brilliant find https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114943247172329792
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2025-07-11 17:53:43 UTC

Explicitly chill.
#brianEno #humor #music #ambient
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2025-07-11 02:51:37 UTC

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I initially read this as "Send you the leopards", which I also liked and it made me think of this:
https://xkcd.com/325/

2025-06-26 19:41:50 UTC

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Happy new machine to ya!
This may or may not be appealing to your use case, but I've really enjoyed re-mapping my caps lock to CTRL, since I do a lot more with that key than I do shouting with my keyboard.
If you're re-learning anyways, could be something to consider.

2025-06-19 15:27:03 UTC

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Your article mentions Venmo's "public by default" transactions . . .
. . . which reminds me of this entertaining and informative website, which follows the tales, pieced together by their public feed of transactions, of the following folks:
The Venmo God
The Cannabis Retailer
The Corn Dealer
The Lovers
The YOLOist
The All Americans
https://publicbydefault.fyi/
#privacy
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2025-06-07 16:54:47 UTC

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Robert quoted Arendt in that episode ⬆️:
❝Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.❞
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
👀 SOUND LIKE ANYONE WE KNOW??
#fascism
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2025-06-07 16:43:05 UTC

#behindTheBastards is a great podcast.
**Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism**
[quote from Part 2]
❝The maintenance of every border implies violence. And this is both physical borders like the border between us in Mexico, and like what you're seeing right now with the attempt to legislate like what counts as a woman, with all these anti-trans things. Both of those borders are maintained by men with guns, with violence. There's the threat of violence behind building every one of those borders. If you cross this border, or at least cross it in the wrong way, force will be used against you. Every democracy does this, and it does this not just in terms of who can enter the country, but who gets to vote.
[...]
. . . because what you do as the reactionary is you find that border wherever it exists, and you start pushing inward. And as you start pushing inward from that border, you will start fracturing the democratic consensus that exists until you can destroy democracy. And that's how you gain power as a reactionary movement within a liberal That's how you destroy liberalism. You find the border that they placed and you start pushing inwards. That's what Carl realizes, and that's what he lays out, and it works today as well as it did back then.❞
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/
#fascism

2025-05-30 17:34:05 UTC

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💯💯💯
His lies are just . . . so blatant, so constant.
A compilation site of them:
https://elonmusk.today/
#musk #elonMusk #tesla

2025-05-29 15:06:00 UTC

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*pride husky has entered the chat*
🌈 🐺
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2025-05-17 02:31:35 UTC

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2025-05-04 14:22:30 UTC

Pic 1: A wild “Pink Lady’s Slipper” orchid found on a favorite mountain hike in #WNC
Pic 2: I was appreciating the various shades of the sections of the wet rock.
#silentSunday #mosstodon #lichenSubscribe
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2025-03-25 03:05:58 UTC

Y'all. The "oops I texted my war plans to a reporter on #Signal " content on Mastodon's Explore feed right now is just *chef's kiss*
Good work. I knew I could count on you.
:blobpatraccoon:

2025-03-05 15:31:25 UTC

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Versioning
Given a version number PROUD.DEFAULT.SHAME, increment the:
PROUD version when you make changes you are really proud of
DEFAULT version when you make a release that's okay
SHAME version when you are fixing things that are too embarrassing to admit
https://pridever.org/
#dev
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2025-02-06 13:53:46 UTC

This is how I feel about the entire lineup of generative #AI product offerings from #Meta and #Google
#gemini #humor
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2025-02-02 17:42:20 UTC

#AskFedi (would love your support in boosting, TYIA! :goose_honk: )
I maaaay be writing a piece on Mastodon + Fediverse for the radical free-speech zine Slingshot Collective?
https://slingshotcollective.org/
(Anarchist / Socialist vibes, founded in Berkeley, CA)
...if I can find the time.
⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘
❓ My question for YOU:
What are the specific weaknesses / shortcomings of Mastodon's approach to moderation, specifically as it relates to shitty speech directed at fem, trans, black, and other marginalized communities.
⭐ I'm not explicitly asking for additional labor from e.g. #blackMastodon (though it's welcome if you care to share)
⭐ I'm seeking previously-posted perspectives from individuals from marginalized communities who have been negatively impacted by the way that moderation is structured in #ActivityPub
Part of my rough current understanding of (one of) the issues:
If person A posts post 1, and person B comments [a shitty] reply 2, reply 2 remains visible and attached to post 1, unless there are instance-level blocking actions taken. Do I have that right?
Thanks all!
👋

2025-01-29 04:38:12 UTC

#meme #memes #humor #outkast
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2025-01-24 12:23:39 UTC

If you were looking for a band name with a little SEO ✨ magic, you could do worse than "The Price of Eggs"

2025-01-05 04:39:59 UTC

Satire and absurd. It goes places.
Made me giggle.
«Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfu39l0kxg
#humor

2024-12-26 15:52:35 UTC

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Happy to see that `fuckyou` and `whatever` are on the list; that's the kind of energy I bring to my passwords.
Also pleased and surprised to see `blink182`.
~~~~~
This will never get old for me:
> Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me
> I think it should be renamed to 10_million_password_list_top_1000_except_dolphins.txt
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

2024-12-25 19:48:21 UTC

👋 New server, who dis!?
Migrating because I'm not keen on staying on a server in the 🇺🇸.
I'm a software engineer in North Carolina, #synth fanatic, and a father of a five-year-old.
Pic is a scene I was lucky enough to witness this morning.
#introduction #silentSunday
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2024-12-23 20:09:48 UTC

Regarding o3, a new "chain of thought" model recently demoed:
OpenAI is getting really creative working around the increasingly apparent limitations of current LLM tech, and seeking to distract from the fact that GPT-5 is late and wildly expensive (both in $ and environmental cost) to train and run.
Thanks, as always, to @npub1fef…6m9z for the thoughtful analysis:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/o3-agi-the-art-of-the-demo-and-what?publication_id=888615&post_id=153450669
WSJ:
"The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive”
http://archive.today/okSpn
#ai #OpenAI
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2024-12-10 21:55:44 UTC

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Ah, SF . . .
More context, if folk are curious:
> Stop Hiring Humans
https://gizmodo.com/ai-firms-stop-hiring-humans-billboard-campaign-sparks-outrage-2000536368
This is, of course, the promise of much of the AI hype. Hugely over-promising, IMO, in a lot of arenas.