Notices by Joshua Byrd 🛸 (phocks@bne.social)

I don't get this social media age ban thing like kids aren't just gonna push the "yes I'm over the required age" button on the app anyway like I did as a kid. It's not hard. I turned out fine hahahlsjd

Love this bit at the end of this article.

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The Onion promotes itself as "the world's leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events".

It claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/-the-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-out-of-bankruptcy/104603560

The US election result is too close to call, but Donald Trump currently has the edge. Use our interactive election map to see how the swing states will decide the outcome. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-06/election-results-map-interactive/104557846

#UsPol #Election #Interactive #News

OK so I guess I'm going to keep doing these because it's pretty fun. I've found the script that loads the paywall for The Washington Post. Simply block `washingtonpost.com/subscribe/static/tetro-client/fusion/tetro.min.js` with your favourite URL blocking extension (I use AdNauseum) and the paywall doesn't show up. For educational & research purposes only. Please remember to support journalism if you're able to. Have fun! https://www.washingtonpost.com

New from us at Story Lab: "We hacked a robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera"

The largest home robotics company in the world has failed to fix security issues with its robot vacuums despite being warned about them last year.

Without even entering the building, we were able to silently take photos of the (consenting) owner of a device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.

And then things got even creepier.

(Excellent work on this @jules and the whole team)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/robot-vacuum-hacked-photos-camera-audio/104414020 👀

Forget Spotify. I have discovered the pinnacle of music discovery. Purchase a bunch of old MiniDiscs online and see what you get. Currently listening to Mr Bombastic by Shaggy. So good. 💽

Honestly this shit is ridiculous

Seeing as Vercel started trying to charge me for blob storage on my photoblog I was looking for alternative solutions to keep posting some happy snaps from this old Fujifilm camera I got a little while ago. Couldn't really find any other options, so I figured why not try self-hosting a Pixelfed instance? The installation seems a little involved, but let's try it. First step, get PHP-FPM going on NGINX https://pixel.byrd.ws/info.php

Holy moly the Pixelfed install process is involved af

Apparently there's some kind of debate going on pretty soon

I miss when this was what the future looked like 💽

@BeAware boosts are definitely showing up for me in the lists

Here's a #Mastodon tip to help clean up your home timeline. Pop any very frequent posters/boosters in a list with "Hide these posts from home" toggled. Pretty much the same as muting them but then you can check that list from time to time if you want. 😄

@feld Ahhhh yes! Thank you so much. That's the one!

Accidentally removed a post from my bookmarks and it immediately disappeared now it's gone forever unless I can somehow find it again. They really should have a confirm dialogue on that. Anyone got that post about the Intel CPU Native American woven rug handy??

Looks like rain's on the way

You can't tell me Instagram is not listening to our conversations when this pops up right after we're done dealing with a huge tantrum and are wondering if there's some kind of parenting hack to get kids to listen to what they're told lmao 🙃

I bought more RAM because the original RAM I bought wasn't going to arrive until Monday so now this RAM should arrive by tomorrow and I'll be happy. Yes I have a problem.

@voxpelli that sounds pretty good. If only I could move to Sweden haha

I swear I'm this close 🤏 to throwing the towel in and moving to a country that doesn't put property investor and landlord profits over the lives of its citizens (if such a place even exists) because this shit just ain't sustainable