@fanf@mendeddrum.orghmm, our crappy access point has terrible bufferbloat when the offspring is downloading stuff on the pc
the pc is now running linux mint, which has fq_codel by default, but evidently that’s ineffective for an edge device
so i fettled it to use bbr instead of reno congestion control, while giving a lecture on why this might help with buffer bloat
we shall see if it actually helps…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… And Typst produces Tagged PDF by default: https://typst.app/docs/reference/pdf/
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… And Typst produces Tagged PDF by default: https://typst.app/docs/reference/pdf/
@laimis@mstdn.socialplaying whack-a-mole with app notifications that get enabled by default when you get a new phone. geez, how do people get anything done if they just keep the defaults!
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaWhy is it that companies make you opt out or turn off features that they enable by default? How about asking us first, get our permission. Also, STOP NAGGING WHEN WE TELL YOU NO!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza""One year from now, with the release of #Chrome 154 in October 2026, […] Chrome will ask for the user's permission before the first access to any public site without HTTPS.""
https://s…
@kirenida@social.linux.pizza
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgStill thinking about this on the way home...
"maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas. "
#NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.
https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaI wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHuh. This is kinda cool.
"Windows Media Player Legacy" - the version that does CD rips and plays MIDI files - is hidden but available for Windows 11.
✅ Install or Uninstall Windows Media Player Legacy app in Windows 11 | Windows 11 Forum
https://www.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzRussia pressures Apple to make Russian search engines default on locally-sold iPhones https://therecord.media/russia-apple-search-engine-default
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/
@timbray@cosocial.caTIL 2 things about Slack that surprised me:
PSA 1: Slack doesn’t have a “Block” function. It does however have a “Hide” function.
PSA 2: By default, Slack includes everyone’s email address in the info you get when you right-click on them and view their profile. Thankfully, this can be turned off.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis is sick, evil, and a very intentional infliction of pain.
Especially so when it is noted that that El Cheato's mass pardons and commutations have cheated many victims (and the government) who are owed restitution by criminals.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5653…
@compfu@mograph.socialGerman has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
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@frankel@mastodon.top
@ellie@ellieayla.net@… I really don't understand why everyone on big instances like mastodon.social don't just silence/limit mastodon.social by default.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euWhere's the fun in using a mid to high [and at that, an AMD] GPU for Linux gaming? 🙂 Even now, most gamers are broke by default, so I am using my second budget build that I had set aside for Win11 to do my Windows chores, but have completely migrated to Linux now, to showcase how real™ men™ overcome difficulties and optimise settings even on garbage PCs 😃
Linux Budget Gaming - Detroit: Become Human - GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB ( i5-13400F)
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve been really interested in both aspects of this post:
1. ICE right-wing fringe groups conspicuously steered clear of protests yesterday in a way that suggests that orders went out (whose?) and/or (I’m guessing “and”) that there’s a sense from those people that they don’t have public support and don’t have free license to instigate violence.
2. Police went out of their way to put on a friendly face. I’ve been getting vibes that some local police resent ICE — “this is OUR turf, beating up Black and brown people was OUR job” — and, contrary to what we and the regime might expect, ICE isn’t always getting free support by default from that quarter.
Caveats: No solid conclusions here, just reading vibes. And even if it is actually true for now, all of this can shift on a dime. Still, sure is notable. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m3krd3w4s22k
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInstagram overhauls the app for teen users with age-gating, including showing age-appropriate content to Teen Accounts by default, guided by PG-13 movie ratings (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/instagram-says-making-…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social
@adulau@infosec.exchangeWhile testing some new misp-modules, such as the OpenAPI interface, I discovered a strange behavior in Firefox when trying to reach TCP port 6666, which is the default port used by misp-modules.
It seems Firefox blocks access to a predefined list of TCP ports, and this has been in place for quite some time, as you can see in the commit log.
If you want to override the blocked port list, there is an obscure setting called network.security.ports.banned.override.
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@aardrian@toot.cafeI'm thrilled people are discovering the HTML `<output>` element:
• https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alWell, Apple, making Safari 26.0.1 run like a dog’s breakfast on macOS Sequoia while also *not* providing a download for Safari 18.6¹ is definitely a choice.²
No way I’m breaking nearly half the apps I rely on daily by upgrading to Tahoe just to fix Safari so I guess I’ll be making Chromium my default (I use Orion a lot, especially since I pay for Kagi, but it has its issues like 1Password not working, etc.) And don’t get me started on Firefox³.
So, Apple, how about a little less …
@jtk@infosec.exchangeFirst time for everything. Ran into a hosting provider with a sshd_config that had PubkeyAuthentication set to no by default.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…
@jonippolito@digipres.clubEvery post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsI should really get a new external hard drive that comes with a cable with faster transfer speeds by default:
@joannalaine@hachyderm.ioA bunch of last-minute issues at work tracing a path back to “We didn’t know that they understood differently.”
Our company culture is “async by default,” which is making it even harder to evaluate “how are they understanding this?”
@manawyrm@chaos.socialPSA: Use the "accounturi" feature of Let's Encrypt CAA!
If you're hosting a safety/security-critical service, there's a way too unknown feature called "accounturi", that allows you to restrict TLS certificate issuance to a single Let's Encrypt account (and account private key).
You simply create a CAA record on your domain and put your LE account ID into it.
This means that attackers cannot issue TLS certificates and pull man-in-the-middle…
@nelson@tech.lgbtOpenAI has made a decision to encourage its users to form a parasocial relationship with ChatGPT. It's gross and dangerous. Also just not useful for serious use. But it will make their users more loyal and encourage psychological dependency.
GPT‑5.1 Instant, ChatGPT’s most used model, is now warmer by default and more conversational. Based on early testing, it often surprises people with its playfulness while remaining clear and useful.
(I really like ChatGPT and use it all the time. But this change is the exact opposite of what I want.)
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⏰ Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS): Up to 5 additional years of security patches after end-of-life - continuous CVE fixes, updated SBOMs, and audit compliance
🎯 Goal: Secure software supply chain from first line of code to production - secure by default for all 26 million developers in the container ecosystem
🌐 https://w…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukPlaying changing the number of 'experts' on an LLM - it's kind of interesting; Qwen3-next runs 10 by default, I can make it run a bit faster on my cpu by turning down to 4 and it's still OK.
@vyskocilm@witter.czTIL: Thorsten Kukuk works on no_new_privs/NoNewPrivs aka removing suid binaries from #openSUSE
Reading https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/no_new_privs/ I never realized how many such binaries exists.
@JSkier@social.linux.pizzaI gotta say, #cosmicdesktop gets many things right even in its alpha state. Using it right now. X11 apps and Electron garbage all work fine with fractional scaling. Can't say that about #gnome49. Oh, and quarter tiling by default! Optimistic for what the future brings for it.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org#Immich's search functionality is so dang powerful. It can search file metadata, OCR'd text, face recognition, and even by textual descriptions (”black cat on green grass”).
BUT you have to manually select the search mode. It is apparently not possible to "just search via every way". I think this should even be the default.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialVery strange thing happened with my files on the tab.digital @…… I noticed today they have been spontaneously encrypted; apparently not by some cryptoransomer, but a known bug that has plagued random users for at least two years. All the text files, regardless of file type, now start with the header HBEGIN:oc_encryption_module:OC_DEFAULT_MODULE:cipher:AES-256-CT…
@ian@phpc.socialAite folks, point me in the direction of good resources on creating bug bounty programs, given that they're by default a minefield.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza@…
A lot of empty words explaining absolutely nothing and also this:
> In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience.
Did they not run the model to generare tab group names on everyone by default, draining the battery of people for un AI feature absolutely not forced on people?
@newstik@social.heise.de
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaI was trying to run the Portracker container so I could get a quick overview of the ports currently in use on my server. I couldn't do it because the default port for this container is currently being used by another one. What a paradox!
#docker
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageQuantum Reservoir Computing for Credit Card Default Prediction on a Neutral Atom Platform
Giacomo Vitali, Chiara Vercellino, Paolo Viviani, Olivier Terzo, Bartolomeo Montrucchio, Valeria Zaffaroni, Francesca Cibrario, Christian Mattia, Giacomo Ranieri, Alessandro Sabatino, Francesco Bonazzi, Davide Corbelletto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04…
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaAnyone know of good lightweight Linux distros for #RaspberryPi?
Was trying to repurpose one of my Pies today...
The official Raspberry Pi OS runs some "cloud" services and has Raspberry Pi Connect installed by default.
Not enthusiastic to wait and see the next level of enshitiffication, so looked for an alternative.
Tried
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageShrinking the Kernel Attack Surface Through Static and Dynamic Syscall Limitation
Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0372…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageStrengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02859 https://…
@arXiv_statML_bot@mastoxiv.pageGeopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
Alvaro Ortiz, Tomasa Rodrigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.124…
@datascience@genomic.socialDo you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI am looking forward to my next hardware upgrades so I could contain Windows to a single PC that I'd absolutely need for Windows dependent stuff. I mean, now I am literally signed-in by default in Notepad?? And when I click my profile pic in its toolbar, it has one cheeky "Sign out" option??? I give up coping with this enshittified OS. Microsoft should pay me to use me as a research subject.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚙️ Print mode runs by default for non-interactive execution, interactive mode enabled via .i. filename marker (task.i.claude .md), _interactive frontmatter key, or -_i CLI flag
🌐 Remote URL imports cached at ~/.mdflow/cache/ with 1-hour TTL, use --no-cache to force fresh fetch, automatic .env file loading from markdown file directory with support for .env.local, .env.development, .env.production
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0ef79775-eadf-4cc9-b32c-e97b0eff816f
@jtk@infosec.exchangeHere's another new #hosting provider experience I wasn't expecting to see. Forky installed by default. I selected Debian 10, because that was the latest version in config form. Maybe they thought they were doing me a favor? The hardware isn't that new. If I wanted Ubuntu I would have chosen that.
Trixie aka Debian 13 just came out in August, Forky is the current"testin…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaThe C switch decision to do fallthrough by default is a clever idea at face value, but quite useless and often harmful.
I find it useless because it expands what you can do only before, not after. You can't have a case that adds extra statements after. A "break with condition" if you will.
Actually I think I can put a break inside an if statement....but I've never seen anyone doing it. Also it's very cluttery and unreadable.
And I hope everone knows why …
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza@… ariska pojkar har alltid god vandel by default, alltid
@arXiv_qfinGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Multimodal Approach to SME Credit Scoring Integrating Transaction and Ownership Networks
Sahab Zandi, Kamesh Korangi, Juan C. Moreno-Paredes, Mar\'ia \'Oskarsd\'ottir, Christophe Mues, Cristi\'an Bravo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09407
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems🤚 Free Saturday
👉 Saturday spent working on Free Software
Highlights from #Gentoo:
• #Gemato is now compatible with #FreePG and mostly compatible with #SequoiaPGP chameleon.
• Prepared patches to support FreePG and SequoiaPGP chameleon as "gpg" symlink providers.
• #FlexiBLAS is now enabled by default on ~arch.
• Finally finished working on #PkgCheck check for missing #PyPI provenance checks.
• gpy-list-pkg-impls now includes "does this package have tests?" state, can optionally include PythonCompatUpdate results from PkgCheck and output mIRC colors. In other words, our IRC bot will now tell us when dependencies let us port new packages to #Python 3.14, and whether these packages have tests.
@arXiv_nlinAO_bot@mastoxiv.pageTempological Control of Network Dynamics
Yuanzhao Zhang, Sean P. Cornelius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10926 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10926
@kulkesk@social.linux.pizza
@kingconsult@berlin.socialDon't miss this keynote by @… and @…!
> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults
📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam
> @…, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @… is doing to make a positive future possible.
#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25
