Spammers have been programmatically creating accounts on Mastodon instances for years. Sometimes they post once and never again, sometimes they post on a schedule. Sometimes they never post, like a waiting botnet.
As Mastodon's anti-spam solutions are effectively nonexistent, most instances in our network require manual approval of new accounts. Up until recently, it was easy to spot a spammer; their join reasons were generic.
ChatGPT spammers have now arrived.
I wonder what would happen if you put a hidden form that is hidden from humans (as in, markup-wise, no human using a browser can see it) but the robot can see it.
Long ago when I ran a forum, doing this would result in the robot filling in the form that is invisible to normal people, and that would let me figure it out no matter what they did, so, even with hyper-advanced future technology, if they made that mistake today it'd ruin their attempt even today.
A little postal pigeon I drew to illustrate my gift card product page!
I had so much fun sticking with a single brush for this one! The 6b procreate brush really is amazing ๐
#art #Illustration #drawing #DigitalArt #Pigeon #Bird #Birds #artist #fediverse #fediart #Mastoart #Pixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon
รle Saint-Honorat (Fortified monastery of Abbey Lรฉrins)
Bronica SQ-A Camera
Bronica 50mm f3.5 Lens
Kodak TMax 400 Film
Rodinal R09 Developer 1:49
Ilford Rapid Fixer 1:9
Fotospeed RA50 Wetting Agent 1:200
#รleSaintHonorat #SaintHonorat #Honorat #IleSaintHonorat #Bronica #BronicaSQ #BronicaSQA #ZenzaBronicaSQ #mediumformat #filmphotography #photography #zenzanon50mm #Kodak #tmax400 #kodaktmax400 #Rodinal #R09 #Ilford #architecture #history #abbey #monastery
#Nextcloud has been a readers' top choice for many years in the CloudComputing-Insider's IT Awards, even receiving Platinum. ๐
Shall we try again this year?
Here's how to vote:
๐ nextcloud.com/blog/vote-for-neโฆ
Vote for Nextcloud in the CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards 2025 - Nextcloud
Help Nextcloud win as the best Cloud Content Management platform for the CloudComputing-Insider Awards 2025! Cast your vote now โ hereโs how.Katrin Goethals (Nextcloud)
Felicitamos a nuestras colegas de Chiapas Paralelo, que junto a Pie de Pรกgina recibieron el premio Tom Renner, la medalla IRE que destaca la labor periodรญstica sobre delincuencia con el trabajo โTrรกileres, Trampa para Migrantesโ, que pueden leer acรก:
chiapasparalelo.com/noticias/nโฆ
Trรกileres, trampa para migrantes
Cada vez mรกs migrantes son transportados en contenedores, un negocio clandestino que dejรณ al menos un centenar de muertos de 2018 a 2023 y es impulsado, en parte, por las restrictivas polรญticas migโฆChiapasparalelo
Hey #believeInFilm friends,
Harman's new product "Blue" has been leaked on Google.
Software can be hard, but it can also be funny. (Let's not judge the folks who have to deal with it too harshly ๐
Retailers are struggling (and failing) to keep Harmanโs โBlueโ release a secret.
Several online stores published the product photos, name, description, and price ahead of the launch date. Iโve been hearing about the leaks since Sunday, but even more shops seem to have mistakenly published all the details ahead of time.www.analog.cafe
Europe is saying no to Big Tech!
news.itsfoss.com/europe-open-sโฆ
Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira
European organizations are going all in for digital sovereignty with open source tools.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Build your own Capcom Summer Bundle with Fanatical gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/builโฆ
#Capcom #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux
Build your own Capcom Summer Bundle with Fanatical
A little Capcom for the weekend? Fanatical have released an easy way to save some monies in the Build your own Capcom Summer Bundle.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Try having a shotgun for an arm in the demo for Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/try-โฆ
#FPS #PCGaming #Gaming #GZDoom
Try having a shotgun for an arm in the demo for Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation
Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation is an upcoming retro-styled completely over the top FPS, it looks awesome and a demo is now live.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/supeโฆ
#SuperWEIRD #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming
SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring
SuperWEIRD is the next planned game from developers Luden.io, merging together a few different genres into something thoroughly odd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Quiero compartir con ustedes un fanzine que estuvimos trabajando este semestre con mi amigo Cristian, le pusimos "El software como medio: nociones bรกsicas de tecnologรญas libres para diseรฑadores de comunicaciรณn visual".
Forma parte de nuestro proyecto final de carrera de la licenciatura en diseรฑo de comunicaciรณn visual (Udelar). Es un primer acercamiento al software libre para la comunidad de estudiantes de esa carrera, asรญ como un pequeรฑo aporte de nuestra parte para la comunidad del software libre.
Todo el mundo mรกs que invitado a leerlo y compartir sensaciones, dejo un enlace para llegar ahรญ, leerlo, descargarlo, imprimirlo, lo que quieran. Nosotros tamos chochos.
fanzine-adsl.gitlab.io/fanzineโฆ 
Mil gracias a todas las personas que construyen esta comunidad de la que nos inspiramos todos los dรญas, en especial a la gente de @flisoluy que son lo mรกs. Abrazos!
felicidades por este trabajo! quรฉ maravilla su inspiraciรณn ๐
si lo suben completo a algรบn lugar (como archive?) tambiรฉn compartan link
@datauy @wikimedistasuy @derechosdigital @articaonline @proyectouna @radioslibres @inkscape @krita @cybercirujas
@sursiendo muchas gracias! ๐
compartimos el enlace de archive:
archive.org/details/fanzine-elโฆ
FANZINE El Software Como Medio : Gastรณn Hannay, Cristian Recoba : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
FANZINE: El software como medio: nociones bรกsicas de tecnologรญas libres para diseรฑadores de comunicaciรณn visual.Es un primer acercamiento al software libre...Internet Archive
Maintenance updates for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.13) and 10 (31.0.7) are available ๐
Upgrade to a new version for better and even more secure Nextcloud experience. The updating process is designed to be and smooth - keep your server up to date!
nextcloud.com/blog/maintenanceโฆ
Maintenance updates this July: Nextcloud Hub 9 and 10 - Nextcloud
Maintenance updates are ready for Nextcloud Hub 9 and 10 (30.0.13, 31.0.7). Find out more about the updates in this post.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lossโฆ
#LosslessScaling #Linux #LinuxGaming #LSFG
Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1
The dev of the popular Lossless Scaling app has been helping the lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux to get it upgraded.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
New Guide: How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/โฆ
How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
Want to get Battle.net on your Linux system like SteamOS and Steam Deck? Here's a guide giving you the options to play World of Warcraft and Starcraft.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Craft-and-thrive adventure Squirreled Away tweaks the graphics for Steam Deck players gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/crafโฆ
Craft-and-thrive adventure Squirreled Away tweaks the graphics for Steam Deck players
Squirreled Away is a cute casual craft-and-thrive adventure that you can play solo or with friends, and now it should work great out of the box on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
So Washington State!
hehehehe!
like this
Rotate and unfold the world in the wonderful 3D platformer PaperKlay - now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rotaโฆ
#PaperKlay #IndieGames #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Rotate and unfold the world in the wonderful 3D platformer PaperKlay - now Steam Deck Verified
Now Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible! PaperKlay is a gorgeous 3D platformer collect-a-thon with a world made of paper, cardboard and clay.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/streโฆ
#OCCT #Linux #Vulkan #Gaming #PCGaming
Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX
The popular stress-testing app OCCT recently landed on Steam, and the first major update here swaps DirectX for Vulkan by default.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/unraโฆ
#Unrailed! #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS
Unrailed! from Indoor Astronaut is a great co-op multiplayer game that's good fun with friends, and now works properly on Steam Deck / Linux again.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/multโฆ
#FreeGames #Steam #PCGaming #Gaming
Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
If you're totally broke you can claim some free games to keep on Steam right now, thanks to game publisher Slitherine Ltd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Some of the technology green flags i learned to recognized:
* if it makes sounds when working
* if the best way to learn is to talk with specific people, going apprentice mode
* if there is small/local community around it
* if you need to fix it once in a while
* if it contains stories like fables through its evolution/making/upgrades
* if it can't deliver the expected production standard of the industry, forcing to slow down
* if you can create world inside, like live inside
* if it induces new ways to do stuff, and changes you, your habbits, by using it, into something that seem desirable
well the other day (at OSP yearly retreat) i was introduced to justine's water mill in grammont... ๐ซ
I bet this was the inspiration for the new #Rematch map.
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Sylours (@Sylours@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image #touron #purple #frenchalps #champsaur #film #filmphotography #lomo #lomopurple #lomography #makina #plaubel #analog #summer #mountain #alpsMastodon
like this
Porco Rosso 30th Anniversary: A look back at the inspiration of a Classic
youtube.com/watch?v=o9xFv7lwpGโฆ
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Whatโs better than fixing something yourself? Doing it with tools that didnโt cost full price.
Now through July 17, get up to 15% off select iFixit tools. That drawer full of broken stuff just became a to-do list.
Check it out:
ifixit.com/Shop/Sale
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#iFixit #ad #Repair #Sale #RepairTools
7 children killed in Israeli strike while lining up for nutritional supplements in central Gaza | CBC News
I'm sad to share news of the passing of Patricia Hetter Kelso, a visionary advocate for democratic ownership and the widow of Louis Kelso, inventor of the ESOP.
Her writing and conversation helped inspire my work around "exit to community" and moreโsee how: osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/m82โฆ
As far as I understand it, Kelso's answer to automation is to give workers ownership of the machines?
That was basically my answer as well.
Interesting.
I suppose one way to do it would be to force shareholders to share their shares (try saying that three times fast) with every worker who is laid off due to automation.
Would that work?
Apologies if you've already covered it.
Ubuntu 24.10 went EOL today! Update your systems:
news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-10-โฆ
Ubuntu 24.10 Reaches End of Life: Here's What to Do Next
Itโs the end of the line for Ubuntu 24.10.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
During a hearing to mark up the Senateโs proposed Commerce, Justice, Science budget, which funds NASA, members of the appropriations committee revealed that their bill would provide the agency with $24.9 billion, roughly the amount it received for 2025.
Thatโs a sharp departure from President Donald Trumpโs budget request for NASA, which called for a 24% decrease to agencyโs budget.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20โฆ
archive.ph/bp0cU
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