RE: https://mastodon.social/@LorenzMeyer/116759276307973734

What’s that on your nose, Merz?

The EU is very progressive; not only do we not see colour, but we don’t even see settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.

RE: https://todon.nl/@prolrage/116755752331565292

“Genocide is fine actually, as long the victims are Brown.” – The EU, apparently.

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Remah-gaza🇵🇸 (@lmnsy09)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437

Goodness, I wish someone had warned us about this shit, oh I don’t know, maybe over a decade ago?

https://vimeo.com/96727211#t=11m08s

#peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #gamification

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116732547908916556

Socialism for the rich.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/116747968852451642

But we have our first trillionaire so you win some, you lose some, I guess.

Does your device need an LED?
↓
No.

Does your device need a blinking LED?
↓
Fuck no.

(Please feel free to print this out and post it in product design departments everywhere.)

#design #LEDs #lightPollution

Anyone designing a device should be forced to sleep in the same room with it. I’d also support a blanket ban on LEDs and long prison sentences for anyone who makes one blink.

This message brought to you by me, the guy who just spent half an hour duck taping over every LED in this room.

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116752853858168001

Loving the new Idiocracy poster.

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Noor Al Shams Team (@Ahmed_Gaza_Celiac)
• khalil (@khalilmansy)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Me: I need to reluctantly do some adulting.

Also me: Ends up debugging some bank’s stupid web site.

🤷‍♂️

If you’re trying to register for a Bank of Ireland account and the form fails silently, don’t worry, it’s simple to find out what happened and fix it.

1. Open up developer tools on your browser
2. Copy the failed regular expression from the console
3. Put it, and your generated password into Regexr (https://regexr.com)

And voila, as you can see the problem with mine* was that it hit the 16 character limit which was, to keep things exciting, not mentioned on the page.

Simples.

What muppets!

* Don’t worry, it’s a different one now.

#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity #BankOfIreland #banks #design #web #dev #ireland

“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.

It’s not rocket science, folks.

*smdh*

#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116752857735212855

“…widely alleged Israeli human rights abuses…”

Were The Guardian writing during the Holocaust, they would have been saying “…widely alleged Nazi German human rights abuses…”

How quickly we went from “think different” to “think less”.

@timnitGebru Also, it wasn’t “Sunday Pichai’s keynote” it was their graduation ceremony.

When you read this and watch the video, remember that Stanford is basically Silicon Valley Techbro Training Academy. And even there, it would appear the kids are all right.

https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/world/story/free-free-palestine-over-100-students-walkout-as-sundar-pichai-delivers-keynote-address-at-stanford-536829-2026-06-15

Via @timnitGebru

“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18 staff members were dismissed and barred from future employment.”

https://apnews.com/article/chad-sudan-civil-war-sexual-abuse-refugees-036f69088cd3a96cb3c970ddbfd00696

Ffs! How do you not despair when you see these depths of depravity in humanity?

(Wish I could say this was the first time I’d heard about something like this happening. It’s not just happening in Chad.)

Via @casey

An ex-Google employee who wishes to remain anonymous (“Google’s lawyers are extremely aggressive”) nevertheless said I could share this publicly:

“I managed there 9 years ago. It most certainly was not different in any meaningful way.

• During my orientation, a senior engineer, upon being asked if Google would ever open source its server design, replied “Open source is for the company in second place.”

• We merged Doubleclick cookies into people’s regular cookies the *instant* the consent decree expired.

• A major project when I left was how to work around Safari’s tracking protection.”