@orva@social.orva.fi @JenJen@mastodon.art LOL I didn't get to see Jen's face when I was trying them. LOL That is an EVIL look of satisfaction. LOL
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> Wero lets users send money using just a phone number — no IBAN, no card, no intermediary.
LOL what a shit concept
@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud any attempts are better than the current situation imo. I too don't like the idea of my currency tied to my phone number, but honestly I've had my number for 30 years now. I know there are lots of people that don't have a phone, but hopefully once they start prying the claws out of these massive payment processors that have no responsibility to anyone but the fat cats at the top.
Yet more amazingness from the EU:
europeanbusinessmagazine.com...
Let me be very clear, I don't think this will solve all the problems, I do think it'll create new problems. But working to actively take back control, to break up with companies that have abused their position for decades, is a good thing in my opinion.
THIS is progress. And from progress comes innovation.
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@gnilleps@mastodon.art @JenJen@mastodon.art I love trying new things. I never expected that kind of flavor in my mouth hole and not sure I want it again, but I will torture others with it. 😁
The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files
While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know why.
Update 2/5/26, 5:20 p.m. EST: The DOJ told 404 Media that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.
The Department of Justice redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman who died centuries ago, as part of its release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
In a PDF of an email with the subject line “simply paris” sent on July 3, 2009, a redacted sender sent Epstein several photos of, presumably, himself and a woman sightseeing in Paris. The photos of the woman are all redacted with a black box over her face, but the man’s face is visible.
The photos are from tourist locations like Disneyland Paris, the Versailles fountains, and the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa is installed. “We just walked around all over the city not just the sight seeing...we took like 1500 pictures so was really difficult to decide wich to send! :)” the sender wrote at the end of the email.
DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein FilesA note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were “POSSIBLE CSAM.”
404 MediaSamantha Cole
The DOJ redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, believed by art historians to be a Florentine woman named Lisa Gherardini, while failing to redact the names, faces, and nude photos of dozens of Epstein’s victims as part of its latest data dump. As 404 Media reported on Monday, several unredacted, sexually explicit photos of nude women or girls were present in Friday’s data release; the DOJ left those photos online until we reported specific links through their tipline.
Historians believe Gherardini was 15 years old when she married the 29-year-old wealthy merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Her portrait, made immortal by Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, has been in the public domain for hundreds of years.
💡Do you have a tip or story to tell? Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.Here in the year 2026, however, victims of Epstein’s abuse are enduring the fallout of the DOJ’s failure to protect their identities as it dumped another 180,000 images and 2,000 videos into the public’s hands last week, adding to the 40,000 files it released in previous batches in December.
“We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption,” victims’ attorney Brad Edwards told ABC News after the release of the files. “It's literally thousands of mistakes.”
@feed@www.404media.co With how stupid the redactions are in the Epstein files, who wants to bet they didn't use AI to do it? Because I'd take that bet I'm so certain that some asshole sold them just the AI they needed. They checked a handful by hand and said it's good enough.
That's the ONLY way this makes sense right? They redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa!
Good day all! Upcoming this week!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @haubles@hachyderm.io
11/02/2026 12:00 UTC-5
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Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop
12/02/2026 12:00 UTC-5
Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time.
Special Guest: @joeress@mastodon.social
13/02/2026 21:00 UTC -5
Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts. I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice. It seems I was radicalised by basic decency.
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi
#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
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I'm planning on starting a new podcast called WorksOnMyMachine.live or womm.live . Are there any software developers out there would like to join me?
The premise is we hop on a video or audio call on a Sunday morning, 0900 UTC-5, and we talk about your software application. However, I also attempt to follow your docs and use your application live. If I get stuck, or we experience issues we learn live, troubleshoot live, etc.
This allows all of us to learn your app, it helps go over your docs, etc.
Are there any software developers out there interested in doing this?
If so, what's a good place to contact you, what's the link to your website, what's your app do, etc.
#software #podcast #qa #troubleshooting #docs #livestream #tech #techTrends
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Thank you again to @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org for joining me!
Ink & Open Source: David Revoy’s Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse - E73
@wakest@hackers.pub WOW! Thank you! 😊
Big Tech are the new
Cigarette Industry
Sugar Industry
Drug Dealers
They feed off of your addiction and we're finding more and more evidence they knew and exploited this.
BREAK UP BIG TECH!
@firesidefedi Sure. Wait, do you like lisp?
@screwlisp@gamerplus.org idk if I've had the pleasure of trying it to form an opinion.
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Just a reminder to anyone that's near the Raleigh North Carolina area on Feb 28th some of us are getting together downtown Raleigh for a meetup.
@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I will be there. Hoping a few others can come and hang out. We don't have to stay where we are, but figured we could all just meet up there and meet folks that share our interests. 😊
freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...
@teresa_athome@mastodon.online I've thought about an internet nutrition label. That kind of thing would be helpful as well. :-
@ozoned That is a brilliant idea. Did a quick search an found #boycottbeacon:
https://boycott-beacon.github.io/
Not precisely your idea but similar.
@HumanizeMobility@troet.cafe yeah seems close, but hasn't been updated in 10 months. Wonder if it's still active.
@ozoned so you want me to be droll about it? it is my proposed name for you netfiltering app - think of it as a choose your own adventure game or something #advices #drollodex
@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange Oh got you. Interesting. IDK if ad filtering would work. I just want like a popup, like those annoying cookie pop ups, but it's from a past you reminding you not to give in to the website you're at.
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@ozoned try pihole and some redirects #zone transfer #ad blocker #web filter #Drollodex
@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange what is **#Drollodex ?
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@teresa_athome@mastodon.online right?!? I want to avoid Amazon, but there are companies now that ONLY ship through Amazon. How can we support each other in quitting? How do we all work together to ditch the Big Tech?
We have ad blockers yes, but what if you had an app that just blocked things. You could also clearly show someone when a website breaks that yes, Google, Facebook, Amazon, are EVERYWHERE.
Probably easier said than done though as there's so many servers out there. IDK how you'd block it all. Something like CBS or Netflix shouldn't be too difficult.
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I was just thinking, it'd be really easy to boycott online services. But with so many mergers, and companies are so big, you never know who owns what anymore.
So I was wondering, have anyone made any kind of web browser extension that lets you list a company and you put in why you don't want to support them and it gets all of that company's holdings, and hell even friends, and when you go to that website it pops up a warning reminding you why you hate them and a list of alternatives to support?
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@firesidefedi I was watching https://tubefree.org/w/sTd3PQp4n8ryg8Ah2q9frw while painting to discover the show! Very cool.
See you tomorrow! Let me know via PM what link I can share on my TL today to invite people to follow the livestream tomorrow. Thanks!
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live is the activitypub account to get notified live. stream.firesidefedi.live is where to watch when we go live.
Good day all! I'm going to have to reschedule my episode with @scottjenson@social.coop . I messed up! I sent Scott a meeting invite, then I changed emails! I deleted the old one, which he had verified, and sent him a new one from my new email and I don't think he saw it!
I MASSIVELY apologize to Scott and everyone. I'll try to do better.
Tomorrow though! @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ! Very excited! Talk with yall then!
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