Another Thursday, and another Talking & Doc'ing coming up!

Tomorrow we'll review our docs "Discussions" from the GitHub repo and figure out which ones to promote to "issues", to tackle as our next big projects...

Everyone is welcome to join the call in the Astro Discord! https://discord.gg/astro-lounge-830184174198718474?event=1359920962509996444

Resubo el video porque Mastodon merece verlo en todo su esplendor.

The outgoing email outage has been fixed!

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Hello burning world!

In #Oldenburg hat ein Polizist einen jungen Mann of Color erschossen. Laut #Polizei war der Getötete zuvor bedrohlich auf die Besatzung eines Streifenwagens zugegangen. Auch hieß es, der Mann habe Personen mit einem Messer gedroht. Nun zeigt die Obduktion: Die Schüsse trafen den Mann von hinten. Und die Staatsanwaltschaft bestätigt, dass er die Beamten nach aktuellem Stand nicht mit einem Messer bedroht habe.

Wir erwarten, dass dieser Fall lückenlos aufgeklärt wird! https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/Toedliche-Polizeischuesse-in-Oldenburg-Grosse-Trauer-und-offene-Fragen,oldenburg2776.html

thread quanta per ominous void

And here are the ads. #threads

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/metas-threads-begins-global-ad-rollout-within-its-feed/

확실히 악순환 들어왔네..

Sieben gute #Gründe für #Hamburg #Werbefrei.

Ist nicht jeder für sich genommen schon genug, um sich gegen den #Ausverkauf der #Stadt an #Werbekonzerne zu wenden?

서클노트 생김

I did a thing. I made a NixOS module to automatically setup public facing Tuns.sh ssh tunnels.

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4836856

I will eventually formalizing this into making use of all the features that sish supports.

#nixos #tunssh #picosh

while on garden leave…
I suppose I'll tend to a #CSS Zen Garden

⤷ https://nerdy.dev/zen-garden-leave

I just had a fun idea.

For my nixbook talk at #lfnw25 I'll be giving away 8 nixbooks at the event.

They're all 8th gen i7 with 16gigs of ram. Def a few years old, but completely capable of daily use, esp for basic users.

People can use these themselves or give them to friends / family or anyone local to them that need a computer.

Could be fun! #NixOS

This is the most to the point introduction about #NixOS I've seen so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMDnZWXjn4

If you've heard about NixOS but never really understood the fuzz about it, this video is for you. In just 4 minutes, you will get an idea about why people love this unique #Linux distribution.

My favorite quote:

> That's the general idea of NixOS, an unbreakable, reproducible, declarative operating system.

Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/metas-threads-opens-up-ads-to-global-advertisers/

혹시나 해서 적는 대처법

1. 최소한 심 교체 하십쇼
2. 재고 심카드가 얼마나 털렸을 지 모르니 확실한 솔루션은 번호 이동
3. 이거 제대로 처리하려면 SKT 가 신명나게 고객을 터는 대신에 compromise 된 심카드 그냥 싹 갈아버리고 새 심카드로 교체해 줘야 함.

심 카드 PIN 은 물리적으로 휴대폰을 긴빠이 당할 때의 최소한의 보호조치라 원래 세팅하고 써야 하는 게 맞는데

이번 SKT 사태 대응으로 소개하는 건 코미디죠

아니 IMSI-K_i 값 페어가 털렸을 가능성이 나오는 마당에 심 카드의 물리적 긴빠이 안전 조치를 수행해서 뭘 하나요... 이미 키가 긴빠이 당했을지도 모르는데 키를 나르는 매체를 잠궈서 뭐 함?

Discussing privacy and cybersecurity on Reddit and Twitter? That doesn't make too much sense to us.

Privacy Guides is doing something different! Join our forum to discuss the news, chat about tech, and get advice from the internet's largest community of personal privacy advocates and experts.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net

#PrivacyGuides #Forum #Discourse #Community #SelfHosted #SelfHostedCommunity #PrivacyCommunity

この機能入れたくないな

Hello to the wonderful people and journalists of @Mastodon! I've been curious about this platform for a while, and I'm excited to dive in and explore our community together. Let's connect! I'm passionate about topics like #media #journalism #communities #ai #ethics and so much more. I'm always eager to learn about the world and how we can unite to create amazing things together.

And as for the Greens...

https://parliamentnews.co.uk/green-party-leaders-divided-over-transgender-policy

Ramsay always stank. He's regurgitating Labour smokescreen language and signalling to transphobes that he's a willing accomplice.

There are no political parties active in England that can be trusted. I'll still vote Green given the chance as they're the most socialist of any with MPs, they're the most environmentally-minded (duh, and having a viable planet is sort of good) and the others are all Tory or worse.

But make no mistake, the Greens won't win their fight to expel their transphobes while one of their co-leaders has their back.

#GPEW

🚨 If you're a Grafana OSS or Enterprise user, we've released security patches for #Grafana 11.6.0, 11.5.3, 11.4.3, 11.3.5, 11.2.8, & 10.4.17.

The patch releases mentioned in this blog post include a high severity fix for CVE-2025-3260 & medium severity fixes for CVE-2025-2703 & CVE-2025-3454.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/04/22/grafana-security-release-medium-and-high-severity-fixes-for-cve-2025-3260-cve-2025-2703-cve-2025-3454/?mdm=social&camp=blog

Have frameworks like React and Vue hindered adoption of modern web features like `<dialog>` and `popover`?

They don't map well to components because they expect to always exist in the DOM and have an imperative interface (show/close) for modifying their state.

They top layer is also incompatible with the "portal"/"teleport" model.

If you want something that shows up on top of a modal you actually need a `reverse teleport` where the dialog steals some dom nodes from outside itself.

#webdev

I know you all care more about ViewTransition and Activity, but: Concurrent Stores 🤯😍

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uorpbnp2q32vuvyeruwauyhe/post/3lnijy4z42c2q

And here are the ads. #threads

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/metas-threads-begins-global-ad-rollout-within-its-feed/

[GitHub] From prompt to production: Building a landing page with Copilot agent mode

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questions to solo devs

all or none.
any feedback appreciated.
if you have other solo devs in your followers a repost would be appreciated.

- how often do you release updates?

- does it change while you beta test?

- how 'bout public betas?

- how much time do allocate to put together a release?

- there are always some extra questions after a release. answering takes time away from dev.
how much time do you expect do you expect to spend on that?

Excuse me? Don't think this is what we mean by "Autism Awareness Month".

All jokes aside, this is scary af.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih

#Autism #RFK #AutismAwarenessMonth

Rob Wilkins put up 3 signed copies of "Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes" for auction (https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/128726/auctions/181179/auction_items/6158640), with the proceeds going to Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK & SA (https://www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans)

h/t Rhianna Pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett #TransRights #DiscWorld #TerryPratchett #RobWilkins

德國丹麥之間將會建造一條全長18公里，汽車、鐵路兩用的海底隧道，橫越波羅的海

這將會是全世界最長的預製組件雙用(馬路、鐵路)隧道

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o

I would like auto correct to stop correcting my its into it's and then once the grammar check realises that it's is wrong given the context, leaving me a little error line - instead of putting it back the way I bloody typed it in the first place.

Progress on the FEP for Event objects

The FEP-8a8e (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) had at lot of progress in the last months. In the meantime, the document has become somewhat more extensive than originally planned, but contains not only instructions for new features that have to be tediously implemented, but also a lot of advice and points that should provide orientation for developers of Fediverse applications that support events.

It now covers:

• Required attributes
• Events with Open End
• Timezone
• Physical and Virtual Locations
• Event status
• RSVP (Attendee Management)
• Event Banner and Poster Images
• Event Categories
• Discoverability
• Event Organizers
• Upcoming Events Collection for ActivityPub actors
• Term Definitions

Many thanks again to all reviewers and co-editors:

@lesionles @heiglandreasAlerta! Alerta! @naturzukunft @laurin

We warmly welcome further feedback from the communities of #Friendica, #Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, and other Fediverse platforms supporting events.
If you’re working on such an application or are part of these communities, your insights would be very valuable! @developers @mobilizon

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #FEP

昨天打完後有稍微看了一下餐哥玩前面一小段的紙片瑪利歐
才知道原來中文翻譯有被改過
奇諾比奧說人權與自由的部分被刻意改掉了

難怪餐哥前段都用日文玩

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Your daily reminder that download counts are a bad proxy for legitimacy

Case in question: newly published npm package gets half a million downloads a day. How? because they faked the downloads.

Stars on GitHub can also be farmed by bots.

The Applied Social Media Lab is hosting a hybrid event on May 9, including a panel I'm moderating where I'll be speaking with Louis Barclay, Fay Johnson, and Rudy Fraser about their work as ASML Fellows. Tune in remotely or come by Harvard in person!

We also have an open call for showcasing cool projects around social media for public good! You can submit "presentations of research, app prototypes, live demos, or creative experiments".

More info & RSVP/submission here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-spring-synthesizer

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

오늘도 불면.

旧字、SKKで探すのが厄介なんだよな... 明治期の文献とかの文字起しとかしときたいときに、旧字をそのままにするのに、SKKに旧字で単語登録したりするけど漢字探すのがわりと難しい

여행에 조금 익숙하다면
여름에 몽골에서 밤하늘 보기
새해 넘어갈 때 홍콩의 불꽃놀이 보기
겨울에 일본의 소도시나 오키나와 열도의 섬이나 대만의 도심에서 유유자적하게 시간보내기
말레이시아 페낭, 인도네시아 반둥 같은 떠오르는 관광지 가보기
할거야 많지 돈이 없지

次の中で読める旧字体は？（日本語のネイティブスピーカーのみご参加ください）

Spring is here, and the cable plugs are blooming.

They want you to be scared.

They want you to be silent.

They want you to feel alone.

Refuse. Hope is an act of defiance.

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Join @ishotjrishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ and a panel of special guests as we explore the world of humanoid #robots! We show you how to use #AI and #OpenSource to build #bots from #humanoid heads to four-legged friends! Register now for our Thursday, May 15th V93 #LaunchParty! 🥳

https://events.zoom.us/ev/Aqje1XLNoXjoEnc7Cls8TWsACq6zLNoxfWvzQkshcF4FhXtyrvQe~AhxGQPvOcM8avJXj8BAbiVBFoMSaJz6aXi5yDZDsMWZCAbhgrfr0_F51lA

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This is the only place I can post this where someone might actually get it.