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OH:
A: Die Position von 
@tante bei dem morgigen AI-Event ist ja wohl klar ...
B: Tante könnte seine Meinung geändert haben!
A: Ja, klar. Und macht jetzt einen Podcast mit Lobo, Precht und Mischke. Oida!
So cute.
this week kitsune tails, lesbian fox girl SMB3, is 25% off only on itch on account of my birthday, and if you pay $1 extra you also get its prequel kitsune zero which has a cute lil voice acted story and features 36 SMB1 like levels of its own: https://itch.io/s/152818/kitsune-tails-zero-birthday-sale
looked at C code for too long, now this thing is on its computer
我的作品《未命名》正在捷克展出
過去四十年臺灣極力發展科技，我們缺少了美學與藝術教育，或許是因為這樣「華國美學」才在臺灣萌芽。
但這仍然是獨特而原創的，我們的審美標準真的只能被歐洲美學限制嗎？
我挪用台灣的在地升學廣告，將面容全部換成歐洲認識的非臺灣人，運用這不同且衝突的脈絡，開啟新的視角。
你覺得怎麼樣呢？
Kind of hard to believe that I'm using FreeBSD for less than 2,5 years.
https://michal.sapka.pl/2023/freebsd-on-thinkpad-x1-extreme-g2/
「黃金時代過去了。那個年代人們標榜自己過不了苦日子，要格調，要品味，要最潮的派對，要500織的埃及棉被單。現在人們標榜極簡、過得了最樸素的生活，要精神放鬆，要躺下吹風，要大自然。要我說都是很好很好的，也都受到大環境的巨大影響」
New: ATmosphere Report
- @freeourfeeds.com funds $50k for independent infrastructure with IndieSky, with the relay part of the network now resilient
- @spkeasy.social is an upcoming bluesky-compatible platform
- Better account management directly on your PDS
6 mile ruck today. 40lbs. Double-timed it when the air horns went off as I was going past the golf course and the lightning started. 😆
Now to do my row and finish my #100PushUps . I ought to do at least 10 minutes of mobility work, but... 🤷♂️
ATmosphere Report – #116
Resilient relays, a web interface to manage your ATProto account directly on your PDS, and a new upcoming ATProto platform with Speakeasy.
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Free Our Feeds, the campaign to build independent infrastructure for ATProto, has provided IndieSky with 50k USD funding. IndieSky is a working group that arose from within the ATProto developer community, at the Seattle ATmosphereConf and Hamburg’s Ahoy! conferences.
As phil, an independent ATProto developer who runs three separate relays, points out, there is little value in using an alternative relay. They are commoditised by design, and the important part of relays is that they are it is easy for apps to switch to another relay if the relay that is used by Bluesky PBC becomes unreliable. With relay costs now solidly under 50USD/month (as acknowledged by Free Our Feeds), people speed-running the setup in minutes, and multiple other independent relays that have popped up in recent weeks the relay part of the ATProto network is at this point resilient. Free Our Feeds switching their focus away from relays makes sense in that context.
That does not mean however that all parts of ATProto are as resilient as relays are, nor that other parts will be able to scale down to such low costs as relays can. AppViews and moderation remain costly in a way that scales with the amount of users. Relays have gotten an overly large amount of attention due to various cultural and historical reason. Relays are smartly designed part of the system, and it is impressive that passing through the network traffic of tens of millions of accounts can be done for such little amount of money. But not all parts of the network will scale that way.
Free Our Feeds goes into the question of why they want to raise 30M USD, saying: “We are supporting the development of fully independent infrastructure that enables the development and running of social apps that can serve tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people. […] We think this is a fraction of the money that will be needed to remake the social web from where it is today – with the dominance of Big Tech – to a future where billions of internet users control their online lives. We need many more initiatives – public, non-profit and private to make this happen.”
Taken all the news together, of Free Our Feeds taking a broader approach to support independent infrastructure, a multiple independent public relays being available, and people collaboration on independent infrastructure with the IndieSky working group, makes it feel the network is getting to a new phase in the road towards full independence. Over the last year the conversation around network decentralisation has been overly dominated by relays, more than it fully deserved. Now that the relay part of the network can now be seen as sufficiently resilient, more focus can be put on other, more challenging, parts of the network.
The next meeting of the IndieSky working group will be on May 22nd, 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1800 CEST.
Bluesky has updated their PDS reference implementation, and it now has a web interface to manage and create accounts directly on the PDS themselves. ATProto apps that use the OAuth for login did not have a way to get new users to create an account yet. The work-around up until now was to refer people to the Bluesky app to login. This is not a great user experience, and also gives Bluesky PBC an outsized role in the ecosystem. With the latest update, apps can now create accounts directly on a PDS, even a PDS owned by Bluesky PBC if so desired. The web interface (for accounts on a Bluesky PDS, accessible at https://bsky.social/account/), gives people some basic account management options, such as the ability to sign out of specific devices or revoke access of connected apps. For this web interface Bluesky PBC expects more features to be implemented here in the future. These features are related to account management that are not tied to a specific app, such as email updates and password changes. Bluesky PBC is encouraging other PDS implementations to innovate and differentiate with new features as well, speculating that PDS hosting could be bundled with other hosted networking services.
Speakeasy is an upcoming social media platform build on ATProto, and is compatible with Bluesky. An early version of Speakeasy can already be accessed, and it is a fork of the Bluesky web client. Speakeasy is building private posts as a distinguishing feature. Founder Chris Jensen says that private messages are stored outside of the network for now, and that he believes that private posts are an urgent needed feature for the network. Jensen also says that once Bluesky PBC has an official implementation for private data, they will merge their implementation.
Smoke Signal developer Nick Gerakines has created a local developer environment for ATProto. It gives developers the option to run a local PDS and PLC that can resolve DNS handles. Gerakines describes it as a “turnkey dev stack with full ATProtocol flows, HTTPS everywhere, and DNS-backed handle resolution—without needing to expose anything publicly.”
Flashes, a client app for Bluesky that focuses on images, has received funding from Skyseed. The funding will be used to build an Android version, as well as further infrastructure in Europe to make the app more independent from Bluesky PBC. Creator Sebastian Vogelsang says that they have begone designing a mobile PDS.
Two independent ATProto developers are taking a stab at guestbooks: Ms Boba has been livestreaming her development of a guestbook on ATProto that can be embedded on websites. Dame has an approach of creating welcome messages for people who view their PDS on a PDS viewing tool like PDSls or atp.tools.
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So, you learn something new every day. What I learned today is that the `sort` command has a `-V` flag that lets you sort by *version* *order*. So, it correctly sorts v1.8.2 before v1.21.1. It even takes into account prerelease tags like -dev and -rc.1. I was able to use it for sorting our git version tags for CityCatalyst really nicely.
I got to be one of the 10,000 that day.
Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting
Link: https://github.com/axbycc/LiveSplat
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994827
Kind of hard to believe that I'm using FreeBSD for less than 2,5 years.
https://michal.sapka.pl/2023/freebsd-on-thinkpad-x1-extreme-g2/
International Spy Museum is hiring a Historian and Curator [DC; $110,000-$120,000/yr]. Not for me, obviously (and I am happy where I am!), but doesn't that sound super-cool?
Maybe one of you knows the right person.
https://www.spymuseum.org/about/careers/historian-curator/
International Spy Museum is hiring a Historian and Curator [DC; $110,000-$120,000/yr]. Not for me, obviously (and I am happy where I am!), but doesn't that sound super-cool?
Maybe one of you knows the right person.
https://www.spymuseum.org/about/careers/historian-curator/
🦨the "Help Us Pay Down Credit" sale is now active! Get Blobun at 20% off from now through May 31st on Itch and help us pay on debt we owe. You'll get 140 puzzles where you have to touch every tile, as well as access to custom player puzzles!
https://itch.io/s/153094/the-help-us-pay-down-credit-sale-may-2025
BEI ALLAH WIEVIELE SCHEISS HASHTAGS MUSS ICH EIGENTLICH BLOCKEN UM DIESEN EUROMÜLL LOSZUWERDEN
Yeah steak bake spider is nice, but have you seen the Pret-a-Spider?
I'm reluctant to dignify LLMs with a term like "prompt injection" because that implies it's the unusual case
prompt injection is a thing that's just gonna happen with LLMs as they stand
the security model is fundamentally stupid
1. build a great big pile of all the good and bad information in the world
2. feed it to a nondeterministic stochastic parrot
3. put a filter on the output of the parrot and block the bad stuff
4. wtf did you expect to happen, you're doing security by regex on an input you can vary freely
はてさて 
24d3599690 (upstream/main) Fix middle button mouse up on status header always opening status in a new tab (#34700)
6c743831aa fix: Hide "Followers you know" widget from your own profile, #34698 (#34699)
3f965d83b0 fix: More "Followers you know" polish & bug fixes (#34697)
ae281f31db Add `dev:populate_sample_data` rake task to populate test data (#34676)
e17c78b679 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#34695)
ccffa11f2b refactor: Remove duplicated `AvatarGroup` CSS and familiar followers cleanup (#34681)
d475bcce65 chore(deps): update dependency bootsnap to v1.18.5 (#34684)
「あーーーーーーーーっ！！」
Meet the 3Ⓜ️s! Maria Jose from 
@pyladiescon and Pyladies en Español, Maria Ashna, the PyPI Support Specialist, and Marie Nordin 
@riecatnorMarie Nordin the Community Communications Manager at 
@ThePSFPython Software Foundation #pyconus
This is may really be just news to me, but today I learned that 
@dubroyPatrick Dubroy's and 
@marianoguerra's book "WebAssembly from the Ground Up" has actually been available for a while and the topics look super interesting...
Top level topics (quoting from their website):
- What exactly WebAssembly is, and what makes it unique.
- How to instantiate a WebAssembly module in JavaScript and run its functions.
- The binary module format, and how to hand craft a module from scratch.
- How to create a simple compiler with Ohm.
- The instruction set: numeric instructions, memory access, control flow, etc.
- How to interact with the outside world.
- The WebAssembly security model: what makes it safe?
(Ps. If you're looking to combine this new knowledge and are interested in building hybrid JS/TS/WASM apps, also check out my extensible https://thi.ng/wasm-api toolchain...)
Another year, another ESC, another time I'm wishing for a DMX feed to be included in the video stream, synced to whatever is happening on stage. Just a few colours, and effects to map to LED strips, spots and washes at home. This would make the experience even more immersive. #eurovision
@b0rkJulia Evans "login" and "interactive" being independent booleans was always confusing to me.
Login, interactive -> okay, I get this one (xterm)
non-login, non-interactive -> shell script
non-login, interactive -> I guess I run bash from zsh?
Login, non-interactive -> WTF is this world?
Our french-speaking followers may be interested in the webinar we'll give on June 12 about the "Universal Social Network" - a social network that is not bound to a specific app, but that any app can plug into. Join us to know more about this solution and the cooperative we are creating to carry it!
I Don't Like NumPy
Link: https://dynomight.net/numpy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996431
So, the three first #Eurovision songs are:
1) a man in 70s super tight pants, singing about milkshakes, doing a clothes change in (!) a milkshake blender(!)
2) A woman singing a ballad wearing a bed
3) A girl singing about the space dog Laika.
Yep, everything is good in the #eurovision2025 world.
Wie viele schwarze Hoodies besitzt Du?
I have a fairly long #cycling event at the weekend, so of course now one of my wheel bearings is self-destructing.
Don't miss out on the rooftop track at #PyConUS this year! 🌳
There are a couple dozen of us out here eating lunch right now and I many folks will be hanging out here over the next few days of 
@pyconPyCon US.
The rooftop track is like the hallway track, but with a great view! 🖼️
Are you at #PyConUS? Do you love unique stickers? The first person who makes a NEW donation to the Django Software Foundation and shows me their donation confirmation at our booth in the exhibit hall can claim this super-gorgeous Django Stickers pack I have!
I am collecting a list of open spaces that are happening at #PyConUS this year and organizing them by day. If you're interested in knowing what open spaces are planned for Saturday, May 17th I'm going to drop a reply to this post with the details for each one that is scheduled.
Biggest nerd on the bus.
Only been near the Cathedral of Learning for a hot minute, but already learning a lot, like "Pittsburgh has some cool architecture!!"
#PyConUS goers, this university neighborhood has a bunch of neat buildings & was a like 10 minute bus ride from near the CC.
it's global accessibility awareness day and georges stavracas has posted a lovely celebration of all the work that's gone into gnome #a11y so far - and a look to the road ahead:
https://feaneron.com/2025/05/15/in-celebration-of-accessibility/
a lot of work to do but there's also a lot of solid work already underway 💙
So, the three first #Eurovision songs are:
1) a man in 70s super tight pants, singing about milkshakes, doing a clothes change in (!) a milkshake blender(!)
2) A woman singing a ballad wearing a bed
3) A girl singing about the space dog Laika.
Yep, everything is good in the #eurovision2025 world.
In Pittsburgh for #PyConUS so had to check out the Duquesne Incline. Not bad!
真的搞不懂華納玩什麽鷄毛，改來改去
Security is happening, 
@mikethemanMike Fiedler, Code Gardener at #PyConUS
At #pyconus2025 ? We got some new stickers!
Wow, it's just a few hours till we officially kick off #PyConUS 2025 with the Opening Reception in the expo hall 🥳🐍
Will we see you there?
‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game
🔗 https://www.404media.co/doom-the-dark-ages-drm-is-locking-out-linux-users-who-bought-the-game/
‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game
🔗 https://www.404media.co/doom-the-dark-ages-drm-is-locking-out-linux-users-who-bought-the-game/
Meet the 3Ⓜ️s! Maria Jose from @pyladiescon and Pyladies en Español, Maria Ashna, the PyPI Support Specialist, and Marie Nordin @riecatnorMarie Nordin the Community Communications Manager at @ThePSFPython Software Foundation #pyconus
Did you know that there is comparison chart for
- #linux distributions
- #browser
- #android distributions
- linux desktop environments
- #messenger
- #mail providers
Take a look https://eylenburg.github.io/
it's regularly updated
#opensource #foss #development #developers #programming #coding #ubuntu #opensuse #fedora #freebsd #archlinux #arch #gentoo #nixos #alpine #redhat #debian #grapheneos #calyxos #IodeOS #lineageos #firefox #vivaldi #brave #signal #deltachat #element #matrix #til
Lobotomized owls are cool and all, but I’ve gone back to writing
```css
.flow > :not(:first-child) {
margin-block-start: .8em;
}
```
because I find the *intent* of `:not(:first-child)` to be much clearer to other humans than `* + *` #css
✧✦Catherine✦✧
Stefano Marinelli
+ 
Evan Prodromou
KwonHan Bae
Vala
