Hey Fediverse! 👋

We just wrapped up an amazing FediForum June 2025 a week ago, and BadgeFed was right in the thick of it! Here’s a recap of what we did, what we learned, and what’s next for decentralized badges.

BadgeFed at FediForum: Unconferences & Speed Demos

BadgeFed had the honor of presenting and hosting two unconference sessions and showing off our work in one speed demo slots (watch the demo). The energy was fantastic; lots of curiosity, sharp questions, and a real hunger for open standards in the credentialing space.

Community Feedback: Standards, Docs, and Openness

A big theme at FediForum was specs and open standards. We’re right there with you! That’s why we’ve enhanced our technical documentation to explain exactly how BadgeFed uses ActivityPub and OpenBadges together:

• Issuers are ActivityPub actors, each instance can federate and follow others.
• Badges are ActivityPub Notes with OpenBadge 2.1 attachments for maximum compatibility and verifiability.
• Strict linking between issuer and badge, and between badge and recipient, to prevent spoofing.
• Signature validation for both ActivityPub and OpenBadge data.
• Federation: badges propagate via follows, and a special announcer actor helps with discoverability.
• Comments and interactions: badges can be discussed and shared across the Fediverse.

Read more in our DETAILS.md.

Making BadgeFed Easier to Try

We heard you: people want to try BadgeFed! Right now, it’s a solo setup (one admin, one Docker container), but we’re working hard to make it easier for others to deploy, configure, and even federate their own instances. Stay tuned for updates on multi-admin support and streamlined onboarding.

Feedback: Discoverability vs. Spam

One of the most important pieces of feedback we received was about badge discoverability vs. timeline spam (see the issue). We want badges to be easy to find and share, but we also don’t want to flood the Fediverse with unwanted posts. This is now our top priority, we’re rethinking how verbose BadgeFed should be, and exploring opt-in/opt-out models for badge visibility and hashtag use.

What’s Next: Embedding & Profile Badges

We’re also working on ways to let you embed badges in your blog or add them to your Mastodon profile. More news on that soon!

FediForum was a fantastic experience, huge thanks to everyone who attended, gave feedback, and showed interest in decentralized credentials. Let’s keep building a more open, verifiable, and user-empowered Fediverse!

Badge up, and see you in the timeline! 🏅

You can read the article "BadgeFed @ FediForum June 2025: Unconferences, Demos, and Community Feedback" by @mapacheMaho 🦝🍻 here as well.

Paolo Schicchi, anarchico siciliano, nel 1915 aveva già raccontato la realtà che viviamo oggi, in cui il nemico viende degradato a essere subumano: così è più facile abituare l'opinione pubblica a guerre e genocidi:
https://www.panarchy.org/schicchi/guerra.html

#Schicchi #islamophobia #genocide #Gaza #Israele

The open source world is coming together in NYC!

Here’s where you can find the Sovereign Tech Agency and our delegation of expert maintainers throughout UN Open Source Week.

We’re bringing our mission to securing open digital infrastructure to the global stage.

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Authorities know how to cope with a 30,000-person protest in the city plaza.

They cannot cope with 30 1,000-person protests scattered throughout downtown.

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

Darklang Goes Open Source

Link: https://blog.darklang.com/darklang-goes-open-source/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290653

しゅいろさん可愛い

Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...

Please select all that apply.

#Poll #Accessibility #AltText

matrix is cooked https://lobste.rs/s/vqsran #culture #networking
https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked

I propose "vibe gaming" when you are here to watch someone play from the couch, and enjoy the story and cinematics.
But also you have strong opinions about which skin should be worn: no other skin than the awesome baguette with red glasses shall be accepted for Lune. Because this is the vibe! ✨

Boy Scouts Sex-Abuse Claims Reach $7 Billion, Double Its Estimates
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boy-scouts-sex-abuse-claims-reach-7-billion-double-its-estimates-6afe81c3?mod=Flipboard&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Markets & Finance @markets-finance-WSJMarkets & Finance

hello my friend! @dantescanline

IEEE 802.11ac to RFC 1149 Gateway

boot2snecko

@VeroniqueB99Vee

For years this has been one of my favorite projects, but I have to confess I never built one:

the PI Bell-Slapper, the King of Ding, an Internet-connected Raspberry Pi-based notification bell.

https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-bell-slapper

Designed by Jeff @geerlingguyJeff Geerling , and he approves of that repository.

Wir sind gestern auch wieder die #SternfahrtKoeln mitgefahren. Diesmal von Pulheim aus. 😃

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

Link: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,damn*,idiot*,retard*,crap*
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275014

@1mindwork The rain has helped a lot, I think they have the fires under control now 😅

Bonsoir 🦊

#sculpture #WoodCarving #fox

@Otis_ScopsOtis Scops aka Crash Course @randahlRandahl Fink it was initially released on my self-hosted PeerTube last Tuesday https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:

Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elenaElena Rossini ⁂ and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.

Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

I would appreciate the person sending the /say about parasocialness to just DM me so I can feel less weird about it!

Maybe I'll kill the anon messaging. Everything's been nice so far but I feel on high alert.

Edit: DM received! All is well! Turns out tongue in cheek comments really read differently when the poster is anonymous. I now know who it was and am chill :)

🔥 🆒 🔥

It is always very difficult for me to watch Bret Victor talk.

It's an old line that talent can hit a target nobody else can hit, and genius can hit a target nobody else can see. But some people are our there right now, aiming for targets nobody else believes exist, and to all appearances they're just trudging around the forest, firing arrows into the distance at nothing.

But then, suddenly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixPSNRDNMU

Ok(())

[arch-announce] Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging

https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/

#ArchLinux #linux #GamingOnLinux

What do you call your personal website these days? (if none of these options, please comment)

The Promised LAN https://lobste.rs/s/2o1cna #culture #networking
https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/

If you oppose the richest people in the world getting richer:

- Stop shopping on Amazon
- Use cash instead of fueling big banks
- Stop using Google (mail, drive, search)

These are actions you can take today. Doing so directly undermines the biggest companies in the world.

Back up your words with action. Stop supporting the very institutions that you oppose.

Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...

Please select all that apply.

#Poll #Accessibility #AltText

the fact that trump is the most corrupt president in U.S. history isn't of interest to the brunchlord press

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/post/3lrqlrc6nak2w

"If you had to recommend ONE awesome song. Which would it be?"

Ooh. Uughhh. I can't.

Too many different moods and genres. I could recommend just one, but if you're in the wrong mood for it, it'd hit wrong.

Also I'm totally cheesy. I love the stuff others call derivative or overplayed. Hm.

Oh, wait. Let's try this one on for size:
https://youtu.be/Z_63ZZRLylE

--
Asked at https://sarajoy.dev/say

PHP turns 30 this year! That's cool!

But holy shit, this is the whitest, malest conference I've ever seen in my life! https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/

今1番危険な政党は参政党。何が危険て「日本人」がどうすればほだされるかわかりきってて選挙活動してるし資金力もあってモデライズされた好青年感を売りにしてる。
こんな好青年ならきっと大丈夫。ほんとは大丈夫じゃないってわかってるけど、騙されたって言い訳できるだけの体裁整ってるから、あとで被害者ぶれるな。支持者がってそろばん弾けるだけの好印象を売ってる。搾取と怠惰の合意による出来レース的な支持率の獲得がある。
加害の外注なんてするつもりなかったんです〜ってしらばっくれることができる体裁。
いや体裁整ってないけどな。でもアレに騙される人沢山いるよ。なんていうか「しみったれた市民運動感の無さ」がよいと判断される、体系化されているという印象に安心感を感じさせる、つまり「情動と権威に弱い日本人」にものすごい訴求力がある。

The most particular case: I have 2 jails: one with transmission, the other with servarr (radarr). I mount the same network share in those two as /mnt/downloads, so Tranmission can download and then radarr process. Since it's jail, I have "transmission" in transmission jail in wheel, and "radarr" in radarr as wheel. So, in theory - full access. But it's a jail.

Now, if radarr just uses transmission it all works. After the download if finished, radarr can move the file to another location.

But if radarr sends tags to transmission, and the file will be saved in /mnt/downloads/radarr, transmission works fine but then radarr user has no permission to access that file.

I removed the tag and it works, but I have no idea why it doesn't work.

MNT community member mojyack figured out what made Firefox perform slower than it should on RK3588/Mali-G610/panfrost and has a little patch for mesa that makes Firefox fly! https://community.mnt.re/t/poor-browser-performance/2042/30

The injustice of the world gets a bit funnier if - each time a man gets preferential treatment or is assumed to know how to do something "better" based on his gender - you ask yourself "how will he use his penis to solve that problem?".

沒有貓貓的貓照

#我家花生🥜

띠용...

A new game engine is born today! ACTION GAME MAKER from the creators of RPG Maker series of game engine.

What makes Action Game Maker different? Well for one, it's build on top of the #GodotEngine.

https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-powered-action-game-maker-released/

#gamedev #indiedev

Transmuting between chemical elements is dangerous because there are 256 possible atomic numbers but only 81 of them correspond to valid elements. The rest give you glitch elements that behave erratically and can even corrupt nearby atoms and molecules. Most of these are caused by indexing the periodic table out of bounds, though a couple elements were deleted before release.

Websites are always saying things like, "You can now access Publications in your Leaflet"

Anyone using the RSS I assume will need to update?

https://lowkey.party/2025/06/16/bssg-the-latest-blog-migration/

#blog #rss #bssg

The American Bar Administration sues the Trump administration. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281674/gov.uscourts.dcd.281674.1.0.pdf

Transmuting between chemical elements is dangerous because there are 256 possible atomic numbers but only 81 of them correspond to valid elements. The rest give you glitch elements that behave erratically and can even corrupt nearby atoms and molecules. Most of these are caused by indexing the periodic table out of bounds, though a couple elements were deleted before release.

@mcc brb, time to find that torrent of Rebirth-338.

(which, i will say, is not unwarranted! there's good reasons to be suspicious of "hey btw what if some regulations are bad, actually"!!!)