Canada Post costs 0.25/per person per day.

Hardly hemoraging money.

Social media software encodes structure into how communities are organized.

If the software is hierarchical, the community will be hierarchical. There’s no way around that unless everyone literally operates their own nodes.

And that’s where the real vulnerability lies. If you don’t run your own server, you’re not sovereign. You’re donating your content to someone else’s machine and trusting that their standards, moderation, and moods won’t turn against you. Ideals won’t protect you if the design itself makes you dependent.

If you really care about a sense of ownership, then you should be running your own server. That’s what freedom of association actually means. It isn’t allegiance. Allegiance locks you in. Association multiplies your choices—pick a server that matches your values, or start your own. That’s the entire point of federation.

So let’s not pretend mass platforms or wide-open instances are some higher form of democracy. They aren’t. They’re just populism sitting on top of hierarchy.

The lowest common denominator gets to shout “this is the people,” while the actual levers of control stay exactly where they’ve always been—with whoever holds the keys.

crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println
L: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389550
posted on 2025.09.26 at 14:28:55 (c=0, p=4)

まだおきてる？＞

The “Plan Vert” open letter to request that #Ruby on #Rails disassociate from DHH is only 7 signatures away from reaching 100.

It includes a former Rails core member, Eugen Rochko creator of Mastodon, Aaron Sumner of Everyday Rails, Ryan Bigg author of many Rails books, Lucas Dohmen author of “The Rails Way” series, Peter Boling maintainer of OAuth gems, Denis Defreyne creator of nanoc, and many others.

This is a significant milestone!

Have you signed the letter yet?

https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter

Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots

Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45381590

> If you can’t leave without losing something important, the platform has no incentives to respect you as a user.

To the uninformed, this line in @danabra.movdan's last article may seem like a dig at ActivityPub, but he actually nails it on the head: what we have now in the ActivityPub ecosystem is not full portability of account data, instead we have these monolithic applications which bundle our identity, data and interfaces for interacting with all that into one thing. You don't have choice of software, without loosing your data.

There is the ActivityPub Data Portability proposal, which is kind of a solution to portability for these monolithic apps, but what if it didn't have to be this way? What if your identity and data were separate from the applications you use?

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola

Omg, this prediction is legit and correct.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200204102438/https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@artemis/103593164283415630

> https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/artemis/statuses/103593164283415630

Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/gabbard-intelligence-report-cancellation.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389316
posted on 2025.09.26 at 14:07:41 (c=4, p=5)

A problem I have with modern headphone design is I like earbuds, I like noise-cancelling, but the only noise-cancelling earbuds now are bluetooth devices with ~4-6 hour battery life, and my main use for noise cancelling is a 17-hour plane flight

(Also my workday is eight hours? Am I just not meant to have earbuds that last a full workday?)

Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite

Link: https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/the-state-of-vector-search-in-sqlite
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347619

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The Europeans @europeanspodcastThe Europeans is a great listen to get a perspective of what’s going on in the EU. While a lot of the news is dire, the team still find ways to pierce the gloom with some lighthearted commentary.

Give it a listen if you’re European or just interested in Europe. Or better yet, support them on Patreon as they’re on a funding drive to become fully independent!

We need projects like theirs desperately 🇪🇺

https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/115271289812154735

回避性能の人と線画交換​​

So, with a massive 27% of the over 30,000 votes cast, this is officially the Woodland Trust Tree of the Year for 2025! Known as the Argyle Street Ash Tree, it's thought to be at least 170 years. This makes it older than many other major features of the West End of the city, including the Kelvin Hall, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, and even the current Glasgow University Campus. Thanks to the thousands of you who voted for it.

#glasgow #treeoftheyear #woodlandtrust #tree #argylestreetashtree

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at https://BlinkingGuy.com

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Laidback DM Starter Pack Bundle - $10 for 5 #OneShot, #maps, #posters, bookmarks - start playing #DnD #5e, #OSR or #Dragonbane #adventures!

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#dnd #5e #shadowdark#DungeonsAndDragons #ADnD #ose #oldschool #OldSchoolEssentials

Omg, this prediction is legit and correct.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200204102438/https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@artemis/103593164283415630

> https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/artemis/statuses/103593164283415630

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RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ad4qxc3dzc1a02sa

Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres https://lobste.rs/s/liau26 #databases #performance
https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/

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Robot Bartender Is The Life of the Party

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/robot-bartender-is-the-life-of-the-party/

Good day all. Fireside Fedi Episode 44 starts NOW! @bengo Ben is working on numerous projects, including but not limited to Wallet Attached Storage. https://blog.dcconsortium.org/what-is-wallet-attached-storage-439917ba4fa5

Watch the show live:
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Too insecure: IT services firm NTT Data expected to drop Ivanti products
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Too-insecure-IT-services-firm-NTT-Data-expected-to-drop-Ivanti-products-10671147.html

The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that people should control their tools, not the other way around.

Two four one.

#photography #randomnumber

Chat Control: Why Europe's Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry
L: https://www.process-one.net/blog/chat-control-2025/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389496
posted on 2025.09.26 at 14:22:58 (c=0, p=4)

Devious malware has jumped from Meta to Google Ads and YouTube to spread
L: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-devious-malware-has-jumped-from-meta-over-to-google-ads-and-youtube-to-spread-heres-how-to-stay-safe
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389500
posted on 2025.09.26 at 14:23:26 (c=0, p=4)

we have remastered the classic game

pray we do not remaster it further

i present: "scheme" compiler in ~600 lines of C, via wasm GC

https://git.lain.faith/iitalics/scm2wasm/src/branch/main

Wikipedia article of the day

Modular Manifolds

Link: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular-manifolds/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388728

Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/electric-vehicle-ban-quebec-1.7644825?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Montreal @montreal-cbcnewsMontreal

yes #thing

Has anyone run an analysis of how much money we spend on Canada Post vs how much we give away in subsidies to extractive resource companies?

I want to scream for no particular reason, but I can't at the moment.

Can someone scream for me?

OK folks, the tox maintainer just made a very ominous comment on an issue to me re: they have "low interest in fixing" tox.ini bugs anymore in favor of toml format that appears to be awkward and less capable, so...I guess sell me on nox? is there at least a tool to give me a nox file from a very complex tox.ini?

edit: ah well there's always claude to write me one

I mean who *doesn’t* play bagpipes on their cat? #TimelineCleanser

Day 3: Octavia Butler.

Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.

Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.

#20WomenAuthors

Open Social

Link: https://overreacted.io/open-social/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388021

what this article doesn't say:-

the shitty City of Toronto used police enforcers and The Claw to forcibly clear out remaining residents at the Dufferin Grove encampment earlier today, stealing their belongings and putting them in the trash, evicting residents, and putting up a fence around the area people used to live in. FUCKING SHAMEFUL

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-park-encampment-cleared-1.7644558

#HousingForAll #Toronto

Bringing order to chaos.

📡 At Teufelsberg (Berlin) I saw a decayed listening station…my reminder of a world we should not rebuild.

Yet the EU wants to scan EVERYTHING: chats, cloud, mail… 🤯 in the name of safety.
Mass surveillance erodes freedom.

💡If you do one thing this weekend, let it be reading this explanation of ChatControl:
👉 https://edu.nl/fcwvf

✊ #privacy #freedom #chatcontrol #surveillance

夜のお散歩っていいよね……

For the side channel crowd:

I wrote about how side channels in serialization can theoretically allow breaking ASLR - with a theoretical worst-case example of how a single round trip of deserializing attacker-controlled data, serializing the result again, and sending the re-serialized data to an attacker could leak an entire pointer:
"Pointer leaks through pointer-keyed data structures"
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/09/pointer-leaks-through-pointer-keyed.html

Targetting specific characters with CSS rules
L: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/targetting-specific-characters-with-css-rules/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45350207
posted on 2025.09.23 at 13:27:37 (c=0, p=4)