The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be stopped.

To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now present "And Then?"

The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

A little PSA: if your library of choice is facing funding cuts, don't hold off on using their services because you're worried it'll put pressure on their existing funds.

Take advantage of everything and help them get some lovely stats to help them demonstrate impact as they fight back! If it looks like they're not being useful to folks, they'll get cut!

Don't do the cost cutters' jobs for them!

Not even a month passed and Chat Control is back in the EU

Link: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511

@thomasfuchsThomas 🔭🕹️ So we’re going to have AI lawyers arguing with AI lawyers to build a nuclear power plant designed by AI so we have more power to run AI.

We deserve an asteroid.

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@thomasfuchsThomas 🔭🕹️ This will not end well.

"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."

JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

I tried out the Herb VS Code extension by @marcoroth and was impressed. It's the complete package:

- inline display of parsing errors
- format on save
- `herb analyze` to find issues across files

I'm sure there are more features, but these are the big ones that I used effortlessly in my first 5 minutes with it. Very nice!

https://github.com/marcoroth/herb

#ruby

生成AIを誰が使っているのかという話。
https://twitter.com/googlejapan/status/1988215128236449914?s=19

We Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS

Link: https://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rds
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929921

TFW shadow self starts acting up https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115548243464871780

Crowdinきたきた

c87b052829 Fix inability to paste links (#36896)
ebc99cd597 New Crowdin Translations (#36893)
6db4297193 Fix cross-origin handling of CSS modules (#36890)
bc47cba123 update dependency js-yaml to v4.1.1 [security] (#36891)
f8ffb85566 Use `date` attribute for date of birth (#36039)
7dbb2ac79a Remove rails delegate (#36835)
bc81e299f2 update dependency stoplight to v5.6.0 (#36803)
277a4c80c0 update dependency prometheus_exporter to v2.3.1 (#36842)
7be8fe6370 update dependency aws-sdk-core to v3.237.0 (#36823)
4ab1d5d724 Allow drag&drop of link to quote in compose form (#36859)
c5eca8ffb2 Fix error with remote tags including percent signs (#36886)
f25e066112 Fix bogus quote approval policy not always being replaced correctly (#36885)
6d8c43ab85 Fix hashtag completion not being inserted correctly (#36884)
0d7c23469b Bump version to v4.5.1 (#36872)
f243a00b90 New Crowdin Translations (#36875)
6e294828d6 Fix Cmd/Ctrl + Enter in the composer triggering confirmation dialog action (#36870)

しゅいろママがよく眠れますように​​

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/af2s30rymo8w06cd

Oh look, a little press! Thanks for covering FediMod FIRES a bit @fediversereport.comConnected Places ! connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Fediverse Report – #142

Oh look, a little press! Thanks for covering FediMod FIRES a bit @fediversereport.comConnected Places ! connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Fediverse Report – #142

中途覚醒はよくある​​

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/af2rrbif6da6023i

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.

But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

#OpenSource #foss #licensing

If you don't enjoy using your computerS, you are doing it wrong :)

This is a fantastic era for personal computers.

Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

Link: https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929358

It's weird to live in a world where Steam and Valve seem to be the most ethical companies when it comes to respecting their users.

I'm still waiting for the catch, but might just buy all their products next year based on their public stance alone.

I suspect @bonfire as a service will be the thing to do to grow communities using it.

Edit: that is without operating a flagship server.

Welches Tier läuft durch den Wald und explodiert dann?
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Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits

Link: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/sustainability/pulls/137/files
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929247

#git

Not even a month passed and Chat Control is back in the EU

Link: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511

Germany to Ban Huawei from Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/germany-to-ban-huawei-from-future-6g-network-in-sovereignty-push
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929052

#germany

We’re celebrating free culture in Uruguay! 🇺🇾

@CC_Uruguay is hosting a vibrant festival full of panels, creative workshops, and live music.
If you’re in Montevideo, join in next week — and stay tuned for highlights!

🔗 festival.creativecommons.uy

冷静に考えるとこの時間にしゅいろママが起きてるの珍しい気がする

@neauoireDevine Lu Linvega maybe that’s what the dreams are trying to tell you: to visit

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KBS 아님?? 너희는 방송사의 최대 자존심인 선거 출구조사 카운트다운 영상 전체를 생성형 AI로 다 떼워서 욕먹었잖아

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:avkiqnlt66xjfogwwufsw5ky/post/3m5luz5yez22v

Fediverse Report 142 - this week's #fediverse news

- More on @bonfire's crowdfunding and why software maintenance matters
- But which communities are the ones that are going to start new fediverse servers?
- @Mastodon updates their roadmap, with starter packs, new landing pages for mastodon servers and improved onboarding tools coming for 4.6

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-142/

It seems like yesterday we released Thunderbird for Android. See how fast our first mobile app is growing up.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/video-an-android-retrospective/

The vastly underappreciated Creative Soundblaster PCI 128, loaded up with an 8MB Waveset. Cheap as chips and I really love them! ☺️

Current fog situation

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New thread time! Build 185 of Toot! 26 is here! With this one, I think it is feature complete. I will try to not add any new features now, and just do a few more bugfixes before going to a final release. There might be one more beta release still, but let's hope for no more than that.

Beta signup: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FHupDY6v

Changes in 185:
* Show list of quotes on the toot screen.
* Properly abbreviate recursive quotes.
* Properly show rejected or revoked quotes, or quotes from blocked users.

Winamp for OS/X

Link: https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@InternationalCyberDigest/115549294197026943

Great... Time to ditch Samsung.

So what percentage of people back in the day realized “Zophar’s Domain” was a reference to something do you figure

Just got back home. I drove through the fog, not too bad in town, but the moment I left the city it turned into a wall of nothingness. I even struggled to find my front door, though I eventually made it inside. The key barely worked too, which is odd since it never gives me trouble.

I take off my jacket and I can't find my coat rack. Weird. Then I notice a stranger on my couch. Except that is not my couch. And this is not my living room. This guy has changed all the furniture in my house. How did he manage that in just a few hours?

Alright, terrible joke, I'll stop. Pretending I walked into the wrong house is peak dad joke...

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다만 이 내용들이 사실로 확정된 건 아님. 이메일에 엡스타인이 자기 시점에서 쓴 말들일 뿐이고, 피해자 이름 등은 전부 가려져 있어서 전체 맥락이 불명확함. 문건은 정부 공식 채널을 통해 공개되긴 했지만 ChatGPT님과 확인(?)해본 결과 문건 안 주장들이 ‘사실로 확인됐다’는 의미는 아직 아닌듯 수사 결과나 법원 판단이 아니라 단순 문건 공개인데 그러니까 앞으로 더 공개될 여지도 있고... 해당 글 타래 보면 더 충격적인 암시도 있는데 이건 확실해지면 올리겠습니다 (..)

하원 감독위원회에서 엡스타인 유산 측이 제출한 이메일 일부 공개를 했는데 (약 이틀 전) 이메일 안에 트럼프 언급 여러 번 나옴. 엡스타인이 “트럼프는 아직 이름 안 나와서 조용한 개 같다” 이런 식으로 표현함; 피해자로 지칭된 인물과 트럼프가 엡스타인 집에서 몇 시간 있었단 내용 적혀 있음. 또 다른 이메일에서는 “트럼프가 소녀들 관련된 걸 알고 있었고, 그래서 기슬레인에게 그만하라고 했었다” 이런 식의 문장도 나옴;

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m5lqeckfak24

Fediverse Report – #142

The News

More on Bonfire, which is currently doing a crowdfunding campaign (for an extensive look at Bonfire, see last week’s report):

• Erin Kissane has written an article on Bonfire, and why building blocks for communities matter. She writes: “The work that comes next for Bonfire—that their funding campaign is about—evolves around the needs of real humans in our exact moment, including collective governance, shared moderation, mutual aid networks, living archives, and end-to-end encryption. It also, to my absolute delight, foregrounds maintenance—the thing no institutional funder ever wants to help with, because the incentives are for the innovative and new, not the stable and thriving. The code is open source, yes, but it’s all specifically conceived as a public good. “
• Bonfire writes about ‘Matters of care – why maintenance comes first’: “Maintaining, continuing and repairing are care work. They’re foundational to any open‑source project. Maintenance is the unglamorous work that keeps people safe, tools usable, and the commons alive.”
• On more practical matters, Bonfire is working together with A New Social on building the connections between Bonfire and Bluesky: “With Bridgy Fed, users will be able to bridge on a per-circle and per-post basis. This means that you can have a circle where you specifically post to the ATmosphere while others only distribute to users on the Fediverse! Users sometimes want to broadcast as loudly as possible, while other times they want to enclose a post for a community, and we’re so excited to see Bonfire tackle this problem directly.”

One thing that strikes me about Bonfire’s approach, both to how they develop their software and how they run their crowdfunding campaign, is that they explicitly do not want to run a flagship server of Bonfire. Instead, they are heavily focused on the role of communities that can set up their own server. However, what that approach misses is that the concept of a community setting up their own fediverse server seems to be heavily tied to specific moments in time. Between 36 months and 30 months ago, over 120 new Mastodon servers have been started that have more than 100 active accounts. Between 30 months and now, 24 new Mastodon servers have been started that have more than 100 active accounts. For the most recent year this effect is even more pronounced, with 10 Mastodon servers started in the last year that have more than 100 active accounts.

This shows that the movement of starting a new fediverse server was heavily tied to the Mastodon migration effect that started after Elon Musk took over, in the fall of 2022. After that period, much fewer communities have started a new Mastodon server. This poses a challenge for the approach of Bonfire: the Bonfire Social software is now officially released in a 1.0 version, but there is not a single publicly accessible server that runs Bonfire. And sure, over time this will likely come and people will start to run a Bonfire Social server. But the momentum for people to start new fediverse servers has ebbed away for now. Hopefully, new software such as Bonfire can bring some of that energy back.

Mastodon has updated and simplified the roadmap of what they are working on, as the old version of the roadmap has not been updated for a while. Mastodon is currently working on three features:

• Packs, now named Collections, which is Mastodon’s spin on Bluesky’s Starter Packs. More information on Mastodon’s current design for Collections here.
• Mastodon is also working on giving institutions more control over the landing page.
• Better onboarding, with “improvements to how new users first arrive on Mastodon so they understand what that can do easily.”

Personally I’m confused on why giving admins control over the landing page of a Mastodon server is labeled as “Institution support”, and not just support for any Mastodon server. Mastodon, and the fediverse more broadly, has struggled for a long time with the concept of ‘server’. Servers are interchangeably seen as ‘just a way for people to access the fediverse network’ and ‘individual places of community in a wider social web’. While the second interpretation is how people want the fediverse to be understood, in practice it is often much closer to the first interpretation. Giving any server a way to customise the landing page, making it clearer why Mastodon server A is different from Mastodon server B, is a great way to push the network to a network of connected places. That Mastodon is only adding this customisation because of institutional support feels like even the Mastodon organisation itself has trouble sometimes to truly commit to the idea that Mastodon servers can be unique individual communities in a larger social network.

Features further down the line that Mastodon is exploring is the better support for private messages and moderation tools. More support for stuff like shared blocklists is highly needed, and I’m curious to see what comes out of it. Showing private messages as real messages and not have them show up in the feed is also long overdue. I’ve missed a fair number of private messages that way (apologies to everyone I’ve responded late to due to this), so its good to see that this eventually might change.

Mastodon is not alone in working on better moderation tooling for Mastodon and the fediverse. The Fedimod FIRES project by independent developer Emelia Smith also gives fediverse servers the option to share moderation information with each other. It is still in development, and Smith released the latest version this week, saying that she hopes this will be the final version before an 1.0 launch.

The Links

• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• A progress update on ActivityPubGo.
• A Fedify tutorial for creating your own federated microblog.
  

#nlnet

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-142/

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one thing about being old on the internet is that I constantly forget some people are making money off their online presence. I naively tend to think we're all here for the love of the game.

Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable

Link: https://aethermug.com/posts/linear-algebra-explains-why-some-words-are-effectively-untranslatable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927210

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