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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969
I am passing the torch to 
@mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky, who will be the new Executive Director. Felix has been involved with #Mastodon since 2020 and has been instrumental in evolving the organization, raising funds, and growing the team to get us to where we are now. With 
@haubleshannah aubry and 
@renchapRenaud Chaput by his side, and the team we have assembled over the years, I have faith that the new leadership will do a stellar job.
WTF of the week (yes, it's only Tuesday):
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-warns-security-risks-agentic-os-windows-11-xpia-malware
んあーーーーーーーーーーーーー無限に稼がないと
Nancy and Jucika expressing similar themes today.
https://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/115571736445576271
POLARPLT.BMF
【徹底解説】公共入札・公募仕事はすでにオワコンになっている理由〜仕事のない業者に喰われる自治体たち〜 https://youtu.be/6nltVVqOaAY?si=57hZ3TIvzNhOpS2i
これは完全に同意かもしれん
they should make a game engine i like using
Clown Dentists.
Those clowns at the ice cream factory
Today is a good day to…. #HackThePlanet
Okay it’s probably obvious/I’m over-thinking it, but I really like that every word in the @roost.toolsROOST acronym carries weight.
Here’s what ROOST stands for: (🧵)
"Im heurigen Jänner …"
Wenn es der Anreißer klar macht, dass das ein Text aus Österreich ist …
見終わったので寝よう やっぱ面白かった
@briankrebs "Our use of vibe coding finally bit us in the butt"
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@briankrebs Vibe Delivery Network
Those clowns at the ice cream factory
So it's actually this huh?
So it's actually this huh?
🦀 It's not ready for an official announcement yet, but we're working on a small DB-backed worker queue in Rust.
https://github.com/mre/workers
It's a recurring ask from clients, and I couldn't find anything "production ready" out there.
It's built on top of crates.io's queue. We moved to sqlx (from diesel) as well.
Can we get some eyeballs on it? Feel free to comment here and/or create an issue. A retoot and a ⭐ would also help, of course... 😉
So it's actually this huh?
📢 Infra Finder is growing! We're currently reviewing Expressions of Interest from open infrastructure services.
Does your infrastructure support the research lifecycle and prioritize openness and community governance? Submit your Expression of Interest to be considered for inclusion.
Learn more & apply: https://investinopen.org/add-an-infrastructure-to-infra-finder/
おやすみ
In AT gibt es jetzt Dino-Schokoschirmchen! :D
Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at blocking this stuff in the past b/c CF was the control layer to compensate for that.
You might say well okay but if CF is down, so are the sites relying on them, and that's true. But a lot of organizations will switch CF off during these times to keep their sites and services reachable and running. And my friend's point was that for those organizations, they might want to take a closer look at the traffic they received during this eight-hour outage window or whatever, and I think that's sound advice.
Can someone please explain what this means?
"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for several of its services."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html
“Can I vent? All of the emotions from my now former tech career. : r/womenintech”
The story here is, TBH, more the norm for women in tech than not.
If you want as close to an A/B test in misogyny in industry as you can get, talk to trans women. Legit the same exact person before and after, and many many of us watch our careers stall out. I've seen my raises and bonuses halt entirely for the last 5 years while team members get raises and bonuses. I had a great grand boss directly interfering with my work and bashing my communication styles when I asked many of my colleagues and they said they saw nothing different in how I communicated than a great many of my men colleagues.
Now I daily consider how much longer I'll make it in tech.
@baldurBaldur Bjarnason
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice... yeah that sounds about right
Reminder: The #internet was built to route around damage on a communication route. By centralizing on #cloudflare , #aws, #azure, and #googlecloud, we've removed the redundancy model that was core to the initial internet principles.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/live/a-cloudflare-outage-is-taking-down-parts-of-the-internet
흠....
📰 Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET
What we've added for PQC, and how we got there.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/post-quantum-cryptography-in-dotnet/ #dotnet
WTF: still using #Microsoft #Github.com? 😂
[AWS Architecture] Build priority-based message processing with Amazon MQ and AWS App Runner
The outages will continue until decentralisation improves.
Last year we put out a call for a Fedi-wide Albums of The Year (AOTY) list because, you know, that's just the kind of thing we do. Is there any appetite for doing a 2025 version of this?
Our rules last year were: (1) have to be a Fedizen to participate; (2) max 3 albums per Fedizen; (3) albums can be from any year, just key in that year's listening. We also didn't do any ranking.
Let me know if this interests you! If we want another go for 2025, I can send a call out in about a month. I'd probably stick to the same rules, but would be open to something different if there were suggestions.
For reference, here is our 2024 AOTY list: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/01/01/albums-the-fediverse-loved-in-2024/
Mein jüngerer Fork-Prozess sowie zwei ErstbesucherInnen suchen noch #39C3 Tickets.
Falls wer von Euch was von verfügbaren Tickets hört, "DMs are open!" ;)
いいから寝なさい！寝ろーーーっ！！（私へ 私より）
はい…
Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-new-ai-agents-create-your-word-excel-and-powerpoint-projects-now/
Bet you, they can not properly handle corporate design templates.
2時回っちゃった、寝ないと
이미지 포맷들의 용도를 결정. 이제는 바꾸지 말자. 
이 정도로 고정하면 될 듯. 10비트 대응은 최소 몇 년 간은 필요없겠지.
Experiment: Making TypeScript Immutable-by-Default
Link: https://evanhahn.com/typescript-immutability-experiment/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966018
Cloudflareが死んだらTwitterも自鯖も両方落ちるんだなぁ
えすな
It is being normalized. Just not how they want us to believe.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice... yeah that sounds about right
I wonder what all the slop zombies out there are doing during the Cloudflare outage. I mean, they cannot ask ChatGPT what to do next, like they would normally do.
Are they just sitting in front of their screens now, completely motionless, waiting to be prompted? 🤔
테테테테스트
Seriously? How is it that there's no way to search and filter the people you follow?
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Darius Kazemi
依頼募集中 
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Ian Wagner
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
Jim DeLaHunt
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