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FreeBSD Desktop Installer Tech Preview
We’ve dropped a video preview of ongoing work to make desktop installation on FreeBSD simpler.
We show a walkthrough of installing FreeBSD 15.0-BETA and then running the new desktop setup script being developed by Alfonso Siciliano.
The preview covers basic installation, running the desktop script and booting into a working graphical environment in under 10 minutes.
Watch the preview: https://youtu.be/vbWOLzGDa4I?si=aPbMwszewvkHf0iQ
아 개피곤하다
Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Tech Preview
We’ve dropped a video preview of ongoing work to make desktop installation on FreeBSD simpler.
We show a walkthrough of installing FreeBSD 15.0-BETA and then running the new desktop setup script being developed by Alfonso Siciliano.
The preview covers basic installation, running the desktop script and booting into a working graphical environment in under 10 minutes.
Watch the preview: https://youtu.be/vbWOLzGDa4I?si=aPbMwszewvkHf0iQ
@yosh 
@mcc 
@blyxyasAlejandra Gonzalez I definitely had some "unwrap bad" thoughts at the beginning of this (although much more nuanced than that) but in addition to the somewhat rust-specific things I've learned as a result of the Discourse, I've also realized that there's a big plane-with-holes.jpg problem here: when a significant software system outage involving errors has occurred, the error-handling mechanism of the programming language it's written in will be implicated, regardless of how good it is
@glyph @yosh @blyxyasAlejandra Gonzalez I mean I thing the problem is more insidious than this-- in a failure analysis with many steps, there will be a tendency to focus on the simplest thing that appears in the failure chain, whether or not it actually failed in this case, because it's the one thing everyone can have an opinion on. It's a special case of the bikeshed principle
50/50 Chance Of Cloud
The Hraunamöl isthmus, separating Miklavatn lake from the sea, is also the place where the light is changing.
It's September, 5pm and the sun is setting behind a heavy cloud bank which was moving rapidly towards the south and clearing our road north to Siglufjörður.
The high winds of the day were calming, and the sea was quieter in this exposed bay.
Fljót¹ in Skagafjörður, northern #Iceland.
¹ 𝙁𝙡-𝘺𝘰𝘸𝘵
#Iceland2025 #LandscapePhotography #WeatherPhotography #Photography
I've been thinking about this one for a long time. There is subtly here, but I tried my best to keep it short. I don't think you should use MainActor as the default isolation.
And a happy FUCK OFF to AI from Emma Thompson. 😌
#FotoVorschlag 'Dinge die mit "R" beginnen oder so aussehen ...'
#PhotoSuggestion 'Things that start with "R" or look like this ...'
rote Wolken
#allauth 65.13.1 has been released, containing a few minor fixes and official support for #Django 6.0... https://allauth.org/news/2025/11/django-allauth-65.13.1-released/
@vnikolovVassil Nikolov 
@johncarlosbaez
There is also Salvador Dali. Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_(Corpus_Hypercubus)
@maxpoolma𝕏pool - cool painting. Not enough four-dimensional art out there.
There could be more 4d art... the structures are there, waiting for artists to explore them.
The 120-cell has 120 regular dodecahedra as 3d faces. Then cut across the vertices, edges, and 2d faces and you get the "runcinated" 120-cell shown below.
二度寝するか起きるか微妙な時間😆
as transgender day of rememberence is today, as we learn the names and faces of those we've lost, i want to remind all my transgender friends and family:
staying alive and finding joys in life, big or small, is the most foundational step of resistance to institutional and systemic transphobia.
never do the fascists' dirty work for them.
🏳️⚧️ 🕯️
I think the main thing that I like about html+js game engines is they make creating menus easier. This is because you're writing games in a menu engine instead of menus in a game engine. And at least from where I sit... the former is actually kind of easier, or at least it moves the friction to a place I find interesting (making a game work) and not a place I find boring (painstakingly programming menus that feel good to use)
if your company sets a `Content-Security-Policy` header: who's in charge of deciding what it should be? (someone in security? someone who works on the frontend? other? multiple people?)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CSP
The Alberta government released this piece of rainbow washing only two days after passing Bill 9, an omnibus bill containing the strongest anti-trans legislation yet passed in Canada.
The bill invokes the notwithstanding clause to shield it from legal challenge under the federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Alberta Bill of Rights, and the Alberta Human Rights act.
This press release is a foetid lie. Don't be fooled, and don't let our government get away with this.
빠른 복습 3별은 이거 너무 차력쇼를 요구하는데-.- 문제는 엄청 많은데 시간은 1:30이 전부니…
This Trans Day of Rememberance, I find myself once again crying for my dear friend Athena Washington, but I will tell you something funny about her.
She shared a birth name with one of the most famous people in the history of the world, and was suspended by Facebook on charges of using a fake name on five separate occasions. She upgraded names from president to goddess, and the online identity police bothered her *less.*
Just published the VOD from streaming earlier this week, if pondering the nature of "what is a CI test matrix" is appealing to you https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2621831793
Zelensky to speak to Trump after US proposes Russia-Ukraine peace plan
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1ypqlle0o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada 
@u-s-and-canada-BBCNewsU.S. and Canada
Heeeyyy Fedi!!! I have a question that I *know* a bunch of you are going to be able to answer.
For the past couple decades I've wanted an electric guitar, but my ex always shot it down. So, now that I've escaped that abusive relationship, and with it nearing the holidays again, I've decided I'm going to finally get one.
Last time I played guitar was in middleschool (and some bass in highschool), so I'm starting from scratch.
My constraints:
- 6 string electric guitar
- under $200
- used/hand me down is great
- pink would be awesome
- probably right-handed (because that's what I learned on)
Does anyone have a recommendation (or better yet, an old guitar near Seattle that could use the sweet, sweet love of a new owner?)
I looked at Amazon (🤢) and found something that seems like it fits my needs, but I hate supporting them, *and* I have no idea if it's garbage or not.
#AskFedi #ElectricGuitar #Music #Recommendations #RepairReuseRecycle
In a drenched forest. Slow-moving water, dripping leaves. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-wet.html #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Forests #NaturePhotography
is the train going to brake at Brake (b Bielefeld)?
目が覚めたら、アプデが来ている
Was ist aus der schönen Tradition geworden, Threads zu Themen mit einem konsistenten Hashtag zu versehen?
#ProjektLesbareTL
Keep the immigrants.
Deport the Republicans.
Keep the immigrants.
Deport the Republicans.
看到以前有藍營說過，要推動中華人民共和國承認中華民國，那是不是先修法讓中華民國承認中華人民共和國，是時候承認中華人民共和國從中華民國獨立的事實 
Wurde ein Bundeskanzler jemals in der Öffentlichkeit so gedemütigt?
Während der heutigen Rede von Friedrich Merz bei der Talisman Preisverleihung in Berlin verlassen etliche Gäste den Saal.
(Ich kann sie verstehen, ich ertrage ihn auch nicht. Mit der Verleihung des TALISMAN zeichnet die Deutschlandstiftung Integration Menschen aus, die sich durch ihr Engagement für den Zusammenhalt unserer Gesellschaft verdient gemacht haben.)
@why_not@mastodon.socialwhy-not @Heike mMn ein sehr starkes Signal und zielgenau auf das Ego. Wenn er - Merz - nur etwas daraus mitnehmen würde, sich daraufhin reflektieren und sein Auftreten, sein Denken ändern würde ... das wäre wunderbar
하스켈 소켓 통신 라이브러리 이름을 rocket 이라고 지으면 상도덕에 어긋나나?
So here's a little bombshell for y'all: over the past two months I was interviewing for a role on Bluesky's trust & safety team, whilst I didn't end up getting the role, I had a lot of people from the ActivityPub community encouraging me to apply to it.
I didn't say anything publicly at the time, and perhaps never would have — it didn't happen after all, and I couldn't afford for people to get mad and cancel their donations in support of my work on Trust & Safety in the Fediverse and especially Mastodon. I've already had some cancellations occur seemingly in direct reaction to me diversifying and doing more work with AT Protocol.
I applied because my work on the Fediverse has been fundamentally unsustainable for the entire year, and because it was a role I could learn & grow in. There's a lot that can be said for an opportunity to work on something larger than I've worked on previously.
This year I've barely scraped by, unable to afford things that would allow me to live a better life & be more productive. I've been struggling with health issues stemming from a likely MCAS diagnosis, where food randomly sends me into coughing fits so bad I vomit at times. It's also amplified by stress, and my goodness I've had a lot of that this year.
Even if I had gotten the job, I would've continued in my role as co-lead (and founder) of the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce, which has been a thankless job, and one I'm constantly pushed for time on. I did find myself at one point asking 
@dariusDarius Kazemi
If I should step down, because I know my health can sometimes make things difficult (I can't always make meetings because some days I can barely leave my bed due to stomach cramps and nausea.
Next, let's have a look at current funding & some wins.
Donations pre-taxes this year amount to:
- €13.3k net (direct)
- €4265 net (ko-fi)
I've also been able to request payment from my NLNet grant for FediMod FIRES, which everyone, including Mastodon, have been asking for this year.
The goal of FediMod FIRES is to empower moderation teams to share trust & safety data, and it's now fully functional, and I'm just working on the final push to release version 1.0.0
FediMod FIRES looks beyond where sharing of moderation data currently is at on the Fediverse, and introduces several new ideas, but the core idea is that federation management should be more like firewall policies rather than just domain blocks and open-by-default to the horrors of the internet.
This year has been incredibly tough & thankless, but I've had some wins too, like getting Client ID Metadata Documents adopted by the OAuth Working Group.
The history of these goes back to my introduction to an early version of them that I encountered in the Solid ecosystem. After a call with Aaron Parecki in May last year to explore how we could improve Mastodon's OAuth (following a significant amount of work by myself on it), we realised that this fairly unknown part of the Solid OIDC specification needed to be lifted up to an official IETF standards document. That would allow decentralized social web to work much more smoothly.
Mastodon has showed interest in CIMDs, and whilst they wanted to fund the work to implement them, they weren't willing to fund the other extremely necessary OAuth work (expiring access tokens, refresh tokens, public clients, etc). So that work has languished because I can't afford to spend time on it.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what's next, because building for trust and safety in the fediverse hasn't been sustainable. It's almost like we care more about the appearance of valuing trust & safety more than the work it actually takes to achieve it.
I'm looking at a few other roles in the trust and safety space, and seeing if I can secure more funding through grants or freelance contracts to continue my work.
If you value trust & safety on the Fediverse and open social web, please please please consider supporting my work: https://support.thisismissem.social
I think the main thing that I like about html+js game engines is they make creating menus easier. This is because you're writing games in a menu engine instead of menus in a game engine. And at least from where I sit... the former is actually kind of easier, or at least it moves the friction to a place I find interesting (making a game work) and not a place I find boring (painstakingly programming menus that feel good to use)
We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty...
#EnchiladaTheCat #cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #silentsunday
Most people want a usable OS - they don’t want any AI or copilot capabilities. But who will tell them? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me
How do you work as a CEO when you don't know what customers wants? They are totally out of touch and batshit crazy with AI.
* Aniwork version update notification
v4.5.0 -> v4.5.2
Most people want a usable OS - they don’t want any AI or copilot capabilities. But who will tell them? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me
How do you work as a CEO when you don't know what customers wants? They are totally out of touch and batshit crazy with AI.
“demand for oracle credit default swaps surges” is something that normally would delight me, which is why it delights me
“demand for oracle credit default swaps surges” is something that normally would delight me, which is why it delights me
Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
Link: https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963350
Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]
Link: https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993214
invaluable means valuable???? what the fuck are we even doing about this
A low key solution to a cheating problem ;) source https://x.com/frxiaobei/status/1991090307249930673 ( or https://xcancel.com/frxiaobei/status/1991090307249930673 )
This Trans Day of Rememberance, I find myself once again crying for my dear friend Athena Washington, but I will tell you something funny about her.
She shared a birth name with one of the most famous people in the history of the world, and was suspended by Facebook on charges of using a fake name on five separate occasions. She upgraded names from president to goddess, and the online identity police bothered her *less.*
Stefano Marinelli
Quincy
Chris Siebenmann
jnkrtech
Andreas Freise
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
v4.5.2 
Tom Casavant
Eugen Rochko
