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fucking insane interview with the CEO of roblox https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html
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Mona 7 will be available later this year as a new app.
Free features will include browsing timelines, posting with photos and videos, favoriting, reposting, and limited customization.
Premium feature pack (supports Family Sharing; works on iPhone/iPad/Mac) will be available for 3 USD per month or 20 USD per year.
If you have Mona Pro Max, the premium feature pack will also be available for just 20 USD as a one-time purchase (limited-time offer).
観測するまで出したと出してないのどちらの状態も存在している可能性が
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
Link: https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005553
Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch https://lobste.rs/s/bv3570 #assembly
https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/
The New AI Consciousness Paper
Link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-new-ai-consciousness-paper
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005928
“Never Again” is good, but I almost prefer the German “Wehret den Anfängen,” which means: “Resist the beginnings.”
After days of hard work, I've finally finished the serverless cloud infrastructure for Exquisite.
Here is a picture of the finished thing:
there are few right ways to do a cookie consent check but a lot of wrong ones.
case in point: this site I just visited made me do one, then I clicked "make appointment" which redirected me to a subdomain, which did its own consent check
The old adage:
Everyone has a test environment. Some people are fortunate enough to have a separate production environment.
A #ThankGNU! to Sydian Garlathy for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
The old adage:
Everyone has a test environment. Some people are fortunate enough to have a separate production environment.
그야 그들의 [일반화된 좌절]을 중심으로 읽으면 말마따나 "왜 페미니즘?" 에 대해 절대로 답이 안 나옴... 그 좌절 걔네만 하지도 않았거니와 좌절한 결과가 왜 여성탓? 도 허공에 붕 뜸. 이러면 귀결점이 "걔들은 원래 그렇다!" 로 돌아가버리는데, 이러면 정말로 우리가 할 수 있는 일은 없다, 싸움박질이나 더 세게 하자 이외의 이야기를 할 수도 없어진다 (별로 건설적이지 않아보임). 음... 그 편이 더 낫다고 생각한다면 뭐 어쩔수 없고...
House votes to denounce 'horrors' of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/21/congress/house-denounces-horrors-of-socialism-00664412
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p76#a251121p76
논리학 공간을 topological space로 보다니 미친자들...(칭찬)
아 수학은 정말 아름답도다
Irská občansko-právní organizace ICCL podává stížnost na Evropskou komisi poté, co ji přistihla při používání americké aplikace #ChatGPT při psaní oficiálních dokumentů, a to navzdory pravidlům samotné komise.
https://www.root.cz/zpravicky/evropska-komise-pouziva-chatgpt-navzdory-svym-vlastnim-pravidlum/
RHEL 10.1 introduces Soft Reboot Capability [1] in 2025.
Nice playing a catch up game to FreeBSD that has this feature [2]/[3] since 2015 - a whole DECADE ago.
[1] https://thenewstack.io/rhel-10-1-soft-reboot-slashes-downtime-for-updates/
[2] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0d3d0cc3588de0467a7e499640499f8e6725d4bb
[3] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=3f5ac575ea1288891300312b2fb9590c4c1483c4
저ㅜ오늘부터 형이상학 안하기로 했습니다
언니이상학으로 돌아오겠습니다
#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenRegistrationHurts 
@alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) made a downright AMAZING post about the perils of open registration a while ago, and I suggest you go show them some attention. But some of the discussion on that post got me thinking. The main reason people don't want manual account approval, it seems, is because of the time it takes. So, I propose a third registration mode. This would require no extra modifications to ActivityPub and perhaps one minor tweak to nodeinfo (1/?)
Vibe coded my first complete application for my Mac last night.
I wanted to read some comic strips from scans of a magazine in standalone book form. (Dragon - I even have the legal [1] CD-ROM archive.)
The TOC in the PDFs isn't 100% usable for this. So the generated app brings up a UI that displays the page where the TOC says the strip is and allows me to select the actual pages and then it builds a standalone compilation of the strip using waifu2x to upres the colour scans. Result looks great.
As a side effect I learnt how to build a customised PDF viewer in MacOS (super-easy!) and also got some idea of the kinds of internal structures used in magazine scans. It wasn't completely trivial - I started on the wrong foot with excessive amounts of completely unneeded rasterization of vector graphics. I wrote zero lines of code myself, just pasted ChatGPT's suggestions into my editor.
[1] Well WoTC themselves did have to deal with a lawsuit because they didn't have the right to redistribute their own magazine electronically.
How many lithium batteries and lithium power devices do you have in your house?
Might want to check on them every so often 🎈🔥
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Also, maybe don't keep them in the same safe as things like documents and ammunition.
The main news of the week is that 
@GargronEugen Rochko is stepping down as Mastodon CEO, with 
@mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky taking over the role, and this week's newsletter is a reflection on the change.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-143/
말해보카 까먹을뻔
🚨🚨🚨"All of these degrees are primarily held by #women.
So now with the Big Beautiful Bill, women wont be able to get financial aid for these degrees."
-Geaux Gabrielle
#TrumpRegime #Misogyny #Sexism #Fascism #Racism #FinancialAid #Patriarchy #Republicans #Protest #USPol
Homeschooling hits record numbers
Link: https://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999842
@FediGardenFedi.Garden 🌱 I feel like this is really easily solvable by just having the apps randomly cycle which server is selected by "default" when people are signing up. Obviously still give the option for people to manually select their preferred network, but by having the default random.
Just limit the random server selection to something like 10-20 reputable instances that have a track record of quality administration. That would avoid sending people to an instance that is unsupported and at a higher risk of shutting down.
Yup, that's what a number of people have been saying, and it's what e.g. 
@nextcloudNextcloud 📱☁️💻 does on their Nextcloud instance picker.
Get a pool of reliable servers with a good long track record, recommend them in rotation instead of recommending mastodon.social.
I turned 
@franzanthfranz's incredible art into puzzles! Franz is a scientific illustrator I first encountered on Twitter back in the day, thanks to his hilarious and intriguing posts about invertebrates. He also founded #InverteFest, an online event celebrating invertebrates https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9940
🚨🚨🚨"All of these degrees are primarily held by #women.
So now with the Big Beautiful Bill, women wont be able to get financial aid for these degrees."
-Geaux Gabrielle
#TrumpRegime #Misogyny #Sexism #Fascism #Racism #FinancialAid #Patriarchy #Republicans #Protest #USPol
Fediverse Report – #143
I’ve just gotten back from the Eurosky conference in Berlin this week, and it was great to meet so many people working on the open social web. As a reflection on that, I wrote here about building on open protocols creates new challenges for governance. This week’s fediverse news ties right in to that. I’m still tired from all the talking and writing, so next week I’ll catch up to the rest of this week’s news again.
Mastodon’s long-time CEO and founder Eugen Rochko stepping down, after the organisation had announced back in January 2025 that the organisation would be transitioning both its legal and organisational structure. Now, the leadership team of Mastodon consists of:
Eugen Rochko stays within the extended leadership team as Strategy & Product Advisor, together with Andy Piper as Head of Communications, and Philip as Chief of Staff. Rochko says the restructuring was prompted by the stress of leading a social media project, and that he feels that he does not “have the right personality for it”. He describes that these negative interactions chip away at you, ranging from being compared to the tech billionaires but with none of the money or resources, to the challenging interactions with the user base. A particularly difficult interaction with a user last summer was the catalyst for stepping back. Rochko acknowledges that ‘there are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities,’ and the restructuring provides better guardrails to ensure Mastodon stays true to its values. Rochko is staying involved because of his passion for the project, calling the fediverse ‘an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape’ and saying Mastodon is ‘our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses.
Mastodon is also transitioning into a Belgium non-profit entity as the future home of the Mastodon organisation. The current Mastodon organisation is in Germany as the Mastodon gGmbH entity. This organisation automatically become a for-profit organisation after its charitable status were stripped away. The new Belgium entity (an AISLB) allows Mastodon to become a non-profit organisation again. The organisation does not know yet when exactly the transfer to this new Belgium entity will happen. Meanwhile, Mastodon will also continue to operate an US-based 501(c)(3), as a “strategic overlay and fundraising hub”.
Another important change is that the Mastodon organisation now owns the Mastodon brand and assets, which used to be owned by Rochko. The organisation has attracted various larger donations, with Mastodon listing Jeff Atwood and the Atwood Family (EUR 2.2M), Biz Stone, AltStore (EUR 260k), GCC (EUR 65k), and Craig Newmark. These donations are partially used to fund acquisition of the Mastodon brand and assets from Rochko. Rochko is receiving a one-time compensation of EUR 1M for transferring the Mastodon brand trademark and assets to the organisation, which also compensates him for 10 years of work on the project at a below-market rate. Hlatky noted that Rochko turned down earlier acquisition offers worth more than 10 times this amount to keep Mastodon as a non-profit and open-source project. Mastodon says that individual community donations, which amounted to EUR 337k over the last 12 months, have not been used for this compensation.
When Rochko reflects on his legacy, he writes:
As for what the legacy of my run will be, I find hard to answer. For one, I think it is not up for me to judge. On the other hand, it is as much about what didn’t happen as it is about what did. I’ve always thought that one of the most important responsibilities I had was to say “no”. It is not a popular thing to do, nor is it a fun thing to do, but being pulled into too many different directions at once can spell disaster for any project. I’d like to think I avoided some trouble by being careful. But I’m also aware that my aversion to public appearances cost Mastodon some opportunities in publicity.
A few observations on this transition:
The sheer grit and determination by Rochko to start the project a decade ago, and continue working and growing the project and organisation on such limited resources in extremely impressive. Daring to let go of the ownership of a project as a founder that has become integral and integrated with who you are is super hard, and I respect for Rochko for being able to say “I need to step back”. He’s clearly aware of the risks of founders not doing this properly, saying that there “are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities”.
Rochko does not mention the drastic change in late 2022, where, due to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, Mastodon (and Rochko) got put in the global spotlight as the alternative to Twitter. This event drastically changed the course of the open social web, and many people joined Mastodon with the vision that it could replace Twitter. That vision did not come to pass. Hlatky’s vision is also not one of rapidly replacing X, instead describing the goal as “slow user & server growth”. The open question remains if that vision, of Mastodon becoming the main replacement for Twitter, could have actually unfolded, and if the momentum of late 2022 and early 2023 could have resulted in Mastodon becoming a main player in the space. While there are clearly many factors that contributed to this, as the leader of the biggest fediverse platform during that crucial period, it would be interesting to hear Rochko’s perspective on this. Could different decisions by Mastodon about onboarding, moderation, or discovery have capitalised on that momentum?
I find it striking that Rochko describes his own role and responsibility as mainly to say “no”, listing it as one of his most important responsibilities. He also sees one of the main risks to the project as being “pulled into too many different directions at once”. Mastodon does have a reputation for being difficult to get contributions (code or otherwise) accepted, and the reason for that is clearly on display when the CEO describes his role as saying “no”.
This approach points to a fundamental tension in Mastodon that Rochko was never able to fully resolve: is Mastodon a single network that is installed on many servers, or is it many community places connected with each other, some of which run the Mastodon software? While Mastodon’s vision and communications often advertise the ‘many independent communities’ part, in practice the software trended more in the direction of being a single platform.
Rochko’s insistence on maintaining a single coherent vision for Mastodon conflicts with the idea of giving digital communities independence where they have control over the rules of their community. If communities are supposed to be independent, they need to be able to set their own rules. But if protocol software embodies community rules, and that software is controlled by someone with a tendency to say “no” to changes, then communities struggle to be truly independent places. This feeds into what I wrote the other day on how protocol architecture is the same as institutional rules.
Mastodon’s vision is one of community ownership, and grassroots efforts that depends on the community to be sustainable. But relying on donations also show how this funding model introduces fragility and dependency: A single donation by the Atwood family is nearly 7 times as large as all the individual donations for the last year combined. This imbalance has real consequences. The €1M compensation for Rochko’s assets and 10 years of work is fair, but paying it from community donations was clearly not feasible, either financially or politically. Instead, the ownership transition depended on a few large donors willing to contribute sums far beyond what the community could provide. It also leads to the question: why the Mastodon assets were owned by Rochko, and not by the Mastodon organisation in the first place? Hlatky’s vision for Mastodon is to work on financial sustainability, but there is a tension here: if major organisational changes require large donors rather than community funding, is Mastodon truly community-owned?
I’ll be talking with Hlatky soon to explore his vision in more depth, so expect a follow-up on that. For now, I want to acknowledge what Rochko accomplished, building and maintaining Mastodon for a decade. He kept it non-profit and open-source despite offers that would have made him much wealthier. His impact on the broader ecosystem, on proving that alternatives to corporate social media are possible, and on building a community and network that has clear power to sustain itself in the long run, shouldn’t be understated, even as the project now moves into new hands.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-143/
I just saw a BMW driver use their blinker. The end of times are upon us.
Making it Production Ready: Adding Services and Hardening
Part 4 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" Series
Hardening the server and adding some niceties for the future...all while updating the iso build....the later was when it got a little messy.
Making it Production Ready: Adding Services and Hardening: Part 4 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" Series" - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes
*Part 4 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" series* Where We Left Off In Part 3, we got the custom NixOS ISO working and deployed to real hardware....
blog.ppb1701.com
Link author: 
Patrick@ppb1701@ppb.social
Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?
Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞
I've updated the https://www.python.org/downloads/ page:
Added download links to the active Python versions table. Before, you had to hunt for the one you wanted in the table below.
They're redirect links, so, for example, https://www.python.org/downloads/latest/python3.15/ goes to https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3150a2/ and https://www.python.org/downloads/latest/python3.13/ goes to https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3139/
Could be handy for your docs, if you want to point people to the latest, say, 3.12.
Celebrity Traitors UK
We watched the first season over the last couple of weeks. It was a really fun watch; I was completely unspoiled, so it was completely fresh.
Most of the time was spent absolutely howling at the TV. The Faithful have only one possible path to success: forming coalitions and voting in blocs. Waiting until the Round Table to make decisions within the bloc is catastrophic; the bloc has to come to the table with a decision and stick with it.
iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 736 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 🚀
iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 736 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 🚀
僕だって人間なんだぞ、三大欲求は勝手にやってくるし嫌でも抑えられない
I would far rather have someone try to fix something at worst case, it's a bug report at best, it's the gateway to someone becoming a valued contributor! (and the disclaimer signals that the person isn't trying to impress - humility is very important in oss!)
I would far rather have someone try to fix something at worst case, it's a bug report at best, it's the gateway to someone becoming a valued contributor! (and the disclaimer signals that the person isn't trying to impress - humility is very immigrant in oss!)
nc(1) (or netcat) is useful not only for redirecting input/output to
TCP or UDP connections, but also for proxying them with inetd(8).
My job is looking for a mobile #developer for #ios or #android that has experience with VPN/tunneling.
I think it's preferable to be in #colorado or #georgia in the US but if you are elsewhere, feel free to still reach out!
DM me and I'll see what I can do!
Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
Link: https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005553
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