Seniors are unplugging their lifesaving medical devices because of #privacy concerns. The information is unclear on who has access to their health #data, leaving some seniors worried about managing their privacy. https://spectrum.ieee.org/privacy-health-tech-seniors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

Week in Fediverse 2025-12-19

Servers

- Mbin v1.9.0
- stegodon v1.4.3
- PeerTube v8.0.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.0
- Ktistec v3.2.4
- Manyfold v0.130.0
- Wafrn v2025.12.03
- Misskey v2025.12.1
- Gancio v1.28.2
- appy v0.4.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.6
- PieFed v1.3.8
- NodeBB v4.7.1
- Enigmatick ActivityPub C2S
- A year in Hubzilla development
- Photografedi: An ActivityPub powered photo sharing website! Inspired by Flickr and Pixelfed

Clients

- PeerTube Mobile v2.0
- Voyager v2.42.0
- Blorp v1.10.1
- Interstellar v0.11.1

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.4.1

Articles

- Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
- Adding a NSFW filter to Images on Writefreely
- Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked
- holos.social - How It Works
- Implementing Encrypted Messaging over ActivityPub
- Fediverse Report - #147

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019b1423-50e8-e8c5-d918-9946b14bb67e

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#PythonForEveryone

Linus x Linus - Is AI A Bubble? https://youtu.be/QtGBnR24LcM?si=YatLIetHDoLk-4EJ

We're at 97% of our *second* fundraiser goal of $400K 🫨🥰

It's also the *VERY LAST DAY* to get 30% off PyCharm Pro from JetBrains with ALL proceeds going to the PSF!

Will you be the one to tip us over our goal? Grab PyCharm & support #PythonForEveryone!
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I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

https://davidcel.is/articles/writing-code-is-fun

I published a personal recap of State of the Word 2025, with a focus on the AI panel I joined with Mary Hubbard, Matt Mullenweg, Felix Arntz, and James LePage.

I also wrote about the work behind the AI Experiments plugin and what it means for the future of AI in WordPress.

https://jeffpaul.com/2025/12/reflections-on-state-of-the-word-2025-and-the-future-of-ai-in-wordpress/

@dotmeow.meow ∙ We'll be at #39C3 ^-^' hey I have a question from a friend (@femscifemsci (she is very cute bc she's scared to ask herself)): what do you plan to do about domain squatting?

if you plan to offer domains for a much smaller amount because you're not looking to get a ton of profit from this, are there any plans to do anything to stop someone from registering 9999 different domains for super cheap & then selling them off?

(and also on that note, I question I have is: are there any plans for what to do with the so called "premium domains" which cost a ton more than normal domains just bc they contain a short & common word?)

Is Proton leaving Switzerland?

Link: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/is-proton-leaving-switzerland-legal-uncertainty-of-proposed-surveillance-laws-is-pushing-them-to-make-several-changes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329654

Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations

Link: https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/11/20/avelo-airline-reservation-api-vulnerability
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328992

Pabu says the new cat toy is backflip approved!

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

@jean_dupontAreskul coucou

Check out this thread and realize that once Microsoft invented software (Recall) that can continuously scan a computer screen and semantically parse everything you're doing with it, it was inevitable that a government would attempt to make this technology mandatory https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115747292179816100

Soooo... #JustBetweenUs There's already some big stuff in the works for 2026:

The Social Web Foundation (@swf) has kicked off a project to bring real end-to-end encryption to the Fediverse. It's a big undertaking, with real financial backing from the @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency

Check out the announcement: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

And, I'm very excited that #Emissary is one of the projects selected to participate in the work alongside the @bonfire team.

1/

I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

Big news for the #Fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #ActivityPub.

@swf with support from @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency is coordinating two interoperable implementations.

Bonfire is proud to be one of these first two projects, alongside #Emissary by @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻

We think #E2EE should simply be the default for any private communications, and we’re especially thrilled to bring private, trusted collaboration to the fediverse.

#JustBetweenUs #Privacy #Encryption #SocialWeb

Other packaging fun-ness: `npx <remote git repo>` will clone and automatically run `npm i` in that clone, but `npx <local git repo>` will fail if you haven't already run `npm i`.

Trans Rescue could really use some help with their end of year finances. I'll be matching donations for the next week up to $2000. Send me an anonymized copy of your donation receipt via DM and I'll match it.

https://transrescue.org

#TransRescue #donation

Pabu says the new cat toy is backflip approved!

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

Link: https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-vice-city/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329696

I think that both Ghost & Wordpress have made a pretty grave product error integration AP over ATProto, but I understand how they got there, especially if the integration was lead by technical teams and not product teams. Does make me wish for a special projects person like @emilyliu.me@bsky.brid.gy used to do

"TL;DM (too long; didn't monitor) is a fast, extensible progress bar for Python, forked from tqdm. This fork was created to provide continued maintenance and development as the original tqdm project has become unmaintained."

https://github.com/eliotwrobson/tldm

#Python #TLDM #tqdm

This Would Censor the Entire Internet! The Plan to Repeal Section 230 https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo

Buy cassettes and push to prod.

#Mozilla choosing to kill embeddable Gecko (make it a #Firefox only engine, essentially) over a decade ago was such a tragic mistake.

Alternative browsers & desktop apps had no choice but to go with WebKit or Blink/Electron.

As a result, Mozilla have nobody to blame but themselves for their minuscule marketshare and nil developer mindshare today.

Further readings:
* https://lwn.net/Articles/436412/ (circa 2011)
* https://www.chrislord.net/2016/02/24/the-case-for-an-embeddable-gecko/ from @Cwiiis
* https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/ from @YoricSpace·Time Will Tell

#OpenWeb

So let me get this straight. The current state of fediverse integration on Threads is that you can write posts that federate, people can read and reply to them, you can like their replies, but you can't reply back, repost, or even share the post from Threads. And that's how they're gonna leave it.

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

Big news for the #Fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #ActivityPub.

@swf with support from @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency is coordinating two interoperable implementations.

Bonfire is proud to be one of these first two projects, alongside #Emissary by @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻

We think #E2EE should simply be the default for any private communications, and we’re especially thrilled to bring private, trusted collaboration to the fediverse.

#JustBetweenUs #Privacy #Encryption #SocialWeb

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

The Holiday Special Matrix Live, open sourcing the policy server, and a security release for ESS.

This concludes This Week In Matrix for this year!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/12/19/this-week-in-matrix-2025-12-19/

There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy

Link: https://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329038

Ooo, this next release of #Vivaldi is going to be a banger. There are so many new things in this list that I'm looking forward to incorporating into my workflow.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/daily-images-autohide-toolbars-smarter-tab-tiling-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3899-3/

午後の輝き、青葉区、仙台市
Nikon D4s + Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5 #Misskey写真部

all four of our games are on winter sale on steam https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/ and itch https://eniko.itch.io

kitsune tails: the premier gay fox girl jumping game, 33% off on steam for the first time

midboss: turnbased body snatching roguelike, 67% off and only $5

kitsune zero: 36 more fox girl platforming levels for just $2.50

ultra hat dimension: an adorable hat based block pushing puzzle game for less than two whole dollars

Since you lovely nerds love pushing to prod on Fridays, here's a list of a little over 33,000 IPs you might want to look at blocking inbound, especially to any VPN portals. They were all recently observed by us attempting to log in ( not just scanning ) various VPN portals including F5 BIG-IP, Cisco SSLVPN, SonicWALL SSLVPN, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, and others.

https://blog.gayint.org/intel/vpnAttacks20251219.txt

What I'm listening to today ("best techno on Youtube" 8/13): "Sempervirens", r beny

Here beny uses a Roli Seaboard MPE controller (a kind of squishy keyboard that records how hard you press and how you slide your fingers around the keys) to play a violin sample synth with the expressiveness of real violins. Run thru chunky reverb, each note becomes a stuttery chorus of violins. Result is an intense feeling of floating in viscous air, slowly orbiting an indistinct point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGpIWZZgHo

Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.

"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx. “He’s dead.”

I said, “I'm sorry, what happened?”

“No, he died long ago.”

I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”
Later, I would remind myself: the FBI introduced me to Karl Marx! "
#books #bookstodon #book

all four of our games are on winter sale on steam https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/ and itch https://eniko.itch.io

kitsune tails: the premier gay fox girl jumping game, 33% off on steam for the first time

midboss: turnbased body snatching roguelike, 67% off and only $5

kitsune zero: 36 more fox girl platforming levels for just $2.50

ultra hat dimension: an adorable hat based block pushing puzzle game for less than two whole dollars

RE: https://flipboard.com/@polygon/news-kk5vpg25z/-/a-wNRgToYaTee-ddka5kLZpQ%3Aa%3A785933440-%2F0

I have never seen an Avatar movie, and have never met anyone who is excited by the storytelling, world building, character development, or social commentary of Avatar. Maybe that says more about the people I hang out with, but the most I ever hear about the series is, “it’s very technically impressive.”

Am I missing something, or can I continue ignoring its existence?

Light bulb preference:

Since you lovely nerds love pushing to prod on Fridays, here's a list of a little over 33,000 IPs you might want to look at blocking inbound, especially to any VPN portals. They were all recently observed by us attempting to log in ( not just scanning ) various VPN portals including F5 BIG-IP, Cisco SSLVPN, SonicWALL SSLVPN, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, and others.

https://blog.gayint.org/intel/vpnAttacks20251219.txt

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Prepare for That Stupid World

Link: https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328109

There are about 60-70 flights a day connecting the airports of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.

Such short-haul flights are responsible for a disproportionate share of emissions; this would be a big win for the environment, and meeting Canada's carbon commitments.

Does the open web require competitive markets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_%28economics%29

#EvanPoll #poll

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Don't delay - submit now while you still have time!

Details: https://us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/
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Fully open (open source and open hardware), easy to repair dual screen e-book reader built around the ESP32-S3

https://www.crowdsupply.com/diptyx/diptyx-e-reader

(you are welcome)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonafato/115736534849678389

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!

Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)